Fine Line (song)

"**Fine Line**" is a song performed by Harry Styles. It serves as the final track from Harry's album, Fine Line.

## Music and composition

Harry elaborated on the song’s significance to Capital FM:

> "It was always gonna be the last song on the album. It felt like it described to me the process of making it and how the album felt in terms of the different kinds of songs on it."
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In an interview with Zane Lowe, Harry touched on the extremity of the emotions he experienced while writing *Fine Line*:

> "What I hadn’t really experienced before during the making of this record, the times when I felt good and happy were the happiest I’ve ever felt in my life. And the times when I felt sad were the lowest that I’ve ever felt in my life."
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Harry’s voice is accompanied by several instruments; horns, piano, guitars and strings to create a crescendo that concludes the album. *Rolling Stone* quoted Harry explaining the sonic choice, saying:

> "It started simple, but I wanted to have this big epic outro thing. And it just took shape as this thing where I thought, ‘That’s just like the music I want to make.’ I love strings, I love horns, I love harmonies — so why don’t we just put all of that in there?"
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## Critical Reception

The A.V. Club opined:

> "Those last two songs especially underscore that while *Fine Line* is certainly a commercial slam dunk due to Styles’ popularity, the album is far from a safe creative bet. Luckily, Styles has the charisma, curiosity, and raw talent to pull off even his weirder detours. In fact, *Fine Line* proves that the musician has absorbed the best lesson passed down by California’s great musicians: Don’t be afraid to take chances within a folk- or pop-rock framework, as that’s how you create iconoclastic music that endures."
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The Consequence of Sound opined:

> "Turns out he was only being half-truthful. On *Fine Line*, Styles trades in his two primary muses, Jagger and Bowie, for a host of new inspirations: Fleetwood Mac, *Ram*-era McCartney, and power-pop icons Badfinger and Big Star. The result is an airy, melancholy album that diplomatically addresses heartache while declining to wallow in it. *Fine Line* is often disarmingly vulnerable and brimming with cunning observations, yet it’s also woefully short on moments of unadulterated rawk, content to smolder when a fireball of sexual bravado would have been preferred."
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## Trivia

* With a length of a whopping 6 minutes and 18 seconds, it is the longest track on the album and the longest song Harry has ever recorded so far.

## Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Put a price on emotion

I'm looking for something to buy

You've got my devotion

But man, I can hate you sometimes

I don't want to fight you

And I don't want to sleep in the dirt

We'll get the drinks in

So I'll get to thinking of her

[Chorus]

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

[Verse 2]

Test of my patience

There's things that we'll never know

You sunshine, you temptress

My hand's at risk, I fold

Crisp trepidation

I'll try to shake this soon

Spreading you open

Is the only way of knowing you

[Chorus]

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

We'll be alright

We'll be alright

We'll be a fine line

We'll be a fine line

We'll be alright (Alright, alright, alright)

[Outro]

(We'll be alright)

(We'll be alright)

We'll be alright

We'll be alright

Oh

## Audio

### YouTube

Harry Styles - Fine Line (Official Audio)
## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=21&v=6DdCPden2J0&feature=youtu.be
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1971&v=moIOVVEIffQ&feature=youtu.be
3. ↑ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/harry-styles-secrets-of-fine-line-926657/
4. ↑ https://www.avclub.com/with-fine-line-harry-styles-transforms-into-a-californ-1840463199
5. ↑ https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/12/album-review-harry-styles-fine-line/