It Was Love

"It Was Love" is the sixteenth track on LANY's first studio album, LANY.

Background
The debut finally ends with "It Was Love" the second single released from the album. The song feels like a pointed closure to the rest of the album’s narrative: it was love. The album itself navigates relational toxicity and heartbreak with illustrious storytelling, and "It Was Love" feels like a "The End." to the tale. "It was love; I know you know that." The track is a poignant reiteration of the previous 15 that came before it; things that were once so luminous, can sometimes fade away.

It is the second promotional single released from LANY’s debut self-titled album and was released on April 7th, 2017. The release date was announced on Twitter on April 3rd.

In a Buzzfeed interview, Paul inadvertently revealed that the song was written about a girl named Lauren Morris. While telling the story of his first kiss, which was with her, he mentions that he had "known her since second grade," coinciding directly with the song’s second line.