Harry Styles - Matilda Meaning

Song Released: 2022

Matilda Lyrics

You were riding your bike to the sound of It's No Big Deal
And you're trying to lift off the ground on those old two wheels
Nothing 'bout the way that you were treated ever seemed especially alarming till now
So you tie up your hair and you...

1. anonymous

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   Oct 5th 2023 !⃝

   I think its abt the girls matildas childhood...she had an abusive childhood and she smiled to cover up the trauma and pain and the line (you can let it go you can throw a party full of everyone you know...and not invite your family cause they never showed you love) hes implying that after she got away from the abuse she threw a homecoming full of all her friends and fully cut out her family...and the line...you dont have to be sorry for leaving and growing up) he means that she finally moved away from her abusive family got the happiness she deserves
2. b280689

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   May 22nd 2023 !⃝

   I am responsible for Harry Writing Matilda because my childhood experience was not a good one because it involved violence but I didn't witness it until the truma that came after it
3. anonymous

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   Nov 26th 2022 !⃝

   i've got a good theory for this one- think its been circling around the internet actually- matilda is about ZAYN. in the first chorus, the last two lines state: "And not invite your family, 'cause they never showed you love
   You don't have to be sorry for leaving and growing up" and the last 2 lines in the second chorus: "'Cause they never showed you love
   You don't have to be sorry for doing it on your own" compared to the last 2 lines in the last chorus: "You can start a family who will always show you love
   You don't have to be sorry for doing it on your own"
   zayn malik left one direction- the family that never showed him love and therefore he left. he then starts his own family- gigi hadid and khai malik, all while he is growing up. harry also states in an interview about this song where he says that it was written for a close friend who needed to hear it. zarry much?