Posted by Taste is a popular song from Stray Kids’ 2022 mini-album Maxident. The album contains the viral single Case 143, which we already analyzed here. Taste offers a parallel message about love, doubts, and passion: in this article, we will explore the song’s meaning, and you’ll also find the complete English lyrics at the end.
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Taste: the song lyrics and their meaning
Taste is a song about irresistible love. In the lyrics, Stray Kids describe their feelings towards a girl and admit that, although they see red flags, they are just unable to resist and want to commit to this love.
Already in the song’s beginning, it is clear that the girl is playing with the singer:
Fake eyes open
The pain that deceived me again
While you are at it
Play with me to ruin me
The pain of love is depicted with the beautiful image of a rose with thorns:
It’s like bad red roses
Crazed by the scent, I feel shortness of breath
Dark and thick thorns hidden by beauty
However, besides the lines that show awareness of the danger, the lyrics inside Taste are explicit: Stray Kids want to enjoy this love. The singers say explicitly that the girl must be theirs and that she can have them.
I don’t dare lie
On this meaningful night
The correct answer is you can get me
Only you can get me
Setting fire to my already tamed feelings
Don’t make me bad, bad
Addicted to you
Once we’ve started, you must be mine
The image of the tamed feelings is full of meaning: there were mixed emotions inside the singers, but at some point, the doubts were tamed, and now Stray Kids want to leave all doubts out: they want this love. That matches the message inside Case 143, where the band officially intends to submit the case asking for this love.
Sometimes doubts create a situation of uncertainty that becomes unbearable. That’s why the singers gave up: they don’t want to live among all those doubts; they commit to this love to take everything that comes from it.
Kiss me or leave me (Kiss me)
I don’t want to stand in the middle
Kiss me or hate me (Kiss me)
Look at me in this soft situation, babe
The result, however, still presents doubts, as the lack of clarity from the other side is evident: she is not returning love the way they expect it, so the commitment to this love generates frustration: Stray Kids are aware they are in trouble.
So the flowers that are blooming will be purple
I can’t help but fall in love with this blinding light
I’m in trouble, your heart full of lies
Without you, I can’t focus on anything
After all, that’s the real meaning of the lyrics inside Taste: I want you, I want to love you, and I want you to be mine; but I’m aware of the fact that you are not returning my love, and will keep telling lies and treating me coldly. A part of me wants to drown in these feelings, and I want to follow them. I hope I won’t be hurt too much.
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The complete English lyrics
The original song’s lyrics are in Korean, but the English translation is available on Genius. You can find it below.
Fake eyes open
The pain that deceived me again
While you are at it
Play with me
Fake eyes open
The pain that deceived me again
While you are at it
Play with me to ruin me
It’s like bad red roses
Crazed by the scent, I feel shortness of breath
Dark and thick thorns hidden by beauty
Don’t care about it, you know
Eyes hidden behind a veil
If you are confused, in this moment
Enjoy babe, babe
Don’t test me, oh no
Baby, babe, don’t get me wrong
I don’t dare lie
On this meaningful night
The correct answer is you can get me
Only you can get me
Yeah, make you feel my love, la-la-la
Now you come and taste me now
Yeah, you better watch out
You’re gonna like, ah
Yeah, I whisper, la-la-la-la
Narrow the gap between you and me
Our breath briefly touches, true up
Faster in this sweet space, ah
(Heated in this sweet space)
Just look at me (Ah)
Ha-ah-ah
Just look at me, baby, day and night
Don’t make me bad, make me bad
I’m addicted to you
Setting fire to my already tamed feelings
Don’t make me bad, bad
Addicted to you
Once we’ve started, you must be mine
Kiss me or leave me (Kiss me)
I don’t want to stand in the middle
Kiss me or hate me (Kiss me)
Look at me in this soft situation, babe
My eyes are gettin’ too loose
Can’t repeat tying up with this strain
Instead of runnin’
I’m gon’ mess it all up this second
I’m cherishing this moment
You make me go crazy with the chilly blue air (Oh, oh)
I’ll dye this space red
So the flowers that are blooming will be purple
I can’t help but fall in love with this blinding light
I’m in trouble, your heart full of lies
Without you, I can’t focus on anything
Yeah, make you feel my love, la-la-la
Now you come and taste me now
Yeah, you better watch out
You’re gonna like, ah
Yeah, I whisper, la-la-la-la
Narrow the gap between you and me
Our breath briefly touches, true up
Faster in this sweet space, ah
(Heated in this sweet space)
Just look at me (Ah)
Ha-ah-ah
Just look at me, baby, day and night
Don’t make me bad, make me bad
I’m addicted to you
Setting fire to my already tamed feelings
Don’t make me bad, bad
Addicted to you
Once we’ve started, you must be mine
