Hello everyone!
So I’ve been a casual listener of Jamais Vu,but it was only recently that I completely dived deep into its lyrics and couldn’t help but share my analysis here!!

So the song opens with Jin singing,
“I feel like I’ve lost again, you look angry. In a split second,it’s game over.”
Then Jungkook follows to say, “If it was just a game,I could’ve loaded it again, I guess I gotta deal with this, deal with this, real world.”

the fact that the first line says how I’ve lost AGAIN implies how he feels like he has repeatedly failed to meet expectations and wishes that if it were a game, it would’ve been easy to start over. But in the game of life, there is no reset button.

Then Hobi’s verse comes in and he adds,
“I need to heal by medic, but I’m just another star”
Which implies that you need a Medic to heal you, but even the Medic needs healing first. (I think hobi refers bts as medics who heal the army, but who/what will heal them?)

Then he continues saying,
“Blame me who couldn’t be perfect,
Brake in my head brake in my step,always.”

This line reflects the constant battle that we have with our negative thoughts that are the obstacles in our progress. How we are constantly disappointed with ourselves and feel mentally/emotionally stuck due to it.

The the chorus starts with
“Please give me a remedy
A remedy that will make my stopped heart
beat again

A remedy, a melody
The memory that will remain only in me
If I stop at this point, if I turn it off, will
everything be at ease?”

This part always reminds me of Black Swan for some reason. Here, they’re asking for the remedy to feel okay again, to find peace even though they haven’t come to terms with it yet.
I also feel like they’re taking the “turning off” part as a metaphor for turning off the game and stopping it completely. When you’re facing a burn out and struggling to overcome it, sometimes you think about giving it all up and accepting defeat in order to find peace.

But then the song ends with the jungkook saying “I won’t give up” which implies that now matter how defeated you feel, you’ll keep being there to pick yourself up, to hold onto yourself and reassure yourself. This is actually one of my favourite things about their songs, that the sad songs are never all sad and the happy songs aren’t all happy either.

I personally think Jamais Vu is such a criminally underrated song! I didn’t really get its lyrics at first, but when I did, it hit me like a truck.