This is really interesting because at first I heard it as "you call it off" and it made sense to me. It made it sound like the other person was hot and cold, starting the affair but also stopping it when he was feeling safe in it.
Honestly I hear both at different points in the song & I TOTALLY can see this. I personally tend to hear âyou call it loveâ more than âyou call it offâ BUT you call it off works better as a lyric meaning for the exact reason you just mentioned
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When I first heard the Leon lyric I was thinking the only Leon I've ever been aware of is that film The Professional which is called Leon outside the US. And I know it's a leap but I've always thought of the song as being about him being in a professional situation and being hit on. (In the movie Leon was a professional hit man) He's trying to keep things professional but someone above him keeps hitting on him until he can't resist anymore. She's playing with him, toying with him, using him. I'm trying to keep this vague but I very much think it's about that specific situation he went through that we're all trying not to reference.
When I was first analyzing lyrics right after the album came out I also came across this movie! And The Leon hotel but that didnât seem like a bougie enough establishment for his tastes to be a real reference contender lol
Back to the Leon movieâŚâŚah. I confess Iâve never seen the movie itself but by the descriptionâŚ..thatâll do it. Certainly a parallel to be found between âem
Oh I think that Leon is his White Mustang. I can hear love or off depending on the verse. To me it could be about various things. Another theory which is possible and I didnât see anyone mentioning it yet is that itâs about casual sex but unfortunately for the narrator (Harry) the other person wants something more
A) love this concept. For no other reason than #vibez & with no textual evidence, I first thought âLeonâ was a private driver being called to bring the car around and leave. No idea why thatâs just the random thing I pictured. Our minds đŠľ
I also do occasionally hear âoffâ but mostly love. & I def see the casual sex angle, but with reverse fortunes bc his partner telling him âyou call it only in my head / âcus you got enoughâ feels like heâs the one building up a shared emotional connection in his mind & his partner is the one calling it off bc they donât feel the same & it stayed casual for them
Maybe that's why the line kind of sounds like he is saying âbut you call it loveâ. Because saying they are in love makes it more justifiable. We know Harry is very intentional with the way he pronounces words in song.
Iâm still half-convinced âLeonâ was just a huge misprinting error that he decided to double down on instead of drawing attention to it bc when you isolate his vocals it 10000% sounds like âyou call it love.â This is the hill Iâm choosing to die on đŠˇ
I think that song is about cheating. And Leon is the other man. Did she say the wrong name in bed or he felt guilty and heard it in his head?
One time is all right
Two times is one too many
One, two, three times you're on me and suddenly
Cheated once is kind of forgivable, but twice and more? If you're the other partner, one time you can say "I didn't know she was involved with someone else", more than that, you're just as guilty.
One time in the light
It's two times as fun already
One, two, three times you're only playing with me
Finally, they come clean, and not hiding anymore. And he thinks it's better. But she's not serious about him.
Wonder if it's the same person from Taste Back.
Hm. So essentially âLeonâ would function as a filler name for the actual person heâs referring to in RSG
âŚâŚIâd be REALLY curious to see when this song got written. Because if it was an early song on a similar timeline to AYLY in the Donât Worry Darling filming & pressâŚ.we all know what Iâm implying. & that makes a lot of sense if this song is about falling into an affair recklessly as the other-man
Also to preemptively deescalate Iâm taking your âcheating once is kinda forgivableâ as âbeing with someone once, as the outside partner, isnât as horribleâespecially if youâre not aware about the relationship youâre home-wrecking, but continuing the affair after isâ and not âitâs okay if I cheat on my partner once but never againâ bc I donât think you meant it the second way. lol
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Possssssibly here they're pushing their boundaries when it comes to sex and drugs and he imagines his partner calling their safe word.
YES completely see this. It makes sense in the context of the song, which is about falling fast and recklessly into this person & sex without guardrails.
Note, too: Ready Steady GoâThe British showâwas considered low-brow tv. Harry parallels this to the relationship itself being a means of turn-your-mind-off unserious entertainment that they impulsively head-dive into until they take it way too far & have to pretty harshly halt because theyâre âdo[ing] too muchâ (too much emotionally, too much of a substance, too much as in getting a bit too crazy in bed. Or a combo of all 3)
& even if itâs not the actual safe-word, âyou call Leonâ acts in the same capacity as one, contextually. So thereâs a genuine argument that âLeonâ could be a safe word used
yapping about Tally because I realized today that Iâve been mishearing the lyrics and I Had A Thought about it
rant / thoughts below !!! <3
in all these little bits where it says âyeah-yeahâ, I had misheard (which is probably the product of primarily listening to this song during class and not looking into the lyrics further after) him and believed he was saying âwaitingâ. Even before I knew about the lore and Clancybearer, I fully thought that he was singing âwaitingâ instead.
After learning the lore Iâd just assumed it was something with Nova / Bishop Clancy or a parallel to Drag Path. (This is also because I learned the lore after drag path was released on streaming, I think)
(âcan you find meâ // âwaitingâ (for you to find me))
I heard it as Clancy/Nova waiting for Torchbearer to find / save him, because Torchbearer still believes in him.
OR, alternatively, I see it as, Clancy/Nova waiting for Torchbearer to simplyâŚgive up on them. Finally realize the cons outweighed the pros and move on.
That was my initial thought and Iâd never thought of it more than that because Iâd never actually read the lyrics (I can usually pick up lyrics fairly quickly, so I donât usually look them up unless Iâm referencing them directly).
Donât ask how I misheard so bad. I truly donât know.
But anyway. My misinterpretation aside (oops), I have new lyrics to overanalyze and had a thoughtâ if we go off that this is Clancy/Nova singing to Torchbearer, what if the âyeah-yeahâs in the background are supposed to be Torchbearer responding to what Clancyâs saying.
Thereâs some good potential here, I think!
â âyeah-yeahâ = patronizing, âyeah, whatever, youâre talking nonsense, of course i still believe in youâ to think I wouldnât is being ridiculousâ
or, my personal favorite interpretation:
â âyeah-yeahâ = agreeing, âyeah, you broke my heart. yeah, you turned your back on me. yeah, you did all these things. yeah i still love you.â
^ there are no âyeah-yeahâs in the bridge or chorus. in the bridge it could be seen as TB not agreeingâ heâs not saying âyeahâ because he wasnât keeping track.
this is probably too much to say about a song when I misheard the lyrics but STILL. Tally the song ever <3
I can't be the only one who thinks "I miss you" by Blink-182 gets 10 times better when you read as both singers singing about each other instead of them both representing the same person.
Like, if you think about it that way, it now shows the fact that their feeling are respected and how often times distance in a relationship is caused by lack of intention from both sides instead of just one. The longing they feel yet choose to ignore out of fear, which, even if caused by them both, creates harm for them both.
It gives more of an effect of acountablity for both people in the relationship rather than haveing the singer be a victiam. And while there are exsamples of relationships like that I think both haveing prsepctives that are not only there own but miorrs makes the song not only more intresting but also more realstic.
