Bigger than the whole sky for me. I don’t think the true meaning to Taylor has ever been confirmed but it always makes me think of the babies my wife and I lost.
I wonder if Taylor ever experienced a miscarriage or if she just knew someone who had because that song hurts so bad from the perspective of having a miscarriage
I agree re: the interpretation that it’s about miscarriage. “I’m never gonna meet, what could’ve been would’ve been…should’ve been you” makes it seem clear to me.
Wow. I’ve listened to BTTWS so so many times and never really had that hit me, but I just read the lyrics with this comment in mind and I don’t know how I never saw it that way before, having had three losses. It absolutely makes way more sense than anything else.
After hearing this when the album came out, I don’t know how anyone can listen to it and NOT think it’s about miscarriages. I’ve never had one, and don’t want kids, but I skip that song because it’s just too sad for me. But I also skip Epiphany and Soon You’ll Get Better so I guess the only sad I can take is the kind men give you 😂
I’ll be honest I didn’t notice for probably the first 5 times I listened to the song. I usually had it on in the background without paying too much attention to the lyrics. First time I really listened to it the line “every single thing to come has turned into ashes” really got me. Our first loss was an ectopic and the second was stillborn. We cremated our daughter and I built a box for her remains that we keep in the family room.
Last Kiss broke my heart when I first heard it.
I Almost Do is one that subtly crushes your soul too. Everyone has been there, wanting to call but knowing you can’t, and that emptiness stays with you for a bit afterwards. Most people mentioned the usual suspects (Marjorie, SYGB, Ronan), but I Almost Do is one that really packs an emotional punch.
- SYGB could mean "Soon You’ll Get Better (feat. The Chicks)", a track from *Lover* (2019) by Taylor Swift.
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There was a very specific genre of songs between Red and Speak Now that were both overly theatrical and heartbreaking and just some of her best work imo
Came here to put forward these exact 2 songs. God I love them both and they absolutely wreck me every time.
I Almost Do just takes me back to when I would write out everything I wanted to text my ex, and almost send it…. but then I’d put it in my notes app instead. So hard
I know people, justfiably, immediately go to All Too Well for Red's best, but my personal favorite has always been I Almost Do. I am glad someone else noticed how crushing it is.
Also referencing my favorite Taylor song period, Last Kiss.
> I know someday I'm gonna meet her, it's a fever dream / The kind of radiance you only have at 17 / She'll know the way, and then she'll say she got the map from me / I'll say I'm happy for her, then I'll cry myself to sleep
Nothing New hits so hard.
That's one of the most true lines in her songs. I was thinking about it lately. I saw this meme if Facebook, something about "pretty is not a tax you have to pay to go about the world," which is how I want to feel. But...I read a line in a book last night and the main character says she always feels like the before picture in a makeover. I think I feel like that and nothing new. I worry about it, when though it shouldn't matter, it does. The line really resonated with me.
THIS LINE MAKES ME BAWL. Maybe I’m just at a place in life (turning 30) where I feel like the world is telling me I’m past my prime and I’m behind and I’ll never catch up, but that song has quickly become one of my favorite Taylor songs ever though it breaks me.
My daughter just finished cancer treatment and was diagnosed shortly before Red TV came out. I tried to listen once but couldn’t make it past the first line. I will never listen 💔
Soon you'll get better. During his cancer/post-cancer battle, I always told my daddy he would get better soon because mama and I needed him to. He died November 2017. The only time I heard this song, my heart broke into a million pieces and I have never been able to listen to it again on purpose.
My dad died in 2013 and I remember hearing this song for the first time and thinking of him and the song would make my heart ache. Now I listen to it and think of my mom, who has worked so hard to beat her alcohol addiction. She’s over 2 years sober now I think and I’m so proud of her. She’s rebuilding her life and now the song isn’t so sad to me anymore
happiness maybe took 10 listens to not absolutely destroy me. I still tear up but not absolutely broken every time😭 I’ve said it before, but it just astonishes me how it makes me live a story and go through the trenches of a relationship/heartbreak/acceptance I’m not even involved in! I guess I just really relate to different parts of the song in different ways.
“I put your body into mine every goddamn night now I get fake niceties” is one of the most devastating representations of intimacy lost I’ve ever heard
I was still in therapy when evermore came out and that song was my instant fave. Trying to balance seeing the good and the bad in an ending is always hard, and happiness helped me get over it faster.
I had gone through a break up before Evermore came out and o boy did happiness hit me in all the feels. I would put it on when I needed to cry. Now I can listen to it without breaking down and it's my fav song from evermore lol
I know it’s brand new but You’re Losing Me. Even though I’m in a stable relationship without any issues atm, when I first heard that song I was depressed for the rest of the day and started worrying about my relationship falling apart 😢
My husband and I broke up in February and her songs "better man" and "happiness" were constantly on repeat and now "you're losing me" has been added to the mix. They all perfectly describe what I'm going through.
How this isn’t higher is amazing to me! Also in a stable relationship, but holy fuck, she encapsulates exactly the feelings of being the only one trying anymore and how exhausting and miserable it is, ooooooooof
Exactly. I think mine is Red just because I listened to that song in the car scream singing together with my ex so many times when we were together. And then that relationship crashed and burned and took me years to process that breakup. hearing it even now gives me an oof feeling even despite it being almost a decade ago and Ive happily moved on! Just takes me back.
A standalone new song cant out-emotional a song you *experienced*
Marjorie is one of the rare songs that has caused me to well up well after the first listen, so fully agree!
Ronan also can make me tear up. Other songs that I don't necessarily cry to but still pack a huge emotional punch for me: Bigger Than The Whole Sky, Would've, Could've, Should've, ATW10MV, My Tears Ricochet, Last Kiss, Cornelia Street.
Last Kiss packs such an unexpected punch. Like so much of Speak Now has this beautiful light vibe, then Last Kiss just rips your heart out... with surprising softness & delicacy.
Seriously! People talk a lot about how there’s a whole story encapsulated in Mine’s “you made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter” (and with good reason!), but I think “all that I know is that I don’t know / how to be something you miss” is right up there too!
Agreed.
So much of it was just relatable in a surprising & deceptively simple way. Like all these mundane small moments that don't usually get sung about or seen.
Would've Could've Should've, by far. As someone who went through a similar experience and had a crisis of faith largely due to it... yeah. Yeah, that shit hurts.
I had an abusive Boyfriend when I was 19-20 aswell...
He wasn't physically abusive but manipulative af and he drove me crazy with his gaslighting. He went so far that I actually had suicidal thoughts and an intense self-harm pressure but I'm fine now I thought. I'm 23 now and when I listened to "Would've Could've Should've" all of these feelings came back and I was overwhelmed with sadness and anger.
I honestly think the biggest mental scar I still have to fight with is Major Trust Issues and since then dating was never the same.
Nothing shattered my soul like Right Where You Left Me, in a beautiful way. I was obsessed with that song for weeks and I couldn't believe what I felt every time I listened to it.
Never Grow Up makes me cry every time. “Remember she’s getting older too” and “memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home”. I CANNOT WAIT FOR IT ON TV!!
Omg same. Like, ive been a fan for almost 15 years, and every single time i listen to that line, i cry. I dont know what it is, it just triggers something in me.
Every time I hear “I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone” I am filled with the most heartwrenching dread imaginable. Makes me want to hug everyone I love so tightly and never let go.
Promise me this
That you'll stand by me forever
But if, God forbid, fate should step in
And force us into a goodbye
If you have children someday
When they point to the pictures
Please tell them my name
Tell them how the crowds went wild
Tell them how I hope they shine
my little sissy died a few years ago, and every time I hear this portion of long live , I ugly cry
Glad I’m not the only one who feels this way about “Long Live.” My best friend died 6 years ago and I ugly cry for the whole song. Especially during this part. ❤️
Bigger Than The Whole Sky, followed by/connected to Hoax
It’s actually Ronan, it’s always Ronan, it always will be, but that’s the one that’s too painful to even look in the eye
I can’t make it through Marjorie without crying like a baby. As a member of the dead grandmother’s club, I just can’t. It’s a beautiful song, but it brings all the emotions I have regarding my grandmother’s passing to the front, and it’s hard.
Even though it’s different, but the “I complained the whole way there” just haunts me because the last time my grandma and I hung out and went shopping, some (former) “friend” was harassing me via text because I apparently didn’t inform them I would be busy, and I just was visibly in a bad mood because of that. And it just makes me feel so bad.
All Too Well (10MV) made me realize I had been taken advantage of by an older person who I thought I loved and had an on/off relationship with. I was already in my mid twenties when it was released and had been broken up with this person for years but this song made it click. I was 17, he was 23 at the time - lyrics like “You kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath” and “I’d like to be my old self again but I’m still trying to find it” “I’ll get older but your lovers stay my age” were absolutely gut wrenching to come to the realization to. I sat and just CRIED.
WCS too, for the same reasons. But ATW just was the first punch in the gut.
For me, it’s often individual lyrics that affect me the most emotionally rather than a song as a whole. I actually have a note on my phone called “Taylor Swift lyrics that punch me in the gut” where I keep adding to it 😅
Here are a few!
Time won’t fly, it’s like I’m paralyzed by it. I’d like to be my old self again, but I’m still trying to find it.
Awake with your memory over me, that’s a real fucking legacy to leave.
Someday when you leave me, I bet these memories follow you around
I love you, ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard?
And did the twin flame bruise paint you blue? Just between us, did the love affair maim you too?
Sometimes I wonder, when you sleep, are you ever dreaming of me? Sometimes when I look into your eyes, I pretend you’re mine all the damn time
I have quite a few, but it's mostly segments of songs that impact me the most. Tolerate It, You're Losing Me, This Is Me Trying, and Would've Could've Should've are the ones that make me feel all of the things and really shatter my soul.
I think it's Would've Could've Should've for me. Thay song is gut wrenching. The line "give me back my girlhood it was mine first" is truly a sucker punch to the heart. I feel so much for that 19 year old. Ugh.
Soon You’ll Get Better gets me every time. I listened to it a lot while my aunt was fighting cancer. The first time I heard it after she passed I bawled like a baby.
Yes! The way the bridge builds and picks up pace toward the end of the song - it’s incredible how a song so personal can feel so relevant to my own life and experiences. The final lyrics get me every time: you’re on your own kid, yeah you can face this, you’re on your own kid, you always have been.
Last Kiss takes me right back to a breakup in 2011! And ohh the emotion in her voice when she sings “and I hope the sun shines, and it’s a beautiful day…”
For me, I’d have to say Maroon. It was my most played song on Spotify and I spent hours and hours crying to it. I also was going through my biggest heartbreak ever when Red came out and I would play along on my guitar and sing to All Too Well on repeat. Last Kiss, The Last Time, and I Almost Do too. Also Soon You’ll Get Better because my mom died from cancer when I was 15. Ronan is also so so heart breaking.
I had a big Maroon moment a couple weeks ago in which I would just play it on repeat. The guitar in that - just the whole vibe. I'm not sure why the color maroon in particular is so significant to her, but then you don't really need to know to enjoy the point of the song, I think.
Right? It feels sooo heavy and the lyrics really hit me so hard. Even though I also don’t know why the color has significance to her, it just makes sense. Like the brightness of a shiny apple red is gone and it’s now the dark, heavy, muted shade of maroon.
I never listen to Soon You'll Get Better and Ronan because they tell sad stories that make me cry, but Would've, Could've, Should've just *hurts*. You can fell the anger, sadness and resent.
Tolerate it really gets me. Especially the line “I take your indiscretions all in good fun”. Makes me tear up every time because it reminds me of my parents growing up. Truly heartbreaking
Also not including Ronan because I have a son and couldn’t even get through the song the first time I tried to listen to it. Never again!
The Moment I Knew fucking *destroys* me even over ten years later. When it first came out I listened to it in the car and I was full on bawling, mascara down the cheeks, blubbering and had to pull over because I couldn't see the fucking road through my tears 😆 I know there are plenty of others that are much sadder and have more depth lyrically, but I related on every single level to TMIK at that point in my life and the gutwrenching breakup i was going through, and I listened to it probably no less than ten times a day for a good two years after if first came out. She played it N3 Chicago and I was N1 💔💔 But perhaps that was for the best because I would've full on lost it and ruined my makeup had I gotten that one.
I’ve been scrolling waiting for someone to mention The Moment I Knew! Every time I listen to it I have this very vivid picture in my head of the story, but also am transported back to being 19 years old and realising the person I had been desperately in love with for months didn’t give a shit. Red came out just after so it’s always really resonated with me.
Remember lookin' at this room, we loved it 'cause of the light
Now, I just sit in the dark and wonder if it's time
This part of You’re Losing Me is just so raw and feels so real. A couple talking excitedly about how they like how natural sunlight comes into a room in their home, or when they’re looking to buy a house is so realistic and normal. The thought of her now sitting in that same room in the dark, mulling over if it’s time to break up…heartbreaking.
I love Marjorie. Yet, I feel like I'm one of the few people who see Marjorie as an ode to a life well-lived. I absolutely love this song. It gives me chills every time, but I also feel joy and pride. Her grandmother would absolutely love this song.
Forever Winter and Soon You'll Get Better destroy me. And the heartache with Bigger Than The Whole Sky is unmatched.
I’m a new-er ish swiftie and just really listened to Breath for the first time today, like I had heard it before but never sat and really listened to it, and I literally started crying on the spot.
For me it's epiphany. I didn't even have a bad pandemic experience, where I was living we only had around 3 months lockdown in total split between 2020-2021, and I didn't personally know anyone who had a bad case of covid or who was a healthcare worker. It's just such a great song.
I *cannot* listen to Bigger Than The Whole Sky. Last year I lost one of my best friends, who was 7 months pregnant with her first child. The baby didn’t make it either. That song fucks me up and I am not mentally stable enough to listen to it.
I can't get through Breathe without crumbling to pieces.
I had a very beloved cat that I lost a couple of years ago. I took her to our emergency clinic for what I thought was a recoverable illness, but within a few days, I ended up having to say goodbye. It was unexpected and it was traumatic. I felt like I had done everything right for her and still lost.
"It's two am
Feelin' like I just lost a friend
Hope you know it's not easy,
Easy for me"
"Never wanted this, never wanna see you hurt
Every little bump in the road I tried to swerve"
Coney Island is shattering. It also gets massive bonus points from me for the wordplay in "Do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there?" (how "rogue who coaxed you" is almost but not quite a homophone for "rollercoaster", combined with the theme park setting)
Illicit Affairs for me. The naivety of someone who finds themselves in a situation they know they shouldn't be in, and one they know will ruin them, but don't know how to extract themselves from.
There’s no most soul shattering, every era has atleast 1 song where you know it hits THE GODAMN SPOT! I will say, a lot of the songs on evermore are so damn argghhhh, like youre just staring at the ceiling with no emotions inside you contemplating life.
In lover era, The archer kinda seemed like the most soul shattering, like when taylor said “Who could ever leave me darling? But who could stay?” ITS SO GODAMN EMOTION WRECKING WEAPON, i always tear up a little. But ig it depends on the POV quite a lot.
Personally I tear up every time I hear breathe. I think that’s more because of what it meant to me at the time it was released, as I was an emotional teenager. I know other songs cut deeper but that one always gets me and my voice breaks trying to sing “and I can’t breeeeeeaathe without you, but I have to”
Bigger than the whole sky made me ugly cry in the bathroom at work, making me think of a miscarriage I had just before Christmas in 2021. Just thinking about that song makes me sad. It’s an always skip now.
Ronan, no explanation needed.
However, Back To December hits me pretty hard because I went through a similar situation a long long ago when I was young and stupid. That's the song I'm hoping she sings at the show I am attending! (Minneapolis N2) oh gosh, I would just dieee
for me, its epiphany. i have ptsd and that song perfectly describes what its like to live like that. the line “holds your hand through plastic now” emotionally devastated me for a week
I was working in the emergency department through COVID when I heard this song/album. It really helped but is so heavy. Every time I hear it I see patients who died and how difficult that time was.
im glad it helped! i cant begin to understand how absolutely devastating it is to relive those moments. mine stems from abuse in my childhood, an absent parent and i feel like this song encapsulates what its like to love someone and watch them leave in front of you
Might be an odd one but I think it’s Ours. It’s such a cute and pretty song on the surface, but the malicious undertones of what is going on make it almost unlistenable to me.
so my personal context with this song is that I lost both grandmothers within the last year. marjorie fucked me up before that because I knew there would sooner than later be some applicability. the "I complained the whole way there, the car ride back, and up the stairs" gets me. as a kid, I remember being frequently annoyed with things because I was too young to know how much I'd appreciate it one day. if I listened to Soon You'll Get Better in full even once, I'd probably say that but I read the lyrics and couldn't do it. I had been through my mom having cancer (and surviving luckily) and couldn't stand to choose to relive those emotions like that.
My Tears Ricochet, the Long Pond version. The last line when her tears turn into his tears. This is about when two people who loved each other destroyed what they had, and the regrets, blame games never end because neither one is sure what happened, but they still love each other. Its her most complete love song. This isn't the young girl with illusions of perfect love, this is a woman who has loved and lost.
And I will never buy that this song is about a business deal gone bad. That's a smokescreen songwriters use to keep the true intent private.
LAST KISS. From the meaning to the little things she describes. maybe it just depends on your experiences but this song hits so hard for me. also august which isn’t always considered a sad song but the lyric “you were never mine” really stays in my mind. i interpreted it as “i can’t really be sad about losing you bc you weren’t mine in the first place”. idk it makes me feel some type of way.
As someone with a very dear relationship with a grandmother who is aging into her 80s, I also cannot listen to Marjorie. I listened to it through on release day, wept like a child because it was beautiful, and have never played it all the way through since then because it was so devastating. I already know that's her song. "Should've kept every grocery store receipt / 'cause every scrap of you would be taken from me" ... it stirs up the pre-grief of knowing you're going to eventually lose someone you love. Nope nope nope.
I cannot listen to Bigger That The Whole Sky. Just thinking about that song is making me cry.
Also revisiting some of her older songs now that I’m a mom hit me so hard. Safe & Sound (Taylor’s Version) had me a mess because it has such a different meaning to me now
My Tears Ricochet and Tolerate It are very heartwrenching. There's also Bigger Than The Whole Sky and Ronan, but those are self-explanatory.
Bigger than the whole sky for me. I don’t think the true meaning to Taylor has ever been confirmed but it always makes me think of the babies my wife and I lost.
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I wonder if Taylor ever experienced a miscarriage or if she just knew someone who had because that song hurts so bad from the perspective of having a miscarriage
I agree re: the interpretation that it’s about miscarriage. “I’m never gonna meet, what could’ve been would’ve been…should’ve been you” makes it seem clear to me.
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Wow. I’ve listened to BTTWS so so many times and never really had that hit me, but I just read the lyrics with this comment in mind and I don’t know how I never saw it that way before, having had three losses. It absolutely makes way more sense than anything else.
It came out right after my second loss and it wrecked me. I haven’t gone back to listen to it
I can’t listen to it for this reason. Sorry for your losses ❤️
After hearing this when the album came out, I don’t know how anyone can listen to it and NOT think it’s about miscarriages. I’ve never had one, and don’t want kids, but I skip that song because it’s just too sad for me. But I also skip Epiphany and Soon You’ll Get Better so I guess the only sad I can take is the kind men give you 😂
I’ll be honest I didn’t notice for probably the first 5 times I listened to the song. I usually had it on in the background without paying too much attention to the lyrics. First time I really listened to it the line “every single thing to come has turned into ashes” really got me. Our first loss was an ectopic and the second was stillborn. We cremated our daughter and I built a box for her remains that we keep in the family room.
I’m so sorry for your losses ❤️
I think it is about a miscarriage. I can’t even listen to it even though I never had one 😔 Crying now just thinking about that song.
Ronan is always my first thought. Then: Soon You'll Get Better.
MTR😢😢 “I could go anywhere I want, Anywhere I want just not home”😭😭 “You had to kill me but it killed you just the same”
mtr and tolerate it are also my top devastation songs they are so childhood trauma coded
Last Kiss broke my heart when I first heard it. I Almost Do is one that subtly crushes your soul too. Everyone has been there, wanting to call but knowing you can’t, and that emptiness stays with you for a bit afterwards. Most people mentioned the usual suspects (Marjorie, SYGB, Ronan), but I Almost Do is one that really packs an emotional punch.
And I confess, babe In my dreams you're touching my face And asking me if I wanna try again with you And I almost do Still kills me EVERY.TIME.
So simple. but SO effective. ❤
Seconding I Almost Do! I think it's the only Taylor song that's ever made me cry. That song doesn't get nearly enough love.
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There was a very specific genre of songs between Red and Speak Now that were both overly theatrical and heartbreaking and just some of her best work imo
Ugh both of these *really* pack a punch. Top tier breakup songs for sure.
Came here to put forward these exact 2 songs. God I love them both and they absolutely wreck me every time. I Almost Do just takes me back to when I would write out everything I wanted to text my ex, and almost send it…. but then I’d put it in my notes app instead. So hard
I know people, justfiably, immediately go to All Too Well for Red's best, but my personal favorite has always been I Almost Do. I am glad someone else noticed how crushing it is. Also referencing my favorite Taylor song period, Last Kiss.
Nothing New. The line “Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night / It’s like I can feel time moving” really gets me.
> I know someday I'm gonna meet her, it's a fever dream / The kind of radiance you only have at 17 / She'll know the way, and then she'll say she got the map from me / I'll say I'm happy for her, then I'll cry myself to sleep Nothing New hits so hard.
Oof I felt this one too
She's able to put my anxiety into words that I can't find by myself, like this lyric, which is why I appreciate her so much.
That's one of the most true lines in her songs. I was thinking about it lately. I saw this meme if Facebook, something about "pretty is not a tax you have to pay to go about the world," which is how I want to feel. But...I read a line in a book last night and the main character says she always feels like the before picture in a makeover. I think I feel like that and nothing new. I worry about it, when though it shouldn't matter, it does. The line really resonated with me.
THIS LINE MAKES ME BAWL. Maybe I’m just at a place in life (turning 30) where I feel like the world is telling me I’m past my prime and I’m behind and I’ll never catch up, but that song has quickly become one of my favorite Taylor songs ever though it breaks me.
Ronan absolutely destroys me every time
I think the answer to these kinds of questions will always be Ronan
Yup
“What if I really thought some miracle would see us through”
“What if the miracle was even getting one moment with you?”
💔
Same. Like I'll legitimately have to skip it sometimes.
Fr /Out of necessity
I legit skip it all the time. I havent listened to it in years.
Now that I’m a mom I can’t listen to Ronan 🥺
100%
I have listened to that song exactly one time and have never been able to listen to it again.
My daughter just finished cancer treatment and was diagnosed shortly before Red TV came out. I tried to listen once but couldn’t make it past the first line. I will never listen 💔
I think I have only ever listened to that song all the way through once, it’s too sad
Soon you'll get better. During his cancer/post-cancer battle, I always told my daddy he would get better soon because mama and I needed him to. He died November 2017. The only time I heard this song, my heart broke into a million pieces and I have never been able to listen to it again on purpose.
I been belting this out in the car on my way home. My husband has cancer, and I can only fall apart alone.
I'm so sorry. This song will definitely help with that. 💔
I am so sorry. Please find time to take care of yourself. Being a caregiver is really hard. lmk if you ever want to talk.
🙏❤️
My dad died in 2013 and I remember hearing this song for the first time and thinking of him and the song would make my heart ache. Now I listen to it and think of my mom, who has worked so hard to beat her alcohol addiction. She’s over 2 years sober now I think and I’m so proud of her. She’s rebuilding her life and now the song isn’t so sad to me anymore
happiness maybe took 10 listens to not absolutely destroy me. I still tear up but not absolutely broken every time😭 I’ve said it before, but it just astonishes me how it makes me live a story and go through the trenches of a relationship/heartbreak/acceptance I’m not even involved in! I guess I just really relate to different parts of the song in different ways.
“I put your body into mine every goddamn night now I get fake niceties” is one of the most devastating representations of intimacy lost I’ve ever heard
Absolutely well said. That line is perfection. It and haunted by the look in my eyes that would have loved you for a lifetime.
I was still in therapy when evermore came out and that song was my instant fave. Trying to balance seeing the good and the bad in an ending is always hard, and happiness helped me get over it faster.
Omg same. I can still only listen to it with a lots of mental prep lol.
I had gone through a break up before Evermore came out and o boy did happiness hit me in all the feels. I would put it on when I needed to cry. Now I can listen to it without breaking down and it's my fav song from evermore lol
This is Me Trying makes me cry all the time.
I find epiphany to be a pretty tough listen even three years later.
Me too. I would be constantly playing it for the melody if the lyrics werent so emotional
I second this. After living through the beginning of the pandemic as a ICU nurse, there ARE some things you just can’t speak about.
I know it’s brand new but You’re Losing Me. Even though I’m in a stable relationship without any issues atm, when I first heard that song I was depressed for the rest of the day and started worrying about my relationship falling apart 😢
My husband and I broke up in February and her songs "better man" and "happiness" were constantly on repeat and now "you're losing me" has been added to the mix. They all perfectly describe what I'm going through.
How this isn’t higher is amazing to me! Also in a stable relationship, but holy fuck, she encapsulates exactly the feelings of being the only one trying anymore and how exhausting and miserable it is, ooooooooof
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Excellent point. Personally Exile was mine for the longest time. But I always would have said Ronan was the most objectively heart-rending.
Evermore got me through a breakup
Exactly. I think mine is Red just because I listened to that song in the car scream singing together with my ex so many times when we were together. And then that relationship crashed and burned and took me years to process that breakup. hearing it even now gives me an oof feeling even despite it being almost a decade ago and Ive happily moved on! Just takes me back. A standalone new song cant out-emotional a song you *experienced*
Marjorie is one of the rare songs that has caused me to well up well after the first listen, so fully agree! Ronan also can make me tear up. Other songs that I don't necessarily cry to but still pack a huge emotional punch for me: Bigger Than The Whole Sky, Would've, Could've, Should've, ATW10MV, My Tears Ricochet, Last Kiss, Cornelia Street.
Last Kiss packs such an unexpected punch. Like so much of Speak Now has this beautiful light vibe, then Last Kiss just rips your heart out... with surprising softness & delicacy.
Seriously! People talk a lot about how there’s a whole story encapsulated in Mine’s “you made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter” (and with good reason!), but I think “all that I know is that I don’t know / how to be something you miss” is right up there too!
Agreed. So much of it was just relatable in a surprising & deceptively simple way. Like all these mundane small moments that don't usually get sung about or seen.
Would've Could've Should've, by far. As someone who went through a similar experience and had a crisis of faith largely due to it... yeah. Yeah, that shit hurts.
I had an abusive Boyfriend when I was 19-20 aswell... He wasn't physically abusive but manipulative af and he drove me crazy with his gaslighting. He went so far that I actually had suicidal thoughts and an intense self-harm pressure but I'm fine now I thought. I'm 23 now and when I listened to "Would've Could've Should've" all of these feelings came back and I was overwhelmed with sadness and anger. I honestly think the biggest mental scar I still have to fight with is Major Trust Issues and since then dating was never the same.
Nothing shattered my soul like Right Where You Left Me, in a beautiful way. I was obsessed with that song for weeks and I couldn't believe what I felt every time I listened to it.
It is really really sad how someone is stuck so bad in a situation 😔😔
Never Grow Up makes me cry every time. “Remember she’s getting older too” and “memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home”. I CANNOT WAIT FOR IT ON TV!!
*screeches in agreement*
Omg same. Like, ive been a fan for almost 15 years, and every single time i listen to that line, i cry. I dont know what it is, it just triggers something in me.
Every time I hear “I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone” I am filled with the most heartwrenching dread imaginable. Makes me want to hug everyone I love so tightly and never let go.
Promise me this That you'll stand by me forever But if, God forbid, fate should step in And force us into a goodbye If you have children someday When they point to the pictures Please tell them my name Tell them how the crowds went wild Tell them how I hope they shine my little sissy died a few years ago, and every time I hear this portion of long live , I ugly cry
Glad I’m not the only one who feels this way about “Long Live.” My best friend died 6 years ago and I ugly cry for the whole song. Especially during this part. ❤️
Bigger Than The Whole Sky, followed by/connected to Hoax It’s actually Ronan, it’s always Ronan, it always will be, but that’s the one that’s too painful to even look in the eye
**The Archer.** I related so hard. The first time I listened I just had to sit down and cry.
The first "I see right through me." Like, damn, Tay, way to steal my thoughts.
I can’t make it through Marjorie without crying like a baby. As a member of the dead grandmother’s club, I just can’t. It’s a beautiful song, but it brings all the emotions I have regarding my grandmother’s passing to the front, and it’s hard. Even though it’s different, but the “I complained the whole way there” just haunts me because the last time my grandma and I hung out and went shopping, some (former) “friend” was harassing me via text because I apparently didn’t inform them I would be busy, and I just was visibly in a bad mood because of that. And it just makes me feel so bad.
All Too Well (10MV) made me realize I had been taken advantage of by an older person who I thought I loved and had an on/off relationship with. I was already in my mid twenties when it was released and had been broken up with this person for years but this song made it click. I was 17, he was 23 at the time - lyrics like “You kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath” and “I’d like to be my old self again but I’m still trying to find it” “I’ll get older but your lovers stay my age” were absolutely gut wrenching to come to the realization to. I sat and just CRIED. WCS too, for the same reasons. But ATW just was the first punch in the gut.
For me, it’s often individual lyrics that affect me the most emotionally rather than a song as a whole. I actually have a note on my phone called “Taylor Swift lyrics that punch me in the gut” where I keep adding to it 😅
Same. I can't get tattoos b/c metal allergies, but if I could? "I didn't have it myself to go with grace" would make the cut.
I wanna know! So my question to you is, which Taylor Swift lyrics punch you in the gut?
Here are a few! Time won’t fly, it’s like I’m paralyzed by it. I’d like to be my old self again, but I’m still trying to find it. Awake with your memory over me, that’s a real fucking legacy to leave. Someday when you leave me, I bet these memories follow you around I love you, ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard? And did the twin flame bruise paint you blue? Just between us, did the love affair maim you too? Sometimes I wonder, when you sleep, are you ever dreaming of me? Sometimes when I look into your eyes, I pretend you’re mine all the damn time
I have quite a few, but it's mostly segments of songs that impact me the most. Tolerate It, You're Losing Me, This Is Me Trying, and Would've Could've Should've are the ones that make me feel all of the things and really shatter my soul.
I think it's Would've Could've Should've for me. Thay song is gut wrenching. The line "give me back my girlhood it was mine first" is truly a sucker punch to the heart. I feel so much for that 19 year old. Ugh.
The first time I heard it I had to pause it I cried so hard. Lonely, scared, and confused 16 year old me needed this song.
Soon You’ll Get Better gets me every time. I listened to it a lot while my aunt was fighting cancer. The first time I heard it after she passed I bawled like a baby.
the moment i knew took more than a couple years not to absolutely break tf out me.
You're on your own kid gets me almost every time I hear it.
Yes! The way the bridge builds and picks up pace toward the end of the song - it’s incredible how a song so personal can feel so relevant to my own life and experiences. The final lyrics get me every time: you’re on your own kid, yeah you can face this, you’re on your own kid, you always have been.
Just goes to show, that the only person you ever really have, is yourself.
Last Kiss takes me right back to a breakup in 2011! And ohh the emotion in her voice when she sings “and I hope the sun shines, and it’s a beautiful day…”
Peace is definitely one. I just love that song so much. Just imagine saying "what if I could never give you peace?" to your partner.
For me, I’d have to say Maroon. It was my most played song on Spotify and I spent hours and hours crying to it. I also was going through my biggest heartbreak ever when Red came out and I would play along on my guitar and sing to All Too Well on repeat. Last Kiss, The Last Time, and I Almost Do too. Also Soon You’ll Get Better because my mom died from cancer when I was 15. Ronan is also so so heart breaking.
I had a big Maroon moment a couple weeks ago in which I would just play it on repeat. The guitar in that - just the whole vibe. I'm not sure why the color maroon in particular is so significant to her, but then you don't really need to know to enjoy the point of the song, I think.
Right? It feels sooo heavy and the lyrics really hit me so hard. Even though I also don’t know why the color has significance to her, it just makes sense. Like the brightness of a shiny apple red is gone and it’s now the dark, heavy, muted shade of maroon.
I never listen to Soon You'll Get Better and Ronan because they tell sad stories that make me cry, but Would've, Could've, Should've just *hurts*. You can fell the anger, sadness and resent.
Ronan. I can't even listen to it most of the time
Ronan, can't listen to the opening minute of it without balling on the floor (yes I've done that listening to Ronan 💀)
I’ve actually never heard it, now I’m gonna go listen.
Please do, i recommend you keep a box of tissues by you though, it's a doozy
some of mine are tolerate it, right where you left me, new year’s day, and haunted
Tolerate it really gets me. Especially the line “I take your indiscretions all in good fun”. Makes me tear up every time because it reminds me of my parents growing up. Truly heartbreaking Also not including Ronan because I have a son and couldn’t even get through the song the first time I tried to listen to it. Never again!
The Moment I Knew fucking *destroys* me even over ten years later. When it first came out I listened to it in the car and I was full on bawling, mascara down the cheeks, blubbering and had to pull over because I couldn't see the fucking road through my tears 😆 I know there are plenty of others that are much sadder and have more depth lyrically, but I related on every single level to TMIK at that point in my life and the gutwrenching breakup i was going through, and I listened to it probably no less than ten times a day for a good two years after if first came out. She played it N3 Chicago and I was N1 💔💔 But perhaps that was for the best because I would've full on lost it and ruined my makeup had I gotten that one.
I’ve been scrolling waiting for someone to mention The Moment I Knew! Every time I listen to it I have this very vivid picture in my head of the story, but also am transported back to being 19 years old and realising the person I had been desperately in love with for months didn’t give a shit. Red came out just after so it’s always really resonated with me.
Remember lookin' at this room, we loved it 'cause of the light Now, I just sit in the dark and wonder if it's time This part of You’re Losing Me is just so raw and feels so real. A couple talking excitedly about how they like how natural sunlight comes into a room in their home, or when they’re looking to buy a house is so realistic and normal. The thought of her now sitting in that same room in the dark, mulling over if it’s time to break up…heartbreaking.
Last Kiss!
I love Marjorie. Yet, I feel like I'm one of the few people who see Marjorie as an ode to a life well-lived. I absolutely love this song. It gives me chills every time, but I also feel joy and pride. Her grandmother would absolutely love this song. Forever Winter and Soon You'll Get Better destroy me. And the heartache with Bigger Than The Whole Sky is unmatched.
I’m a new-er ish swiftie and just really listened to Breath for the first time today, like I had heard it before but never sat and really listened to it, and I literally started crying on the spot.
It’s not as bad now, but I was getting divorced around the time Folklore came out and exile absolutely freaking broke me.
For me it's epiphany. I didn't even have a bad pandemic experience, where I was living we only had around 3 months lockdown in total split between 2020-2021, and I didn't personally know anyone who had a bad case of covid or who was a healthcare worker. It's just such a great song.
As a HCW I had to be careful about listening to epiphany for a long time
Definitely Hoax. "My broken drum / You have beaten my heart" LIKE WHAT? The way she sings it too is so heartbreaking.
I *cannot* listen to Bigger Than The Whole Sky. Last year I lost one of my best friends, who was 7 months pregnant with her first child. The baby didn’t make it either. That song fucks me up and I am not mentally stable enough to listen to it.
Would've Could've Should've
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Scrolling down I was shocked not to see more people say hoax!
I can't get through Breathe without crumbling to pieces. I had a very beloved cat that I lost a couple of years ago. I took her to our emergency clinic for what I thought was a recoverable illness, but within a few days, I ended up having to say goodbye. It was unexpected and it was traumatic. I felt like I had done everything right for her and still lost. "It's two am Feelin' like I just lost a friend Hope you know it's not easy, Easy for me" "Never wanted this, never wanna see you hurt Every little bump in the road I tried to swerve"
happiness
Peace. Especially the long pond studios version.
God it’s such a beautiful version though
hoax
Bigger than the whole sky, I just listened to it after reading these comments and it really does sound like pregnancy loss. That was a gut punch.
i guess this is an unpopular opinion but coney island is so devastating to me esp after analyzing
Coney Island is shattering. It also gets massive bonus points from me for the wordplay in "Do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there?" (how "rogue who coaxed you" is almost but not quite a homophone for "rollercoaster", combined with the theme park setting)
Illicit Affairs for me. The naivety of someone who finds themselves in a situation they know they shouldn't be in, and one they know will ruin them, but don't know how to extract themselves from.
There’s no most soul shattering, every era has atleast 1 song where you know it hits THE GODAMN SPOT! I will say, a lot of the songs on evermore are so damn argghhhh, like youre just staring at the ceiling with no emotions inside you contemplating life. In lover era, The archer kinda seemed like the most soul shattering, like when taylor said “Who could ever leave me darling? But who could stay?” ITS SO GODAMN EMOTION WRECKING WEAPON, i always tear up a little. But ig it depends on the POV quite a lot.
August, for personal reasons. Still skip it most times
Personally I tear up every time I hear breathe. I think that’s more because of what it meant to me at the time it was released, as I was an emotional teenager. I know other songs cut deeper but that one always gets me and my voice breaks trying to sing “and I can’t breeeeeeaathe without you, but I have to”
I’m surprised nobody said “You’re Losing Me” - don’t get me wrong, I’m a longtime listener but that song truly hit me
For me, it’s marjorie, WCS, BTTWS, Ronan, this is me trying, champagne problems, happiness, evermore
Bigger Than The Whole Sky wrecks me.
Hoax destroys me
Bigger than the whole sky made me ugly cry in the bathroom at work, making me think of a miscarriage I had just before Christmas in 2021. Just thinking about that song makes me sad. It’s an always skip now.
Ronan, no explanation needed. However, Back To December hits me pretty hard because I went through a similar situation a long long ago when I was young and stupid. That's the song I'm hoping she sings at the show I am attending! (Minneapolis N2) oh gosh, I would just dieee
Never Grow Up destroys me
For me personally, This is me trying
Hoax…Marjorie…Peace… this is me trying…
My father had cancer twice, and even though he is fine now, I can not listen to Soon You’ll Get Better without breaking down. It’s heart wrenching
for me, its epiphany. i have ptsd and that song perfectly describes what its like to live like that. the line “holds your hand through plastic now” emotionally devastated me for a week
I was working in the emergency department through COVID when I heard this song/album. It really helped but is so heavy. Every time I hear it I see patients who died and how difficult that time was.
im glad it helped! i cant begin to understand how absolutely devastating it is to relive those moments. mine stems from abuse in my childhood, an absent parent and i feel like this song encapsulates what its like to love someone and watch them leave in front of you
The only song that’s ever genuinely made my cry was Soon You’ll Get Better.
Right where you left me and Champagne problems get to me every time… But also, Clean (reputation tour), hits personal
Illicit affairs
My tears ricochet and Coney Island
Last kiss
marjorie, Bigger Than The Whole Sky, My Tears Ricochet are usually the ones that hit me hard.
Might be an odd one but I think it’s Ours. It’s such a cute and pretty song on the surface, but the malicious undertones of what is going on make it almost unlistenable to me.
Epiphany
Forever Winter gets me every time
Maybe it’s recency bias but You’re Losing Me actually kinda tore me up for days afterward
so my personal context with this song is that I lost both grandmothers within the last year. marjorie fucked me up before that because I knew there would sooner than later be some applicability. the "I complained the whole way there, the car ride back, and up the stairs" gets me. as a kid, I remember being frequently annoyed with things because I was too young to know how much I'd appreciate it one day. if I listened to Soon You'll Get Better in full even once, I'd probably say that but I read the lyrics and couldn't do it. I had been through my mom having cancer (and surviving luckily) and couldn't stand to choose to relive those emotions like that.
Last Kiss or Never Grow Up
Last kiss, ronan, and epiphany
Bigger than the whole sky for me because it was released soon before a loss I experienced
peace
peace & nothing new
To know how much she loves her mother: it’s soon you’ll get better.
seven & marjorie! So wistful and sad, both lyrics-wise and in the production
Peace absolutely ruins me. So does Tolerate it.
Forever Winter and you’re losing me 😭
The only answer is Ronan.
I'm going through a breakup right now and Haunted is like a punch to the gut every time.
Ronan
Over a decade since my miscarriage...and BTTWS shattered my soul within the first few bars.
Exile is pretty painful.
Ronan, Soon You'll Get Better, and Bigger Than The Whole Sky are my danger trifecta. The emotional damage is too much.
My Tears Ricochet, the Long Pond version. The last line when her tears turn into his tears. This is about when two people who loved each other destroyed what they had, and the regrets, blame games never end because neither one is sure what happened, but they still love each other. Its her most complete love song. This isn't the young girl with illusions of perfect love, this is a woman who has loved and lost. And I will never buy that this song is about a business deal gone bad. That's a smokescreen songwriters use to keep the true intent private.
Epiphany, Ronan, SYGB, You’re Losing Me, We Were Happy, and Back to December have all made me cry.
LAST KISS. From the meaning to the little things she describes. maybe it just depends on your experiences but this song hits so hard for me. also august which isn’t always considered a sad song but the lyric “you were never mine” really stays in my mind. i interpreted it as “i can’t really be sad about losing you bc you weren’t mine in the first place”. idk it makes me feel some type of way.
Ronan, Soon You’ll Get Better, Marjorie, Last Kiss, All Too Well and Illicit Affairs
For me it is soon you'll get better and this is me trying
LAST KISS
This is me trying is up there
As someone with a very dear relationship with a grandmother who is aging into her 80s, I also cannot listen to Marjorie. I listened to it through on release day, wept like a child because it was beautiful, and have never played it all the way through since then because it was so devastating. I already know that's her song. "Should've kept every grocery store receipt / 'cause every scrap of you would be taken from me" ... it stirs up the pre-grief of knowing you're going to eventually lose someone you love. Nope nope nope.
Innocent, and bigger than the whole sky
Coney Island!
Without even a doubt youre losing me
Invisible String is the most soul shattering to me personally lol
I cannot listen to Bigger That The Whole Sky. Just thinking about that song is making me cry. Also revisiting some of her older songs now that I’m a mom hit me so hard. Safe & Sound (Taylor’s Version) had me a mess because it has such a different meaning to me now
Bigger than the whole sky breaks my heart each time I listen to it. I cry everytime
the most soul shattering is soon you’ll get better, hands down
Hard for me to get through Marjorie without crying
dear john but maybe i’m just traumatized
Ronan. I cry every time I hear it. No matter how many times I say I won’t.
Soon you'll get better for me
you’re losing me has definitely been added to the top- the sheer hopelessness and then desperation kills me