miss you is his best song because whenever ever someone writes the "we fell out of love what the FUCK" song it typically is a weepy ballad (ex. the night we met) but instead louis leaned into the anger and stupidity of letting the love of your life go for no good reason at all

and i think that's far more revealing and raw. like how fucking stupid is it for you to have this grand, bigger than life only to break up for a trivial reason. it's infuriating and so you try to belittle that love cause the lack of closure is too painful to bear but like

you can't escape it, at the end of the night, when you're just left with your thoughts and yourself its like, shit i really fucked it up haven't i

aND THAT'S WHY MISS YOU IS SUPREME BECAUSE HE PERFECTLY NAILS THIS UNGLAMOROUS REALITY

like when all your friends are like "WHAT HAPPENED" and you don't even have an answer. cheating/distance breaking a relationship is devastating. simply falling out of love with someone is impossible to really deal with. or to watch someone fall out of love with you

like there's nothing you even can do about it? and that's the reality like you're literally just shit out of luck. boyfriend of six years? nah he's just... done? and you're over. the person that was your home, your EVERYTHING is literally just nothing anymore you're STRANGERS

so yeah, communicate with your partners people before you find yourself a year later without the slightest clue of how you got here and why you're somehow alone

also, https://open.spotify.com/album/22anLYKhfIkwUOz8RZtZKq