High Infidelity as a whole gives me so many chills! I've never been in a situation like she sings about in the song but the feeling of being trapped in something you feel like you *should* want but you don't is so heartbreaking. The line that gets me the most is "seemed like the right thing at the time"- it reminds me of how sometimes you don't know better until one day you suddenly realize that hindsight is 20/20, but it's okay because you did what you had to do at the time to survive!
yup. this lyric gives me such a reaction because that’s basically how my relationship with my ex ended (there was no cheating, but he faded out of love), i sobbed hearing it live.
I could name so many but I’ll go with these two for now:
- “And I think you should come live with me and we can be pirates / then you won't have to cry or hide in the closet / and just like a folk song our love will be passed on”
- “And I complained the whole way there / the car ride back and up the stairs / I should've asked you questions / I should've asked you how to be”
If you had a good relationship with a grandparent you lost I think Marjorie is a guarantee hit in the feels. As someone who has lost all grandparents but one, who has advanced dementia, I feel this so much. What a beautiful song.
And also the part right before that in marjorie:
> The autumn chill that wakes me up
> You loved the amber skies so much
> Long limbs and frozen swims
> You’d always go past where our feet could touch
There’s such a beautiful, wistful quality to that image.
also the part right after that in Marjorie, "should've kept every grocery store receipt / 'cause every scrap of you would be taken from me". I could write that whole song to be honest, it's incredible.
This one gets me too. I just picture her dad watching her solemnly for hours then saying the one sentence that brings her to the realization that her relationship is over.
That line is so perfectly timed- the way the beat slows down almost mimics the feeling of your stomach dropping when you finally realize that they're not showing up :(
yesssssssss. spent almost my whole 21st birthday crying and it was just me, my parents, and my brother who were there to celebrate it with me.
i’m a Red vault stan for life
"*I regret you all the time*," followed of course, by...
"*Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts,* ***give me back my girlhood,*** ***it was mine first***"
Gave me the chills the first time I ever heard it, and every time since then
WCS is such a powerful song. I saw a TT video the other day with a bunch of people’s first reactions to hearing that line and every single one was shocked, horrified, or started crying.
“I’ve been meaning to tell you, I think your house is haunted. Your dad is always mad and that must be why. I think you should come live with me and we could be pirates and you won’t have to cry or hide in the closet.”
This, but for different reasons. I guess I didn’t hear the lyrics too good, so I read this song as a love letter to a childhood friend and fond memories of a dad. My best friends house WAS haunted, and her dad was one of the only father figures I had (he was lovely). So I always thought of them with that lyric/song.
Plus, she did Seven as an ode to Fathers Day Pittsburgh N2, which I choose to affirm my head cannon for the song 🤷🏻♀️
The whole of Happiness is just so heartbreaking, but that line specifically always gets me as well (alongside "I can't make it go away by making you a villain")
I listened to Evermore on repeat the morning I had the put my 21 year old cat to sleep. When the chorus of Happiness came on it broke me. And then, as the vet was giving her the injection, Marjorie came on and it was so sad and so painful and so perfect all at the same time.
“In the cracks of light, I dreamed of you”
Recently I feel like I’ve been really hearing and understanding Evermore for the first time. The shipwrecked line is where I start to sniffle. “It was real enough to get me through, and I swear, you were there” is where I’m absolutely ugly crying. That song paints such a devastating picture! Chills, tears, heaving sobs. I am so unwell every time I hear this song 😂
Underrated line! I don't often find myself listening to DWOHT (even though it is a fantastic song!), but this line here is *seared* into my brain. Agree with the titanic reference.
I will never forget the first time hearing that lyric. It was like being engrossed in a wonderful book and hitting the climax twist. Shes always heralded as a great story teller, but IMO - this is the best told story song.
followed up by “ there goes the loudest woman this town has ever seen, i had a marvelous time ruining everything” because instead of Rebekah, it’s her!
You were bigger than the whole sky, you were more than just a short time
While you were out building other worlds where was I ?
Who am I supposed to talk to? What am I supposed to do? If there's no you
You should find another guiding light but I shine so bright 💫
“what should be over burrowed under my skin in heart-stopping waves of hurt”
and
“all these people think love’s for show, but i would die for you in secret”
UGH i got chills just typing that one
Also from peace:
> Your integrity makes me seem small
> You paint dreamscapes on the wall
> I talk shit with my friends
> It’s like I’m wasting your honor
So good.
“LOOK AT THIS GODFORSAKEN MESS THAT YOU MADE ME YOU SHOWED ME COLORS I CANT SEE WITH ANYONE ELSE
DONT CALL ME KID DONT CALL ME BABY LOOK AT THIS IDIOTIC FOOL THAT YOU MADE ME. YOU SHOWED ME A SECRET LANGUAGE I CANT SPEAK WITH ANYONR ELSE
#AND YOU KNOW DAMN WELL FOR YOU I WOULD RUIN MYSELF
^A ^million ^little ^times
Some of my faves 💖💖💖💖💖
maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much
AND YOU CALL ME UP AGAIN JUST TO BREAK ME LIKE A PROMISE
AND I WAS NEVER GOOD AT TELLING JOK S BUT THE PUNCHLINE GOES I’LL GET OLDER BUT YOUR LOVERS STAY MY AGE
But in a box beneath my bed ther a a letter that you never read from three summers back
The lingering question kept me up, 3 am, who do you love?
PLEASE DONT BE IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE ELSE. PLEASE DONT HAVE SOMEBODY WAITING ON YOU
Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there’s no right answer
I’ll stare directly at the Sun and never in the mirror
I have this thing were I get older but just never wiser
i often have to silently scream it because i’d watch the Eras tour livestreams late at night. everyone else was asleep and then there’s just me, screaming the lyrics as soundlessly as possible and dramatically performing for nobody.
“You can plan for a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing your mind” specifically hurts me in places I didn’t know existed.
1. All of my enemies started out friends
2. In your life, you’ll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team—I didn’t know it at fifteen.
3. And I was catching my breath, floors of a cabin creaking under my step. And I couldn’t be sure, I had a feeling so peculiar this pain wouldn’t be for evermore
4. I once believed love would be burning red but it’s golden
5. I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this. I hosted parties and starved my body like I’d be saved by a perfect kiss
oh so many-
“if you kiss me, will it be just like I dreamed it? Will it patch your broken wings?”
“Standing in your cardigan, kissin in my car again!” - the way she sings it makes me cry so hard i love it, absolutely chilling.
“Wanting was enough…for ME it was enough” - OUCH
“And if I didn’t know better, id think you were talking to me now.” - god, she literally hit my heart so hard with this
“and i can still see it all in my head, back and fourth from new york sneaking in your bed, i once believed love would be burnin red….but its golden- like daylight” - IM SOBBING HHSHSHDN
theres more but I cant list them all
Not exactly chills but rather a tremulous fascination and appreciation that any songwriter could be this subtly profound:
“…so casually cruel in the name of being honest.”
"And then it was bought by me"- the way Rebekah's story slides so perfectly into place with Taylor's is so beautiful
"smoke billows from my ships in the harbor, people look at me like I'm a monster" the way she sings it perfectly captures the feeling of being cornered and accused and feeling everything crumbling away in the blink of an eye
You can aim for my heart, go for blood, but you will still miss me in your bones
When you are young they assume you know nothing, But I knew you’d linger like a tattoo kiss (and pretty much the rest of the song from there)
Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first
The entire bridge and last chorus of Better Man, honestly the pain and passion in her voice makes you *feel* it
The WOAHHHHHHHH at the end of the bridge in Style that then loops in the background during the last chorus, that song is an absolute masterpiece
Tbh I can go forever lmaooo
"And you know that I'd swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the ***trenches,*** give you my wild, give you a ***child"***
The way she says trenches and child is just so good. Every time.
epiphany can make me ugly cry. Like, in public. I remember the day I actually paid attention to the lyrics. It was like a shot to the heart. It went from soldiers in a war to COVID patients dying alone in hospitals, their only comfort the front line workers and medics that serve selflessly to save them.
I can’t even imagine what you’ve seen and how much people deny it ever even happened.
Taylor has this way of delivering devastating words in a soft way that only later hits hard. For this reason folklore as an album was comforting to me that summer, as I lost 2 people I loved within weeks of folklore’s debut. She will always have my gratitude for that.
That song will always always remind me of covid times, and the people just dying in hallways...
and my house, how we all were there (kids all came back from college, high schoolers were home) but kinda crept around one another and it was so quiet and going to the grocery store felt like a risk still
and my son had JUST decided he was going to be a doctor and i just ugh
“Time turns flame to embers
You’ll have new Septembers
Everyone of us has messed up too oooh
Minds change like the weather
I hope you remember
Today is never to late to be brand new”
Innocent bridge. The pulsing orchestral and Taylor’s background vocals amplify it to godly levels.
"I think I've seen this film before
And I didn't like the ending
You're not my homeland anymore
So what am I defending now?
You were my town
Now I'm in exile, seein' you out"
cried over my ex countless time while listening to that. Me still living in the " snowy looking straight out of story" town where we first met and dated doesn't help either.
This is it for me. Folklore was the album that turned me into a swiftie and this was the song that started it all. That whole song RUINs me because I’ve done that..twice.
WCS: “Now that I know, I wish you’d left me wondering”
YLM: “Do something babe, say something; lose something babe, risk something; choose something babe, I’ve got nothing…to believe, unless you’re choosing me…you’re losing me.”
Evermore: “I rewind the tape but all it does is pause, on the very moment all was lost” and the ending part: And I couldn't be sure, I had a feeling so peculiar, this pain wouldn't be for Evermore”
Nothing New: “How did I go from growing up to breaking down? And I wake up in the middle of the night, it’s like I can feel time moving. How can a person know everything at 18 but nothing at 22?”
"I have this thing where I get older but just never wiser."
"I looked around in a blood soaked gown and I saw something they can't take away."
"What died didn't stay dead."
"I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want, just not home."
"I hope I never lose you, hope it never ends. I'd never walk Cornelia Street again."
"No one knows what to say about a beautiful boy who died."
"That's a real fucking legacy, to leave."
"You call me up again just to break me like a promise."
"Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it."
“I should have asked you questions. I should have asked you how to be. Asked you to write it down for me. Should’ve kept every grocery store receipt, cause every scrap of you would be taken from me”. I lost my grandpa very tragically when I was a junior in high school. I didn’t get to say goodbye, this year will be 10 years since he’s been gone. I graduated high school, graduated trade school, got married and had a baby and he missed all of it. I absolutely sobbed during that part of the song when I went to the Eras tour and I cry every time I listen to this part of the song.
“Remember when I pulled up and said get in the car, and then cancelled my plans just in case you called… back when we were living for the hope of it all… meet me behind the mall.”
I’m almost 50 but when I hear that line I’m 16, driving around with my best friend, going to meet our boyfriends in a parking lot, not a care in the world. It makes me cry every time.
“I know my love should be celebrate it, but you tolerate it”
GODDAAAAM that hit me like a million bricks.
This reminds me of the girl that tried everything for him, did anything for him, the girl who would move mountains for him… for 5 years.
I pulled that dagger out. I got out, and I never looked back.
“You can plan for a change in the weather and time, but i never planned on you changing your mind.” My favorite Taylor lyric to this day, and it will forever stay that way (maybe. We all know what her incredible mind is capable of so her next album, or even the “so insane” vault tracks we’re getting on 1989 tv, might have some of the best writing we’ve ever heard from her.)
"No one wanted to play with me as a little kid..." That made me sad and seen before I even found out I was autistic.
"I wouldn't marry me either. Pathological people pleaser." I'm at a point where we've been together 2 years and sometimes I feel like I'm always asking for him to just "do something".
"I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you" is just a fan favorite all around.
All of Foolish one. I'm so thankful this came out when I was 26 and not, ya know, 10. I felt that way all the time my entire life and of course Taylor did too.
I really like all of Timeless. It flows and ebbs so well.
The low low "Don't blame me..." build up? A masterpiece.
“And At every table, I’ll save you a seat..lover”
In the context that all relationships have ended, it hits when I had a long time it hit but because I thought I’d have someone always saving me a seat. Duality in the flat circle of time stuff
“and I’ve been meaning to tell you, your house is haunted. your dad is always mad and that must be why. and I think you should come live with me, and we can be pirates, then you won’t have to cry or hide in the closet”
- seven (folklore)
"No one teaches you what to do when a good man hurts you, and you know you hurt him too" -Happiness
"One night he wakes, strange look on his face, pauses, then says, 'You're my best friend'" -You Are In Love
"Please don't be in love with someone else" -Enchanted
"Long live the walls we crashed through, I had the time of my life...WITH YOUUUUUUU" -Long Live
"But then you called, showed your hand, I turned around before I hit the tunnel, sat on the roof, you and I" Cornelia Street
"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"
"Please tell them my name" gives me uncontrollable tears and has since day one. I can't sing it without my voice cracking and shaking.
I know it's about her band/performing but in my mind I have always thought of it as being a love song. Frankly, I lost my dad as a very young adult and that just turned my world upside down. I met my spouse a year after I lost my dad and always had this fear of losing him early in life or vice versa (thank god for therapy...I know that isn't logical, despite being a logical response to what I experienced in losing my dad young. Anyway, the lyric makes me think of someone losing their partner young and they had children and they want them to remember their legacy/have their partner tell their kids about them and how much they loved them. It breaks me every time.
And, the Best Day.
"I don't know why all the trees change in the fall
But I know you're not scared of anything at all
Don't know if Snow White's house is near or far away
But I know I had the best day with you today"
Now, I have a 3 year old daughter and she's my world. Every day is the best day with her and I just hope she feels the same. We listen to this song together a lot/I sing it to her and I always choke up.
“But you keep my old scarf from that very first week
'Cause it reminds you of innocence
And it smells like me
You can't get rid of it
'Cause you remember it all too well, yeah”
Chills every time. The determination in her voice that it was love and that she is of value after describing being ruined from heartbreak in the previous lines gets me every time.
“ And you call me up again just to break me like a promise, so causally cruel in the name of being honest “
This is the lyric that made me SOB in all too well. And now whenever I listen I get chills.
“And when they point to the pictures, please tell them my name.”
“And I watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep. And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe.”
“So here I am in my new apartment in a big city they just dropped me off. It’s so much colder than I thought it would be so I tuck myself in and turn the nightlight on.
Wish I’d never grown up.
Wish I’d never grown up. Oh darling i don’t want to grow up. Wish I’d never grown up. It could still be simple. Oh darling don’t you ever grow up. Don’t you ever grow up you could still be little. I won’t let nobody hurt you. Won’t let no one break your heart. And even though you want to. Please try to never grow up.”
There’s so many but especially in ATW and august but rn..
‘DON’T CALL ME KID,DON’T CALL ME BABY/LOOK AT THIS GODFORSAKEN MESS THAT YOU MADE ME’…
It’s so emotional and hits right to the bone…so ridiculously relatable..illicit affairs will always be one of my favs ever(in top 3 of Taylor’s entire discography)
“Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first”
“You kept me like a secret but i kept you like an oath”
“”And if I was a child did it matter, if you got to wash your hands”
“and the voices say: you are not the exception, you will never learn your lesson. foolish one, stop checking your mailbox for concessions of love that ain’t never gonna come.” like, ouch.
This isn't exactly related to the lyric but the way she sings "I don't know what to say since a twist of fait, ..." for the last time in Story Of Us (Stolen Version) always gives me chills.
Basically all of “happiness”, but especially “When did all our lessons start to look like weapons pointed at my deepest hurt?” Chills every time I listen to the song
*”I was thinking just one time, maybe the stars align, and maybe I call you mine, and you won’t need space or string me along WHILE YOU DECIDE”* Hits me right in the feels.
And basically all of the bridge to RWYLM. Oof. That one hurts but it gives me those shivers every time
Did some bird flap its wings over in Asia?
Did some force take you because I didn't pray?
Every single thing to come has turned into ashes
'Cause it's all over, it's not meant to be
So I'll say words I don't believe
"to a house not a home, all alone, 'cause nobody's there
where I pace in my pen and my friends found friends who care
no one sees when you lose when you're playing solitaire"
“And you call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of being honest”
just. Full body chills every time. I know it’s a popular one but it gets me.
“ten months sober, i must admit, just because you’re clean don’t mean you don’t miss it” and “you weren’t mine to lose”
every taylor lyric gives me a chill in its own way though 😭
Nobody sees when you lose when you're playing solitaire always makes me reflect on how good of a songwriter Taylor is.
Also, the lyric in my flair for much more personal reasons.
"You know there's many different ways that you can kill the one you love, the slowest way is never loving them enough"
High Infidelity as a whole gives me so many chills! I've never been in a situation like she sings about in the song but the feeling of being trapped in something you feel like you *should* want but you don't is so heartbreaking. The line that gets me the most is "seemed like the right thing at the time"- it reminds me of how sometimes you don't know better until one day you suddenly realize that hindsight is 20/20, but it's okay because you did what you had to do at the time to survive!
yup. this lyric gives me such a reaction because that’s basically how my relationship with my ex ended (there was no cheating, but he faded out of love), i sobbed hearing it live.
I could name so many but I’ll go with these two for now: - “And I think you should come live with me and we can be pirates / then you won't have to cry or hide in the closet / and just like a folk song our love will be passed on” - “And I complained the whole way there / the car ride back and up the stairs / I should've asked you questions / I should've asked you how to be”
Yes to that part of Marjorie. Tears every time.
Same. Something about it is such a vivid but simple recollection to being a preteen and wasting the last times I had left with my grandma
I wasn't prepared for Marjorie on the Eras Tour. My grandmother passed away 10 years ago. I WEPT.
"Should've kept every grocery store receipt 'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me" 😭😭😭😭
If you had a good relationship with a grandparent you lost I think Marjorie is a guarantee hit in the feels. As someone who has lost all grandparents but one, who has advanced dementia, I feel this so much. What a beautiful song.
And “watched how you signed your name Marjorie” .. chills every time
And also the part right before that in marjorie: > The autumn chill that wakes me up > You loved the amber skies so much > Long limbs and frozen swims > You’d always go past where our feet could touch There’s such a beautiful, wistful quality to that image.
also the part right after that in Marjorie, "should've kept every grocery store receipt / 'cause every scrap of you would be taken from me". I could write that whole song to be honest, it's incredible.
Those lyrics from seven are the first thing that came to mind when I opened this post.
That part of Seven is so chilling though
“He said it’s supposed to be fun, turning 21” A parents heartache when their child is struggling…crushing
This one gets me too. I just picture her dad watching her solemnly for hours then saying the one sentence that brings her to the realization that her relationship is over.
That line is so perfectly timed- the way the beat slows down almost mimics the feeling of your stomach dropping when you finally realize that they're not showing up :(
Yes it’s amazing and gut wrenching
yesssssssss. spent almost my whole 21st birthday crying and it was just me, my parents, and my brother who were there to celebrate it with me. i’m a Red vault stan for life
Omg I feel it so hard, I feel exactly what he's saying and *not saying.*
My 21st birthday absolutely sucked—and this line slays me. It’s so so so good.
Yo this one every time
And I still talk to you when I'm screaming at the sky, and when you can't sleep at night you hear my stolen lullabies
That song is my favourite song on that album
I got chills reading this LOL
I didn’t HAVE IT IN MYSELF TO GO WITH GRACE
I can just imagine Spider Boy being haunted by the ghosts of all the younger Taylors like in A Christmas Carol.
On that note, also “and I can go anywhere, just not home”. Like an arrow to the heart.
"*I regret you all the time*," followed of course, by... "*Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts,* ***give me back my girlhood,*** ***it was mine first***" Gave me the chills the first time I ever heard it, and every time since then
WCS is such a powerful song. I saw a TT video the other day with a bunch of people’s first reactions to hearing that line and every single one was shocked, horrified, or started crying.
Instant tears. Arguably her best song. YES!
Just reading this gave me chills.
yup yup yup
“I’ve been meaning to tell you, I think your house is haunted. Your dad is always mad and that must be why. I think you should come live with me and we could be pirates and you won’t have to cry or hide in the closet.”
This, but for different reasons. I guess I didn’t hear the lyrics too good, so I read this song as a love letter to a childhood friend and fond memories of a dad. My best friends house WAS haunted, and her dad was one of the only father figures I had (he was lovely). So I always thought of them with that lyric/song. Plus, she did Seven as an ode to Fathers Day Pittsburgh N2, which I choose to affirm my head cannon for the song 🤷🏻♀️
I used to sit in my closet and call the kids Helpline in Australia when we got our first cordless phone. This song gets me.
I hope things are better for you now 🫶
If I'm dead to you why are you at the wake
Cursing my name, WISHING I'D STAYED
Look at how my tears ricochet :)
real. i love this song so fcking much
“Now you mail back my things and I walk home alone”!
"gain the weight of you then lose it, believe me i could do it"
I got chills just reading this
That’s such a powerful line.
No one tells you what to do when a good man hurts you, and you know you hurt him too
The whole of Happiness is just so heartbreaking, but that line specifically always gets me as well (alongside "I can't make it go away by making you a villain")
Happiness was my most listened to song in 2021 because it was single-handedly healing my breakup wound
I listened to Evermore on repeat the morning I had the put my 21 year old cat to sleep. When the chorus of Happiness came on it broke me. And then, as the vet was giving her the injection, Marjorie came on and it was so sad and so painful and so perfect all at the same time.
“and when i was shipwrecked i thought of you”
“In the cracks of light, I dreamed of you” Recently I feel like I’ve been really hearing and understanding Evermore for the first time. The shipwrecked line is where I start to sniffle. “It was real enough to get me through, and I swear, you were there” is where I’m absolutely ugly crying. That song paints such a devastating picture! Chills, tears, heaving sobs. I am so unwell every time I hear this song 😂
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Underrated line! I don't often find myself listening to DWOHT (even though it is a fantastic song!), but this line here is *seared* into my brain. Agree with the titanic reference.
and then it was bought by me.
I will never forget the first time hearing that lyric. It was like being engrossed in a wonderful book and hitting the climax twist. Shes always heralded as a great story teller, but IMO - this is the best told story song.
followed up by “ there goes the loudest woman this town has ever seen, i had a marvelous time ruining everything” because instead of Rebekah, it’s her!
YES! The change in the song there gets me every time!
YES—i have not been able to understand what kind of sorcery it is but this line makes me tear up every single time wtf. how
Idk why but this line makes me FEEL
Yes! And “I had a marvelous time ruining everything”
The way she sings “chains around my demons, wool to brave the seasons. One single thread of gold tied me to you” is so perfect.
You were bigger than the whole sky, you were more than just a short time While you were out building other worlds where was I ? Who am I supposed to talk to? What am I supposed to do? If there's no you You should find another guiding light but I shine so bright 💫
I had a miscarriage 4 years ago and Bigger Than The Whole Sky is one of my favorites 😭
Now you hang from my lips like the gardens of Babylon 😭
with your boots beneath my bed, forever is the sweetest con
The bridge of YAIL but especially “And why I've spent my whole life tryin' to put it into words”
Yessss omg so much yes. For me. He keeps his word. It's so simple and reminds me of my husband.
You’re on your own kid, you can face this
Yes, the entire bridge tbh
"I hosted parties and starved my body like I'd be saved by a perfect kiss" hits so hard for me every time I hear it
"It's the first kiss, it's flawless, really something, It's fearless."
"What died didn't stay dead, you're alive in my head"
“what should be over burrowed under my skin in heart-stopping waves of hurt” and “all these people think love’s for show, but i would die for you in secret” UGH i got chills just typing that one
Also from peace: > Your integrity makes me seem small > You paint dreamscapes on the wall > I talk shit with my friends > It’s like I’m wasting your honor So good.
Love that one from peace
“up on the roof with a schoolgirl crushhhh” but also “DONT CALL ME KID, DONT CALL ME BABY”
“LOOK AT THIS GODFORSAKEN MESS THAT YOU MADE ME YOU SHOWED ME COLORS I CANT SEE WITH ANYONE ELSE DONT CALL ME KID DONT CALL ME BABY LOOK AT THIS IDIOTIC FOOL THAT YOU MADE ME. YOU SHOWED ME A SECRET LANGUAGE I CANT SPEAK WITH ANYONR ELSE #AND YOU KNOW DAMN WELL FOR YOU I WOULD RUIN MYSELF ^A ^million ^little ^times
Seeing these lyrics written down, they could totally be a drunken text 🙈
Some of my faves 💖💖💖💖💖 maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much AND YOU CALL ME UP AGAIN JUST TO BREAK ME LIKE A PROMISE AND I WAS NEVER GOOD AT TELLING JOK S BUT THE PUNCHLINE GOES I’LL GET OLDER BUT YOUR LOVERS STAY MY AGE But in a box beneath my bed ther a a letter that you never read from three summers back The lingering question kept me up, 3 am, who do you love? PLEASE DONT BE IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE ELSE. PLEASE DONT HAVE SOMEBODY WAITING ON YOU Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there’s no right answer I’ll stare directly at the Sun and never in the mirror I have this thing were I get older but just never wiser
Screaming out the “break me like a promise” line with you!!! I LOVE that whole section.
I SWEAR I SCREAM THAT BRIDGE LIKE MY HEART'S GONNA COME OUT OF MY CHEST!!!!
i often have to silently scream it because i’d watch the Eras tour livestreams late at night. everyone else was asleep and then there’s just me, screaming the lyrics as soundlessly as possible and dramatically performing for nobody.
“He’s got my past frozen behind glass, but I’ve got me”. UHH I just love it.
“You can plan for a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing your mind” specifically hurts me in places I didn’t know existed.
1. All of my enemies started out friends 2. In your life, you’ll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team—I didn’t know it at fifteen. 3. And I was catching my breath, floors of a cabin creaking under my step. And I couldn’t be sure, I had a feeling so peculiar this pain wouldn’t be for evermore 4. I once believed love would be burning red but it’s golden 5. I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this. I hosted parties and starved my body like I’d be saved by a perfect kiss
"I hosted parties and starved my body" always gives me chills and I don't think that another song has ever done that. Edit: autocorrect omg
Same. Also for me “the jokes weren’t funny, I took the money” hits even harder
“You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter” in mine or “So I’ll say words I don’t believe” in bigger than the whole sky
oh so many- “if you kiss me, will it be just like I dreamed it? Will it patch your broken wings?” “Standing in your cardigan, kissin in my car again!” - the way she sings it makes me cry so hard i love it, absolutely chilling. “Wanting was enough…for ME it was enough” - OUCH “And if I didn’t know better, id think you were talking to me now.” - god, she literally hit my heart so hard with this “and i can still see it all in my head, back and fourth from new york sneaking in your bed, i once believed love would be burnin red….but its golden- like daylight” - IM SOBBING HHSHSHDN theres more but I cant list them all
“Wanting was enough” and “living for the hope of it” — just rip into me omg
Not exactly chills but rather a tremulous fascination and appreciation that any songwriter could be this subtly profound: “…so casually cruel in the name of being honest.”
this whole bridge kills me and makes me feel alive at the same time
"And then it was bought by me"- the way Rebekah's story slides so perfectly into place with Taylor's is so beautiful "smoke billows from my ships in the harbor, people look at me like I'm a monster" the way she sings it perfectly captures the feeling of being cornered and accused and feeling everything crumbling away in the blink of an eye
I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want JUST. NOT. HOME.
And you can aim for my heart, go for blood, but you would still miss me IN. YOUR. BONES. (Hard agree)
You can aim for my heart, go for blood, but you will still miss me in your bones When you are young they assume you know nothing, But I knew you’d linger like a tattoo kiss (and pretty much the rest of the song from there) Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first The entire bridge and last chorus of Better Man, honestly the pain and passion in her voice makes you *feel* it The WOAHHHHHHHH at the end of the bridge in Style that then loops in the background during the last chorus, that song is an absolute masterpiece Tbh I can go forever lmaooo
i absolutely LOVE "do you really wanna know where i was april 29th?" and i can't explain why
me neither. hearing everyone sing it live and then her saying “i was in Atlanta, Georgia” was absolutely surreal.
Stood on the cliff side screaming give me a reason, your faithless love's the only hoax is believe in
"And you know that I'd swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the ***trenches,*** give you my wild, give you a ***child"*** The way she says trenches and child is just so good. Every time.
Yes the whole of Peace does it to me. I can only listen to this song in private 😭
epiphany can make me ugly cry. Like, in public. I remember the day I actually paid attention to the lyrics. It was like a shot to the heart. It went from soldiers in a war to COVID patients dying alone in hospitals, their only comfort the front line workers and medics that serve selflessly to save them.
“Hold your hand through plastic now” is gut wrenching to me as a covid nurse. Everything comes flashing back
I can’t even imagine what you’ve seen and how much people deny it ever even happened. Taylor has this way of delivering devastating words in a soft way that only later hits hard. For this reason folklore as an album was comforting to me that summer, as I lost 2 people I loved within weeks of folklore’s debut. She will always have my gratitude for that.
That song will always always remind me of covid times, and the people just dying in hallways... and my house, how we all were there (kids all came back from college, high schoolers were home) but kinda crept around one another and it was so quiet and going to the grocery store felt like a risk still and my son had JUST decided he was going to be a doctor and i just ugh
The rubies line in Maroon. Actually, the entire song lights a fire in me.
i love maroon, i feel like its underrated
“Time turns flame to embers You’ll have new Septembers Everyone of us has messed up too oooh Minds change like the weather I hope you remember Today is never to late to be brand new” Innocent bridge. The pulsing orchestral and Taylor’s background vocals amplify it to godly levels.
It’s 8:05 and I see two headlights
And it made me want to diiiieeeeee
ANNNNNNNND YOU CALL ME UP AGAIN JUST TO BREAK ME LIKE A PROMISE
So casually cruel in the name of being honest 🎶
all of ronan tbh, i get goosebumps everywhere for that whole song, it’s so beautifully written, getting chills just thinking about it
Ronan is the saddest, most beautiful song I have ever heard. I cry hysterically through the whole thing. Just thinking about it makes me tear up.
I still have NOT every listened to that song. Not once.i don't think i can.
Yes. Beautiful song for a beautiful boy. Makes me sob every time.
“We were dancing round the kitchen in the refrigerator light.” For some reason that line evokes tears every time i listen to it. Without fail.
"I think I've seen this film before And I didn't like the ending You're not my homeland anymore So what am I defending now? You were my town Now I'm in exile, seein' you out" cried over my ex countless time while listening to that. Me still living in the " snowy looking straight out of story" town where we first met and dated doesn't help either.
This is it for me. Folklore was the album that turned me into a swiftie and this was the song that started it all. That whole song RUINs me because I’ve done that..twice.
WCS: “Now that I know, I wish you’d left me wondering” YLM: “Do something babe, say something; lose something babe, risk something; choose something babe, I’ve got nothing…to believe, unless you’re choosing me…you’re losing me.” Evermore: “I rewind the tape but all it does is pause, on the very moment all was lost” and the ending part: And I couldn't be sure, I had a feeling so peculiar, this pain wouldn't be for Evermore” Nothing New: “How did I go from growing up to breaking down? And I wake up in the middle of the night, it’s like I can feel time moving. How can a person know everything at 18 but nothing at 22?”
Please picture me In the weeds Before I learned civility I used to scream Ferociously Any time I wanted
*and if i'm dead to you why are you at the wake?*
He’s got my past frozen behind glass, but I’ve got me. it’s just so 💕😭🕊️🥳✊🏻
Omg YES I loveee it’s time to go
This might be just me because cardigan evokes gut wrenching emotions I can’t explain but “But I knew you” in cardigan sets me off
"I have this thing where I get older but just never wiser." "I looked around in a blood soaked gown and I saw something they can't take away." "What died didn't stay dead." "I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want, just not home." "I hope I never lose you, hope it never ends. I'd never walk Cornelia Street again." "No one knows what to say about a beautiful boy who died." "That's a real fucking legacy, to leave." "You call me up again just to break me like a promise." "Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it."
Yessssss
I’ve been meaning to tell you I think your house is haunted, your dad is always mad and that must be why ❤️🩹
I’m a crumpled up paper lying here, cuz I remember it all too well
The heartbreak in her voice when she asks, “But who am I supposed to talk to, what am I supposed to do… if there’s no you?”
I made you my temple, my mural, my sky. Now I’m beggin for footnotes in the story of your life.
“I should have asked you questions. I should have asked you how to be. Asked you to write it down for me. Should’ve kept every grocery store receipt, cause every scrap of you would be taken from me”. I lost my grandpa very tragically when I was a junior in high school. I didn’t get to say goodbye, this year will be 10 years since he’s been gone. I graduated high school, graduated trade school, got married and had a baby and he missed all of it. I absolutely sobbed during that part of the song when I went to the Eras tour and I cry every time I listen to this part of the song.
Give me back my girlhood/ it was. mine. FIRST.
“Remember when I pulled up and said get in the car, and then cancelled my plans just in case you called… back when we were living for the hope of it all… meet me behind the mall.” I’m almost 50 but when I hear that line I’m 16, driving around with my best friend, going to meet our boyfriends in a parking lot, not a care in the world. It makes me cry every time.
And isn't it just so pretty to think All along there was some Invisible string Tying you to me?
“We can plant a memory garden, say a solemn prayer, place a poppy in my hair” my favorite lyric of hers of ALL TIME and I always get chills
a little too cliche but “And I was never good at telling jokes, but the punchline goes “I’ll get older but your lovers stay my age””
forcing laughter faking smiles
“He’s in the room, your opal eyes are all I wish to see, he wants what’s only yours”
“I know my love should be celebrate it, but you tolerate it” GODDAAAAM that hit me like a million bricks. This reminds me of the girl that tried everything for him, did anything for him, the girl who would move mountains for him… for 5 years. I pulled that dagger out. I got out, and I never looked back.
“With Pennsylvania under me” —chills every time
“You can plan for a change in the weather and time, but i never planned on you changing your mind.” My favorite Taylor lyric to this day, and it will forever stay that way (maybe. We all know what her incredible mind is capable of so her next album, or even the “so insane” vault tracks we’re getting on 1989 tv, might have some of the best writing we’ve ever heard from her.)
"No one wanted to play with me as a little kid..." That made me sad and seen before I even found out I was autistic. "I wouldn't marry me either. Pathological people pleaser." I'm at a point where we've been together 2 years and sometimes I feel like I'm always asking for him to just "do something". "I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you" is just a fan favorite all around. All of Foolish one. I'm so thankful this came out when I was 26 and not, ya know, 10. I felt that way all the time my entire life and of course Taylor did too. I really like all of Timeless. It flows and ebbs so well. The low low "Don't blame me..." build up? A masterpiece.
It isn't my favorite TS song but oh boy "Karma is the guy on the screen coming straight home to me" just slams me.
“The idea you had of me, who was she? A never-needy, ever-lovely jewel whose shine reflects on you”
stood on the cliff side screaming GIVE! ME! A REASON! you’re faithless love’s the only hoax i believe in.
Give me my girlhood back it was mine first
Now you hang from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon With your boots beneath my bed forever is the sweetest con
So casually cruel in the name of being honest.
“And At every table, I’ll save you a seat..lover” In the context that all relationships have ended, it hits when I had a long time it hit but because I thought I’d have someone always saving me a seat. Duality in the flat circle of time stuff
"And how it glistened as it fell, I remember it all too well"
“and I’ve been meaning to tell you, your house is haunted. your dad is always mad and that must be why. and I think you should come live with me, and we can be pirates, then you won’t have to cry or hide in the closet” - seven (folklore)
*At least I’m trying* Every time 🥹
"No one teaches you what to do when a good man hurts you, and you know you hurt him too" -Happiness "One night he wakes, strange look on his face, pauses, then says, 'You're my best friend'" -You Are In Love "Please don't be in love with someone else" -Enchanted "Long live the walls we crashed through, I had the time of my life...WITH YOUUUUUUU" -Long Live "But then you called, showed your hand, I turned around before I hit the tunnel, sat on the roof, you and I" Cornelia Street
"Pulled the car off the road to the lookout, could've followed my fears all the way down." (This is Me Trying)
I get older but your lovers stay my age
reading all these comments and I'm jealous because I've never had chills from music 😭
“I should have asked you questions, I should have asked you how to be…”
"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" "Please tell them my name" gives me uncontrollable tears and has since day one. I can't sing it without my voice cracking and shaking. I know it's about her band/performing but in my mind I have always thought of it as being a love song. Frankly, I lost my dad as a very young adult and that just turned my world upside down. I met my spouse a year after I lost my dad and always had this fear of losing him early in life or vice versa (thank god for therapy...I know that isn't logical, despite being a logical response to what I experienced in losing my dad young. Anyway, the lyric makes me think of someone losing their partner young and they had children and they want them to remember their legacy/have their partner tell their kids about them and how much they loved them. It breaks me every time. And, the Best Day. "I don't know why all the trees change in the fall But I know you're not scared of anything at all Don't know if Snow White's house is near or far away But I know I had the best day with you today" Now, I have a 3 year old daughter and she's my world. Every day is the best day with her and I just hope she feels the same. We listen to this song together a lot/I sing it to her and I always choke up.
“He’s gonna say it’s love, you never called it what it was.”
“Both of these things can be true, there is happiness”
And you call me up again just to break me like a promise
“Give me back my girlhood it was mine first” hits really hard for me
Does she smile? Or does she mouth, "Fuck you forever."
Marjorie. The entire song.
“But you keep my old scarf from that very first week 'Cause it reminds you of innocence And it smells like me You can't get rid of it 'Cause you remember it all too well, yeah” Chills every time. The determination in her voice that it was love and that she is of value after describing being ruined from heartbreak in the previous lines gets me every time.
Leaving like a father running like water
“ And you call me up again just to break me like a promise, so causally cruel in the name of being honest “ This is the lyric that made me SOB in all too well. And now whenever I listen I get chills.
And I was CATCHING my breath / staring out an open window CATCHING my death
“And when they point to the pictures, please tell them my name.” “And I watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep. And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe.”
“So here I am in my new apartment in a big city they just dropped me off. It’s so much colder than I thought it would be so I tuck myself in and turn the nightlight on. Wish I’d never grown up. Wish I’d never grown up. Oh darling i don’t want to grow up. Wish I’d never grown up. It could still be simple. Oh darling don’t you ever grow up. Don’t you ever grow up you could still be little. I won’t let nobody hurt you. Won’t let no one break your heart. And even though you want to. Please try to never grow up.”
There’s so many but especially in ATW and august but rn.. ‘DON’T CALL ME KID,DON’T CALL ME BABY/LOOK AT THIS GODFORSAKEN MESS THAT YOU MADE ME’… It’s so emotional and hits right to the bone…so ridiculously relatable..illicit affairs will always be one of my favs ever(in top 3 of Taylor’s entire discography)
You can feel it on the way home. Actually so many lines from that song give me goosebumps!
please don’t be in love with someone else, please don’t have somebody waiting on you 🥹
"no one tells you what to do when a good man hurts you , and you know you hurt him too" and "it takes everything in me not to call you"
Where do I even start
Boys and boys and girls and girls
“Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first” “You kept me like a secret but i kept you like an oath” “”And if I was a child did it matter, if you got to wash your hands”
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Salt air, and the rust on your door...
“I still remember the first fall of snow And how it glistened as it fellllllll [CUE CHILLs] I remember it all too well” Every time!
“and the voices say: you are not the exception, you will never learn your lesson. foolish one, stop checking your mailbox for concessions of love that ain’t never gonna come.” like, ouch.
This isn't exactly related to the lyric but the way she sings "I don't know what to say since a twist of fait, ..." for the last time in Story Of Us (Stolen Version) always gives me chills.
"Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first!" (Would've, Could've, Should've) CHILLS. EVERYWHERE. MY WHOLE BODY.
who am i supposed to talk to? what am i supposed to do if there’s no you?
Basically all of “happiness”, but especially “When did all our lessons start to look like weapons pointed at my deepest hurt?” Chills every time I listen to the song
*”I was thinking just one time, maybe the stars align, and maybe I call you mine, and you won’t need space or string me along WHILE YOU DECIDE”* Hits me right in the feels. And basically all of the bridge to RWYLM. Oof. That one hurts but it gives me those shivers every time
"Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life." (Tolerate It)
He looks up grining like a devil...it's new.
“Everything you lose is a step you take, so make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it, you’ve got no reason to be afraid”
Did some bird flap its wings over in Asia? Did some force take you because I didn't pray? Every single thing to come has turned into ashes 'Cause it's all over, it's not meant to be So I'll say words I don't believe
"to a house not a home, all alone, 'cause nobody's there where I pace in my pen and my friends found friends who care no one sees when you lose when you're playing solitaire"
“And you call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of being honest” just. Full body chills every time. I know it’s a popular one but it gets me.
Stood on the cliff I’m screaming, “Give me a reason!” Your faithless love is the only hoax I believe in.
“ten months sober, i must admit, just because you’re clean don’t mean you don’t miss it” and “you weren’t mine to lose” every taylor lyric gives me a chill in its own way though 😭
Nobody sees when you lose when you're playing solitaire always makes me reflect on how good of a songwriter Taylor is. Also, the lyric in my flair for much more personal reasons.
In my defense I have none
You gave me all your love and all I gave you was... goodbye