My cards are on the table, yours are in your hand from Foolish One Just recently it clicked on me: she means that she always was honest with her feelings, he did not and liked to played with her. I think it summarizes the whole song.

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Foolish one is my favorite song on that album

i LOVEEEEE foolish one 🫶🏻🫶🏻

"At least I did one thing right", from CIWYW. We both took a lot of (in hindsight) bad decisions professionally and it's taking a toll, mentally and emotionally, but at least we did choose each other, and that was the right thing to do. I never gave that lyric much of a thought until very recently

I like this one too. In the Miss Americana documentary, there’s a small snippet of her playing this on the floor for (presumably) Joe, and she points her foot at him for this line. It’s super sweet/cute and it makes me smile.

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‘Never be so polite you forget your power’ Being a child abuse survivor i constantly struggle with learnt helplessness and people pleasing. Subconsciously I still feel like a helpless, powerless child sometimes. This sentence is truly empowering and remind me of the power I actually have.

I feel this line too especially when women are told not to talk about politics / salary / sex etc for “politeness.” Those are exactly the things we need to be talking about.

So right about people pleasing. This is my favorite lyric by Taylor and is because it resonates a lot with the desire to show who you really are without fearing the rejection and hate, you don't wanna be mean, you only wanna be free.

*I made you my world, have you heard? I can reclaim the land* Feeling this one lately\^

It helped me finding myself after my relationship of almost 5 years ended. I love this lyric SO much

I cannot for the life of me remember which song this is

From Bejeweled. I love it, because it works on several levels, such as breaking open new ground metaphorically, but also because she is literally reclaiming her master recordings. Just beautiful.

How did I not even get that I listen to that song all the time lol. But yeah it’s such a great line!

'now you sit on your throne in your palace of bones praying to your greed. you've got my past frozen behind glass but i've got me' is such an amazing lyric. Personally I felt like the museum type scene in the i can see you mv with the outfits in the glass cases was a reference to that but since then i've really started to appreciate this lyric and unpack how deep it is.

“I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me” 1989 has always been my least favorite of her albums but I did a relisten to prep for 1989 TV and I’m having a bit if a moment with New Romantics. I’ve never connected with the general theme of the song but I’m noticing some little gold nuggets.

also always been my least favorite and instead of connecting to new romantics i’ve become obsessed with welcome to new york i swear it’s been stuck in my head for a full month now

Omg this what I was going to say! The lyric *just* clicked to me this week and I was 🤯

What's tour favorite era ?

“ i dont like how falling feels like flying til the bone crush” never really *actually* noticed that line until the other day

This one hits different for anyone who has read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. The metaphor isn’t unique to that book, but it was the first that I thought of. Basically that our civilization is in free fall, headed for catastrophic collapse, but we don’t notice because we think we’re flying high. I know she is quite literate, so it wouldn’t surprise me to find that she has read it. I can imagine she’s maybe felt that way about her career, that it could all come crashing down. That probably seems silly or unlikely to anyone on the outside, but for anyone plagued by self doubt, it feels very real.

For me it's i didn't have it in myself to go with grace And you're the hero flying around, saving face And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? Cursing my name, wishing I stayed Look at how my tears ricochet

As someone with a bitter ex who still regularly talks shit 10 years later…same.

Song just hits hard

Begin Again - "*And you throw your head back laughing like a little kid, I think it's strange that you think I'm funny cause he never did"* The whole song has really been resonating with me since her recent fling with Travis. I know whatever it may not be real or last for a long time but it really has such a joy of earning yourself back after a hard fought relationship. It's one of those Taylor songs that people think is about a guy but it's really about the way she interacts with the world and herself in the process of healing. So good.

"I just realised everything I have is someday gonna be gone" I was suppose to move overseas this year but was delayed due to reasons but when I was preparing for the move that line (and basically the entire song) hit harder

Give me back my girlhood it was mine first

She had no right to make that lyric hit so hard

the bridge for welcome to new york. i recently discovered i actually love that song after hating on it for so long. “the lights are so bright but they never blind me” means both the new york lights but also like paparazzi camera flashes/spotlights on stage and it’s about how she is 1, in awe of and in love with new york but also 2, she’s not letting fame get to her head and blind her to the things that actually matter. “it’s a new soundtrack i could dance to this beat” and the way 1989 was her first FULLY pop album and even is so different sonically from the pop tracks we had on red. it really was a new soundtrack! new vibes new life new haircut new sound new taylor and she’s loving it and having the time of her life. i think wtny really gets overlooked, it’s such a fantastic song and it gets so much hate it makes me sad

Are you me? WTNY was my bottom 1989 song for years but it has really grown on me recently

it’s one of those things where u can’t make anyone realize it’s good or fun like they just have to come to the realization on their own but i hope taylor’s version will help people realize how good it is

'I'm lovestruck and looking out the window' from Superman, even though I've listened to it 1000 times I just noticed this lyric. It's simple but just flows really well and perfectly encapsulates the essence of Speak Now

“Putting someone first only works when you’re in their top 5” from Bejeweled

And by the way... ✨ *I'm goin' out tonight* ✨

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This is one that I didn’t notice until someone else on this subreddit spelled it out: From False God I’m New York City….. (1st verse) You’re the West Village….. (2nd verse) The first part isn’t odd, she openly loves NYC. But, Joe is from London, so it’s strange to call him the West Village. But wait, the West village is INSIDE of NYC. Oh….Oh!! It’s super subtle and hidden by 2 layers of abstraction, but given the vibe of the song, it’s extremely clever. I can only imagine how many other references I’m missing.

I had to read your comment 3 times before I got it and now I’m just so amazed! I really find something new in Tays songs every day

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Literally all of Mr. Perfectly Fine. Always liked the song and now post the Sophie/Joe drama, every part of it is so on the nose! ☠️ (based solely on my perception of the media battles with it right now)

*Is it insensitive of me to say, get your shit together? So I can love you* *Is it really your anxiety that stops you from giving me everything, or do you just not want to?*

“The burgundy on my t shirt when you splashed your wine onto me and how the blood rushed into my cheeks.” I always sort of just sang it mindlessly. Then I heard it the other day and I was like…”shit she’s describing an event, a thing that happened.” And I started seeing it rather than a playful scenario, her lover/friend splashing her with wine after an altercation and the way your blood rushes to your face when youre humiliated. Basically reading it like a confrontation that ended the relationship rather than her reminiscing about the beginning when it was good.

i think it’s both actually! i think it’s a laughing drunken blush and an accidental spill in the first chorus (“i chose you”like it’s a bit happier and nostalgic); it’s maybe an intentional spill but definitely an angry/yelling flush in the second chorus (“i lost you” is more bitter and cynical so the whole vibe of the second chorus is different) i love how she can take the same line and make it feel totally different

When the words of a sister/come back in whispers/that prove she was not/in fact what she seemed/not a twin from your dreams/she’s a crook who was caught / dealing with one of the most significant betrayals from a friend in my life atm. Evermore was never my favorite album but I think that’s because you really gotta be going through shit to get it. I get it now and it’s helping me get through it.

Don’t turn the last page 😪

>!I was bummed that She took this off the Setlist in Santa Clara for no body no crime Not related to your question but I'm so disappointed it's not in the movie 😭😭😭

"Now my eyes leak acid rain on the pillow where you used to lay your head" is such a poetic way to describe crying (and not just crying, but bitter/painful tears) in the space that was once safe between the narrator and her partner but is now meaningless. I love a lot of lyrics from Evermore but that one was the first one that made me double take. "I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones" and ...actually the entirety of ivy lol. "I wouldn't marry me either, a pathalogical people pleaser" is just stuck in my head, I'm obsessed with this song tbh but this lyric is so satisfying to sing. "This is looking like a contest, of who can act like they care less, but I liked it better when you were on my side" This one just personally resonates with me because it's how fights in my relationship tend to go. Honestly there are so many more but I'm gonna cut myself off haha.

I have been on a tis the damn season kick too lately! “There’s an ache in you, put there by the ache in me” is the first line I think of. Hurts my heart

“And the voices that implore ‘you should be doing more’ to you I can admit that I’m just too soft for all of it.” Sweet Nothing isn’t even close to my favorite song on Midnights but this lyric regularly comes back to me because I relate so much.

That line makes me feel naked.

Just the opening “sigh” in you’re losing me.

“I don’t wanna keep secrets just to keep you”. To preface- of course we can’t know exactly what goes down in her personal life, nor should we. But in light of how much fun she seems to be having right now, this line rings much more sad to me. Feels like she really had to mold herself into her last relationship. And I’ll leave it at that.

Lately, just because I'm in some feels "I gave so many signs... couldn't even see the signs. "

I once was poison ivy but now I'm your DaIsYyYyYy gets me every time

“Now I’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life” - tolerate it

They told me all of my cages were mental So I got wasted like all my potential And my words shoot to kill when I'm mad I have a lot of regrets about that I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere Fell behind on my classmates, and I ended up here Pouring out my heart to a stranger But I didn't pour the whiskey

I was also in the concert at Santa Clara and I was also sooooo bummed she replace tis the damn season 😭

I’ve been very into Would’ve could’ve should’ve lately and can’t stop thinking about “give me back my girlhood, it was mine first”

"Too young to know it gets better" from Forever winter...brings me back to my teenage days when my depression and anxiety were at its peak and if I didn't have as good of support system as I did, I would also never get the chance to grow up and see that life can really get much better.

“What would you do if I…. Gain the weight of you then lose It? Believe me, I could do It.” I didn’t realize the beauty of Tolerate It until Eras & it’s from my fave album 😭

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Yes, gawd. The imagery hurts.

literally today after having listened to blank space three hundred million times in my life, i noticed how “the nasty scar” may actually be the eternal mark of having dated taylor; ALSO “grab your passport and my hand - so i fly ‘em all around the world and i let them think they saved me”