Dream Of Mine
Updated: 1 day ago
⋆ Korean Title: The Next Next
⋆ Genre: Alt-Pop
⋆ Producing Credits: Dave Hamelin
⋆ Writing/Composing Credits: Dave Hamelin, Leven Kali, PXPILLON, Park Sung Hee (Jamfactory), Park Sang Yu (153/Joombas), danke, Yoon (153/Joombas), Soobin, Gu Samyoung (153/Joombas), Jung Na Gyeong (153/Joombas), TENSEECHEE (XYXX), Chang Yeo Jin (lalala studio), Cho Yun Kyoung
ABOUT/MEANING: “Dream of Mine” closes the album in motion, reaching towards a future that remains deliberately undefined. Fear and excitement exist side by side as the speaker looks ahead, neither cancelling the other out. He does not need to overcome every hesitation before continuing; uncertainty simply becomes part of what moving forward feels like.
After an album spent examining pain, identity, outside expectations and the choices that have brought them here, “Dream of Mine” does not provide a final answer about what should come next. Instead, it arrives at something quieter but equally important: the desire to find out.
For TXT, that openness carries particular weight at the end of their seventh year. Their contract renewal makes continuation something consciously chosen rather than simply assumed. They may not yet know exactly what their next chapter will look or sound like, but they have chosen to continue exploring it - together as TXT, while increasingly following their own instincts about who they want to become.
The idea of the “next next” captures this mindset particularly well. It is less a specific destination than an openness to whatever exists beyond the future they can currently imagine - another possibility, another version of themselves and perhaps another dream they have not yet learned how to name.
As the closing track of 7TH YEAR: A Moment of Stillness in the Thorns, “Dream of Mine” therefore brings the album’s pause to an end without resolving everything that surfaced within it. TXT have stopped long enough to look honestly at where they are; now, they begin moving again without needing to know exactly where that movement will lead.
They may not know what comes next. They only know that they have chosen to keep going and find out.
LYRICS - ENGLISH TRANSLATION (translations by @translatingtxt)
On a map with no roads
Chasing the unknown, a dream of mine
I wonder what’s the next next
I'm a wonderlust, I dream every day
WORDPLAY: “Wonderlust” appears to play on “wanderlust,” the strong desire to travel or explore, replacing wander with wonder. The coined expression shifts the emphasis from simply wanting to go somewhere new towards curiosity itself - a desire to keep discovering what might exist beyond what the speaker already knows.
A story with an open ending
I wonder what’s the next next
I said, I’m on my way
Shall I follow along
The dream that question mark leads me to
When fear starts to creep in,
Excitement layered on top of it
The reason I throw myself into the unknown
Eyes gleaming with curiosity
It’s always been a dream of mine
I long for the next next
I'm a wonderlust, I dream every day
Anxiously excited
I long for the next next
When fear starts to creep in,
Excitement layered on top of it
The reason I throw myself into the unknown
No I'm not afraid to love
No I'm not afraid to fall, to fall
The more it hurts, the deeper I breathe
Even if I wander, I'll trace my own path
Toward the tomorrow I once envisioned
Even if it turns out differently
I'll keep going to the next next
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