Taylor Swift Songs

Are We Being Played?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:37:00 +0000

The more I sit on “The Life of a Showgirl” album the more angry I get. I wrote about it last time how the album is so dissonant with the time. We don’t need a trad wife album we need a resistance album. I saw a video saying how Taylor could have created the best resistance album. And it’s true, but alas she did not. She created a lewd Sabrina Carpenter album that missed the mark entirely. She copied Sabrina’s lyric style and dress and made an album.

I honestly think she was seeing the success of Sabrina which she partially created by inviting her on tour. Taylor is a smart business woman and has leaned on the success of others to propel her own. She tried to make a Sabrina album because Sabrina got some Grammy’s and that’s what Taylor chases. She wants the awards more than anything. The thing is Sabrina is not Taylor. I for one am not a fan of Sabrina and never will be. I am not a fan of this album.

The main points of the album were:

She needs a man to be happy (which was also the point of Rep and why I didn’t love)
She is better than Travis’s old savage girlfriends aka black girlfriends
Travis has magical powers because of his you know
We the fans will never understand her
Being a trad wife is the ultimate goal
A guy can call you condescending names

In the promo she says her work is not nearly as important as Travis’s. I didn’t even know who Travis was until she started dating him. Football is not important.

If this album had come out in 2024 when it was written it might have been okay. But Trump has amplified the voices and reversed direction on the roles of the black community, of women and so many more. We don’t need Taylor to embrace this, we need her to stand up to it. People stood up with Jimmy Kimmel. It was easy and now he still has a voice.

This leads me to my question. Are we being played? Is this a ruse? Does she have a master plan to over throw what is happening right now? Is she going to take everything down? I don’t know it’s far fetched but would explain what is happening now.

I don’t usually comment on Taylor’s relationships but the relationship feels off to me. She is sacrificing everything she has built herself up to be for Travis. He is an angry guy who is full of himself and she is settling down with him? What if he gets angry with her or bored with her? Is Travis her Kevin Federline who will write a book some day about her?

I don’t understand it all or any of it. I want this to be a fake out album and for Taylor not to have merch that resembles SS symbols. I think she does not okay designs and it snuck by. Her merch is low quality and high priced. I want Travis not to support American Eagle which supports eugenics. I want this whole thing to be over. And more importantly I want Taylor to be on the right side of history like she has always been. If not there’s going to be a lot of people that will turn away and never come back.

“Life of a Showgirl Review”, it hits dissonant

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 22:28:00 +0000

I was going to write about the song mean song from “The Life of a Showgirl” but I have to write this first. I’m going to start out with a music analogy. In physics there are resonate frequencies. It is the natural frequency when a system vibrates with the highest amplitude. Basically the frequency will excite the system and make it even bigger in movement. I think Taylor has hit this resonate frequency for several albums. They have come out at the right time and hit the mark and resonated with the audience and been so impactful. Think of folklore when everyone was hiding in their homes for months on end. She released an album everyone could relate to all about that the inner peace of being in isolation. Her song “Epiphany” touched on the agony of the COVID pandemic by comparing it to her Grandfathers suffering in WWII. It was relatable. The album hit all the right notes. This is not the same for “The Life of a Showgirl.” It misses the mark and causes a dissonant frequency, when two frequencies are close but not close enough and the sound is unstable.

As I’ve stewed over the album the last few days I have to ask why? Why is this album so dissonant? I agree with some that have said this should not be called “The Life of a Showgirl” but the “The Life of a Capitalist”. 1st exhibit the many, many variants of this every album. First the album was revealed and a preorder was made available with tape and vinyl. Then there were some deluxe boxes available. That should have been it. But no it was one like every other day. I know this is marketing, but this is stupid. Vinyls are not good for the environment and if someone collects them all shipping 10 different variants separately is not good for the environment.

Here are all the variants:

August 13:

-“The Life of a Showgirl” CD, Tape Cassette, and Vinyl

August 13:

-The Life of a Showgirl: “It’s Frightening” Deluxe CD

-The Life of a Showgirl: “It’s Rapturous” Deluxe CD

-The Life of a Showgirl: “It’s Beautiful” Deluxe CD

-The Life of a Showgirl: “Sweat and Vanilla Perfume” Deluxe CD

August 18:

-The Life of a Showgirl: The Shiny Bug

Vinyl Collection available in two colors

August 21:

-The Life of a Showgirl: Baby, That’s Show Business

Vinyl Collection available in two colors

August 25:

-The Life of a Showgirl: Tiny Bubbles in Champagne Vinyl Collection available in two colors

September 9th

-3 Different Target exclusive cds with poster

September 10th

-The Life of a Showgirl + “A Look Behind the Curtain” Vinyl

September 24

-The Life of a Showgirl: The Crowd is Your King Target Limited Press

September 26

-4 versions of signed CDs

October 4th

-Life Is A Song Acoustic Version with “Opalite (Life Is A Song Acoustic Version)” and “Ruin the Friendship (My Advice Version)” Bonus Tracks CD

-Dressing Room Rehearsal Version with “Wi$h Li$t (Settled Down Acoustic Version)” and “The Life of a Showgirl (Dressing Room Rehearsal Acoustic Version)” Bonus Tracks CD

-Alone In My Tower Acoustic Version with “The Fate of Ophelia (Alone In My Tower Acoustic Version)” and “Eldest Daughter (Now You’re Home Acoustic Version)” Bonus Tracks CD

-So Glamorous Cabaret Version with “Elizabeth Taylor (So Glamorous Cabaret Version)” and Elizabeth Taylor (Original Songwriting Voice Memo) Bonus Tracks CD

All the environmental effects aside the other problem with having so many variants is the US is in the middle of a hostile government takeover with people realizing it has been fueled and encouraged by billionaires, of which she is one. People are starting to see through the tricks the billionaires are using to cash grab money. This is a blatant cash grab and everyone knows.

Now let’s talk about the songs. The content of the songs have nothing to do with being a showgirl. The poem that people could only read if they got all the variants and which I have here is about the life a showgirl. This would have been a great song, but none of the contents of this song was captured in the album.

The album contains lyrics about her wanting to settle down and have a house with a basketball hoop. There are lyrics about how big her fiancés body part is, how hot he is. It is a super inappropriate song. She has talked about sex before but in a much more sophisticated manner. It sounded like Travis wrote that song TBH. There are lyrics about having babies and living in a neighborhood that looks like them. I don’t know how that one slipped by in writing sessions. There are literally people being kidnapped from their neighborhood because they don’t look like the rest of the neighborhood. She has lyrics about how Travis’s life with former girlfriends, who were black were “onyx nights” but with Taylor it’s “opalite” which is blue, referencing her blue eyes. She writes about wanting her friends to be dripping with Gucci and wears a Gucci shirt in her behind the scenes video for her music video. There are bad optics when people need to pay as much for groceries right now as her t shirt and can’t. The closest the album comes to bringing up the corporate machine is in “Father Figure” when she says Scott Borchetta was just using her for money. Go off on that Taylor. Talk about the industry is soooo bad for women, how people get taken advantage of every day just for greed. Talk about how your fans get taken advantage of by these billionaires.

The other thing that bothered me the most was the incessant marketing for Target. Does she not know a majority of her fan base are boycotting Target right now? And by her trying to normalize Target with selling Target exclusive variants it’s coming across as super insensitive to women, people of color and those with disabilities? There is no excuse for promoting a brand that not respect DEI. And don’t even get me started on Travis’s collab with American Eagle.

Another thing that bothered me was her not talking about what went wrong with the Eras tour. A girl died, she had to cancel a show due to a threat, and the tickets ended up being sooo much money and unobtainable to most fans. Ticketmaster broke their promise when they said that fans that had Lover Fest tickets and bought merch on her website had first priority. They had last. I also think that Ticketmaster is in cahoots with resale sites like Stubhub. There were tickets released and immediately available there on StubHub. I wonder if the artists get a cut at the resale? She could have written about any of these things, but she didn’t even acknowledge them.

The most blaring omission from the release of “The Life of a Showgirl” is the absence of any commentary about the current political environment. If she was not releasing an album the silence might be okay. But she is speaking to people every day and says nothing. The album celebrates capitalism by her selling so many variants. She either does this for vanity numbers or to get more money which in this environment both have bad optics. She sings about being rich and her rich problems. Every famous singer gets here writing a self reflecting song or album about rich and famous. It always comes across as self serving, but in this age calling herself immortal and rich doesn’t sit well.

What could she have done better? Not write the song wood for one or leave out gross innuendo. She could have talked more about the issues she touched on in her poem. She could talk about how she knows her fans have a hard time. Instead she complains about them in her poem, “the crowd is your king, who has ruled over you for centuries, benevolently for the most part. Perhaps someday they despise you again” She’s calling the crowd a king derogatorily. She is bound by this crowd under orders and sometimes they are fickle leaders and in the end will despise her. But I digress. She could have talked about all these things but instead she made a record talking about how Travis saved her from drowning because he fell in love with her. This is so against anything found in the song, “The Man”.

Taylor we know as a fandom you can do better. We are not going to despise you but we need you to come back from the billionaire cloud see what is happening and start making music that resonates again because this is not it.

We’re not in Kansas Anymore

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:42:00 +0000

Dear Taylor,

First off. You know I’m a devoted fan. I’ve been here for years supported you through thick and thin. I have to be honest with you today.

It’s not 2011, 2017 even 2019 even more. The things we could care about, trivial things we can’t care about anymore. The world has changed. Are people still using music and video entertainment to escape? You bet ya. But we are being more careful. The world has changed and we know what we support matters.

I am being super careful. I am boycotting Target, Amazon, American Eagle and so many others. I’m being super careful about what I buy.

More importantly and why I am doing this is I am sooooo scared. I have no idea what country we will be living in in 2, 4 or 10 years. I am scared and incredibly frightened for people in this country, trans, Latin American, black, and many more. I know as a white female I have some privilege but I am not as safe as a white man.

Which gets me to the point of the post. I feel like you are operating under the old guise, like nothing has changed. And maybe for you nothing has changed. The top has already been super corrupt. They just did it in secret before. I ask you though to take a step back and evaluate. We want to support you and your music, but in a new way that is cognizant of everything happening all around. Recent actions of yours from who you are pictures with to your normal variant drop have come off as not cognizant of what is happening.

Here are some suggestions, take it or leave it. This list is in no way comprehensive.

-don’t drop a special version at Target

-give proceeds of a variant color/s to Gaza or immigration help

-say something about what is happening. There was so great political music that came out of Vietnam. Bring it back. Make the movement that way.

-distance yourself from MAGA, make it clear you don’t condone what is happening

-now that you’re connected to Travis, have him do the same. He lost a ton of Karma points today with the American Eagle ad. I feel like he should have dropped it

Most importantly please show us you are not compromising your beliefs or doing what’s right because of money. We need people to stand up right now. You’ve done it with Apple, Spotify, your masters. Now help the women of the world stand up to the patriarchy and oligarchy.

Love,

Your devoted fan who’s loved you and your music for so many years.

The Revolution Needs to Be Televised

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 01:58:00 +0000

Dear Taylor,

Let me preface this by saying America needs your help right now. I know you may not want to get involved but we need you. We need you and people that have a voice. They tried to silence you in the last election by saying celebrities should stay in their lane. But it’s a gaslighting tactic, the billionaires need to stay out of the political lane. Yes you are a billionaire, but you are a billionaire because you’ve been the voice to so many people. Your music speaks to our core. You got your money by speaking to us and standing up for yourself. They got their money by bullying people.

What can you do? First off start saying something everyday. Contact officials, get involved in your own way. I have been going to local protests, helping with indivisible, meeting people in my community. You can do that but on a much larger scale. Release some music. Get together with Gianna Branca and remix How History Goes. Get together with Lamar, Lady Gaga, Green Day any and all who will. Start the American Music Revolution. Got to protests, give speeches, go live with senators, House of Representatives, have a protest concert. Have Tree Pain lend her assistance to messaging with the Democrats. She is a pro at PR. There are so many things you can do.

I know it’s hard to stand up, to speak up. The fear grips all of us. Those who are giving you money want you to be silent. They like the status quo. They want to get richer while all our rights are taken away from us. But we can’t pretend this isn’t happening. Live our lives like nothing is going on. The silence is compliance and robs us of everything we know. Everyday a new decree comes that furthers the corruption and makes us less free.

I beg you Taylor just as you stood up to Apple Music, Spotify, your own old music label stand up for America. Your influence will inspire so many others. You don’t know the power you could have. Don’t be scared of losing money, followers. When we lose our country we will wish we had done more. And I think you might be surprised by how many people will come together and we won’t lose anything at all if we stand up right now.

How Has Taylor Swift Become So Popular? She Has Capitalized Capitalism and Conquered Social Media

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 26 May 2024 22:00:00 +0000

I have been a Taylor Swift fan for years. It started when I was pregnant with my first and I listened to Speak Now on repeat after it was released. I knew she had talent. Not everyone knew at this time how good she was but she was definitely gaining traction. Sadly I missed both her fearless and speak now concerts. Fearless I found out about afterwards and speak now I didn’t want to pay 75 for nosebleeds. How little do I know.

Over the next couple years I soaked up all her discography which wasn’t much at the time. I was super estatic when Red was released. More music. I feel in love with the soundtrack of fall upstate New York as I was driving through fall upstate New York listening to her album. The first glimmer of her marketing appeared to me when I saw she had a red release week crew. These fans got to attend her events and some were given a sneak peak of the album in her Nashville apartment before it was released. I wanted to be in NYC and be a Tay follower so bad.

I signed up for her email list and Taylor connect. If you know you know. I purchased tickets for her tour and regret not buying the upgraded pit tickets. Again little did I know. Those would have been amazing seats.

I started this blog and followed her socials in the chance that I would get an opportunity. I remember seeing pictures of radio DJ’s in her apartment holding her Grammys and was jealous. Little did I know that a few short weeks later I would be in her apartment holding her Grammy’s, playing her piano and taking pictures with her after she announced 1989.

After that I didn’t care anymore about meeting her I had had my chance and that was good. I did see a different side to her fan base because I got to know more of the OG Swifties. Some of them are ruthless. They can be nice to your face, say nice things but there is always a silent competition to see who would get her attention. Through the years she had her favs for sure. I wasn’t sure I could invest the amount of time needed to be that fan to maybe get noticed. I was happy listening to the music nonstop.

I noticed the first crack in her marketing at Formula 1. I don’t know if she was aware of it, but the competition was out of control. I had purchased vip tickets and it was utterly messed up. The organizers of the event hadn’t anticipated people lining up at 1:00 to attend her concert that night. The day started off fine, we sat in the heat and waited to get in. One by one people stood up in a very wide queue. This ended by people pushing and shoving til we were in there like sardines, some famous Swifties being very rude trying to be in the front, anything to be closer to Taylor and get noticed. There was no way to get out of that line at that point. When we were let in we ran to the stage almost getting trampled. My feet were bleeding, I was hungry and there was no food in sight. Luckily she gave us water, but I was super weak the end of the concert. It had not been a safe experience at all. I was lucky though. Behind us 40,000 people stood and I can only imagine what they had gone through. There were some lucky Swifties that got to stand on a platform because they knew people. I could have been one of those but chose not to meet them so I could stand in a dreadful line. I regretted every minute. I will say there were some nice Swifties I hung out with that day and am glad for them.

This highlighted a few things, her concerts can be unsafe, she is not aware and Swifties are competitive and ruthless. No one should be in a line that unsafe and should always have access to food and water at her concert. And two people will do anything to be close to Taylor shoving themselves in a crowd until everyone is unsafe. Unfortunately this has not gone away and people have died and gone to the hospital because of this.

After I got home life continued as usual and Taylor Nation, her marketing team continued to recognize fans, she sent people presents, invited them over to bake, and invited them to secret sessions and concert releases. This increased her popularity showing her relatability to fans. But it also created more competition. Her fans went online and shared their experiences and started the cycle to get noticed again while inspiring other fans to do the same. They think they have a relationship with Taylor but it’s parasocial most of the time. They invest so much time in her. She notices them on the internet but can’t keep up with all of them. She grew a loyal army by relating to her fans and reaching out to a few. She conquered social media with the help of her fans. This marketing tactic is amazing and one that companies and celebrities should take note and employ if they want to grow or should they? What is cost? Without this strategy she would not have the following she does. She learned this from visiting radio stations and meeting the DJ’s at all the stations. She did the same with the fans. In turn they would play her music and the fans would praise her forever and always seek the next opportunity.

This tactic has an ugly side too. Taylor pays the cost with invasion of privacy and fans commenting on every aspect of her life. They hang out outside her home and music studio to catch a glance of her. This is horrible. They don’t respect boundaries with each other or her. The fandom side of it is horrible too. Because she is one human there are only so many opportunities and a certain number of people that can have them. At the Reputation concert I had secured six tickets for my friends. We were enjoying the concert when 4 of them disappeared. Me being me went and found them. They knew someone that knew someone and got into pit. They were going to ditch me because they had an opportunity and telling me would make the number be too big. The whole fandom does this. Everyone is trying to be close to Taylor and not miss their shot. Once is never enough. They backstab and push themselves in not caring about the danger created or feelings hurt. That opportunity is the most important thing. They even sneak into pit so they can be close to her every time. They don’t care who they shove out of the way.

Life got busy for me and I didn’t really care about the opportunities. As long as I could listen to her music, buy her signed cds (which I got all no problem) and merch, and go to her shows I was happy. I secured Lover Fest tickets because I was a loyal fan and had lots of Rep boosts (a great system by the way). Sadly it was canceled. I was so excited for the Eras tour and was told I had priority. I thought it’d be easy like in the past, but it was a nightmare. Instead of being at the front of the line and getting priority I was at the end and didn’t get six tickets like I wanted to go with friends. I luckily got two tickets the next day after trying for every city out there, and an amazing Swiftie gave her two extra to me.

This is where and why she got insanely popular. The army of Swifties went to Twitter and TikTok like they have been trained to do and complained. Media caught word and people who never considered going to the concert all of the sudden had FOMO and needed tickets too. Ticket prices shot up and resale was crazy. People saw the opportunity and capitalized on it.

Scammers came out of the woodworks. You can’t go on social media and mention tickets without someone mentioning their cousin has tickets and visit their Instagram, which they don’t. They want Zelle or friends and family for payment which is code for SCAMMER.

Taylor benefited from all of this. She was in the press because her ticket prices were insane. People were camped outside the stadium. She was a force to be reckoned with with an army to match. But was the concert safe to go to? I had learned my lesson and ate large meals and found water in the stadium fast. Allegiant stadium in Las Vegas doesn’t have water fountains. I had to buy two 8 dollar plastic water bottles. Super bad for the environment. I went in May to MetLife so not super hot. They had free water thank goodness. We got food, but unfortunately the way I was standing, the chairs were packed so tight my large toes developed problems that I’m still recovering from a year later.

Fans in other countries have not been so lucky. The temperatures have been hotter. Fans have been pushing and shoving for that once chance to see her close and one died in Brazil with some going to the hospital. People have had to relieve themselves where they stand in the pit, had nothing to eat and been super hot. They don’t want I get out of line because they want to be close.

Meanwhile merch and signed cds had been in high demand with resellers capitalizing by buying up all the stock, like the tickets and profiting 100 fold. The demand for anything Taylor is out of control. I can’t be just a normal fan anymore without it dominating my life or my pocketbook. Should fans have to pay life savings away or sacrifice their health to see their favorite artist?

Interestingly enough in Europe where there are laws preventing capitalism from getting out of control the ticket prices have remained affordable. Tickets are 100-200 dollars. But is this good for Taylor? There’s no press talking about the demand, maybe people won’t feel as compelled to go because it’s not in demand?

What can Taylor do to combat these problems for fans? First off is nothing. Second off is make her concerts safer and third is make sure the fans get the opportunities instead of fortune hunters.

She has been close to doing the first one doing nothing and pretending it doesn’t exist. This is a tactic that has been close to getting her in trouble. She has gotten out of responsibility by letting others take the fall. The Ticketmaster fiasco is the fault of Ticketmaster. She did offer some fans the opportunity to purchase more tickets, but only two not the original six as promised.

She blamed the venues for unsafe conditions, but she needs to demand they work to make a safe environment. Maybe have a team in place that is dedicated to fan safety at the venue. Research all the venues, find out the weaknesses and address them before the fans come. Have roped off sections of the GA. I love GA better than chairs but her GA is out of control. She needs more roped off areas, maybe split between VIP and GA and have 8-10 GA sections all with access to the food, bathroom and water. This excitement is endangering fans. A fan died at her concert and many more have had a horrible time. Something needs to get done. It’s only going to get worse and she shouldn’t need to be addressing it from stage. By that time it’s too late and too out of control.

As far as tickets and merch she should set up a loyal fan program which she has done in the past. I would even pay monthly for it. She could also base it on top Apple and Spotify fans, fans that watch her videos etc. She has done this before and needs to bring it back. Those people have access to merch, tickets, signed cds etc, not resalers.

What would be the cost to Taylor for making concerts safer and making opportunities more available for fans? The first one would be positive, without making them safer there’s more potential for injuries and death at her concerts and more bad press.

The second one would be neutral for Taylor in the moment, but i think she would benefit emotionally in the long run. Taylor is benefitting from financially from capitalism right now. By making things more accessible to fans she could slow down the exploitation of fans and make more loyal fans. She may not benefit because she wouldn’t be perceived as as popular anymore and not be in the news for that. But she may have more freedom and who really needs to be that all powerful anyway? I think the end benefit would produce more loyal fans because they wouldn’t feel taken advantage of and have a chance to be closer to her because the opportunity came from her not her pocketbook. Without it tickets and merch will only be available to the rich and those profiting the most won’t even be fans of Taylor or Taylor fans taking advantage of other fans. And her merch would up in the hands of fans and not wasting away in the basement if someone trying to profit from it.

Lastly how can she deal with the competitiveness and sneakiness of fans? I’ve seen fans who are super nasty get opportunities over and over because they spend the time to get noticed. I don’t think this will change but she can be more careful who she gives opportunities too. She can research them and see how they treat others. Many will only show what they want her to see unfortunately. I have met several nice Swifties. Maybe she needs a list of those people who are genuinely nice and not just putting on a show. I think this one is super hard because it’s really hard to see how people treat others when they aren’t being watched.

I hope Taylor makes her concerts safer and her tickets and merch more accessible to fans. I don’t want to miss out on those opportunities too. I want to go to the Eras Tour again and take my whole family, we only got 2 tickets and 2 of my kids couldn’t go. I want to be wear the new beige TTPD hoodie, but instead it’s sitting in a resalers home where they hope to get 150-300 for it. I may not get to be able to even do these things anymore because of capitalism. I can still listen to the music nonstop but I’m not buying 20 variants of a digital album (save that discussion for another day).

Manuscript Song Meaning

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 26 May 2024 14:46:00 +0000

Todays Taylor Swift song is the meaning of the song “The Manuscript” from The Tortured Poets Department.

The manuscript is one of my favorite songs on The Tortured Poets Department. Why? It starts off on just a piano with Taylor and it is hauntingly beautiful with beautiful lyrics. On a side note she wrote this song herself.

What is this song about?

I know I started this blog out saying who the songs were about, but I feel like it has evolved since. I can still figure out who they’re about and I’ll say, but I don’t think that should be the focus especially with this song. This song perfectly describes her approach to her music and her lyrics and encapsulates everything about her work.

She writes this song in 3rd person, ie no I’s or me’s. This is especially important to the meaning of the song. In the first couple verses, she talks about rereading a “manuscript” aka songs she has written in the past specially for this one “All Too Well”. She talks about the relationship she had with him. This someone she was talking about was Jake Gyllenhaal. He “made coffee every morning in a French press” and they had great “conversation”. He told her “if the sex was half as good as the conversation was soon they’d be pushing strollers.” She did lose her virginity to him and was expecting to spend the rest of her life with him. She loved him. He was her first love.

But as I’ve detailed before, he basically ghosted her and didn’t show up to her birthday party. He made all these promises to her and said he loved her and then he didn’t show up for her. She was devastated and “couldn't sleep unless it was in her mother's bed”. We also saw this in the “All Too Well” music video.

She said it was hard to write the song. She told Good Morning America in 2012, “All Too Well” [was difficult to write emotionally] because it took me a really long time to filter through everything I wanted to put in the song without it being a 10 minute song, which you can’t put on an album. I wanted a story that could work in the form of a song and I called my co-writer Liz Rose and said, ‘Come over, we’ve gotta filter this down,’ and it took me a really long time to get it.”

“All Too Well” she became her fans favorite song. It’s my favorite song from her discography. They wanted it played at every show. She even played it at the Grammy’s for them. She told fans at the Reputation tour,

“You turned this song into a collage of memories of watching you scream the words to this song, or seeing pictures that you post to me of you haven written words to this song in your diary, or you showing me your wrist, and you have a tattoo of the lyrics to this song underneath your skin, And that is how you have changed the song ‘All Too Well’ for me.”

When she rereleased the album, “Red (Taylor’s Version)” she released the 10 minute version she had mentioned years ago, a request fans had always wanted. She also made a music video for the song that was phenomenal. It won all sorts of awards for a 10 minute song.

Back to the song “The Manuscript” Taylor says she moved on from the relationship and “dated boys who were her own age.” It’s had been years since she wrote this song. She wrote the song because “the professor said to write what you know.” By “looking back” she could “move forward”. She was able to perform this song and build a fan base and share it with the world. By releasing this song so personal to her, “she knew what the agony had been for.”

Now all she has left from this relationship is a manuscript or the song that she wrote is the “last souvenir”. “Now and then I [she] re-read[s] the manuscript.” This is talking about her reflecting on this song she refers to as a manuscript which is interesting because in the music video for “All Too Well” the character goes on to become an author and releases a book about the time she had with this lover. What’s interesting about this line is it’s the only line that is written in first person and present tense. It really emphasizes what the song is about. She is saying that she wrote this song for her but then she released it to her fans. They changed the meaning of the song for her. She gave them this song. That’s why she’s talking in third person most of the song. She’s detached herself from the reason song it was originally written for. She changes ton 1st person as she reflects on what the song has become and what it means to her now. The “story isn’t mine anymore” she says. It has changed because she has gave it to the world. The manuscript might’ve been about one song “All Too Well”, but it really encapsulates her whole work. It is interesting that she put this song at the very end of The Tortured Poets Department main album, the one released that is not a special version, but it’s still a bonus track.

In her Instagram on April 19, 2024 she says,

“The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.

And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is out now.”

This is a great concept about releasing stress and being able to move on from things, write it down and not think of it about it anymore. I use this myself quite often.Taylor does it on a grand scale and makes a lot of money from it. She is also emphasizing that she’s not doing this to get it back at people, but to express how she feels. And that basically is the whole message of The Tortured Poets Department and why it is the last song on the album. Living a good life is being able to move on and Taylor does that by writing her music and we all enjoy it. Thank you Taylor for sharing very personal pieces of yourself with us all these years. Your music has been there for me so many times of my life and been able to help me in ways you’ll never know.

“Clara Bow” Song Meaning

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 01:43:00 +0000

Today’s Taylor Swift song is the meaning of the song “Clara Bow” from the album “The Tortured Poet’s Department”.

I know I haven’t written one of these in a while, but I felt inspired I have a lot to write about in the past few years Taylor has put out so much music.

Who is this song about?

The song’s title gives it away. It is about Clara Bow kind of, Clara Bow is used to describe the pains of Hollywood specifically because how they treated her. Her look in the “Fornight” music video is a homage to Clara Bow’s look.

Who is Clara Bow? Clara Bow was a silent film star and one of the first It girls in Hollywood. She was super pretty and also super outspoken. She did not care what people thought and was scandalous for the time, even though other people put on a show and did the same things she did. She was ostracized from the other girls in Hollywood. She came from a hard and rough upbringing, but was a sensation when she stared in movies. She retired from acting when talkie movies started but not because she did not like them but because she was sick of Hollywood.

Taylor relates to her because she is the It girl right now. Look at her Eras tour. It sold out before it reached general sale with millions of people on the waitlist. Resale tickets are insane. It is impossible to get popular merch from her website. Scalpers grab it up fans can get it. She has been ostracized at times, especially by Kim Kardashian and Kanye. She has all the attention and more.

On a side note from a fans side it is hard being a Taylor fan. I have been a fan for years and it was hard getting things, but now it’s impossible. I want her to be popular but not so popular I can’t see her show or get merch.

What is it like for Taylor? This song is reminiscent of “The Lucky One” and “Nothing New” where she laments on new younger people taking her place. “Clara Bow” takes a different form because people are always comparing her to someone else. Instead of being the old one she was the new one being compared to other artists. Taylor says in her Amazon Music track by track experience, “I used to sit in record labels trying to get a record deal when I was a little kid. And they’d say, ‘you know, you remind us of’ and then they’d name an artist, and then they’d kind of say something disparaging about her, ‘but you’re this, you’re so much better in this way or that way.’ And that’s how we teach women to see themselves, as like you could be the new replacement for this woman who’s done something great before you. I picked women who have done great things in the past and have been these archetypes of greatness in the entertainment industry. Clara Bow was the first ‘it girl.’ Stevie Nicks is an icon and an incredible example for anyone who wants to write songs and make music.”

In the song she says that people did expect her to “see the lights of Manhattan” or “meet these suits in L.A.” It was a nice dream to have, but they didn’t think she’d make it. But she did.

And then she found out how brutal fame is. She could be the “new god we're worshipping” if she “Promise[d] to be ... dazzling..” She describes being famous with terms such as “fake”, “smoke rings”, “crown is stained”, and “war machines”. They encouraged her to “take the glory” but “give everything”, enjoy the ride but give it everything she had, sleep, privacy, time etc. This fame can be hard to maintain and sustain however, “beauty is a beast”, “demands more”, and is fickle it is “only when your girlish glow flickers just so”. It’s not easy and this caused her insecurities like not being able to leave a gym without being put together or starving herself to look just right.

It is interesting she puts Clara Bow first, the first it girl who went through a lot of the things Taylor has gone through. She also put in Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, who’s she is friends with. Stevie was beautiful back in the day and so famous. This also shows a counter example of competing with each other because Stevie and Taylor are friends and helping each other. Stevie even wrote a poem that is in the cd case or vinyl pages for Taylor. In the end Taylor has made her inconceivable dream come true and sees artists coming in after her like Billy Ellish and Olivia Rodrigo. They have been compared to Taylor. She sees in them “an edge she never” had. Who knows what will become of them, but what a beautiful song to end the first side of Tortured Poets Department illustrating the tortured souls developed in the music industry due to comparison, fleeting fame, and unrealistic standards. I’m glad that Taylor has realized she does not need to conform to those “ideals” anymore and can make the music she wants, look the way she wants, and be the size she wants.

The Tortured Poets Department Tracklist with ALL the Versions

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:26:00 +0000

Taylor has recently been putting out many different variations of the albums. Why? It's capitalism straight and simple. If artists put out different versions of the same album but with one or two song difference they can sell more copies. Target used to have a market on this, but Taylor realized she could do her own thing and put them out on her website. This time she had four different album variations with one song different on each. It is interesting to note that the cd does not come without one of these extra songs. "The Manuscript" is considered the standard track list and is not exclusive to any stores or sites.

Do I like Taylor? Yes. Will I buy all the collectors cd's and vinyls? Cd's yes, vinyls no. There are too many and I am not a fan of how the vinyls are produced. It is not good for the environment. But that aside here are all the different version of "The Tortured Poets Department" and how to get them.

Here is the track list for The Tortured Poets Department Taylor Swift edition "The Manuscript". This is the original track listing without any extras.The lyrics for "The Manuscript" are in the album booklet.

"Fortnight" (featuring Post Malone), Lyrics
"The Tortured Poets Department, LyricsLyrics
"My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys", Lyrics
"Down Bad", Lyrics
"So Long, London", Lyrics
"But Daddy I Love Him", Lyrics
"Fresh Out the Slammer", Lyrics
"Florida!!!" (featuring Florence and the Machine), Lyrics
"Guilty as Sin?", Lyrics
"Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?", Lyrics
"I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)", Lyrics
"Loml", Lyrics
"I Can Do It with a Broken Heart", Lyrics
"The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived", Lyrics
"The Alchemy", Lyrics
"Clara Bow", Lyrics

Bonus Tracks

"The Manuscript", Lyrics

Here is the track list for The Tortured Poets Department Taylor Swift edition "The Albatross". The lyrics for "The Albatross" are in the album booklet.

"Fortnight" (featuring Post Malone), Lyrics
"The Tortured Poets Department, LyricsLyrics
"My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys", Lyrics
"Down Bad", Lyrics
"So Long, London", Lyrics
"But Daddy I Love Him", Lyrics
"Fresh Out the Slammer", Lyrics
"Florida!!!" (featuring Florence and the Machine), Lyrics
"Guilty as Sin?", Lyrics
"Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?", Lyrics
"I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)", Lyrics
"Loml", Lyrics
"I Can Do It with a Broken Heart", Lyrics
"The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived", Lyrics
"The Alchemy", Lyrics
"Clara Bow", Lyrics

Bonus Tracks

"The Albatross", Lyrics

Here is the track list for The Tortured Poets Department Taylor Swift edition "The Bolter". The lyrics for "The Bolter" are in the album booklet.

"Fortnight" (featuring Post Malone), Lyrics
"The Tortured Poets Department, LyricsLyrics
"My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys", Lyrics
"Down Bad", Lyrics
"So Long, London", Lyrics
"But Daddy I Love Him", Lyrics
"Fresh Out the Slammer", Lyrics
"Florida!!!" (featuring Florence and the Machine), Lyrics
"Guilty as Sin?", Lyrics
"Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?", Lyrics
"I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)", Lyrics
"Loml", Lyrics
"I Can Do It with a Broken Heart", Lyrics
"The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived", Lyrics
"The Alchemy", Lyrics
"Clara Bow", Lyrics

Bonus Tracks

"The Bolter", Lyrics

Here is the track list for The Tortured Poets Department Taylor Swift edition "The Black Dog". The lyrics for "The Black Dog" are in the album booklet.

"Fortnight" (featuring Post Malone), Lyrics
"The Tortured Poets Department, LyricsLyrics
"My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys", Lyrics
"Down Bad", Lyrics
"So Long, London", Lyrics
"But Daddy I Love Him", Lyrics
"Fresh Out the Slammer", Lyrics
"Florida!!!" (featuring Florence and the Machine), Lyrics
"Guilty as Sin?", Lyrics
"Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?", Lyrics
"I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)", Lyrics
"Loml", Lyrics
"I Can Do It with a Broken Heart", Lyrics
"The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived", Lyrics
"The Alchemy", Lyrics
"Clara Bow", Lyrics

Bonus Tracks

"The Black Dog", Lyrics

Here is the track list for The Tortured Poets Department Taylor Swift edition "The Anthology". Tracks 17-31 with the exception of already released tracks were released on April 19, 2024 at 2:00 am EST. There is no physical copy of this version of the album. It only exists digitally.

"Fortnight" (featuring Post Malone), Lyrics
"The Tortured Poets Department, LyricsLyrics
"My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys", Lyrics
"Down Bad", Lyrics
"So Long, London", Lyrics
"But Daddy I Love Him", Lyrics
"Fresh Out the Slammer", Lyrics
"Florida!!!" (featuring Florence and the Machine), Lyrics
"Guilty as Sin?", Lyrics
"Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?", Lyrics
"I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)", Lyrics
"Loml", Lyrics
"I Can Do It with a Broken Heart", Lyrics
"The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived", Lyrics
"The Alchemy", Lyrics
"Clara Bow", Lyrics
"The Black Dog", Lyrics
"Imgonnagetyouback", LLyrics
"The Albatross", Lyrics
"Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus", Lyrics
"How Did It End?", Lyrics
"So High School", Lyrics
"I Hate It Here", Lyrics
"thanK you aIMee", Lyrics
"I Look in People's Windows", Lyrics
"The Prophecy", Lyrics
"Cassandra", Lyrics
"Peter", Lyrics
"The Bolter", Lyrics
"Robin", Lyrics
"The Manuscript", Lyrics

And finally to the Target editions, they have all the different versions of The Tortured Poets Department, "The Manuscript", "The Albatross", "The Bolter", and "The Black Dog". The last three come with a 2-sided poster with photo and handwritten lyrics. I did not buy these because I bought the collectors version on her website that had a magnet, 4 photo cards, a track patch, and a bookmark and an envelope that contained the extras with Taylor's handwriting (name and description written by her).

I hope this all makes sense. Let me know if you have any questions. There are a lot of variants.

"The Manuscript" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:35:00 +0000

"The Manuscript" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department: The Anthology)

Written by Taylor Swift

Now and then she rereads the manuscript
Of the entire torrid affair
They compared their licenses
He said, "I'm not a donor but
I'd give you my heart if you needed it"
She rolled her eyes and said
"You're a professional"
He said, "No, just a good samaritan"
He said that if the sex was half as good as the conversation was
Soon they'd be pushin' strollers
But soon it was over

In the age of him, she wished she was thirty
And made coffee every morning in a French press
Afterwards she only ate kids' cereal
And couldn't sleep unless it was in her mother's bed
Then she dated boys who were her own age
With dart boards on the backs of their doors
She thought about how he said since she was so wise beyond her years
Everything had been above board
She wasn't sure

And the years passed
Like scenes of a show
The Professor said to write what you know
Lookin' backwards
Might be the only way to move forward
Then the actors
Were hitting their marks
And the slow dance
Was alight with the sparks
And the tears fell
In synchronicity with the score
And at last
She knew what the agony had been for

The only thing that's left is the manuscript
One last souvenir from my trip to your shores
Now and then I reread the manuscript
But the story isn't mine anymore

"Robin" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:35:00 +0000

"Robin" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department: The Anthology)

Written by Taylor Swift and Aaron Dessner

Long may you reign
You're an animal
You are bloodthirsty
Out window panes talking utter nonsense
You have no idea

Strings tied to levers
Slowed-down clocks tethered
All this showmanship
To keep it for you
In sweetness
Way to go, tiger
Higher and higher
Wilder and lighter
For you

Long may you roar
At your dinosaurs
You're a just ruler
Covered in mud, you look ridiculous
And you have no idea

Buried down deep and out of your reach
The secret we all vowed
To keep it from you
In sweetness
Way to go, tiger
Higher and higher
Wilder and lighter
For you

You got the dragonflies above your bed
You have a favorite spot on the swing set
You have no room in your dreams for regrets
You have no idea
The time will arrive for the cruel and the mean
You'll learn to bounce back just like your trampoline
But now we'll curtail your curiosity
In sweetness

Way to go, tiger
Way to go, tiger
Higher and higher
Higher and higher
Wilder and lighter
For you

"The Bolter" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:35:00 +0000

"The Bolter" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department: The Anthology)

Written by Taylor Swift and Aaron Dessner

By all accounts, she almost drowned
When she was six in frigid water
And I can confirm she made
A curious child, ever reviled
By everyone except her own father
With a quite bewitching face
Splendidly selfish, charmingly helpless
Excellent fun 'til you get to know her
Then she runs like it's a race
Behind her back, her best mates laughed
And they nicknamed her "The Bolter"

Started with a kiss
"Oh, we must stop meeting like this"
But it always ends up with a Town Car speeding
Out the drive one evening
Ended with the slam of a door
Then he'll call her a whore
Wish he wouldn't be sore
But as she was leaving
It felt like breathing
All her f***in' lives
Flashed before her eyes
It feels like the time
She fell through the ice
Then came out alive

He was a cad, wanted her bad
Just like any good trophy hunter
And she likes the way it tastes
Taming a bear, making him care
Watching him jump then pulling him under
And at first blush, this is fate
When it's all roses, portrait poses
Central Park Lake in tiny rowboats
What a charming Saturday
That's when she sees the littlest leaks
Down in the floorboards
And she just knows
She must bolt

She's been many places with
Men of many faces
First, they're off to the races
And she's laughing drawin' aces
But, none of it is changin'
That the chariot is waitin'
Hearts are hers for the breakin'
There's an escape in escaping

Started with a kiss
"Oh, we must stop meeting like this"
But it always ends up with a Town Car speeding
Out the drive one evening
Ended with the slam of a door
But she's got the best stories
You can be sure
That as she was leaving
It felt like freedom
All her f***in' lives
Flashed before her eyes
(And she realized)
It feels like the time
She fell through the ice
Then came out alive

"Peter" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:35:00 +0000

"Peter" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department: The Anthology)

Written by Taylor Swift

Forgive me, Peter
My lost fearless leader
In closets like cedar
Preserved from when we were just kids
Is it somethin' I did?
The goddess of timing
Once found us beguiling
She said she was trying
Peter, was she lying?
My ribs get the feelin' she did
And I didn't want to come down
I thought it was just goodbye for now

You said you were gonna grow up
Then you were gonna come find me
Said you were gonna grow up
Then you were gonna come find me
Said you were gonna grow up
Then you were gonna come find me
Words from the mouths of babes
Promises oceans deep
But never to keep
Oh, never to keep

Are you still a mind reader?
A natural scene stealer?
I've heard great things, Peter
But life was always easier on you
Than it was on me
And sometimes it gets me
When crossing your jet stream
We both did the best we could do underneath the same moon
In different galaxies
And I didn't want to hang around
We said it was just goodbye for now

You said you were gonna grow up
Then you were gonna come find me
Said you were gonna grow up
Then you were gonna come find me
Said you were gonna grow up
Then you were gonna come find me
Words from the mouths of babes
Promises oceans deep
But never to keep
Never to keep

And I won't confess that I waited
But I let the lamp burn
As the men masqueraded
I hoped you'd return
With your feet on the ground
Tell me all that you'd learned
'Cause love's never lost when perspective is earned
And you said you'd come and get me, but you were twenty-five
And the shelf life of those fantasies has expired
Lost to the Lost Boys chapter of your life
Forgive me, Peter, please know that I tried
To hold onto the days when you were mine (Hold onto the days)
But the woman who sits by the window has turned out the light

You said you were gonna grow up
Then you were gonna come find me
Said you were gonna grow up
You said you were gonna grow up
Then you were gonna come find me
Said you were gonna grow up
You said you were gonna grow up
Then you were gonna come find me
Said you were gonna grow up
Then you were gonna come find me
Said you were gonna grow up
Then you were gonna come find me
Words from the mouths of babes
Promises oceans deep
But never to keep

"Cassandra" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:35:00 +0000

"Cassandra" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department: The Anthology)

Written by Taylor Swift and Aaron Dessner

I was in my new house placing daydreams
Patching up the crack along the wall
I pass it and lose track of what I'm saying
'Cause that's where I was when I got the call

When the first stone's thrown there's screamin'
In the streets there's a ragin' riot
When it's, "Burn the b****", they're shrieking
When the truth comes out it's quiet

So they killed Cassandra first
'Cause she feared the worst
And tried to tell the town
So they filled my cell with snakes, I regret to say
Do you believe me now?

I was in my tower weaving nightmares
Twisting all my smiles into snarls
They say what doesn't kill you makes you aware
What happens if it becomes who you are?

So they killed Cassandra first
'Cause she feared the worst
And tried to tell the town
So they set my life in flames, I regret to say
Do you believe me now?

They knew, they knew, they knew the whole time
That I was onto somethin'
The family, the pure greed, the Christian chorus line
They all said nothin'

Blood's thick, but nothin' like a payroll
Bet they never spared a prayer for my soul
You can mark my words that I said it first
In a mourning warning no one heard

I patched up the crack along the wall
I pass it and lose track of what I'm saying
'Cause that's where I was when I lost it all

So they killed Cassandra first
'Cause she feared the worst
And tried to tell the town
So they filled my cell with snakes, I regret to say
Do you believe me now?

I was onto somethin'
They all said nothin'
Blood's thick, but nothin' like a payroll
Bet they never spared a prayer for my soul
You can mark my words that I said it first
In a mourning warning no one heard

No one heard
Not a single word was heard

When the first stone's thrown there's screamin'
In the streets there's a ragin' riot
When it's "Burn the b****", they're shriekin'
When the truth comes out it's quiet
It's so quiet

"The Prophecy" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:35:00 +0000

"The Prophecy" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department: The Anthology)

Written by Taylor Swift and Aaron Dessner

Hand on the throttle
Thought I caught lightning in a bottle
Oh, but it's gone again
And it was written
I got cursed like Eve got bitten
Oh, was it punishment?
Pad around when I get home
I guess a lesser woman would've lost hope
A greater woman wouldn't beg
But I looked to the sky and said

Please
I've been on my knees
Change the prophecy
Don't want money
Just someone who wants my company
Let it once be me
Who do I have to speak to
About if they can redo
The prophecy?

Cards on the table
Mine play out like fools in a fable, oh
It was sinking in
Sinking in, oh
Slow is the quicksand
Poison blood from the wound of the pricked hand
Oh, still I dream of him

Please
I've been on my knees
Change the prophecy
Don't want money
Just someone who wants my company
Let it once be me
Who do I have to speak to
About if they can redo
The prophecy?

And I sound like an infant
Feelin' like the very last drops of an ink pen
A greater woman stays cool
But I howl like a wolf at the moon
And I look unstable
Gathered with a coven round a sorceress' table
A greater woman has faith
But even statues crumble if they're made to wait
I'm so afraid I sealed my fate
No sign of soulmates
I'm just a paperweight
In shades of greige
Spending my last coin so someone will tell me
It'll be ok
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh

Please
I've been on my knees
Change the prophecy
Don't want money
Just someone who wants my company
Let it once be me
Who do I have to speak to
About if they can redo
The prophecy?

Who do I have to speak to
To change the prophecy?
Hand on the throttle
Thought I caught lightning in a bottle, oh
But it's gone again
Pad around when I get home
I guess a lesser woman would've lost hope
A greater woman wouldn't beg
But I looked to the sky and said
Please

"I Look In People's Windows" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:30:00 +0000

"I Look In People's Windows" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department)

Written by Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff and Patrik Berger

I had died the tiniest death
I spied the catch in your breath
Out, out, out, out, out, out
Northbound I got carried away
As you boarded your train
South, south, south, south, south, south
A feather taken by the wind blowing
I'm afflicted by the not knowing so

I look in people's windows
Transfixed by rose golden glows
They have their friends over to drink nice wine
I look in people's windows
In case you're at their table
What if your eyes looked up and met mine
One more time

You had stopped and tilted your head
I still ponder what it meant
Now, now, now, now, now, now
I tried searching faces on streets
What are the chances you'd be
Downtown, downtown, downtown
Does it feel alright to not know me?
I'm addicted to the "if only"

So I look in people's windows
Like I'm some deranged weirdo
I attend Christmas parties from outside
I look in people's windows
In case you're at their table
What if your eyes looked up and met mine
One more time

"thanK you aIMee" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:30:00 +0000

"thanK you aIMee" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department: The Anthology)

Written by Taylor Swift and Aaron Dessner

When I picture my hometown
There's a bronze spray-tanned statue of you
And a plaque underneath it
That threatens to push me down the stairs at our school

And it was always the same searing pain
But I dreamed that one day, I could say

All that time you were throwing punches
I was building something
And I can't forgive the way you made me feel
Screamed, "F*** you, Aimee" to the night sky
As the blood was gushing
But I can't forget the way you made me heal

And it wasn't a fair fight, or a clean kill
Each time that Aimee stomped across my grave
And then she wrote headlines in the local paper
Laughing at each baby step I'd take

And it was always the same searing pain
But I prayed that one day, I could say

All that time you were throwing punches
I was building something
And I couldn't wait to show you it was real
Screamed, "F*** you, Aimee" to the night sky
As the blood was gushing
But I can't forget the way you made me heal

Everyone knows that my mother is a saintly woman
But she used to say she wished that you were dead
I pushed each boulder up the hill
Your words are still just ringing in my head, ringing in my head

I wrote a thousand songs that you find uncool
I built a legacy that you can't undo
But when I count the scars, there's a moment of truth
That there wouldn't be this if there hadn't been you

And maybe you've reframed it
And in your mind, you never beat my spirit black and blue
I don't think you've changed much
And so I changed your name and any real defining clues
And one day, your kid comes home singing
A song that only us two is gonna know is about you 'cause

All that time you were throwing punches
It was all for nothing
And our town, it looks so small from way up here
Screamed, "Thank you, Aimee" to the night sky
And the stars are stunning
'Cause I can't forget the way you made me heal
Everyone knows that my mother is a saintly woman
But she used to say she wished that you were dead
So I pushed each boulder up that hill
Your words were still just ringing in my head, ringing in my head

Thank you, Aimee
Thank you, Aimee

"I Hate It Here" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:30:00 +0000

"I Hate It Here" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department: The Anthology)

Written by Taylor Swift and Aaron Dessner

Quick, quick
Tell me something awful
Like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy
Tell me all your secrets
All you'll ever be is
My eternal consolation prize
You see I was a debutant in another life but
Now I seem to be scared to go outside
If comfort is a construct
I don't believe in good luck
Now that I know what's what

I hate it here so I will go to
secret gardens in my mind
People need a key to get to
The only one is mine
I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child
No mid-sized city hopes and small town fears
I'm there most of the year
Cause I hate it here

I hate it here

My friends used to play a game where
We would pick a decade
We wished we could live in instead of this
I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists and getting married off for
the highest bid

Everyone would look down
Cause it wasn't fun now
Seems like it was never even fun back then
Nostalgia is a mind's trick
If I'd been there, I'd hate it
It was freezing in the palace

I hate it here so I will go to
Lunar valleys in my mind
When they found a better planet
Only the gentle survived
I dreamed about it in the dark
The night I felt like I might die
No mid-sized city hopes and small town fears
I'm there most of the year
Cause I hate it here

I hate it here
I'm lonely but I'm good
I'm bitter but I swear I'm fine
I'll save all my romanticism for my inner life and I'll get lost on
purpose
This place made me feel worthless
Lucid dreams like electricity, the current flies through me,
and in my fantasies I rise above it
And way up there, I actually love it

I hate it here so I will go to
Secret gardens in my mind
People need a key to get to
The only one is mine
I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child
No mid-sized city hopes and small town fears
I'm there most of the year
Cause I hate it here
I hate it here

Quick quick
Tell me something awful
Like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy

"So High School" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:30:00 +0000

"So High School" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department: The Anthology)

Written by Taylor Swift and Aaron Dessner

I feel so high school every time I look at you
I wanna find you in a crowd just to hide from you

And in a blink of a crinkling eye
I'm sinking, our fingers entwined
Cheeks pink in the twinkling lights
Tell me 'bout the first time you saw me
I'll drink what you think, and I'm high
From smoking your jokes all damn night
The brink of a wrinkle in time
Bittersweet sixteen suddenly

I'm watching American Pie with you on a Saturday night
Your friends are around, so be quiet
I'm trying to stifle my sighs
'Cause I feel so high school every time I look at you
But look at you
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me? (Kill me)
It's just a game, but really (really)
I'm bettin' on all three for us two (all three)
Get my car door, isn't that sweet? (That sweet)
Then pull me to the backseat (backseat)
No one's ever had me (had me), not like you

Truth, dare, spin bottles
You know how to ball, I know Aristotle
Brand new, full-throttle
Touch me while your bros play Grand Theft Auto
It's true, swear, scouts honor
You knew what you wanted and boy, you got her
Brand new, full-throttle
You already know, babe

I feel like laughing in the middle of practice
Do that impression you did of your dad again
I'm hearing voices like a madman

I'm watching American Pie with you on a Saturday night
Your friends are around, so be quiet
I'm trying to stifle my sighs
'Cause I feel so high school (I feel so high school)
Every time I look at you
But look at you

Truth, dare, spin bottles (yeah)
You know how to ball, I know Aristotle
Brand new, full-throttle (yeah)
Touch me while your bros play Grand Theft Auto
It's true, swear, scouts honor (yeah)
You knew what you wanted and boy, you got her
Brand new, full-throttle (yeah)
You already know, babe
You already know, babe

"How Did It End?" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:30:00 +0000

"How Did It End?" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department: The Anthology)

Written by Taylor Swift and Aaron Dessner

We hereby conduct this post mortem
He was a hothouse flower to my outdoorsman
Our maladies were such we could not cure them
And so a touch that was my birthright became foreign

Come one, come all
It's happening again
The empathetic hunger descends
We'll tell no one except all of our friends
We must know
How did it end?

We were blind to unforeseen circumstances
We learned the right steps to different dances
And fell victim to interlopers' glances
Lost the game of chance, what are the chances?
Soon they'll go home to their husbands
Smug 'cause they know they can trust him
Then feverishly calling their cousins

Guess who we ran into at the shops
Walking in circles like she was lost
Didn't you hear they called it all off
One gasp, and then
How did it end?

Say it once again with feeling
How the death rattle breathing
Silenced as the soul was leaving
The deflation of our dreaming
Leaving me bereft and reeling
My beloved ghost and me
Sitting in a tree
D-Y-I-N-G

It's happening again
How did it end?
I can't pretend like I understand
How did it end?

Come one, come all
It's happening again
The empathetic hunger descends
We'll tell no one except all of our friends
But I still don't know
How did it end?

"The Albatross" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:29:00 +0000

"The Albatross" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department: The Anthology)

Written by Taylor Swift and Aaron Dessner

Wise men once said
"Wild winds are death to the candle"
A rose by any other name is a scandal
Cautions issued, he stood
Shooting the messengers
They tried to warn him about her

Cross your thoughtless heart
Only liquor anoints you
She's the albatross
She is here to destroy you

Wise men once said
"One bad seed kills the garden"
"One less temptress
One less dagger to sharpen"
Locked me up in towers
But I'd visit in your dreams
And they tried to warn you about me

Cross your thoughtless heart
Only liquor anoints you
She's the albatross
She is here to destroy you
Devils that you know
Raise worse hell than a stranger
She's the death you chose
You're in terrible danger

And when that sky rains fire on you
And you're persona non grata
I'll tell you how I've been there too
And that none of it matters

Wise men once read fake news
And they believed it
Jackals raised their hackles
You couldn't conceive it
You were sleeping soundly when they dragged you from your bed
And I tried to warn you about them

So I crossed my thoughtless heart
Spread my wings like a parachute
I'm the albatross
I swept in at the rescue
The devil that you know
Looks now more like an angel
I'm the life you chose
And all this terrible danger

So cross your thoughtless heart
She's the albatross
She is here to destroy you

"Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:26:00 +0000

"Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department: The Anthology)

Written by Taylor Swift and Aaron Dessner

Your hologram stumbled into my apartment
Hands in the hair of somebody in darkness
Named Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
And I just watched it happen
As the decade would play us for fools
And you saw my bones out with somebody new
Who seemed like he would've bullied you in school
And you just watched it happen

If you want to break my cold, cold heart
Just say, "I loved you the way that you were"
If you want to tear my world apart
Just say you've always wondered

You said some things that I can't unabsorb
You turned me into an idea of sorts
You needed me, but you needed drugs more
And I couldn't watch it happen
I changed into goddesses, villains, and fools
Changed plans and lovers and outfits and rules
All to outrun my desertion of you
And you just watched it

If you want to break my cold, cold heart
Just say, "I loved you the way that you were"
If you want to tear my world apart
Just say you've always wondered

If the glint in my eye traced the depths of your sigh
Down that passage in time
Back to the moment I crashed into you
Like so many wrecks do
Too impaired by my youth
To know what to do

So if I sell my apartment
And you have some kids with an internet starlet
Will that make your memory fade from this scarlet maroon?
Like it never happened
Could it be enough to just float in your orbit?
Can we watch our phantoms like watching wild horses?
Cooler in theory, but not if you force it
To be, it just didn't happen

So if you want to break my cold, cold heart
Say you loved me
And if you want to tear my world apart
Say you'll always wonder

'Cause I wonder
Will I always
Will I always wonder?

"Imgonnagetyouback" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:25:00 +0000

"Imgonnagetyouback" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department: The Anthology)

Written by Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff

Lilac short skirt
The one that fits me like skin
Did your research
You knew the price goin' in

And I'll tell you one thing, honey
I can tell when somebody still wants me, come clean
Standing at the bar like something's funny, bubbly
Once you fix your face, I'm goin' in

Whether I'm gonna be your wife or
Gonna smash up your bike, I
Haven't decided yet
But I'm gonna get you back

Whether I'm gonna curse you out or
Take you back to my house, I
Haven't decided yet
But I'm gonna get you back

I hear the whispers in your eyes
I'll make you wanna think twice
You'll find that you were never not mine
You're mine

Small talk, big love
Act like I don't care what you did
I'm an Aston Martin
That you steered straight into the ditch
Then ran and hid

And I'll tell you one thing, honey
I can take the upper hand and touch your body
Flip the script and leave you like a dumb house party
Or I might just love you 'til the end

Whether I'm gonna be your wife or
Gonna smash up your bike, I
Haven't decided yet
But I'm gonna get you back

Whether I'm gonna flip you off or
Pull you into the closet
I haven't decided yet
But I'm gonna get you back

I hear the whispers in your eyes
I'll make you wanna think twice, you'll find
That you were never not mine
You're mine

I can feel it comin', hummin' in the way you move
Push the reset button, we're becoming something new
Say you got somebody, I'll say, "I got someone too"
Even if it's handcuffed, I'm leaving here with you

Bygones will be bygone eras fadin' into gray
We broke all the pieces but still want to play the game
Told my friends, "I hate you but I love you just the same"
Pick your poison, babe
I'm poison either way

Whether I'm gonna be your wife or
Gonna smash up your bike, I
Haven't decided yet
But I'm gonna get you back

Whether I'm gonna curse you out or
Take you back to my house, I
Haven't decided yet
But I'm gonna get you back

I hear the whispers in your eyes
I'll make you wanna think twice
You'll find that you were never not mine
I'm gonna get you back

"The Black Dog" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:25:00 +0000

"The Black Dog" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department: The Anthology)

Written by Taylor Swift

am someone who, until recent events
You shared your secrets with
And your location
You forgot to turn it off
And so I watch as you walk
Into some bar called The Black Dog
And pierce new holes in my heart
You forgot to turn it off
And it hits me
I just don't understand

How you don't miss me
In The Black Dog
When someone plays The Starting Line and you jump up
But she's too young to know this song
That was intertwined in the magic fabric of our dreaming
Old habits die screaming

I move through the world with the heartbroken
My longings stay unspoken
And I may never open up the way I did for you
And all of those best laid plans
You said I needed a brave man
Then proceeded to play him
Until I believed it too
And it kills me
I just don't understand

How you don't miss me
In the shower
And remember
How my rain-soaked body was shaking
Do you hate me?
Was it hazing?
For a cruel fraternity I pledged
And I still mean it
Old habits die screaming

Six weeks of breathing clean air
I still miss the smoke
Were you making fun of me with some esoteric joke?
Now I want to sell my house and set fire to all my clothes
And hire a priest to come and exorcise my demons
Even if I die screaming
And I hope you hear it

And I hope it's s*****
In The Black Dog
When someone plays The Starting Line and you jump up
But she's too young to know this song
That was intertwined in the tragic fabric of our dreaming
'Cause tail between your legs you're leaving
And I still can't believe it
'Cause old habits die screaming

"Clara Bow" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:25:00 +0000

"Clara Bow" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department)

Written by Taylor Swift and Aaron Dessner

"You look like Clara Bow in this light
Remarkable
All your life, did you know
You'd be picked like a rose"

"I'm not trying to exaggerate
But I think I might die if it happened
Die if it happened to me
No one in my small town thought
I'd see the lights of Manhattan"

"This town is fake but
You're the real thing
Breath of fresh air through smoke rings
Take the glory, give everything
Promise to be dazzling"

"You look like Stevie Nicks
In '75, the hair and lips
Crowd goes wild at her fingertips
Half moonshine, a full eclipse"
"I'm not trying to exaggerate
But I think I might die if I made it,
Die if I made it
No one in my small town
Thought I'd meet these suits in LA,
They all want to say ..."

"This town is fake but
You're the real thing
Breath of fresh air through smoke rings
Take the glory, give everything
Promise to be dazzling"

"The crown is stained but you're the real queen
Flesh and blood amongst war machines
You're the new god we're worshipping
Promise to be ... dazzling"

Beauty is a beast that roars
Down on all fours
Demanding "more"
Only when your girlish glow
Flickers just so
Do they let you know
It's hell on earth to be heavenly
Them's the breaks
They don't come gently

"You look like Taylor Swift
In this light
We're loving it.
You've got edge she never did
The future's bright
... Dazzling."

"I Can Do It with a Broken Heart" Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:19:00 +0000

"I Can Do It with a Broken Heart" Lyrics (The Tortured Poet’s Department)

Written by Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff

I can read your mind
She's having the time of her life
There in her glittering prime
The lights refract sequined stars off her silhouette every night
I can show you lies (one, two, three)

'Cause I'm a real tough kid, I can handle my shit
They said, baby, gotta fake it 'til you make it and I did
Lights, camera, b**** smile, even when you wanna die
He said he'd love me all his life
But that life was too short
Breaking down, I hit the floor
All the pieces of me shattered as the crowd was chanting, "More"
I was grinning like I'm winning, I was hitting my marks
'Cause I can do it with a broken heart (one, two, three)

I'm so depressed, I act like it's my birthday every day
I'm so obsessed with him but he avoids me like the plague
I cry a lot but I am so productive, it's an art
You know you're good when you can even do it
With a broken heart

I can hold my breath
I've doing it since he left
I keep finding his things in drawers
Crucial evidence I didn't imagine the whole thing
I'm sure I can pass this test (one, two, thee)

'Cause I'm a real tough kid, I can handle my shit
They said, baby, gotta fake it 'til you make it and I did
Lights, camera, b**** smile, in stilettos for miles
He said he'd love me for all time
But that time was quite short
Breaking down, I hit the floor
All the pieces of me shattered as the crowd was chanting, "More"
I was grinning like I'm winning, I was hitting my marks
'Cause I can do it with a broken heart (one, two, three)

I'm so depressed, I act like it's my birthday every day
I'm so obsessed with him but he avoids me like the plague (he avoids me)
I cry a lot but I am so productive, it's an art
You know you're good when you can even do it
With a broken heart

You know you're good when you can even do it
With a broken heart
You know you're good, I'm good
'Cause I'm miserable
And no one even knows
Try to come for my job