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Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson’s Complementary Lyrics Masterpost

I’ve spent more time than I am willing to admit going through lyrics and analyzing them, but I won’t be offering any interpretations here. I simply wanted to compile all the complementary lyrics Louis and Harry have written throughout both 1D and their solo careers. I realize they had teams of other writers working with them and Louis wrote many songs with Liam, but Harry carried around a book of lyrics for years and Liam stated that Louis was the lyricist between the two of them, so I am of the opinion that most of the lyrics to these songs were written by Harry and Louis. (I’ve included songs Harry wrote, but gave to other artists.)

For those unfamiliar with the abbreviations for the songs here is a key:

Strong - Written by Louis for 1D (2013)

Happily - Written by Harry for 1D (2013)

SG - Something Great, Written by Harry for 1D (2013)

TTD - Through the Dark, Written by Louis for 1D (2013)

JALBYH - Just a Little Bit of Your Heart, written by Harry and given to Ariana Grande (2013)

DLMG - Don’t Let Me Go, written by Harry and self-released online (2013)

TG - Two Ghosts, written by Harry and saved for HS1 (2013)

RTR - Ready to Run, written by Louis for 1D (2014)

FP - Fireproof, written by Louis for 1D (2014)

Spaces - Written by Louis for 1D (2014)

NC - No Control, written by Louis for 1D (2014)

SS - Stockholm Syndrom, written by Harry for 1D (2014)

EOTD - End of the Day, written by Louis for 1D (2015)

IICF - If I Could Fly, written by Harry for 1D (2015)

Home - Written by Louis for 1D (2015)

LWD - Long Way Down, written by Louis for 1D (2015)

LYG - Love You Goodbye, written by Louis for 1D (2015)

History - Written by Louis for 1D (2015)

WITW - Walking in the Wind, written by Harry for 1D (2015)

Medicine - Written by Harry and unreleased, just performed (2016)

MMITH - Meet Me in the Hallway, written by Harry for HS1 (2016)

SC - Sweet Creature, written by Harry for HS1 (2016)

SOTT - Sign of the Times, written by Harry for HS1 (2016)

FTDT - From the Dining Table, written by Harry for HS1 (2016)

BTY - Back to You, written by Louis for LT1 (2017)

MY - Miss You, written by Louis for LT1 (2017)

NSTLS - Not So Typical Love Song, written by Harry for the Love Simon Original Soundtrack, performed by Bleechers. (2018)

Judgement of a Relationship + Accepting the Relationship/Self

TTD: And I can see your head is held in shame / But I just wanna see you smile again

Happily: I don’t care what people say when we’re together

Strong: But I don’t care, I’m not scared of love + But there’s nothing I’m running from

RTR: There will always be the kind that criticize / But I know, yes I know we’ll be alright

NC: And I don’t care it’s obvious / I just can’t get enough of you

EOTD: All I know at the end of the day is love who you love / There ain’t no other way / If there’s something I’ve learnt from a million mistakes / You’re the one that I want at the end of the day

Home: Could we ever be enough? / Baby we could be enough

BTY: I know you say you know me, know me well / But these days I don’t even know myself, no / I always thought I’d be with someone else / I thought I would own the way I felt, yeah

Separation from the One You Love (Forced or Growing Apart)

Happily: We were meant to be but a twist of fate / Made it so you had to walk away

Strong: My heart, your heart / Sit tight like book ends / Pages between us / Written with no end

SG: The script was written and I could not change a thing / I want to rip it all to shreds and start again

DLMG: Seems like these days I watch you from afar

Spaces: Oh spaces between us / Keep getting deeper / It’s harder to reach you / Even though I try

TG: But I can’t touch what I see

Beds + Sleeping Together

Happily: You know I want to be the one to hold you when you sleep

SG: One day you’ll say these words / I’ve thought but never said / You say we’re better off together in our bed

DLMG: I saw in the corner there is a photograph / No doubt in my mind it’s a picture of you / It lies there alone in it’s bed of broken glass / This bed was never made for two

NC: Waking up / Beside you I’m a loaded gun

NSTLS: But god I loved those days we couldn’t get out of bed

References to Their Tattoos

Strong: My hands, your hands / Tied up like two ships

TG: Same lips red, same eyes blue / Same white shirt, couple more tattoos

History: Minibars, expensive cars / Hotel rooms, and new tattoos / The good champagne and private planes / But they don’t mean anything / ‘Cause the truth is out, I realize / That without you here, life is just a lie

Darkness + Night

TTD: When the night is coming down on you / We will find a way through the dark

RTR: I don’t wanna get lost in the dark of the night

EOTD: When the sun goes I know that you and me and everything will be alright / And when the city’s sleeping, you and I can stay awake and keep on dreaming

Home: I was stumbling, looking in the dark (ohho) / With an empty heart

Stars + Sky

TTD: I wish that I could take you to the stars

DLMG: I promised one day that I’d bring you back a star, I caught one and it burned a hole in my hand, oh

JHO: Feels like you’re standing on the edge / Looking at the stars / And wishing you were them

SOTT: You can’t bribe the door on your way to the sky + Breaking through the atmosphere / And things are pretty good from here

NSTLS: You’d leave the cities and chase bullet holes / That’s actually star light

Fire + Burning + Lightning (Heat/Passion)

Happily: 'Cause we’re on fire / We are on fire / We’re on fire now

TTD: Oh I will carry you over / Fire and water for your love

DLMG: I promised one day that I’d bring you back a star / I caught one and it burned a hole in my hand, oh

FP: I’m feeling something deep inside / Hotter than a jet stream burning up + It’s been so long, it’s been so long, maybe you are fireproof

Spaces: Who’s gonna be the first one to set it all on fire?

NC: And the heat where you laid / I could stay right here and burn in this all day

LWD: We made a fire, went down in the flames

EOTD: I set you on fire babe / Than down came the lightning on me

Home: So hot that I couldn’t take it / Want to wake up and see your face

Freedom + Running Away + Giving Up Things for Love

Happily: I know you wanna leave / So c'mon baby be with me / So happily

RTR: 'Cause I wanna be free / And I wanna be young / I’ll never look back now I’m ready to run

IICF: I think I might give up everything, just ask me to

The Taste of a Lover

TG: Tastes so sweet, looks so real

NC: Taste on my tongue / I don’t want to wash away the night before

Medicine: You got that something, I got me an appetite, now I can taste it

Alfie’s Song: Left your taste in my mouth / Your strange voice in my head

Unreleased/Untitled LT Song: When I get wasted I can taste you on my lips

The Need for Apologies

FTDT: Maybe one day you’ll call me and tell me that you’re sorry too / But you, you never do

MY: Now I’m asking my friends how I should say I’m sorry / They say “Lad, give it time, there’s no need to worry”

A Sense of Belonging

RTR: Wherever you are is the place I belong

SC: We don’t know where we’re going / But we know where we belong

Being There When the Other Person is Lost

TTD: You tell me that you’re sad and lost your way / You tell me that your tears are here to stay / But I know you’re only hiding / And I just wanna see you + And I’ll be here for you

Home: When you’re lost, I’ll find the way / I’ll be your light

IICF: For your eyes only, I’ll show you my heart / For when you’re lonely and forget who you are

WITW: Just close your eyes and see / I’ll be by your side / Any time you’re needing me

Love as a Painkiller

IICF: I’ve got scars even though they can’t always be seen / And pain gets hard, but now you’re here and I don’t feel a thing

MMITH: I just left your bedroom / Give me some morphine / Is there any more to do?

BTY: Yeah, so you can cut me up and kiss me harder / You can be the pill to ease the pain

Communication Issues + Not Speaking

Strong: I’d do anything to save it / Why is it so hard to say it? + So many words we’re not saying

SG: One day you’ll come into my world and say it all / You’ll say we’ll be together even when you’re lost / One day you’ll say these words I’ve thought but never said

JALBOYH: I don’t ever tell you how I really feel / 'Cause I can’t find the words to say what I mean

TG: Tongue-tied like we’ve never known / Telling those stories we already told / 'Cause we don’t say what we really mean

Spaces: Spaces between us / Hold all our secrets / Leaving us speechless

FTDT: We haven’t spoke since you went away / Comfortable silence is so overrated / Why won’t you ever be the first one to break? + Why won’t you ever say what you want to say?

MY: And we can’t even be on the phone now / And I can’t even be with you alone now

BTY: I call you but you never even answer

MMITH: We don’t talk about it / It’s something we don’t do

SC: I always think about you and how we don’t speak enough

SOTT: We don’t talk enough / We should open up / Before it’s all too much

Break-up References

LYG: It’s inevitable everything that’s good comes to an end / It’s impossible to know if after this we could still be friends, yeah

History: Keep getting the feeling you want to leave this all behind / Thought we were going strong / I thought we were holding on / Aren’t we?

WITW: The fact that we can sit right here and say goodbye / Means we’ve already won

SC: Had another talk about where it’s going wrong

An Epic Love

Happily: I just want it to be you and I forever

LYG: Unforgettable together held the whole world in our hands / Unexplainable the love that only we could understand

History: We could be the greatest thing that the world has ever seen + we can live forever

IICF: I’m missing half of me when we’re apart + I can feel your heart inside of mine, I feel it, I feel it

Missing Someone

Miss You: Shit, maybe I miss you

FTDT: Even my phone misses your call

Always You: I went to Amsterdam without you and all I could do was think about you

Home

SS: All my life I’ve been on my own / I use a light to guide me home But now together we’re alone / And there’s no other place I’d ever wanna go

Home: You’ll never feel like you’re alone / I’ll make this feel like home

IICF: If I could fly, I’d be coming right back home to you

SC: Oh we started two hearts in one home + Sweet creature, sweet creature / Wherever I go, you bring me home / Sweet creature, sweet creature / When I run out of road, you bring me home

An Unfinished Love Story

History: This is not the end + We can make it you know it, you know

WITW: Goodbyes are bittersweet / But it’s not the end / I’ll see your face again

IICF: Know that I’m just wasting time / And I hope that you don’t run from me

SC: When I run out of road, you bring me home / You’ll bring me home

BTY: I just keep on coming back to you

NSTLS: Left your taste in my mouth / Your strange voice in my head / Oh, I wanna hear it again

While no one can say for certain which songs/lines were meant for each other and which were for others or works of fiction, it is clear, for many of Louis and Harry’s songs (not all), the themes, ideas, and experiences they were writing about were shared. If this seems like a reach, I ask for someone to try to find the same level of connection between Liam and Zayn’s work, or Niall and Harry’s. It cannot be done. Your turn, antis.

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