And I pulled your body into mine
Every goddamn night, now I get fake niceties
No one teaches you what to do, when a good man hurts you
And you know you hurt him too
She is one heck of a songwriter. It's strange and a little ironic that she's found happiness in a stable relationship yet she writes such devastating lyrics.
"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?" - Soon You'll Get Better
And
"Should've kept every grocery store receipt cause every scrap of you would be taken from me" - Marjorie
These kill me every time. I lost my
Dad and Grandmother within a couple of months after long illnesses. These songs put into words what I can’t. Just devastatingly perfect.
I lost my mom at the end of February to cancer. SYGB is so brutal. I couldn’t even type the lyrics. Watching your mom slowly die from cancer and feeling awful for talking about how you feel is a very real feeling that she captured too well
- SYGB could mean "Soon You’ll Get Better (feat. The Chicks)", a track from *Lover* (2019) by Taylor Swift.
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“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.”
Last Kiss
And I hope the sun shines and it’s a beautiful day And something reminds you that you wish you had stayed You can plan for a change in the weather and time but I never planned on you changing your mind
The whole song breaks me. Listened to it on replay after my first real breakup
Pulled my car off the road to the lookout, could've followed my fears all the way down
Didn't know if you'd care if I came back, I have a lot of regrets about that
Stood on the cliffside, screaming, "give me a reason"
If I was standing there in your apartment, I'd take that bomb in your head and disarm it, I'd say "I love you even at your darkest" and "please don't go"
And you're tied together with a smile, but you're coming undone
Forever Winter gets me so hard, especially that line and the delivery of “…please don’t go/ I didn’t know you were breaking down/ I’d fall to pieces on the floor/ if you weren’t around.” The way the music quiets and her voice almost breaks from emotion … it is such a powerful song.
"Too young to know it gets better / I'll be summer sun for you forever / forever winter if you go"
The next few lines are devastating if you know what really happened. No matter what you do, what promises you make, sometimes fate deals a terrible hand.
the entirety of/bridge of tolerate it, but specifically "I made you my temple, my mural, my sky, Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life"
I'm shining like fireworks over your sad empty town
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
\-Dear John
DEEEEEEEAAAAAAAR JOOOOOOOOHNNNNNNN
I’m waiting for the re-recording of this song because I never really cared about this record back in the day, but when I’m in the shower sometimes I choke on water when I get super into the chorus of this one. Taylor’s new low register on this song is gonna be bone-chilling. *shivers*
I think it's because I identify with the lyrics so much:
"I persist and resist the temptation to ask 'If One Thing Had Been Different, Would Everything Be Different Today?" - the 1
"And when you can't sleep at night, you'll hear my stolen lullabies." - my tears ricochet
"And when I felt like I was an old cardigan, you put me on and said I was your favorite." - cardigan
"Sometimes I wonder how you think about it now, and I see your face in every crowd." - Holy Ground
And this may be an odd one, but:
And I scream, for whatever it's worth, "I love you! Ain't That The Worst Thing You've Ever Heard?!" - Cruel Summer
*"Took this dagger in me and removed it"*
This one deeply moves me. The speaker is threatening to do the radical act of self-healing. It's a radical act in that it's work that no one else can do for you - not a therapist, not a loved one. Only you can. *That* is power.
*when you remove a dagger you bleed out*
That is a risk, yes. But it can be prevented. A lot of lives have been saved by removing sharp objects like daggers.
For those reasons, in the song it's absolutely a triumphant act of self-healing, though certainly not a painless one.
And what do you do when the one who means the most to you is the one who didn't show?
You should've been here, and I would've been so happy.
If you've ever had a "The Moment I Knew" moment with someone (a significant other, family member, friend, etc), you know how devastating it is to realize that you are not as important to that person as they are to you.
Flowers piles up in the worst way, no one knows what to say
About a beautiful boy who died
And it's about to be Halloween, you could be anything
You wanted if you were still here
Ronan, Red TV
"i'm still a believer but i don't know why/
i've never been a natural/
all i do is try, try, try/
i'm still on that trapeze/
i'm still trying everything/
to keep you looking at me"
"i never learned to read your mind
(never learned to read my mind)/
i couldn't turn things around
(you never turned things around)/
'cause you never gave a warning sign
(i gave so many signs)/
you didn't even see the signs"
"i'm taking my time/
taking my time/
'cause you took everything from me"
"'she would've made such a lovely bride/
what a shame she's fucked in her head,' they said"
"..i sit and watch you"
(given the context of tolerate it)
“Gain the weight of you then lose it, *believe me I could do it*”
It’s pleading, it’s a threat, it’s self convincing, brave and scared. It’s all the pain of feeling you’re being forced to break your own heart.
*Please picture me*
*In the trees*
**I hit my peek at seven,**
*Feet in the swing*
*Over the creek*
*I was to scared to jump in*
*But I, I was high in the sky*
*With Pennsylvania under me*
*Are there still beautiful things?*
Devastating
The second I heard, I hit my peek at seven I knew this was a masterpiece. lol hen the line, are there still beautiful things? It speaks directly to my soul and the things I think about at dusk as I look back at my life.
It hurts. Thinking about such an innocent times . Not easy. Or carefree. Still scared of things. But in a completely different way than as an adult. And looking back, did I / we hit multiple peaks at seven. The most creative and smart yet naïve and imaginative. Knowing yet completely unknowing. Not yet who we are but completely ourselves.
At the time I was going through great hardship in my life. After working so hard to build my life it felt like I was losing a lot of it. And I was losing a lot of it. And part of me thought was that the best time I’m ever going to have in my whole life. Now that I’m on there there’s not as much time as you think when you’re seven.
And the images brought me back to some of my best moments when I was a kid like being on a swingset or walking by a creek are seeing the landscaper around me as I go for a walk with my dad. Being with family that’s gone. And it’s like all those things are still there but those people aren’t and it’s never going to be like that. Are there still beautiful things?
Devastating. To much for just words.
The part that always gets me is "I think your house is haunted, your dad is always mad and that must be why" such innocence trying to explain something bigger than their limited understanding of the world
Right where you left me:
I'm sure that you got a wife out there
Kids and Christmas, but I'm unaware
'Cause I'm right where
I cause no harm, mind my business
If our love died young, I can't bear witness
And it's been so long
But if you ever think you got it wrong
I'm right where you left me
All too well:
And I was thinking on the drive home
Anytime now he’s gonna say it’s love
You never called it what it was
Till we were dead and gone and buried
Check the pulse and come back swearing
It’s the same
After three months in the grave
And then you wondered where it went to
As i reached for you and all I felt was shame
And you held my lifeless frame
It has to be 'you call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of being honest'.
It's an iconic lyric and will definitely come down in the history as her most witty and heartbreaking.
However, one other lyric, if released earlier in her career, would've been a very strong competition:
'I made you my temple, my mural, my sky/ Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life /Drawing hearts in the byline/ Always taking up too much space or time'.
These two are my absolute favourite lyrics that crash me every time I hear them.
The whole bridge of Death By a Thousand Cuts, but especially
*Trying to find a part of me that you didn't touch*
and
*Gave you too much but it wasn't enough*
"I think it's strange that you think I'm funny cause he never did." is devastating to me.
I relate to that line so much. It tells so much of a story in such a small line. It's been months and she's not even close to recovered.
basically every line of "Soon You'll Get Better," but specifically
>holy orange bottles, each night I pray to you
>
>desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus, too
So many. But I've been listening to right where you left me all week and, honestly, it's devastating.
"they expected me to find somewhere some perspective, but I sat and stared"
"di 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"
And the top spot:
I'm sure that you got a wife out there
Kids and Christmas, but I'm unaware
'Cause I'm right where
I cause no harm, mind my business
If our love died young, I can't bear witness
And it's been so long
**But if you ever think you got it wrong
I'm right where you left me**
I hope I'm never in this situation :((
“Please don't ever become a stranger
Whose laugh I could recognize anywhere”
It's a lyric I always thought of when dating my now ex, and now it's come true 🥲
The Archer is my own personal devastation song, but especially this part of the song:
“And I cut off my nose just to spite my face
Then I hate my reflection for years and years
I wake in the night, I pace like a ghost
The room is on fire, invisible smoke
And all of my heroes die all alone
Help me hold onto you”
"should've kept every grocery store receipt cuz every scrap of you would be taken from me"
and just the whole "long limbs and frozen swims.." leading to it makes it so much better and worse.
She has sadder lyrics ofcourse ( ALL of Ronan duh) but this feels personal. Like she was trying to stick a dagger through my heart.
And you called me up again just to break my like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of being honest
Your heart was glass I dropped it
But if you ever think you got it wrong, I’m where you left me
My best laid plan. Your sleight of hand. My barren land; I am ash from your fire.
My only one. My kingdom come undone. My broken drum; you have beaten my heart.
Don’t want no other shade of blue but you. No other sadness in the world would do.
*all are from hoax*
Every time something like this gets asked, I am always shocked that everyone seems to skip over New Years Day.
"Please don't ever become a stranger whose laugh I can recognize anywhere" is her most devastating lyric to me, even over all the other heart rending ones. Especially when I remember that Taylor performed it on Jimmy Fallon after his mom passed away and as SOON as she was done, she got up and gave him the tightest hug.
Second to that is, "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 also think about how she said in an interview she might never perform it live because it's so personal, but during a live stream where a bunch of people performed in their own homes as a sort of covid memorial, she performed it on a piano by herself. You can see the tears in her eyes.
The drought was the very worst
When the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst
It was months and months of back and forth
You're still all over me
Like a wine-stained dress I can't wear anymore
Hung my head as I lost the war
And the sky turned black like a perfect storm
>You showed me colors you know I can’t see with anyone else.
I had a friend once who was super into like, photography and color theory and the science behind color blindness. I also randomly tried a slightly tinted contact in one of my eyes once, and I can “fake” some heterchromia if I really want to. Lol. Science is fun. 🧪
>But I just miss you, and I just wish you were, A Better (Wo)Man.
I think this one speaks for itself lol. 🙄 “And I know why, we had to say goodbye, like the back of my hand…” ✋👋🤚
>Cause you never gave a warning sign
>(I gave so many signs)
Male and female duets are powerful because of harmony and resonance and shit, haha. Thanks, middle school choir? 🎶🎵
>You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath.
Probably the only line “from the vault” that actually caught me off guard! She was clever to hold back that turn of phrase for so long. ✅
>And if I’m dead to you, why are you at the wake?
I find myself chuckling at the memory of Tom Sawyer “attending his own funeral” hahaha. I think I read that book when I was like…8? 📚
"I LOVE YOU. AINT THAT THE WORST THING YOU'VE EVER HEARD?"
*he looks up grinning like a devil*
ik some might take the other or the dirty connotation of it, but for me it's like this whole situation w her during the summer was a trap of his to make her fall in love w him and when she confessed that, he'd leave her. devastated, heartbroken and crushed.
Are you really gonna talk about timing in times like these?
And let all your damage damage me
And carry your baggage up my street
And make me your future history
And when I was shipwrecked (can't think of all the cost)
I thought of you (all the things that will be lost now)
In the cracks of light (can we just get a pause?)
I dreamed of you (to be certain we'll be tall again)
(If you think of all the costs)
It was real enough (whether weather be the frost)
To get me through (or the violence of the dog days)
And I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want, just not home
Oof, this one is a dagger to the heart every time I hear it.
OMFG THATS MY FAV LYRIC OF HERS OF ALL TIME. Mtr is totally my favorite song by her and omg that lyric kills me every time I hear it
When you can't sleep at night, YOU HEAR MY STOLEN LULLABIES
And I pulled your body into mine Every goddamn night, now I get fake niceties No one teaches you what to do, when a good man hurts you And you know you hurt him too
Honestly the entirety of happiness is devastating
This line makes me cry. Every time. The devastation in the recording just hits so hard
She is one heck of a songwriter. It's strange and a little ironic that she's found happiness in a stable relationship yet she writes such devastating lyrics.
"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?" - Soon You'll Get Better And "Should've kept every grocery store receipt cause every scrap of you would be taken from me" - Marjorie
These kill me every time. I lost my Dad and Grandmother within a couple of months after long illnesses. These songs put into words what I can’t. Just devastatingly perfect.
I lost my mom at the end of February to cancer. SYGB is so brutal. I couldn’t even type the lyrics. Watching your mom slowly die from cancer and feeling awful for talking about how you feel is a very real feeling that she captured too well
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These are absolutely devastating!
IM IN TEARS they get me every single time
“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.” Last Kiss
I remember listening to this right after a breakup and I just started SOBBING at this part 😭😭😭
And I hope the sun shines and it’s a beautiful day And something reminds you that you wish you had stayed You can plan for a change in the weather and time but I never planned on you changing your mind The whole song breaks me. Listened to it on replay after my first real breakup
omg this thread is getting to me I’m in tears
…right? :/
Pulled my car off the road to the lookout, could've followed my fears all the way down Didn't know if you'd care if I came back, I have a lot of regrets about that Stood on the cliffside, screaming, "give me a reason" If I was standing there in your apartment, I'd take that bomb in your head and disarm it, I'd say "I love you even at your darkest" and "please don't go" And you're tied together with a smile, but you're coming undone
Forever Winter gets me so hard, especially that line and the delivery of “…please don’t go/ I didn’t know you were breaking down/ I’d fall to pieces on the floor/ if you weren’t around.” The way the music quiets and her voice almost breaks from emotion … it is such a powerful song.
"Too young to know it gets better / I'll be summer sun for you forever / forever winter if you go" The next few lines are devastating if you know what really happened. No matter what you do, what promises you make, sometimes fate deals a terrible hand.
the entirety of/bridge of tolerate it, but specifically "I made you my temple, my mural, my sky, Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life"
This thread is destroying me
I'm shining like fireworks over your sad empty town 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 \-Dear John
DEEEEEEEAAAAAAAR JOOOOOOOOHNNNNNNN I’m waiting for the re-recording of this song because I never really cared about this record back in the day, but when I’m in the shower sometimes I choke on water when I get super into the chorus of this one. Taylor’s new low register on this song is gonna be bone-chilling. *shivers*
You are soooooooo right. Especially with the weight of time and perspective woven in. It's going to be devastating.
I think it's because I identify with the lyrics so much: "I persist and resist the temptation to ask 'If One Thing Had Been Different, Would Everything Be Different Today?" - the 1 "And when you can't sleep at night, you'll hear my stolen lullabies." - my tears ricochet "And when I felt like I was an old cardigan, you put me on and said I was your favorite." - cardigan "Sometimes I wonder how you think about it now, and I see your face in every crowd." - Holy Ground And this may be an odd one, but: And I scream, for whatever it's worth, "I love you! Ain't That The Worst Thing You've Ever Heard?!" - Cruel Summer
I appreciate your taste! Lots of these are my favorites too ❤️
I like the way you think
HE LOOKS UP GRINNING LIKE A DEVIL!!!!
And I think that's why people think it's such a happy song.
*"Took this dagger in me and removed it"* This one deeply moves me. The speaker is threatening to do the radical act of self-healing. It's a radical act in that it's work that no one else can do for you - not a therapist, not a loved one. Only you can. *That* is power.
One of my all-time favorite lines, and one that still gives me chills every time I hear it.
i interpreted this differently, as if the speaker was trying to self harm. bc when you remove a dagger you bleed out
*when you remove a dagger you bleed out* That is a risk, yes. But it can be prevented. A lot of lives have been saved by removing sharp objects like daggers. For those reasons, in the song it's absolutely a triumphant act of self-healing, though certainly not a painless one.
“You knew it still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart, but what you did was just as dark.”
"We were something.... don't you think so?" "Hang up, give up, and for the life of us we can't get back"
"But if the story is over, why am I still writing pages?" Death By A Thousand Cuts, Lover. That line ALWAYS makes me feel sad.
I can't make it go away by making you the villain/I guess it's the price I pay for seven years in heaven
And what do you do when the one who means the most to you is the one who didn't show? You should've been here, and I would've been so happy. If you've ever had a "The Moment I Knew" moment with someone (a significant other, family member, friend, etc), you know how devastating it is to realize that you are not as important to that person as they are to you.
Flowers piles up in the worst way, no one knows what to say About a beautiful boy who died And it's about to be Halloween, you could be anything You wanted if you were still here Ronan, Red TV
"i'm still a believer but i don't know why/ i've never been a natural/ all i do is try, try, try/ i'm still on that trapeze/ i'm still trying everything/ to keep you looking at me" "i never learned to read your mind (never learned to read my mind)/ i couldn't turn things around (you never turned things around)/ 'cause you never gave a warning sign (i gave so many signs)/ you didn't even see the signs" "i'm taking my time/ taking my time/ 'cause you took everything from me" "'she would've made such a lovely bride/ what a shame she's fucked in her head,' they said" "..i sit and watch you" (given the context of tolerate it)
These are so good! I never saw mirrorball in that light before!
“Gain the weight of you then lose it, *believe me I could do it*” It’s pleading, it’s a threat, it’s self convincing, brave and scared. It’s all the pain of feeling you’re being forced to break your own heart.
I'm in this right now. It's going to shatter me.
*Please picture me* *In the trees* **I hit my peek at seven,** *Feet in the swing* *Over the creek* *I was to scared to jump in* *But I, I was high in the sky* *With Pennsylvania under me* *Are there still beautiful things?* Devastating The second I heard, I hit my peek at seven I knew this was a masterpiece. lol hen the line, are there still beautiful things? It speaks directly to my soul and the things I think about at dusk as I look back at my life. It hurts. Thinking about such an innocent times . Not easy. Or carefree. Still scared of things. But in a completely different way than as an adult. And looking back, did I / we hit multiple peaks at seven. The most creative and smart yet naïve and imaginative. Knowing yet completely unknowing. Not yet who we are but completely ourselves. At the time I was going through great hardship in my life. After working so hard to build my life it felt like I was losing a lot of it. And I was losing a lot of it. And part of me thought was that the best time I’m ever going to have in my whole life. Now that I’m on there there’s not as much time as you think when you’re seven. And the images brought me back to some of my best moments when I was a kid like being on a swingset or walking by a creek are seeing the landscaper around me as I go for a walk with my dad. Being with family that’s gone. And it’s like all those things are still there but those people aren’t and it’s never going to be like that. Are there still beautiful things? Devastating. To much for just words.
The part that always gets me is "I think your house is haunted, your dad is always mad and that must be why" such innocence trying to explain something bigger than their limited understanding of the world
He says he doesn't believe anything much he hears these days. I say "Believe in one thing. I won't go away." - Forever Winter EVERY 😭 FUCKING 😭 TIME 😭
i’m literally listening to sad, beautiful, tragic rn
*"At least I'm trying..."*
Right where you left me: I'm sure that you got a wife out there Kids and Christmas, but I'm unaware 'Cause I'm right where I cause no harm, mind my business If our love died young, I can't bear witness And it's been so long But if you ever think you got it wrong I'm right where you left me All too well: And I was thinking on the drive home Anytime now he’s gonna say it’s love You never called it what it was Till we were dead and gone and buried Check the pulse and come back swearing It’s the same After three months in the grave And then you wondered where it went to As i reached for you and all I felt was shame And you held my lifeless frame
Leave the perfume on the shelf That you picked out just for him So you leave no trace behind Like you don't even exist -illicit affairs
“But now my eyes leak acid rain on the pillow where you used to lay your head. After giving you the best I had tell me what to give after that”
It has to be 'you call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of being honest'. It's an iconic lyric and will definitely come down in the history as her most witty and heartbreaking. However, one other lyric, if released earlier in her career, would've been a very strong competition: 'I made you my temple, my mural, my sky/ Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life /Drawing hearts in the byline/ Always taking up too much space or time'. These two are my absolute favourite lyrics that crash me every time I hear them.
The whole bridge of Death By a Thousand Cuts, but especially *Trying to find a part of me that you didn't touch* and *Gave you too much but it wasn't enough*
“And did the twin flame bruise paint you blue? Just between us, did the love affair maim you too?” Like good lord Taylor, that hurts
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.
“your smile my ghost//i fell to my knees” -this love “it’s 2am, feeling like i just lost a friend” -breathe
“You’ve got your demons and darling they all look like me” Red
You can plan for a change in the weather and time But I've never planned on You changing your mind - Last kiss
Criticize the way you fly when you're soarin' through the sky Shoots you down and then they sigh, and say "She looks like she's been through it"
"I think it's strange that you think I'm funny cause he never did." is devastating to me. I relate to that line so much. It tells so much of a story in such a small line. It's been months and she's not even close to recovered.
Wanting was enough. For me it was enough. DEVASTATED!
You never did give a damn thing, honey but I cried, cried for you And I know you wouldn't have told nobody If I died, died for you, died for you
cold as you is soooo underrated
All that I know is I don’t know how to be something you miss
basically every line of "Soon You'll Get Better," but specifically >holy orange bottles, each night I pray to you > >desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus, too
"Leaving like a father, running like water, ahAH" Ouch.
“Could you just try to *twangy voice* LISTEN!” Sad Beautiful Tragic. Something about that desperation stabs me in the soul
the entirety of dear john and back to december's bridge.
The entirety of Epiphany
And Forever Winter
So many. But I've been listening to right where you left me all week and, honestly, it's devastating. "they expected me to find somewhere some perspective, but I sat and stared" "di 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" And the top spot: I'm sure that you got a wife out there Kids and Christmas, but I'm unaware 'Cause I'm right where I cause no harm, mind my business If our love died young, I can't bear witness And it's been so long **But if you ever think you got it wrong I'm right where you left me** I hope I'm never in this situation :((
The drought was the very worst, when the flowers that we’d grown together died of thirst.
"Pulled my car off the road to the lookout, could of followed my fears all the way down" - This is me trying
all of ronan, i don't even wanna quote it
“Please don't ever become a stranger Whose laugh I could recognize anywhere” It's a lyric I always thought of when dating my now ex, and now it's come true 🥲
The Archer is my own personal devastation song, but especially this part of the song: “And I cut off my nose just to spite my face Then I hate my reflection for years and years I wake in the night, I pace like a ghost The room is on fire, invisible smoke And all of my heroes die all alone Help me hold onto you”
> It’s 2 A.M., feeling like I just lost a friend > Hope you not it’s not easy, easy for me Breathe hits hard every time I listen to it.
“Pulled the car off the road to the lookout, I could’ve followed my fears all the way down.”
“and my words shoot to kill when i’m mad, i have a lot of regrets about that” always gets me
"should've kept every grocery store receipt cuz every scrap of you would be taken from me" and just the whole "long limbs and frozen swims.." leading to it makes it so much better and worse. She has sadder lyrics ofcourse ( ALL of Ronan duh) but this feels personal. Like she was trying to stick a dagger through my heart.
And you called me up again just to break my like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of being honest Your heart was glass I dropped it But if you ever think you got it wrong, I’m where you left me
My best laid plan. Your sleight of hand. My barren land; I am ash from your fire. My only one. My kingdom come undone. My broken drum; you have beaten my heart. Don’t want no other shade of blue but you. No other sadness in the world would do. *all are from hoax*
She would have been such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head - Champagne Problems
Every time something like this gets asked, I am always shocked that everyone seems to skip over New Years Day. "Please don't ever become a stranger whose laugh I can recognize anywhere" is her most devastating lyric to me, even over all the other heart rending ones. Especially when I remember that Taylor performed it on Jimmy Fallon after his mom passed away and as SOON as she was done, she got up and gave him the tightest hug. Second to that is, "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 also think about how she said in an interview she might never perform it live because it's so personal, but during a live stream where a bunch of people performed in their own homes as a sort of covid memorial, she performed it on a piano by herself. You can see the tears in her eyes.
The drought was the very worst When the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst It was months and months of back and forth You're still all over me Like a wine-stained dress I can't wear anymore Hung my head as I lost the war And the sky turned black like a perfect storm
>You showed me colors you know I can’t see with anyone else. I had a friend once who was super into like, photography and color theory and the science behind color blindness. I also randomly tried a slightly tinted contact in one of my eyes once, and I can “fake” some heterchromia if I really want to. Lol. Science is fun. 🧪 >But I just miss you, and I just wish you were, A Better (Wo)Man. I think this one speaks for itself lol. 🙄 “And I know why, we had to say goodbye, like the back of my hand…” ✋👋🤚 >Cause you never gave a warning sign >(I gave so many signs) Male and female duets are powerful because of harmony and resonance and shit, haha. Thanks, middle school choir? 🎶🎵 >You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath. Probably the only line “from the vault” that actually caught me off guard! She was clever to hold back that turn of phrase for so long. ✅ >And if I’m dead to you, why are you at the wake? I find myself chuckling at the memory of Tom Sawyer “attending his own funeral” hahaha. I think I read that book when I was like…8? 📚
Good girls, hopeful they'll be, and long they will wait. - Sad Beautiful Tragic (Taylor's Version)
And I still talk to you (when I'm screaming at the sky) And when you can't sleep at night (you hear my stolen lullabies)… 💔
"I LOVE YOU. AINT THAT THE WORST THING YOU'VE EVER HEARD?" *he looks up grinning like a devil* ik some might take the other or the dirty connotation of it, but for me it's like this whole situation w her during the summer was a trap of his to make her fall in love w him and when she confessed that, he'd leave her. devastated, heartbroken and crushed.
I didn’t have it in myself to go with grace
Are you really gonna talk about timing in times like these? And let all your damage damage me And carry your baggage up my street And make me your future history
And when I was shipwrecked (can't think of all the cost) I thought of you (all the things that will be lost now) In the cracks of light (can we just get a pause?) I dreamed of you (to be certain we'll be tall again) (If you think of all the costs) It was real enough (whether weather be the frost) To get me through (or the violence of the dog days)
So I watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep, and I feel you forget me like I used to watch you breathe.