The Story Yoongi tells us through D-2; A lyrical analysis and review thread:

We start with moonlight. Here, Yoongi talks about his beginnings, and how it feels like to be successful yet feel empty within. There is a lot of questions & doubt portrayed in the lyrics, e.g he asks if he loves music, asks about what he should actually do (“What can I do, +

I should just keep running”), asks if he wants to go back, is karma the reason for his simultaneous thirst for success and the hardships he faces along the way. The chorus shows us light; like he’s telling himself that it’ll all be okay because (moon)light still shines on him+

despite the trials & changes. It’s raw & soul-touching like he’s telling everyone his struggles while navigating his way through his life (and successfully so). He ends Moonlight with hope , talking about the moonlight still shining at him at dawn and gracefully accepting that+

the way we change is what actually matters. Next, we move on to Daechwita. This was a tricky yet beautiful mystery to solve because there are two versions of an /alter-ego/ of Yoongi. This connects to Moonlight as in so many parts of Moonlight you can actually hear the anger+

he holds deep down (lines like “My biggest enemy is the anger inside me” and “Sometimes I resent God, asking why he made me live a life like this” and “it’s the same that my head is a mess, fuck that”). Yoongi mentioned in the Behind the Scenes of Daechwita that the king here is+

the Agust-D from 4 years ago. This makes so much sense because in Moonlight you can almost see two versions of him, one side of his who resents this life and is confused, and the other who is still humbled by the presence of positivity and (moon) light around him. Daechwita is+

the duel between these two versions, personified. The king here is rebellious, angry, and brutally honest at the unfairness of it all that he was succumbed to (Notice the use of the scar as a king to portray concurrent rebel and success-as a king in this case).

“Yeah, what's next? Here comes my reality check, there’s nowhere higher” & “ got everything I wanted, what more will make me feel contented?” from Daechwita speaks to Moonlight’s “The emptiness that I feel after flying fucking high” & “But I’m still hungry, would this be karma?”.

Now, we move to What Do You Think. This one connects so Daechwita almost instantly. We see how he’s moved on from the King who once held grudges and shows a cruel persona, to someone who gives no fucks to what other people think. We still see glimpses of how he mourns his lost+

years (The ten zeros in my bank account, it’s the money I loaned with my youth as collateral). But in What Do You Think, he’s telling us a different story. It’s refreshing and proud; he’s acknowledging his successes and also the failures of others, although he doesn’t care+

anymore about what others want to think of him. There’s a story that comes out of these three tracks consecutively. It shows us positivity in the light of hidden anger, anger built by rebellion and unfairness, and lastly acceptance in the light of carefreeness.

Next, we move to Strange (ft. RM). He moves on to talk about the world and its horrible doings. It’s a transition of Agust D mourning his lost youth to realizing the dirt that comes with adulthood (which follows up to 28). In Strange, they talk about the ways of the world; +

about war, dreams, ideologies, peace, and capitalism. They rap about the lies behind it all and recognize the truth that needs to be addressed rather than denied and hidden under covers. This follows to 28, where it seems as though this realization about the worldly ways have+

set in at an age of 28. Here, Yoongi longs to live a carefree life; he mentions how “would it have been better to not know the world” as the world he knows now is no good. He wishes to live without worries and concerns, but he feels the fear and worries of adulthood drowning him.

Following this is Burn it (Ft. Max). We take a peek again at his youth. We see how Agust-D, who has lived in this world and faced adulthood moves to burning his youth away, or rather burning it all away. He wants to burn all the voices (mute the voices).

He says “Let's go back to the past days. The times that once used to destroy me, ey. That feeling of envy or maybe inferiority. A life obsessed over some people, ey. The me, who got to taste success, ey” which is a direct reference to, Moonlight, Daechwita & WDYT respectively.

He strives to burn it and mute it all because he hopes burning will either turn you to ashes or transform you to brightness. This is a cry for him to live a life free of worries and concerns (connected to 28). In People, the next track, we notice how he gracefully transforms.

From Burn It, after ‘burning’ his past self, he moves with more ease, in a way where he notices changes & learns to accept his present. He accepts that ordinary & special as two sides of the same coin. He burns his past and rises from the ashes of it all, brighter than ever. +

Now, we move on to Honsool. Here, we dive into the impact of alcohol on him. From People, where Yoongi speaks of the impermanence of the world and says “So What? What if we just brush by?”, Honsool gives us a glimpse of weariness, where the same attitude is portrayed while+

intoxicated, as though he clings on to the same emotions with the help of the alcohol in him. From People to Honsool, we see the realities of adulthood hitting him hard, and the realization of the repetitive days settling in on http://him.Now , from here we move to +

Interlude: Set Me Free. It’s heartbreaking and so real to hear because here the truth of it all hits him. It’s as though the realization that you can’t burn the past, that you can’t escape your days, that this is the life destined, sets in. And he hopes to be set free from+

this endless loop of it all. Last, of all, we reach to Dear My Friend. Here, it’s about nostalgia and confusion. He reminiscences the days with his friend, & blames time for changing them both. He talks about how he hates his friend. Here, despite actually missing his friend+

Yoongi talks about how the situation could be different had he done something else. From all the previous tracks, it’s a jump back to his youth, but instead of rage, he sees nostalgia and a head full of unanswered questions and emotions with respect to the people in his life.

We see how, just like he has accepted the reality of his life in Honsool and Set me Free, he is now trying to accept the reality of this fragment of his life (his friendship, and possibly other emotionally-taxing relationships of his past).

D-2 gives us a beautiful and rocky ride from youth to adulthood and back to missing your youth. It tells us the story of Yoongi as he navigates through resentment, through acceptance, through pride, through dedication and through nostalgia.

He tells us the story of himself, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.
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Creds to Doolset and Genius for lyric translations.