#the way i do

[kiwikiwiandkiwi]

All Along

We stayed up till 6

Just watching shit TV in bed

Late night drive to Tesco

To buy cigarettes and bread

I remember clearly how I turned to you and said

I wish I met you later

I wish I met you later

We were young and I was so naive

But in my head

That’s how it had to be

And now I’m HOME

I’ve been all over the world

And I was wrong

And I’m smoking in my bed

All on my own

And I can’t wait till you’re awake

So I can call

And tell you it was you all along

And tell you it was you all along

We saw Ed in Manchester

I held you while he played

Every time I hear his songs

It takes me to that place

Even after all we’ve done

I had the nerve to say

I wish I met you later

I wish I met you later

We were young and I was so naive

But in my head

That’s how it had to be

And now I’m HOME

I’ve been all over the world

And I was wrong

And I’m smoking in my bed

All on my own

And I can’t wait till you’re awake

So I can call

And tell you it was you all along (x3)

Lucky (Again)

You give and give

Until it’s gone away

Just tell yourself

You got another day

You’ve lived that life

You just don't see it yet

I see how hard you’ve worked

To be yourself

If you believe that guy is Superman

They’re selling tickets at the cinema

Whatever gets you through the darkest night

Just find the light

Out in the madness, hold tight

‘Cause I’m a hard man to lose

But I figured it out

Then made my way back

To a life I would choose

We were lucky once

Could be lucky again

I’m a hard man to find

But you figured it out

And I love you for that

Look back on a time

I was lucky once

I could be lucky again

Before the world had got too serious

Before the time it got away from us

I meet you at the favorite subway stop

We grab some food

Then meet the lads for one

If you believe that guy is Superman

They’re selling tickets at the cinema

Whatever gets you through the darkest night

Just find the light

Out in the madness, hold tight

‘Cause I’m a hard man to lose

But I figured it out

Then made my way back

To a life I would choose

We were lucky once

Could be lucky again

I’m a hard man to find

But you figured it out

And I love you for that

Look back on a time

I was lucky once

I could be lucky again

(I’m in love/luck ?[x9]

I could be lucky again

I’m in love/luck ? [x9]

I could be lucky again)

The Way I Do

If I go out, or I stay in

It’s all I’ll ever do

All night long

On the drive HOME

Every mile is deja vu

More than a habit

More than just once in a while

I gotta have it

Nothing can get me this high

There’s something ‘bout it

Didn’t know I was the type

But in the silence

Girl, you got me like

OOOOOOOOHHH

I’M NEVER NOT THINKING ‘BOUT

YOUUUUOOUUUU

It’s all I ever do

Don’t I know that I can get us back

But I want to

Yes I do

Can’t stop myself from relapse

Just want amnesia

So I won't need ya

The way I do (x2)

It’s not one thing

It’s everything

A million memories

Can’t fight this

Or deny it

I want you next to me

We’re more than habits

More than just once in a while

I gotta have it

Nothing can get me this high

There’s something ‘bout it

Didn’t know I was the type

But in the quiet

Girl, you got me like

OOOOOOOOHHH

I’M NEVER NOT THINKING ‘BOUT

YOUUUUOOUUUU

It’s all I ever do

Don’t I know that I can get us back

But I want to

Yes I do

Can’t stop myself from relapse

Just want amnesia

So I won't need ya

The way I do (x2)

OOOOOOOOHHH

I’M NEVER NOT THINKING ‘BOUT

YOUUUUOOUUUU

It’s all I ever do

Don’t I know that I can get us back

But I want to

Yes I do

Can’t stop myself from relapse

Just want amnesia

So I won't need ya

The way I do (x6)

[skepticalarrie]

does anyone have lyrics yet to the way i do?? cause it’s a bit hard for me to understand him in some parts😭😭😭

The Way I Do

If I go out, or I stay in It’s all I’ll ever do All night long On the drive HOME Every mile is deja vu More than a habit More than just once in a while I gotta have it Nothing can get me this high There’s something ‘bout it Didn’t know I was the type But in the silence Girl, you got me like OOOOOOOOHHHOOOHHHOOHHHHHH I’M NEVER NOT THINKING ‘BOUT YOUUUUOOUUUUOOOOOUUUUUU It’s all I ever do And I know that I can’t get us back (? i think) But I want to Yes I do Can’t stop myself from relapse Just wanna need ya (Just what I need, yeah  ???) So I will need ya The way I do (x2) It’s not one thing It’s everything A million memories Can’t fight this Or deny it I want you next to me We’re more than habits More than just once in a while I gotta have it Nothing can get me this high There’s something ‘bout it Didn’t know I was the type But in the quiet Girl, you got me like OOOOOOOOHHHOOOHHHOOHHHHHH I’M NEVER NOT THINKING ‘BOUT YOUUUUOOUUUUOOOOOUUUUUU It’s all I ever do And I know that I can’t get us back (? i think) But I want to Yes I do Can’t stop myself from relapse Just wanna need ya So I will need ya The way I do (x2) OOOOOOOOHHHOOOHHHOOHHHHHH I’M NEVER NOT THINKING ‘BOUT YOUUUUOOUUUUOOOOOUUUUUU It’s all I ever do And I know that I can’t get us back (? i think) But I want to Yes I do Can’t stop myself from relapse Just wanna need ya So I will need ya The way I do (x6)

[starcanwrecked-confessions]

Ok I LOVE the way I do but the cast recording just doesn't do it for me. Meredith singing it lower than she does live isn't as good. I think the rest of the song is great though, I just can't listen to the cast recording

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[prettypleasewillgraham]

LOUIS LEAKS! | Louis Tomlinson lyrics for The Way I Do, All Along and Lucky

The parts with (?) It’s because I’m not sure so if you wanna help correct it, I appreciate!

All Along - Louis Tomlinson

(FIRST VERSE)

We stay up till 6 just watching shit TV in bed

Late night drive to tesco’s to buy cigarettes and bread

I remember clearly how i turned to you and said

I wish I met you later

I wish I met you later

(PRE CHORUS)

We were younger (?) and so naive (so naive)

But in my head thats how it had to be

(CHORUS)

And now im home

I’ve been all over the world and I was wrong

and im smoking in my bed all own my own

And I cant wait till you’re awake so i can call

And tell you it was you all along (oh oh oh oh)

And tell you it was you all along (oh oh oh oh)

(SECOND VERSE)

We saw Ed in Manchester

I held you while he played

Everytime I hear his songs it takes me to that place

Even after all we’ve done I had the nerve to say

I wish I met you later

I wish I met you later

(PRE CHORUS)

We were younger (?) and so naive (so naive)

But in my head thats how it had to be

(CHORUS)

And now im home

I’ve been all over the world and I was wrong

and im smoking in my bed all own my own

And I cant wait till you’re awake so i can call

And tell you it was you all along (oh oh oh oh)

And tell you it was you all along (oh oh oh oh)

The way i do - Louis Tomlinson

(FIRST VERSE)

If I go out

Or stay in

Its all i ever do

All night long

On a drive home

Every mile is deja-vu

(PRE-CHORUS)

More than a habit

More than just once in a while

I gotta have it

Nothing can get me this high

That’s something better (?)

Didn’t know I was the type

But in the silence

(CHORUS)

Girl you got me like (OH OH OH OH OH OH OH)

I‘m never not thinking ‘bout you (UUUUUU)

Its all I ever do

I know that i can’t get us back

But i want to, yes I do

Can’t stop myself or relax

Just what I need, yeah

So well i need you

The way I do (the way I do)

(SECOND VERSE)

It’s not one thing, it's everything

A million memories

Can’t fight this, or deny it

I want you next to me

(PRE-CHORUS)

I want more than habits

More than just once in a while

I gotta have it

Nothing can get me this high

Thats something better

Didn’t know I was the type

But in the quiet

(CHORUS)

Girl you got me like(OH OH OH OH OH OH OH)

Im never not thinking ‘bout you (UUUUUU)

Its all I ever do

I know that I can’t get us back

But i want to, yes I do

Can't stop myself or relax

Just what I need yeah

So well I need you

The way I do (the way I do)

(OH OH OH OH OH OH OH)

Im never not thinking ‘bout you (UUUUUU)

Its all I ever do

Don’t know (?) that I cant get us back

But i want to, yes I do

Can't stop myself or relax

Just what I need yeah

So well I need you

The way I do (the way I do)

Lucky (possibly Lucky Again) - Louis Tomlinson

You give and give until it’s gone away(?)

Just tell yourself you gotta know the day(?)

You’ve lived that life you just don’t see it yet

I see how hard you want to be yourself

(PRE-CHORUS)

If you believe that guy is superman

They're selling tickets to the cinema

Whatever gets you through the darkest night

Just find the light out

In the madness

Hold tight

(CHORUS)

Cause I’m a hard man to lose

But I figured it out

Then made my way back

To a life I would choose

We were lucky once

Could be lucky again

Now I’m a hard man to find

But you figured it out

And I love you for that

Look back on a time

I was lucky once

I could be lucky again

(I could be lucky again)

(SECOND VERSE)

Before the world’d got you serious

Before the time had got we from us (?)

I meet you at your favorite subway stop

We grab some food and (?)

(PRE-CHORUS)

If you believe that guys is superman

They’re selling tickets to the cinema

Whatever gets you through the darkest night

Just find the light out

In the madness

Hold tight

(CHORUS)

Cause I’m a hard man to lose

But I figured it out

Then made my way back

To a life I would choose

We were lucky once

Could be lucky again

(I could be lucky again)

Now I’m a hard man to find

But you figured it out

And I love you for that

Look back on a time

I was lucky once

I could be lucky again

(Hard to lose hard to lose hard to lose, I could be lucky again)

(Hard to lose hard to lose hard to lose, I could be lucky again)

[starkid-everyday]

Now I may be dumb, but where I come from, folks say they're fine when I know that they're that there blue

[windywhispers]

If anyone's curious about interpretations for the art pieces being displayed at the blue period exhibit, I found this very lovely thread with someone's thoughts !

[twopoppies]

the title "the way I do" instantly makes me think about the line "cause nobody knows you baby the way I do and nobody loves you baby the way I do" louis' songs have initiated a 1d brainrot in me 😭

Oh you guys are relentless. 😭😭😭 all the parallels are killing me.

[definegodliness]

Safekeeping

There is a wooden elephant in my hands, which is my grandpa; mother’s side. The carving used to stand on the TV cabinet in my family’s ur-home on a farm, where as a kid I would watch Hannah Barbera and Cartoon Network on Satellite before cable existed. I recall a living room filled with dust and cigarette smoke. The elephant stood out. Quiet. My grandpa was a giant. A family tree’s trunk and branches. The rest of us are all mere leaves, and we knew this when he departed.

I loved him.

I’ve got a silver pendant, which is my grandma; father’s side. I know I have it, but I wouldn’t be able to dig it up if my life depended on it. It was a cross, encircled, and in Latin, the description read: I suffer with Jesus on the cross. And the poor girl had suffered so much that it painfully fitted. 

I couldn’t bear having it in my closest proximity. Grandma always suffered; always giving, never taking; always sought, but never found, and in the end died excruciatingly fighting the fading of the light. You want to know what mind over matter really looks like? See the strongest mind fighting the impossible battle for the light in their darting eyes, and know the toughest suffer. 

The flesh succumbs.

With, or without... whatever gets you sleeping at night when you feel the need for more than nothingness.

I loved her.

I’ve got flaring brown eyes, deep black encircled. Which means my father looks into his father’s eyes when he sees me, and that my grandma looked into her husband’s eyes before she died. I wasn’t aware of this until my 30′s; until in a casual conversation my mom told me I didn’t have her eyes, but his. It’s such a strange thing to have the eyes of a man you never knew. But they see, and they accept, and they empower, and...

Grandpa, I just want you to be proud of them.

You ever so simply accepted your gay son in a time when being gay was ‘not done’, and countered the farizees in a time when church was everything; you kicked a pastor out of your home when he told your wife to restart breeding days after almost bleeding out having her second miscarriage. After four sons. After two girls that could fit in a matchbox. And, oh, how she wanted to have a daughter more than anything. 

I never got to love you, but you loved me to bits, I’ve heard. I can see it in the rare photographs of us together. Tales get told, and you’re my hero. You’ll be pleased to know I still have that switch-knife you nicked from a German soldier. The running gag this act of deviancy literally saved the war will live on in our family.

You are a stranger, much like me. And I wouldn’t let your or mine impact on the world wither in temporality, if I could.

I love you.

Perhaps for being me.

In this strange world where simply accepting and plainly making sense of things is dubbed the most nonsensical strategy. 

Oma. 

Grandma, mother’s side. There is not a single physical memento I have of you. But you are here when I cap beans; when I peel potatoes; when I bake pancakes and make them a tad bit too salty, and thereby nostalgically irresponsibly decadently delicious. You are here when I worry about people. When I hug. When I give annoyingly long-term advice for short-term disputes. You are so much in my heart that you are my heart. Whenever I make the world a better place, just for that one person; that —

Will be the you in me.

--- 29-9-2022, M.A. Tempels ©

[kennysaysthings]

I’ve started referring to men’s pecs as boobs out loud. I only noticed when I proceeded to say “come on, look at them! Those have got be at least B cups!” I was watching the hangover with my mom. It was Bradley Cooper. To be fair if a man is going to be shirtless for a good portion of a movie I’m gonna look at his tits I’m sorry.

[hearts401]

THEY GET ME

[cliffordmebf]

“just want amnesia, so i wont need you the way i do”

“give me some morphine/ just take the pain away”

[kiwikiwiandkiwi]

Ok but he went from "You're the habit that I can't break" to " More than a habit" and I am crying

SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[skepticalarrie]

the “girl you got me like” in ‘the way i do’ takes me back to the 1d days w the endless amount of unnecessary “girl” add on’ in songs to make them sound less gay. beside that his vocals are insane here omg

I know lol I got the feeling this one was a bit older than the other two. Maybe it was written for Walls or something, 1D energy. But his voice is amazing omg...

[starcanwrecked-confessions]

im a big starship fan and i love love love The Way I Do but the cast recording for it makes me crazy??? i think its a combination of the mixing and that meredith is singing lower in the recording but its really hard to hear her at the beginning of mega-girls part. i dont have a problem w them singing a little lower than she did in the live show, i like how it sounds, but i wish at the beginning it was easier to hear her :(

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[mychampagne-mybubbles]

Harry & Louis • Leaked songs & story • 19.08.2022

Getting “The way I do” from Louis addressing a feminine listener, after we got Harry’s “Him” -a song where he makes clear how recognizing his lover's lyrics about HIM (his masculine side) drives him crazy- its nothing close to random.

[starkid-everyday]

Well if that's who you are, Just a meaningless star in the sky! Tell me what is the meaning of what i'm feeling If you are the reason why ?