#hs3 spoilers

[skepticalarrie]

I'm just sitting here lamenting over love of my life with Harry being in Italy with O and Louis on the plane on his way to Chile. In loml Harry sings,

it's not what I wanted, to leave you behind

don’t know where you land when you fly

but baby, you are the love of my life

I think about how chaotic and draining on their relationship the touring and stunting must be. To each have their own careers, responsibilities and motivations that keep them separated to different parts of the planet. And it is unfortunate, but it's just coordinates. At the end of the day it's just simply geography that keeps them apart. That's all. They have love for one another no matter what. In the mean time, Harry also sings,

take you with me every time I go away

Which makes me think of the L Harry drew on his shoes. Louis might not be with him physically while they're both off working, but that doesn't mean Harry doesn't take Louis along with him. Even if its with a simple doodle, like they used to brand eachother with as teenagers.

Well…. thank you for the emotional meltdown

#ask #love of my life #hsh spoilers #hs3 spoilers #lyric analysis

[ladychlo]

satellite.

#there is something about that first line that make me feel so small #hs3 spoilers #sattelite #edit #hlcreators #words #stuff

[halos-little-freak]

Harry placing “Love of my Life” right after “boyfriends” for the tracklist is the literal embodiment of “you’ve got my devotion but man I can hate you sometimes”

#it’s so Petty of him too #it’s like I hate you when we fight but you’re still my soulmate forever #he is so whipped😭😭 #LOML being the apology for bashing louis in boyfriends #fuck you but I love you forever hahahahahah #harry #harry styles #louis #louis tomlinson #larry #larry stylinson #hs3 spoilers #hs3 leaks #Harry’s house #Harry’s home

[hunrising]

it HAD to be said

#hs3 spoilers

[indiaalphawhiskey]

Love of my Life, a (different) reading

I want to start this off by saying that I love the idea that Harry Styles wrote a song called Love of my Life about Louis Tomlinson. Love it, love it, love it; love anyone and everyone who interprets this song that way, and this analysis is in no way meant to invalidate that understanding of it.

This is just a personal interpretation, based on which parts of the song resonate the most with me, my understanding of Harry’s writing style, the theme of the album, and which lyrics/words/lines (and tenses) called my attention the most.

That said…

…is Love of my Life actually about privacy and freedom? (This is gonna get long, more under the cut.)

❣️Based on Harry’s writing style:

I spoke a little about Harry’s writing patterns and vocabulary, but one thing that we’ve also noticed over the last three albums is that Harry speaks about people in a very layered way:

‘You’ is usually used as a gender-neutral song subject.

‘She’ and similar words (woman, angel) are more often a reference to himself.

‘Him’ and similar words (boyfriends) volley between a reference to himself or to a possible third person.

It’s obviously not always the case (and we have no way to verify), but Harry hardly ever writes in a way that’s on the nose, so following this pattern, personifying things like privacy and freedom by referring to them as the ‘love of his life’ fits into his pattern of layered writing.

❣️Based on the themes of the album (self-reflection):

“He’s been thinking a lot recently about autonomy, ownership, privacy. About what he should be able to keep to himself, what he should be able to simply communicate through his music without follow-up questions or prying.”

— Better Homes and Gardens

❣️Based on verb tenses:

“You were the love of my life.”

Let’s assume, for the sake of this post, that it really is ‘were’ and not ‘are’. (I always hear ‘were’, myself, but I also don’t claim to have bionic hearing, so don’t take my word for it.)

Why would Harry write one line in past tense, and the rest of the lyrics in present?

There are two ways to read it. Either:

(i) the ‘love of his life’ (person) is no longer the love of his life, but is still currently present in his life, or

(ii) he’s speaking about the ‘love of his life’ (privacy/freedom) in a nostalgic way, as if it’s not consistently accessible/available to him in his current life, but rather something that comes and goes — that he’s only able to experience in small, finite increments.

And, finally,

❣️Based on lyrics: [lyrics in bold, interpretation in italics]

(Thank you @angelsueishome for the lyrics, although I changed ‘are’ to ‘were’ based on what I hear.)

Baby, you were the love of my life

Oh, maybe, you don’t know what’s lost ‘til you find it

— the common phrase is ‘don’t know what you have ‘til it’s gone’ and the direct reversal of those themes hints at Harry having found the love of his life (privacy/freedom) again in this new situation (lockdown)

Take a walk on Sunday through the afternoon

We can always find something for us to do

We don’t really like what’s on the news, but it’s on all the time

— if you read ‘we’ here as ‘Harry and his privacy/freedom’, the stanza is pretty straightforward

Take you with me every time I go away

In a hotel using someone else’s name

— ‘you’ as privacy/freedom, again the lines are straightforward

I remember back at Johnny’s place

It’s not the same anymore

— someone mentioned he has a childhood friend named Johnny (though I’m not sure how true), but if we read the line as his nostalgia for his life before fame and how that level of privacy/freedom isn’t accessible to him anymore, it makes sense

Baby, you were the love of my life

Oh, maybe, you don’t know what’s lost ‘til you find it

It’s not what I wanted, to leave you behind,

Don’t know where you land when you fly

But baby, you were the love of my life

— three things to note here: (i) resistance to leaving ‘you’ (privacy/freedom) behind, (ii)‘flying’ as a reference to his fame and the interesting use of ‘land’ (when usually, the opposite of ‘fly’ is ‘fall’), so there’s a connotation of positivity, control and even relief, in the come down to earth (from fame), and (iii) the use of ‘but’ for the first time, signifying the acknowledgement of yearning and slight regret

It’s unfortunate,

Just coordinates

— possibly a reference to how any knowledge of his location (by paps, by fans) is usually how his privacy/freedom is taken away from him

I don’t know you half as well as all my friends

I won’t pretend that I’ve been doing everything I can

To get to know your creases and your ends

Are they the same?

— two things to note: (i) ‘you/your’ as privacy/freedom and how there’s a difference between how he experiences these things (in finite amounts) versus how his friends are able to experience them (consistently), (ii) an admission that, for however much he yearns for it, he’s not ready to give up what he has (fame) to get it back, and (iii) questioning whether privacy/freedom looks/feels/is exactly the same as what it used to be to him.

— — —

Anyway, whew! That took a lot out of me.

TL;DR: I think Love of my Life is a song about Harry’s nostalgia for his privacy and freedom.

#iaw lyric analysis #love of my life #love of my life lyrics #hs3 lyrics #hs3 spoilers #spoiler tw

[rainbowbeanstyles]

#daylight #hs3 #hs3 spoilers #mine #i had tooooo

[hereforh]

#no but i love this one SO MUCH #hs3 spoilers #harry's house #harry's house booklet

[loughosties]

Just read a comment that said “you’re no fan of Harry if you have already listened to Harry’s House songs on purpose”

Cheers to all my fellow non Harry fans

#alsjdjdksla #like ITS NOT THAT SERIOUS #baby girlies he leaked that shit himself #hs3 spoilers #harry’s house spoilers #Harry’s house #my post

[twopoppies]

Here’s that Twitter thread translated + quotes. No pics bc lazy (: Hope this helps!

Re-reading the lyrics of "Daylight," and especially the verse that mentions the "Bluebird," I wondered several times what Harry's sources of inspiration might have been and why he chose this particular bird.

Aside from Louis

The Bluebird (Sialia, in Italian) over the years has also taken on mythological connotations and is often found in seafaring literature. It would represent eternal happiness as well as springtime.

In the Native American Cochiti tribe, the Sun's firstborn son is named Bluebird. In the short story "The Sun's Children," featured in Ruth Benedict's Tales of the Cochiti Indians (1932), the Sun's male child was named Bluebird (Culutiwa). (Sun -> Bluebird -> Louis)

In Navajo tradition the Bluebird is associated with the rising Sun. The Bluebird Song is sung to remind tribal members to rise at dawn to give thanks to the rising Sun. "Bluebird said to me: Get up, my grandchild. It is dawn; it said to me."

The bluebird, understood as a representation of the concept of freedom, which coincides with a form of "resurrection," is also found in two of the authors whom Harry has repeatedly acknowledged to be a source of inspiration for him: Paul McCartney and David Bowie.

“Oh I'll be free, just like that bluebird. Oh I'll be free. Ain't that just like me?" sings Bowie in "Lazarus." A kind of testament, where he seems to want to tell us: just as I am dying, I am ready to be reborn and to feel free at last, whatever form I will take.

In McCartney, the Bluebird (a song written with his wife Linda during a vacation in Jamaica) becomes a metaphor for the transcendent power of love and the liberation of the human spirit from a form of physical and mental slavery. The Bluebird itself becomes a symbol of Love, understood as the only source of Freedom.

“Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, and you'll know what love is for; I'm a bluebird.”

Turning to literature, we know that Harry also loves Charles Bukowski. Several times he has been seen reading his poetry, and his writing has also been influenced by the poet in the past. No wonder, then, that Bukowski wrote a poem entitled "Bluebird."

“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough on him”

First published in 1992 in the collection "Last Night of the Earth Poems," Bukowski tells of the malaise inherent in every person, a pain that each of us feels, latent, a kind of background noise of our existence. Again, that longed-for sense of freedom.

The Bluebird is also quoted by Oscar Wilde in "The Decay of Lying (1889)." A Bluebird singing about beautiful and impossible things that are not but should be. Yeah...

“Champing his gilded oats, the hippogriff will stand in our stalls; and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.”

In "May-Day," by Ralph Waldo Emerson, we find not only the bluebird but also daffodils. I wonder where I have seen them before

“When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.”

"Gay as a daffodil" = "Gay as a bluebird" Finally, I couldn't help but look up the meaning of Bluebird in Urban Dictionary (it's all Harry's fault and his cryptic slang). I leave the considerations to you. *definition posted 2017

(Don’t mind me lurking on your page I sent in some stuff last night so I’m 👀)

You are brilliant. Thank you so much for taking the time to translate all of that!! That’s really a beautiful thread and now I love that song even more. 😭😭😭😭

#daylight #hs3 spoilers #daylight song analysis #David Bowie #paul mccartney #charles bukowski #ralph waldo emerson #bluebird

[canyonmoonrry28]

⚠️ HS3 SPOILERS ⚠️

So I saw this tweet that got me thinking

And now I need to yell about it but I don't have enough room on twitter and I don't wanna spoil anything for my moots

So he went on a road trip with his "friend" and today before we got that information from the Zane Lowe interview we got more coordinates and by one of the coordinates there was a restaurant called "my friend Louis" in French so i think it's safe to assume the friend he went on this road trip was probably Louis. Now comes the screaming.

HE WROTE KEEP DRIVING AND GRAPE JUICE BASED ON THIS TRIP TO ITALY AND YOU CANT CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE. HIM AND LOUIS WENT TO ITALY TOGETHER. YELLOW SUNGLASSES!!! AND THEY PROBABLY STOPPED AND GOT BREAKFAST AT SOME CUTE LITTLE CAFE ON THE WAY AND HARRY TOLD LOUIS HOW MUCH HE LOVES HIM AND ALWAYS WILL WHILE THEY ATE THEIR PANCAKES AND EGGS AND HASHBROWNS AND DRANK THEIR COFFEE AND THEY TOOK BLACK AND WHITE FILM PICTURES OF THEMSELVES AND THE SCENERY WHILE DRIVING AND ON STOPS AND THEN THEY GOT TO ITALY AND THEY DRANK FANCY RED WINE TOGETHER AND THEN LOUIS LEFT ON A PLANE A FEW DAYS LATER SO HARRY STAYED IN ITALY DRINKING RED WINE BY HIMSELF IN THE GARDEN BUT IT WASNT THE SAME WITHOUT HIS HUSBAND AND HE MISSED HIM AND THOUGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING THEYVE DONE AND BEEN THROUGH TOGETHER AND SOMEBODY NEEDS TO SEDATE ME BECAUSE ITS TOO MUCH

#Harry's House #harry and louis #harry styles #louis tomlinson #larry stylinson #larry is real #Harry's House spoilers #Hs3 spoilers #Keep driving #Grape juice

[alarrylarrie]

Call me crazy but “I’m not worried about where you are, or who you’ll go home to, I’m just thinking about you.” is SUCH a domestic, long term relationship thing of Harry to say.

#it’s. about. Louis. #hs3 lyrics #hs3 spoilers

[skepticalarrie]

Listening to Harry's House for the 9128129 time but I don't think I had fully understood the entire analogy with wine in Grapejuice yet. It's literally a love song about wine if you want to take it that way, not a person. Just him and the wine, everywhere, it's perfect for him, he can’t go through without it.

"there’s just no getting through without you a bottle of rouge just me and you"

"sitting in the garden I’m a couple glasses in I was tryna count up all the places we’ve been you’re always there so don’t overthink I’m so over whites and pinks"

Or is it love just like wine? It's addictive, you're always craving it, it gets better with time

#chasing love and wine are such good parallels #a lot of analogies in this album #i never gave too much attention about this song tho #it's so good! #hs3 spoilers #grapejuice #hsh spoilers

[ladychlo]

to know your creases and your ends are they the same?.

#I was tempted #edit #moodboard #hs3 lyrics #hs3 spoilers #hs3 leak #hlcreators #trackinghappily

[swimmingleo]

I know it sounds funny and a little stupid but Love Of My Life ''being about England'' actually makes a lot of sense to me with the way Harry wrote about childhood home, like Changes that he wrote for Cam. That strong, unbreakable bond you have with the place you grew up in, more specifically the countryside. It's just a somewhat boring piece of land (just coordinates), but you harvested childhood memories there (Johnny's place, we can always find something for us to do) and that identity ends up following you wherever you go: even when you pretend to be someone else in a hotel room. You can't outrun it. Because it's a material place, land changes with time and you may never see it again ~as it was before. It was just your family house at some point, but you may find you way back there later because you realized that's where you want your future family home to be, even though at some point you distanced yourself from it a lot. I don't know there's a lot of touching poetry there

#hs3 spoilers #like listening to the first verse I always pictured myself when I grew up in the countryside #doing dumb countryside kiddy shit like walking thru fields and empty streets and abandoned places #it's the feeling that song always gave me #so when harry said it was abt England like... yeah not the country as a whole but just #thzt specific part he grew up in #that he ends up associating to the whole country cuz he just travels sm #idk ik it's fun to joke abt him saying shit but #it's really personal to me fjzjfjzj so it's a shame we're just making a meme of it already

[persephoneflouwers]

Harry’s House Listening - Milano

17.05.2022: An update from what my friend who was there told me.

They made them signing stuff because “there were secret things happening”. Supposedly this was referring to the music they were going to play, since the album is not out yet. We laughed because she knew all the songs already lmao

Her first impressions (and I quote): “I failed. they know him (Harry) in a shallow way. And also they all are HsH virgins. Losers” EXCUSE ME HAHAH

She confirms the leaked album is the official album, if there were still any doubts!

she says some of the lyrics need to be checked again because some songs like Keep driving sounded different from the lyrics she knew.

She said people were not vibing to cinema (too long, repetitive I guess)

and that the most liked song was probably love of my life.

They liked sushi, but she said it felt like they were excited for the curiosity of it all and not really for the song (?)

They asked to play Mathilda and LOML twice and she cried for mahilda the second time.

Last gossip (this is unspecific and I don’t know who or what they were talking about): before the listening party started, my friend overheard one of the women of the stuff saying “thank god we don’t have another album release until December”. But you didn’t read it here 👀

#harry’s house listening party #hsh #hs3 spoilers #harry’s house spoilers

[indiaalphawhiskey]

So I’ve been thinking about this post for a, frankly, criminal amount of time, and I just needed to put all my love for ‘antidote’ all in one place, so forgive me.

As a writer, I know how crazy particular I am about verbiage — like, it’s an obsession — so when you use such a specific word like antidote repeatedly (in love songs, no less) it pings something in my brain.

antidote (noun)

a medicine taken or given to counter a particular poison.

Two things to focus on:

1. poison - antidotes are particular to poisonous substances, where medicines are for particular diseases/ailments

2. particular - antidotes connote a perfect match, one-is-to-one, a guarantee

When Harry uses the word antidote to describe a person (and/or says a person has the antidote), he’s saying you are the perfect, specific, guaranteed, one and only cure for the venom/poison/toxic and noxious (deadly, possibly) thing/s in my life.

It’s different to using a word like ‘medicine’, for example, because medicines do not connote any kind of specificity or guarantee. Many different medicines can cure many different ailments. At the same time, there’s always a margin of error with medicines - they may or may not work.

When he says antidote, he’s saying you (and only you) save me. You’re the reason I’m okay, you’re the reason I’m alive.

Sound familiar?

Maybe, possibly, almost like…

‘For every question why, you were my because.’

#iaw lyric analysis #iaw thoughts #hs3 lyrics #hs3 spoilers #antidote analysis #lyric parallels #lyric patterns #spoilers tw