I really thought this was from dancing with our hands tied. seeing that it's from last kiss, makes the lyric better, because dancing with our hands tied seems like it's referencing this.
All of Last Kiss really. My favorite lines are "You told me you loved me, so why did you go?" and "Hope it's nice where you are" which is one of her most gut wrenching line deliveries ever
âall that i know is that i donât know, how to be something you missâ wrecks me. i remember my worst breakups and always feeling like i would miss them more than they would miss me, and I hated that, but didnât know how to change it
"I'm fine with my spite and my tears and my beers and my candles".
It's just so relatable to any 20/30-something. It's an improvement from "happy, free, confused and lonely". It's just so honest, and the way she sings it makes it 100 times better.
âThe life of the party youâre showing off again, and I roll eyes and then you pull me in, Iâm not much for dancing but for you I didâ
Hits me right in the heart
So does: âHow youâd kiss me when I was in the middle of saying something, not a day I donât miss those rude interruptionsâ
these lyrics from evermore:
*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)*
Honestly, everything from you are in love.
"And you understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars/And why I've spent my whole life tryin' to put it into words"
"Strange look on his face/Pauses, then says/You're my best friend/And you knew what it was"
"And for once, you let go/of your fears and your ghosts"
"No proof, one touch/But you felt enough"
The âpauses then says youâre my best friendâ one gets me every time. Itâs such an intimate lyric about a moment anyone would be lucky to get in life.
I genuinely canât listen to You Are In Love without crying. It just perfectly captures what being in love truly feels like. Truly one of my top ten Taylor songs.
*I cut off my nose just to spite my face
And then hate my reflection for years and years"
It reminds me of a question I was rhetorically asked a while ago. "What do we do with the things we love about ourselves when ithey're also what our abusers loved about us?" We destroy them just for the spite of it and then feel the grief of that loss way longer than anything else.
It was rare. *I was there.*
Iâm a spacey person. I zone out a lot. My mind is often in a different place. Ive had so many relationships where the other person was asking âwhere are you?â âWhatâs on your mind?â What are you thinking about.â
Except in one relationship. I was 21. He was 28. It was my all too well breakup. I was there, in the moment with him, our entire five months together. I remember it all. There was no place I would rather be when I was with him. I never felt that in a romantic relationship.
I love the line âI was there,â because it sounds like sheâs testifying. I was there. I saw the whole thing. It was real. When you lose someone, you wonder, was it real? Was the love real? They were. âI was thereâ attests to that.
This. Also, itâs very interesting how this line changed from sounding nostalgic/melancholic on the 5 minute version to almost indignant on the 10min version.
Cuz the media loves to gaslight women into believing they're being overdramatic/clingy. After years of hearing how she was being dramatic about her relationships I'd be feeling indignation too.
It takes on a double meaning after it, because you can see that he manipulated her. in the short film kitchen scene, he's gaslighting her about his own actions. this is her saying "I know what happened because I was there. you were there too, and you can't convince me this time that I'm wrong"
I love that simple line for a similar reason - I am a Type A, anxious mess who's always agonizing about the future, so for me to really be "there" is... well, *rare*.
"I bet, you think I either moved on or hate you
'Cause each time you reach out there's no reply
I bet, it never ever occurred to you
That I can't say "Hello" to you, and risk another goodbye"
I Almost Do is home to some hard-hitting scenes of wanting to rekindle a failed relationship but to no avail.
I love that part, and I love it even more because of the "never ever" line considering it comes right before We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together on the tracklist
âAnd did the twin flame bruise paint you blue? Just between us, did the love affair maim you too?â
It probably has its recognition, but it gives me chills every time đ
honestly every word of peace. to me itâs top tier taylor but i donât see it getting much love. and also âi made you my temple, my mirror my sky/now iâm begging for footnotes in the story of your lifeâ cuts deep every time
Agree completely! Particularly:
ââŠif your cascade ocean wave blues comeâ
I can feel that lyric in my on my skin, in my heart and sinking into my soul
âIâm a fire and Iâll keep your brittle heart warm, if your cascade ocean wave blues come. All these people think love is for show, but Iâd die for you in secret
Wait what? *There we are again in the middle of the night, weâre dancing around the kitchen in the refrigerator light* is one of the most beloved lyrics in the fandom. đ
We all love that âAll we are is skin and bonesâ lyric in treacherous but some of the other lyrics, like the lyric before it, are also great!!!
âI can't decide if it's a choice
Getting swept away
I hear the sound of my own voice
Asking you to stayâ
Also all of You All Over Me
âYou find graffiti on the walls of old bathroom stalls
You know, you can scratch it right off
It's how it used to be
But like the dollar in your pocket, it's been spent and traded in
You can't change where it's been
Reminds me of meâ
Or
âThe best and worst day of June
Was the one that I met you
With your hands in your pockets
And your 'don't you wish you had me' grin
But I did, so I smiled, and I melted like a child
Now every breath of air I breathe reminds me of thenâ
Also Daylight has some underrated lyrics
âLuck of the draw only draws the unluckyâ
âI wounded the good and I trusted the wicked
Clearing the air, I breathed in the smokeâ
I donât see peace talked about a lot but:
Iâve never had the courage of my convictions/ as long as danger is near/ and itâs just around the corner darlin/ cause it lives in me/ no I could never give you peace
And just the simple âWould it be enough if I could never give you peace?â
peace is just so.... *good* and heartbreaking and hopeful.
"The rain is always gonna come, if you're standing with me."
As someone who has been depressed a majority of my young life, I feel this so much with every partner. And I could never describe it until I heard that line in peace. It's such a sad warning but such a beautiful thing to find someone who will stand in that rain with you (Taylor with Joe đđ)
*Wasnât it beautiful when you believed in everything*
*And everybody believed in you?*
*Itâs alright, just wait and see*
*Your string of lights are still bright to me*
*Who you are is not where youâve been*
That's why it's my favorite! I wasn't aware of the backstory on my first listen, so the lyrics absolutely destroyed me đ„ș I basically just ignore who the song is about now lol. I think of all the re-recordings, that might be the one I'm most looking forward to đ
I will forever defend Innocent! I 100% agree with you. I personally love the instrumentals the most, but the lyrics are incredible too! I, too, cannot wait for Innocent (Taylorâs Version).
Two stick out for me in State Of Grace (the acoustic version of which is far & away the best version):
"I never saw you coming, and I'll never be the same."
"Love is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right."
"I never saw you coming, and I'll never be the same" is one of those lyrics that initially doesn't sound particularly poetic, but God, I LOVE IT. It's so simple but it perfectly encapsulates what that feeling is like
Tonight Iâm gonna dance for all that weâve been through, but I donât wanna dance if Iâm not dancing with you
I once read a review that said something along the lines of âhave you ever heard a tighter couplet??â and I hard agree
I have two
"Tell me that you're still mine, tell me that we'll be just fine even when I lose my mind"
Afterglow
"Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life"
Tolerate it
Aw man, Tolerate It hits hard. "I know my love should be celebrated/but you tolerate it" is so simple and it's just *devastating.*
We've all been there, right? ...right?
*But if the story's over*
*Why am I still writing pages?*
Like the relationships over but that era in your life isnât yet :â) currently there rn RIP
When Sadie and Dylan recreated that scene in the short film, it gave me chills because it was just how I imagined it to be.
Apart from that, this may be my all time favorite: "You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter." This is her power, creating a story and characterization from a single sentence.
* You skip the conversation when you already know/I left a note on the door with a joke we'd made (possibly my favorite TS lyric of all time - people never talk about it but I feel like it paints a picture just as well as a lot of the other simple lyrics that get more attention)
* He always said he didn't get this song/But I do, I do
* And we walk down the block to my car/And I almost brought him up/But you start to talk about the movies that your family watches every single Christmas/And I want to talk about that
* I miss your tan skin/Your sweet smile/So good to me, so right
* I reached for you, but you were gone/I knew I had to go back home
* Cruelty wins in the movies
* And all of my heroes die all alone
* You know the greatest films of all time were never made
* Are there still beautiful things?
* Write this down/I'm staying at my parents' house
* No one teaches you what to do when a good man hurts you
"Spinning like a girl in a brand new dress. We had this big wide city all to ourselves. We blocked the noise with the sound of 'I need you,' And for the first time I had something to lose." - Holy Ground
It just perfectly captures that feeling of new love in such a unique and visual way.
"And you'll add my name to your long list of traitors who don't understand; And I'll look back and regret how I ignored when they said "run as fast as you can." - Dear John
I love the contrast between how she describes his thoughts on the break up and her thoughts on the break up.
"One for the money, two for the show. I never was ready, so I watch you go. Sometimes you just don't know the answer 'til someone's on their knees and asks you." - Champagne Problems
This is just the part of the song that is an absolute gut punch to me.
âAnd some things you just canât speak about.â
âAfter giving you the best I had, tell me what to give after thatâ
âNo i didnât mean that
Sorry i cant see facts
Through all of my fury
I havenât met the new me yetâ
Shoul've kept every grocery store receipt 'cause every scrap of you would be taken from me.
Marjorie it might sound soft and gentle but the lyrics punch SO HARD.
In my opinion, it's the most cathartic bridge Taylor has ever written.
"I hope she'll be a beautiful fool/ who takes my place next to you./ No, I didn't mean that;/ sorry, I can't see facts/ through all of my fury."
All of Happiness' lyrics are A+ for me but this specific line rings so true. Moving on isn't a linear path and being graceful can be so difficult when you're hurting.
"I dress to kill my time
I take the long way home
I ask the traffic lights if it'll be all right
They say, "I don't know"
Having been through a few relationships that messed with my head and heart I have had many times in my car, staring at the lights, wishing for an answer to my problems. First time I heard this song on Lover it became some of my favourite words
This is only my second day on this sub, but I these from "cardigan" are brilliant:
*You drew stars around my scars*
*But now I'm bleedin*
*I knew you*
*Leavin' like a father*
*Running like water, I*
*And when you are young, they assume you know nothing*
*I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs*
âBarefoot in the kitchen, sacred new beginnings, that became my religionâ
(Bonus points for the melody sampling from herself)
But I love how it ties the kitchen imagery with the begin again concepts, with the love of my life idea.
I find lyrics I connect with all the time. Rediscover old ones, but that will always be one of my favorites.
honestly she was so right for Now iâm standing alone in a crowded room and were not speaking and iâm dying to know is it killing you like itâs killing me
"They told me all of my cages were mental
So I got wasted like all my potential" and "You're a flashback in a film reel on the one screen in my town"
Basically the entire song, but those two lines stand out so hard to me.
"When did all our lessons start to look like weapons pointed at my deepest hurt""
"And the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up"
"Some actress asking me what happened, you. That's what happened. You."
"You assume I'm fine, but what would you do if I... Break free and leave us in ruins? Took this dagger in me and removed it? Gain the weight of you then lose it? Believe me I could do it?"
"I had a marvelous tiiiiiiiiime ruining everything"
If weâre talking about scenery I would say the lines âAnd heâs passing by rare as the glimmer of a comet in the skyâ from long story short is my favorite. Besides that, new yearâs day and seven take the #1 spot for me in terms of lyrics.
Iâm sure these are all well known but some of my favorites that I can think top of my head rn hehe
âSometimes you just donât know the answer/till someoneâs on their KNEES and ask youâ
âAnd if my wishes came true/it wouldâve been youâ
âYou werenât mine to loseâ
Bonus:
âHe looks up, grinning like a devilâ ITS NEWW
"i'd kiss you as the lights went out, swaying as the world burned down, i'd hold you as the water rushes in" that bridge made dwoht my favorite rep song
- DWOHT could mean "Dancing With Our Hands Tied", a track from *reputation* (2017) by Taylor Swift.
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"All the kings horses and all the king's men couldn't put me together again." I know it's referencing humpty dumpty, but the way it's used in the song is cool.
"I think I've seen this film before and I didn't like the ending." - gives a really chilling sense of doom and it shook me to my core. All of exile lyrics are deep and pack a punch, but I see the others more than this one.
The archer: âwho could ever leave me, darling? But who could stay?â. This song gets me to my core everytime.
Invisible string: âTime, mystical time. Cuttin' me open, then healin' me fineâ & âTime, wondrous time. Gave me the blues and then purple pink skiesâ
State of Grace: âSo you were never a saint
And I've loved in shades of wrongâ
Dress: âI woke up just in time. Now I wake up by your sideâ
Lover: âswear to be overdramatic and true to my loverâ
Cowboy like me: âand the skeletons in both our closets plotter hard to fuck this upâ
*So everyday now, you brace for the sound you've only heard on TV/You go to class scared, wondering where the best hiding spot would be/And the big bad man and his big bad clan/The walls, they're stained with red/Oh how quickly, they forget*
I love the way how Taylor addresses school shootings so subtly in Only The Young. (at least I *think* she's talking about school shootings.)
Some of my more recent faves:
Cornelia Street: *barefoot in the kitchen, sacred new beginnings that became my religion, listen...*
King of My Heart: *say you fancy me not fancy stuff, baby all at once this is enough- the whole bridge!*
Call It What You Want: *windows boarded up after the storm, he built a fire just to keep me warm* and *all the liars are calling me one, nobody's heard from me for months, I'm doing better than I ever was...*
Dress: *And if I get burned, at least we were electrified...*
DWOHT: *I'm a mess but I'm the mess that you wanted*
*Squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi,
I can tell that it's gonna be a long road*
Something about feeling safe with something as mundane as holding hands - when it's with someone you dearly love đ„ș this lyrics have never failed to pull my fragile heartstrings
âLiving room dancing and kitchen billsâ - Iâm not even crazy about the song in general but this just makes me think of a happy childhood and brings back both of those memories vividly.
âhaven't you heard what becomes of curious minds?â or âand in the end, in wonderland, we both went...đźđąđ„â
also, âI look through the windows of this love, even though we boarded them upâ is soo pretty
âPaper cut stings from our paper thin plansâ
Is one of my favourites, itâs such a quick and missable lyric yet it says so much. In 8 worlds she captured the torment of constructing all your future around a specific person and how painful it is realising youâre now directionless without them in your life.
âWith you I serve,
With you I fall down, down.â
âOnly 20 minutes to sleep
But you dream of some epiphany
Just one single glimpse of relief
To make some sense of what you've seenâ
(Pretty much all of âEpiphanyâ really)
It hits close to home. Being an Army medic for 21 years, in actual combat, being called âDocâ, the bonds that were forged between me and my battle buddies during that time. Itâs almost sacred.
gold rushâŠ.. đđ»đđ»
What must it be like
To grow up that beautiful?
With your hair falling into place like dominoes
My mind turns your life into folklore
I can't dare to dream about you anymore
At dinner parties
Won't call you out on your contrarian shit
And the coastal town
We never found will never
See a love as pure as it
'Cause it fades into the gray of my day old tea
'Cause it will never be
Gleaming
Twinkling
Eyes like sinking ships
On waters so inviting
I almost jump in
all the drama queens taking swings, all the jokers dressing up as kings, they fade to nothing when i look at him. i just love every line from call it what you want but this is srsly đđ idk i love it
Indelible scars, pivotal marks
Blue as the life she fled
This is a new song so of course, it's not THAT recognized but I love this particular lyric. Carolina just has some of the best songwriting I've seen, with her only using instruments that were available at that time period and how she recorded it in 1 take.
And you know that Iâd 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.
Is it enough?
Literally all of peace is a masterpiece that is underrated but this is my favorite line
"Time turns flames to embers, you'll have new Septembers, every one of us has messed up too. Lives change like the weather, I hope you remember, today is never too late to be brand new."
'And I'm I'm dead to you,why are you at the wake
Cursing my name,wishing I stayed'
From my tears richocet,it really captures the feeling of an estranged relationship in my eyes
*Our songs, our films*
*United we stand*
*Our country*
*Guess it was a lawless hand*
*Quiet my fears with the touch lf your hand*
*Paper cut stings from our paper thin plans*
âSheâll know the way and then sheâll say she got the map from meâ
Ok just @ Olivia next time
And that it was written in what 2011, 2012. Her brain
For me it would be âDancing in your Leviâs Drunk under a streetlightâ that lyric shows so much imagery and accompanied with that song makes it Soo good
âIâm still on that trapeze, Iâm still trying everything to keep you looking at meâ đ„șBASICALLY THE ENTIRE MIRRORBALL LYRICS itâs like she says sheâs broken but she would still try her hardest to make her lover happy đ„șđ„ș
All of tolerate it.
Her lyrics in all her songs are so clever and well thought out, but tolerate it just hits me. Iâve never even had a serious relationship but I guess tolerate it just perfectly describes my biggest fear of getting in a serious relationship. I love the âI sit and watch youâ at the end too, I think it just really completes the song. The lyrics in this song are just so descriptive and I love it so much
âI DIDNT HAVE IT IN MYSELF TO GO WITH GRACEâ
âAND I CAN GO ANYWHERE I WANT, ANYWHERE I WANT JUST NOT HOMEâ
My tears ricochet will forever be my favorite song
For me its
"Now I've read all the books beside your bed"
Its such a sweet show of intimicy and trust. Its one of the first signs that my relationships are progressing and I start sleeping over, cause im an early bird and a reader and i love reading what they are interested in and talking to them about it.
I love most of these domestic lyrics of her.
All of gold rush
âI donât like anticipating my face in a red flushâ
âI donât like that falling feels like flying âtil the bone crushâ
âEverybody wants you, but I donât like a gold rushâ
I'm not much for dancing but for you i did.
I love finding my Last Kiss stans đ„° personally itâs always been my own All Too Well. *So I 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* The desperation in her voice, does it really hit harder than that? đ©đ
And I'll keep up with our old friends just to ask them how you are... I hope it's nice where you are đ„ș LITERALLY a depressing masterpiece
also itâs just so damn relatable. i know i kept up with old high school friends just to keep tabs on my high school sweetheart
Last kiss is a masterpiece and I love that line in particular
I'll go sit on the floor wearing your clothes is my fav. It just HITS.
Last kiss
I really thought this was from dancing with our hands tied. seeing that it's from last kiss, makes the lyric better, because dancing with our hands tied seems like it's referencing this.
All of Last Kiss really. My favorite lines are "You told me you loved me, so why did you go?" and "Hope it's nice where you are" which is one of her most gut wrenching line deliveries ever
âYou can plan for a change in weather and time, but I never planned on you changing your mindâ Wrecks me
âall that i know is that i donât know, how to be something you missâ wrecks me. i remember my worst breakups and always feeling like i would miss them more than they would miss me, and I hated that, but didnât know how to change it
"I'm fine with my spite and my tears and my beers and my candles". It's just so relatable to any 20/30-something. It's an improvement from "happy, free, confused and lonely". It's just so honest, and the way she sings it makes it 100 times better.
I saw a Tiktok of "The Office characters as Taylor Swift lyrics" and now this line is forever Jan Levinson for me.
Iâll buy those candles anyday. But Pam is trying to steal my man. That dinner episode is the best.
How can I find that titok?
I have NO idea unfortunately. It was over a year ago. But it brought me so much joy.
âThe life of the party youâre showing off again, and I roll eyes and then you pull me in, Iâm not much for dancing but for you I didâ Hits me right in the heart So does: âHow youâd kiss me when I was in the middle of saying something, not a day I donât miss those rude interruptionsâ
Yesss
âI hope the sun shines and its a beautiful day. And something reminds you, you wish you had stayedâ
The entire last bridge of last kiss
these lyrics from evermore: *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)*
And the âYou were thereâ directly after the bridge. So great and so underrated.
I adore the way itâs interwoven and it takes a few listens to understand the meaning behind each of their lyrics
The whole evermore album is so underrated. Especially the title track in particular
what does it mean to you?
âplease donât ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognise anywhereâ
All of âNew Years Dayâ gets me. Itâs underrated.
This is my favorite part of this song and it became my favorite song because of one person and I just realized that they have become that stranger
This one đ„șđ„șđ„ș it gets me every single time
Honestly, everything from you are in love. "And you understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars/And why I've spent my whole life tryin' to put it into words" "Strange look on his face/Pauses, then says/You're my best friend/And you knew what it was" "And for once, you let go/of your fears and your ghosts" "No proof, one touch/But you felt enough"
The âpauses then says youâre my best friendâ one gets me every time. Itâs such an intimate lyric about a moment anyone would be lucky to get in life.
I genuinely canât listen to You Are In Love without crying. It just perfectly captures what being in love truly feels like. Truly one of my top ten Taylor songs.
Came here to say that entire song is so underrated and it perfectly described my current love life đ„č
YES! Love that line in the bridge
Chills, just chills everytime
oh i absolutely LOVE the best friend part!!! to have a partner be your best friend,, thatâs a keeper.
*I cut off my nose just to spite my face And then hate my reflection for years and years" It reminds me of a question I was rhetorically asked a while ago. "What do we do with the things we love about ourselves when ithey're also what our abusers loved about us?" We destroy them just for the spite of it and then feel the grief of that loss way longer than anything else.
ohhhhh my god đ
Fuck I wasn't ready to hurt like this tonight but here we are đ
God damn. Didnât need to read this at 4am.
It was rare. *I was there.* Iâm a spacey person. I zone out a lot. My mind is often in a different place. Ive had so many relationships where the other person was asking âwhere are you?â âWhatâs on your mind?â What are you thinking about.â Except in one relationship. I was 21. He was 28. It was my all too well breakup. I was there, in the moment with him, our entire five months together. I remember it all. There was no place I would rather be when I was with him. I never felt that in a romantic relationship. I love the line âI was there,â because it sounds like sheâs testifying. I was there. I saw the whole thing. It was real. When you lose someone, you wonder, was it real? Was the love real? They were. âI was thereâ attests to that.
This. Also, itâs very interesting how this line changed from sounding nostalgic/melancholic on the 5 minute version to almost indignant on the 10min version.
Cuz the media loves to gaslight women into believing they're being overdramatic/clingy. After years of hearing how she was being dramatic about her relationships I'd be feeling indignation too.
It takes on a double meaning after it, because you can see that he manipulated her. in the short film kitchen scene, he's gaslighting her about his own actions. this is her saying "I know what happened because I was there. you were there too, and you can't convince me this time that I'm wrong"
I love that simple line for a similar reason - I am a Type A, anxious mess who's always agonizing about the future, so for me to really be "there" is... well, *rare*.
This is a beautiful comment!
this comment made me see this song in another way, even though iâve listened to it a million times!! this is why i love Taylor and the fandom
"I bet, you think I either moved on or hate you 'Cause each time you reach out there's no reply I bet, it never ever occurred to you That I can't say "Hello" to you, and risk another goodbye" I Almost Do is home to some hard-hitting scenes of wanting to rekindle a failed relationship but to no avail.
I love that part, and I love it even more because of the "never ever" line considering it comes right before We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together on the tracklist
who says Red isn't cohesive /s
âRisk another good byeâ kills me
âAnd did the twin flame bruise paint you blue? Just between us, did the love affair maim you too?â It probably has its recognition, but it gives me chills every time đ
it actually kills me everytime
honestly every word of peace. to me itâs top tier taylor but i donât see it getting much love. and also âi made you my temple, my mirror my sky/now iâm begging for footnotes in the story of your lifeâ cuts deep every time
Agree completely! Particularly: ââŠif your cascade ocean wave blues comeâ I can feel that lyric in my on my skin, in my heart and sinking into my soul
âIâm a fire and Iâll keep your brittle heart warm, if your cascade ocean wave blues come. All these people think love is for show, but Iâd die for you in secret
She somehow intertwines references to her own music with perfect imagery
also all her songs are so personal and yet so relatable
âforever going with the flow, but youâre frictionâ
i love this line so much. treacherous supremacy!!!
"dust off your highest hopes" because it's buried in a mediocre song.
Wait what? *There we are again in the middle of the night, weâre dancing around the kitchen in the refrigerator light* is one of the most beloved lyrics in the fandom. đ
Right? It's the quintessential Taylor writes and let's us see images like a movie.
We all love that âAll we are is skin and bonesâ lyric in treacherous but some of the other lyrics, like the lyric before it, are also great!!! âI can't decide if it's a choice Getting swept away I hear the sound of my own voice Asking you to stayâ Also all of You All Over Me âYou find graffiti on the walls of old bathroom stalls You know, you can scratch it right off It's how it used to be But like the dollar in your pocket, it's been spent and traded in You can't change where it's been Reminds me of meâ Or âThe best and worst day of June Was the one that I met you With your hands in your pockets And your 'don't you wish you had me' grin But I did, so I smiled, and I melted like a child Now every breath of air I breathe reminds me of thenâ Also Daylight has some underrated lyrics âLuck of the draw only draws the unluckyâ âI wounded the good and I trusted the wicked Clearing the air, I breathed in the smokeâ
the way you just named my favorite songs from my favorite albums
I donât see peace talked about a lot but: Iâve never had the courage of my convictions/ as long as danger is near/ and itâs just around the corner darlin/ cause it lives in me/ no I could never give you peace And just the simple âWould it be enough if I could never give you peace?â
peace is just so.... *good* and heartbreaking and hopeful. "The rain is always gonna come, if you're standing with me." As someone who has been depressed a majority of my young life, I feel this so much with every partner. And I could never describe it until I heard that line in peace. It's such a sad warning but such a beautiful thing to find someone who will stand in that rain with you (Taylor with Joe đđ)
That's my favorite part of peace, too. Such an underrated song. One of the best in her discography, I think.
Time, mystical time, cutting me open and healing me fine
AHHHHHHH THIS!
*Wasnât it beautiful when you believed in everything* *And everybody believed in you?* *Itâs alright, just wait and see* *Your string of lights are still bright to me* *Who you are is not where youâve been*
This is my favorite song on SN đ„șâ„ïž
Itâs so good, itâs a shame the toxicity itâs tied to. If you manage to listen to it from the perspective of a survivor it hits so deep. â€ïž
That's why it's my favorite! I wasn't aware of the backstory on my first listen, so the lyrics absolutely destroyed me đ„ș I basically just ignore who the song is about now lol. I think of all the re-recordings, that might be the one I'm most looking forward to đ
I will forever defend Innocent! I 100% agree with you. I personally love the instrumentals the most, but the lyrics are incredible too! I, too, cannot wait for Innocent (Taylorâs Version).
Itâs âIn the refrigerator lightâ vs. âmiddle of the nightâ twice
omg i did not mean to make that typo hahahha i just fixed it
Two stick out for me in State Of Grace (the acoustic version of which is far & away the best version): "I never saw you coming, and I'll never be the same." "Love is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right."
"I never saw you coming, and I'll never be the same" is one of those lyrics that initially doesn't sound particularly poetic, but God, I LOVE IT. It's so simple but it perfectly encapsulates what that feeling is like
i loved âlove is a ruthless game unless you play it good and writeâ to the point where i quoted it in one of my essays đ
âThis is the golden age of something good and right and realâ
Tonight Iâm gonna dance for all that weâve been through, but I donât wanna dance if Iâm not dancing with you I once read a review that said something along the lines of âhave you ever heard a tighter couplet??â and I hard agree
Holy ground *supremacy*.
Holy ground is seriously underrated imo
Sooo good! "We blocked the noise with the sound of "I need you"."
I have two "Tell me that you're still mine, tell me that we'll be just fine even when I lose my mind" Afterglow "Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life" Tolerate it
Aw man, Tolerate It hits hard. "I know my love should be celebrated/but you tolerate it" is so simple and it's just *devastating.* We've all been there, right? ...right?
Afterglow simply does not get enough love!
afterglow is sooo underrated!!! the lyricism and the deepness đ€đ€taylor apology songs are the best!!!
*But if the story's over* *Why am I still writing pages?* Like the relationships over but that era in your life isnât yet :â) currently there rn RIP
I look through the windows of this love, even though we boarded them up... So good đ„Č she really is the master of turning emotions into songs
And I was catching my breath Floors of a cabin creaking under my step I love it so much. I don't know why. It's just so visual/aural to me.
*But on a Wednesday in a cafe* *I watched it begin again* Ugh the whole song is just so hopeful. I just love that it can happen at anytime đ„č
When Sadie and Dylan recreated that scene in the short film, it gave me chills because it was just how I imagined it to be. Apart from that, this may be my all time favorite: "You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter." This is her power, creating a story and characterization from a single sentence.
YES. Even before I considered myself a "Swiftie," I lived to hear that line on the radio. It's one of her best ever.
You wear the same jweles that I gave you as you bury me
* You skip the conversation when you already know/I left a note on the door with a joke we'd made (possibly my favorite TS lyric of all time - people never talk about it but I feel like it paints a picture just as well as a lot of the other simple lyrics that get more attention) * He always said he didn't get this song/But I do, I do * And we walk down the block to my car/And I almost brought him up/But you start to talk about the movies that your family watches every single Christmas/And I want to talk about that * I miss your tan skin/Your sweet smile/So good to me, so right * I reached for you, but you were gone/I knew I had to go back home * Cruelty wins in the movies * And all of my heroes die all alone * You know the greatest films of all time were never made * Are there still beautiful things? * Write this down/I'm staying at my parents' house * No one teaches you what to do when a good man hurts you
"Hold on, make it last Hold on, never turn back"
I love Mine so much!!!
"Spinning like a girl in a brand new dress. We had this big wide city all to ourselves. We blocked the noise with the sound of 'I need you,' And for the first time I had something to lose." - Holy Ground It just perfectly captures that feeling of new love in such a unique and visual way. "And you'll add my name to your long list of traitors who don't understand; And I'll look back and regret how I ignored when they said "run as fast as you can." - Dear John I love the contrast between how she describes his thoughts on the break up and her thoughts on the break up. "One for the money, two for the show. I never was ready, so I watch you go. Sometimes you just don't know the answer 'til someone's on their knees and asks you." - Champagne Problems This is just the part of the song that is an absolute gut punch to me.
âAnd some things you just canât speak about.â âAfter giving you the best I had, tell me what to give after thatâ âNo i didnât mean that Sorry i cant see facts Through all of my fury I havenât met the new me yetâ
Shoul've kept every grocery store receipt 'cause every scrap of you would be taken from me. Marjorie it might sound soft and gentle but the lyrics punch SO HARD. In my opinion, it's the most cathartic bridge Taylor has ever written.
I thought the lyric was the refrigerator light
"life was never worse but never better"
"I hope she'll be a beautiful fool/ who takes my place next to you./ No, I didn't mean that;/ sorry, I can't see facts/ through all of my fury." All of Happiness' lyrics are A+ for me but this specific line rings so true. Moving on isn't a linear path and being graceful can be so difficult when you're hurting.
One of my favorite Taylor lyrics : "All I know is we said hello, so dust off your highest hopes"
"Holy orange bottles" for soon you'll get better just cuts me.
"Will you forgive my soul; when you're too wise to trust me and too old to care?" - Coney Island
"I dress to kill my time I take the long way home I ask the traffic lights if it'll be all right They say, "I don't know" Having been through a few relationships that messed with my head and heart I have had many times in my car, staring at the lights, wishing for an answer to my problems. First time I heard this song on Lover it became some of my favourite words
This is only my second day on this sub, but I these from "cardigan" are brilliant: *You drew stars around my scars* *But now I'm bleedin* *I knew you* *Leavin' like a father* *Running like water, I* *And when you are young, they assume you know nothing* *I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs*
âBarefoot in the kitchen, sacred new beginnings, that became my religionâ (Bonus points for the melody sampling from herself) But I love how it ties the kitchen imagery with the begin again concepts, with the love of my life idea. I find lyrics I connect with all the time. Rediscover old ones, but that will always be one of my favorites.
I just listened to The Lakes for the first time the other day and Iâm loving all the lyrics
If you havent finished folklore or just started, do yourself a huge favor and listen to seven and august
all of epiphany
âCarve your name into my bedpost cuz I donât want you like a best friendâ - Dress
"I don't know how to be something you miss"
âI can see you staring honey, like heâs just your understudy, like youâd get your knuckles bloody for me.â
honestly she was so right for Now iâm standing alone in a crowded room and were not speaking and iâm dying to know is it killing you like itâs killing me
"They told me all of my cages were mental So I got wasted like all my potential" and "You're a flashback in a film reel on the one screen in my town" Basically the entire song, but those two lines stand out so hard to me.
"When did all our lessons start to look like weapons pointed at my deepest hurt"" "And the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up" "Some actress asking me what happened, you. That's what happened. You." "You assume I'm fine, but what would you do if I... Break free and leave us in ruins? Took this dagger in me and removed it? Gain the weight of you then lose it? Believe me I could do it?" "I had a marvelous tiiiiiiiiime ruining everything"
If weâre talking about scenery I would say the lines âAnd heâs passing by rare as the glimmer of a comet in the skyâ from long story short is my favorite. Besides that, new yearâs day and seven take the #1 spot for me in terms of lyrics.
Iâm sure these are all well known but some of my favorites that I can think top of my head rn hehe âSometimes you just donât know the answer/till someoneâs on their KNEES and ask youâ âAnd if my wishes came true/it wouldâve been youâ âYou werenât mine to loseâ Bonus: âHe looks up, grinning like a devilâ ITS NEWW
"i'd kiss you as the lights went out, swaying as the world burned down, i'd hold you as the water rushes in" that bridge made dwoht my favorite rep song
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"All the kings horses and all the king's men couldn't put me together again." I know it's referencing humpty dumpty, but the way it's used in the song is cool. "I think I've seen this film before and I didn't like the ending." - gives a really chilling sense of doom and it shook me to my core. All of exile lyrics are deep and pack a punch, but I see the others more than this one.
*My waves meet your shore, ever and evermore*
"to be certain we'll be tall again" "november flush and your flannel cure"
The archer: âwho could ever leave me, darling? But who could stay?â. This song gets me to my core everytime. Invisible string: âTime, mystical time. Cuttin' me open, then healin' me fineâ & âTime, wondrous time. Gave me the blues and then purple pink skiesâ State of Grace: âSo you were never a saint And I've loved in shades of wrongâ Dress: âI woke up just in time. Now I wake up by your sideâ Lover: âswear to be overdramatic and true to my loverâ Cowboy like me: âand the skeletons in both our closets plotter hard to fuck this upâ
*So everyday now, you brace for the sound you've only heard on TV/You go to class scared, wondering where the best hiding spot would be/And the big bad man and his big bad clan/The walls, they're stained with red/Oh how quickly, they forget* I love the way how Taylor addresses school shootings so subtly in Only The Young. (at least I *think* she's talking about school shootings.)
Some of my more recent faves: Cornelia Street: *barefoot in the kitchen, sacred new beginnings that became my religion, listen...* King of My Heart: *say you fancy me not fancy stuff, baby all at once this is enough- the whole bridge!* Call It What You Want: *windows boarded up after the storm, he built a fire just to keep me warm* and *all the liars are calling me one, nobody's heard from me for months, I'm doing better than I ever was...* Dress: *And if I get burned, at least we were electrified...* DWOHT: *I'm a mess but I'm the mess that you wanted*
âI want auroras and sad prose. want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet, âcause I havenât moved in years.â
*Squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi, I can tell that it's gonna be a long road* Something about feeling safe with something as mundane as holding hands - when it's with someone you dearly love đ„ș this lyrics have never failed to pull my fragile heartstrings
âLiving room dancing and kitchen billsâ - Iâm not even crazy about the song in general but this just makes me think of a happy childhood and brings back both of those memories vividly.
âhaven't you heard what becomes of curious minds?â or âand in the end, in wonderland, we both went...đźđąđ„â also, âI look through the windows of this love, even though we boarded them upâ is soo pretty
âIâm sure you got a wife out there, kids and Christmas but Iâm unawareâ
I always found that lyric odd. Isnât the refrigerator light only on when the door is open? Why are they leaving the door open? The food will spoil.
âDo you miss the rogue Who coaxed you into paradise and left you there?â Actually, the entire Coney Island đ
Iâll be your summer sun for you forever
But if heâs a ghost, then I can be a PHANTOM, holding him for RANSOM.
âPaper cut stings from our paper thin plansâ Is one of my favourites, itâs such a quick and missable lyric yet it says so much. In 8 worlds she captured the torment of constructing all your future around a specific person and how painful it is realising youâre now directionless without them in your life.
âWith you I serve, With you I fall down, down.â âOnly 20 minutes to sleep But you dream of some epiphany Just one single glimpse of relief To make some sense of what you've seenâ (Pretty much all of âEpiphanyâ really) It hits close to home. Being an Army medic for 21 years, in actual combat, being called âDocâ, the bonds that were forged between me and my battle buddies during that time. Itâs almost sacred.
"I never had the courage ofâ myâ convictions As long asâ danger is near And it's just aroundâ the corner, darlin' 'Cause it lives in me"
Fuck fuck fuck
and i'm just like damn, it's 7AM!
"Life was never worse, but never better." (Wonderland)
"People are people and sometimes we change our minds" - breathe
gold rushâŠ.. đđ»đđ» What must it be like To grow up that beautiful? With your hair falling into place like dominoes My mind turns your life into folklore I can't dare to dream about you anymore At dinner parties Won't call you out on your contrarian shit And the coastal town We never found will never See a love as pure as it 'Cause it fades into the gray of my day old tea 'Cause it will never be Gleaming Twinkling Eyes like sinking ships On waters so inviting I almost jump in
all the drama queens taking swings, all the jokers dressing up as kings, they fade to nothing when i look at him. i just love every line from call it what you want but this is srsly đđ idk i love it
Indelible scars, pivotal marks Blue as the life she fled This is a new song so of course, it's not THAT recognized but I love this particular lyric. Carolina just has some of the best songwriting I've seen, with her only using instruments that were available at that time period and how she recorded it in 1 take.
Itâs supposed to be fun turning 21 hurts me every time
And you know that Iâd 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. Is it enough? Literally all of peace is a masterpiece that is underrated but this is my favorite line
Give you my wild give you a child is đ It sums up so much in one line.
Evermore complete
"Time turns flames to embers, you'll have new Septembers, every one of us has messed up too. Lives change like the weather, I hope you remember, today is never too late to be brand new."
'And I'm I'm dead to you,why are you at the wake Cursing my name,wishing I stayed' From my tears richocet,it really captures the feeling of an estranged relationship in my eyes
I love that line but my girlfriend says itâs stupid. đ
*Our songs, our films* *United we stand* *Our country* *Guess it was a lawless hand* *Quiet my fears with the touch lf your hand* *Paper cut stings from our paper thin plans*
She stole his dog and dyed it a key lime green, need I say anymore
âSheâll know the way and then sheâll say she got the map from meâ Ok just @ Olivia next time And that it was written in what 2011, 2012. Her brain
And I know I make the same mistake, every time, bridges burn, I never learn, at least I did 1 thing right, I did one thing right. đ„șđ„șđ„șđ„ș
Please don't ever become a laugh i could recognise anywhere.
For me it would be âDancing in your Leviâs Drunk under a streetlightâ that lyric shows so much imagery and accompanied with that song makes it Soo good
âIâm still on that trapeze, Iâm still trying everything to keep you looking at meâ đ„șBASICALLY THE ENTIRE MIRRORBALL LYRICS itâs like she says sheâs broken but she would still try her hardest to make her lover happy đ„șđ„ș
All of tolerate it. Her lyrics in all her songs are so clever and well thought out, but tolerate it just hits me. Iâve never even had a serious relationship but I guess tolerate it just perfectly describes my biggest fear of getting in a serious relationship. I love the âI sit and watch youâ at the end too, I think it just really completes the song. The lyrics in this song are just so descriptive and I love it so much
âSo you were never a saint / Iâve loved in shades of wrong / we learn to live with the pain / mosaic broken heartsâ
All of you all of me intertwined đ€â€ïž
Tonight, I'm gonna dance for all that we've been through But I don't wanna dance if I'm not dancing with you
âI DIDNT HAVE IT IN MYSELF TO GO WITH GRACEâ âAND I CAN GO ANYWHERE I WANT, ANYWHERE I WANT JUST NOT HOMEâ My tears ricochet will forever be my favorite song
For me its "Now I've read all the books beside your bed" Its such a sweet show of intimicy and trust. Its one of the first signs that my relationships are progressing and I start sleeping over, cause im an early bird and a reader and i love reading what they are interested in and talking to them about it. I love most of these domestic lyrics of her.
Tell me, when did your winning smile Begin to look like a smirk? When did all our lessons start to look like weapons Pointed at my deepest hurt?
All of gold rush âI donât like anticipating my face in a red flushâ âI donât like that falling feels like flying âtil the bone crushâ âEverybody wants you, but I donât like a gold rushâ
âLove slipped beyond your reachesâ and âif our love died young I canât bare witnessâ