The heavy weight of unrequited love comes to bear on Love Spells’ “Lovers Only” – a hazy, tender tempest, and the softly soul-stirring eruption of a bruised heart and fractured soul.
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I walk a road that’s meant for lovers only…
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Love Spells’ voice is delicate, his words haunting, his music intimate, passionate, and raw.
Unfortunately, there was one spell even he could not cast – and the resulting pain lingers on him like a specter, consuming his days and nights as he asks what-ifs into the wind, imagining a parallel universe where she chose him; where she said ‘yes.’ The full weight of unrequited love comes to bear on his hazy, tender tempest “Lovers Only,” the softly soul-stirring eruption of a bruised heart and fractured soul.
Darling you’ve got it wrong
It’s mixed up the cords tangled on
You should be with me not him
Since you got with him
your light has been dim
I’ll take the weight
Off your shoulders this time
I’ll wait for you in this life
How could he hurt you
he has no right
Released February 13th via Loveless (just in time for Valentine’s Day), “Lovers Only” is Love Spells’ first single of 2025 and the latest look at his forthcoming third EP (details TBA). The lovelorn song follows this past December’s dreamy “With Only Your Mouth,” which Atwood Magazine praised as “a vulnerable work of inner turmoil and emotional reckoning that captures the fragility, and the pain, of love.”
With a voice as soft and tender as a whisper, and music as calm and cathartic as the ocean, Love Spells is exceptionally easy to fall for. In just a few short years, the 20-year-old singer/songwriter from Houston, Texas (born Sir Taegen C’aion Harris) has found his own niche in the alternative world, blending his ethereal vocals with a delicate, glistening array of instruments for a singular, soul-stirring sound halfway between dream pop and psychedelic indie rock.
Similar to its predecessor, “Lovers Only” leans on the former – aching with the raw intensity of a heart in the throes of loss and longing. These emotions resonate with particular depth and dramatic strength as the artist reaches the song’s chorus, whose emotional climax arrives with a full, unapologetic unveiling of the self:
And I kissed a woman
that’ll never know me
And she missed the one man
that would treat her holy
And I died every day at her sight
Knowing she’ll never find love in me
And I walk a road that’s meant for lovers only
Couldn’t give it up even if she’ll never want me
Cause her sight takes me on a high
The end is nigh if you leave
““Lovers Only” is my outcry, my raw frustration, born from the moments when someone else’s fear or unwillingness slithers into your life and starts tearing you apart,” Love Spells tells Atwood Magazine.
“It’s about the pain of a faltering love. Love is not meant to break us, but its struggles can pierce deeply, leaving wounds on the soul that never fully heal.”
I’m caught
In the plastic of your sea
If I was him would you save me
Would you catch and then release
I’m only yours
You don’t need me this time
You didn’t need me in this life
I couldn’t settle for other sights
While his music is definitively more atmospheric than it is gritty, there’s a certain grunginess to Love Spells’ performance.
The tension and turbulence he sings about manifest in his churning electric guitars (the lead guitar’s line is especially evocative of ’00s indie sleaze), in his heavy drums and sludgy bass, and more.
All these result in a darkly compelling, emotionally-charged song that hits hard and leaves an instant, lasting mark on the ears – forever imprinting Love Spells’ own heartache in our memories.
At its best, love can make us whole – turning the ordinary, extraordinary – yet at its worst, love can interminably loom overhead, a storm cloud forever greying our horizons. “Lovers Only” highlights the latter, showcasing those deeply human scars that, at the end of the day, for better or worse, help make us who we are.
And I kissed a woman that’ll never know me
And she missed the one man that would treat her holy
And I died every day at her sight
Knowing she’ll never find love in me
And I walk a road that’s meant for lovers only
Couldn’t give it up even if she’ll never want me
Cause her sight takes me on a high
The end is nigh if you leave
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