전하지 못한 진심 (The Truth Untold)
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전하지 못한 진심 (The Truth Untold) Lyrics
[Verse 1: V]
외로움이 가득히
피어있는 이 garden
가시투성이
이 모래성에 난 날 매었어
[Verse 2: Jung Kook]
너의 이름은 뭔지
갈 곳이 있긴 한지
Oh could you tell me?
이 정원에 숨어든 널 봤어
[Pre-Chorus: Jin]
And I know
너의 온긴 모두 다 진짜란 걸
푸른 꽃을 꺾는 손
잡고 싶지만
[Chorus: Jimin]
내 운명인 걸
Don't smile to me
Light on me
너에게 다가설 수 없으니까
내겐 불러줄 이름이 없어
You know that I can't
Show you me
Give you me
초라한 모습 보여줄 순 없어
또 가면을 쓰고 널 만나러 가
But I still want you
[Verse 3: Jin]
외로움의 정원에 핀
너를 닮은 꽃
주고 싶었지
바보 같은 가면을 벗고서
[Pre-Chorus: Jimin]
But I know
영원히 그럴 수는 없는 걸
숨어야만 하는 걸
추한 나니까
[Chorus: V]
난 두려운 걸
초라해
I'm so afraid
결국엔 너도 날 또 떠나버릴까
또 가면을 쓰고 널 만나러 가
할 수 있는 건
정원에
이 세상에
예쁜 너를 닮은 꽃을 피운 다음
니가 아는 나로 숨쉬는 것
But I still want you
Ooh, ooh
I still want you
Ooh
[Chorus: Jin]
어쩌면 그때
조금만
이만큼만
용길 내서 너의 앞에 섰더라면
지금 모든 건 달라졌을까
[Post-Chorus: Jung Kook, Jimin]
난 울고 있어
사라진
무너진
홀로 남겨진 이 모래성에서
부서진 가면을 바라보면서
And I still want you
But I still want you
But I still want you
And I still want you
About
전하지 못한 진심, the 3rd track on Love Yourself: 轉 Tear, translates to “sincerity that couldn’t be delivered.” It references the smeraldo flower, a fictitious flower that BTS has been associated with on more than one occasion. Similar to how different flowers can mean different things, the smeraldo means “the truth I couldn’t tell,” according to the only flower shop that claims to sell it.
There are similarities between the lyrics of the song and “La Città di Smeraldo”, an Italian tale about a man who hides in his house because he’s afraid of showing himself. As he watches from the window, he falls in love with a woman stealing flowers from his garden to sell them. Trying to help her, he grows a special flower, the smeraldo, so that she can earn more money from it, but the woman dies before she is able to see it or meet the man. Several quotes from the original story are written in the teaser posters for the Love Yourself series.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
In a May 2018 interview with Billboard, BTS addressed their relationship with Steve Aoki and talked about his work on Love Yourself 轉 ‘Tear’:
“He seems like an amazing older brother,” Suga said, using the Korean word “hyung,” which implies a close relationship between the two parties. “And his passion for music was one of his many qualities that I respect.”
BTS' J-Hope added that his favorite track on the album is the Aoki collaboration “The Truth Untold”. RM teased that the song wasn’t going to be EDM.
In a June 2018 V Live episode, [RM] said:
It took the longest time to write the lyrics for this, because when I got the melody and beat first it was very difficult to write the rap part. Song and rap are different, like poem and prose. There aren’t many syllables that you can work with in a melody. It is very connotative, and yet you have to put everything in it. And when you sing it in Korean, you need to make sure that the pronunciation is okay. It might sound very nice in other languages like English, but when you translate into Korean or write the lyrics in Korean again, there are many cases where it doesn’t sound good.
Anyways, “전하지 못한 진심 (The Truth Untold)” is about a person who is living in a mask in a garden. It has a definite theme, concept and sentiment. So it took a very long time, and my friends told me that it was the most difficult song to sing.
Actually, the beat and the instrumental are very simple. And that means that there’s a lot for the vocalist to work on, because the vocalist’s voice functions like an instrument. I’m very grateful for our vocals, and I respect them. I think it’s highlighted in this song. […] They whined that this song is too difficult to sing to. Despite all that, when you listen to the completed version, you can say that our vocal members have improved a lot.
There’s a common saying among entertainment agencies that after the debut, you never improve, and all you’ve got as a trainee is everything. We hear that a lot. I think that is true to some degree – Unless you go to extraordinary lengths, you don’t improve much because you’re busy practicing, recording and going on schedules. There’s not much opportunity to seriously think about what you’ve got. And maybe you may not like doing that. When I heard “전하지 못한 진심 (The Truth Untold)”, I thought that our vocal members' ability to deliver their emotion has reached the top. I think that they’ve done an amazing job as a vocal unit.
It took us a long time to write the lyrics. A very long time for sure. It was very difficult to make clear pronunciation.
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