(This is a joke so don't bother trying to engage me in discussion about it)
Back To You since its release was performed with Bebe singing the first verse and chorus, and Louis singing the second verse. Bebe's (a female singer's) voice on the song was supposed to drive the emotion home. As such, the song appears to be portraying the opposing perspectives of two people in a relationship (that is clearly not good for either of them) who keep finding their way back to each other.
The one time Louis performed the song without Bebe, he skipped the first verse chorus and jumped straight in with the second verse. He's just singing his perspective of the song... there is still another person in this relationship with him.
Jump forward 6 years, and Louis is singing the whole song (sans bridge). With, uh, interesting graphics (man, fucked him up, dragged him down)
It's no longer two separate people - just Louis having an internal fight with himself. It's a song directed to himself, much like Lucky Again. Except Back To You is from when Louis is still figuring his shit out, and Lucky Again is from when he's come out the other side.
I know you say you know me, know me well
But these days I don't even know myself, no
I always thought I'd be with someone else
I thought I would own the way I felt, yeah
He doesn't know who he is and feels like he doesn't own his own life and he's aware that this is something going on his life.
'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
He figured out how to "lose" himself (I took some time 'cause I've ran out of energy / Of playing someone I heard I'm supposed to be) and choose the life he has now.
Whoa, you stress me out, you kill me
You drag me down, you fuck me up
We're on the ground, we're screaming
I don't know how to make it stop
I love it, I hate it, and I can't take it
Fighting between love and hate, not knowing how to make it out alive.
I'm a hard man to find
But you figured it out and I love you for that
He made it out and loves his past self for giving him that gift.
He also skips the bridge of Back To You, because he does know the bullshit he had to go through.
In conclusion, Back To You and Lucky Again are the past and present of a journey of learning to accept the life he has and find the grace to love himself along the way.
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