"My Tears Richochet" from Folklore

Lyrical analysis and Zarry perspective

Disclaimer

Before making this thread, I want to say a few things.This is personally my take on this song. You can interpret whatever you want.And there's no need to drag other Zarries because of a my personal opinion.I'm free to express whatever I want unless I offend anyone

You all are easily convinced that William Bowery could be Harry or Joe. But when it comes to Zayn, you can't? Why? Because Zayn, who is a singer-songwriter is not able to write hauntingly beautiful songs? He's not able to express himself? That's a disrespect towards Zayn imo.

There's a high chance that it's Zayn than it's being Harry or Joe. Zayn has literally worked with Taylor before, yet you don't wanna discuss it. You don't wanna admit the obvious facts!

But you're all too pretentious to think it's Harry when Folklore goes hand-in-hand very well with Fine Line narrative. It's a response to Harry's songs.

So yeah.. Harry grew bored during quarantine and thought.. "why not I collab with my long lost ex and REPLY TO MY OWN SONGS!" Waah!  What a way to kill boredome!

*Slow claps*

Admit it or not, Folklore is an entire Zarry timeline. From Harry being 16 and Zayn being 17 when they met up to their first love to their break up to the current baby situation. It's all Zarry.

Else why would Tay possibly sing about a baby situation in her life? That too replying to Harry in the same way his lyrics have put up. Both fineline and folklore have tons of kids/baby/child references. But you won't address this!

My Tears Richochet is a song written by Taylor Swift. Let me repeat, she's telling the story of someone. What are the chances of her songs to portray the exact Zarry lovestory?

TAYLOR KNOWS ZARRY. Yes, both of them! Get that into your head first. Out of the Woods is about Zarry. The more you ignore this, the more you skip a Zarry timeline.

Now a little something about the theme of this hauntingly beautiful song:

"HIS fallen object of obsession" (not her). Remember this. We need this for later. So some believe Taylor wrote this when she left a certain label. Thank heavens they could at least derive that much.

So who else left a certain label/band? Yes. Zayn left One Direction. My tears richochet reflects Zayn's take on leaving the band, essentially leaving Harry.

Analysing My Tears Ricochet verse by verse.

The first verse portrays a certain funeral. That is a metaphor. Someone died, but they're yet trying to communicate to their significant other.

A worst day in their life. Zarry had a fallout on March 14th 2015, which led a heavily drunk Harry to vent to a certain stranger. In Exile, this comes again, "pouring my heart out to a stranger, but I didn't pour the whiskey".

"Even on his worst day, did I deserve it babe"
Idk which exactly this worst day is, but sometime during March 14 to March 25. More like Zayn who is dead inside, asking Harry that did he actually deserve something Harry did or said.

Moving on to the next verse. If nothing has set the deal for you, this will!

"I didn't have it in myself to go with grace"
Z left abruptly during a tour,leaving H behind.He didn't have any grace when he left,everyone hated him.He didn't leave the fandom with a note,simply left.

Though H somehow knew of all this, I'm sure he thought Z would come back like the rest of others because that's the idea Z gave- "Zayn Malik left 1D tour for a break!"

"And you're the hero flying around, saving faces"

How H covered all of Z's portions after Z left the band. How he portrayed himself as an "all is well guy", pretending Zayn was never there in the band in the first place.

"Cursing my name, wishing I stayed"

Do I even have to elaborate on this?
Zebra, where? Counting how many members where in the band. Shading Z in so many ways.

THIS VERSE! OH GOD!
No offense, but you're not a Zarrie if you at least don't acknowledge this verse!

"You wear the same jewels that I gave you"

Zarry wearing each other's jewels! Especially H! How, how, how don't you see this? Metal bracelet on the day of Torm said Hi!

Did Tay wear Scott Borchetta's jewels? I didn't think so. (It could be a metaphor too.. but too much for a coincidence don't you think?)

"And I can go anywhere I want
Anywhere I want, just not home"

Haven't we heard this before somewhere?

"Please don't wait for me, I'm not coming home" ~ Rearview, Zayn

Why do both of these convey the same message? Give it yourself a thought.

The most important verse in this song, which actually set the deal for me!

"And you're tossing out blame, drunk on this pain"

We all know Harry was very drunk when he vent to Joe Cummings. So you can only imagine how drunk he was after all these events.

But that's exactly not this situation. It's the real scenario plus a metaphor. Tossing out the blame because it killed Harry. Harry didn't want pain. So he started saying, "it's a shame Zayn Malik left" "his loss". Also, remember how bitter Harry actually was? You gotta know.

Now "CROSSING OUT THE GOOD YEARS"

Zayn literally has a song titled "Good Years". And what's the theme of this song? Leaving the band. Everyone knows that.