Harry Styles moved to Rome to disappear — and wrote this song while living undercover in Italy. It's the most uncomfortable track on the album: a direct self-indictment about romanticizing his own flaws instead of changing them, and getting rewarded for the honesty of it. He told Zane Lowe it was about the cycle of behaving the same way, writing songs about it, getting rewarded for that. Two minutes forty-nine seconds of Harry Styles holding a mirror up to himself — and not looking away.

Behind The Lines — we go deeper than the chorus.

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