Are Miley Cyrus’s ‘Flowers’ Lyrics About Liam Hemsworth?

Followers have speculated that the tune could also be about her life post-breakup with the actor based mostly on the lyrics, given its “I can love me higher, child” tagline and the timing of the discharge (Hemsworth’s thirty third birthday).

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The total tune provides extra gas to this concept, given Cyrus seems to lyrically reference the Woolsey fireplace the place the Malibu residence they shared burned down (“We had been proper ’til we weren’t / Constructed a house and watched it burn”) and their arguing that led her to comprehend this relationship would not work (“I did not wanna go away you, child / I did not wanna combat”).

Moreover, Cyrus’s verse about not wanting to depart could also be a reference to studies that got here out on the time of Hemsworth and Cyrus’s break up that she wished to reconcile. TMZ reported that she had been combating for his or her marriage up till the week Hemsworth all of the sudden filed for divorce, telling him she wished to work on their relationship.

And her lyric later within the tune about not eager to dwell a lie (“I did not wanna go away you / I did not wanna lie”) could also be a reference to what a Folks supply stated in August 2019 about Cyrus not eager to utterly change who she is to be with Hemsworth. “She simply obtained to the purpose the place she didn’t wish to maintain again about who she is,” the supply stated. “She desires to be true to herself. Being with Liam, this was simply not attainable. For them to be pleased, she needed to change as an individual an excessive amount of. She is aware of not being with Liam will make her happier in the long term.”

Cyrus spoke a bit about not being a conventional spouse to ELLE when she was married: “I feel it’s very complicated to those who I’m married,” she stated an interview printed in July 2019, shortly earlier than her and Hemsworth’s break up was introduced. “However my relationship is exclusive. And I don’t know that I might ever publicly enable individuals in there as a result of it’s so complicated, and trendy, and new that I don’t assume we’re in a spot the place individuals would get it. I imply, do individuals actually assume that I’m at residence in a fucking apron cooking dinner? I’m in a hetero relationship, however I nonetheless am very sexually interested in girls. Folks turn out to be vegetarian for well being causes, however bacon remains to be fucking good, and I do know that. I made a accomplice resolution. That is the individual I really feel has my again probably the most. I positively don’t match right into a stereotypical spouse position. I don’t even like that phrase.”

Cyrus and Hemsworth had been collectively on-off for 10 years and obtained married in December 2018. Their divorce was finalized in January 2020. Cyrus spoke in December 2020 about how she would all the time love Hemsworth, however there was an excessive amount of battle of their relationship for it to be wholesome longterm. What she stated throughout that interview about their relationship breakdown additionally seems to be echoed within the lyrics of “Flowers.”

“We had been collectively since 16,” Cyrus advised Howard Stern. “Our home [in Malibu] burned down [during the Woolsey fire]. We had been like, engaged—I do not know if we actually ever thought we had been truly going to get married, however once we misplaced our home in Malibu—which for those who hearken to my voice pre- and post-fire, they’re very totally different in order that trauma actually affected my voice. And I used to be truly in South Africa, so I couldn’t come residence, and like, my animals had been tied to a publish on the seaside. I misplaced every little thing. I had polaroids of Elvis, like entrance row, handed on from—I obtained a pair grandmas to present me their Elvis polaroids. I all the time grew to become buddies with my buddies’ grandmas so I may get the products from the artists I really like.”

“I had a lot and it was all gone, each tune I had ever written was in that home,” she continued. “Each {photograph} of me that my mother and father had given to me, all my scripts, I misplaced every little thing. And so in making an attempt to place that again collectively, as an alternative of going, ‘Oh, nature type of did one thing I couldn’t do for myself; it compelled me to let go,’ I ran towards the hearth. Which isn’t irregular, numerous animals do that and find yourself dying, like deers run into the forest. You’re interested in that warmth and me being an intense individual and never wanting to sit down with it, and never eager to go, you recognize, ‘What might be purposeful about this?’ I simply clung to what I had left of that home, which was me and him. And I actually do and did love him very, very, very a lot and nonetheless do, all the time will.”

Cyrus added later of their dynamic, “There was an excessive amount of battle. Once I come residence, I wish to be anchored by somebody. I do not get off on drama or combating.”

Cyrus and Hemsworth have each moved on and are courting totally different individuals. Hemsworth has been with mannequin Gabriella Brooks for over three years. Cyrus, in the meantime, has been courting Maxx Morando for almost a 12 months.

Right here, the total lyrics of “Flowers” to soak up, by way of Genius. You possibly can watch the music video above.

Verse 1
We had been good, we had been gold
Form of dream that may’t be offered
We had been proper ’til we weren’t
Constructed a house and watched it burn

Pre-Refrain

Hmm, I did not wanna go away you, I did not wanna lie
Began to cry however then remembered I—

Refrain

I should purchase myself flowers
Write my title within the sand
Speak to myself for hours
See issues you do not perceive
I can take myself dancing
And I can maintain my very own hand
Yeah, I can love me higher than you possibly can

Submit-Refrain

Can love me higher, I can love me higher, child
Can love me higher, I can love me higher, child

Verse 2

Paint my nails, cherry pink
Match the roses that you just left
No regret, no remorse
I neglect each phrase you stated

Pre-Refrain

Ooh, I did not wanna go away you, child, I did not wanna combat
Began to cry however then remembered I—

Refrain

I should purchase myself flowers
Write my title within the sand
Speak to myself for hours
See issues you do not perceive
I can take myself dancing, yeah
I can maintain my very own hand
Yeah, I can love me higher than you possibly can

Submit-Refrain

Can love me higher, I can love me higher, child
Can love me higher, I can love me higher, child
Can love me higher, I can love me higher, child
Can love me higher

Bridge

I did not wanna go away you, child, I did not wanna combat
Began to cry however then remembered I—

Refrain

I should purchase myself flowers (Uh-uh)
Write my title within the sand
Speak to myself for hours (Yeah-eah)
See issues you do not perceive
I can take myself dancing, yeah
I can maintain my very own hand
Yeah, I can love me higher than
Yeah, I can love me higher than you possibly can

Submit-Refrain

Can love me higher, I can love me higher, child
Can love me higher, I can love me higher, child (Child)
Can love me higher, I can love me higher, child
Can love me higher, I—

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Alyssa Bailey is the senior information and technique editor at ELLE.com, the place she oversees protection of celebrities and royals (significantly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She beforehand held positions at InStyle and Cosmopolitan. When she’s not working, she loves operating round Central Park, making individuals take #ootd pics of her, and exploring New York Metropolis.