Round 2 · Alien Stage
Unknown (Till The End…)
언노운
- Artists
- AKUGETSU
- Album
- ALNST Original Soundtrack Part.3
- Released
- 2022-10-05
Till's Round 2 song, released October 5th, 2022 as ALNST Original Soundtrack Part.3. He wins the round against Acorn without letting his opponent get a word in.
Quick answer
- What is Unknown (Till The End…)?
- “Unknown (Till The End…)” is “언노운”, a Alien Stage song (Round 2) released 2022-10-05, performed by AKUGETSU.
- Opening line
- Come on! Come on!
- Sung by
- AKUGETSU
- Written by
- XENO VIBE, BL8M · XENO VIBE, BL8M
What it means
"Unknown (Till The End…)" is Till's Round 2 victory song in the mainline Alien Stage, and it plays like a man discovering he has a self only because someone else reflected it back at him. Its fractured lyrics — a chorus repeated, a refrain that keeps restarting — dramatise a performer whose identity is built from another person, which is exactly the dependency the arena later exploits.
Come on!
Come on!
Come on!
Nothing was my everything
텅 빈 날 채운 melody
Teong bin nal chaeun melody
The melody that filled the empty me
너야 alright
Neoya alright
It's you, alright
내 감정의
Nae gamjeongeui
My feelings are
Error : no better options
흔들리는 paradigm
Heundeul-lineun paradigm
A shaking paradigm
내 세상이 뒤집혀도 상관 없으니
Nae saesangi dwijiphyeodo sang-gwan eops-euni
I don't care if my world turns upside down
I wanna know all about you (ya)
No more takin' it slow
너로 인해 꽃피운 내 감정의 에델바이스
Neoro inhae kkochpiun nae gamjeongeui edelbaiseu
The edelweiss of my feelings that blossomed because of you
(You'll never know)
I don't wanna stop
Don't even think this time’s enough
Cause you baby still it's not enough
(For me, alright?)
Don't leave me, li li da da da
Cause you baby still it's not enough
How dare you think this time's enough
Ain't nobody but you're the one that I'm feeling it's love
Don't be afraid (come on!)
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah
'Cause I like it better
(Feel like I'm crazy, oh yeah yeah)
(Come on!)
Woah, woah, woah
거부 할 수 없어 overdose
Geobu hal su eopseo overdose
I can't refuse, overdose
Editor's note
Unknown (Till The End…) — meaning
"Unknown (Till The End…)" is Till's Round 2 victory song in the mainline Alien Stage, and it plays like a man discovering he has a self only because someone else reflected it back at him. Its fractured lyrics — a chorus repeated, a refrain that keeps restarting — dramatise a performer whose identity is built from another person, which is exactly the dependency the arena later exploits.
A song about being assembled by another person
The lyric 'nothing was my everything' is the key that unlocks the whole track: before the addressee, Till had no interiority to speak of. The song is not a conventional love declaration but a description of selfhood arriving late, through someone else's eyes. Read in the context of Alien Stage's premise — children raised as performance stock — this is devastating. Till does not fall in love so much as discover that he exists, and he attributes that discovery entirely to another contestant.
The 'error' refrain as a system failure
Where a pop song would resolve its chorus, 'Unknown' refuses. Lines loop, options are listed and rejected, and the refrain behaves less like a hook than an error state. This is consistent with Alien Stage's worldbuilding: the contestants are products of a system that measures them numerically, and the language of malfunction is always just under the surface. The song lets that language leak into the romance, suggesting that even Till's most private feeling has been shaped by the machinery he is trying to escape.
Round 2 and the meaning of winning without listening
Till wins Round 2 against Acorn without letting his opponent get a word in — the official framing makes the victory a shutout. That context reframes the song: this is the sound of someone winning by pouring everything into a single channel, unable or unwilling to hear the other performer at all. The result is triumphant and isolating at once. Fans who track the Till–Ivan history should note how differently Round 3's 'Black Sorrow' handles the same problem of one person reaching toward another.
Till's arc, read backwards from here
Placed at Round 2, 'Unknown' is the high point of Till's self-belief. Later rounds strip that away — the person who made him feel real becomes the source of his worst pain, and the arena converts attachment into leverage. Listening to 'Unknown' with that future in mind turns a victory anthem into dramatic irony. It is the same retrospective move the site applies to the Zombie Stage AU: the songs are written to be re-read once you know how the relationship ends.
Why this page annotates rather than republishes
The full lyrics of 'Unknown' belong to the rights holders and to the official release. What this page adds is the reading: the identity-through-another-person thesis, the malfunction motif, and the Round 2 context that makes the victory ambiguous. Readers who want the complete text should watch the official video or stream the track from the links on this page. Corrections and alternate readings from long-time fans are welcome via the contact link in the footer.
Meaning notes are written by long-time Alien Stage viewers, cross-referenced against VIVINOS's own YouTube community posts and SCALAR's release liner notes. Corrections welcome at [email protected].
Credits
- Composer:
- XENO VIBE, BL8M
- Lyricist:
- XENO VIBE, BL8M
- Vocals:
- AKUGETSU
- Arrangement:
- XENO VIBE
- Producer:
- STUDIO LICO
Featured in this song
Lyrics transcribed by fans for educational and reference purposes. All rights belong to VIVINOS / SCALAR / STUDIO LICO. For takedown or correction requests contact [email protected]. Romanization follows the Revised Romanization of Korean; translations are non-literal where required to preserve meaning.
