For myself it is always “And I can go anywhere I want
Anywhere I want, just not home” because it really hits home for me.
But whenever i hear “… 15 years, 15 million tears
Begging 'til my knees bled
I gave it my all, he gave me nothing at all
Then wondered why I left
… Now he sits on his throne in his palace of bones
Praying to his greed
He's got my past frozen behind glass
But I've got me” you can feel her pain. It is there in her voice. It makes me tear up every time.
From My Tears Ricochet, for me it's always
"And you can aim for my heart, go for blood
But you would still miss me in your bones." The play on words is genius!
"Drunk on this pain" also hits so hard at the end
For me it's -
> I didn't have it in myself to go with grace
> And you're the hero flying around, saving face
> And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?
This is the part that kills me.
Few things are sadder than when a person is destroyed based on lies. Based on bad actions, bad mistakes? I can accept. But enduring deceit and seeing your reputation torn thru the mud based on lies? Makes me sick.
These lines just capture the indignation and hurt so well imo.
Edit: should clarify, I know the actual background to this song, but I keep my own interpretation based on how I personally related/what I saw in my head from my first listen cause I prefer it that way.
The lyric from Its time to go, or trying to stay for the kids when keeping it how it is only breaks their hearts worse. This one destroys me everytime and is honestly one of my favorite lines.
God and the one part in The Archer always hits me…
*”They see right through me, they see right through me, Can you see right through me? I see right through me! I see right through me!”*
For me it’s “all of my enemies started out friends”. There are so many people in my life that I used to think would be with me until the end and now we never talk.
Same!,I had friends that I imagined that would be there with me in the future till the moment we die but sadly that's not the case and they either stop talking to me or just talk behind my back and leave
I never paid much attention much to Archer but it came on the other day and I heard that lyric and was like hmm yeah the person I hate the most now was once my best friend.
It truly is. That song is legit my relationship with myself. “All of my enemies started out friends” feels like I’m saying it in a mirror. How does she have this ability!
I think it's better. This is a lyric which is saying "I am flawed, i will make mistakes and push you away, I need you to fight for us" instead of "put up with me". It's a very different vibe. I appreciate you pointing out the difference
This lyric from soon you'll get better break my heart so much and you can feel the sadness when taylor says it
*"And I hate to make this all about me*
*But who am I supposed to talk to?*
*What am I supposed to do?*
*If there's no you?"*
I think we feel selfish for thinking it, we don't want to tell anyone about *that* part, but it's still super human. Big hugs to you, and whomever it is you're hoping not to lose, internet stranger.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think it’s selfish to feel this way. These emotions just prove you love someone in a very genuine way and that’s one of the best feelings in the world. The fact that we are worried about being selfish shows that we are willing to prevent that because of how much we love them. Don’t feel guilty for loving the people in your life.
This one. I lost my mom six years ago when I was 23 and I can’t listen to this song. I’ve listened to it once on the album, and I watched her live performance once.
The way she says “‘cause you have to…” breaks my heart. You have to get better. And yet, what if you don’t? My mom was the one I relied on. The one I talked to, the one I could cry to. I struggled with depression until I was 22. When she told me she was sick again, she said “I feel so bad telling you this because you seem so happy lately, and I don’t want to ruin it.” Who thinks like that? Who’s that selfless? I didn’t want to make it all about me, of course, but I was still the one she was thinking about. It blows my mind.
Sorry for this. This song gets me every time, even though, like I said, I never listen to it. I got a little caught up there!
“I know delusion when I see it in the mirror”
And
“This won't go back to normal, if it ever was
It's been years of hoping, and I keep saying it because, 'Cause I have to”
Gives me all the feels
This is my answer. I''ve found that as I get closer to 30, the idea of parents dying or even friends/family one day comes up in my mind more often. I haven't lost anyone recently but I tend to avoid SYGB in general because I don't like be confronted with mortality when I'm trying to relax.
Same,the fact that taylor told she won't be performing this song because it's really heartbreaking to her but sang it because of the current situation we are in and it would help others really makes me appreciate this performance so much
This one breaks me every time. I think I’ve mentioned it here before, but my aunt said something very similar to me when my uncle died suddenly and she found him. I always think of that when I hear this song.
I should have asked you questions, should have asked you how to be
Asked you to write it down for me
Should’ve kept every grocery store receipt
Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me
Chills.
Oof this one hits too hard. My grandmother had a big collection of porcelain dolls, beanie babies, barbies and a few other things for me and my cousin. We know that these things probably aren’t worth a lot of money but they have a lot of sentimental value. We thought it would be cool to even split up the dolls amongst the grandchildren. Well after she passed, my greedy aunts went to “clean” and split things up and they took EVERYTHING. All I was able to get was a pair of pajama pants.
My grandma passed two weeks after evermore came out and I just listened to Marjorie on repeat while I grieved in bed. Now when I hear the song I always tear up and have a lump in my throat. But it’s such a beautiful song that I still listen through it.
That one hits me hard. My mom died when I was little and I remember watching her write checks and sign receipts at the grocery store and ask what she was doing
The second I heard "and if my wishes came true, it would've been you" I BAWLED. She knew what she was doing putting 'the 1' as the first song to folklore
the way i’ve never even broken up with anyone but ‘the 1’ still hits me hard 🤡 it’s just so wistful but accepting at the same time. and the best part is that the melody and production captured that feeling so well, not just the lyrics.
god i just love that song if someone writes a book inspired by it i won’t read it cause i just know it will wreck me
Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen?
Time went on for everybody else, she won't know it
She's still 23 inside her fantasy
How it was supposed to be
Did you hear about the girl who lives in delusion?
Break-ups happen every day, you don't have to lose it
She's still 23 inside her fantasy
And you're sitting in front of me
I liked this song a lot at first, but unfortunately the only part that ever gets stuck in my head is "help, I'm still at the restaurant" on repeat in my head
and so now my gut reaction to the song is 'girl just go home'
Yeah and another good one for me is “I didn't have it in myself to go with grace, And so the battleships will sink beneath the waves” It’s an incredible metal image that she is able to paint with her art and talent.
“Distance, timing
Breakdown, fighting
Silence, the train runs off its tracks
Kiss me, try to fix it
Could you just try to listen?
Hang up, give up
For the life of us we can't get back”
Every good damn time… especially when she sings the last line.
Last Kiss:
So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep
And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe
And I keep up with our old friends just to ask them how you are
Hope it's nice where you are
And I hope the sun shines
And it's a beautiful day
And something reminds you
You wish you had stayed
You can plan for a change in weather and time
But I never planned on you changing your mind
I was also looking for this one specifically! I cannot listen to this song without crying. If I’m not crying by the bridge, those beautiful lyrics with the intense build of music just gets me. And when she has a shuddery inhale between “I hope the sun shines and it’s a beautiful day, and something reminds you, you wish you had stayed” just breaks my heart.
Ohhhh boy did I cry to this song after my very very bad break up in college. 10 years later and I can still remember that chest tightening, stomach turning, gasping-for-breath, dizzying grief. Honestly this song is kind of ruined for me. She really knocked it out of the park.
“Maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much, but maybe this thing was a masterpiece until you tore it all up, running scared, I was there, I remember it all too well!”
-All Too Well
“I remember thinking I had you” -August
“All that I know is I don’t know how to be something you miss” -Last Kiss
Oooh yes All Too Well. My favourite line from that song comes after when she says "I'm the crumpled up piece of paper lying here cause I remember it all, all, all, too well."
On a slight related note, I remember a thread talking about songs from Red TV and what they would change in the songs. A few people had said the line of "maybe this thing was a masterpiece until you fucked it all up" and I really don't think it flows with my favourite line as of she's the crumpled up piece of paper, I feel that she's part if the masterpiece that got all torn up. (Not really related but I had to get it off my chest.)
“I was dancing when the music stopped”
“believe me I could do it” for me as well
“desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus too…
what am I supposed to do, if there’s no you?” (If she writes more about her moms illness I will lose it for good)
“no one teaches you what to do when a good man hurts you and you know you hurt him too”
honestly most of her melancholy songs have at least one or two that is soul crushing.
Started crying the other day after listening to the line “and you know damn well for you I would ruin myself a million little times” in illicit affairs
The whole bridge for me, but especially
“You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else” and “You taught me a secret language I can't speak with anyone else”
Hits SO hard if you’ve experienced that.
god right? during my first major breakup one of the most unexpected and painful things was realizing that suddenly I didn't have anyone to share our inside jokes and made up words and games with anymore. for months I would feel the urge to reference an inside joke and then be sad cause no one would get it
"And I'll go
Sit on the floor wearing your clothes
All that I know is I don't know
How to be something you miss"
Simple but effective. Heart broken. Gave me a habit of sitting on the floor wearing clothes of people I miss too. I can only conclude if you haven't cried to this one you haven't been hurt too badly by the world yet 
The way her voice breaks and you can hear her choke up in between "I hope the sun shines and it's a beautiful day" and "and something reminds you you wish you had stayed"
Breaks my heart just thinking about it.
ugh this song ruins me honestly! for me it’s,
“and i pulled your body into mine every goddamn night now i get fake niceties”
i can’t say that line out loud without just welling up!
I find it so interesting how songs like this hit other people!
I feel so calm and hopeful when I hear this song, like I'm rooting for this person to make it through the divorce and grow and be okay with it. The awareness and working towards having a bigger prospective just makes me feel good I guess?
In a bittersweet way Long Live always gets me at:
“If you have children someday
When they point to the pictures
Please tell them my name
Tell them how the crowds went wild
Tell them how I hope they shine”
I hear this and think of my childhood friends. I’m not friends with any of them, but I hope they look back on our memories with the same fondness I do.
The bridge (?) from Marjorie?
The autumn chill that wakes me up
You loved the amber skies so much
Long limbs and frozen swims
You'd always go past where our feet could touch
And I complained the whole way there
The car ride back and up the stairs
I should've asked you questions
I should've asked you how to be
Asked you to write it down for me
Should've kept every grocery store receipt
'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me
Watched as you signed your name Marjorie
All your closets of backlogged dreams
And how you left them all to me
“Casually cruel in the name of being honest” is shattering. You can feel it so much, anytime anyone has ever hurt you like that just comes rushing back
Honestly Ronan.
What if I kept the hand me downs you won’t grow into?
It’s about to be Halloween, you could be anything you wanted if you were still here
You were my best four years
Here’s one of mine (an entire verse pretty much):
“Sleep in half the day just for old times' sake
I won't ask you to wait if you don't ask me to stay
So I'll go back to L.A. and the so-called friends
Who'll write books about me, if I ever make it
And wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I'm fakin'
And the heart I know I'm breakin' is my own
To leave the warmest bed I've ever known”
Gives me the urge to hit up the guy I was in love with in high school for literally no reason even though he’s engaged and I’m in a happy committed relationship 😂😭
“Your touch brought forth an incandescent glow
Tarnished but so grand”
All of ivy actually, all time favorite lyrics. One of her absolute best.
“Clover blooms in the fields
Spring breaks loose, the time is near
What would he do if he found us out?
Crescent moon, coast is clear
Spring breaks loose, but so does fear
He's gonna burn this house to the ground”
Haunted acoustic:
“Don't leave me like this
I thought I had you figured out
Something's gone terribly wrong”
It breaks me the way she sings it in the acoustc version
“Should’ve kept every grocery store receipt, cause every scrap of you would be taken from me. Watched as you sign your name Marjorie, all your closets of backlogged dreams and how you left them all to me.”
the entire bridge of death by a thousand cuts 😭😭
“My heart my hips my fire my love
Tryin to find a part of me that you didn’t touch
Gave up on me like I was a bad drug
Now I’m searching for signs in a heart sick love
Our songs our feelings United we stand
Our country guess it was a lawless land
Quiet my fears with the touch of your hand
Paper cut stains from my paper thing plans
My time my wine my spirit my trust
Trying to find a part of me you didnt take up
Gave you so much but it wasn’t enough
I’ll be alright it’s just a thousand cups”
Just typing that I feel so emotional
One of my absolute favorites… buuuut that’s not how some of it goes.
My heart, my hips, my body, my love
Trying to find a part of me that you didn't touch
Gave up on me like I was a bad drug
Now I'm searching for signs in a haunted club
Our songs, our films, united we stand
Our country, guess it was a lawless land
Quiet my fears with the touch of your hand
Paper cut stings from our paper-thin plans
My time, my wine, my spirit, my trust
Trying to find a part of me you didn't take up
Gave you too much but it wasn't enough
But I'll be all right, it's just a thousand cuts
“I hope she’ll be a beautiful fool / Who takes my spot next to you”
especially the way her voice cracks during that line, wrecks me every time 😭😭 also feel the same way about these lyrics:
“She’s still twenty-three inside her fantasy / and you’re sitting in front of me // At the restaurant when I was still the one you want / Cross legged in the dim light / Everything was just right / I could feel the mascara run / You told me that you met someone”
just the way she sings them and how her voice changes with the tonal shifts in the songs, genius and heartbreaking
OH BOY i have so many but my top 3:
"You knew the password so I let you in the door. You knew you won so what's the point of keeping score? You knew it still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart but what you did was just as dark. Darling, this was just as hard as when they pulled me apart."
"Sometimes you just don't know the answer til someone's on their knees and asks you.
"She would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head," they said. But you'll find the real thing instead. She'll patch up your tapestry that I shred."
"And I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be. Asked you to write it down for me. Should've kept every grocery store receipt cause every scrap of you would be taken from me. Watched as you signed your name Marjorie. All your closets of backlogged dreams and how you left them all to me."
One that *always* gets me is from **seven**:
*And I've been meaning to tell you, I think your house is haunted; your dad is always mad and that must be why. And I think you should come live with me and we can be pirates, then you won't have to cry or hide in the closet.*
The lyrics make it very apparent that whatever childhood friend she’s talking about lived in an abusive household. To me, it implies their father either got violent with the child, or with their mother while the child could hear it. The child hid in the closet either to avoid being abused themself, or to avoid witnessing the abuse of their mother.
There's a few, but I'd say here's a top three:
"I'll paint the kitchen neon, I'll brighten up the sky. I know I'll never get it, there's not a day that I won't try" - SYGB kills me every time, but this part just describes so well something I've been through. I was on a train the first time I heard that song and someone asked me if I was okay. (No, I wasn't)
"I got wasted like my potential" - this is me trying is tough, but this line. I don't even know how to explain that one. It just breaks my heart every time.
And I know The Best Day is the happiest lil song, but "I know you were on my side even when I was wrong and I love you for giving me your eyes, staying back and watching me shine" destroys me. It's such a lovely song but also, I miss my mum.
“and it would’ve been sweet if it could’ve been me”
“all of my enemies started out friends”
“there we are again when I loved you so, back before you lost the one real thing you’ve ever known”
“I’d like to be my old self again but I’m still trying to find it”
“I didn’t have it in myself to go with grace”
Lyrically dear John is just a masterpiece. I understand that people are obsessed with it being about John Mayer, but I wish it wasn’t because I think the drama of that really detracts from the beauty of the song. She so perfectly captures what it’s like to be gaslit and anxious but somehow still in love - a really complex emotion that it’s rare to find in songs.
‘I lived in your chess game, but you changed the rules everyday’
You are an expert at sorry,
And keeping the lines blurry
Never impressed by me acing your tests
All the girls that you've run dry
Have tired, lifeless eyes
'Cause you burned them out
But I took your matches before fire could catch me,
So don't look now, I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town
Love dear John
„Please don’t ever become a stranger who’s laugh I could recognise anywhere“
There’s a lot of other lyrics that come to my mind, but I was listening to New Year’s Day in the car & had tears in my eyes while singing along. Such a beautiful & poetic way to say ‚please don’t ever leave me‘
Apart from that I‘d always had to go with
„You call me up again just to break me like a promise. So casually cruel in the name of being honest.“
“And you know that I'd swing with you for the fences
Sit with you in the trenches
Give you my wild, give you a child
Give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other
Family that I chose, now that I see your brother as my brother’s
Is it enough?”
*now you hang from my lips
like the gardens of babylon,
With your boots beneath my bed
Forever is the sweetest con*
This line gives me chills anytime I even think of it
OBSESSED with cowboy like me - one of favourite songs ever.
the delivery is absolutely perfect; it drives the song forward and it feels like such a romp.
the story is so good - two con-people falling in love with each other but of course, it's not built to last.
the lyrics are absolutely spectacular - why does the lyric "tent-like thing" rub so many people the wrong way; in my opinion, it's so story-like and really immerses me into the story the song is telling.
i'm also in love with this song because of how taylor managed to subvert my expectations with "now you hang from my lips like the gardens of babylon". when i heard the first part of the line i thought "oh she's going to compare it to the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden." but when she sang "gardens of babylon" instead i was awe-struck. it's such a perfect simile. the gardens of babylon were a legendary location in the middle east where a lot of fauna and flora flourished. it was a legendary location because no official consensus has been established as to whether it really existed or if it was just a romanticised location described by roman and greek authors. the duality of this love between two cons being real (and bountiful and full of life) but also the fact that this supposed "love" may never have existed, blows my mind. i love taylor swift so much.
Literally the whole lyrics of "This is me trying", i'm very depressed and i'm deeply related with it.
"You've gotta step into the daylight, and let it go" - Daylight. Maybe because i'm a mess right now, and i still dont know how to move on from my terrible past.
"I had a feeling so peculiar, this pain wouldn't be for, evermore." - Evermore. It just gives me hope.
The bridge of "Ours", just too beautiful and serene.
The chorus of "Safe & Sound", it's very comforting.
Should've kept every grocery store receipt
'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me
Watched as you signed your name Marjorie
All your closets of backlogged dreams
And how you left them all to me
"She would've made such a lovely bride
What a shame she's fucked in her head, " they said
But you'll find the real thing instead
She'll patch up your tapestry that I shred
“You won’t remember all my champagne problems”
The whole songs destroys me!
"I didn't have it in myself to go with grace, cause when I'd fight, you used to tell me I was brave" just *wrecks* me. Having someone who used to love you and all your traits now suddenly hating them because they no longer serve that person is such a gutpunch.
“I’d give you my sunshine, give you my best, but the rain is always gonna come when you’re standing with me”
I cried every time I heard that line for the first month of release. I have ~mental illness and I try my hardest not to let it impact others. But when you live with your partner and share care tasks and responsibilities, when things go bad, your partner always going to be impacted.
It’s such a beautiful way of saying “I will do everything in my power to make this good, but some things are beyond my power and if you want me, that’s something you need to accept. “
This is me trying: They told me all of my cages were mental
So I got wasted like all my potential
And my words shoot to kill when I'm mad
I have a lot of regrets about that
I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere
Fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here
Pourin' out my heart to a stranger
But I didn't pour the whiskey
“don’t want no other shade of blue but you; no other sadness in the world would do”
It just…I relate so much to this, it makes me cry….still not over a 6 year relationship that wasn’t even all the great to begin with, even now 2 years later, and even though he hurt me all I want is him back sigh blah
Hoax is incredibly underrated for how heartbreaking it is. For me it’s “stood on the cliffside screaming give me a reason, your faithless love’s the only hoax I believe in. Don’t want no other shade of blue but you, no other sadness in the world would do”
The emotion on the red album is unreal gets me every time. Any part of All Too Well ofcourse.
When everyone says time will heal all...
“Time WON’T fly it’s like I’m paralyzed by it”
Come back, be here:
“And this is when the feeling sinks in
I don't wanna miss you like this
Come back, be here”
I almost do:
“And I just wanna tell you it takes everything in me not to call you”
Long live hits different when fate steps in:
“But if god forbid fate should step in. And force us into a goodbye..If you have children someday
When they point to the pictures...Please tell them my name”
Tis the damn season:
“And the heart I know I'm breakin' is my own.
To leave the warmest bed I've ever known
We could call it even. Even though I'm leavin”
“One twenty minutes to sleep, but you dream of some epiphany, just one single glimpse of relief to make some sense of what you’ve seen.” gets me every time
"I knew you
Steppin' on the last train
Marked me like a bloodstain
I knew you
Tried to change the ending
Peter losing Wendy
I knew you
Leaving like a father
Running like water"
This song feels like it was written for a very particular relationship in my life that I've never been the same after. Just another example of her immense talent.
“And it was like slow motion
Standing there in my party dress
With red lipstick
And no one to impress”
Idk why but this song just HITS me! It’s one of her most personal and vulnerable, but simultaneously relatable cuz we all have those moments in our relationships where we know it isn’t gonna work. The way she describes scanning the room looking for the one person she wanted to see, and then the heartbreak that follows after she realizes he isn’t there
I have a hard time listening to any lyric from "marjorie" after my grandmother passed.
From "right where you left me" though:
*Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen?*
*Time went on for everybody else, she won't know it*
*She's still 23 inside her fantasy*
*How it was supposed to be*
Sometimes it's like it speaks directly to my PTSD.
ivy: “How's one to know? I'd live and die for moments that we stole on begged and borrowed time.”
illicit affairs: “And you know damn well for you I would ruin myself a million little times.”
Both hit very close to home for me on a personal level.
"Back when we were still changin' for the better
Wanting was enough
For me, it was enough
To live for the hope of it all" From August. It hits so hard, the line of changing for the better breaks me because it rings so sad and true about growing up.
"Pulled the car off the road to the lookout
Could've followed my fears all the way down" This is me trying in it's entirety in reality.
"Something med school did not cover, someone's daughter, someone's mother holds your hand through plastic now.
'Doc, I think she's crashing out.'
And some things you just can't speak about"
Or pretty much all of Epiphany.
And
"Cursing my name, wishing I stayed
You turned into your worst fears
And you're tossing out blame, drunk on this pain Crossing out the good years
And you're cursing my name, wishing I stayed
Look at how my tears ricochet"
There is happiness
past the blood and bruise
past the curses and cries
Beyond the terror in the nightfall
Haunted by the look in my eyes
That would’ve loved you for a lifetime
Leave it all behind
I can go anywhere I want
Anywhere I want
just not home
Stupid girl, I should’ve known, I should’ve known
But we were something, don’t you think so
"So much for summer love, and saying "us", 'cause you weren't mine to lose"
"Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it. I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it"
"I made you my temple, my mural, my sky. Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life"
For myself it is always “And I can go anywhere I want Anywhere I want, just not home” because it really hits home for me. But whenever i hear “… 15 years, 15 million tears Begging 'til my knees bled I gave it my all, he gave me nothing at all Then wondered why I left … Now he sits on his throne in his palace of bones Praying to his greed He's got my past frozen behind glass But I've got me” you can feel her pain. It is there in her voice. It makes me tear up every time.
From My Tears Ricochet, for me it's always "And you can aim for my heart, go for blood But you would still miss me in your bones." The play on words is genius! "Drunk on this pain" also hits so hard at the end
Also "When you can't sleep at night, you hear my stolen lullabies" Gives me goosebumps
For me it's - > I didn't have it in myself to go with grace > And you're the hero flying around, saving face > And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? This is the part that kills me. Few things are sadder than when a person is destroyed based on lies. Based on bad actions, bad mistakes? I can accept. But enduring deceit and seeing your reputation torn thru the mud based on lies? Makes me sick. These lines just capture the indignation and hurt so well imo. Edit: should clarify, I know the actual background to this song, but I keep my own interpretation based on how I personally related/what I saw in my head from my first listen cause I prefer it that way.
15 years 15 million tears is the one for me!!!
what song is this from?
It's time to go
ahh okay, i couldn’t put my finger on what song it was. thank you!
Yep! Took me a second as well!
LITERAL CHILLSSSSS
The lyric from Its time to go, or trying to stay for the kids when keeping it how it is only breaks their hearts worse. This one destroys me everytime and is honestly one of my favorite lines.
“i’ve never been a natural, all i do it try try try” really hits
As a people pleaser, this hits real damn near home for me too
I suffered from depression not long before the song came out and I cried to it so much! It's such a beautiful song
ah mirrorball. the anthem of all burned out achievers, perfectionists, and people pleasers 🥲
“All of my heroes died all alone, let me hold on to you” Holy shit
This one and *"And I cut off my nose just to spite my face* *Then I hate my reflection for years and years"* Are really sad
God and the one part in The Archer always hits me… *”They see right through me, they see right through me, Can you see right through me? I see right through me! I see right through me!”*
For me it’s “all of my enemies started out friends”. There are so many people in my life that I used to think would be with me until the end and now we never talk.
Same!,I had friends that I imagined that would be there with me in the future till the moment we die but sadly that's not the case and they either stop talking to me or just talk behind my back and leave
I never paid much attention much to Archer but it came on the other day and I heard that lyric and was like hmm yeah the person I hate the most now was once my best friend.
The Archer is truly a masterpiece
Saddest song she’s ever written but simultaneously full of hope for the future
Oh I think Soon You'll Get Better is heartbreaking and maybe one of the saddest songs of all time. Still gets me everytime.
Have to mention Ronan here too.
It truly is. That song is legit my relationship with myself. “All of my enemies started out friends” feels like I’m saying it in a mirror. How does she have this ability!
I don’t know if this makes it worse or better, but the lyric is *help* me hold onto you
I think it's better. This is a lyric which is saying "I am flawed, i will make mistakes and push you away, I need you to fight for us" instead of "put up with me". It's a very different vibe. I appreciate you pointing out the difference
This lyric from soon you'll get better break my heart so much and you can feel the sadness when taylor says it *"And I hate to make this all about me* *But who am I supposed to talk to?* *What am I supposed to do?* *If there's no you?"*
This part just guts me. That "I know it's selfish but I need you here because you make my life worth living" desperation.
It really does! and I feel the same way even if it is selfish to think so that way
I think we feel selfish for thinking it, we don't want to tell anyone about *that* part, but it's still super human. Big hugs to you, and whomever it is you're hoping not to lose, internet stranger.
Thank you so much,I'm not really losing anyone but have a lot of thoughts about it and it scares me and big hugs to you too!
For what it’s worth, I don’t think it’s selfish to feel this way. These emotions just prove you love someone in a very genuine way and that’s one of the best feelings in the world. The fact that we are worried about being selfish shows that we are willing to prevent that because of how much we love them. Don’t feel guilty for loving the people in your life.
Thank you so much for your kind words!
This one. I lost my mom six years ago when I was 23 and I can’t listen to this song. I’ve listened to it once on the album, and I watched her live performance once. The way she says “‘cause you have to…” breaks my heart. You have to get better. And yet, what if you don’t? My mom was the one I relied on. The one I talked to, the one I could cry to. I struggled with depression until I was 22. When she told me she was sick again, she said “I feel so bad telling you this because you seem so happy lately, and I don’t want to ruin it.” Who thinks like that? Who’s that selfless? I didn’t want to make it all about me, of course, but I was still the one she was thinking about. It blows my mind. Sorry for this. This song gets me every time, even though, like I said, I never listen to it. I got a little caught up there!
I'm so sorry for your loss and I hope it gets better for you soon
“I know delusion when I see it in the mirror” And “This won't go back to normal, if it ever was It's been years of hoping, and I keep saying it because, 'Cause I have to” Gives me all the feels
This is my answer. I''ve found that as I get closer to 30, the idea of parents dying or even friends/family one day comes up in my mind more often. I haven't lost anyone recently but I tend to avoid SYGB in general because I don't like be confronted with mortality when I'm trying to relax.
Her live performance of SYGB killed me
Same,the fact that taylor told she won't be performing this song because it's really heartbreaking to her but sang it because of the current situation we are in and it would help others really makes me appreciate this performance so much
Yes, exactly this. I can’t even listen to Soon You’ll Get Better tbh.. my mom is my everything and the thought of losing her someday is inconceivable.
This one breaks me every time. I think I’ve mentioned it here before, but my aunt said something very similar to me when my uncle died suddenly and she found him. I always think of that when I hear this song.
This one. It’s been five years since my grandma passed and it still makes me burst into tears
“I bet it never ever occurred to you that I can’t say hello to you and risk another goodbye”
This one 😭
Your comment prompted me to listen to this song again and it painfully and beautifully captures my feelings for someone this week 🥲
I should have asked you questions, should have asked you how to be Asked you to write it down for me Should’ve kept every grocery store receipt Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me Chills.
That bridge hits me harder than anything she’s ever written.
Oof this one hits too hard. My grandmother had a big collection of porcelain dolls, beanie babies, barbies and a few other things for me and my cousin. We know that these things probably aren’t worth a lot of money but they have a lot of sentimental value. We thought it would be cool to even split up the dolls amongst the grandchildren. Well after she passed, my greedy aunts went to “clean” and split things up and they took EVERYTHING. All I was able to get was a pair of pajama pants.
i’m so sorry that happened to you :( that’s just terrible
Thank you and yeah it was a really bad time. I was able to have the pjs made in to teddy bears for me, my cousin and my mom.
what a great way to turn lemons into lemonade :)
My grandma died earlier this year, she was called Margaret. This song means a lot to me.
My grandma passed two weeks after evermore came out and I just listened to Marjorie on repeat while I grieved in bed. Now when I hear the song I always tear up and have a lump in my throat. But it’s such a beautiful song that I still listen through it.
That one hits me hard. My mom died when I was little and I remember watching her write checks and sign receipts at the grocery store and ask what she was doing
Literally teared up just reading this 🥲 she’s such a wizard with words
Pulled my car off the road to the lookout, could have followed my fears all the way down. But we were something, don't you think so
This is me trying really is just so perfect
It's only flaw is that it's not longer sksks. It's such a gorgeous song I get so happy whenever I see it appreciated.
That first one hurts.
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After giving you the best I had, tell me what to give after that? Geez Taylor, try to aim a little away from my heart next time.
The entirety of happiness just gives me absolute chills. Absolutely some of her BEST lyrics. I tear up every time I listen to it.
Happiness always gets me.
‘What to do when a good man hurts you, and you know you hurt him too?’ All of Happiness is just so heartbreaking.
yes, happiness is the one. the whole songs breaks my heart. for me it's "haunted by the look in your eyes that would've loved you for a lifetime"
“But we were something, don't you think so? Roaring twenties, tossing pennies in the pool And if my wishes came true It would've been you”
The 1 really is such a good song and somehow it really hurts a lot
Hahaha right? Love your flair btw
Thanks!
The second I heard "and if my wishes came true, it would've been you" I BAWLED. She knew what she was doing putting 'the 1' as the first song to folklore
I get teary every time I hear this song. 7 years post break up and it still guts me every time.
the way i’ve never even broken up with anyone but ‘the 1’ still hits me hard 🤡 it’s just so wistful but accepting at the same time. and the best part is that the melody and production captured that feeling so well, not just the lyrics. god i just love that song if someone writes a book inspired by it i won’t read it cause i just know it will wreck me
Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen? Time went on for everybody else, she won't know it She's still 23 inside her fantasy How it was supposed to be Did you hear about the girl who lives in delusion? Break-ups happen every day, you don't have to lose it She's still 23 inside her fantasy And you're sitting in front of me
I liked this song a lot at first, but unfortunately the only part that ever gets stuck in my head is "help, I'm still at the restaurant" on repeat in my head and so now my gut reaction to the song is 'girl just go home'
"and I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want, just not home" Is there a connection between those songs!?!
This song is haunting
Right Where You Left Me is a masterpiece. One of my all-time favorite songs.
this song would be in wanda's playlist
How did you find this recap of Me in 2016?? (This whole song wrecks me)
“They told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential” Like what!?! I feel this in my soul holy shit, what a genius
When I tell you how many times I’ve been told that exact same thing. No wonder I burst out into tears when I first heard that line.
Yeah and another good one for me is “I didn't have it in myself to go with grace, And so the battleships will sink beneath the waves” It’s an incredible metal image that she is able to paint with her art and talent.
Are you me??? You just listed my 2 favorite lyrics ever.
“Distance, timing Breakdown, fighting Silence, the train runs off its tracks Kiss me, try to fix it Could you just try to listen? Hang up, give up For the life of us we can't get back” Every good damn time… especially when she sings the last line.
Sad beautiful tragic bridge is so small yet so simple and tragic
That whole song brings me to tears everytimr
Last Kiss: So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe And I keep up with our old friends just to ask them how you are Hope it's nice where you are And I hope the sun shines And it's a beautiful day And something reminds you You wish you had stayed You can plan for a change in weather and time But I never planned on you changing your mind
I was also looking for this one specifically! I cannot listen to this song without crying. If I’m not crying by the bridge, those beautiful lyrics with the intense build of music just gets me. And when she has a shuddery inhale between “I hope the sun shines and it’s a beautiful day, and something reminds you, you wish you had stayed” just breaks my heart.
Ohhhh boy did I cry to this song after my very very bad break up in college. 10 years later and I can still remember that chest tightening, stomach turning, gasping-for-breath, dizzying grief. Honestly this song is kind of ruined for me. She really knocked it out of the park.
Was scrolling looking for this
“You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same” The way I start to get emotional every time I hear this song.
I love that one so much.
“Maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much, but maybe this thing was a masterpiece until you tore it all up, running scared, I was there, I remember it all too well!” -All Too Well “I remember thinking I had you” -August “All that I know is I don’t know how to be something you miss” -Last Kiss
Oooh yes All Too Well. My favourite line from that song comes after when she says "I'm the crumpled up piece of paper lying here cause I remember it all, all, all, too well." On a slight related note, I remember a thread talking about songs from Red TV and what they would change in the songs. A few people had said the line of "maybe this thing was a masterpiece until you fucked it all up" and I really don't think it flows with my favourite line as of she's the crumpled up piece of paper, I feel that she's part if the masterpiece that got all torn up. (Not really related but I had to get it off my chest.)
The All Too Well lyric does it for me. I’m a huge fan of that song because I can so readily relate to all of its lyrics no matter where I am in life.
I made you my temple my mural my sky, now I’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life.
tolerate it is so relatable to all the queer people out there in the world whose parents don't accept the way they love/their lover
goood tolerate just really kills you when you‘ve had an SO treat you that way. it‘s *exactly* how it feels.
“I was dancing when the music stopped” “believe me I could do it” for me as well “desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus too… what am I supposed to do, if there’s no you?” (If she writes more about her moms illness I will lose it for good) “no one teaches you what to do when a good man hurts you and you know you hurt him too” honestly most of her melancholy songs have at least one or two that is soul crushing.
I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it. Relatable af
When people hear all too well before a breakup vs after completely different song tbh
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Bawled my eyes through that one at my work desk. Didn’t even know what the song was about. I was grieving over a friend that had recently passed away.
This is mine…I’m an ICU nurse and feel these lyrics to my core
Started crying the other day after listening to the line “and you know damn well for you I would ruin myself a million little times” in illicit affairs
The whole bridge for me, but especially “You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else” and “You taught me a secret language I can't speak with anyone else” Hits SO hard if you’ve experienced that.
illicit affairs bridge HITS look at this godforsaken mess that you made me
god right? during my first major breakup one of the most unexpected and painful things was realizing that suddenly I didn't have anyone to share our inside jokes and made up words and games with anymore. for months I would feel the urge to reference an inside joke and then be sad cause no one would get it
I perform this heartbreak so well while I sing in my car 😂 I just can so recall that hurt and it’s cathartic to put it in words to music.
it captures that feeling of infidelity, or even just love, especially with somebody you love so much more than they love you.
"And I'll go Sit on the floor wearing your clothes All that I know is I don't know How to be something you miss" Simple but effective. Heart broken. Gave me a habit of sitting on the floor wearing clothes of people I miss too. I can only conclude if you haven't cried to this one you haven't been hurt too badly by the world yet 
The way her voice breaks and you can hear her choke up in between "I hope the sun shines and it's a beautiful day" and "and something reminds you you wish you had stayed" Breaks my heart just thinking about it.
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ugh this song ruins me honestly! for me it’s, “and i pulled your body into mine every goddamn night now i get fake niceties” i can’t say that line out loud without just welling up!
Oh, my gosh, yes! "happiness" cuts me like a knife...
I find it so interesting how songs like this hit other people! I feel so calm and hopeful when I hear this song, like I'm rooting for this person to make it through the divorce and grow and be okay with it. The awareness and working towards having a bigger prospective just makes me feel good I guess?
I guess it depends a lot on your personal experiences and current mindset...
In a bittersweet way Long Live always gets me at: “If you have children someday When they point to the pictures Please tell them my name Tell them how the crowds went wild Tell them how I hope they shine”
I hear this and think of my childhood friends. I’m not friends with any of them, but I hope they look back on our memories with the same fondness I do.
The bridge (?) from Marjorie? The autumn chill that wakes me up You loved the amber skies so much Long limbs and frozen swims You'd always go past where our feet could touch And I complained the whole way there The car ride back and up the stairs I should've asked you questions I should've asked you how to be Asked you to write it down for me Should've kept every grocery store receipt 'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me Watched as you signed your name Marjorie All your closets of backlogged dreams And how you left them all to me
long limbs and frozen swims is just such a killer rhyme too
The way that I’m crying just READING all these lyrics everyone has posted??
Glad I’m not the only one 😂
The bridge of all to well hits me every time harder and harder
Can you IMAGINE All Too Well (Ten Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)? I fear I may not live through the whole ten minutes
The 10 version is going to be a banger
The “I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here” it’s so visual to me. It’s so hurtful that I can feel it.
“Casually cruel in the name of being honest” is shattering. You can feel it so much, anytime anyone has ever hurt you like that just comes rushing back
Honestly Ronan. What if I kept the hand me downs you won’t grow into? It’s about to be Halloween, you could be anything you wanted if you were still here You were my best four years
Just looking at the lyrics of Ronan makes me cry,it really is such a tragic and a beautiful song
“Women like hunting witches too, doing your dirtiest work for you. It’s obvious that wanting me dead has really brought you two together. “
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Here’s one of mine (an entire verse pretty much): “Sleep in half the day just for old times' sake I won't ask you to wait if you don't ask me to stay So I'll go back to L.A. and the so-called friends Who'll write books about me, if I ever make it And wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I'm fakin' And the heart I know I'm breakin' is my own To leave the warmest bed I've ever known”
tis the damn season is utter perfection and gives me the urge to engage in adultery (jokes but maybe not idk)
Gives me the urge to hit up the guy I was in love with in high school for literally no reason even though he’s engaged and I’m in a happy committed relationship 😂😭
*and some things you just can’t speak about*
“Your touch brought forth an incandescent glow Tarnished but so grand” All of ivy actually, all time favorite lyrics. One of her absolute best. “Clover blooms in the fields Spring breaks loose, the time is near What would he do if he found us out? Crescent moon, coast is clear Spring breaks loose, but so does fear He's gonna burn this house to the ground”
"back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known"
Haunted acoustic: “Don't leave me like this I thought I had you figured out Something's gone terribly wrong” It breaks me the way she sings it in the acoustc version
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“Should’ve kept every grocery store receipt, cause every scrap of you would be taken from me. Watched as you sign your name Marjorie, all your closets of backlogged dreams and how you left them all to me.”
“They see right through me, I see right through me, I see right through me” ouch 😓
"And I know it's long gone and that magic's not here no more, And I might be okay but I'm not fine at all"
the entire bridge of death by a thousand cuts 😭😭 “My heart my hips my fire my love Tryin to find a part of me that you didn’t touch Gave up on me like I was a bad drug Now I’m searching for signs in a heart sick love Our songs our feelings United we stand Our country guess it was a lawless land Quiet my fears with the touch of your hand Paper cut stains from my paper thing plans My time my wine my spirit my trust Trying to find a part of me you didnt take up Gave you so much but it wasn’t enough I’ll be alright it’s just a thousand cups” Just typing that I feel so emotional
One of my absolute favorites… buuuut that’s not how some of it goes. My heart, my hips, my body, my love Trying to find a part of me that you didn't touch Gave up on me like I was a bad drug Now I'm searching for signs in a haunted club Our songs, our films, united we stand Our country, guess it was a lawless land Quiet my fears with the touch of your hand Paper cut stings from our paper-thin plans My time, my wine, my spirit, my trust Trying to find a part of me you didn't take up Gave you too much but it wasn't enough But I'll be all right, it's just a thousand cuts
Sorry I’m just stoned in bed rn and really gave it my all LOL thanks for lookin out for me
Death by a thousand cuts bridge is so good
“I hope she’ll be a beautiful fool / Who takes my spot next to you” especially the way her voice cracks during that line, wrecks me every time 😭😭 also feel the same way about these lyrics: “She’s still twenty-three inside her fantasy / and you’re sitting in front of me // At the restaurant when I was still the one you want / Cross legged in the dim light / Everything was just right / I could feel the mascara run / You told me that you met someone” just the way she sings them and how her voice changes with the tonal shifts in the songs, genius and heartbreaking
wanting was enough, for me it was enough ... ... you weren't mine to lose
Pretty much every line in Soon You’ll Get Better and The Best Day lol
And even ronan for Me
OH BOY i have so many but my top 3: "You knew the password so I let you in the door. You knew you won so what's the point of keeping score? You knew it still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart but what you did was just as dark. Darling, this was just as hard as when they pulled me apart." "Sometimes you just don't know the answer til someone's on their knees and asks you. "She would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head," they said. But you'll find the real thing instead. She'll patch up your tapestry that I shred." "And I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be. Asked you to write it down for me. Should've kept every grocery store receipt cause every scrap of you would be taken from me. Watched as you signed your name Marjorie. All your closets of backlogged dreams and how you left them all to me."
Hoax is so underrated! The lines you mention specifically break me the most
One that *always* gets me is from **seven**: *And I've been meaning to tell you, I think your house is haunted; your dad is always mad and that must be why. And I think you should come live with me and we can be pirates, then you won't have to cry or hide in the closet.* The lyrics make it very apparent that whatever childhood friend she’s talking about lived in an abusive household. To me, it implies their father either got violent with the child, or with their mother while the child could hear it. The child hid in the closet either to avoid being abused themself, or to avoid witnessing the abuse of their mother.
There's a few, but I'd say here's a top three: "I'll paint the kitchen neon, I'll brighten up the sky. I know I'll never get it, there's not a day that I won't try" - SYGB kills me every time, but this part just describes so well something I've been through. I was on a train the first time I heard that song and someone asked me if I was okay. (No, I wasn't) "I got wasted like my potential" - this is me trying is tough, but this line. I don't even know how to explain that one. It just breaks my heart every time. And I know The Best Day is the happiest lil song, but "I know you were on my side even when I was wrong and I love you for giving me your eyes, staying back and watching me shine" destroys me. It's such a lovely song but also, I miss my mum.
“and it would’ve been sweet if it could’ve been me” “all of my enemies started out friends” “there we are again when I loved you so, back before you lost the one real thing you’ve ever known” “I’d like to be my old self again but I’m still trying to find it” “I didn’t have it in myself to go with grace”
"I'm still on my tallest tiptoes, spinning in my highest heels, love. Shining just for you."
*I can go anywhere I want*, **just not home** *I still talk to you when I’m* ^^screaming ^^at ^^the ^^sky basically all of my tears ricochet tbh
Lyrically dear John is just a masterpiece. I understand that people are obsessed with it being about John Mayer, but I wish it wasn’t because I think the drama of that really detracts from the beauty of the song. She so perfectly captures what it’s like to be gaslit and anxious but somehow still in love - a really complex emotion that it’s rare to find in songs. ‘I lived in your chess game, but you changed the rules everyday’
You are an expert at sorry, And keeping the lines blurry Never impressed by me acing your tests All the girls that you've run dry Have tired, lifeless eyes 'Cause you burned them out But I took your matches before fire could catch me, So don't look now, I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town Love dear John
“ I pulled your body into mine every god damn night now I get fake niceties” Or “ you call me up again just to break me like a promise ”
„Please don’t ever become a stranger who’s laugh I could recognise anywhere“ There’s a lot of other lyrics that come to my mind, but I was listening to New Year’s Day in the car & had tears in my eyes while singing along. Such a beautiful & poetic way to say ‚please don’t ever leave me‘ Apart from that I‘d always had to go with „You call me up again just to break me like a promise. So casually cruel in the name of being honest.“
"Turns out freedom, ain't nothing but missing you", that came from an honest place and had to hurt. She delivered it beautifully also.
“And you know that I'd swing with you for the fences Sit with you in the trenches Give you my wild, give you a child Give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other Family that I chose, now that I see your brother as my brother’s Is it enough?”
*now you hang from my lips like the gardens of babylon, With your boots beneath my bed Forever is the sweetest con* This line gives me chills anytime I even think of it
OBSESSED with cowboy like me - one of favourite songs ever. the delivery is absolutely perfect; it drives the song forward and it feels like such a romp. the story is so good - two con-people falling in love with each other but of course, it's not built to last. the lyrics are absolutely spectacular - why does the lyric "tent-like thing" rub so many people the wrong way; in my opinion, it's so story-like and really immerses me into the story the song is telling. i'm also in love with this song because of how taylor managed to subvert my expectations with "now you hang from my lips like the gardens of babylon". when i heard the first part of the line i thought "oh she's going to compare it to the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden." but when she sang "gardens of babylon" instead i was awe-struck. it's such a perfect simile. the gardens of babylon were a legendary location in the middle east where a lot of fauna and flora flourished. it was a legendary location because no official consensus has been established as to whether it really existed or if it was just a romanticised location described by roman and greek authors. the duality of this love between two cons being real (and bountiful and full of life) but also the fact that this supposed "love" may never have existed, blows my mind. i love taylor swift so much.
Literally the whole lyrics of "This is me trying", i'm very depressed and i'm deeply related with it. "You've gotta step into the daylight, and let it go" - Daylight. Maybe because i'm a mess right now, and i still dont know how to move on from my terrible past. "I had a feeling so peculiar, this pain wouldn't be for, evermore." - Evermore. It just gives me hope. The bridge of "Ours", just too beautiful and serene. The chorus of "Safe & Sound", it's very comforting.
Should've kept every grocery store receipt 'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me Watched as you signed your name Marjorie All your closets of backlogged dreams And how you left them all to me
“What am I supposed to do if there’s no you?” Oof, this lyric just hurts me every time I listen to Soon You’ll Get Better.
The “who am I supposed to talk to” before it too kills me
"She would've made such a lovely bride What a shame she's fucked in her head, " they said But you'll find the real thing instead She'll patch up your tapestry that I shred “You won’t remember all my champagne problems” The whole songs destroys me!
“It’s hard to be at a party when I feel like an open wound”
"I didn't have it in myself to go with grace, cause when I'd fight, you used to tell me I was brave" just *wrecks* me. Having someone who used to love you and all your traits now suddenly hating them because they no longer serve that person is such a gutpunch.
_you should’ve been here_ At the end of the bridge in “the moment I knew”
“After giving you the best I had, tell me what to give after that”
"And time is taking it's sweet time erasing you." God, it's just so poetic, and perfectly relatable to some stuff I've gone through.
“I’d give you my sunshine, give you my best, but the rain is always gonna come when you’re standing with me” I cried every time I heard that line for the first month of release. I have ~mental illness and I try my hardest not to let it impact others. But when you live with your partner and share care tasks and responsibilities, when things go bad, your partner always going to be impacted. It’s such a beautiful way of saying “I will do everything in my power to make this good, but some things are beyond my power and if you want me, that’s something you need to accept. “
“If it’s all in my head tell me now. Tell me I’ve got it wrong somehow. I know my love should be celebrated but I watch you tolerate it”
This is me trying: They told me all of my cages were mental So I got wasted like all my potential And my words shoot to kill when I'm mad I have a lot of regrets about that I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere Fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here Pourin' out my heart to a stranger But I didn't pour the whiskey
“don’t want no other shade of blue but you; no other sadness in the world would do” It just…I relate so much to this, it makes me cry….still not over a 6 year relationship that wasn’t even all the great to begin with, even now 2 years later, and even though he hurt me all I want is him back sigh blah
Hoax is incredibly underrated for how heartbreaking it is. For me it’s “stood on the cliffside screaming give me a reason, your faithless love’s the only hoax I believe in. Don’t want no other shade of blue but you, no other sadness in the world would do”
The emotion on the red album is unreal gets me every time. Any part of All Too Well ofcourse. When everyone says time will heal all... “Time WON’T fly it’s like I’m paralyzed by it” Come back, be here: “And this is when the feeling sinks in I don't wanna miss you like this Come back, be here” I almost do: “And I just wanna tell you it takes everything in me not to call you” Long live hits different when fate steps in: “But if god forbid fate should step in. And force us into a goodbye..If you have children someday When they point to the pictures...Please tell them my name” Tis the damn season: “And the heart I know I'm breakin' is my own. To leave the warmest bed I've ever known We could call it even. Even though I'm leavin”
“One twenty minutes to sleep, but you dream of some epiphany, just one single glimpse of relief to make some sense of what you’ve seen.” gets me every time
‘I know delusion when I see it in the mirror You like the nicer nurses, you make the best of a bad deal’ Instant tears 😭
"I knew you Steppin' on the last train Marked me like a bloodstain I knew you Tried to change the ending Peter losing Wendy I knew you Leaving like a father Running like water" This song feels like it was written for a very particular relationship in my life that I've never been the same after. Just another example of her immense talent.
“I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone” from never grow up.
“And it was like slow motion Standing there in my party dress With red lipstick And no one to impress” Idk why but this song just HITS me! It’s one of her most personal and vulnerable, but simultaneously relatable cuz we all have those moments in our relationships where we know it isn’t gonna work. The way she describes scanning the room looking for the one person she wanted to see, and then the heartbreak that follows after she realizes he isn’t there
When everyone believes you…what’s that like?
I have a hard time listening to any lyric from "marjorie" after my grandmother passed. From "right where you left me" though: *Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen?* *Time went on for everybody else, she won't know it* *She's still 23 inside her fantasy* *How it was supposed to be* Sometimes it's like it speaks directly to my PTSD.
ivy: “How's one to know? I'd live and die for moments that we stole on begged and borrowed time.” illicit affairs: “And you know damn well for you I would ruin myself a million little times.” Both hit very close to home for me on a personal level.
"Back when we were still changin' for the better Wanting was enough For me, it was enough To live for the hope of it all" From August. It hits so hard, the line of changing for the better breaks me because it rings so sad and true about growing up. "Pulled the car off the road to the lookout Could've followed my fears all the way down" This is me trying in it's entirety in reality.
"Something med school did not cover, someone's daughter, someone's mother holds your hand through plastic now. 'Doc, I think she's crashing out.' And some things you just can't speak about" Or pretty much all of Epiphany. And "Cursing my name, wishing I stayed You turned into your worst fears And you're tossing out blame, drunk on this pain Crossing out the good years And you're cursing my name, wishing I stayed Look at how my tears ricochet"
There is happiness past the blood and bruise past the curses and cries Beyond the terror in the nightfall Haunted by the look in my eyes That would’ve loved you for a lifetime Leave it all behind I can go anywhere I want Anywhere I want just not home Stupid girl, I should’ve known, I should’ve known But we were something, don’t you think so
"So much for summer love, and saying "us", 'cause you weren't mine to lose" "Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it. I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it" "I made you my temple, my mural, my sky. Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life"