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how to be so lonely and miss you are connected: a thread
full disclaimer: i am a larrie. this thread is completely influenced by the belief that they are together. if you don’t agree, that’s fine, but please respect my opinion and i’ll respect yours.
first verses (tbsl on the left and miss you on the right for the full thread): there was a time when louis was constantly out partying and drinking. i think that one night, louis was drunk and called harry. the two likely broke up around 2015 and hadn’t really talked until this.
harry was on 16 when the two met and fell in love, hence the “i was just a little boy.” he was young when he fell in love with louis so when he calls, he picks up. likely still hurt and still in love with him after the break up, the call only hurt and confused him more.
but it’s also important to mention i don’t think he blames louis for calling in the same way he doesn’t blame himself for picking up. he knows that they are each other’s weaknesses. they’ll always love each other in some capacity and can’t be blamed for that.
pre chorus: while louis is out trying to drink to forget his pain, harry is also hurting but doesn’t want to admit it. he’s trying to hold on to his pride and not be the first to apologize, even if he wants to. in the end, they both seem hurt and lost without each other.
choruses: back to the phone call, drunk louis probably kept referring to harry as baby, as we know they had a lot of pet names for each other from tweets and the “sunnnn” video. harry didn’t know how to take that, as he was both heartbroken and still in love with him.
but louis, who thinks that he’s starting to think the drinking to forget his pain is working, keeps missing harry and is unable to forget about him. he’s faking being okay while continuing to see that it’s not working and he still desperately misses the one he loves.
second verses: harry misses louis and louis misses harry. neither of them would like to admit it, both to themselves and to each other. it seems like neither of them want their relationship to be over but aren’t man enough to swallow their pride and talk to each other.
harry seeing louis with other women in these “relationships” doesn’t help anything either, he’s jealous and he wants to be the person who louis’ kissing and showing off on instagram. while louis is still saying that he’s fine without harry and that’s he’s doing great.
post chorus (only tbsl): this goes with what i just said, harry is lonely and you have to hear this part with my theory in mind because the raw emotion that harry conveys in this part gives away how hurt and in pain he truly was.
bridges: harry, again, is too lost in his pride to admit that he’s sorry while louis is drunkenly trying to get into contact and apologize because he misses him. his friends likely took his phone, seeing as louis was not in the right state to be talking to harry.
they haven’t talked or been in a situation to have that conversation and so now louis feels like harry is a stranger to him who he can’t talk to or see. but he doesn’t even want to think about that, so he keeps on drinking.
chorus of tbsl (lyric change): in this he changes the third line to “it’s hard for me to go home” likely referring to louis himself. louis wrote a whole song called “home” so it’s not that far fetched to believe that harry’s saying that it’s hard to go back to louis.
during the time they were broken up, harry likely wanted to go back to louis so bad but just couldn’t. not only because he didn’t want to admit he was sorry but because neither did louis. they had to work through it all before harry could put himself in a position to get hurt.
you have to listen to both of these songs with that in mind, seeing as text can only convey so much when it comes to emotion but i firmly believe these two songs are connected, and even if not, both of these songs are very loud and telling on their own.
if you want clarification on anything you can quote it or dm me and i’ll try my best to explain further in the replies, there’s only so much you say in a singular tweet.
