2015 Haylor Timeline
Timeline Tag, or years […] 2014, [...], 2016, […] and 2024.
2 January - Harry arrives in LA 3 weeks before the rest of 1D, starts writing with Johan Carlsson (If I could fly). Neither Harry or Taylor seen on the 3rd or 4th On the 5th Harry was seen in an LA carpark.
6 January - Taylor posted clear blue water (Lyrics from This Love) to instagram. Harry in Malibu and around LA. A year later Harry posted the rain on a window 6 January 2016 and on 7 January 2017 recorded the leak 'Lately'. This may have been their break up. Harry was pictured with a fan wearing the shirt from Band-Aid.
7 January - Harry pictured with fans at Cafe Habana for lunch and dinner. There are three recording studios within 10 minutes, (including Shangri-La) so he was likely working.
10 January - Reports Harry driving with Nadine Leopold. Tweets from 8 till late. He got Froyo. Both HS/TS Golden Globes parties
11 January - Harry tweets he had a "I Had a Good Morning :D Hard Work.... 'Yikes' !!". Kendall and Khloe post "Forget You "I see you driving 'round town/With the boy I love and I'm like/Forget you."
15 January - lily Aldridge's birthday, Harry posts serendipity, his watch is in a photo talking to Taylor, TMZ posts awkward footage of them in the lobby, they go for food in a group after and are friendly. (WOTW: Yesterday I went out to celebrate the birthday of a friend / But as we raised our glasses up to make a toast / I realised you were missing) Niall said they wrote Made in the AM in January and February. Matty Healy said dating Taylor was all fake, it didn’t really happen. He also talked about Harry as “there’s no one I know less in the world than Harry styles” video interview
16 January - Harry tweets "Cake?"
17 January - Taylor shares photo of her kitchen with framed Temper Trap lyrics on her stove. Again they broke up before his birthday. :( Harry tweets that "This bucket hat might be the best purchase we've made in years." Cara and Kendall retweet that and the Cake? Rumour they bought a hat. H played golf the next day.
22 January - Harry went for yogurt, Nadine Leopold in his car
20-23 January Taylor goes to Hawaii with Haim sisters and her mum. She also posts that it’s been a year since she wrote I Know places and capitalized “and we RUN” Harry seen with Jeff
24 January - Harry tweets "Cake-gate"
1 February - Harry’s 21st birthday party, everyone is fabulous with Gigi, Kendall, Cara there Harry Styles turns 21 with the A-list No mention of Taylor or Lily Aldridge, although Harry had been at Lily’s birthday 2 weeks earlier. (Is this the birthday he made her cry in Hunger?) WITW written in Japan in February. Taylor posts video of giving Olivia treats. Xander also posted and photo box photo of Harry with Nadine Leopold
2 February - the next day KK, lily Aldridge and Taylor are in Nashville. (1 year would have been turning into 2 of that was written for his debut.)
4 February - Harry leaves LA for One Direction On the Road Again Tour 7 February – 31 October
7 February - for #1D2D take over of Teen Party on Spotify, Harry chooses riptide by Vance Joy as his 7th song.
8 February - Ariana performed Just a little piece of your heart in front of Taylor at the Grammys. Taylor’s iconic response of hanging out with friends and “going home to the cats” is at 0:23 - 0:39. 1D was Australia, (was he the intended audience for the cat’s comment?)
13 February - Style Music Video released. Inspiration for Two Ghosts
20 February - During Happily in Perth Liam asked Harry "Are you OK?" (1:01), it was song 7 for 8 shows, then never played again. Harry posted a photo of a crosswalk B&W stripes caption 'chains around my feet'. His feet have 'never gonna dance again' tattooed on them, George Michael lyric about being faithful
24 February - Taylor met Calvin. The shows in Australia were a bit flat. Earlier in the day Ed and Taylor are on Nick Grimshaw, Nick asks TS "Haim Holiday," 'he and his friends' were talking about why so many photos, then played Style.
25 February - Happily was replaced with Stockholm Syndrome as song 7 on the OTRA tour, (after a few shows as encore.)
27 February - Harry posted the overgrown “my winding wheel” instagram post.
3 March - Oscar Gorres became a father, he said So it Goes was written soon after. At that point "Taylor already had the lyrics". Calvin breaks up with his girlfriend 11 March Taylor walks backward to avoid papa
18 March - Zayn's last performance with One Direction in Hong Kong
20 March - KK/TS vogue photoshoot posted
25 March - Zayn leaving announced
27 March - Taylor at whole foods with Calvin in matching outfits
9 April - Taylor shared that Andrea’s cancer diagnosis.
12 April - Matty Healy says Harry and 1D stole his sound and refers to Change your ticket. 1D's reps say ''It seems a bit unfair to rant at Harry, especially if it's because of the song 'Change Your Ticket'. Harry had nothing to do with that song - that was all Niall and Zayn's work.'' (the whole band is credited, but H did seem to try to smooth it over by going to his concert with Taylor in December.
28 April - media that CH felt threatened and asked Taylor to stop talking to Harry as they had been hooking up recently.
5 May - 12 December - 1989 world tour. 85 dates in 221 days, the majority of time Taylor dated Calvin. Blind KK was only allowed one hour to move out of TS apartment. TS had everything boxed and labeled with contents inventoried that the model had to sign for
8 May - Elle interview where she talked about texts and that true love is disappointing.
15 May - Taylor rock in rio set, plays wonderland for the first time (1 of 6 total plays) and has Ed out for Tenerife sea. It’s early in the tour and a festival, reviews were not great.
17 May - The train wreck 2015 BBMs showed Haylor was raw AF, his smile (at 0:24) when she arrived looked like it wasn’t over to Harry... until he started accepting awards (at 0:57) with CH & TS in the front row.
20 May - Taylors clean speech on Haylor anniversary included "maybe you lost a person you never thought you would lose, maybe you lost yourself. You know, I think that we all go through things like this. We all have questions about where we’re going or where we been or where we should have been at that time." Taylor played wonderland
22 May - Taylor played wonderland.
23 May - Taylor telegraph interview she says she’s single and references Perfect: “But ask her what the tape looks like if you fast-forward five years and she seems less certain. ‘I’ll be 30,’ she gasps. ‘I’ll probably still be single, let’s be honest. No one’s going to sign up for this and everything that goes with it. Like, “Hi, nice to meet you, want a date? Do you love camera flashes? I hope you do!” I don’t know what’s going to happen if I’m ever content in a relationship – no idea how that’s going to work,’ she continues, still smiling. ‘I don’t even know if that’s possible with the life I have.” Harry in London. Fan posts a photo of Harry wearing the st Laurent coat with lipstick stain and says it’s their lipstick. They aren’t wearing lipstick.
26 May - Calvin at Vegas pool party and photographed leaving with a woman
4 June - Taylor walks backwards on hike in LA to avoid paparazzi. Harry in London with Grimmy. Ryan Seacrest interview.
6 June Taylor played wonderland. (Harry colour IG post on 3rd in LA. Blind Calvin cheating.
5 - 27 June OTRA Europe dates
11 June - Harry has 2 days off and fly's to NYC alone and is pictured with Xander and a model. Taylor posts photo on a swan with Calvin LA
12 June - "One Direction will stay together or but pursue solo careers" E weekly.
13-19 June Taylor tour break then London
13 June - in Brussels 18 and No Control added and One Thing removed from OTRA setlist.
19 June - 1D Oslo show, Harry called out school friend who stole his GF. 4 days off .
20 June - last time Wonderland played till rep, in Germany. Harry in London.
21 June - Taylor’s letter to Apple, Germany
22 June - Harry posts a color scrabble board to IG. Tweets “I have missed you” to Sweden
23 June Taylor fly’s to Glasgow, introducing New Romantics she says it was written when her ex went to Japan. Harry in Sweden, 3 days off. Tweet s “Felt great to be back in Sweden. Thanks for coming.”
24 June Taylor Manchester then 3 days off. Clean speech mentions “treacherous”, hints at Slut and at this is me trying. Harry with one direction at London nightclub, libertine
25 June - Harry London, looks tired leaving hotel in daytime. Taylor replies to a fan on Tumblr that Breathe in, Breathe out is her favorite song on Hillary Duff's album. She later uses a line from it in Getaway Car and uses the melody in Paper Rings.
26 June - Taylor out with Elle Goulding in London
27 June - Taylor London show w/Kendall, Gigi, Serena, KK, Martha, Cara. 1D in Helsinki.
28 June - Calvin arrives in London. Boat on Thames with Taylor, Karlie, Gigi, Joe, Andrea, and Scott. This clean speech
30 June - holy ground surprise song in Dublin. Clean speech “Those things that haunt them. Those things that scare them, or confuse them. Memories you wish you didn’t have. Memories you wish you could forget. “
4 July - CH at Taylors 4th July Party bikini photos. Ed invited Cherry ❤️.
4-7 July Harry photographed in Malibu with Xander 4th July breakfast, driving, dinner
9 July - Harry falls over on stage in San Diego, Ellen plays on TV. Xander and Jeff at show
26 July - Xander at Minnesota 1D show
4 August Harry and Xander leave Lottie’s birthday in NY
5 August - Xander st met life, Harry mimes lacrosse (Xander is a lacrosse player
18 August - Harry says "Taylor? Like Swift?" signing a hat
19 August Calvin twitter fight with Zayn, Calvin shades one direction and Louis gets involved. media that Calvin is a “douchebag” citing that he cheated on his GF with Taylor, and racist and fat shaming tweets
24 August - One Direction announce a hiatus at start of 2016. Niall told Ryan Seacrest Made in the AM was finished in August (20 November).
25 August - Taylor mouths I love you to Calvin on stage at the end of her concert in LA
27 August - xanders birthday Harry posts cake
28 August - Harry posted a van gough in colour from the Chicago art institute. Xander Ritz also posted a photo of an empty gallery and liked Harry’s. Flew from Cleveland and back in day
29 August - Detroit 1D Harry backstage with Xander
31 August - Harry ate at this restaurant and they have the receipt pinned up 9 years later. It was at university in Philadelphia. Seen with Xander getting ice cream
1 September 1D show in Phili, Xander attended then Xander Harry and Jeff dinner NY
21 September - Harry posts a photo of a girl in a flooded room, very clean/falling coded
17 September - Xander, Jeff and Harry La dinner
26 September - 1D London O2 during “Don't Forget Where You Belong” Harry kissed the heart for the first time since Tayvin went public. (3:55)
28 September - Harry talks about anniversaries on stage (London). Taylors clean speech (st Louis) she talked about being heartbroken being vulnerable for love then "one day, whether it’s a year later, or 3 months later, [...] you wake up, and you look in the mirror, and you don’t see “heartbreak” written all over your face anymore.” 'You belong with me' surprise song. It had been 3 months since Harry's colour scrabble board and Sweden tweets.
29 September - Taylor buys Samuel Goldwyn’s estate in LA.
10 October - fan sign “I’m here for Xander ritz” Harry points at himself and says me too
13 October - Kendall and Cara seen dancing at a One Direction concert. Harry has breaks his foot playing football In the Zane interview he talked about the the Dublin show being a lesson and taped it for the rest of the shows. (22 mins). ABC News that Calvin might sue over tabloids saying he cheated, Taylor likes his tweet.
16 October - Perfect added to OTRA setlist, replacing Diana
28 October - 1975 Love Me video released where Matty Healy makes out with a Take me Home era Harry cut out. In the BTS he said "I just wanted to make a video that was about some kind of sexually confused rockstar type that who buys into his own nonsense really"
31 October - Final one direction concert in Sheffield. Xander and Jeff there
2 November - Jeff, his now wife Glenne and Xander attend MITS awards with Harry
10 November - Harry tweeted "I told her that I loved her, I'm not sure if she heard. :'( and End of the day Made in AM 1D lyric, which HS doesn’t have a writing credit I’m on.
12 November - One Direction in the BBC Live Lounge. Harry struggled in Story of My Life, he turned around twice and didn't finish the last line. He kissed his heart tattoo also.
13 November - One Direction releases Made in the AM. There is the last push of 1D promo when the band knew it was over. They are wrecked emotionally and exhausted, but watching them look over the precipice of 1D is fascinating, plus this adorable Olivia video.
31 October - Final one direction concert in Sheffield.
10 November - Harry tweeted "I told her that I loved her, I'm not sure if she heard. :'( and End of the day Made in AM 1D lyric, which HS doesn’t have a writing credit I’m on.
12 November - One Direction in the BBC Live Lounge. Harry struggled in Story of My Life, he turned around twice and didn't finish the last line. He kissed his heart tattoo also.
13 November - One Direction releases Made in the AM. There is the last push of 1D promo when the band knew it was over. They are wrecked emotionally and exhausted, but watching them look over the precipice of 1D is fascinating, plus this adorable Olivia video.
14 November - Taylor Vogue Australia cover, wearing infinity ring in the video. Foreshadows Rep with: "Then I’ll feel like I’ll need to give people a breather from me because at a certain point they’re going to get a little sick of hearing about me, so I’ll need to go away for a while then, depending on my gauge on how sick of me they are, I’ll decide when to put out the next album.” One direction London seasons for MITAM. Filmed for Apple Music where story of my life was, with James Corden. The video with James asking about perfect with 1989 song titles. Julian’s Bunetta joins them and Harry jokes the albums not finished because Olivia doesn’t have trumpets. Performance of Perfect where harry says “if you think it’s so funny you sing it” rather than the break up songs line of the bridge.
15 November - Harry so quiet on x-Factor it's on the news. He barely spoke, they perform Perfect, looks sad and kicks his feet in the bridge
20 November, in the London secret session for made in the AM Harry avoided singing the “break up songs” line in the Perfect Bridge, rather than sing it he said to the crowd "if you think it's so funny you can sing it".
21 November - 1D Spotify ping pong Harry says his MITAM lyric is summertime and butterflies all belong to your creation. Really sweet video, Harry’s foot in moon boot. Also that H brushes his teeth before the stage.
22 November - Taylor is a no show at the AMAs but nominated for 6 awards, Lots of speculation. She was shooting OOTW in NZ. 1989 won best pop/rock album. One direction performed perfect and Harry looks upset, rolls his eyes and glared at Louis in the bridge.
27 November - One Direction play the Telehit Awards in Mexico and Harry tweets James Taylor (Begin Again) Mexico Lyrics "The sun's so hot I forgot to go home." 1D Press conference.
28 November - 1989 world tour filmed in Sydney, you are in love (28 times that tour). Rumour Harry with Kendall at golf club.
13 December - final 1D x-factor performance, 5 years from first signing. On her birthday Taylor's pre-recorded interview with Zane Lowe is released, she's made up with Apple.
29 December - Yachtgate starts, later a blind that Calvin sending nudes to other women
30 December - Harry cover of 'things I can' with Eagle Tattoo seen
31 December - actual last 1D performance Dick Clark's Rockin New Years TV Special, their performance was pretaped. The Out of the Woods music video premiered on the same show.
Continue to 2016
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Der Mann in Schwarz
In seiner Zeit, in der die Bilder, seine Stadt Paris und die Welt umgebaut wurden, blieb dem Dichter Baudelaire noch die Melancholie.
Von Lothar Müller
In der fotografischen Industrie witterte er die Zuflucht der verkrachten Maler, in der "künstlerischen Fotografie" das ideale Instrument der Inszenierung scheinbar authentischer "lebender Bilder", womöglich in antiken Kostümen. Aber einen Ausweg ließ Baudelaire der Fotografie. Er gestand ihr eine prominente Rolle beim Aufbau der "Archive unseres Gedächtnisses" zu. Sie solle die vom Einsturz bedrohten Ruinen festhalten, die Bücher der Naturforscher mit den Abbildern der mikroskopisch kleinen Tiere versehen, die Forschungsreisenden begleiten, vom Zerfall bedrohte Manuskripte und Zeichnungen überliefern. Aus dem fotografischen Archiv des 19. Jahrhunderts blickt uns nun Charles Baudelaire selber an, als schwarze Gestalt mit weißem Hemdkragen, Zeitgenosse so vieler Helden in den Romanen der Epoche, die aus der Provinz in die Metropole kamen. Diesen Weg musste er nicht gehen, er war in Paris geboren, am 9. April 1821. Als er in seinem Bericht über den "Salon 1859" der Fotografie empfahl, sich Gegenständen zuzuwenden, die vom Verschwinden bedroht sind, traf dies für den alten Stadtkern von Paris zu. Die vom Präfekten des Departements Seine, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, vorangetriebene Stadtmodernisierung war in vollem Gange. Der Schaffung neuer Plätze und Boulevards gingen die démolitions voran. Arbeiter posierten für die Fotografen auf den Trümmern vor hoch aufragenden Abrisshäusern, in langen Reihen standen Pferdefuhrwerke zum Abtransport des Schutts bereit. In das Gedicht "Le Cygne" (Der Schwan), eines der Hauptstücke der Abteilung "Tableaux Parisiens" in der Sammlung "Les Fleurs du Mal" ist dieser Stadtumbau eingegangen. Dem Blick auf die neue Place du Carrousel folgen die Verse: "Le vieux Paris n'est plus (la forme d'une ville / change plus vite, hélas!, que le cœur d'un mortel)". In der neuen Übersetzung von Simon Werle (Rowohlt, 2017): "Paris, das alte, ist dahin (noch schneller umgestalten / Als Menschenherzen kann sich, ach, die Form der Stadt).“ Die Place du Carrousel, die Gerüste, den Schlamm, die Steinquader teilt Baudelaires Gedicht mit den stadthistorischen Fotoarchiven. Nicht aber die Erinnerung an Andromache, die Witwe Hektors, die Überblendung von Troja und Paris und den Auftritt des Schwans, der seinem Gehege entflohen ist und den Stadtraum durchquert wie eine mythische Gestalt aus den Gedichten Ovids. Der Schwan ist wie der Albatros, der in einem anderen Gedicht der "Fleurs du Mal" auftaucht, ein Statthalter der Poesie in einer ihr fremden Welt, sein weißes Federkleid steht im Kontrast zur schwarzen Bilderwelt der Melancholie, von der Andromache umgeben ist, die ihre Stadt verlassen musste und der Gewalt der Sieger unterworfen wurde. Baudelaire war kunstkritischer Kommentator der Explosion der Farbe in den Gemälden der romantischen Malerei, als deren Heros er Delacroix feierte, und Zeuge des Aufschwungs der Salonmalerei, die von Cinemascope-Formaten träumte, ohne es zu wissen. Seine eigene Kunst aber ist bei allen Ekstasen der Einbildungskraft, die sie enthält, um den Schwarz-Weiß-Kontrast zentriert. Er ist der Mann in Schwarz, der in Poesie und Prosa alle Nuancen der Farbe wie des Wortes "noir" erschließt, ob er gerade für die Franzosen die unheimlichen Geschichten von Edgar Allan Poe, den Autor von "The Raven" und "The Black Cat", übersetzt oder in der dunklen Uniformität der zeitgenössischen Männermode mit ihren Fracks und Zylindern den "Heroismus des modernen Lebens" entdeckt, im schwarzen Gehrock als Ausdruck der politischen Gleichheit die Tristesse der allgemeinen Gemütsverfassung: "ein unabsehbarer Heereszug von Leichenbittern, politischen Leichenbittern, verliebten Leichenbittern. Wir tragen jeder etwas zu Grabe." Illusionen zum Beispiel, wie der französische Roman von Balzac bis Flaubert.
Im Schwarz Baudelaires nisten der Tod und die Melancholie. Ihre Abgesandten im Alltag der Großstadt sind die Hinterbliebenen. Ein ganzer Schwarm von Witwen in schwarzer Trauerkleidung durchzieht das Werk Baudelaires, Andromache, die entthronte Königin, zählt dazu. In einem der dichtesten Stücke der Prosagedichte des "Spleen de Paris" lauschen sie aus der Ferne auf die Konzerte im Park, die sie sich nicht leisten können.
Die Passantin schreitet als Paradoxon durch die lärmerfüllte Straße: Statue in Bewegung . Edouard Manet hat Baudelaire in ein solches Konzert hineingemalt, schwarz gekleidet und mit Zylinder ist er im Profil erkennbar, ein Mann in der Menge. Als Dichter der Großstadt ist Baudelaire berühmt geworden, und als Dichter der Liebe in der Großstadt. Er hat sich dabei einen prägenden Kontrast des 19. Jahrhunderts nicht entgehen lassen, die Spannung zwischen der auf der Straße aufleuchtenden Schönheit des modernen Lebens und dem klassischen Schönen in den Museen. Eines der berühmtesten Gedichte der "Tableaux parisiens", "À une Passante" ("An eine Passantin") lebt vom Kontrast zwischen dem Weiß der marmornen Statuen der Antike und der schwarzen Trauerkleidung der Passantin, auch sie eine der Witwen in Baudelaires Werk. Die Passantin, eine Verkörperung der flüchtigen Schönheit, schreitet als Paradoxon durch die lärmerfüllte Straße, "einer Statue glich ihr Bein". Einer Statue in Bewegung, die dem Museum entkommen ist. In Baudelaires Paris gibt es nicht nur den Kontrast von Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, Antike und Moderne. Als junger Mann hatte er eine große Seereise gemacht, bis nach Mauritius und La Réunion. Er schrieb über die Weltausstellung 1855 in Paris und starb während der Weltausstellung 1867. Frankreich expandierte nach Afrika und im Second Empire nach Indochina. Im Gedicht "Der Schwan" hat die exilierte Andromache ein Gegenüber in einer von Not und Schwindsucht gezeichneten Schwarzen, die sich ins "stolze Afrika" zurücksehnt. Im "Spleen von Paris" taucht als Reminiszenz der Jugendreise "Die schöne Dorothee" auf. Der Seewind lässt unter ihrem wehenden Kleid "ihr wunderschönes glänzendes Bein zum Vorschein kommen; und ihr Fuß, ähnlich denen der Marmorgöttinnen, die Europa in seinen Museen birgt, hinterlässt seinen getreuen Abdruck im feinen Sand." Wer den Verbindungslinien zwischen dem Kontrast von weißer und schwarzer Venus bei Baudelaire und der französischen Kultur im Second Empire nachspürt, landet in der Kolonialabteilung der Weltausstellungen.
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Sign of the Times
SOTT is from the POV of a dying mother's words to a newborn. In the 2022 New York Apple Music Live Harry said this 'the first song he ever put out', then repeated that before Beautiful. Harry choose it to set the tone of his solo career, as a message to himself to rely on himself, similar to Taylor's later Your on your own Kid. I hear it as Harry talking to himself, willing him to go on despite challenges and fears in his solo career. To me the theme is both urging himself on and also considering who he is apart from fame. It references Taylor and she it. It is open to interpretation and by no means I am no expert, just my thoughts.
To Rolling Stone in 2017 Harry said:
“Most of the stuff that hurts me about what’s going on at the moment is not politics, it’s fundamentals,” Styles says. “Equal rights. For everyone, all races, sexes, everything. … ’Sign of the Times’ came from ‘This isn’t the first time we’ve been in a hard time, and it’s not going to be the last time.’ The song is written from a point of view as if a mother was giving birth to a child and there’s a complication. The mother is told, ‘The child is fine, but you’re not going to make it.’ The mother has five minutes to tell the child, ‘Go forth and conquer.'”
Lyrics
Just stop your crying
It's a sign of the times
Welcome to the final show
Hope you're wearing your best clothes
You can't bribe the door on your way to the sky
You look pretty good down here
But you ain't really good
To me, Harry is likening his leaving One Direction as a death and his solo career as the new birth/beginning. I hear final show is literal, their final show. He's telling himself to not cry, he can't bribe his way to solo success, it's on him and he has to try his best. He left a lot of once important relationships behind, even though many were already strained he lost the 1D infrastructure, the band friendships.
To me, you look pretty good down there, but you aren't really good to directed at Taylor. Referring to their attraction and reminding himself of their cyclical relationship. Their relationship was at its lowest point when he left 1D as described in Woman and MMIH, at a time he needed anchoring he was telling himself not to repeat it.
If we never learn, we been here before
Why are we always stuck and running from
The bullets?
The bullets
We never learn, we been here before
Why are we always stuck and running from
The bullets?
The bullets
To me the second verse speaks to the cyclical nature of his relationships in this time, in the band and also Taylor.
I hear 'stuck running from the bullets' as hiding from camera's. As described in I Know Places "They take their shots, but we're bulletproof / I know places" and Perfect, they constantly hid or ran from press.
They were trapped in a cycle of not learning and repeating a cycle described in Style "when we go crashing down, we come back every time" OOTW as 'we were built to fall apart and get back together.' They sing of a repeating, almost addictive nature of their relationship in many songs.
Just stop your crying
It's a sign of the times
We gotta get away from here
We gotta get away from here
Just stop your crying
It'll be alright
They told me that the end is near
We gotta get away from here
Harry is urging himself to rise to the challenge.
Taylor refers to the end in Mirrorball, which is a similar song "Hush, I know they said the end is near"
Harry is hoping he can break the cycle and be happy with (or without) Taylor.
It'll be alright is also similar to Fine Line's "We'll be alright" and WITW "And I know we'll be alright, child"
Just stop your crying
Have the time of your life
Breaking through the atmosphere
And things are pretty good from here
Remember everything will be alright
We can meet again somewhere
Somewhere far away from here
Harry is telling himself to let his past success with the band behind, remember to enjoy himself aside from doubt and fear. Rather than 'you look pretty good' in the first verse it is now 'things are pretty good' he is turning inward to get there alone.
He's setting aside the relationship for the future, he also said a similar idea in Someday (Michael Buble) "We could be in love once more / Till then I won't give my love away / Darling, I'm forever only yours" and in Walking in the Wind " Yeah, you will find me / In places that we've never been / For reasons we don't understand"
We don't talk enough
We should open up
Before it's all too much
Will we ever learn?
We've been here before
It's just what we know
Harry reflects on their lack of communication, I think with Taylor but also broader in his relationships. Not communicating is another Haylor theme.
Stop your crying, baby
It's a sign of the times
We gotta get away x5
We got to, we got to, away x3
I love the outtro, and his performance of it in the video above. I'm so happy for him paving his path successfully.
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