🌸 Introduction

Hi, this is Mayu 💜 Thank you for reading.

Chapter 3 of my WINGS series is SUGA’s solo First Love—a piece that feels like the purest, most aching prayer, painting “music = truth.”

For Yoongi, “first love” wasn’t a person—it was the piano: a symbol of truth that guided him, drifted away, and embraced him again.

📝 Excerpt + Paraphrase

In the corner of memory sat a brown piano, much taller than him; he looked up in awe. Touching the keys with tiny fingers was enough to make everything beautiful.

As he grew, he left it unattended; dust gathered, yet the piano stayed, waiting. He didn’t know that parting might be the last. “Don’t go. I’m here,” it said. “Don’t worry. I’ll make it,” he replied.

When they met again, the piano welcomed him without blame. Without you, I am nothing. You are my beginning and my end.

💫 Reading 1 | Piano = the Voice of Truth

To SUGA, the piano is both music and truth. As a child—before social frames and lies—sound was a pure prayer. Even after hitting the wall of “reality,” music lived inside him and flared up again.

🔥 “Truth being burned” = plans thwarted, dreams crushed—yet the rebirth of the soul that refuses to give up.

🕊️ Reading 2 | The Burning Piano = a World that Seals Truth

The burning piano in the MV symbolizes a world that constantly obstructs truth—where those who speak the real are the first to be broken. Even so, Yoongi never lets go of sound. It is his life—and his proof of struggle.

💜 Reading 3 | The Piano as a Maternal Presence

“Mother” in the lyrics reads as a metaphor for the source of creation. Piano = maternal embrace; sound = a mother’s voice. Yoongi has been reborn again and again in music’s arms.

🌈 Reading 4 | Reunion = Forgiveness

“When I met you again, you accepted me”—this line embodies self-acceptance and forgiveness. After guilt, regret, and despair, sound still receives him. For Yoongi, love isn’t romance; it is the courage to face truth.

💭 My Feelings

During my first “awakening,” I couldn’t quite reach piano = music = truth. Yoongi and the piano kept appearing to me, but I couldn’t grasp it fully. This song tightens my chest because I’ve also known the pain of being broken whenever I told the truth.

Still, like Yoongi, sound kept me going. I can’t live without music. Our birthdays are close—I feel a kind of destiny.

✅ Summary | “First Love” = the Rebirth of Truth

First Love is a story of sound that protected truth in a world of lies. The piano was Yoongi’s “first love,” and also the truth that stays to the very end. “You who watch over my beginning and end”—his voice still extends from that piano, and quietly lives on in our hearts.

🎼 Full Lyrics (JP translation excerpt)

※ The following is my Japanese translation excerpt. All rights belong to BIGHIT MUSIC and the original authors.

僕の記憶の片隅…（Please paste your full JP translation here verbatim）

⭐ What is “Awakening”?

To awaken is to notice the desire to save someone; to walk unafraid of loneliness; to keep moving in prayer. BTS’s music guides us to reclaim the power to think and the heart to feel.

[From Magic Shop]

D: Dignity — Every person is born with dignity… (You may keep the original JP passage or provide your preferred EN rendering.)