Bird Of Night
Updated: 1 day ago
⋆ Taehyun solo song
⋆ Genre: R&B
⋆ Producing Credits: Davin Kingston, Slow Rabbit
⋆ Writing/Composing Credits: Ben Samama, Davin Kingston, Michael Gerrow, Sara Davis, Slow Rabbit, Taehyun, Lee Seu Ran, tru, Choi Bo Ra, Cho Yun Kyoung, danke, Woo Seung Yeon, Jeon Jieun, Ellie Suh, YIYIJIN, Na Jung Ah, Kim In Hyung
ABOUT/MEANING: “Bird of Night” captures the quiet struggle of moving through a difficult night while everyone else seems to be asleep. Through the image of a solitary bird still flying in the darkness, the song gives form to sleeplessness, worry and the loneliness of carrying thoughts that refuse to settle.
Yet the bird continues to fly. The song does not pretend that every uncertainty can immediately be resolved; perseverance lies in continuing even when the way ahead remains difficult to see. Beneath the darkness, however, the boy gradually begins to recognise points of light - reminders that uncertainty does not have to last forever and that even the darkest moments may eventually become something brighter.
That quiet endurance gives “Bird of Night” a meaningful place within The Star Chapter: TOGETHER. After songs centred on reunion, devotion and sustaining connection, it acknowledges that being together does not make individual struggles disappear. There will still be lonely nights, anxiety and moments when the future becomes difficult to imagine.
But what begins as “my own night flight” gradually becomes “our night flight.” Looking across the sleeping city, the boy wonders whether “you” might be awake beneath the same stars, carrying uncertainties of your own. Togetherness does not require either person to be free from struggle; sometimes it means recognising that even seemingly solitary nights can be shared. Moving towards tomorrow may not always require a grand act of hope - sometimes it is simply continuing through the dark until you can begin to see the light within it.
LYRICS - ENGLISH TRANSLATION (translations by @translatingTXT)
The deep night when everyone’s asleep
It speaks to me
A sleepless night
The ticking of the clock,
Only the noise of the city,
Grows louder and louder
Between the piling choices
My shoulders grow heavy with anxiety
What does growing up even mean?
Everything starts to blur
Spread my wings like a bird of night
Under the starlight of a sleeping city
A quiet night, my own night flight
Everything becomes a tiny dot, but
The deeper the darkness, the brighter it shines
That unwavering starlight
CONNECTION: Stars have repeatedly represented dreams, promises, connection and direction throughout TXT’s story. “Bird of Night” places that familiar light against uncertainty: “the deeper the darkness, the brighter” the unwavering starlight becomes. Rather than requiring darkness to disappear before hope can exist, the song suggests that even within difficult periods there can remain something small but dependable enough to keep moving towards.
I know the reason for this moment
We should let it go
The names of uncertain emotions
The reason we lie awake
Whatever darkness this world holds
Will someday glow
Looking down at the city
The flickering street lights
Feel just like my heart
A nameless stranger's worries
Make me think of you
I wonder – do you feel the same?
Wings fluttering towards the stars
I pray that they reach you
The reason I’m awake
Is to keep moving forward towards the stars with you
(Go ahead)
I fly like a bird of night
Beneath the lights of countless worries
This radiant night, our night flight
Still unable to sleep but
The deeper the darkness, the brighter it shines
That unwavering starlight
I know the reason for this moment
We should let it go
The reason I think of you in the darkness
Wondering if we’re gazing at the same star
CONNECTION: This develops the image of connection across distance heard in “Forty One Winks,” where private signals are compared to the “language of stars” travelling across a vast universe. “Bird of Night” similarly imagines the stars as something the boy and “you” can share even when apart: he hopes his feelings will reach them and wonders whether they might be “gazing at the same star.” Physical distance does not prevent them from occupying the same emotional night.
Whatever darkness this world holds
Will someday glow
Glow, glow, glow
Glow, glow, glow
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