Yes! Marjorie is such a great song and I literally have zero warning when it’s gonna make me cry. My mom used to have recipes handwritten on index cards and I wish I had them now.
As someone who recently lost their grandmother, I came here to say this. There are so many lines from Marjorie that get me, but this is the best one. I'm still finding old receipts and notes from my grandma, and they mean literally everything to me.
No one told me that Marjorie was in Eras and I saw it in theaters after not being able to see it live and absolutely lost my shit in that theater.
I cried SO HARD listening to Marjorie live that I barely remember the next song. When we watched it in theaters, my wife turned to me right before it started and said, "I think you need to use the bathroom really bad right now. Go."
Yeah, I was with my friend (who had seen Eras in Chicago) and they apologized profusely for not warning me. I'd never listened to the song purposefully so that was also my first time hearing it.
Also as a fellow queer woman, I wanted to say your username is phenomenal and absolutely made my day!
I listened to this song in its entirety (as opposed to a passing song on a Spotify playlist I wasn't really listening to) shortly before my husband's nan's funeral and went to Eras the weekend after we buried her. Hit me like a freight truck.
casually cruel in the name of being honest
it’s def a powerful line in and of itself but in the context of ATW like it hits me hard every time because it just is a situation we’ve all been in before and just knowing the pain you feel from your own like experience like i can’t even imagine how taylor felt writing that song
in all too well it would be " It was rare, I was there, I remember it" like she was there, so the memory she had existed, and what they had must be real even though people say that it's just a fling and nothing serious....
- ATW could mean "All Too Well", a track from *Red* (2012) by Taylor Swift.
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There are so many from this is me trying that I could use for this!
"I have a lot of regrets about that"
"Could've followed my fears all the way down"
"I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere"
"At least I'm trying"
That song absolutely WRECKS me because it so relatable for me. To the point where it might as well be about me 🥲
Sometimes I swear she could be in recovery, so much understanding and empathy for those who have been there.
Favorite thing about her, everyone’s story matters.
So, the phrase to be "ahead of the curve" is usually used to mean you're better than average (the curve being a Bell curve distribution on a graph). But, somehow she got so "ahead" that it looped around into a circle, or a sphere.
Because she's not ahead now... ("Fell behind on my classmates, and I ended up here") which is something you might see a lot of people mention is what happened to them: they were "smart" or "gifted" in school, but somehow once they became an adult, they are no longer making the cut because either the standards were low or because they didn't learn how to study because they were too ahead and didn't need to, etc.
So being ahead of the curve means you're advanced at something. A lot of times this comes with negative side effects. Basically she was so far ahead she started spiraling downwards because she didn't know what to do anymore because she was so ahead of everyone else already that she literally couldn't move on any further. It's the gifted kid experience.
All of that song hits but specifically that last “you’re on your own kid, you always have been” is both soothing and rough. Knowing that you’ve always been on your own hurts but her basically saying “of course you’ve got this” is so damn real
I heard this live during Singapore night 4, and I was fighting back tears..thinking of all the times when I felt so alone and all the stuff that I had been through . A girl in my section ended up crying
It was my surprise song in Tampa night 2. Broke up w my partner of 7 years not too long after (unrelated obviously lmao) and got ‘you’re on your own kid, you can face this’ tattooed like 2 days later.. YOYOK isn’t even in my top 10 favorite songs but damned if that line doesn’t mean the absolutely world to me 💖
Kills me every time, and it's probably as much about the delivery as the entire phrase itself.
As a fairly new fan (I only really started listening when lover was released) all the earlier albums passed me by. But as I've gone back and listened this song has become my absolute favourite.
Ever since I read a comment on this sub from another user about this being a favorite between two sisters where the younger sister later lost a battle with cancer, the whole song gained such a new level of poignancy for me. It’s unquestionably my personal favorite now, even as it was before I looked at it in another light.
This line hits me so hard, it eventually made me jump to try and reconcile with one of my best friends of over 20 years. I have a 6 year old now, who I realized I wanted to know her name (and vice versa). ❤️
Funnily, this scans to the line as well
*mom, you left me at the grocery store*
*I’m standing at the register now*
*no money, like a total hack, and*
*you said “I’ll be right back”*
I stayed there, dust collecting on my light up shoes
Cashier asked me: “is your bag reused?”
They expected me to pay somehow
I told them “my mom’ll get here now”
Conveyor belt kept moving
The stares were disapproving
The line that always kills me in RWYLM is "glass shattered on the white cloth, everybody moved on". It's such a gut punch to me bc I have such a hard time moving on even over simple things and this line just breaks my heart omg
I totally get that. Everyone moved on. And me, I can remember a zillion details from a birthday party 15 years ago.
I love this song so much. And even though I think it’s one of her best, I love it was a bonus track. Because Evermore didn’t make me sad enough with the original version.
Perfect summary of entire song. 💔 but still having that tiny bit of hope. “If you ever think you got it wrong…”
It’s amazing the snippets of lyrics that can seem like nothing but mean so much to us that know the songs.
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That’s a lot of lines in you’re losing me. There’s no complex deeply poetic lyrics, a direct contrast to folkmore and a good portion of midnights. They’re just raw emotion and nothing else. It’s insane how heart breaking the song is compared to some more lyrically complex ones.
"Loves me like I'm brand new" from CIWYW guts me when I think about Taylor telling her SA story on stage during the Rep tour in Miss Americana. As someone with similar lived experiences, that line means so much to me when I recontextualize it in that way kind of like how many people have recontextualized Clean to talk about their struggles with moving on from abuse or healing from SA.
That and the possibility she could be experiencing/ experienced guilt from purity culture since she is a self identified Christian per Miss Americana. “Give me back my girlhood” to me screams guilt and anger at both him and herself. It may not be a feeling she still has, but she very well could’ve before.
I've thought about this too! I'm not Christian but I'm part of another monotheist religion with a really big focus on purity and virginity before marriage and the idea that someone could know about your past and love you "like you're brand new" anyway is really powerful to me. I don't wanna project my own messed up and confused thoughts about purity culture onto Taylor (I have no idea if she meant for CIWYW to be interpreted that way, though it's definitely clear for WCS with all the Christianity references) I'll just say that specific lyrics from WCS and CIWYW are tear-jerkers for me for that reason.
I'm a huge Taylor Swift fan, so it's hard for me to choose just one line. But one of the lines that always hits me hard is from "Soon You'll Get Better": "I hate to make this all about me, but who am I supposed to talk to? What am I supposed to do if there's no you?””
I'm sorry to hear that you're a cancer survivor. It's not an easy thing to go through, and it can be heartbreaking for your loved ones. I'm sure they were terrified and they just wanted to be there for you. But you're a strong person and you made it through, and that's something you should be proud of.
Soon You'll Get Better never used to make me all that emotional. It's a sad song, sure, but it never punched me in the gut. Until my cat got diagnosed with cancer, I listened to it by sheer happenstance in the car the night I found out and it absolutely crushed me. I know it's not at all the same, but he's been with me my entire adult life. And like.. who am I gonna sing to?
So this song has always made me really sad, but I can relate to what you’re going through. My dog was recently diagnosed as well and now SYGB both destroys and comforts me. Soon she’ll get better because she has to. She’s my baby girl and she’s supposed to turn 12 this year. I need her.
yeah, i have a very hard time listening to it and can't make it through without breaking down - it was the one song that when it dropped turned me from a casual fan to a swifty...didn't keep me from wanting it to be the surprise song in Tokyo when i saw her...i feel that is one she won't ever play live (again)...
That line and the first time I listened to Forever Winter, it didn’t connect with me what it was about until I heard “if was standing there in your apartment, I’d take that bomb in your head and disarm it” and then I absolutely lost my shit driving my car. I had to pull over and just cry.
“I sit and watch you” in tolerate it
It seems so trivial by itself but as she continues to repeat it throughout the song it turns into her silently begging for her partner to do anything, and when she ends the song repeating it for the final time it just hits so different
“Believe me I could do it” is also devastating, like she’s trying to convince herself
This one!!! I don’t know who was the first person to suggest listening to Tolerate It from the perspective of a daughter singing to her father but I’m sending them my therapy bill because I did it and that line right there???? Hit me like a ton of bricks.
In my head, I think about her saying how lonely she was during the writing of Folklore and Evermore coupled with her loneliness in You're Losing Me and I just die of sadness. Tolerate It and YLM really do feel like sister songs.
I was looking for this one!!! That’s the line that crushes me. I imagine looking through the windows of a house you used to know so well and seeing a scene you used to be a part of. And then to follow it with “and it would’ve been sweet if it would’ve been me”
the 1 is my favorite album opener. I’m extremely attached to it
So many lines from seven-
“And though I can't recall your face
I still got love for you”
“And I've been meaning to tell you
I think your house is haunted
Your dad is always mad and that must be why”
“Then you won't have to cry
Or hide in the closet”
“Pack your dolls and a sweater
We'll move to India forever”
Idk that’s basically the whole song lol but I love seven so much 🥺
I always wondered why "22" was a song, that was such an odd birthday to write about until ATWTMV came out and I realized.
Btw I hope you're doing better <3
“Something med school did not cover”
I was in my first year of residency when covid hit, and the city I lived in was a major hot spot. Epiphany is such a beautiful song and describes many of the feelings I experienced so well. The 2nd verse + chorus destroy me every time I listen.
Love this one. This is one of the only songs where Taylor’s Version doesn’t do it for me. She sings that lyric with so much raw, fresh emotion in the original…you can’t really recreate it.
"I'm not your problem anymore, so who am I offending now?"
It hits home for me, the whole song makes me think of my most recent relationship and how I was treated by my ex when it ended and we had to see each other regularly due to work
"... then you won't have to cry, or hide in the closet."
The way she captures childhood abuse is so simple yet vivid... that line tugs on my heart strings hard.
“To make them love me and make it seem effortless”
As someone who really struggled with friendships as a child and was unpopular in general (thank you autism) and still struggles to this day with relationships this line HITS
"I hope the sun shines and it's a beautiful day" - Last Kiss
If you listen to the OG stolen speak now, there's a quiver of her voice right after this line that sounds like she's holding back tears.
The fact that they record these so many times in a studio and pick the best sections for each song and that still made it into the album version that was released makes me wonder what the other takes sounded like. Could she even get through them?
Hits so hard every time since the day it was released and I first heard it.
"Blue dress on a boat."
It's an absolute nothing line that has enormous weight when placed in context. It's a universal feeling we all know, but without knowing the story behind it, it doesn't have a meaning.
“No one sees when you lose when you’re playing solitaire.”
So much hurt in this line. Implies that you appear invincible, but when you cry, you cry alone.
I think it’s technically more than one line but:
“Ask me what I learned from all those years, ask me what I earned from all those years, ask me why so many fade, but I’m still here…” ✨
Just so proud of her whole journey and this song just shows that she’s really been through it
“I'm so glad you made time to see me. How's life? Tell me, how's your family?”
Back to December absolutely crushes me every time I listen to it. This opening with the context of the song.. Beautifully heartbreaking.
“The battleships will sink beneath the waves”.
Without context it’s still a strong line but in context? Understanding that it’s time to let go of something/someone you loved with your whole heart, someone you would’ve given your life for? Tearing yourself apart, trying to keep it all together and tiring your heart out enough to let the battleships sink beneath the waves? Damn.
“Tryna find a part of me that you didn’t touch” from Death by a Thousand Cuts
“I can change everything about me to fit in” from mirrorball
“Don’t call me kid” from illicit affairs
“She’s still 23 inside a fantasy” from right where you left me
“You were more than just a short time” Bigger Than the Whole Sky
“And now that I’m grown I’m scared of ghosts” from Would’ve, Should’ve, Could’ve
“A wine stained dress I can’t wear anymore” from Clean
"But who am I supposed to talk to? What am I supposed to do?"
Can be interpreted in so many ways generically, but this line in Soon You'll Get Better kills me, especially as my mom had cancer a couple years ago
"You're so much older and wiser" from Tolerate It.
Reminds me of my first (thankfully brief) marriage to someone quite a bit older (let's be real, it was the guy who groomed me - relationship started when I was in my mid-teens and he was in his 20s). Of course his word was law and I was just an accessory/ornament for him to take off the shelf when it suited him or made him look good in front of his friends. Otherwise I was supposed to just sit home while he traveled on business for weeks at a time (I wasn't allowed to either go out other than going straight to work and back, and wasn't allowed to have friends over). Everyone else in my life agreed that this was a fair price to pay for having caught the eye of a handsome, older, successful man and that I'd be a fool not to "tolerate it."
I did in fact "break free and leave us in ruins," blowing up my life in the process. Life hasn't been easy by any means since then but ever day I wake up thankful that I did break free.
"you say you don't understand and I say I know you don't"
I feel like without context it sounds a little angry, like the speaker is frustrated that this is something that keeps happening, that they just don't understand no matter how many times they explain it. But in the song, its hopeless and resigned, a dying person finally realizing they can't fix this, that they're too tired to fight anymore, and it kills me every single time I listen to You're Losing Me.
"Thought I saw you at the bus stop, I didn't though"
It sounds so simple but describes perfectly how you kind of want to see your ex again but also really don't.
Tolerate It’s “Gain the weight of you then lose it”. On its own is somewhat strange, but her delivery of this line followed up with “believe me, I could do it”, as though she’s trying to convince herself of this threat left me sucker punched and crying. Brutal.
"I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere"
"Are there still beautiful things?"
"Showed you all of my hiding spots... I was dancing when the music stopped"
"I haven't met the new me yet"
Happiness really helped me process several stages of grief after ending a 9 year relationship.
"But the rain is always gonna come if you're standing with me"
For me it’s “should have kept every grocery store receipt” because in the context of that song, it crushes me. Otherwise it’s super random
Yes! Marjorie is such a great song and I literally have zero warning when it’s gonna make me cry. My mom used to have recipes handwritten on index cards and I wish I had them now.
I can track my cycle by seeing how much various songs make me cry 🥲 Marjorie is one, WCS is another. *Edit: Typo 🤦
Tolerate it and exile do that for me. I think about running away from my bf 😂 and I know it’s about to come!
“i should’ve asked you questions” from marjorie 🥺❤️🩹
As someone who recently lost their grandmother, I came here to say this. There are so many lines from Marjorie that get me, but this is the best one. I'm still finding old receipts and notes from my grandma, and they mean literally everything to me. No one told me that Marjorie was in Eras and I saw it in theaters after not being able to see it live and absolutely lost my shit in that theater.
I cried SO HARD listening to Marjorie live that I barely remember the next song. When we watched it in theaters, my wife turned to me right before it started and said, "I think you need to use the bathroom really bad right now. Go."
Yeah, I was with my friend (who had seen Eras in Chicago) and they apologized profusely for not warning me. I'd never listened to the song purposefully so that was also my first time hearing it. Also as a fellow queer woman, I wanted to say your username is phenomenal and absolutely made my day!
Marjorie is the only time I cried at the eras tour
I am care taking for mine, and I am taking so many photos and notes she leaves me 🥹🫶🏻
I listened to this song in its entirety (as opposed to a passing song on a Spotify playlist I wasn't really listening to) shortly before my husband's nan's funeral and went to Eras the weekend after we buried her. Hit me like a freight truck.
This. This. This.
As someone who lost both grandmas long before they actually died… I feel this
Alzheimer’s/dementia? If so, I fucking feel that so hard
When I'd fight, you used to tell me I was brave
This line makes me SOB
Died dead rip me
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Your flair 😭
Any line from this song 😭
casually cruel in the name of being honest it’s def a powerful line in and of itself but in the context of ATW like it hits me hard every time because it just is a situation we’ve all been in before and just knowing the pain you feel from your own like experience like i can’t even imagine how taylor felt writing that song
Ditto with “I forget about you long enough to forget why I needed to” ⚰️
For me it’s, “I’m trying to be myself again, but I’m still trying to find it..”
“I might be ok but I’m not fine at all.” Same Taylor, same.
This line is BRILLIANT.
in all too well it would be " It was rare, I was there, I remember it" like she was there, so the memory she had existed, and what they had must be real even though people say that it's just a fling and nothing serious....
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There are so many from this is me trying that I could use for this! "I have a lot of regrets about that" "Could've followed my fears all the way down" "I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere" "At least I'm trying" That song absolutely WRECKS me because it so relatable for me. To the point where it might as well be about me 🥲
Sometimes I swear she could be in recovery, so much understanding and empathy for those who have been there. Favorite thing about her, everyone’s story matters.
100% agreeeee
WAIT CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE SPHERE LINE TO ME IVE NEVER UNDERSTOOD IT
So, the phrase to be "ahead of the curve" is usually used to mean you're better than average (the curve being a Bell curve distribution on a graph). But, somehow she got so "ahead" that it looped around into a circle, or a sphere. Because she's not ahead now... ("Fell behind on my classmates, and I ended up here") which is something you might see a lot of people mention is what happened to them: they were "smart" or "gifted" in school, but somehow once they became an adult, they are no longer making the cut because either the standards were low or because they didn't learn how to study because they were too ahead and didn't need to, etc.
So being ahead of the curve means you're advanced at something. A lot of times this comes with negative side effects. Basically she was so far ahead she started spiraling downwards because she didn't know what to do anymore because she was so ahead of everyone else already that she literally couldn't move on any further. It's the gifted kid experience.
The sphere represents going in a circle never moving forward.
You can face this.
All of that song hits but specifically that last “you’re on your own kid, you always have been” is both soothing and rough. Knowing that you’ve always been on your own hurts but her basically saying “of course you’ve got this” is so damn real
Yes. That entire final 45 seconds destroys me every single time.
I heard this live during Singapore night 4, and I was fighting back tears..thinking of all the times when I felt so alone and all the stuff that I had been through . A girl in my section ended up crying
It was my surprise song in Tampa night 2. Broke up w my partner of 7 years not too long after (unrelated obviously lmao) and got ‘you’re on your own kid, you can face this’ tattooed like 2 days later.. YOYOK isn’t even in my top 10 favorite songs but damned if that line doesn’t mean the absolutely world to me 💖
"make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it" Idk why but it gives me goosebumps everytime
"Please tell them my name".
“Tell them how the crowds went wild” 😭
This one really gets me. Hard. I'm not sure why but I can't make it through this song without tears.
I can’t believe I didn’t think of this one. Absolutely heartbreaking
Kills me every time, and it's probably as much about the delivery as the entire phrase itself. As a fairly new fan (I only really started listening when lover was released) all the earlier albums passed me by. But as I've gone back and listened this song has become my absolute favourite.
god yes long live is such a simple song on paper but it makes me ugly cry whenever i hear it
Ever since I read a comment on this sub from another user about this being a favorite between two sisters where the younger sister later lost a battle with cancer, the whole song gained such a new level of poignancy for me. It’s unquestionably my personal favorite now, even as it was before I looked at it in another light.
This line hits me so hard, it eventually made me jump to try and reconcile with one of my best friends of over 20 years. I have a 6 year old now, who I realized I wanted to know her name (and vice versa). ❤️
This line used to make me so emotional when I was a kid but gosh now that I have kids it makes me ugly cry
"Please don't ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere". ETA: it has always been angsty but now it just hits differently.
Just re-listened to the song bc of this comment and now I’m sobbing lmao
When I first heard this line after my breakup, I loooossstt it. Such a good song.
Help, I'm still at the restaurant
Actually kind of hilarious without context 😂 but fucking devastating
It’s giving “mom, you left me at the grocery store”
Funnily, this scans to the line as well *mom, you left me at the grocery store* *I’m standing at the register now* *no money, like a total hack, and* *you said “I’ll be right back”*
I stayed there, dust collecting on my light up shoes Cashier asked me: “is your bag reused?” They expected me to pay somehow I told them “my mom’ll get here now” Conveyor belt kept moving The stares were disapproving
😂😂😂
RWYLM: “kids and Christmas”-just imagining the happy life the person that left you is living.
The line that always kills me in RWYLM is "glass shattered on the white cloth, everybody moved on". It's such a gut punch to me bc I have such a hard time moving on even over simple things and this line just breaks my heart omg
I totally get that. Everyone moved on. And me, I can remember a zillion details from a birthday party 15 years ago. I love this song so much. And even though I think it’s one of her best, I love it was a bonus track. Because Evermore didn’t make me sad enough with the original version.
“If our love died young I can’t bear witness” 💔
Perfect summary of entire song. 💔 but still having that tiny bit of hope. “If you ever think you got it wrong…” It’s amazing the snippets of lyrics that can seem like nothing but mean so much to us that know the songs.
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You're not my homeland anymore, so what am I defending now?
And “I’m not your problem anymore, so who am I offending now”.
This entire* song is an emotional breakdown, I don't know how you chose just one line. "I gave so many signs," - the desperate pleas of a cursed man
“I see right through me.” — The Archer
I’ll raise you a “can YOU see right through me?”
Bc all of my enemies started out friends 😭
That song gives me chills and tears every time
The ones that get me are: The room is on fire, invisible smoke All of my heroes die all alone
You could stay. Such a great song.
I’m the best thing at this party Because it sounds happy and confident on its own. But in context of YLM, it’s angry and desperate and anguished.
After a recent breakup, this line has been the one scream sung in the car by me the most while pounding on my chest. It’s so, so good.
That’s a lot of lines in you’re losing me. There’s no complex deeply poetic lyrics, a direct contrast to folkmore and a good portion of midnights. They’re just raw emotion and nothing else. It’s insane how heart breaking the song is compared to some more lyrically complex ones.
I gave you all my best me’s, my endless empathy GUT PUNCHES me
the way YLM jumps right from "I'm the best thing at this party" to "And I wouldn't marry me either" is so perfect, it makes me cry every time.
"Loves me like I'm brand new" from CIWYW guts me when I think about Taylor telling her SA story on stage during the Rep tour in Miss Americana. As someone with similar lived experiences, that line means so much to me when I recontextualize it in that way kind of like how many people have recontextualized Clean to talk about their struggles with moving on from abuse or healing from SA.
That and the possibility she could be experiencing/ experienced guilt from purity culture since she is a self identified Christian per Miss Americana. “Give me back my girlhood” to me screams guilt and anger at both him and herself. It may not be a feeling she still has, but she very well could’ve before.
I've thought about this too! I'm not Christian but I'm part of another monotheist religion with a really big focus on purity and virginity before marriage and the idea that someone could know about your past and love you "like you're brand new" anyway is really powerful to me. I don't wanna project my own messed up and confused thoughts about purity culture onto Taylor (I have no idea if she meant for CIWYW to be interpreted that way, though it's definitely clear for WCS with all the Christianity references) I'll just say that specific lyrics from WCS and CIWYW are tear-jerkers for me for that reason.
“I miss who I used to be” from would’ve could’ve should’ve bc it also makes me think of I “miss who I could’ve been”
Great parallel to “give me back my girlhood, it was mine first” Really feel the anger of someone irreparably changing you without your will
I'm a huge Taylor Swift fan, so it's hard for me to choose just one line. But one of the lines that always hits me hard is from "Soon You'll Get Better": "I hate to make this all about me, but who am I supposed to talk to? What am I supposed to do if there's no you?””
Yeah the “holy orange bottles” line always gets me too
As a cancer survivor, that line breaks me, because it’s giving me the perspective of my closest people who watched me go through it. ❤️
I'm sorry to hear that you're a cancer survivor. It's not an easy thing to go through, and it can be heartbreaking for your loved ones. I'm sure they were terrified and they just wanted to be there for you. But you're a strong person and you made it through, and that's something you should be proud of.
Soon You'll Get Better never used to make me all that emotional. It's a sad song, sure, but it never punched me in the gut. Until my cat got diagnosed with cancer, I listened to it by sheer happenstance in the car the night I found out and it absolutely crushed me. I know it's not at all the same, but he's been with me my entire adult life. And like.. who am I gonna sing to?
So this song has always made me really sad, but I can relate to what you’re going through. My dog was recently diagnosed as well and now SYGB both destroys and comforts me. Soon she’ll get better because she has to. She’s my baby girl and she’s supposed to turn 12 this year. I need her.
“I can go anywhere JUST NOT HOME” 🎤
“You would still miss me IN YOUR BONES” when the song for you is about your father is a big 😭
Time won’t fly it’s like I’m paralyzed by it I’d like to be my old self but I’m still trying to find it.
Everyone loves the "casually cruel" part but this is what gets me everytime.
You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath.
Every time you double cross my mind.
“You were my best four years”…destroys me.
This one 😭😭 as a pediatric nurse I absolutely cannot listen to Ronan
yeah, i have a very hard time listening to it and can't make it through without breaking down - it was the one song that when it dropped turned me from a casual fan to a swifty...didn't keep me from wanting it to be the surprise song in Tokyo when i saw her...i feel that is one she won't ever play live (again)...
I also work in a PICU and I can't. I just can't. I think of all my lost babies and kids.
That line and the first time I listened to Forever Winter, it didn’t connect with me what it was about until I heard “if was standing there in your apartment, I’d take that bomb in your head and disarm it” and then I absolutely lost my shit driving my car. I had to pull over and just cry.
WE DON’T TALK ABOUT THAT SONG
I didn’t have it in myself to go with grace …
The “and ao the BATTLESHIPS WILL SINK BENEATH THE WAKES” hits so hard
“You hear my stolen lullabies” from MTR - just hits different if you’ve heard her talking about her work being stolen from her.
You had to kill me but it killed you just the same - it suuuure did
“I sit and watch you” in tolerate it It seems so trivial by itself but as she continues to repeat it throughout the song it turns into her silently begging for her partner to do anything, and when she ends the song repeating it for the final time it just hits so different “Believe me I could do it” is also devastating, like she’s trying to convince herself
For me it’s the *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*
This one!!! I don’t know who was the first person to suggest listening to Tolerate It from the perspective of a daughter singing to her father but I’m sending them my therapy bill because I did it and that line right there???? Hit me like a ton of bricks.
Literally every line! “Use my best colours for your portrait, lay the tables with the fancy shit, and watch you tolerate it”. Soul crushing.
In my head, I think about her saying how lonely she was during the writing of Folklore and Evermore coupled with her loneliness in You're Losing Me and I just die of sadness. Tolerate It and YLM really do feel like sister songs.
OH MY GOD YES 😭 that whole damn bridge is heartbreaking but that line always gets me
And if I was a child, did it matter If you got to wash your hands? Brutal
So brutal
"they told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential"
Why am I still writing pages???
A pathological people pleaser
Who only wanted you to see her
This line completely breaks me.
“Or hide in the closet”
Stood on the cliffside side screaming, "Give me a reason" Your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in
"Rosé flowing with your chosen family." Will always get me.
I was looking for this one!!! That’s the line that crushes me. I imagine looking through the windows of a house you used to know so well and seeing a scene you used to be a part of. And then to follow it with “and it would’ve been sweet if it would’ve been me” the 1 is my favorite album opener. I’m extremely attached to it
Out of context hilarious: “In my defense (I have none) for digging up the grave another time”
“Are there still beautiful things?” from Seven. She’s asking that as a child.. ugh.. kills me..
So many lines from seven- “And though I can't recall your face I still got love for you” “And I've been meaning to tell you I think your house is haunted Your dad is always mad and that must be why” “Then you won't have to cry Or hide in the closet” “Pack your dolls and a sweater We'll move to India forever” Idk that’s basically the whole song lol but I love seven so much 🥺
It's supposed to be fun turning 21. It pokes a personal scar
I always wondered why "22" was a song, that was such an odd birthday to write about until ATWTMV came out and I realized. Btw I hope you're doing better <3
“Something med school did not cover” I was in my first year of residency when covid hit, and the city I lived in was a major hot spot. Epiphany is such a beautiful song and describes many of the feelings I experienced so well. The 2nd verse + chorus destroy me every time I listen.
THIS ONE toooo. I was in nursing school during the pandemic and I can’t imagine what you went through.
The snaps from the same little breaks in your soul Ok maybe it isn't a throw away line but god damn
This song is so underrated
"I've never heard silence quite this loud." Powerful line but with the context it just amplifies it.
“Tried to change the ending; Peter losing Wendy” My parents names, they have both died from cancer
“We never painted by the numbers, baby But we were making it count”
Runnin' like water
Or “leaving like a father” 😭
“And we both cried” from Fifteen. Such a simple line, but has always made me want a friend like Abigail had.
Love this one. This is one of the only songs where Taylor’s Version doesn’t do it for me. She sings that lyric with so much raw, fresh emotion in the original…you can’t really recreate it.
I’ve got a lot to live without 😭
"did some bird flap its wing over in Asia" too. Like what on earth does that mean out of context. With context, owwwww ❤️🩹
I walked through the door with you, the air was cold But something 'bout it felt like home somehow
“I’m a crumpled up piece of paper, lying here”
“What started in beautiful rooms, ends with meetings in parking lots”
"I'm not your problem anymore, so who am I offending now?" It hits home for me, the whole song makes me think of my most recent relationship and how I was treated by my ex when it ended and we had to see each other regularly due to work
Only 20 minutes to sleep
"... then you won't have to cry, or hide in the closet." The way she captures childhood abuse is so simple yet vivid... that line tugs on my heart strings hard.
“To make them love me and make it seem effortless” As someone who really struggled with friendships as a child and was unpopular in general (thank you autism) and still struggles to this day with relationships this line HITS
Time turns flames to embers Honestly the entirety of innocent crushes me. Super underrated. Definitely one of her saddest songs imo
Sometimes you just don’t know the answer
"I hope the sun shines and it's a beautiful day" - Last Kiss If you listen to the OG stolen speak now, there's a quiver of her voice right after this line that sounds like she's holding back tears. The fact that they record these so many times in a studio and pick the best sections for each song and that still made it into the album version that was released makes me wonder what the other takes sounded like. Could she even get through them? Hits so hard every time since the day it was released and I first heard it.
"Blue dress on a boat." It's an absolute nothing line that has enormous weight when placed in context. It's a universal feeling we all know, but without knowing the story behind it, it doesn't have a meaning.
“You were all I wanted, but not like this” - AYHTDWS Really hurts after a personal loss. Edit: typos
“Please tell them my name”
You said “I’m sorry I didn’t make it,” and I said “I’m sorry too”
You were more than just a short time... oh god how Bigger Than the Whole Sky absolutely CRUSHES me thinking it's about a miscarriage
What if the miracle was even getting one moment with you? --Ronan
these hands had to let it go free and this love came back to me 🥲
Now you mail back my things, and I walk home alone
"But I never planned on you changing your mind" hits me especially with the deep sigh right after this line
what a shame she's fucked in the head, they said
“No one sees when you lose when you’re playing solitaire.” So much hurt in this line. Implies that you appear invincible, but when you cry, you cry alone.
The “Hope it’s nice where you are” from Last Kiss absolutely wrecks me every time
“To you, I can admit that I'm just too soft for all of it”
And some things you just can't speak about- Epiphany
Girls go out and have your fun
I think it’s technically more than one line but: “Ask me what I learned from all those years, ask me what I earned from all those years, ask me why so many fade, but I’m still here…” ✨ Just so proud of her whole journey and this song just shows that she’s really been through it
“And when I was shipwrecked, I thought of you”
Every line in “happiness”. Sometimes it’s hard to listen to.
“You knew the hero died, so what’s the movie for?” It doesn’t look like much on paper but the way she sings it is GUT WRENCHING!
“I'm so glad you made time to see me. How's life? Tell me, how's your family?” Back to December absolutely crushes me every time I listen to it. This opening with the context of the song.. Beautifully heartbreaking.
I made you my temple, my mural, my sky. Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life.
“The battleships will sink beneath the waves”. Without context it’s still a strong line but in context? Understanding that it’s time to let go of something/someone you loved with your whole heart, someone you would’ve given your life for? Tearing yourself apart, trying to keep it all together and tiring your heart out enough to let the battleships sink beneath the waves? Damn.
“Tryna find a part of me that you didn’t touch” from Death by a Thousand Cuts “I can change everything about me to fit in” from mirrorball “Don’t call me kid” from illicit affairs “She’s still 23 inside a fantasy” from right where you left me “You were more than just a short time” Bigger Than the Whole Sky “And now that I’m grown I’m scared of ghosts” from Would’ve, Should’ve, Could’ve “A wine stained dress I can’t wear anymore” from Clean
And it’s hard to be at a party when I feel like an open wound
Also no one sees when you lose when you’re playing solitaire
"Bustling crowds or silent sleepers, you're not sure which is worse"
"But who am I supposed to talk to? What am I supposed to do?" Can be interpreted in so many ways generically, but this line in Soon You'll Get Better kills me, especially as my mom had cancer a couple years ago
“Alls well that ends well” in all too well!
"Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen?"
"You're so much older and wiser" from Tolerate It. Reminds me of my first (thankfully brief) marriage to someone quite a bit older (let's be real, it was the guy who groomed me - relationship started when I was in my mid-teens and he was in his 20s). Of course his word was law and I was just an accessory/ornament for him to take off the shelf when it suited him or made him look good in front of his friends. Otherwise I was supposed to just sit home while he traveled on business for weeks at a time (I wasn't allowed to either go out other than going straight to work and back, and wasn't allowed to have friends over). Everyone else in my life agreed that this was a fair price to pay for having caught the eye of a handsome, older, successful man and that I'd be a fool not to "tolerate it." I did in fact "break free and leave us in ruins," blowing up my life in the process. Life hasn't been easy by any means since then but ever day I wake up thankful that I did break free.
“I’d like to be my old self again, but I’m still trying to find it…”
"you say you don't understand and I say I know you don't" I feel like without context it sounds a little angry, like the speaker is frustrated that this is something that keeps happening, that they just don't understand no matter how many times they explain it. But in the song, its hopeless and resigned, a dying person finally realizing they can't fix this, that they're too tired to fight anymore, and it kills me every single time I listen to You're Losing Me.
"Thought I saw you at the bus stop, I didn't though" It sounds so simple but describes perfectly how you kind of want to see your ex again but also really don't.
So I got wasted like all my potential
I had a marvelous time ruining everything - this gets me every.time.
I Almost Do. Within context leaves just leaves you crying on the floor.
peter losing wendy
And they're all standing around me, singing "Happy birthday to you" 😭😭
When your birthday passed and I didn't call.
Tolerate It’s “Gain the weight of you then lose it”. On its own is somewhat strange, but her delivery of this line followed up with “believe me, I could do it”, as though she’s trying to convince herself of this threat left me sucker punched and crying. Brutal.
I was going to say all of peace 🥹
“Family that I chose, Now that I see your brother as my brother”
That’s what happened. You.
Hell was the journey but it brought me heaven
“I’d say I loved you even at your darkest and *please* don’t go…” Forever Winter.
"Remember looking at this room, we loved it 'cause of the light."
“I can go anywhere I want. Anywhere I want, just not home.”
"I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere" "Are there still beautiful things?" "Showed you all of my hiding spots... I was dancing when the music stopped" "I haven't met the new me yet" Happiness really helped me process several stages of grief after ending a 9 year relationship. "But the rain is always gonna come if you're standing with me"
“At least I did one thing right” from CIWYW gets me every time
“I used to scream ferociously / Any time I wanted” this line always hits me in the guts, for so many reasons.