@esc-ecs made me listen to "just look my way", "you will be ok", and "stolas sings"...
in "just look my way", it goes:
This unspoken contract
A deed we forged for mutual gain
If that's all this was, when you're not here
What is this rooted pain?
I don't care that you're of lower station
Or primed to sate my dark temptations
Why can't you understand?
Let me explain
'Cause I'm terrified, as I cry
To make these feelings true
What's left for me in this broken house
If I cannot have you?
these lyrics are henry and alex post-cakegate -- the "unspoken contract" and "mutual gain" -- having to patch things up. but then they connect and can't stop texting each other. but henry knows he can't have alex, hence the "rooted pain". alex is sort of a lower station; henry does not give a flying fuck -- they love each other. but it's not that simple, not at first. kensington is a shithole for henry, and henry is terrified he can't be with alex, ever, but alex is there for him. BUT THEY STILL CAN'T HAVE EACH OTHER (yet) BC OF FING MARY AND THE FING MEDIA (f them)
"you will be ok" is in a completely different context in terms of rwrb. in my opinion, it's Arthur's lullaby to Henry. Especially the line "When I'm gone, you'll be okay". The line "And when creation goes to die /
You can find me in the sky" is ENTIRELY reminiscent of Henry, Arthur, and Orion.
for "stolas sings", it's several lines that remind me of rwrb. First, "...you walked in my room and light sparks in the dark. / Life was suddenly thrilling and new" is pretty self-explanatory. henry's stuffy, compressed life is exposed all the way down to the edges when alex shoves his way into henry's life. "I'm the fool who believes when you look in my eyes", and maybe henry is the fool for believing in henryandalex, even if it's just for that small period of time, even if they have to separate to opposite sides of the world eventually. and of course, "Prince, all alone upon your throne, your power is so frail / You raised your voice, you have no choice inside your gilded jail." DUH. henry can't speak up because of the consequences. he can't do anything, yet, about the growing bond between him and alex. he is in a position where the crown and the media are desperate to see him in a hetero relationship, a relationship that is not him and cannot ever be him. The "gilded fucking cage", as elegantly put by alex in the book, is presented in the same context as the lyric; the cage wherein Henry is trapped, and the cage where he doesn't want alex to be trapped with him.
sry for the countless grammar errors i wrote this in a frantic rush aaaahhhhhh