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“As It Was”
The primary single from Harry’s Home, “As It Was,” is deceptively candy ear sweet. Whereas its upbeat synths, chimes and delicate vocals paint an image of a feel-good second, its lyrics are a few of the darkest on the document. When talking with Zane Lowe, Harry known as the observe “actually devastating” and shared that it is “a few sort of metamorphosis and a perspective change” that you do not know absolutely perceive is going on till it is too late. Now, nothing will ever be, as Harry sings, “the identical because it was.”
“Daylight”
In an interview with Howard Stern, Harry described “Daylight” as a “stream of consciousness” track about being infatuated with somebody. The playful, but poignant digital observe depicts having a crush on somebody who, as Harry sings, “ain’t bought time for me proper now.” Nonetheless, ought to they ever change their thoughts, Harry’s nonetheless ready and able to “Dip you in honey / So I may very well be sticking to you.” The singer Harry additionally confirmed that the track is not linked to Taylor Swift‘s track “Daylight.”
“Little Freak”
Late-night longing comes into play in “Little Freak,” a delicate, melodic observe a few relationship that slipped by Harry’s fingers earlier than it might ever begin. “I disrespected you / Jumped in ft first and I landed too hard,” he confesses throughout the track’s center eight. “You by no means noticed my birthmark.” Now, as he displays on what might have been, he sings, “I am not frightened about the place you’re / Or who you’ll go home to / I am simply fascinated with you.”
“Matilda”
On “Matilda,” Harry imagines the recommendation he’d give the protagonist from Roald Dahl’s 1988 novel as an grownup. Backed by delicately fingerpicked guitar, Harry weaves a narrative about coping with household trauma, rising up and beginning anew. “You possibly can let it go / You possibly can throw a celebration stuffed with everybody you recognize / And never invite your loved ones,” he explains. “You do not have to be sorry for leaving and rising up.” And, whereas he acknowledges that “it is none of my enterprise” (a delicate reference to his 2017 observe “Kiwi”), he shares, “it is simply been on my thoughts.”
