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Jul 11, 2022. You are home website, Harry quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson, "people destined to meet well do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment." Exactly 12 years to the day, after their X Factor audition day, when Harry and Louis apparently met in a bathroom.

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Change by Louis Tomlinson 

Analysis 

My first thought when I heard Change is timeless. That’s an amazing, rare achievement. Between Change and Copy, LT2 is shaping up to be a really incredible album that I’ll listen to for the rest of my life because I love it. 

On Change, Louis does a very good job of changing up his delivery and the instrumental to keep it fresh. My only complaint about Walls (album) was that there were times where it felt a bit repetitive and stagnant to me. Change suggests that Louis has totally grown out of that. 

The song starts intimately, then grows into the kind of arena rock I love so much and Louis is so good at. He keeps you interested. Toward the end, we get the psychadelic-via-brit-pop influenced drone which is also a part of KMM’s magic. Between the lyric, delivery, and instrumental, it’s an astonishingly direct moment in the best way.

You might consider that the first part of the song is dripping in nostalgia. It might recall Louis’ romanticized days as a teenager going for cheap beer at an indie club. And it has the sound to match. Then, Louis knocks us into the present. He says ‘stop getting lost in nostalgia and regrets, you have a present to live and a future to look forward to’ and punctuates the message with a psychedelic vibe - almost as though we are being awakened with realization, gaining higher insight. 

There’s also a touch of jazz influence, or perhaps more specifically, Amy Winehouse. I think this influence is the key to the magic Louis has achieved with Copy, Change, and his Beautiful War cover.  Louis describes himself as a subdued and moody performer and the intensity of that attitude gels perfectly with the influence. It shows off his musicality. It’s sexy. It’s genius.

Now, on to the lyrcis! I’ll be using my own version of the lyrics. I will post relevant revisions and link them [here] if necessary when we have an official copy.

‘Oh, oh, ah-oh-oh

Turn on the lights

It’s easy to see

We were just getting by

We weren’t complete

Louis starts by setting up the story telling us that he’s shedding light on a problem, specifically an interpersonal problem. It isn’t yet clear to whom exactly ‘we’ refers.  It may be one other person or a group. It could allude to a romantic partner, fans, friends, etc. 

It parallels “Lights Up” which has the lyric ‘Lights up and they know who you are/do you know who you are’. In both songs the light exposes a troubled sense of identity. Harry feels unsure, Louis feels incomplete. Both songs are retrospective. I think it is fair to say that like Lights Up, Change is a reflection on growing up in the limelight. Harry felt public observation exposed a conflicted sense of self and here, Louis feels that exposure reveals an emptiness. 

It hasn’t been long

That I’ve been away

I don’t know why

Everything’s changed

Louis says it hasn’t been long that he has been away. Maybe a brief time away revealed changes he hadn’t noticed. Maybe he’s an unreliable narrator, and he has been away for a long time, but he feels like he hasn’t. 

‘Cause inside

We’re still the kids on the Friday nights 

These two lines cement this as a song about growing up. Louis has commented several times on feeling his age. This is probably in part due to pop music’s unhealthy obsession with youth, but he also has very legitimate reasons to feel his life has passed him by - first with the incredible, demanding pace of touring with One Direction that removed him from ordinary life and then with the series of personal tragedies as well as the professional setbacks that brought us to today. In Fearless Louis asks someone if they ‘remember being young and strong enough to get it wrong in front of all these people’ and in Change, Louis still does feel young. It’s the dissonance between how he feels and the passage of time that stings.

Silver streets and the neon signs

My suspicion is that “silver streets” doubles as a way of describing how pavement looks at night and as a way of communicating that this memory is romanticized - coated in silver. There is also a song called Silver Streets and a radio show called Silver Street that could, in theory, have nostalgic value for Louis. Silver Streets by BOY seems to have some thematic resonance with Change.

Neon signs may harken back to his Miss You music video in which pink triangle neon signs featured prominently. 

Everything’s changed outside

Sometimes I wonder why

A clever inversion of “I don’t know why / Everything’s changed / ‘Cause inside”

If you need you can call on me

I’ll be the friend you need

Everything’s changed outside

But I feel the same inside

This seems to be Louis telling the other part of his ‘we’ that they can still rely on him just the same as they could in the past. It’s important to him that he is still there for the people.

The kids are alright

That used to be me

Always losing our minds

Out on the street

The Kids Are Alright is a phrase which originated with the The Who song and it is also the title of the band’s rockumentary which might remind Louis of his 1D days. (Also, the film The Kids Are Alright was the first mainstream comedy to depict lesbians raising children together.)

The phrase means that the current generation, for all of their problems and the hand-wringing of their parents, is capable and determined and will be able to grow into responsible adults. “That used to be me” adds the dark implication that, now no longer a kid, he’s may be not alright.  

“Always losing our minds/ Out on the street” evokes the Wellington incident where the boys were literally drunk and running through the streets. Make note of the word “Out” which may be a double entendre meaning both Out as in outside and Out in the queer sense.

A trip down memory lane 

Houses all look the same

There’s different names on the gates

And all the people have changed

Oh it’s such a shame, 

nothing stays the same

This line could be very literal because it’s what you experience when you grow up and people move and the place you lived changes. It may also be a  metaphor for people changing. They look like themselves, but they get married and change their names, and who they are inside changes as they grow up. 

Fame is said to put people into a state of arrested development at the age they got famous. For Louis, he may be feeling 18 inside while he sees his friends maturing through the ordinary rites of passage that sudden fame denied him. And now he can’t revisit the things he left behind when he left home.

‘Cause inside

We’re still the kids on the Friday nights 

Silver streets and the neon signs

Everything’s changed outside

Sometimes I wonder why

If you need you can call on me

I’ll be the friend you need

Everything’s changed outside

But I feel the same inside

When you gonna realize

You don’t get another life

Always overanalyse this, what’s the point?

I know it’ll be alright,

you’ve still got the rest of your life

I am completely obsessed with the brutality of this lyric. I love it. It resonates with my own experience of growing into an adult. I actually had a conversation with a professor that was very important to me which could be poetically depicted this way - I was really distraught over how certain things in my life had played out. He made the point that life is as beautiful and exciting as it is because we only experience them once. (And lemme tell you that man knew a thing or two about an exciting life)

Louis separates “you” from “I” here. You is another person he’s talking to. Maybe “you” is another version of himself or (more likely) “you” is a specific person this is directed at. He’s waiting for this person to realize they are lost in lamenting the past. He asks what the point is of analyzing the past  and wondering what could’ve been when you have a life ahead of you to live.

If the “you” here is Harry, then the obvious parallel is Fine Line with the repeating line “We’ll be alright” but the parallels go deeper. The first two verses of Fine Line might detail the conflict at the heart of this back-and-forth but the last two are more thematically relevant. “There’s things that we’ll never know” implies that he has been thinking about what could’ve been in another life and is coming to terms with the fact that they were not meant to be. “My hand’s at risk, I fold” followed by “Crisp trepidation / I’ll try to shake this soon ”  might relate to the idea of overanalysing, prioritizing ‘what if’ over the future he wants to live. I also think the idea of not getting another life is relevant to Harry because to me it seems apparent that Harry has a very real fear of dying (and his loved ones dying) which comes through on Fine Line and he explicitly stated while on Ellen’s Burning questions at 1:48.

Although I believe firmly in Larry and tonight only reinforced that belief, Larry or not, it’s important to remember that Harry and Louis were close friends in the same band for 5 years and experienced a lot of the same things. Harry’s the younger of the two so it makes some sense that he’s in a position that Louis has already worked through and made peace with. Their respective songs about this concept of making peace with the past reflect their individual struggles to move forward and create a sense of self beyond the band. 

Now it’s time to realise you don’t get another life

Always overanalyse this, what’s the point?

I know it’ll be alright

“Now” points to time as the factor that moves this person from one of the kids who are alright to the adult who has to make peace with the things that happened in their past and the fact there are no do-overs.

We’re still the kids on the Friday nights

Silver streets and the neon signs

Everything’s changed outside

Sometimes I wonder why

“I know it’ll be alright” into “We’re still the kids on the Friday nights”  softens the message up quite a bit. The revelation of ‘you don’t get another life’ reveals the answer to ‘why’. It says we are the same people who did those things, even though they are now in the past. 

If you need you can call on me

I’ll be the friend you need

Everything’s changed outside

But I feel the same inside

And even though time has passed, you can still rely on Louis

When you gonna realise

You don’t get another life

Always overanalyse this, what’s the point?

I know it’ll be alright,

You’ve still got the rest of your life

Now infused with the spirit of taking on the future together, there’s something very hopeful about concluding the song on this lyric.

Moving the story along in the verses and bending the meaning of the chorus is probably my favorite approach to songwriting and holy shit does Change deliver. 

Louis, you beautiful genius, I can’t wait to hear this in all it’s HQ glory, in it’s studio form, and to hear all of its companion songs. And I really can’t wait to sing these lines back to you through my tears. 

man, what a song

SHE // BREATHE : THE LITTLE BOOK OF CALM

Literally nothing to do with RBB/SBB, sorry to disappoint already. I just thought the lil wordplay was relevant.

This post is dedicated to She and gender. She is a song that I think really stands out from the rest of the album in many ways. While the song is a big part of Harry’s "self discovery journey", the sound really takes us back to good ole psychedelic rock, very… Pink Floyd.

‼️DISCLAIMER‼️ This analysis deals with gender and identity crisis. When I use the term "queer" in this, I think it’s important to acknowledge its semantic: to be different, weird by society standards. I don’t think there is anything to TW but please tell me if you think there should be !

BREATHE

A lot of people pointed it out: the beginning of She is extremely similar to Breathe. The first 20sec of both songs give it away.

Breathe is the opening song of The Dark Side of the Moon, another concept album by Pink Floyd. The album left such a mark it became their visual brand (that gay prism triangle thingy). Harry even got it tattooed on his sleeve.

This album deals with themes such as money, dehumanization, insanity and the passing of time. All in all, if you combine those themes, you get a blatant criticism of capitalism and… society… the one we live in… damn Murray. There will be a lot of "society" thrown around in this post askdeojdosd

Here’s the tracklist of the album. The songs I’ve highlighted are the ones I’m gonna talk about in this post.

SO before the album dives into total conceptual madness (as usual with PF), Breathe is like a disclaimer, a warning about what life is about:

Breathe.

Don’t be afraid to care.

Leave, but don't leave me,

Look around, choose your own ground.

Inhale, exhale. Take some time to think about the person you are, break from society if you must, so you stay in touch with the real you and the people you love. Because soon enough, you'll be caught up in a restless life, having to work all the time until you're in the grave. Fun, fun, fun.

So what about She and Breathe ? With that similar riff between them both, is it Harry saying "figuring out who you are is exhausting so take a step back and breathe" ? Yeah seems good, but there’s ALWAYS more. Because referencing the opening song of an album is an invitation to listen to the rest of it.

Later in The Dark Side of the Moon, we get the track Time. It is directly related to Breathe in different ways:

Time is what Breathe summarized. You’re chilling, doing nothing, feeling like wasting time and that’s when it dawns on you: time’s ticking for real. So you panic and try to keep up and life goes faster and you get old and… time’s up. FUN FUN FUN.

At the end of Time, there is a reprise of Breathe. Meaning the She-esque riff comes back.

Let’s go for some Time and She parallels:

Nine in the morning, the man drops his kids off at school / Sends his assistant for coffee in the afternoon, around 1:32, She

Ticking away the moments that make a dull day, fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way, Time

The man in She has a routine: first dropping the kids off (getting rid of them for the day so he can work), ticked. Then sending someone for coffee (he doesn’t have the time to do it himself, he has to work), ticked. You can even picture the scene, him waving his assistant off. In an offhand way. And that’s it, morning and afternoon, all in a day work. Work work work.

And not telling his mates, he wouldn't know what to say

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way

There is this idea of a "phantom menace" (pewpew nerd) in both songs: something that isn't tangible, but there is no escaping it. Rather than adressing it, they stick with their routine and suffer in silence, stuck in their own "preset" character (the English man).

HARRY SAID WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY

The man has a very different life from Harry the popstar. The man is your average dude succeeding in life as we know it: he has kids, a job where he gets to order people around, so probably good money. He can easily lead a comfortable and secure life for the rest of his days. However, the man isn’t comfortable with himself, he doesn’t feel secure at all: he dreams of her, the man is queer. He knows it deep down but can’t quite accept it. He doesn’t know how to come to term with this idea of being different from the societal norm, so he separates this part from himself, from the man that society raised. She is seen as a stranger. Maybe in another life, one where he wouldn’t have to work and please everyone around him, a life where he could breathe, he could sort out who (s)he is. But he can’t, so he simply dreams of sailing away, to get away from here.

This struggle to know who you are and the idea of having to separate yourself in different parts can also be found in the song Brain Damage. The track exposes the consequences of society forcing people into one path and keeping them from straying away. In this song, the speaker who starts by identifying themselves as the "lunatic" is completely lost: who’s the real them ? The inadequate person that should not exist by society standards or the tamed, socially acceptable version of them, that is deemed to be good but was molded by the world they live in ? Eventually the speaker says that the real them, the lunatic, was forcefully locked away and the person they present as in order to please society isn’t genuine. Keeping that in mind:

A woman who’s just in his head, She

The lunatic is in my head, Brain Damage

Oh and really quick, if you think Only Angel could be about gender you’re gonna like this one:

End up meeting in the hallway every single time

The lunatic is in the hall

Broke a finger knocking on your bedroom door

You lock the door and throw away the key

Wanna die, wanna die, wanna die tonight [scream]

You shout and no one seems to hear

^This one is the exact opposite of what happened with She and Time (suffering in silence, pretending). Here the speakers are being loud, but it doesn’t change anything: the issue is that people don’t care or don’t want to understand. You’re on your own with this one. So no use in telling your mates.

With Harry, it’s always about the speaker (the man) and a woman whose only attributes are… being a she (or presenting a femininity which is disapproved by society, like a skirt too short or a high sex drive associated to the literal devil). That woman is unreachable but always there, looming in the hallway or occupying his bed, so close yet so far. In Brain Damage, the lunatic may be locked away but is never gone for good: the speaker became pliant with time under society’s pressure, but remembers fondly being themselves before, the lunatic. Lives for the memory.

What is also really… poetic with this comparison is the term lunatic itself: its latin etymology is luna, related to the moon. One was called a lunatic because we used to think the moon changes could affect one’s behavior. The moon is also commonly associated with femininity. She affects him and together, they’re the lunatic.

BONUS REACHING FEST!!!

One thing I’ve always wondered listening to Fine Line and its carefully crafted storyline is: what’s the transition between the deeply introspective She and the lovey dovey Sunflower vol 6 and Canyon Moon ? How can Harry go from "society kills who I really am in favor of a facade" to "domestic sappy love songs" ?

Well remember when I said Time ended with a Breathe reprise ? Same riff that She begins and ends with ? Here are the lyrics to said reprise:

HARRY GET THE FUCK OUT WTF THAT’S IT I’VE HAD IT

So basically. Those lyrics are the continuation of the track "On the Run" where the speaker rushes at the airport because they travel so much all the time (fast life work modern society capitalism you get the idea). Also it’s a little bit funny because the plane they have to take goes to Rome. But eventually they get back home for a break, and at last they breathe.

And then you have Harry writing a song about counting the days until he can come home from work and constant travel (Canyon Moon) and a song where Harry wants to take the time to really know the person who’s like home to him (Sunflower vol 6). And in order to do that he has to… breathe. Take a step back from everything that has caused the flowers to die in the past. [insert inhaling sound effect]

It baffles me how it always comes back to this. Harry is always coming home. Where he feels safe, loved, where he gets to explore and be who he is. It’s a place where time doesn’t apply. He gets to feel like a kid again. It’s a rainbow paradise, it’s a light for when he feels lost. Send in Sunflower vol 6 and Canyon Moon I’m gonna lose it-

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Thanks love.

Hi Gina hope ur good i am looking for a fic now I don’t know the name of it or the author name but I do know that it’s a really famous soulmates au where it’s set in a universe where ur born with two diff col eyes and when u meet ur soulmate they change to ur real eye col snd after a night out Louis realizes that he has the same col eyes but he can’t remember anything about the night before so when 6(I think) years later he meets Harry who has two green eyes they have to find out if there soulmates I think I can’t remember the plot hope this is enough infro thank you xxx

Hi love. It’s this one:

waiting for the tides to meet by naiticalleeds (E, 60K)

Louis lets out a deep breath, thinking about Harry’s soulmate. Thinking about how Harry’s soulmate is probably as beautiful as Harry, some person that Louis cannot compare to, and how the universe has chosen them to be Harry’s. Fuck the universe. “Fuck you,” he calls out to the universe. He’s aware of how crazy he sounds.

Maybe he is crazy, with how he’s falling for Harry. And fuck that, too.

Soulmate AU. Everyone is born with heterochromia — one eye is their own eye colour, while the other is the colour of their soulmate's. It's only when they meet their soulmate for the first time that their own eyes match properly. After a hazy night at a frat party, Louis wakes up to blue eyes and the shocking realization that he had met his soulmate, without any sober recollection. Seven years pass where Louis comes to terms with the fact that he'll never know who his soulmate is. Then one fated summer, a beautiful green-eyed photographer arrives at Louis' workplace, with promises of endless laughter and a familiar feeling in Louis' heart.

Featuring a lovely cup of OT5, a road trip down the coast, and a scene where Harry eats a whole head of lettuce. Don't ask why.

Thank you for existing.

Full version of Louis performing his new song "Change"!

The Away From Home Festival. (30 August 2021)

OBVIOUSLY!!!!!

literally the funniest thing to ever happen in this fandom is someone coming up with a very definitely green drink that combined orange and blue components to make green… and calling it The Blue Direction

guess Blue’s direction… orientation if you will… is Green