Meet Me in the Hallway- Harry Styles
I don’t think this’ll be a short story, I think I’ll just be making connections. I’m not sure though, I’ll try not to edit it too much and just pour it out.
The song starts off with Harry singing, “Meet me in the hallway, meet me in the hallway. I just left your bedroom, give me some morphine. Is there any more to do?” With that, the first verse ends. I think he doesn’t actually means “Meet me in the hallway.” I see it as this:
A hallway is what links rooms together and makes it accessible for people to pass through. Maybe the rooms represent two people in a relationship. “I just left your bedroom.” maybe he means he left in an angry or frustrated manner, we’ve all been there, mostly at the beginning of the breakup I think. Meeting in the hallway could mean meeting in the middle, and making the relationship work. The hallway represents an area of trying to make a relationship work. I feel like it could be literal too. It’s possible him and his partner were disagreeing so one would sleep in another room, “Meet me in the hallway so we can try to talk. Or just look at each other.” The “give me some morphine. Is there any more to do?” line makes me think that they’re both hurting each other but maybe both or just one of them (probably Harry, the context and tone of the song as a whole kind of just makes you think that) wants to make it work. Now morphine is obviously used to numb pain. And that’s what he wants, it’s what we all want. Maybe he’s just stating the fact he doesn’t want to feel the pain, or referring to getting drunk to numb things out. “Is there any more to do?” he feels hopeless.
After the first verse he begins to sing, “Just let me know I’ll be at the door, at the door. Hoping you’ll come around. Just let me know I’ll be on the floor, on the floor. Maybe we’ll work it out.” he adds, “I gotta get better.” six times and finishes the chorus with, “And maybe we’ll work it out.”
Figuratively speaking, “Just let me know I’ll be at the door... Hoping you’ll come around.” means he wants to make it work. He wants to meet in the middle and relish in being physically or emotionally there for each other for a moment, even if it’s unhealthy. His ultimate goal, though, is to completely nurse the relationship back to health. (Morphine- nursing the relationship? I’ll take my award right now, thank you.) “I’ll be on the floor.” he’s weak and tired so he’s sat on the floor waiting. “I gotta get better” everyone’s heard the expression, “How do you love someone if you can’t love yourself?” and after a breakup we all try to. That’s what he’s saying. Getting desperate to fix something so precious you once had you try every method that gets presented to you.
Harry starts the second verse:
“I walked the streets all day, running with the thieves. ‘Cause you left me in the hallway. Give me some more; just take the pain away.” again, after breakups you’re so desperate to fix what you had you try everything everyone tells you to do. Lots of people go on walks, the running with the thieves part kind of confuses me but I thought people say their lovers steal their hearts so maybe he’s implying the person does these things a lot and he’s just another ex or that he’s fallen into the cycle that is trying to accept the fact you failed at a relationship like so many have done before (personally I struggle with that a lot). “’Cause you left me in the hallway.” his partner didn’t bother to help; maybe because they’re too scared to compromise, because they aren’t used to it or because they’re lazy. “Give me some more; just take the pain away.” maybe some more morphine as he sings it in the same melody he sang the previous morphine line about but of course he does it’s the first and second verses.
Now he repeats the chorus but instead of repeating, “I gotta get better.” six times he says “Gotta get better.” maybe I’m overthinking it but he could be realizing the only way to fix it, if it can be done, is by both of them getting better before they get better as a whole.
The last verse goes, “We don’t talk about it, it’s something we don't do. ‘Cause once you go without it, nothing else will do.”
By this he means it’s sort of difficult to talk to someone you’re going through this with, it personally makes me feel weak and makes me belittle myself. “’Cause once you go without it, nothing else will do.” You think this person is your world, and you get completely enticed. Once you fall out of “love” you think you’ll never find that same feeling again. You will, and it’s just a sign of the times.
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