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Swim

Life is so full of ups and downs and the best advice is to Swim through it.

Remember Nemo? Just Keep Swimming…….

Well, the global K-pop group from Korea BTS just released their new album and I love the track called “Swim”. Lately people around me have been going trough all sorts of things, a death in the family, a loved one is very sick, a car accident, not to mention the chaos all around us in the political world.

As a Mom and Grandma I watch as my children and grandchildren go along life’s road and hit small speed bumps and very LARGE speed bumps and all I can do is teach them to SWIM – keep going – take a breath – never give up – keep swimming.

Have a listen to this track – and just SWIM

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Swim, swim
Water falling off your skin
Swim, swim
I could spend a lifetime watching you
Swim, swim
This is how it all begins
Swim, swim
I just wanna dive, I just wanna dive

[Verse 1: RM]
Bad world, gone away and I still wake up in this mad world
Name a place that I could breathe on this map, world
Lookin’ like a goody, goody in this bad world, bad world
Don’t know how to act, girl
I’m in the deep, tell me, where the hell you at, girl?
Oh, you ain’t even gotta love me bad, girl
You know that I’m never holdin’ back, girl
Yeah

[Pre-Chorus: Jung Kook]
So easy, don’t make it so hard
Nights like these, I just wanna get lost
Right here with the moon and the sharks
I ain’t gotta think ’bout a thing, baby, I just

[Verse 2: SUGA]
Water, water so deep, water so deep
Take it off the ground, I ain’t never gettin’ cold feet
Yeah, you know me, yeah, you know me
Sittin’ on the shore, now I’m ready for the whole sea
I can feel the high waves comin’ (Yeah)
Why you run away? You can run in (Yeah)
Salt on my tongue, she’s stunnin’ (Oh)
You’re the only place that I wanna be, yeah

[Chorus: Jung Kook, Jin]
Swim, swim
Water falling off your skin
Swim, swim
I could spend a lifetime watching you
Swim (Swim), swim (Swim)
This is how it all begins
Swim, swim
I just wanna dive, I just wanna dive (Hey)

[Verse 3: j-hope]
Splash (Splash), drift (Drift)
I make waves with my two fins (Two fins)
Splash (Woo), drip (Drip)
I just wanna take it across the line
Under here, we don’t chase the time
Baby, everything can’t be so sad (So sad)
Turn my face from the land
I just wanna dive, I just wanna dive

[Chorus: V, Jin]
Swim, swim
Water falling off your skin
Swim, swim
I could spend a lifetime watching you
Swim (Swim), swim (Swim)
Let it all begin
Swim, swim
I just wanna dive, I just wanna dive

Forever We Are Young

February 5, 2025

BTS!  I am ARMY!

If you are not familiar with these phrases then listen up to something that moves me. 

BTS is a K-Pop group from Korea.  They have been together since 2013 and have achieved worldwide fame.  You may be familiar with their hits that became very famous in America – The songs, “Dynamite” and “Butter”.

Of course I love all kinds of music.  Being a music teacher my audio library ranges from opera, classical, broadway,  jazz, 70’s pop, anything on the radio.  But, lately I have been listening non-stop to BTS.  Their story is amazing – I’ll let you read about if you want to.  Their music is amazing but it’s the lyrics that grab me much of the time. 

This song hits home for me – I am in my retirement years and yet I still feel so young and have so much to hope and dream about.  The last few years have been very disturbing for me and many of us.  The news is never ending of just shocking stuff – this song helps bring me back to my younger days when I had so much hope in the future.

Here are just part of the lyrics I love so much.  They mostly sing in Korean so I look up translation all the time.  Enjoy the listen!!!

Forever we are young

Under the flower petals raining down
I run, so lost in this maze
Forever we are young
Even when I fall and hurt myself
I endlessly run toward my dream

[Bridge: Jung Kook, SUGA, V, Jimin, *RM*]
Forever, ever, ever, ever
(Dreams, hopes, forward, forward)
Forever, ever, ever, we are young
Forever, ever, ever, ever
(*Dreams, hopes, forward, forward*)
Forever, ever, ever, we are young

[Chorus: Jung Kook, Jimin, V, Jin]
Forever we are young
Under the flower petals raining down
I run, so lost in this maze
Forever we are young
Even when I fall and hurt myself

Verse 1 RM

The curtain falls and I’m out of breath
I get mixed feelings as I breathe out
Did I make any mistakes today?
How did the audience seem?
I’m happy with who I’ve become
That I can make someone scream with joy
Still excited from the performance

[Verse 2: SUGA]
I stand on the empty stage while holding onto an aftertaste that will not linger for long
While standing on this empty stage, I become afraid of this unpleasant emptiness
Within my suffocating feelings
On top of my life’s line
Without a reason, I forcibly act that I am fine
This isn’t the first time, I better get used to it
I try to hide it, but I can’t
When the heat of the show cools down
I leave the empty seats behind



[Verse 3: j-hope]
Trying to comfort myself
I tell myself the world can’t be perfect
I start to let myself go
The thundering applause, I can’t own it forever
I tell myself, so shameless
Raise your voice higher
Even if the attention isn’t forever, I’ll keep singing
As today’s me, I want eternity
Forever, I want to be young