ๅใ means โatonement,โ โreparation,โ or โmaking amends for a wrong.โ It carries a deeper, more serious nuance than simply saying โsorry,โ suggesting that someone must take responsibility and pay a price for what they have done.
In the song, ใใฎ่บซใๆป ใผใใฆใใใฎๅใ means โonly by destroying this body can there be atonement,โ giving the word a dramatic and powerful emotional weight.
BE:FIRST's "It's Not A Bad Life" is a shrug and a snarl at the same time. The English hook, "If I die, I die", sounds careless, but the Japanese verses show a guy who has stopped asking anyone for permission to be himself. Early on he asks "่ชฐใๆฑบใใฆ่ชฐใ่ฃใใฎ?" (Who decides, and who judges?), and he is openly mocking the idea that ordinary people get to rule on right and wrong.
The scars are the point. He talks about "ๅทใ ใใใฎ่ไธญใซใฏ" (on my back, covered in scars) where "ๅปใพใใๆใจใใฉใคใ" (love and pride are carved). He admits his real self isn't pretty, that what's under the skin is not something you show people, and that lies left alone fester like an infected wound. That image is a bit gross, and it works. Then comes the line I love most: "ๆชปใฎๅคใง็ใใ็ฃใงใใใใ" (I want to be a beast living outside the cage). The verb ๅฐใใๅฐฝใใใ in "ๅ ใๅฝฑใ ๅฐใใๅฐฝใใใ" (let's devour it all, the light and the shadow) is a rough, hungry way of saying "eat", so he swallows the good and bad in himself whole. By the end he drops the need for stability and decides to push his love through, which is why "Everything is alright" lands as a choice rather than a comfort.
BE:FIRST is a Japanese dance and vocal boy group put together by the rapper SKY-HI through THE FIRST, an audition show that aired on Hulu Japan in 2021. Seven finalists were named on August 13, 2021, and the group signed to SKY-HI's own company, BMSG.
They debuted in November 2021 with the single "Gifted". RYOKI left in November 2025, and the group has carried on as six: SOTA, SHUNTO, MANATO, RYUHEI, JUNON and LEO.