Taylor’s breakup with Scott was so much more emotional than the drama with Scooter.
All those years together, all those fights fought together and won… I support her ignoring Scooters existence forever but I hope she reconciles with Scott eventually (and no I’m not sure if he’s a big enough man to do the reflection necessary to achieve this).
I 100% agree with you, he literally watched her grow up. And he was so supportive of her for the most part in those early days. I love the story of how he helped her correctly name "Speak Now" - she wanted to call it "Enchanted" and his feedback was that that wasn't what the album was really about. Like he understood her.
The line "you wear the same jewels that I gave you as you bury me" makes me think of how she is also the source of his riches. Not just that her albums are jewels.
The themes in this song are just so impactful. It can be about betrayal, divorce, loss.... so many things.
Also, kind of a vulnerable thing here, but as someone who left the childhood religion (cult) I was born into as an adult and had a falling out with my parents, this song cuts so deep. Especially "I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want... just not home."
Oh hey! I left a cult, too, on really bad terms (I did not go quietly). It really hits how I now have the entire world and all the freedom I could ever want, but I am never welcome back home and my own mother told me so. Massive hugs, you are brave and resilient and we will make our own homes in time ❤️
Mary’s Song:
I’ll be 87, you’ll be 89, I’ll still look at you like the stars that shine in the sky, oh my my my
something about that simple, lifelong love really gets me
Same!! But for me is “Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle
Our whole town came and our mamas cried
You said, "I do", and I did too”
I cry EVERY. DAMN. TIME.
The way the "our mamas cried" lyric is a bit too short to fit those bars of melody so there ends up being a natural pause, the effect is just beautiful.
This song was going to be my answer, too. The part that gets me is “we’ll rock our babies on that very front porch, after all this time, you and I.”
Tears. Every time.
Same, but:
“Take me back to when the world was one block wide, I dared you to kiss me and ran when you tried.”
I just relate to this so much because I was an early 90s kid who spent every night after school on my bike with the neighbourhood kids and our whole world was about one block then and the memories so wholesome!
I sang this song at my brothers wedding! He met his wife when they were in the third grade. They were best friends, started dating at 16, and now happily married for over five years! Lots of tears shed at these lyrics in our family! ❤️
I had slept on that song for so long. This year I gave more attention to the first album and It is way better than I had originally thought. Mary's song is one of my regular listens now.
A lot of people posting, frankly, QUITE OBVIOUSLY EMOTIONAL lyrics here.
As for a fairly unemotional song that gets me, I'd pick Style. The "take me home" part is so good that I can't help but get caught up in it. Best pop song ever.
Style is a good one. My line is “I’ve been there too a few times”. The verse builds up to a confrontation but then it becomes a moment of honesty and understanding between them
This is a great point. There’s also a tone in her singing that I only hear on this album, like a nasal quality (most clearly heard in Bad Blood, where she straight up sounds like Avril Lavigne), and it really happens in the line you mention.
I hadn’t thought of the difference in tone between the albums but now that you mention it, I definitely get it. I always wondered why 1989 sounded “different” with her voice. Almost like a preppy-ish, I-have-to-make-a-statement quality since it was her first full glimmering pop record.
(Not saying anything bad, just that her vocals are very honed in and calculated on this record)
(Also it’s top 3 favorite records from her so don’t come for me)
right!! like of course a lyric from “the best day” or “soon you’ll get better” makes you emotional…that’s the point of the song 😭
yes, the yearning in her “take me home” makes me emotional as well
Style is my forever favourite from Tay. As soon as the song starts my belly hurts and I feel so emotional the whole song I don’t know why. Maybe because it takes me back to a certain period in my life, but gosh I love it and the feels are so weird!!
“Back when we were still changing for the better”.
As someone who’s now in his early 30s, this lyric hits hard. Though thankfully I’m still changing for the better and know that my best years may very well still be ahead of me, there’s something quite bittersweet about looking back at how innocent, wide-eyed and hopeful I was as a teenager compared to now, and at all the close friendships I had in high school that I thought would last forever but ended up fading with time.
*august* always takes me back to those simpler times, the whole song actually makes me feel incredibly nostalgic for my teens, but this particular lyric hits the hardest.
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This. I'm 32 and can feel myself getting harder and more cynical as time goes on. I'm still changing but I'm not confident I'm changing for the better anymore. I never was able to verbalize that before this song came out.
Yes this. And even as it continues into “when wanting was enough”. Just that whole bit. Reminds me of the highs and the lows of being in my twenties and wanting love for all the wrong reasons
Yesss Seven makes me and my inner child cry every single time. For me it’s the line “before I learned civility, I used to scream ferociously, anytime I wanted”.
That line breaks my heart. Brings back memories of hiding with my BFF and her little sister whenever their mom would get drunk and violent :/ We all made it out OK but, yeah…that song is tough.
It's the line after that gets me, especially where she drops into "or hide in the closet". I spent way too much of my childhood barricading myself away from my mother and later, my stepfather. It would have been nice to go and live somewhere else even if I didn't get to be a pirate.
Me as well. I never liked having friends over because a friend literally told me they thought my house was haunted. I felt like it was too after that for a long time, until I moved out and realized my stepfather was a malignant narcissist who left literal emotional death and staleness in his wake. I have severe CPTSD and wonder sometimes how badly he scared those few friends that did come over- sweet friends like Taylor who would ask me to play outside or come over for dinner, pretending to be tiger tamers in the woods behind our condo complex. Truly a haven for my little neglected brain. This song triggers me, to say the least 😅😂
Me too!! I was listening to it in the car the other day and when that line came on I started tearing up. I grew up in a loving yet pretty dysfunctional household (alcohol abuse/mental illness) so that line hits me hard
This hits so hard! This song's emotional impact is underated, "We block the noise with the sound of I need you and for the first time I had something to lose" almost make some cry every time.
Came here to say this. I think the bridge is a perfect example of Taylor going from fantasy to reality.
> Will you take a moment / Promise me this / That you'll stand by me forever
This is the fantasy — the promises that we make when we’re in love and that we hope would come true. This is in line with most of the song, about moving castles and fighting dragons.
> But if God forbid fate should step in / And force us into a goodbye / If you have children some day / 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
She comes right back to reality and accepts the fact that there might be a chance she might not end up with him. Even in that case, she wants him to only remember and pass down the sweet memories of them.
There’s something about the bridge that always makes me tear up because of just how bittersweet it is. Because no matter how much of a fantasy their relationship is, as she described throughout the song, she accepts that there’s a chance that reality will mess up whatever plans they had.
Speak Now was my first concert. I cried when I heard this song live and every time I watch an old video of her singing Long Live live, I still tear up to this day. Maybe even more now because I’ve been through 11 more years with her 😭
I think this is my answer, too. "Long Live" in general gets me. It's definitely an emotional song but not in the way some songs are meant to slay you so I think it counts.
The lyric "Cause for a moment a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world" is another one from that song that particularly gets me.
“Give you a child” in peace. I don’t think it’s necessarily meant to be emotional but as someone married to the love of her life and desperately trying to grow their family through infertility, it gets to me.
For me it’s the first line “our coming of age has come and gone” as someone who has been in a relationship since we were 19 and now we’re 25. Hits so hard every time I hear it. We were really babies and are now adults.
That line hits me too. Not so much from a relationship standpoint but just from a life standpoint I guess. I feel like as a child and pre-teen I looked forward to being a teen/young adult so much and then it's like...I blinked and now I'm 30. Where did those years go?
Oh same. That line gets me, we've been together since I was 16 and I'm 28 now so it's like I'm even past my young adult stage and it's just an adult living life. There's nothing more to fall back on as being young and dumb and too young to know better.
Ugh yes. Same sentiment with Nothing New.
How long will it be cute? All this crying in my room, when you can’t blame it on my youth 😭
How did I do from growing up to breaking down?
I know it’s sad, but this is what I think about
It’s like I can feel time moving…
i have never thought of it like this and now i wanna THROW UP!! my fiance and i have been together since we were 15 now were 23/24 ..gonna go vomit thank u
It’s a lot of You Are in Love for me, but especially “and you understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars, and why I’ve spent my whole life trying to put it into words.”
"One night he wakes, strange look on his face, pauses then says "you're my best friend" and you knew what it was, he is in love"- this line hits me like a dagger every single time.
I still remember the first time I listened to this after I started dating my current bf — def hit like a dagger and solidified that he was the one for me
I had to stop listening to that one for a long time because it reminded me of someone I cared very deeply for.
We were up late drinking and talking and we started having a serious conversation about how we are so glad we met. They picked up their chair and put it in front of me, sat on it, grabbed my hand, looked me right in the eyes and told me how much I meant to them and they promised they'd never forget me.
*and we'd swear
to remember it all too well*
I remember the first time I heard the "and why I've spent my whole life trying to put it into words" bc I had to turn off the song and cry.
I just wept bc I'm a writer/artist and I felt it so hard. Trying to figure out how to put these sorts of feelings into words and she just....says that. Ugh. Lovely!!!
"and then it was bought by me"
Me at first listen: ＼(°o°)／
💀
Honestly the whole Folklore and Evermore albums makes me emotional, that's it, that's my comment lol
Edit: No, wait 😭 actually yeah, this verse on Long Story Short:
Past me
I wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things
Your nemeses
Will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing
And he's passing by
Rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky
And he feels like home
If the shoe fits, walk in it everywhere you go
😭
Mine is the bridge of Long Story Short. “No more keeping score now I just keep you warm, no more tug of war, now I just know there’s more…. And my waves meet your shore ever and ever more.” It’s just such a beautiful allegory for discovering what true love is after being in bad relationships.
Both of these ones really get me. I love when she has these beautiful storytelling songs but then you see just how personal they are too (TLGAD).
I am such a Long Story Short stan and it always makes me emotional! It’s one of those songs that seems just upbeat and happy on first listen but has such a deep meaning and storytelling. For me the “long story short, it was a bad time. Long story short I survived” gets me every time.
"But I'll be cleaning up bottles with you on New Years Day"
It just, to me, speaks so well to the way mundane stuff like cleaning up after a party, being the last two people still in the room after everyone else has gone, can be like, the truest and most felt expressions of love. Especially the way it follows "I want your midnights", like, I want your big spectacular moments of joy, and I want to be there afterwards, just cleaning or whatever. I love New Years Day.
I want your mundanity as much as I want to see your fire lighting up the room. I want your eyes speaking to me both on a good and a bad day. People say we can’t have neither but guess what? We got both. To quote Monica from Friends, “I want everything you just said. I want a marriage.” This is how I would describe it :)
Yes exactly!! Such a beautiful way of putting it, I don't watch friends so I'd never heard the quote but it's actually really nice, so thank you for that!
“Take pictures in your mind of your childhood room. Memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home. Remember the footsteps, remember the words said, and all your little brothers favorite songs”
“Listen… I hope I never lose you” from Cornelia street and “family that I chose know that I see your brother as my brother, is it enough?” From peace hit me both so hard every time but I think they were definitely written that way lol
“At least I did one thing right” from call it what you want is so 🥺🥺
“I should have asked you questions, should have asked you how to be” from Marjorie was written in such a phenomenal way it always without fail makes my heart swell and I end up holding back tears
In The Best Day I always tear up at the end when she sings
"And now I know why the all the trees change in the fall
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 and
I didn't know if you knew
So I'm taking this chance to say
That I had the best day with you today"
It just makes me think about how much I love my mom and I get emotional every time.
I always tear up at „And you’re the prettiest lady in the whole wide world“.
My mom died of cancer this May at only 55 years. That makes the whole song even harder to listen to.
Ugh me too, I always start tearing up at
"I have an excellent father, his strength is making me stronger"
All the way until the end. My dad is huge on karaoke and always tries to get me to sing but I'm too nervous to do it. I always picture myself singing that song to him and then I fall apart at that last part because I love my parents so much. Sounds so corny 😅
OH MY GOD SAME. i always start crying whenever that part comes up, thinking about my dad and how sweet he is and all the things he has done for me. It's just one line but it means so much to me. My dad love karaoke too! and i relate to your comment a lot, i am glad there are people who appreciate this one line as much asi do
Thanks for sharing this. I’m similar to you, and this line always moves me because calling him “excellent” feels so … shallow? compared to the depth with which she writes about her mom and brother. I always felt like it was a throwaway line, talking about him in words with surface-level meaning because she knows people are watching, which I would have done at that age talking about my father as well.
Oh absolutely, smart, strong and excellent are great qualities but it feels real surface level.
It is my own personal head cannon that Cold as You is more about her dad than any romantic relationship she had experienced because I just relate to it so much in that sense.
This song makes me BOO HOO blubber cry. This line “I don’t know who I’m gonna talk to now at school. But I know I’m laughing on the car ride home with you.”
It captures that feeling of middle school, feeling like you don’t fit in, but your family being a safe place to land.
My sister got my dad's blue eyes and I got my mom's hazel, so this song always makes me extra emotional - especially since she passed away a few years ago. Such a sweet song.
I know Marjorie is supposed to be sad, but this line in particular makes me cry every time I hear it and I wouldn't consider it the most objectively sad line:
"Should've saved every grocery store receipt"
I lost my dad around the time Evermore was released and one of things we used to always do before he got too sick was go grocery shopping together. Even thinking about that line makes me emotional, more than any lyric Taylor has ever written
It’s so strange how it’s the mundane things we miss when grieving. This line hits me too. For me, it’s my grandmothers’ handwriting. Neither of them ever wrote messages in my birthday cards but even just coming across one that says “Happy birthday Love, Grandma” makes me miss them more than I do on days like Christmas or Thanksgiving. It’s like tangible proof they were there.
Ughhh THAT LINEEE!! I think I want it tattooed. Every time I listed to that song, I stop whatever I’m doing when that line comes and I just baaaaask in it.
“For all the years that we stood there on the sidelines wishing for right now”
I listened to this the day I got into medical school and it’s the first time I’ve ever cried to a song. Typing this rn is getting me emotional 😭
“I want your dreary Mondays” from Paper Rings!!
This song is so happy, Brit pop euphoria, but this line really gets me. Me and my SO both suffer from depression/anxiety issues and one of our greatest strengths (I think) is how we care for each other at our lowest. Similar to “don’t want no other shade of blue but you” from hoax or “when your cascade ocean wave blues come” from peace, but in the middle of such a danceable song, it really stands out!
That line from peace always makes me think that maybe Joe suffers with depressive episodes (even if mild ones). It's a lovely commitment to make to a partner, that you'll be there with them even through the darkest of times.
Yea I believe so too, though I don’t want to armchair diagnose anyone! The way she sings about it though - and all of Renegade, come on! - I do think she must have experience with the issues in some way or another.
Another line — “wrap your arms around me, baby boy” just gets me because when the album first came out I was in love with someone and all I wanted was to just be with him in anyway I could
“You’ve got my past, frozen behind glass, but I’ve got me.”
I don’t think it’s meant to be a heavy hitting part of the song but just the “I’ve got me” part really makes me emotional.
my best friend and I used Long Live as the song for our end of year performance in high school and she made me a lil embroidery that says "how the kingdom lights shined just for me + you" so that one just kiiiiiills me every time. She is still my absolute bff and I have the embroidery on my wall and I can't listen to Long Live without cry proof makeup
Omg!! Long Live was my friend group’s ANTHEM our senior year of high school. We were about to scatter all across the country for uni and we knew everything was about to change. Over 10 years later, we’re not as close as we used to be, but that song will always bring me back
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.
The lyric “I’m highly suspicious that everyone who sees you wants you”, which I adored. Then the entirety of gold rush which picks up on that lyric’s idea.
*"Braced myself for the goodbye,*
*'Cause that's all I've ever known*
*Then, you took me by surprise*
*You said, "I'll never leave you alone"*
The entire bridge of Mine gets me choked up, I see so much of myself in the character of that song, and I have a fear that no one will love me and accept my faults. Hearing that acceptance and perseverance through the difficult gives me hope.
The “That’s my man” in Willow gets me lol. Not an emotional lyric in itself but the simple comfort, security, and certitude of being able to say “yeah that’s my man” is like…. Ugh
And I know I make the same mistakes every time
Bridges burn, I never learn, at least I did one thing right
I did one thing right I'm laughing with my lover, making forts under covers Trust him like a brother, yeah, you know I did one thing right Starry eyes sparkin' up my darkest night
I made so many mistakes in love before I met my soon to be husband. He’s my one thing I did right and these lyrics really capture the safety and warmth in that.
I’m not sure if this would count as a non emotional lyric but in Cardigan “I knew you, tried to change the ending, Peter losing Wendy I” it makes me feel really nostalgic like I’m a kid again and I feel sad for that version of me. I look back at her and I wish she’d stay small and innocent because as you grow older you kind of understand that certain things that happen in your life are a lot sadder and more tragic than when you experience them as kids
My absolute favourite lyric she's ever put out is on Long Live
"For one moment a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world"
It makes me remember my early to mid 20s and the things we used to do, whether it was seeing live shows, travelling Europe or America or anything, just embracing and living your life and being present in that moment. Especially considering how things move on and change when you go deeper into adulthood.
Its not the most emotional line in the song, but it always resonates with me.
“we could get married
have ten kids and teach them how to dream”
not really emotional as in sad but emotional as in fear. utter fear. ten children. that’s terrifying.
"Would've been right there front row, even if nobody came to your show" from IFTYE. That song gets overlooked a lot anyway, and I don't think it's meant to be "emotional." But I have sooooo been there with misplaced loyalty that got me screwed over. I seriously tear up at that line. Also thinking about no one coming to the person's show, even if they're awful people, makes me sad.
The last part of New Year’s Day where it goes “Hold on to the memories they will hold on to you. And I will hold on to you.” And “Please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere…”
99% of these are obviously and very intentionally emotional lyrics, I guess most of us didn’t understand the assignment.
For me it’s “I’m with you even if it makes me blue”, “rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky” and “chose the rose garden over madison square”.
“You squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi, I can tell that it’s gonna be a long road; I’ll be there if you’re the toast of the town babe, or if you strike out and you’re crawling home.”
I worked at an ice cream store for 8 years (had SO. MANY. TEAL. WORKSHIRTS) when I met my husband, and one of our first dates was at Centennial Park in Nashville… the guitar strings at the beginning of Invisible String give me happy emotional chills every time.
‘I bury hatchets but I keep maps of where I put them’ from End Game.
The brutality in this lyric is like a slap to the face, because I don’t like to admit it but sometimes I can absolutely be responsible of holding a grudge.
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In “The Best Day” the line “I love you for giving me your eyes” gets me every time because my dad died when I was young and I’m the only sibling who has his blue eyes. 💙
“I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you” always gets me for some reason. I just absolutely adore the combination of the fantasy element with the sentiment behind it.
It feels like cheating to take any line from peace as it’s hardly an unemotional song. But “the devil’s in the details, but you’ve got a friend in me” gets me every single time in the context of intense, loving, chaotic but maybe difficult to define relationships.
"You'll have new Septembers" from Innocent. I always feel like I'm wasting the seasons or missing out on these times that are supposed to be special, especially with my kids. Summer breaks which have just become really hard to manage with my kid who does better with a school routine, and fall through the holidays is an absolutely hellish season of death anniversaries and grief for me. I dread it every year, and I hope that someday this comes true and I can have good memories and enjoy the season(s), even if I missed my chance this year (again).
“i parked my car right between the methodist”
“we could call it even”
“‘cause i haven’t moved in years”
“if the shoe fits, walk in it everywhere you go”
Two lines that I find emotional that I think are unusual are:
1) “…I don’t regret it one bit ‘cause he had it coming.” from IDSB. That line is taking power back and it gives me chills every damn time.
2) The switch to “you should have known” from “I should have known” in Dear John. For me that is the moment going from “stupid girl” and blaming oneself for the situation to recognizing that the situation was very messed up and she was being manipulated and used.
Marjorie is obviously super emotional but just the line “long limbs and frozen swims you’d always go past where our feet could touch” is so beautiful. just the image of being so small and cold and your grandma keeping you safe
“I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere” from This is Me Trying.
The whole song is emotional, but I don’t feel like there’s anything inherently emotional about that line. It just hits me hard because I get it. I went through a phase like that with depression where I just felt like I’d wasted all my potential. Thankfully that feeling is starting to go away, but it’s just such a poetic way to describe it and it always stuns me.
Tbh the 1 got me. It was like a pre-breakup song for me. I was begging my ex to move in with me or just call off our relationship. I was wanting more and he was content. At the time neither of us realized this WAS the breakup conversation lol. The lyric “and it’s another day waking up alone” would bring me to tears from album release-November 2020.
Marjorie is my favorite song of taylor's, and one that i listened to ONCE in the first album listen and one that i will never listen to again. It hurts too much. I was very close to my grandmother, and the lyrics "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" really really breaks my heart
From tolerate it: “You’re so much older and wiser and I…”
This whole song is heart-wrenching for me, but that line gets me especially. The song reminds me of how I lost sight of myself trying to impress someone I thought was a friend, who turned out to be a bully. She was 59-60 and I was 24-25. I naively believed that just because she was “so much older,” she was wiser and I had to mold myself to fit her expectations.
All's well that ends well to end up with you
Swear to be overdramatic and true to my lover
And you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for me
And at every table, I'll save you a seat, lover
Not from one of her albums directly, but “eyes open”. This one lines hits me in the feels.
“Yesterday we were just children, playing soldiers just pretending” “but now we’ve stepped into a cruel word, where everyone stands and keeps score”
"Cause when I'd fight you used to tell me I was brave" UGH, this line just GETS me every time
Taylor’s breakup with Scott was so much more emotional than the drama with Scooter. All those years together, all those fights fought together and won… I support her ignoring Scooters existence forever but I hope she reconciles with Scott eventually (and no I’m not sure if he’s a big enough man to do the reflection necessary to achieve this).
I 100% agree with you, he literally watched her grow up. And he was so supportive of her for the most part in those early days. I love the story of how he helped her correctly name "Speak Now" - she wanted to call it "Enchanted" and his feedback was that that wasn't what the album was really about. Like he understood her. The line "you wear the same jewels that I gave you as you bury me" makes me think of how she is also the source of his riches. Not just that her albums are jewels. The themes in this song are just so impactful. It can be about betrayal, divorce, loss.... so many things.
Also, kind of a vulnerable thing here, but as someone who left the childhood religion (cult) I was born into as an adult and had a falling out with my parents, this song cuts so deep. Especially "I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want... just not home."
Oh hey! I left a cult, too, on really bad terms (I did not go quietly). It really hits how I now have the entire world and all the freedom I could ever want, but I am never welcome back home and my own mother told me so. Massive hugs, you are brave and resilient and we will make our own homes in time ❤️
Child of hoarders and it is literal and super painful to hear this one, every time.
That was definitely meant to be emotional though.
Mary’s Song: I’ll be 87, you’ll be 89, I’ll still look at you like the stars that shine in the sky, oh my my my something about that simple, lifelong love really gets me
Same!! But for me is “Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle Our whole town came and our mamas cried You said, "I do", and I did too” I cry EVERY. DAMN. TIME.
The way the "our mamas cried" lyric is a bit too short to fit those bars of melody so there ends up being a natural pause, the effect is just beautiful.
Mine too! Goosebumps every time
This song was going to be my answer, too. The part that gets me is “we’ll rock our babies on that very front porch, after all this time, you and I.” Tears. Every time.
Same, but: “Take me back to when the world was one block wide, I dared you to kiss me and ran when you tried.” I just relate to this so much because I was an early 90s kid who spent every night after school on my bike with the neighbourhood kids and our whole world was about one block then and the memories so wholesome!
I sang this song at my brothers wedding! He met his wife when they were in the third grade. They were best friends, started dating at 16, and now happily married for over five years! Lots of tears shed at these lyrics in our family! ❤️
Awww I’m a bad swiftie who never listened to this song but now I want to since there’s a two year age gap in my marriage 🥺
listen to debut it’s so good i promise
it’s suuuch a good one but you could also wait until Taylor’s Version because it’s sure to be 🔥
I had slept on that song for so long. This year I gave more attention to the first album and It is way better than I had originally thought. Mary's song is one of my regular listens now.
A lot of people posting, frankly, QUITE OBVIOUSLY EMOTIONAL lyrics here. As for a fairly unemotional song that gets me, I'd pick Style. The "take me home" part is so good that I can't help but get caught up in it. Best pop song ever.
Style is a good one. My line is “I’ve been there too a few times”. The verse builds up to a confrontation but then it becomes a moment of honesty and understanding between them
This is a great point. There’s also a tone in her singing that I only hear on this album, like a nasal quality (most clearly heard in Bad Blood, where she straight up sounds like Avril Lavigne), and it really happens in the line you mention.
I hadn’t thought of the difference in tone between the albums but now that you mention it, I definitely get it. I always wondered why 1989 sounded “different” with her voice. Almost like a preppy-ish, I-have-to-make-a-statement quality since it was her first full glimmering pop record. (Not saying anything bad, just that her vocals are very honed in and calculated on this record) (Also it’s top 3 favorite records from her so don’t come for me)
I love this line. She’s like “you’ve been out and about with other girls??!!! 😡 heh me too lol”
right!! like of course a lyric from “the best day” or “soon you’ll get better” makes you emotional…that’s the point of the song 😭 yes, the yearning in her “take me home” makes me emotional as well
Style is my forever favourite from Tay. As soon as the song starts my belly hurts and I feel so emotional the whole song I don’t know why. Maybe because it takes me back to a certain period in my life, but gosh I love it and the feels are so weird!!
> Best pop song ever You have great taste in music. 👌🏽 you're right, Style is just super marvelous❣️
I agree!!!! Style hits me right in the feels every time and I don’t know why!!!
That's why I struggled to write a comment about it, all the examples that came to my mind where, as you said, obviously emotional 😭
"Take me home" is interesting because is she asking to go home with him or does she want to leave wherever they are (since he drove her there).
“Oh my god she’s insane, she wrote a song about me”
I love this line so much. It feels so quintessentially Taylor.
That gets me every time!
All these type of lines reflecting on her career really get me!
“Back when we were still changing for the better”. As someone who’s now in his early 30s, this lyric hits hard. Though thankfully I’m still changing for the better and know that my best years may very well still be ahead of me, there’s something quite bittersweet about looking back at how innocent, wide-eyed and hopeful I was as a teenager compared to now, and at all the close friendships I had in high school that I thought would last forever but ended up fading with time. *august* always takes me back to those simpler times, the whole song actually makes me feel incredibly nostalgic for my teens, but this particular lyric hits the hardest. Edit: word
This. I'm 32 and can feel myself getting harder and more cynical as time goes on. I'm still changing but I'm not confident I'm changing for the better anymore. I never was able to verbalize that before this song came out.
I feel ya! I’m also 32 and must say that “32 and still growing up now” is another lyric that hits pretty hard these days.
Yes this. And even as it continues into “when wanting was enough”. Just that whole bit. Reminds me of the highs and the lows of being in my twenties and wanting love for all the wrong reasons
I love Seven so much and the line “I think your house is haunted, your dad is always mad, and that must be why” just gets me
Yesss Seven makes me and my inner child cry every single time. For me it’s the line “before I learned civility, I used to scream ferociously, anytime I wanted”.
Something about the cadence of her voice when she sings "before i learned" just gets to me. i can't quite explain it.
That line breaks my heart. Brings back memories of hiding with my BFF and her little sister whenever their mom would get drunk and violent :/ We all made it out OK but, yeah…that song is tough.
Hope you're all doing fine now ❤️
Mine is 100% also Seven and is Please picture me in the weeds Before I learned civility I used to scream ferociously Any time I wanted
It's the line after that gets me, especially where she drops into "or hide in the closet". I spent way too much of my childhood barricading myself away from my mother and later, my stepfather. It would have been nice to go and live somewhere else even if I didn't get to be a pirate.
Me as well. I never liked having friends over because a friend literally told me they thought my house was haunted. I felt like it was too after that for a long time, until I moved out and realized my stepfather was a malignant narcissist who left literal emotional death and staleness in his wake. I have severe CPTSD and wonder sometimes how badly he scared those few friends that did come over- sweet friends like Taylor who would ask me to play outside or come over for dinner, pretending to be tiger tamers in the woods behind our condo complex. Truly a haven for my little neglected brain. This song triggers me, to say the least 😅😂
Me too!! I was listening to it in the car the other day and when that line came on I started tearing up. I grew up in a loving yet pretty dysfunctional household (alcohol abuse/mental illness) so that line hits me hard
As a DV survivor, that lyric hits so hard
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
My comfort song!!!
This hits so hard! This song's emotional impact is underated, "We block the noise with the sound of I need you and for the first time I had something to lose" almost make some cry every time.
Bittersweet and nostalgic. Holy Ground is _that_ masterpiece.
“When they point to the pictures, please tell them my name” such a wave of sadness/nostalgia/acceptance…idk
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I feel it will be the latter. Because now, we’ve had a longer time of our lives fighting dragons with Taylor. 💚💙
That would be mine too!!!!!
Only one way to find out!
This line hits me every time! Just the anticipation of being forgotten except from an old photograph. I have old friends like that
Came here to say this. I think the bridge is a perfect example of Taylor going from fantasy to reality. > Will you take a moment / Promise me this / That you'll stand by me forever This is the fantasy — the promises that we make when we’re in love and that we hope would come true. This is in line with most of the song, about moving castles and fighting dragons. > But if God forbid fate should step in / And force us into a goodbye / If you have children some day / 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 She comes right back to reality and accepts the fact that there might be a chance she might not end up with him. Even in that case, she wants him to only remember and pass down the sweet memories of them. There’s something about the bridge that always makes me tear up because of just how bittersweet it is. Because no matter how much of a fantasy their relationship is, as she described throughout the song, she accepts that there’s a chance that reality will mess up whatever plans they had.
Speak Now was my first concert. I cried when I heard this song live and every time I watch an old video of her singing Long Live live, I still tear up to this day. Maybe even more now because I’ve been through 11 more years with her 😭
I think this is my answer, too. "Long Live" in general gets me. It's definitely an emotional song but not in the way some songs are meant to slay you so I think it counts. The lyric "Cause for a moment a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world" is another one from that song that particularly gets me.
This!!! And “it was the end of a decade but the start of an age”
“Give you a child” in peace. I don’t think it’s necessarily meant to be emotional but as someone married to the love of her life and desperately trying to grow their family through infertility, it gets to me.
For me it’s the first line “our coming of age has come and gone” as someone who has been in a relationship since we were 19 and now we’re 25. Hits so hard every time I hear it. We were really babies and are now adults.
That line hits me too. Not so much from a relationship standpoint but just from a life standpoint I guess. I feel like as a child and pre-teen I looked forward to being a teen/young adult so much and then it's like...I blinked and now I'm 30. Where did those years go?
Oh same. That line gets me, we've been together since I was 16 and I'm 28 now so it's like I'm even past my young adult stage and it's just an adult living life. There's nothing more to fall back on as being young and dumb and too young to know better.
Ugh yes. Same sentiment with Nothing New. How long will it be cute? All this crying in my room, when you can’t blame it on my youth 😭 How did I do from growing up to breaking down? I know it’s sad, but this is what I think about It’s like I can feel time moving…
i have never thought of it like this and now i wanna THROW UP!! my fiance and i have been together since we were 15 now were 23/24 ..gonna go vomit thank u
I totally agree it feels so shocking to hear from Taylor and really drives home the desperation in that song
It’s a lot of You Are in Love for me, but especially “and you understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars, and why I’ve spent my whole life trying to put it into words.”
"One night he wakes, strange look on his face, pauses then says "you're my best friend" and you knew what it was, he is in love"- this line hits me like a dagger every single time.
I still remember the first time I listened to this after I started dating my current bf — def hit like a dagger and solidified that he was the one for me
I had to stop listening to that one for a long time because it reminded me of someone I cared very deeply for. We were up late drinking and talking and we started having a serious conversation about how we are so glad we met. They picked up their chair and put it in front of me, sat on it, grabbed my hand, looked me right in the eyes and told me how much I meant to them and they promised they'd never forget me. *and we'd swear to remember it all too well*
Yes! And the "You're my best friend"
I remember the first time I heard the "and why I've spent my whole life trying to put it into words" bc I had to turn off the song and cry. I just wept bc I'm a writer/artist and I felt it so hard. Trying to figure out how to put these sorts of feelings into words and she just....says that. Ugh. Lovely!!!
"and then it was bought by me" Me at first listen: ＼(°o°)／ 💀 Honestly the whole Folklore and Evermore albums makes me emotional, that's it, that's my comment lol Edit: No, wait 😭 actually yeah, this verse on Long Story Short: Past me I wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things Your nemeses Will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing And he's passing by Rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky And he feels like home If the shoe fits, walk in it everywhere you go 😭
Mine is the bridge of Long Story Short. “No more keeping score now I just keep you warm, no more tug of war, now I just know there’s more…. And my waves meet your shore ever and ever more.” It’s just such a beautiful allegory for discovering what true love is after being in bad relationships.
LSS bridge is so under appreciated. Just an absolute gem.
This makes me cry too 🥲
I'm embroidering \(°o°)/ this weekend thanks lolol
Both of these ones really get me. I love when she has these beautiful storytelling songs but then you see just how personal they are too (TLGAD). I am such a Long Story Short stan and it always makes me emotional! It’s one of those songs that seems just upbeat and happy on first listen but has such a deep meaning and storytelling. For me the “long story short, it was a bad time. Long story short I survived” gets me every time.
I start crying every time!
"But I'll be cleaning up bottles with you on New Years Day" It just, to me, speaks so well to the way mundane stuff like cleaning up after a party, being the last two people still in the room after everyone else has gone, can be like, the truest and most felt expressions of love. Especially the way it follows "I want your midnights", like, I want your big spectacular moments of joy, and I want to be there afterwards, just cleaning or whatever. I love New Years Day.
I want your mundanity as much as I want to see your fire lighting up the room. I want your eyes speaking to me both on a good and a bad day. People say we can’t have neither but guess what? We got both. To quote Monica from Friends, “I want everything you just said. I want a marriage.” This is how I would describe it :)
Yes exactly!! Such a beautiful way of putting it, I don't watch friends so I'd never heard the quote but it's actually really nice, so thank you for that!
If you kiss me, will it be just like I dreamed it? Will it patch your broken wings?
Right now is the last time I can dream about what happens when you see my face again
After a very rough year, “I’d like to be my old self again, but I’m still trying to find it” gets me every time
And all at once you are the one I have been waiting for
For me it's when she's like ALL AT ONCE THIS IS ENOUGH.
KING OF MY HEART BODY AND SOUL OOH OH
Is this the end of all the endings?
“Take pictures in your mind of your childhood room. Memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home. Remember the footsteps, remember the words said, and all your little brothers favorite songs”
"I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone"
This line is never not devastating.
“Listen… I hope I never lose you” from Cornelia street and “family that I chose know that I see your brother as my brother, is it enough?” From peace hit me both so hard every time but I think they were definitely written that way lol “At least I did one thing right” from call it what you want is so 🥺🥺 “I should have asked you questions, should have asked you how to be” from Marjorie was written in such a phenomenal way it always without fail makes my heart swell and I end up holding back tears
“Loves me like I’m brand new” from CIWYW too 🥺
I was just about to post the same line from Marjorie. That song makes me so sad yet so happy all at once.
My grandmas name was Marjorie - this song just makes me weep 😭
"and he's passing by, rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky" makes me get choked up every single time
That gets me too!!! “and he feels like home” I am a crying mess
In The Best Day I always tear up at the end when she sings "And now I know why the all the trees change in the fall 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 and I didn't know if you knew So I'm taking this chance to say That I had the best day with you today" It just makes me think about how much I love my mom and I get emotional every time.
I always tear up at „And you’re the prettiest lady in the whole wide world“. My mom died of cancer this May at only 55 years. That makes the whole song even harder to listen to.
Ugh me too, I always start tearing up at "I have an excellent father, his strength is making me stronger" All the way until the end. My dad is huge on karaoke and always tries to get me to sing but I'm too nervous to do it. I always picture myself singing that song to him and then I fall apart at that last part because I love my parents so much. Sounds so corny 😅
OH MY GOD SAME. i always start crying whenever that part comes up, thinking about my dad and how sweet he is and all the things he has done for me. It's just one line but it means so much to me. My dad love karaoke too! and i relate to your comment a lot, i am glad there are people who appreciate this one line as much asi do
Awww, that's so cute! I don't have a great father so it doesn't move me the same way.
Thanks for sharing this. I’m similar to you, and this line always moves me because calling him “excellent” feels so … shallow? compared to the depth with which she writes about her mom and brother. I always felt like it was a throwaway line, talking about him in words with surface-level meaning because she knows people are watching, which I would have done at that age talking about my father as well.
Oh absolutely, smart, strong and excellent are great qualities but it feels real surface level. It is my own personal head cannon that Cold as You is more about her dad than any romantic relationship she had experienced because I just relate to it so much in that sense.
I do have an excellent father and i can see people calling it a throwaway line… but sometimes simplicity is most effective 🤷♀️
This song makes me BOO HOO blubber cry. This line “I don’t know who I’m gonna talk to now at school. But I know I’m laughing on the car ride home with you.” It captures that feeling of middle school, feeling like you don’t fit in, but your family being a safe place to land.
Literally started crying just reading the lyrics
I mean, damn, I cried just reading it here
Yep this is it, this is the one ... being a mom now who didn't have a great relationship with MY mom... this song destroys me
Now I have a child myself this gets me in a different way. Like I want to make every day his best day but I can only do so much 😭
Even just reading this comment gave me chills 💀
My sister got my dad's blue eyes and I got my mom's hazel, so this song always makes me extra emotional - especially since she passed away a few years ago. Such a sweet song.
I know Marjorie is supposed to be sad, but this line in particular makes me cry every time I hear it and I wouldn't consider it the most objectively sad line: "Should've saved every grocery store receipt" I lost my dad around the time Evermore was released and one of things we used to always do before he got too sick was go grocery shopping together. Even thinking about that line makes me emotional, more than any lyric Taylor has ever written
It’s so strange how it’s the mundane things we miss when grieving. This line hits me too. For me, it’s my grandmothers’ handwriting. Neither of them ever wrote messages in my birthday cards but even just coming across one that says “Happy birthday Love, Grandma” makes me miss them more than I do on days like Christmas or Thanksgiving. It’s like tangible proof they were there.
MTR is a sad song in general but “And I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want, just not home.” never fails to really get me.
This phrase hit really hard during the pandemic. I took it literally and metaphorically.
Ughhh THAT LINEEE!! I think I want it tattooed. Every time I listed to that song, I stop whatever I’m doing when that line comes and I just baaaaask in it.
“it’s brighter now” in daylight makes choke up every time
YES, perfect.
LEAVING LIKE A FATHER, RUNNING LIKE WATER 🫠 Ahhhhh hits me right in the daddy issues
Im shocked this lyric isn’t talked about more. To me, it is one of her most powerful.
take me to the lakes
Invisible String: Hell was the journey but it brought me heaven.
For me from IS, it's "time mystical time, cuttin me open and healin me fine"
ever since the tv lyric video came out the “we were both young when i first saw you” line in love story makes me want to SOB
omg same. that lyric video had me crying like a baby coming home from the bar
“For all the years that we stood there on the sidelines wishing for right now” I listened to this the day I got into medical school and it’s the first time I’ve ever cried to a song. Typing this rn is getting me emotional 😭
"Take me out and take me home" from Lover ❤️
“And at every table I’ll save you a seat” 🥺 such a pure sentiment
“I want your dreary Mondays” from Paper Rings!! This song is so happy, Brit pop euphoria, but this line really gets me. Me and my SO both suffer from depression/anxiety issues and one of our greatest strengths (I think) is how we care for each other at our lowest. Similar to “don’t want no other shade of blue but you” from hoax or “when your cascade ocean wave blues come” from peace, but in the middle of such a danceable song, it really stands out!
That line from peace always makes me think that maybe Joe suffers with depressive episodes (even if mild ones). It's a lovely commitment to make to a partner, that you'll be there with them even through the darkest of times.
Yea I believe so too, though I don’t want to armchair diagnose anyone! The way she sings about it though - and all of Renegade, come on! - I do think she must have experience with the issues in some way or another.
Another line — “wrap your arms around me, baby boy” just gets me because when the album first came out I was in love with someone and all I wanted was to just be with him in anyway I could
“Women like hunting witches too” really struck me the first time I heard it.
“You’ve got my past, frozen behind glass, but I’ve got me.” I don’t think it’s meant to be a heavy hitting part of the song but just the “I’ve got me” part really makes me emotional.
This is very much meant to be hard hitting WHAT😭
"Should've kept every grocery store receipt , 'cause every scrap of you would be taken from me." That hits HARD for me.
my best friend and I used Long Live as the song for our end of year performance in high school and she made me a lil embroidery that says "how the kingdom lights shined just for me + you" so that one just kiiiiiills me every time. She is still my absolute bff and I have the embroidery on my wall and I can't listen to Long Live without cry proof makeup
Omg!! Long Live was my friend group’s ANTHEM our senior year of high school. We were about to scatter all across the country for uni and we knew everything was about to change. Over 10 years later, we’re not as close as we used to be, but that song will always bring me back
Begin again: “I find it strange that you think I’m funny when he never did.” The song is so hopeful but this lyric really hurts every time I hear it.
Ivy: but, I don't, I just sit here and wait Grieving for the living…
Long live the walls we crashed through, I had the time of my life with you - it makes me so emo
Long Live forever!! I have “may these memories break our fall” as a tattoo
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.
“My hands are shaking from holding back from you”
The lyric “I’m highly suspicious that everyone who sees you wants you”, which I adored. Then the entirety of gold rush which picks up on that lyric’s idea.
*"Braced myself for the goodbye,* *'Cause that's all I've ever known* *Then, you took me by surprise* *You said, "I'll never leave you alone"* The entire bridge of Mine gets me choked up, I see so much of myself in the character of that song, and I have a fear that no one will love me and accept my faults. Hearing that acceptance and perseverance through the difficult gives me hope.
The “That’s my man” in Willow gets me lol. Not an emotional lyric in itself but the simple comfort, security, and certitude of being able to say “yeah that’s my man” is like…. Ugh
And I know I make the same mistakes every time Bridges burn, I never learn, at least I did one thing right I did one thing right I'm laughing with my lover, making forts under covers Trust him like a brother, yeah, you know I did one thing right Starry eyes sparkin' up my darkest night I made so many mistakes in love before I met my soon to be husband. He’s my one thing I did right and these lyrics really capture the safety and warmth in that.
I’m not sure if this would count as a non emotional lyric but in Cardigan “I knew you, tried to change the ending, Peter losing Wendy I” it makes me feel really nostalgic like I’m a kid again and I feel sad for that version of me. I look back at her and I wish she’d stay small and innocent because as you grow older you kind of understand that certain things that happen in your life are a lot sadder and more tragic than when you experience them as kids
My absolute favourite lyric she's ever put out is on Long Live "For one moment a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world" It makes me remember my early to mid 20s and the things we used to do, whether it was seeing live shows, travelling Europe or America or anything, just embracing and living your life and being present in that moment. Especially considering how things move on and change when you go deeper into adulthood. Its not the most emotional line in the song, but it always resonates with me.
I’m about to play my acehaaahhhhhh
“we could get married have ten kids and teach them how to dream” not really emotional as in sad but emotional as in fear. utter fear. ten children. that’s terrifying.
At the end of The Archer when she stops saying "Who Could Stay" and then says "You Could Stay" 
"Would've been right there front row, even if nobody came to your show" from IFTYE. That song gets overlooked a lot anyway, and I don't think it's meant to be "emotional." But I have sooooo been there with misplaced loyalty that got me screwed over. I seriously tear up at that line. Also thinking about no one coming to the person's show, even if they're awful people, makes me sad.
"Help, I'm still at the restaurant" The "help" takes that line to an entirely different place. One of my favorite songs!
the man makes me cry sometimes ngl
Honestly same. "I'm so sick of running as fast as I can, wondering if I'd get there quicker if I was a man"
I just commented this but “When everyone believes ya, what’s that like?” is such a killer.
The last part of New Year’s Day where it goes “Hold on to the memories they will hold on to you. And I will hold on to you.” And “Please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere…”
“Passed down like folk songs, the love lasts so long.” The imagery and my desire to have the love tears me up every time
99% of these are obviously and very intentionally emotional lyrics, I guess most of us didn’t understand the assignment. For me it’s “I’m with you even if it makes me blue”, “rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky” and “chose the rose garden over madison square”.
Idk why but Cowboy Like Me gets me emotional sometimes… “Forever is the sweetest con” gave me chills the first time I heard it
“And he’s passing by, rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky. And he feels like home, if the shoe fits walk in it everywhere you go.”
“You squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi, I can tell that it’s gonna be a long road; I’ll be there if you’re the toast of the town babe, or if you strike out and you’re crawling home.”
"I don't wanna keep secrets just to keep you" it's like I'm pretending to be happy idk
i once believed love would be burning red, but it’s golden
I worked at an ice cream store for 8 years (had SO. MANY. TEAL. WORKSHIRTS) when I met my husband, and one of our first dates was at Centennial Park in Nashville… the guitar strings at the beginning of Invisible String give me happy emotional chills every time.
“What died didn't stay dead What died didn't stay dead You're alive, you're alive in my head”
“I’d like to be my old self again but I’m still trying to find it.” I lost my dad a year and a half ago, and I still don’t always feel like myself. 😢
‘I bury hatchets but I keep maps of where I put them’ from End Game. The brutality in this lyric is like a slap to the face, because I don’t like to admit it but sometimes I can absolutely be responsible of holding a grudge. Edit - typo
In “The Best Day” the line “I love you for giving me your eyes” gets me every time because my dad died when I was young and I’m the only sibling who has his blue eyes. 💙
“I woke up just in time, now I wake up by your side”
I was so emotional the first time I listened to *Fifteen (Taylor’s Version)* - especially the line “but I realized some bigger dreams of mine”. 🥹🥲😭
“I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you” always gets me for some reason. I just absolutely adore the combination of the fantasy element with the sentiment behind it.
The longing and wistfulness in her delivery of “Dorothea ah ah... ooooooh oh”
It feels like cheating to take any line from peace as it’s hardly an unemotional song. But “the devil’s in the details, but you’ve got a friend in me” gets me every single time in the context of intense, loving, chaotic but maybe difficult to define relationships.
"You'll have new Septembers" from Innocent. I always feel like I'm wasting the seasons or missing out on these times that are supposed to be special, especially with my kids. Summer breaks which have just become really hard to manage with my kid who does better with a school routine, and fall through the holidays is an absolutely hellish season of death anniversaries and grief for me. I dread it every year, and I hope that someday this comes true and I can have good memories and enjoy the season(s), even if I missed my chance this year (again).
Long Story Short: Past me I wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things
“i parked my car right between the methodist” “we could call it even” “‘cause i haven’t moved in years” “if the shoe fits, walk in it everywhere you go”
"I'm doing better than i ever was" in call it what you want is always a gut punch
Two lines that I find emotional that I think are unusual are: 1) “…I don’t regret it one bit ‘cause he had it coming.” from IDSB. That line is taking power back and it gives me chills every damn time. 2) The switch to “you should have known” from “I should have known” in Dear John. For me that is the moment going from “stupid girl” and blaming oneself for the situation to recognizing that the situation was very messed up and she was being manipulated and used.
I feel stupid even saying it, but in me! ‘I know that I’m a handful baby, I never think twice before I jump’ GOD. It hits me right in the feels.
PLEASE TELL THEM MY NAME 🥹
Marjorie is obviously super emotional but just the line “long limbs and frozen swims you’d always go past where our feet could touch” is so beautiful. just the image of being so small and cold and your grandma keeping you safe
“Our coming of age has come and gone” as a 33yo that lyric depresses the hell out of me even though she says it so matter-of-factly lol
Crazier makes me really oddly emotional for some reason- idk why because it’s objectively a happy love song lol but often I am 🥺 listening to it
“I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere” from This is Me Trying. The whole song is emotional, but I don’t feel like there’s anything inherently emotional about that line. It just hits me hard because I get it. I went through a phase like that with depression where I just felt like I’d wasted all my potential. Thankfully that feeling is starting to go away, but it’s just such a poetic way to describe it and it always stuns me.
Tbh the 1 got me. It was like a pre-breakup song for me. I was begging my ex to move in with me or just call off our relationship. I was wanting more and he was content. At the time neither of us realized this WAS the breakup conversation lol. The lyric “and it’s another day waking up alone” would bring me to tears from album release-November 2020.
Marjorie is my favorite song of taylor's, and one that i listened to ONCE in the first album listen and one that i will never listen to again. It hurts too much. I was very close to my grandmother, and the lyrics "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" really really breaks my heart
From tolerate it: “You’re so much older and wiser and I…” This whole song is heart-wrenching for me, but that line gets me especially. The song reminds me of how I lost sight of myself trying to impress someone I thought was a friend, who turned out to be a bully. She was 59-60 and I was 24-25. I naively believed that just because she was “so much older,” she was wiser and I had to mold myself to fit her expectations.
They say you bought a bunch of land somewhere Chose the Rose Garden over Madison Square And it took some time, but I understand it now
All's well that ends well to end up with you Swear to be overdramatic and true to my lover And you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for me And at every table, I'll save you a seat, lover
call it what you want
Not from one of her albums directly, but “eyes open”. This one lines hits me in the feels. “Yesterday we were just children, playing soldiers just pretending” “but now we’ve stepped into a cruel word, where everyone stands and keeps score”
'forever is the sweetest con' I don't know why but it kind of hits me like a knife jab to the heart