“Two of Us” is the fifth song released by Louis Tomlinson as a solo artist following the 2016 cut “Just Hold On” with Steve Aoki and 2017’s “Back To You” featuring Bebe Rexha and Digital Farm Animals, “Just Like You”, and “Miss You”. The song finds the singer both grappling with grief and striving towards hope amidst a swell of strings, piano, and booming drums.

Tomlinson has previously been very private about the death of his mother, Johannah Pulston Deakin back in December 2016 but has now released a song about the impact it had on him, telling BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat, quote:

I’m not at the stage in my grief where I’m going to open the first verse and burst into tears.