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Love of My Life

LOML closes out Harry's House, it's a sad song about realising someone is the love of his life after he had lost them. Harry has spoken about an albums start and end, Harry's House starts with Sushi, imploring his muse to let love in and asking himself if just a taste of love is enough. LOML is about loss of that person and realisation that they were the love of his life. To Zane Lowe Harry said:

"Love of my life, I’ve always wanted to write a song about like home and loving England and all that kind of stuff. And it’s always kinda hard to do without being like ‘went to the chippy and I did this thing’ and to me Love of My Life was the most terrifying song for a long time because it is so bare, it's so sparse." He went on to say: "And in the spirit of what Harry's House is about, I think it started as an idea that was very literal, on the nose, [...] As I started making the album it wasn't about the geographical location it was much more of an internal thing."

So, what he said was that it is about his home and England is a metaphor. Home is common theme in Harry's work, most notably in Sweet Creature but even in 1D it has meant more than a place to him. The notebook also has a quote 'your mother is my home'. Taylor has also used home or homeland to refer to Harry, WomanExile has a great post on their usage of home as a metaphor for each other.

The Lyric Video has roses, which Harry and Taylor Swift also use to refer to each other:

Since 1989, all rose and thorn lyrics are about Harry

Harry 's rose Tattoo is from 11 September 2013, when they started dating again after the VMAs.

Roses have been in videos, outfits, social media posts about each other, a list is here.

Timeline

In the NY ONO show Harry said he wrote it in Rob Stringers' (Sony CEO) house and that the phone ringing in it is his. As it Was was recorded in the same session, and in part, has a similar meaning. This places it in the first half of 2021. After the rest of the album, California. Also after Folk/evermore which are about communicating and endings respectively. Harry had seen Taylor in March at the 2021 Grammy's. At the time it was written Taylor was still dating Joe. Harry had been dating Olivia for a few months.

California in particular refers to 'summers death left to breathe' indicating that there may have been an ending of sorts in 2020 before he returned to England and drove to Italy over the time Folklore was released.

Though not lyrically addressed, to me LOML is a 'yes' to Question..?'s "Did you realize out of time, she was on your mind?" Question was written in the same time period, after the Grammy's interaction but was released 6 months later.

Tracklisting, release and length

Love of My Life is Harry's only track 13, Taylor's number. It was released on her birthday. It is 3:12 long, or March, 31 2012 - the date they met.

Live shows

Harry said to Zane Lowe he thought he would close the show with it. And he did up until March 25 2023 when it was replaced by Fine Line in the last leg. Later that same week Taylor Swift replaced Invisible String with The 1 and announced her split from Joe Alwyn. It only returned for the 3 Wembley shows.

It was missing for 30 shows and is one of the least played Harry’s House songs, only above Boyfriends and Grapejuice which was added for the last leg.

Lyrics

Baby, you were the love of my life, woah Maybe you don't know what's lost 'til you find it

The first verse is a turn on the phrase “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” he reconnected with his love and found she is the 1 but it is past tense, he still lost her. This is similar to the Clean secret message, which also appeared in the OOTW video “She lost him but she found herself and somehow that was everything.” And the cyclical nature of this relationship.

Take a walk on Sunday through the afternoon We can always find somethin' for us to do We don't really like what's on the news, but it's on all the time

The second verse to me is remembering good times with this person, when he felt at home, with shared experiences and comfort.

I take you with me every time I go away In a hotel, usin' someone else's name I remember back at Jonny's place, it's not the same anymore

To me, I take you with me everytime I go away refers to what Harry said about an internal feeling, no matter where he is in the world his love is ever-present even when they are not.

In the Dublin show on the 22nd June 2023 Harry confirmed this refers to his childhood friend is Jonathan Harvey. This speaks to Harry’s concept of home as the feeling that you are loved and belong. To me this reference is to when Harry took Taylor on a tour of his home in England, to the lakes, where he grew up and she may have met Jonny in 2012. She said that was her best birthday, sharing his home with her was important to him. To me, this line means their relationship is different now to it was then. As it was is also similar with with an external view of how others would see them and their place in life.

It's unfortunate, ooh Just coordinates, ooh

It’s unfortunate, just coordinates sounds to me like he’s reflecting on how they got from the Lakes trip to their current state. This applies to his feelings about love and home. The impact touring has had on his life, what is home and his relationships.

I don't know you half as well as all my friends I won't pretend that I've been doin' everything I can To get to know your creases and your ends Are they the same?

Knowing his love is a theme, in Sunflower Harry sang “Let me inside, I wanna get to know you” and in Fine Line “Spreading you open Is the only way of knowing you” to explore the idea of intimacy co-existing with distance with the same person.

He also sings about not knowing his love in Trouble “And I don’t even know you / But I feel like I do sometimes”. Interestingly in If I could fly he feels like she knows him “Now you know me / for you eyes only”.

The “are they the same” speaks to once knowing all the creases and ends but not now. “Super Pretty” has a similar theme of distant intimacy and vulnerability “do you still feel the same about me”.

Baby, you were the love of my life, woah 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'll land when you fly But, baby, you were the love of my life

The final chorus adds “don’t know where you’ll land when you fly” which confirms he is singing to a person not a country. Specifically a person with a private jet who can fly without the destination known. For that person every mystery take off is relentlessly tracked by an instagram account. How alienating it must be to someone who loves and wants her to see that and not know.

#that last bit im cryibng #also her mention of the passing jets in TTPD

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Alright, reblog with your top 3 tracks from TTPD as of rn

#currently its down bad fresh out the slammer and but daddy i love him

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Whether I'm gonna be your wife or Gonna smash up your bike, I Haven't decided yet

...maybe both?

haylor anyone?

#lmao he does love a bike

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i think everything is going to be okay

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this is crazy

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I Wish You Would / Midnight Rain / Peter

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The Haylor brainrot runs deep I know, but is Peter about Harry? I can't be the only one thinking this

#i was thinking the same some of the parallels were interesting #also said u were gonna grow up then u were gonna come find me hmm

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Holy shit, yes.

And it’s not like she didn’t warn us, with the WCS x Ivy mash-up.

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WELL

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Down Bad has to be about HS

'cause like this:

points to this basically Taylor feeling she's being played by Harry. Kind of like this:

and then like this:

just reminds me of all the young love imagery that Taylor used in a lot of songs that is inspired with her relationship with Harry, which some are the cardigan, betty, august, and suburban legends. Also, the next part of that lyric:

reminds me of this part in Is it Over Now?

Also, this part of Down Bad reminds me of Cardigan and Hits Different:

For me, it also parallels Slut! and the part where she thinks it's worth it to be called horrible things if she gets to be with him. It parallels in the way that she gets called crazy for still talking about him and that she gets called sexist slurs just for dating him. Like, in the end, it makes her look bad to others.

Now this just reminds me of her basically just being "down bad" or deeply in love. Like some:

You know just to name a few songs lmao

This part just reminds me of their actual encounters in Grammys. Like come on, if you're a haylor during these moments, then you know what I mean. There's tension there, nervousness, the smiles, the trying to hype yourself up before coming over to talk to them. Ifykyk.

It can also be about their "greatest unspoken dialogue ever." Like even if haylors theorize what all these "dialogues" mean, it would always just come back to it's their conversation, their encounters, their world.

Now, this one is the part where people thinks this is the reason why this is not about Harry, and more leaning to MH (Not gonna lie I did too but I just think there's more "facts" leaning into Harry more than MH), because that man has just the worst history or something. But the things is I interpreted this part as more like the "indecent exposures" being like his dating history and being known as a "ladies' man" and dating older women. But I dunno lmao. I'm not that exposed to Harry's life but I do know that mans is not a saint and is involved with issues and sht.

Lastly, we have this, which just slapping you in the face that it alludes to new romantics:

But it also like more subtly also points to basically every song lyrics that I added here, where it' basically her being so in love with him that she can't move on from him and what they had, which is why she's down bad.

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I knew the "goodbye for now" in Peter was familiar. Harry wrote that in his last posts of the '18, '21 and '23 tours.

https://twitter.com/cherrvfrk/status/1781242343909146811?t=h-p3PTCPQmNOnd7kq8JLNA&s=19

Also I saw someone saying it's a 'cardigan' reference "Peter losing Wendy"...

Peter is very clearly about Harry. From the cardigan reference to Harry’s many ‘one day when we are older we will be together references and Taylor saying that he has it easier than her, which is also in Slut.

There is a theme of Harry saying they will be together in the future, satellite being written when he was 25.

H was 25 in 2019, when fine line was released, they were confirmed to both be at Eds wedding and a few months after they were both stuck on LA writing Folklore/Harrys House including Cardigan with the Peter losing Wendy reference she’s picked up here…

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espresso's bts polaroid

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im shaking

#prev lmaooo

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snoopy encourages you to buy a new book!

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SABRINA CARPENTER for Cosmopolitan

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