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Before I get into this, I am EunHae biased. But you not being EunHae biased does not mean Hyukjae isn’t an extremely important part of Donghae’s life. 

Warning: I am too invested and already had these ideas about Hae during his service and this song is me proving my ideas to be true, as there is finally a written source for me to go off of other than just speculation based on body language and psychology. In conclusion, this will be sad and I am sorry. 

P.S. Lyrics from ‘One More Chance’ will be bolded. 

P.S.S. I have too many things to address up here someone help me

carry on 

– The room with the TV is a memory of before he left for his
service. The girl is there at first and then she disappears. (This scene “rewinds” the events)

– Leeteuk being confused when he walks into the room could
indicate when he went to the army and felt completely alone in a new place. “Even when I’m alone on the street we walked together.” This also supports him looking around his surroundings and crying. I think it’s good to note that Teuk is wearing a red sweater just like Hae, so he is representing Donghae and how he felt when he first joined the military. “I can’t believe anything, as if it’s all a lie” and “It was going so well for a moment so I thought it would last forever/was that thought and mind all selfish of me?” Now these lines are honestly so heartbreaking. When he left for the military, he did all of his 2 month training by himself at the unit. This proves how lonely he was during that time and couldn’t wrap his mind around the fact that he was alone and had to complete his training without anyone he loved near him. 

– Yesung’s Multiple doors shows how he keeps facing the obstacles but
everything feels the same, like he isn’t moving forward and is stuck alone. Another point, the same
setting in each “room” reflects his lines of being sorry that the days are always the same in other songs he has written. “Another tomorrow that I thought it’d be okay/As time passes by, it’s getting deeper.” These lines reflect the repetition he experienced during service. Wake up, do training, eat, sleep, repeat. It’s tiresome and he was probably left alone with only his thoughts the majority of that time, which could worsen his feelings of longing for the person he loves. “I thought I’d become new as the longing for you passes away/As if the clock in my heart has broken, it’s always the same time.” Notice there is only two objects and two colors in this scene. The colors also don’t blend with each other and are obviously very different on the color spectrum. The objects, a chair and empty picture frame, are also very different. These are the same color, but the picture frame is higher up on the wall. Now you may be saying “Of course a picture frame is higher up and what does this have to do with anything?” BUT basic psychology, whether he helped the set up or it was done unconsciously by the design team, tells us that he feels separated from some else. He, in this case, would be the chair, and the other person (I say Hyukjae) is the picture frame, who is farther in this journey than he is. Blue and red also seem to be a theme here, as he is wearing red and walking away from a blue room. He is constantly in blue rooms (As each part of the journey is portrayed by the members), meaning the other person would have to represent that color and he is always thinking about them.

– Siwon walking behind girl on narrow path with snow falling represents the song they released before going to the army, “Winter love”. Hyukjae talked
about having to leave first and will let his foot steps in the snow guide
Donghae to him again. Donghae talked about not wanting to leave and watching
him fade into the snow, with only footsteps to follow. As Donghae expresses his worry in the song, Hyukjae reassures him that things are going to be okay in the background. This song was also Hyuk’s idea and during this time period many people commented on how sad they acted. Any ELF/EunHae shipper during this time knows how different they seemed before enlisting. They were supposed to do their service together but something got in the way and Hyuk couldn’t join Hae in the police (I think it’s because he failed the test but I don’t think that was ever confirmed). 

Now for some noteworthy lines of ‘Winter Love’ – Hyuk’s will be italicized. 

“Slowly becoming far” (”It’s all good” x3)

“I’m suffocating” (”It’s okay” x3)

“Your back view, your hand which once held out to me” (”Don’t wanna let you go”) – I have to compare this line with one from ‘One More Chance’, “I wouldn’t let go of that hand once again.” This is like a parallel, he regrets letting go of his lovers hand and is reminding himself that once they are back together, he doesn’t want to separate ever again.

“Covering my eyes, I can’t see you no more”

“We can’t stop separation”

“This is not the end, baby”

Hyuk’s rap – “The conversation between the two of us will be hidden for a while. Don’t forget to leave a bookmark. This isn’t a full stop, it’s a comma, a beat that has lagged. We have to stand shoulder to shoulder when we meet again. Snow that is falling covers us, in the cold wind tears roll down my face. Even though you’re not here, I’ll draw out footprints for you so that you can come back any time.”

“Looking at your back view”

“I’m calling out to you”

“The time has come, I have to leave now. The time has come, I’m leaving first”

(Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huMu89TPgn0) 

-The hallway Shindong is in is dark inside but the windows
have colors and light. Only a little amount of that is being let into the
hallway and it shows how there were happy moments but overall it wasn’t the same. He is confined in this dark environment with only small moments of happiness. Note: The entire hallway is dark blue and the light I noticed more than the rest was yellow, which are colors normally associated with sadness and happiness. “Now the both of us are used to being in different times/Even if I cry going back to the moments that you and I met.” These lines show that even when he adjusted to being alone, he still felt consumed by memories and couldn’t help but feel sad. 

“Without realizing myself, I turn to you again,” this reflects how the rooms are all covered in blue (Excluding the ‘Winter Love’ room) and no matter what part of this journey he is on, his mind constantly returns to how things were with his lover.

-In Heenim’s room, the TV’s buzzing in and out represent memories, “Do all the times of happiness get erased too?” The exit sign in the distance represents the end of this journey is near
but all the memories are still haunting him and he doesn’t understand/know what
to do with them other than let them fade and warp his mind. “Even if I cry going back to the memories that you and I met.” Something important to notice is the room because it is the same as the first one shown and the one Hyukjae raps in. Each member (except for Hyukjae in my opinion) represents Donghae on this journey alone. If the TV’s are his memories and EunHae had a scene in this room at different points of the MV, then they are the memories of the two together and their relationship (Whatever that may be). “Do our distinct features get forgotten too?/does that time even exist?” these fit really well with this scene as the broken TV’s can represent his mind and how he see’s these memories. The fuzziness of the TV’s is a visual of blurred faces and moments they shared together. 

-Hyukjae in the first room Hae was in. Rain only on Hyukjae –
“Don’t leave like the rain.” Rain is very important to Hae, as it reminds him
of his childhood and father. Donghae associates rain with memories of his
father who passed away when he was barely an adult. The original title “don’t
leave like the rain” and Hyukjae being the only one with rain falling on him
indicates that he doesn’t want Hyukjae to leave him like his father did. This room is the blue room Donghae was walking away from at the very beginning, which hints at the fact that Hyukjae is the constant blue we see throughout the MV and whom Hae couldn’t forget. 

Now for the fun part (as if this hasn’t been a blast for me to write already LOL). Again Hyuk’s lines are italicized.

“Don’t leave like the rain”

“I was okay even standing in the rain”

In other words: “I was okay being away from you”

Meaning he didn’t leave with a sad heart when he went to his service. Hyukjae isn’t a very sentimental guy, but he does care for people a lot (he’s an Aries, he can’t help it). This line shows that he is in the rain, he has left just like the rain when he went to his service. 

“Because everything was the traces that you left. because longing for you is a beautiful pain”

Unlike Hae, who felt consumed with sadness and could barely get through the day, the loneliness was strength for Hyukjae. He fought through the pain because he knew they still loved each other and it was worth it in the end. 

“I thought that I would be able to endure it/I had a lot of mistakes and a lot of wounds too/truthfully I don’t want to be afraid of everything and want to end it too”

These lines may be misleading, but I don’t think they are talking about breaking up. When I was watching the SJ Returns jacket shoot episode, I was a little disheartened when the photographer said the song was about a break up. I think these lines show that Hyukjae didn’t know how painful and lonely he’d be without Donghae. In the past, Hyukjae used to joke about them not being close and would complain about having Hae around him all the time. I haven’t heard him mention anything like that since he’s been back, they even casually hint that they live together in the new apartment Hyuk bought. You know when Hae said Hyuk woke him up in the middle of the night to show him the lyrics to this? If they weren’t in the same room/apartment, why in the world would lazy tired baby Hyukjae make the travel to another apartment in the middle of the night just to wake sleepy baby Hae and show him lines he could easily show him the next day? Just saying. The line about wanting something to end isn’t about the relationship, but about the pain. It’s so unbearable that he can’t handle it either, he is struggling on his path alone, just like Hae. 

“The rain falls, dries up, and disappears/ You can’t leave like that alone, please”

Here is where you can see Hyuk’s pain the most. He’s just as sad about the situation as Donghae, he just shows it differently. They are back together, their service is over, so why can’t things go back to how they were? Hyuk wants to continue the relationship but Hae is so hesitant and scared. This line is literally begging him not to think that he is alone, that there is still more path to walk together and he wants to take Donghae with him. 

-Donghae walks into a dark tunnel alone, showing that these
two years by himself were difficult, but he made it to the end by walking into the
light at the end of the tunnel. “Where I’m going or when this ends/I feel like I am going on a path that I can’t find out” He ends on a beach to represent he found his
foot steps, the stop and separation is like they still feel distant despite
being in each others lives again. Note: EunHae left for their military service
in the winter (Siwon’s scene + winter love song) and they returned in the summer
(Beach scene). The girl in the MV is always in front of him, even at the end.
When he see’s her, he doesn’t keep walkin and there is distance. This distance
shows that he is worried about going further because he has been following
footsteps this entire time and it’s difficult to see that he is no longer is on
that path alone. Another note: They showed Hyukjae running in the rain and then
Hae running towards the light which could mean they are running towards each
other, but honestly, it could be a stretch. Going back to the whole colors thing, the beach is a beautiful purple color, which we should all know that blue and red make purple. So the colors/they have blended together finally because they can be together. 

The line that stood out to me most was “Is a love like that even considered love?” 

It just screams, to me at least, that he isn’t talking about something “normal” or “conventional” and is my most solid point about this song being about EunHae. Whatever their relationship is, they love each other so so much. It can be platonic, romantic, something else, it doesn’t matter. These two were supposed to do their service together but they couldn’t, they’ve spent almost every single day together, lived in the same apartment before enlisting, the list goes on. My overall point is that the two struggled a lot during this separation. They expressed their worries through ‘Winter Love’ and now they express their pain from being alone through ‘One More Chance.’ I don’t think Hae had ever been alone before his service. He had always been taken care of and loved on by everyone in his life, so this was a life-changing experience for him. This was a growing experience especially because he had to learn to live by himself without anyone he loved around him, and considering he is a very sad and lonely baby already, that experience was most likely filled with a lot of crying. He got sick a lot, meaning he didn’t take care of himself as much as he should have been, I was honestly worried that would happen. I don’t think I’ve ever written about how sad baby Hae is before, so sorry if it sounds like I rambled. Anyways, that’s my theory, feel free to add on!

(English translation credit: emzhaek)

ELF FIGHTING!

This is beautifully written!