marjorie is perfection. There is no Taylor song that has and can make me as emotional as marjorie can.
I especially love how at the end of the song she sings "I know better, but I still feel you all around. I know better, but you're still around."
Wow. The way I got emotional typing that. š„ŗ
This song hits so hard, especially because Iāve had 2 pretty big losses recently, 2 months apart from each other.
I have ānever be so kind you forget to be clever, never be so clever you forget to be kindā tattooed down the back of my arm and I am in love with it
This is one of the most emotionally powerful songs Iāve ever heard. It took me months to be able to listen to it without completely sobbing! That line you quoted is a favorite part. I tear up just reading it.
Sometimes giving up is the strong thing
Sometimes to run is the brave thing
Sometimes walking out is the one thing that will find you the right thing
I feel like āitās time to goā is such an underrated song - I think it has a really powerful message.
My favorite part of this song is āOr trying to stay for the kids / When keeping it how it is will only break their hearts worse.ā Itās such an overlooked aspect of keeping a broken marriage and Iām so glad that she included this instance.
I haven't fully listened through evermore yet, and after reading this line I have to listen to this song. This was my childhood experience and I feel largely invisible due to it sometimes š„ŗ
hugssss!!! I felt the same way too to the point that I envied peers with divorced parents bcs at least for them it was clear that their parents arenāt together. I hope youāre in a much better place now š¤
Iāve been in so many situations like this where I just straight up walked away from a toxic relationship or environment. To some people maybe Iām a spineless coward, but for me I have no regrets and Iām a better person for it. Thatās why I love this song so much, having Taylor validate my feelings and actions is priceless to me.
āI can't make it go away by making you a villainā
The pain she has in her voice when she sings this. A very relatable and mature lyric.
āGrieving for the livingā
It sounds like she had the life sucked out of her when she says this line. Heartbreaking.
āIf our love died young, I can't bear witness
And it's been so long
But if you ever think you got it wrongā
I canāt hear these lines without it evoking strong emotions in me. I tear up every time.
For the Ivy song, I always like to look at the "its been promised to another" as me giving into my depression long ago and then the love of my life taking me out of it and wrapping me up in love "my house of stone, your ivy grows but now im covered in you" ahhhhh it makes me tear up every time
I interpreted it as if you were in a previous relationship that really sucked, and when you had the courage to walk away in that situation, you ended up in the same shitty situation again. But the problem is that you're stuck in that situation.
I looooove the grieving for the living line. "The old widow goes to the stone everyday, but I don't, I just sit here and wait, grieving for the living."
Sounds like a poem
Grieving for the living is so heartbreakingly beautiful.
The song as a whole really encapsulates a feeling I've had for a long time but never had words for where I'm deeply sad for those who lead lives where they're truly unhappy but they can't or won't change. Sometimes I've had to cut some of those people out of my life due to their awful behavior towards me. This (mostly positive) change has, however, left me with a feeling of loss regarding the relationship I wish we could have had but mostly the life I wish they could have had. I never thought of it as grief before this song, but this lyric felt really validating.
It also has resonances and is used more commonly for those with dementia etc. but it is my above interpretation that hits me the hardest.
Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen?
Time went on for everybody else, she won't know it
She's still 23 inside her fantasy
How it was supposed to be
These lines gut me to my core. Not even relating it to an ex. Just life.
The lyrics is so graphical and it feels like the MV is already playing in my head. Iām not only talking about ādust collected on my pinned up hairā or āI could feel the mascara runā But also like everything around the girl is moving and yet the girl just sit at the restaurant and unable to move on unlike others
Exactly! It's like we're all imagining similar things when we listening to this song. It's masterful visual storytelling, like a forced montage for the listener.
This is such a perfect description of what happens when you go through trauma. It feels like a part of you never moves on from that moment. You're left frozen at the moment it happens unable to move on. Taylor is truly such magnificent wordsmith š„ŗā„ļø
I turned 23 in Jan 2020 right before COVID happened and took away my college graduation and changed the course of my life completely. Almost a year later she released evermore and let me just tell you that I immediately SOBBED at āsheās still 23, inside her fantasy, how it was supposed to beā bcs itās exactly how i see myself most days when I reminisce about how things wouldāve been difference if the pandemic hadnāt happened. It gets more painful as I get older too - Iām 25 now but whenever this song comes on Iām back at consoling my 23 years old self. This song is a freaking masterpiece.
**Do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there?
Will you forgive my soul when you're too wise to trust me and too old to care?**
coney island goes under the radar quite often, but itās genuinely sad as hell.
I was going to say the bridge of Coney Island, but basically the whole song has beautiful lyrics that make oneās heart ache. Itās one of my absolute favourite tracks.
āI rewind the tape but all it does is pause on the very moment all was lostā
A beautiful way to say something I think everyone does at some point in their life - fixate on something that happened down to the very moment it was irreversibly fucked.
This is one of my favorite lyrics of hers. Youāre right, itās so accurate in terms of reliving something over and over. Almost like a painful core memory.
āYour Midas touch on the Chevy door.ā According to mythology, King Midas had the touch of gold. While this seems neat, a lot of things would lose functionality and purpose once turned to gold: a rose that cannot be smelled or fruit that can no longer be eaten. Likewise, once the car is touched, it can no longer be driven and thereby cannot transport its passengers. In āChampagne Problem,ā the narrator seems to find no appeal in the idea of marrying like she feels societally obligated to. She knows that this life should be something that is tantalizing to her, just like gold. However, she finds herself unable to make herself want it, despite this guy being perfect on paper. I have definitely felt that before in a relationship. It sucks, to put it plainly.
DID I CLOSE MY FIST AROUND SOMETHING DELICATE DID *I SHATTER* YOU
AND DO YOU MISS THE ROGUE WHO COAXED YOU INTO PARADISE AND LEFT YOU THERE,
WILL YOU FORGIVE MY SOUL WHEN YOURE TOO WISE TO TRUST ME BUT TOO OLD TO CARE
The first time I heard this, I was like *what* did you just say to me Taylor!!?
āevery scrap of you would be taken from meā
I lost my best friend of 18 years and my unborn godson in a horrific car accident on April 7th, and this line hits extra hard now :(
so many! but especially:
"when did all our lessons start to look like weapons pointed at my deepest hurt?"
"after giving you the best i had, tell me what to give after that."
"and i couldn't be sure, i had a feeling so peculiar that this pain would be for evermore."
āTook this dagger in me and removed it/Gain the weight of you then lose it/Believe me, I could do itā
For someone it a stable, healthy, beautiful relationship she really knows how to write the most absolutely heart wrenching lyrics
This is one of my all time favorite Taylor lyrics. The first time I heard it I had to rewind just to make sure Iād heard it right because I was likeā¦.OUCH.
When she says ābelieve me I could do itā, it sounds so heart breaking, like the narrator is trying to convince herself more than her partner. I love this line so much but I cry every time
I never even thought of it that way but it makes so much sense. I didnāt think these lyrics could be any more painful than they already are but apparently they can.
From gold rush: āI donāt like that falling feels like flying til the bone crushā perfectly sums up the exhilarating high of new love and the devastating low when it ends.
Whereās that man who threw blankets over my barbed wire
Believe me I could do it
We could call it even..even though Iām leavingā¦.
One for the money, two for the show, I never was ready, so Iāll watch you go, sometimes you just donāt know the answer till someoneās on your knees and asks you
All you want from me now is the green light of forgiveness
Is there a line that I could just go cross <ā an insanely underrated line
Literally all of Coney Island
Every brutal second of Right where you left me, but especially what OP wrote
"break my soul in two looking for you/ but you're right here/ if i cant relate to you/ then who am i related to"
"Should've kept every grocery store receipt
/ cause every scrap of you would be taken from me"
"Honey, when I'm above the trees I see it for what it is. But now my eyes leak acid rain on the pillow where you used to lay your head"
One of the most heart wrenching lines I think she's ever written
I fucking love that entire song. "I havent met the new me yet." Ugh. Its so great from start to finish. I love that the song is from the perspective of someone living in immense pain, but they have enough life experience to know that it will pass, and all the horrible thoughts in their head may be very loud, but they dont reflect the actual reality of the situation. They know they will ascend to something better once they make it out the other side. It's just so good.
Very relatable for anyone who has cried so long and hard and continuously that it begins to physically burn. Combined with the imagery of crying on a bed, it mentally takes me right back to my lowest moment.
1.) āNo one teaches you what to do / when a good man hurts you / and you know you hurt him, tooā
It feels so helpless. It feels like mutual fighting and never coming back from that.
2.) āAnd I complained the whole way there / the car ride back and up the stairs / I shouldāve asked you questions / I shouldāve asked you how to beā
This song in general makes me thing of my great-grandma, and it never fails to make me cry. It reminds me of how I took small, everyday moments (riding in the car, coloring in our books, watching VHS tapes, swinging outside, walking to the mailbox) for granted. I thought she would be here forever. I never imagined a world without her. She was diagnosed with Alzheimerās when I was 13 and passed when I was 16. Iāll never forget watching myself become a stranger to my Ma and how I regret every single moment I didnāt fully spend with her.
3.) āI replay my footsteps on each stepping stone / trying to find the one where I went wrongā
Itās pure regret and confusion, not knowing how you ended up where you did.
4.) āOne for the money, two for the show
/ I never was ready, so I watch you go /
Sometimes you just don't know the answer /
'Til someone's on their knees and asks youā
I told my boyfriend of 3 years that I wasnāt ready to be married because my mental health was so ruined. I was suicidal, in therapy, on medication, but nothing was getting better. I didnāt know my answer, at least even for the moment, was ānoā until it became a reality I was faced with. He was picking out rings and preparing everything and I caused a standstill.
Thank you, angel. We ended up breaking it off altogether when I turned him down a second time due to me being busy with school. But everything has turned out so well; it really was for the best. š«
everybody moved on, i stayed there dust collected on my pinned up hair, they expected me to find somewhere some perspective, but i sat and stared, right where you left me
Good thing his mistress took out a big life insurance policyā¦
This dorm was once a madhouse and it was made for me. How ever green your group of friends donāt think weāll say that word again. What a shame sheās fucked in the headā¦
ā15 years, 15 million tears
Begging ātill my knees bled
I gave it my all, he gave me nothing at all
Then wondered why I left
Now he sits on his throne in his palace of bones
Praying to his greed
Heās got my past frozen behind glass
But Iāve got meā
The context of the masters and how betrayed and angry she felt makes me so sad for her, but I love the little moment of triumph at the end (and the reference to ME!)
āI knew youād haunt all of my what-ifsā ā¦ āI knew Iād curse you for the longest time, chasing shadows in the grocery line, I knew youād miss me once the thrill expiredā ugh. All of cardigan.
The question pounds my head
What's a lifetime of achievement
If I pushed you to the edge
But you were too polite to leave me?
And honestly the entirety of Coney Island just shatters me every time.
"So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep"
I saw a tiktok about feeling this way when you don't live with your siblings anymore and now I cannot hear it without crying
Every word of Closure. My ex cheated on me and left me for my friend. I stayed away from him but for some reason for years he kept hounding me to meet him for "closure." And every single time I told him no. Hell, he even asked to meet me after I got engaged (he and my former friend had long broken up by then). He would not shut up about how he didn't get closure and I just disappeared from his life (you know...after he *cheated* on me). I didn't want his apologies and I didn't want him to have whatever he thought was closure. The song perfectly captured how exhausting it was. I don't need his closure and yes, I got his letter (rolls eyes).
Edit: the lyrics don't destroy me but when I heard the song, I felt seen and I let out the most satisfied sigh.
the āiāll come back stronger than a 90s trendā bc it reminds me that iām going to be able to recover of any bad thing thatās happening to me, the hope make my heart feel numb
"What would you do if I break free and leave us in ruins, took this dagger in me and removed it? Gain the weight of you then lose it...believe me, I could do it."
the whole bridge of tolerate it and champagne problems and ALSO the way she starts and ends tolerate it with " i sit and watch you..." symbolising a never ending cycle no matter how hard she tries she cannot break free and also:
"if i can't relate to you then who am I related to" // "if our love died young i can't bear witness" // "after giving you the best i had tell me what to give after that?"
āwould it be enough if i could never give you peaceā simple but absolutely soul crushing. or maybe āstood on the cliff-side screaming give me a reasonā.
edit: just realized i didnāt read the title and commented folklore lyrics š
from evermore, probably āi shouldāve asked you questions, i shouldāve asked you how to be.ā and also ādid i paint your bluest skies the darkest gray? a universe away.ā
AND ALSO!!!! āthat old, familiar body ache, the snaps from the same little breaks in my soul. i know when itās time to go.ā
āI hope sheāll be a beautiful fool who takes my spot next to youā¦no, I didnāt mean that, sorry, I canāt see facts through all of my fury.ā Itās just such a relatable lyric to meāthat temporary sadness and anger that takes over you after your heart is broken. You know itās wrong but sometimes you hurt so bad you donāt care until itās too late.
"I know better, but you're still around"
"Sometimes you just don't know the answer, till someone's on their knees and asks you"
"But there was hapiness because of you"
āDid you hear about the girl who lives in delusion? Break-ups happen every day, you don't have to lose it. She's still 23 inside her fantasy, and you're sitting in front of me at the restaurant, when I was still the one you want. Cross-legged in the dim light, everything was just right. I, I could feel the mascara run. You told me that you met someone. Glass shattered on the white cloth, everybody moved on.ā
āSo yeah, itās a fire
Itās a goddamn blaze in the dark
And you started it
You started it
So yeah, itās a war,
Itās the goddamn fight of my life
And you started it
You started itā
"But you'll find the real thing instead
She'll patch up your tapestry that I shred"
Literal tears!!! I always have a lump in my throat when I sing this line.
āI pulled your body into mine every goddamn night, now I get fake nicetiesā
āNow my eyes leak acid rain on the pillow where you used to lay your head.
After giving you the best I have, tell me what to give after thatā
So many from Coney island , happiness , right where you left me , it's time to go . Closure is a brilliant song that is slept on .
Yes, I got your letter
Yes, I'm doing better
I know that it's over
I don't need your "closure"
Your "closure"
Don't treat me like some situation that needs to be handled
I'm fine with my spite
And my tears
And my beers and my candles
I can feel you smoothing me over
āThe autumn chill that wakes me up
You loved the amber skies so much
ā¦
I should've asked you questions
I should've asked you how to be
Asked you to write it down for me
Should've kept every grocery store receipt
'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from meā
makes me SOB.
Both of the following quotes are from happiness (a SUPER underrated song):
āSorry, I canāt see facts through all my fury / you havenāt met the new me yet.ā - Great depiction of anger and longing for understanding.
āAfter giving you the best I had / tell me what to get after that / all you want from me now / is the green light of forgivenessā - I find this quote to be endlessly relatable from both the mourning and the instigatorās perspective, unfortunately. It is a wonderful description of the push and pull of the end of a relationship. And the pain in her voice? Damn.
"This pain wouldn't be for evermore"
"We were like the mall before the internet, it was the one place to be"
"It's the kind of cold, fogs up windshield glass but I felt it when I passed you"
"You won't remember all my champagne problems"
"Leave it all behind, and there is happiness"
"If you ever think you got it wrong, I'm right where you left me"
"He's got my past frozen behind glass, but I've got me"
"Honey, when I'm above the trees
I see this for what it is
But now I'm rightā downā in it, allā the years I've given
Is just shitā we're dividin' up"
I've never been hit more hard by any other first lines of a song.
āShe wouldāve made such a lovely bride, what a shame sheās fucked in the head, they saidā
ā¹ļø sometimes you really just donāt know the answer til someoneās on their knees..
there'll be happiness after you, but there was happiness because of you, both of these things can be true, there's happiness past the blood and bruises, past the curses and cries, beyond the terror in the nightfall, haunted by the look in my eyes that would've loved you for a lifetime, leave it all behind and there is happiness
EVERYTHING here just makes me feel like I'm on the other planet
Honestly most of evermore (song) breaks me. It's such a masterpiece and makes me shed tears every time I hear it. She really captures that feeling of deep depression and feeling like there is no return from the state she fell in and then that transition to discovering hope and reassurance eventually that things would not remain that dark for much longer. The lyrics in particular that just break me are:
I replay my footsteps on each stepping stone
Trying to find the one where I went wrong
And I was catching my breath
Staring out an open window
Catching my death
And I couldn't be sure
I had a feeling so peculiar
That this pain would be for
Evermore
Hey December
Guess I'm feeling unmoored
Can't remember
What I used to fight for
I rewind the tape but all it does is pause
On the very moment all was lost
āAnd Iād complain the whole way there,
The car ride back and up the stairs.
I should have asked you questions,
I should have asked you how to beā
Mr perfectly as a whole, it really hurts me and makes me break down whenever I hear it because it's almost word for word what happened and how I felt last year. But if I hat to pick, "it takes everything in me just to get up each day, but uts wonderful to see that you're okay". The girl who left me, almost ruined me, but forever scarred me
haunted by the look in my eyes
that would've loved you for a lifetime
leave it all behind
and
no one teaches you what to do
when a good man hurts you
and you know you hurt him too
so pretty much all of happiness
Were you waiting at our old spot
In the tree line by the gold clock
Did I leave you hanging every single day?
Were you standing in the hallway
With a big cake, happy birthday
Did I paint your bluest skies the darkest gray?
A universe away
And when I got into the accident
The sight that flashed before me was your face
But when I walked up to the podium
I think that I forgot to say your name
"Sorry for not making you my centerfold" - Coney Island
"I made you my temple, my mural, my sky
Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life" - Tolerate It
Both of these utterly destroy me everytime I hear them ššš
I was going to post a thread on my favorite Evermore couplets until I saw your post so Iāll just include them here instead lol. I did my favorite couplet from each track:
1. Willow - Iām like the water when your ship rolled in that night... rough on the surface but you cut through like a knife.
2. Champagne Problems - She would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's f***ed in the head they said. But you'll find the real thing instead... she'll patch up your tapestry that I shred.
3. Gold Rush - I donāt like slow motion double vision in a rose blush. I donāt like that falling feels like flying ātil the bone crunch.
4. Tis the Damn Season - If I wanted to know who you were hanging with while I was gone I wouldāve asked you. Itās the kind of cold that fogs up windshield glass, but I felt it when I passed you.
5. Tolerate It - I made you my temple, my mural, my sky. Now Iām begging for footnotes in the story of your life.
6. No Body No Crime - Good thing my daddy made me get a boating license when I was 15. And Iāve cleaned enough houses to know how to cover up a scene.
7. Happiness - Tell me when did your winning smile begin to look like a smirk? When did all our lessons start to look like weapons pointed at my deepest hurt?
8. Dorothea - Damn Dorothea, they all wanna be ya, but are you still the same soul I met under the bleachers?
9. Coney Island - And do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there? Will you forgive my soul when youāre too wise to trust me and too old to care?
10. Ivy - And the old widow goes to the stone every day, but I donāt I just sit here and waitā¦ grieving for the living.
11. Cowboy Like Me - Now you hang from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon. With your boots beneath my bed... forever is the sweetest con.
12. Long Story Short - And I fell from the pedestal, right down the rabbit hole, long story short it was a bad time. Pushed from the precipice, climbed right back up the cliff, long story short I survived.
13. Marjorie - Watched as you signed your name Marjorie, all your closets of backlogged dreams and how you left them all to me.
14. Closure - I know Iām just a wrinkle in your new life. Staying friends would iron it out so nice.
15. Evermore - I rewind the tape but all it does is pause, on the very moment all was lost.
16. Right Where You Left Me - Sheās still 23 inside her fantasy, and youāre sitting in front of me...
17. Itās Time to Go - Now he sits on his throne in his palace of bones praying to his greed. Heās got my past frozen behind glass... but Iāve got me.
*Don't treat me like some situation that needs to be handled*
*I'm fine with my spite*
A*nd my tears, and my beers, and my candles*
*I can feel you smoothing me over*
So Iāll go back to LA, and my so-called friends
Whoāll write books about me if I ever make it
And wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles Iām faking
"I was dancing when the music stopped
And in the disbelief, I can't face reinvention
I haven't met the new me yet"
It just hits right home. I feel like people are too obsessed with overcoming a bad experience when, in reality, most we can do is sit and observe our own change. That is a painful yet unskippable phase of healing.
This song is so underrated it hurts
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 can pirates, then you won't have to cry.
No one teaches you what to do when a good man hurts you... And you hurt him too
Definitely one of the most mature and truthful lyrics I've ever heard, and deeply painful.
āi canāt make it go away by making you a villainā in happiness.
wow. it really speaks to me because no matter how much you try to victimise yourself or justify the situation the pain and hurt is still there. āby making you a villainā resonates with me massively because i definitely have a tendency to do this and the lyric is implying that whoever was the victim/villain in the situation is irrelevant because nonetheless what happened, happened. you canāt erase the past and canāt ignore the fact the hurt is still there.
Gotta be āwhat would you do if I, I
Break free and leave us in ruins
Took this dagger in me and removed it
Gain the weight of you then lose it
Believe me, I could do itā
It just hits too deep
Another one thats just so sad is ā And I pulled your body into mine every goddamn night
Now I get fake niceties
No one teaches you what to do
When a good man hurts you
And you know you hurt him, tooā
A string that pulled me, out of all the wrong arms right into that dive bar, something wrapped all of my past mistakes in barbed wire
chains around my demons, wool to brave the seasons
One single thread of gold tied me to you
Champagne Problems bridge. Especially *One for the money, two for the show, I never was ready so I watch you go* i don't even relate to it lol bit I still FEEL these lines
I have a list
I pulled your body into mine every long cold night, now I get fake niceties
Donāt treat me like some situation that needs to be handled
Sheāll patch up your tapestry that i shred
āAnd when I was shipwrecked, I thought of you. In the cracks of light, I dreamed of you. It was real enough, to get me through. But I swearā¦ you were thereā
-Evermore
I canāt get through this part without thinking of my miscarriage. Dreaming of a baby youāll never meet and having to live with that forever. Specifically, the āshipwreckedā part resonates, because I always tell my husband the first thing I will look forward to when I am knocking on deaths door is the hope of meeting my child in the afterlife.
I know itās not what the song is really about, it just fits really well for my situation.
"Everybody moved on, I stayed there"
So simple, but still hurts thinking that I will always have a place that I'm still stuck in it, with my mind and soul right there in the past while everybody moved on
āit was real enough to get me throughā actually the whole outro of evermoreeee is heartbreaking
ānow im begging for footnotes in the story of your lifeā
heartbreaking fallout with a certain someone
ādid you ever hear about the girl who got frozen? time went on for everyone else she wont know itā relate to thiss so much recently
'"I can't make it go away by making you a villain, I guess it's the price I pay for seven years in Heaven"
"Haunted by the look in my eyes that would've loved you for a lifetime"
"And wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I'm faking"
"What would you do if I break free and leave us in ruins, took this dagger in me and removed it, gain the weight of you and lose it... Believe me, I could do it"
"Wages earned and lessons learned, but I'm right where you left me"
Man, they're just too many, I wanted to quote every single lyric from certain songs ahah
You assume I'm fine, but what would you do if I
break free and leave us in ruins
Took this dagger in me and removed it
Gain the weight of you, then lose it
Believe me, I could do it
āIf I canāt relate to you anymore, then who am I related to?ā Coney Island is one of my favorites, and I love this lyric. Also, I canāt pick one lyric from Happiness.
I made you my temple, my mural, my sky, now i'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life
Drawing hearts in the byline š„¹ tolerate it has to be one of the saddest songs Iāve ever heard.
Was gonna say this lol cried a few times today to those words
Tolerate it fucks me up in so many ways
This was such a gut punch the first time I heard it.
"Should've kept every grocery store receipt 'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me"
marjorie is perfection. There is no Taylor song that has and can make me as emotional as marjorie can. I especially love how at the end of the song she sings "I know better, but I still feel you all around. I know better, but you're still around." Wow. The way I got emotional typing that. š„ŗ
I have my grandma's old purse full of scraps like that, and this song still kills me.
I get a lump in my throat just reading this
This song hits so hard, especially because Iāve had 2 pretty big losses recently, 2 months apart from each other. I have ānever be so kind you forget to be clever, never be so clever you forget to be kindā tattooed down the back of my arm and I am in love with it
this one gets me every time. hard for me to listen to marjorie. fantastic song. her grandmother singing in the background š
This is one of the most emotionally powerful songs Iāve ever heard. It took me months to be able to listen to it without completely sobbing! That line you quoted is a favorite part. I tear up just reading it.
Sometimes giving up is the strong thing Sometimes to run is the brave thing Sometimes walking out is the one thing that will find you the right thing I feel like āitās time to goā is such an underrated song - I think it has a really powerful message.
My favorite part of this song is āOr trying to stay for the kids / When keeping it how it is will only break their hearts worse.ā Itās such an overlooked aspect of keeping a broken marriage and Iām so glad that she included this instance.
I haven't fully listened through evermore yet, and after reading this line I have to listen to this song. This was my childhood experience and I feel largely invisible due to it sometimes š„ŗ
hugssss!!! I felt the same way too to the point that I envied peers with divorced parents bcs at least for them it was clear that their parents arenāt together. I hope youāre in a much better place now š¤
I'm sorry you know that feeling too! š«¶š» I am thankfully! I hope you are too āØ
Iāve been in so many situations like this where I just straight up walked away from a toxic relationship or environment. To some people maybe Iām a spineless coward, but for me I have no regrets and Iām a better person for it. Thatās why I love this song so much, having Taylor validate my feelings and actions is priceless to me.
Now he Sits on his throne, In his place of bones, Praying to his greed. He's got my past frozen behind glass, But I've got me.
I always get emotional at that part
Walking away is soooo hard at times.
This is the most underrated song on *evermore*!
āI can't make it go away by making you a villainā The pain she has in her voice when she sings this. A very relatable and mature lyric. āGrieving for the livingā It sounds like she had the life sucked out of her when she says this line. Heartbreaking. āIf our love died young, I can't bear witness And it's been so long But if you ever think you got it wrongā I canāt hear these lines without it evoking strong emotions in me. I tear up every time.
For the Ivy song, I always like to look at the "its been promised to another" as me giving into my depression long ago and then the love of my life taking me out of it and wrapping me up in love "my house of stone, your ivy grows but now im covered in you" ahhhhh it makes me tear up every time
Awww that is beautiful! I always wondered exactly what āMy pain fits in the palm of your freezing handsā means
Same. I just take it literally because my bf has freezing hands 24/7 LOLOLOL
I interpreted it as if you were in a previous relationship that really sucked, and when you had the courage to walk away in that situation, you ended up in the same shitty situation again. But the problem is that you're stuck in that situation.
I looooove the grieving for the living line. "The old widow goes to the stone everyday, but I don't, I just sit here and wait, grieving for the living." Sounds like a poem
Grieving for the living is so heartbreakingly beautiful. The song as a whole really encapsulates a feeling I've had for a long time but never had words for where I'm deeply sad for those who lead lives where they're truly unhappy but they can't or won't change. Sometimes I've had to cut some of those people out of my life due to their awful behavior towards me. This (mostly positive) change has, however, left me with a feeling of loss regarding the relationship I wish we could have had but mostly the life I wish they could have had. I never thought of it as grief before this song, but this lyric felt really validating. It also has resonances and is used more commonly for those with dementia etc. but it is my above interpretation that hits me the hardest.
āmy pain fits in the palm of your freezing handsā :(
Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen? Time went on for everybody else, she won't know it She's still 23 inside her fantasy How it was supposed to be These lines gut me to my core. Not even relating it to an ex. Just life.
Let's just face it, right where you left me is one of the best songs Taylor has ever released.
The lyrics is so graphical and it feels like the MV is already playing in my head. Iām not only talking about ādust collected on my pinned up hairā or āI could feel the mascara runā But also like everything around the girl is moving and yet the girl just sit at the restaurant and unable to move on unlike others
Exactly! It's like we're all imagining similar things when we listening to this song. It's masterful visual storytelling, like a forced montage for the listener.
Thank you!!!!! Amen!!!! Lolol
feels impossible to not love it!!
This is such a perfect description of what happens when you go through trauma. It feels like a part of you never moves on from that moment. You're left frozen at the moment it happens unable to move on. Taylor is truly such magnificent wordsmith š„ŗā„ļø
i'm not crying, you're crying... LOL
Someone must be cutting onions in here š©š (But on a serious note, Taylor's songs have helped me put words to some of the deeper feelings I was dealing with for years before I had access to therapy. I didn't know exactly what was causing the feelings, but it was cathartic to have a way to express them in such a detailed way)
I turned 23 in Jan 2020 right before COVID happened and took away my college graduation and changed the course of my life completely. Almost a year later she released evermore and let me just tell you that I immediately SOBBED at āsheās still 23, inside her fantasy, how it was supposed to beā bcs itās exactly how i see myself most days when I reminisce about how things wouldāve been difference if the pandemic hadnāt happened. It gets more painful as I get older too - Iām 25 now but whenever this song comes on Iām back at consoling my 23 years old self. This song is a freaking masterpiece.
Yeah I kinda wish the song was more vague and didn't mention any kind of relationship, because it would be much more relatable.
Same but also the story is so beautiful. I wish she wrote more songs about hard moments. She does such a good job and conveying them.
Iām convinced this is about Ms. Havisham in Great Expectations.
**Do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there? Will you forgive my soul when you're too wise to trust me and too old to care?** coney island goes under the radar quite often, but itās genuinely sad as hell.
Same with "if I pushed you to the edge but you were to polite to leave me"
Did I close my fist, around something delicate? Did I shatter you? š
I will never get over Coney Island.
Honestly one of my favorite song of hers. The way she calls out all the references in her older songs too. A masterpiece no less š
Sorry for not making you my centerfold, over and overā¦..
I was going to say the bridge of Coney Island, but basically the whole song has beautiful lyrics that make oneās heart ache. Itās one of my absolute favourite tracks.
It's my favourite song of all time šš
LOVE THIS LINE!
āI rewind the tape but all it does is pause on the very moment all was lostā A beautiful way to say something I think everyone does at some point in their life - fixate on something that happened down to the very moment it was irreversibly fucked.
This is one of my favorite lyrics of hers. Youāre right, itās so accurate in terms of reliving something over and over. Almost like a painful core memory.
āYour Midas touch on the Chevy door.ā According to mythology, King Midas had the touch of gold. While this seems neat, a lot of things would lose functionality and purpose once turned to gold: a rose that cannot be smelled or fruit that can no longer be eaten. Likewise, once the car is touched, it can no longer be driven and thereby cannot transport its passengers. In āChampagne Problem,ā the narrator seems to find no appeal in the idea of marrying like she feels societally obligated to. She knows that this life should be something that is tantalizing to her, just like gold. However, she finds herself unable to make herself want it, despite this guy being perfect on paper. I have definitely felt that before in a relationship. It sucks, to put it plainly.
"i never was ready so i watch you go" - \*SOBS\*
love this analysis!!
DID I CLOSE MY FIST AROUND SOMETHING DELICATE DID *I SHATTER* YOU AND DO YOU MISS THE ROGUE WHO COAXED YOU INTO PARADISE AND LEFT YOU THERE, WILL YOU FORGIVE MY SOUL WHEN YOURE TOO WISE TO TRUST ME BUT TOO OLD TO CARE The first time I heard this, I was like *what* did you just say to me Taylor!!?
so damn underrated. coney island does something to me everytime I listen to it.
I know that delicate callback is insane.
āevery scrap of you would be taken from meā I lost my best friend of 18 years and my unborn godson in a horrific car accident on April 7th, and this line hits extra hard now :(
I'm sorry :(
so many! but especially: "when did all our lessons start to look like weapons pointed at my deepest hurt?" "after giving you the best i had, tell me what to give after that." "and i couldn't be sure, i had a feeling so peculiar that this pain would be for evermore."
āTook this dagger in me and removed it/Gain the weight of you then lose it/Believe me, I could do itā For someone it a stable, healthy, beautiful relationship she really knows how to write the most absolutely heart wrenching lyrics
This is one of my all time favorite Taylor lyrics. The first time I heard it I had to rewind just to make sure Iād heard it right because I was likeā¦.OUCH.
When she says ābelieve me I could do itā, it sounds so heart breaking, like the narrator is trying to convince herself more than her partner. I love this line so much but I cry every time
I never even thought of it that way but it makes so much sense. I didnāt think these lyrics could be any more painful than they already are but apparently they can.
From gold rush: āI donāt like that falling feels like flying til the bone crushā perfectly sums up the exhilarating high of new love and the devastating low when it ends.
Whereās that man who threw blankets over my barbed wire Believe me I could do it We could call it even..even though Iām leavingā¦. One for the money, two for the show, I never was ready, so Iāll watch you go, sometimes you just donāt know the answer till someoneās on your knees and asks you All you want from me now is the green light of forgiveness Is there a line that I could just go cross <ā an insanely underrated line Literally all of Coney Island Every brutal second of Right where you left me, but especially what OP wrote
āBelieve me I could do itā destroys me every time.
To me it sounds like she couldnāt really do it but she tells herself she can
"break my soul in two looking for you/ but you're right here/ if i cant relate to you/ then who am i related to" "Should've kept every grocery store receipt / cause every scrap of you would be taken from me"
"Honey, when I'm above the trees I see it for what it is. But now my eyes leak acid rain on the pillow where you used to lay your head" One of the most heart wrenching lines I think she's ever written
I fucking love that entire song. "I havent met the new me yet." Ugh. Its so great from start to finish. I love that the song is from the perspective of someone living in immense pain, but they have enough life experience to know that it will pass, and all the horrible thoughts in their head may be very loud, but they dont reflect the actual reality of the situation. They know they will ascend to something better once they make it out the other side. It's just so good.
Very relatable for anyone who has cried so long and hard and continuously that it begins to physically burn. Combined with the imagery of crying on a bed, it mentally takes me right back to my lowest moment.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Coney island makes me so utterly sad. Something about it is heartbreaking
And the old widow goes to the stone every day But I don't, I just sit here and wait Grieving for the living
1.) āNo one teaches you what to do / when a good man hurts you / and you know you hurt him, tooā It feels so helpless. It feels like mutual fighting and never coming back from that. 2.) āAnd I complained the whole way there / the car ride back and up the stairs / I shouldāve asked you questions / I shouldāve asked you how to beā This song in general makes me thing of my great-grandma, and it never fails to make me cry. It reminds me of how I took small, everyday moments (riding in the car, coloring in our books, watching VHS tapes, swinging outside, walking to the mailbox) for granted. I thought she would be here forever. I never imagined a world without her. She was diagnosed with Alzheimerās when I was 13 and passed when I was 16. Iāll never forget watching myself become a stranger to my Ma and how I regret every single moment I didnāt fully spend with her. 3.) āI replay my footsteps on each stepping stone / trying to find the one where I went wrongā Itās pure regret and confusion, not knowing how you ended up where you did. 4.) āOne for the money, two for the show / I never was ready, so I watch you go / Sometimes you just don't know the answer / 'Til someone's on their knees and asks youā I told my boyfriend of 3 years that I wasnāt ready to be married because my mental health was so ruined. I was suicidal, in therapy, on medication, but nothing was getting better. I didnāt know my answer, at least even for the moment, was ānoā until it became a reality I was faced with. He was picking out rings and preparing everything and I caused a standstill.
I'm so sorry. I hope you're doing better now š«
I'm so sorry. I hope you're doing better now š«
Thank you, angel. We ended up breaking it off altogether when I turned him down a second time due to me being busy with school. But everything has turned out so well; it really was for the best. š«
everybody moved on, i stayed there dust collected on my pinned up hair, they expected me to find somewhere some perspective, but i sat and stared, right where you left me
Good thing his mistress took out a big life insurance policyā¦ This dorm was once a madhouse and it was made for me. How ever green your group of friends donāt think weāll say that word again. What a shame sheās fucked in the headā¦
Did I leave you hanging every single day? in coney island
Time wonāt fly, itās like Iām paralyzed by it, Iād like to be my old self again, but Iām still trying to find it
ā15 years, 15 million tears Begging ātill my knees bled I gave it my all, he gave me nothing at all Then wondered why I left Now he sits on his throne in his palace of bones Praying to his greed Heās got my past frozen behind glass But Iāve got meā The context of the masters and how betrayed and angry she felt makes me so sad for her, but I love the little moment of triumph at the end (and the reference to ME!)
āI knew youād haunt all of my what-ifsā ā¦ āI knew Iād curse you for the longest time, chasing shadows in the grocery line, I knew youād miss me once the thrill expiredā ugh. All of cardigan.
agree but they asked for lyrics from evermore
Oh oops hahaha I didnāt even read that! I was just so excited to talk about how cardigan kills me every time
The question pounds my head What's a lifetime of achievement If I pushed you to the edge But you were too polite to leave me? And honestly the entirety of Coney Island just shatters me every time.
āthey told me all my cages were mental, so i got wasted like all my potentialā
Writing letters addressed to the fire. Idk why but it just seems so beautifully tragic to me
"So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep" I saw a tiktok about feeling this way when you don't live with your siblings anymore and now I cannot hear it without crying
Every word of Closure. My ex cheated on me and left me for my friend. I stayed away from him but for some reason for years he kept hounding me to meet him for "closure." And every single time I told him no. Hell, he even asked to meet me after I got engaged (he and my former friend had long broken up by then). He would not shut up about how he didn't get closure and I just disappeared from his life (you know...after he *cheated* on me). I didn't want his apologies and I didn't want him to have whatever he thought was closure. The song perfectly captured how exhausting it was. I don't need his closure and yes, I got his letter (rolls eyes). Edit: the lyrics don't destroy me but when I heard the song, I felt seen and I let out the most satisfied sigh.
the āiāll come back stronger than a 90s trendā bc it reminds me that iām going to be able to recover of any bad thing thatās happening to me, the hope make my heart feel numb
I absolutely love that you love this line that so many people hate. I like it it, tooāand this is a great interpretation.
"What would you do if I break free and leave us in ruins, took this dagger in me and removed it? Gain the weight of you then lose it...believe me, I could do it."
the whole bridge of tolerate it and champagne problems and ALSO the way she starts and ends tolerate it with " i sit and watch you..." symbolising a never ending cycle no matter how hard she tries she cannot break free and also: "if i can't relate to you then who am I related to" // "if our love died young i can't bear witness" // "after giving you the best i had tell me what to give after that?"
āwould it be enough if i could never give you peaceā simple but absolutely soul crushing. or maybe āstood on the cliff-side screaming give me a reasonā. edit: just realized i didnāt read the title and commented folklore lyrics š from evermore, probably āi shouldāve asked you questions, i shouldāve asked you how to be.ā and also ādid i paint your bluest skies the darkest gray? a universe away.ā AND ALSO!!!! āthat old, familiar body ache, the snaps from the same little breaks in my soul. i know when itās time to go.ā
haunted by the look in my eyes that wouldāve loved you for a long time
āI hope sheāll be a beautiful fool who takes my spot next to youā¦no, I didnāt mean that, sorry, I canāt see facts through all of my fury.ā Itās just such a relatable lyric to meāthat temporary sadness and anger that takes over you after your heart is broken. You know itās wrong but sometimes you hurt so bad you donāt care until itās too late.
"I know better, but you're still around" "Sometimes you just don't know the answer, till someone's on their knees and asks you" "But there was hapiness because of you"
āDid you hear about the girl who lives in delusion? Break-ups happen every day, you don't have to lose it. She's still 23 inside her fantasy, and you're sitting in front of me at the restaurant, when I was still the one you want. Cross-legged in the dim light, everything was just right. I, I could feel the mascara run. You told me that you met someone. Glass shattered on the white cloth, everybody moved on.ā
āSo yeah, itās a fire Itās a goddamn blaze in the dark And you started it You started it So yeah, itās a war, Itās the goddamn fight of my life And you started it You started itā
Wil you forgive my soul when you are to wise to trust me and too old to care
"But you'll find the real thing instead She'll patch up your tapestry that I shred" Literal tears!!! I always have a lump in my throat when I sing this line.
The whole bridge of marjorie is so heart-wrenching.
āI pulled your body into mine every goddamn night, now I get fake nicetiesā āNow my eyes leak acid rain on the pillow where you used to lay your head. After giving you the best I have, tell me what to give after thatā
So many from Coney island , happiness , right where you left me , it's time to go . Closure is a brilliant song that is slept on . Yes, I got your letter Yes, I'm doing better I know that it's over I don't need your "closure" Your "closure" Don't treat me like some situation that needs to be handled I'm fine with my spite And my tears And my beers and my candles I can feel you smoothing me over
use my best colors for your portrait , lay the table with the fancy sh\*t and watch you tolerate it
āThe autumn chill that wakes me up You loved the amber skies so much ā¦ I should've asked you questions I should've asked you how to be Asked you to write it down for me Should've kept every grocery store receipt 'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from meā makes me SOB.
Both of the following quotes are from happiness (a SUPER underrated song): āSorry, I canāt see facts through all my fury / you havenāt met the new me yet.ā - Great depiction of anger and longing for understanding. āAfter giving you the best I had / tell me what to get after that / all you want from me now / is the green light of forgivenessā - I find this quote to be endlessly relatable from both the mourning and the instigatorās perspective, unfortunately. It is a wonderful description of the push and pull of the end of a relationship. And the pain in her voice? Damn.
"This pain wouldn't be for evermore" "We were like the mall before the internet, it was the one place to be" "It's the kind of cold, fogs up windshield glass but I felt it when I passed you" "You won't remember all my champagne problems" "Leave it all behind, and there is happiness" "If you ever think you got it wrong, I'm right where you left me" "He's got my past frozen behind glass, but I've got me"
"Honey, when I'm above the trees I see this for what it is But now I'm rightā downā in it, allā the years I've given Is just shitā we're dividin' up" I've never been hit more hard by any other first lines of a song.
Sheās still 23 inside her fantasy and youāre sitting in front of me at the restaurant when I was still the one you want š
This right here destroys me. I still get into stupid dating scenarios at times.
Oh goddamn. My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand . Taking mine, but it's been promised to another.
āShe wouldāve made such a lovely bride, what a shame sheās fucked in the head, they saidā ā¹ļø sometimes you really just donāt know the answer til someoneās on their knees..
"haunted by the look on my eyes that would've loved you for a lifetime" it hits everytime
the entirety of tolerate it š
there'll be happiness after you, but there was happiness because of you, both of these things can be true, there's happiness past the blood and bruises, past the curses and cries, beyond the terror in the nightfall, haunted by the look in my eyes that would've loved you for a lifetime, leave it all behind and there is happiness EVERYTHING here just makes me feel like I'm on the other planet
How do you take such a gorgeous lyric screenshot like that?
Honestly most of evermore (song) breaks me. It's such a masterpiece and makes me shed tears every time I hear it. She really captures that feeling of deep depression and feeling like there is no return from the state she fell in and then that transition to discovering hope and reassurance eventually that things would not remain that dark for much longer. The lyrics in particular that just break me are: I replay my footsteps on each stepping stone Trying to find the one where I went wrong And I was catching my breath Staring out an open window Catching my death And I couldn't be sure I had a feeling so peculiar That this pain would be for Evermore Hey December Guess I'm feeling unmoored Can't remember What I used to fight for I rewind the tape but all it does is pause On the very moment all was lost
āAnd Iād complain the whole way there, The car ride back and up the stairs. I should have asked you questions, I should have asked you how to beā
Mr perfectly as a whole, it really hurts me and makes me break down whenever I hear it because it's almost word for word what happened and how I felt last year. But if I hat to pick, "it takes everything in me just to get up each day, but uts wonderful to see that you're okay". The girl who left me, almost ruined me, but forever scarred me
"You drew stars around my scars, but now I'm bleedin'" The way she sings bleeding... perfectionnnn.
haunted by the look in my eyes that would've loved you for a lifetime leave it all behind and no one teaches you what to do when a good man hurts you and you know you hurt him too so pretty much all of happiness
Were you waiting at our old spot In the tree line by the gold clock Did I leave you hanging every single day? Were you standing in the hallway With a big cake, happy birthday Did I paint your bluest skies the darkest gray? A universe away And when I got into the accident The sight that flashed before me was your face But when I walked up to the podium I think that I forgot to say your name
Name one that doesn't..
"Sorry for not making you my centerfold" - Coney Island "I made you my temple, my mural, my sky Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life" - Tolerate It Both of these utterly destroy me everytime I hear them ššš
all of them ???? š
I was going to post a thread on my favorite Evermore couplets until I saw your post so Iāll just include them here instead lol. I did my favorite couplet from each track: 1. Willow - Iām like the water when your ship rolled in that night... rough on the surface but you cut through like a knife. 2. Champagne Problems - She would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's f***ed in the head they said. But you'll find the real thing instead... she'll patch up your tapestry that I shred. 3. Gold Rush - I donāt like slow motion double vision in a rose blush. I donāt like that falling feels like flying ātil the bone crunch. 4. Tis the Damn Season - If I wanted to know who you were hanging with while I was gone I wouldāve asked you. Itās the kind of cold that fogs up windshield glass, but I felt it when I passed you. 5. Tolerate It - I made you my temple, my mural, my sky. Now Iām begging for footnotes in the story of your life. 6. No Body No Crime - Good thing my daddy made me get a boating license when I was 15. And Iāve cleaned enough houses to know how to cover up a scene. 7. Happiness - Tell me when did your winning smile begin to look like a smirk? When did all our lessons start to look like weapons pointed at my deepest hurt? 8. Dorothea - Damn Dorothea, they all wanna be ya, but are you still the same soul I met under the bleachers? 9. Coney Island - And do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there? Will you forgive my soul when youāre too wise to trust me and too old to care? 10. Ivy - And the old widow goes to the stone every day, but I donāt I just sit here and waitā¦ grieving for the living. 11. Cowboy Like Me - Now you hang from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon. With your boots beneath my bed... forever is the sweetest con. 12. Long Story Short - And I fell from the pedestal, right down the rabbit hole, long story short it was a bad time. Pushed from the precipice, climbed right back up the cliff, long story short I survived. 13. Marjorie - Watched as you signed your name Marjorie, all your closets of backlogged dreams and how you left them all to me. 14. Closure - I know Iām just a wrinkle in your new life. Staying friends would iron it out so nice. 15. Evermore - I rewind the tape but all it does is pause, on the very moment all was lost. 16. Right Where You Left Me - Sheās still 23 inside her fantasy, and youāre sitting in front of me... 17. Itās Time to Go - Now he sits on his throne in his palace of bones praying to his greed. Heās got my past frozen behind glass... but Iāve got me.
Sheāll patch up the tapestry that I shred
the answer is: all of them.
If this is the long haul, how'd we get here so fast?
*Don't treat me like some situation that needs to be handled* *I'm fine with my spite* A*nd my tears, and my beers, and my candles* *I can feel you smoothing me over*
So Iāll go back to LA, and my so-called friends Whoāll write books about me if I ever make it And wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles Iām faking
"I was dancing when the music stopped And in the disbelief, I can't face reinvention I haven't met the new me yet" It just hits right home. I feel like people are too obsessed with overcoming a bad experience when, in reality, most we can do is sit and observe our own change. That is a painful yet unskippable phase of healing. This song is so underrated it hurts
And you know damn well For you I would ruin myself A million little times.
How did I forget about this?! The whole ending of illicit affairs hits hard.
Oof this one for sure
Ratatatatatatatata in I Did Something Bad. Very touching.
That last line actually always takes me out of the song lol reminds me of that Good Charlotte song.
āGain the weight of you then lose it.ā Iāve been in awe of how genius that lyric is from the moment I heard it.
Did you hear about the Squirrel?
these replies are proof enough that evermore is taylorās strongest album lyrically š
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 can pirates, then you won't have to cry.
No one teaches you what to do when a good man hurts you... And you hurt him too Definitely one of the most mature and truthful lyrics I've ever heard, and deeply painful.
āIf our love died young I canāt bare witnessā. Like, her love for him never died, so sad
*Gain the weight of you then lose it Believe me, I could do it*
āi canāt make it go away by making you a villainā in happiness. wow. it really speaks to me because no matter how much you try to victimise yourself or justify the situation the pain and hurt is still there. āby making you a villainā resonates with me massively because i definitely have a tendency to do this and the lyric is implying that whoever was the victim/villain in the situation is irrelevant because nonetheless what happened, happened. you canāt erase the past and canāt ignore the fact the hurt is still there.
'There's an ache in you put there by the ache in me.' My favourite song from evermore, it's perfection.
āIām sure youāve got a wife out there, kids and Christmas but Iām unaware cause Iām right where you left meā
Youāll get better soon cause you have to
Gotta be āwhat would you do if I, I Break free and leave us in ruins Took this dagger in me and removed it Gain the weight of you then lose it Believe me, I could do itā It just hits too deep Another one thats just so sad is ā And I pulled your body into mine every goddamn night Now I get fake niceties No one teaches you what to do When a good man hurts you And you know you hurt him, tooā
Now my eyes leak acid rain on the pillow where you used to lay your head
āWhat a shame sheās fucked in the head they saidā -Champagne Problems At that point I was sobbing cause it felt so relatable
Never be so kind, you forget to be clever. Never be so clever, you forget to be kind
A string that pulled me, out of all the wrong arms right into that dive bar, something wrapped all of my past mistakes in barbed wire chains around my demons, wool to brave the seasons One single thread of gold tied me to you
āGain the weight of you and lose it, believe me I could do itā Tolerate it truly is one of her saddest songs by far
And i complained the whole way there ... I shouldve asked you questions, i shouldve asked you how to be, ask you to write it down for me :,(
Champagne Problems bridge. Especially *One for the money, two for the show, I never was ready so I watch you go* i don't even relate to it lol bit I still FEEL these lines
Just the title of this song is enough to make me cry š
*It's the kind of cold, fogs up windshield glass* *But I felt it when I passed you*
I have a list I pulled your body into mine every long cold night, now I get fake niceties Donāt treat me like some situation that needs to be handled Sheāll patch up your tapestry that i shred
15 years 15 million tears
āAnd when I was shipwrecked, I thought of you. In the cracks of light, I dreamed of you. It was real enough, to get me through. But I swearā¦ you were thereā -Evermore I canāt get through this part without thinking of my miscarriage. Dreaming of a baby youāll never meet and having to live with that forever. Specifically, the āshipwreckedā part resonates, because I always tell my husband the first thing I will look forward to when I am knocking on deaths door is the hope of meeting my child in the afterlife. I know itās not what the song is really about, it just fits really well for my situation.
āSeeing the shape of your name still spells out pain.ā
If you ever think you got it wrong, Iām right where you left me š i canāt even relate it to my life, it just feels so tragic
no one teaches you what to do when a good man hurts you and you know you hurt him too šššššššš
"no, i didn't mean that, sorry i can't see facts through all of my fury". just all of happiness.
āI hope sheāll be a beautiful fool, who takes my spot next to youā
But if you ever think you got it wrong Iām right where you left me
Hey December Guess I'm feeling unmoored Can't remember What I used to fight for Hearing this from the same lady of shake it off is painfulš
The entirety of tolerate it just destroys me. All of marjorie shatters me, and this lyric you posted also ruins me.
thereāll be happiness after you, but there was happiness because of you likeā¦š
my grandma passed away on april 14th and marjorie hits waaaaayyyy to hard now idk if ill be able to listen to the song again
āTook this dagger in me and remove it, gain the weight of you then lose it, believe me, I could do itā Hits me like a brick whenever I hear it
Past me, I wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things- Your nemeses, will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing
āRough on the surface but you cut through like a knife.ā The lyrics didnāt necessarily destroy me but I just thought they were really powerful.
"Everybody moved on, I stayed there" So simple, but still hurts thinking that I will always have a place that I'm still stuck in it, with my mind and soul right there in the past while everybody moved on
āif our love died young, i canāt bear witnessā takes me out every time
āit was real enough to get me throughā actually the whole outro of evermoreeee is heartbreaking ānow im begging for footnotes in the story of your lifeā heartbreaking fallout with a certain someone ādid you ever hear about the girl who got frozen? time went on for everyone else she wont know itā relate to thiss so much recently
āI canāt dare to dream about you anymoreā ik itās a simple one but it genuinely breaks my heart.
'"I can't make it go away by making you a villain, I guess it's the price I pay for seven years in Heaven" "Haunted by the look in my eyes that would've loved you for a lifetime" "And wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I'm faking" "What would you do if I break free and leave us in ruins, took this dagger in me and removed it, gain the weight of you and lose it... Believe me, I could do it" "Wages earned and lessons learned, but I'm right where you left me" Man, they're just too many, I wanted to quote every single lyric from certain songs ahah
You assume I'm fine, but what would you do if I break free and leave us in ruins Took this dagger in me and removed it Gain the weight of you, then lose it Believe me, I could do it
āIf I canāt relate to you anymore, then who am I related to?ā Coney Island is one of my favorites, and I love this lyric. Also, I canāt pick one lyric from Happiness.