[Verse 1: Jin, Jungkook]
Fall like those dry leaves
Just falling without strength, my love
Your heart just goes far away
I can’t catch you
I can’t catch you anymore, anymore
I can’t hold onto you, yeah

[Verse 1: Jin, Jungkook] The song begins with Jin and Jungkook expressing the impotence they feel for not being able to catch the person they love anymore. Maybe the person has changed and they are still trying to get the person back or they lost their strength to love each other.

[Verse 2: Suga]
Those fallen leaves that look so insecure
Seem like they’re looking at us
If I touch your hand, even if it’s all at once

It seems like it’ll all become crumbs
I only looked
With the autumn wind
Your words and expressions that become cold at some point

I can see that our relationship is fading
An empty relationship like the autumn sky

An ambiguous difference compared to before
Today of all days, the much quieter night
One leaf left clinging to a branch
It’s shattering, I see the end
Dead leaves becoming dried
The silence inside your aloof heart
Please don’t leave me
Please don’t leave me, crumbling dead leave

[Chorus: Jungkook, Jimin, V]
I want the you that meets my eyes
I want the you that wants me again
Please don’t leave me
Please don’t fall
Never never fall
Don’t go far away

[Post-Chorus: Jungkook, Jin]
Baby you, girl I can’t let you go
Baby you, girl I can’t give up on you
Like those falling dry leaves
This love, like dry leaves
Never never fall
It’s fading

[Verse 3: RM]
Like all the dry leaves fall
Like all the things I thought would last forever are leaving

You are my fifth season
Even if I try to see you, I can’t look
You’re still green to me
Even if the heart doesn’t move, it moves by itself

Lingering feelings hung out piece by piece like laundry
Only crimson memories fall
From above me
Even if my branch doesn’t shake
They constantly fall

Right, my love must fall
In order to rise
Even when you’re near, my two eyes
Are far away, it’s happening
I’m being thrown away like this
Inside my memories, I become young again

[Interlude: V]
Never, never fall yeah
Never, never fall yeah

[Chorus: Jimin, Jungkook, Jin]
I want the you that meets my eyes
I want the you that wants me again
Please don’t leave me
Please don’t fall
Never never fall
Don’t go far away

[Bridge: V]
Why can’t I give up on you yet
I hold on to these faded memories
Is this greed?
I try to look back on these lost seasons
I try to turn back

[Verse 4: J-Hope]
Burn them brightly, whoosh
It was all beautiful, right, our path
But they’ve all faded
Dry leaves come down like tears
The wind blows and everything grows apart all day
The rain is falling and you’re shattering
Until the very last leaf, you you you

[Chorus: Jungkook, Jimin, V]
I want the you that meets my eyes
I want the you that wants me again
Please don’t leave me (Oh)
Please don’t fall (Yeah)
Never never fall
Don’t go far away

[Post-Chorus: Jungkook, Jin]
Baby you, girl I can’t let you go
Baby you, girl I can’t give up on you
Like those falling dry leaves
This love, like dry leaves
Never never fall
It’s fading

[Outro: V]
Never never fall
Never never fall

[Verse 2: Suga] Suga begins his verse by pointing out the fragile reflection of their relationship (the fallen leaves, seem to be looking at us.)

He plays a lot with the characteristics of Autumn and the transition from Summer to Winter. Autumn is “the fall of the year” where trees shed their leaves, the temperature is cold and everything is warm colors.

He compares Fall weather as “the fall” of their relationship that fades like the crumbles of their love (dead leaves) in the wind. Suga conveys the vulnerability of the situation as well.

“An ambiguous difference compared to before” They are caught in the change of how they used to be and how they are now. (Summer-Autumn-Winter) I analyzed this part as Suga or their relationship is a leaf that is holding onto hope to find life again, but there is nothing he/they can do.

[Chorus: Jungkook, Jimin, V] They want the person he/she was before(Summer) this horrible state he/she finds himself/herself now(Autumn). They beg the person not to fall because if not he/she will vanish.

[Post-Chorus: Jungkook, Jin] They are in denial of the possibility of losing the person that they love so much. They are comparing again how their love is falling and crumbling(Fall season) but they don’t want to accept it. As much as they try to hold onto their love throughout the song, their love keeps felling.

[Verse 3: RM] Namjoon states right away his agony and grief, but most importantly his disappointment for the things that never stayed by him.

Here, Namjoon says the person is his “fifth season”, there are only four seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn (fall) and Winter.)
He has a more positive perspective on the situation. He says she will always be green to her no matter the situation.

He emphasizes on his memories and compares them to Fall colors. He is vulnerable (the leaves fall without the branch being shaken) and is in constant fear of falling from the branches (feelings) he is holding onto. Even if nothing is causing trouble in him, his leaves keep falling.

Then again he shows a bit of hope, but suddenly shatters when he sees it happening in front of him. The moment where he falls like a dead leave in his memories.

[Interlude: V] In the interlude, V is basically begging the person not fall or probably he’s begging to himself.

[Chorus: Jimin, Jungkook, Jin]
They re-state that they want the person they met before. They beg the person to not leave him and that made me think about the coldness towards them (I want the you that wants me again) that they mentioned prior to this.

[Bridge: V] This line made me realize that he is the person that wants to hold onto what they had. Probably, the person left him a long time ago, but he can’t help to want to keep loving that person, so he holds onto the memories they had before autumn (where everything changes.) Maybe he is begging to his memories and feelings he experienced with his love not to fade and vanish from his memory. That’s what he wants to hold on to, even though it is working against him.

[Verse 4: J-Hope] J-Hope opts for burning their memories even though it was a beautiful experience. He doesn’t think it’s worth to keep the memories when they’re all faded. He knows holding onto those memories will hurt him. The wind, probably a symbol of life, keeps pushing them apart, the person fades more and more every day.

[Chorus: Jungkook, Jimin, V] They repeat one more time the plead to the person. The style of the song is interesting (the chorus is repeated various times, this has an effect in the meaning of the song. It reflects the increment of the desperation they are feeling.

[Post-Chorus: Jungkook, Jin] They confess they can’t stop holding onto their love, even if it is just faded memories of what they use to be. Their love is almost extinguished.

[Outro: V] Out of desperation, he reminds the person to never fall, to not give into the wind. Another perspective could be, he’s reminding himself to never fall because he is responsible for his significant other or to remember that it is worth to hold onto his memories of love for his significant other.