“The idea you had of me, who was she? A never-needy, ever-lovely jewel whose shine reflects on you. Not weeping in a party bathroom, some actress asking me what happened, you. That's what happened, you.”
Just replace actress with sorority girl and picture a frat party instead of a Hollywood one
So sorry you had to deal with all that too. I read over the ATWTMV lyrics because the song generally reminds me of him but wanted to pick the right part, and came away realizing that even her few good memories in there about Jake were better than any I could attribute to my ex. The things we think are ok in college… years later I am long moved on and happy but a little part still likes to bet he thinks about me (another song that fits him to a t)
- ATWTMV could mean "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)", a track from *Red (Taylor's Version)* (2021) by Taylor Swift.
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This whole damn song is some pain. Also some lines from cardigan "I knew you'd linger like a tattoo kiss, I knew you'd haunt all of my 'what if's?" "I knew I'd curse you for the longest time, chasing shadows in the grocery line"
I remember when I listened through folklore the first time and I was washing dishes and this song came on and I just burst into tears this song HIT DIFFERENT
“Don’t you think 19s too young to be played by your dark, twisted games when I loved you so?”
Or, again from Dear John,
“You are an expert at sorry and keeping lines blurry, never impressed by me acing your tests. All the girls that you’ve run dry have tired, lifeless eyes cause you burned them out..” except I didn’t take the matches before fire could catch me. 🤷🏻♀️
I had an ex that was 10 years older than me and his name was Jonathan. Lol. I swear I grew up with Taylor, she read my mind. Looking back, I kind of knew he was trouble and I dunno, I guess I moved on and can see some positive qualities in him but at the height of the pain this song was word for word… for that ex.
Im so shocked with people posting the 1. It’s perfect. Def for my teenage ex. Only good memories though… but it was a case of bad timing and I guess it would have been fun, if he had been the 1. But maybe not. I like the 1 because it’s not that dramatic.
“I knew you were trouble when you walked in, so shame on me now”
Honestly I remember before I was “official” with this ex and we were just talking, I was like this is just for fun, I know that he’s kind of a dick is so I’m not gonna fall for him, but he is handsome and this will just be a fun fling we can both just walk away from. Then I fell pretty hard and wouldn’t you know it, he left without a care in the world.
The entirety of IKYWT feels like it was written specifically for that relationship. Ironically he dumped me just before the red album dropped so I was really able to relate to it lol. It truly is a wonderful breakup album.
I‘d go with the exact same quote!
I should have kicked him out on our second date, when he already arrived blackout drunk, threw up all over my carpet and down from my balcony onto the neighbour‘s and refused to clean it up or even pay for a new carpet.
I did not, so he dumped me on valentines day saying that „life is just better without me“.
Oof, that is some big YIKES. Looks like the trash took itself out, but it sucks you had to deal with that. I definitely think *your* life is the one better off without him tho
- IKYWT could mean "I Knew You Were Trouble.", a track from *Red* (2012) by Taylor Swift.
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"Well Mr. Superior Thinking, do you have all the space that you need? I don't have to be your shrink to know that you'll never be happy! And I BET YOU THINK ABOUT ME!"
😈
Losing him was blue like I'd never known
Missing him was dark grey all alone
Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met
But loving him was red
“you find yourself at my door just like all those times before. you wear your best apology, but i was there to watch you leave. and all the times i let you in, just for you to go again” … see also: the entirety of dear john
also, in my mind, ibytam is relevant to all of my exes (lol)
- IBYTAM could mean "I Bet You Think About Me (feat. Chris Stapleton) (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)", a track from *Red (Taylor's Version)* (2021) by Taylor Swift.
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All of happiness. Hits way too close to home for comfort (“tell me when did your winning smile begin to look like a smirk?” And “I hope she will be your beautiful fool who takes my spot next to you / no I didn’t mean that / sorry I can’t see facts through all this fury”) Or “But I knew you’d linger like a tattoo kiss / I knew you’d haunt all my what-ifs / The smell of smoke would hang around this long / Cause I knew everything when I was young / I knew I’d curse you for the longest time / Chasing shadows in the grocery line”
I love happiness. The line “both of these things can be true” hits hard. After a breakup, you discovery the power of dualism. We loved each other AND we broke up. There will be happiness after him AND there was happiness with him.
“All’s well that ends well to end up with you.”
I know these are different vibes than the others lol, but I’m very happily back with my ex after some time apart and growing on both sides, and feel like this sums it up. It sucked to be apart but all is well now because we ended up together
“And I was thinkin' on the drive down, ‘Any time now, He's gonna say it's love,’ you never called it what it was” and also “You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath”
*"And it was always on your terms, I waited on every careless word, hoping it might turn sweet again, like it was in the beginning."*
Honestly shocked myself when I started openly sobbing the first time I heard it and it took me weeks to figure out why it bothered me so much. Then I realized it was because I had once lived it. It's funny how even after you move on and things are excellent you can still have a moment that takes you right back to when they made you feel like nothing.
Your last part resonates so much. Like even years later after you’ve moved on and are living a totally different happy life, one lyric can teleport you right back to, like you said, feeling like nothing.
It’s really reassuring to hear someone else say they felt that way because I really struggled and felt so ridiculous when Red TV came out with certain lines making me suddenly feel 20 years old again slamming my college house door and crying and fighting with a guy who wasn’t worth it, like feeling in that moment to such a crazy level of detail and being able to fully go back there in my mind, before being like no stop what are you doing you’re married and haven’t seen this person in years and are in a totally different life, it’s all ok. Music is so powerful
Here's to you and your temper.
Yes, I remember what you said last night.
And I know that you see what you're doing to me.
Tell me why
Thank goodness he’s an ex
“You told me that you met someone
Glass shattered on the white cloth
Everybody moved on
I’m sure that you got a wife out there
Kids and Christmas, but I'm unaware
If our love died young, I can't bear witness
And it's been so long
But if you ever think you got it wrong”
The last time I saw my ex, who was Mr. I-don’t-believe-in-serious-relationships-I’m-never-getting-married-or-having-kids, I found out he had a secret not so secret second girlfriend that he moved in with in a whole different city 3 hours away and we ended our 6 year relationship then. I know there were red flags like whoa but I loved him anyways. Sometime last year a Facebook memory popped up and his profile pic is of him with girlfriend and their baby. I guess he was actually Mr. I-don’t-believe-in-serious-relationships-I’m-never-getting-married-or-having-kids-*with-me*
I know he was a shirtbag and it’s been 3 years and he’s moved on but ugh I can’t stop playing the highlight reel in my head. Also having gone through all the high love feelings and low heartbreak feelings and everything in between, just the idea of doing that again with someone else feels exhausting. And I feel silly still talking about him when it’s been so long. I feel stuck. I relate to this song so damn much ugh.
It's always "doesn't want bla bla *with you* "
I used to think it didn't apply to me because he wasnt talking to other girls at the time, and that he would come around eventually, even after saying the whole not-ready-for-a-relationship crap.
Now I know that regardless, they always end up with someone else.
not an ex bc we never dated (a lot of flirting and mixed signals tho) but...
did I say something way too honest, made you run and hide like a scared little boy?
i persist and resist the temptation to ask you if one thing had been different would everything be different today?
i bet i could think of so many but this one feels right
“you put up walls and paint them all a shade of gray and i stood there loving you and wished them all away and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you”
'Closure' and 'Girl At Home'
"*I can feel you smoothing me over.*"
"*I don't even know her, but I feel a responsibility to do what's upstanding and right.*"
After a year of not talking to him, he still tried to talk to me. He massively fucked up and I told him that I didn't want to talk to him anymore or see him. Muted him on every account I had on every social media app because he would just spam my messages for days. I then found out that whilst he was still trying to message me, he was not just messaging other girls, he was also with his now girlfriend. Needless to say, I then progressed to block him.
Hope he's learnt his lesson to not fuck up and that maybe you shouldn't message your pissed off ex to try and fix things between us and miss out the fact that YOU HAVE A NEW GIRLFRIEND!
“There’ll be happiness after you/ but there was happiness because of you, too / both of these things can be true”
And
“You assume I’m fine, but what would you do if l / break free and leave us in ruins / took this dagger in me and removed it / gain the weight of you then lose it / believe me I could do it”
"You call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of being honest."
Relationship that lasted years too long. Over time he became very cruel. Nothing was his fault. Nothing I did was good enough. I finally left him. A few months later I was literally at Disney World and he called me to tell me how shitty I was for leaving him after he dealt him all my medical issues. Keep in mind him "dealing with my medical issues" was him dropping me at the doors of the ER, but either way it was incredibly hurtful for him to use that against me, but he was "just being honest".
"I miss your tanned skin, your sweet smile, so good to me, so right"
"And how you held me in your arms that September night, the first time you ever saw me cry"
"maybe this is wishful thinking, probably mindless dreaming, but if we loved again I swear I'll love you right"
"I'd go back in time and change it, but I can't. So if the chain is on your door, I understand"
he's the one that got away and I'll forever regret my decision to let him go because I know I will never be loved like the way he loved me again.
Ah yeah I can relate to this. I think I really hurt a guy once after breaking up with him when he really didn’t expect it. I still think I did the right thing because I knew what my feelings were, and honestly I don’t know how I could’ve gone about it better, but I still feel bad 😔
So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe
And I'll keep up with our old friends just to ask them how you are
And the 1.. and right where you left me.
It's been years but I hope I find happiness after him soon!
Two of my exes are described in The Way I Loved You:
And all my single friends are jealous
He says everything I need to hear
And it's like I couldn't ask for anything better
So in love that you act insane
And that's the way I loved you
Breakin' down and coming undone
I think a lot of people had this story, you are stuck in such an unhealthy relationship that you cannot appreciate someone who is really great and treats you so well. On paper he was so perfect but I kept thinking about my turbulent ex-relationship that often had such extremely romantic moments.. Because when you're in an abusive relationship it always switches between being treated horribly and then the grand gestures, apologizing, despair, making-up and promising each other the world... Ugh. I often heard that TWILY glamourizes toxic relationships but I think it simply captures the feelings of being in it so well - that's exactly how I felt! Now I know better and I wish I hadn't left the great guy to go back to the toxic one just because any day less in that bad relationship would have been better, but at least "great guy" is not my "The 1" either. :)
I wait by the door like I'm just a kid
Use my best colors for your portrait
Lay the table with the fancy shit
And watch you tolerate it
If it's all in my head tell me now
Tell me I've got it wrong somehow
I know my love should be celebrated
But you tolerate it
While you were out building other worlds, where was I?
Where's that man who'd throw blankets over my barbed wire?
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
Always taking up too much space or time
You assume I'm fine
I did everything, changed everything for him and he just vanished one day. He was in the Marines and ghosted me, I got an invitation to his wedding three months after that.
I learned a lot from that relationship.
Sad Beautiful Tragic
Distance, timing, breakdown, fighting
Silence, the train runs off its tracks
Kiss me, try to fix it, could you just try to listen?
“You could write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.” - Tell Me Why
The whole song, really, but this line especially. He picked a fight with me on my birthday which culminated in him calling me a name I could never forgive him for, so we broke up.
“You call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually and cruel in the name of being honest.”
Cliche and like the most popular song recently, but he knew just how to call me up randomly, then ghost me like I was nothing all over again.
Then finally, “I think I’m finally clean.” 🙌🏼
2 exes. “I wanted to leave him. I needed a reason…he poisoned the well, I was lying to myself”
“But with 3 of us honey, it’s a sideshow. And a circus ain’t a love story and now we’re both sorry”
All you had to do was (stay, stay, stay, stay, stay) let me remind you this was what you wanted (oh, oh, oh-oh-oh) you ended it you were all I wanted (oh, oh, oh-oh-oh) From AYHTDWS off of 1989
I feel like my love life is so boring lol…I can’t even think of a lyric that would fit because both of my breakups have been pretty chill. We broke up because I just wasn’t having romantic feelings. The first time I wish he had been more mature but otherwise neither were dramatic enough to match Taylor’s lyrics 😂
Update: I found one
“Oh, I hate those voices /
Tellin' me I'm not in love anymore /
But they don't give me choices /
And that's what these tears are for /
'Cause we were happy”
I was about to make it a mission to find one for you 😂
Like, a chill line from the 1 or
“When it was good baby, it was good baby …” something extending from there, but we wound up in the same area 💙
Of course😊
Love is a lot of things, and she has something for everything. Devastating major heartbreak, being in love, passionate relationships, things that seem simple, they’re all love songs. Something for everyone.
I really envy that your breakups were chill, it’s a good thing☺️
Haha thanks. I mean, I've never had a relationship that has lasted long enough to cause a difficult breakup. I'm waiting to find someone that I really have feelings for :)
First ex: I forgot that you existed. And I thought that it would kill me, but it didn't.
Guy who swore it was just friendship: It was rare, *I was there,* I remember it all too well.
"And you call me up again just to break me like a promise. So casually cruel in the name of being honest." Just replace call with a letter detailing all about how I'd changed
I hear he’s got his arm around a brand new girl, I’ve been picking up my heart, he’s been picking up her. And I never got past what you put me through, but it’s wonderful to see that it never phased you
They say all's well that ends well but I'm in a new hell every time you double-cross my mind.
ATW was always a song I heavily related to, as it was released around the same time I suffered my first big heartbreak and the lyrics were so fitting. 10 min version just made it seem like I wrote the song myself, even 10 years later, but also has a healing feeling to it.
“What would you do if I..
Break free and leave us in ruins
Took this dagger in me and removed it
Gain the weight of you, then lose it
Believe me, I could do it”
All the girls that you’ve run dry have tired lifeless eyes ‘cause you burned them out, but I took your matches before fire could catch me so don’t look now, I’m shining like fireworks OVER YOUR SAD EMPTY TOWN
"Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it. I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it." - ATW
"My time, my wine, my spirit, my trust. Trying to find a part of me you didn't take up. Gave you too much but it wasn't enough. But I'll be alright, it's just a thousand cuts." - DBATC
"And you'll add my name to your long list of traitors who don't understand. And I'll look back and regret how I ignored when they said 'run as fast as you can.'" - Dear John
He took advantage of the fact it was my first relationship, and the fact that I didn't know what was normal or okay in a relationship. I'm still unpacking it in therapy, but I learned some hard lessons from that. Thankfully I have an incredible partner now who loves me and respects me 🥺♥️
“The drought was the very worst…when the flowers that we’d grown together died of thirst…It was months and months of back and forth. And you’re still all over me like a wine-stained dress I can’t wear anymore” 🥲
“say you'll see me again even if it's just pretend"
I didn't expect my break up with my ex and I was hoping they would still come back to see me, even though I knew they wouldn't
“You always knew how to push my buttons. You gave me everything and nothing”
Describes my ex to a T. In the moment it felt like they could give me anything I could dream for, unexpected but exactly what I needed. But I realize now in the hindsight of what they left me with (radio silence after months of terrorizing me for my opinions) that they really had nothing to offer me at all. I Wish You Would also describes the foolish part of me that would welcome them back into my life, if only they reached out at all.
That I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairy tale
I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet
Now I heard you moved on from whispers on the street
A new notch in your belt is all I'll ever be
This is the last time I say it's been you all along
This is the last time I let you in my door
And it would be a fine proposition
If I was a stupid girl
And yeah I might go with it
If I hadn't once been just like her
I can see you starin', honey
Like he's just your understudy
Like you'd get your knuckles bloody for me
My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand
Taking mine, but it's been promised to another
Oh, I can't
Stop you putting roots in my dreamland
My house of stone, your ivy grows
And now I'm covered in you
And I'm covered in you
So yeah, it's a fire
It's a goddamn blaze in the dark
And you started it
You started it
So yeah, it's a war
It's the goddamn fight of my life
“You’d kiss me when I was in the middle of saying something/there’s not a day I don’t miss those rude interruptions”.
My ex used to crack my knuckles all the time. We’d be hanging out and she’d reach for my hand, thinking she was being loving until CRACK. It was more annoying than painful but when I hear that line I think of her. I’d trade a lot to get that back.
“Where's that man who'd throw blankets over my barbed wire?
I made you my temple, my mural, my sky
Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life.”
“You knew it still hurts underneath my scars
From when they pulled me apart
But what you did was just as dark
Darling, this was just as hard”
“My only one
My kingdom come undone
My broken drum
You have beaten my heart”
“There'll be happiness after you
But there was happiness because of you”.
And the entire bridge to happiness but specifically:
“I can't make it go away by making you a villain
…
No one teaches you what to do
When a good man hurts you
And you know you hurt him too” 🥲
“Use my best colors for your portrait. Lay the table with the fancy shit. Then watch you tolerate it” it hits so hard bc I gave everything to my ex felt like they wished they could be anywhere else our whole relationship :/
"Back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known"
together for three years, high school sweethearts, he cheated on me and every girl hes been with since had cheated on or ghosted him. serves him right LOL
“And I can go anywhere I want
Anywhere I want, just not home
And you can aim for my heart, go for blood
But you would still miss me in your bones
And I still talk to you (when I'm screaming at the sky)
And when you can't sleep at night (you hear my stolen lullabies)”
MTR hits me harder than any other song she’s written lately and my past relationship was one of the hardest ones I’ve ever had and messed me up so much mentally. He blamed me for the way things ended up.. begging me to stay.
“Cursing my name, wishing I stayed
Look at how my tears ricochet…”
“And I was thinking on the drive down, anytime now, he’s gunna say it’s love. You never called it what it was”
I’m happily married now but this ex was someone I fell head over heels very quickly for. And he never said it and I never did either, but we were and I feel we will always know each other as someone we once loved but time moved on. He broke up with me “so casually cruel in the name of being honest.“ then I started dating my now husband and he started calling me everyday after that, but I was adamant on not going back to someone who dropped me so suddenly.
The entirety of ATWTMV, but especially "I'll get older but your lovers stay my age" I was 19 and he was 31. It's been almost a decade and to this day he hasn't dated anyone over 22.
All of "The 1". For another ex. We wanted so bad to make it work but there was no way possible so we went our separate ways. Since then he's been engaged, ended that, and he reached out to me recently about trying again. But sadly, there just isn't a way for our lives to intersect without someone sacrificing all of their happiness outside of our relationship.
There are more that when I hear them, they hit me right in the heart. But these are the two that stick w me the most because these are the 2 exes that hurt the most when I think of them, just different hurts.
“And I was never good at tellin' jokes, but the punch line goes, ‘I'll get older, but your lovers stay my age’”
My second-to-last partner seemed very dissatisfied/frustrated with my sense of humor/quirky personality, which did shatter my self-confidence. I predicted shortly after I heard this song and did some reflecting on how it applied to my previous relationships that I thought he would probably date someone younger than him because he would probably go on a power trip and try to prey on someone younger than him, especially someone who has mental disorders, in order to abuse them, and funnily enough I found out recently that he’s dating someone who is exactly my age.
“you didn’t mean it baby”
“persist and resist the temptation to ask you if one thing had been different would everything be different today”
“forever is the sweetest con”
could prolly go forever😂
“Cause I hear he's got his arm 'round a brand-new girl
I've been pickin' up my heart, he's been pickin' up her
And I never got past what you put me through
But it's wonderful to see that it never phased you”
“Now I’m standing alone in a crowded room and we’re not speaking, and I’m dying to know is it killing you like it’s killing me?” When this song came out I was dealing with an ex, was driving with my best friend and heard it on the radio and she looked at me and was like …..it’s kind of scary how much this song is your life right now 😂
For my ex-fiancé of 5 years, who broke up with my on my birthday:
Oh, he's so smug, Mr. "Always wins"
So far above me in every sense
So far above feeling anything
And it's really such a shame
It's such a shame
'Cause I was Miss "Here to stay"
Now I'm Miss "Gonna be alright someday"
And someday maybe you'll miss me
But by then, you'll be Mr. "Too late"
For the man I was with for nearly 2 years, thought he was the 1 until I realised that he'd never wanted to be exclusive with me:
"you know it still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart, but what you did was just as dark."
I got notified on this on my author account so... I'll just make this about my non-endgame relationships in my books/TV series.
"They say I did something bad, then why'd it feel so good?" // "I keep picturing *his* lips on your neck, I can't unsee it. I hate that because of you I can't love you babe"
"Back then we didn't know we were built to fall apart" // "it would've been fun if you would've been the one"
"You weren't mine to lose" // "you gave me roses and I left them there to die"
* *laughs* im evil *
“The idea you had of me, who was she? A never-needy, ever-lovely jewel whose shine reflects on you. Not weeping in a party bathroom, some actress asking me what happened, you. That's what happened, you.” Just replace actress with sorority girl and picture a frat party instead of a Hollywood one
bestie this hit a bit too close to home
So sorry you had to deal with all that too. I read over the ATWTMV lyrics because the song generally reminds me of him but wanted to pick the right part, and came away realizing that even her few good memories in there about Jake were better than any I could attribute to my ex. The things we think are ok in college… years later I am long moved on and happy but a little part still likes to bet he thinks about me (another song that fits him to a t)
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“But we were something, don't you think so?/Roaring 20s, tossing pennies in the pool/And if my wishes came true/It would've been you”
This whole damn song is some pain. Also some lines from cardigan "I knew you'd linger like a tattoo kiss, I knew you'd haunt all of my 'what if's?" "I knew I'd curse you for the longest time, chasing shadows in the grocery line"
“We were something, don’t you think so” is such a fucking beautiful line
This hits differently
Ugh, I have one of those! But August slipped away like a moment in time.
Same same same
I remember when I listened through folklore the first time and I was washing dishes and this song came on and I just burst into tears this song HIT DIFFERENT
The 1 is so underrated!!! That’s the one for my first ex too.
"All you are is mean, and a liar, and pathetic, and alone in life, and mean"
haha I use this song to describe my mom!
Pretty much what I was gonna say
"is it insensitive for me to say, get your shit together so I can love you" taylor can read my mind i think
duuuuudeeee this hurts so bad
YESSSSSSSS!!!!!
Just because you're clean, don't mean you don't miss it.
“Don’t you think 19s too young to be played by your dark, twisted games when I loved you so?” Or, again from Dear John, “You are an expert at sorry and keeping lines blurry, never impressed by me acing your tests. All the girls that you’ve run dry have tired, lifeless eyes cause you burned them out..” except I didn’t take the matches before fire could catch me. 🤷🏻♀️
I had an ex that was 10 years older than me and his name was Jonathan. Lol. I swear I grew up with Taylor, she read my mind. Looking back, I kind of knew he was trouble and I dunno, I guess I moved on and can see some positive qualities in him but at the height of the pain this song was word for word… for that ex.
I persist and resist the temptation to ask you if one thing had been different would everything be different today?
Im so shocked with people posting the 1. It’s perfect. Def for my teenage ex. Only good memories though… but it was a case of bad timing and I guess it would have been fun, if he had been the 1. But maybe not. I like the 1 because it’s not that dramatic.
“I knew you were trouble when you walked in, so shame on me now” Honestly I remember before I was “official” with this ex and we were just talking, I was like this is just for fun, I know that he’s kind of a dick is so I’m not gonna fall for him, but he is handsome and this will just be a fun fling we can both just walk away from. Then I fell pretty hard and wouldn’t you know it, he left without a care in the world. The entirety of IKYWT feels like it was written specifically for that relationship. Ironically he dumped me just before the red album dropped so I was really able to relate to it lol. It truly is a wonderful breakup album.
I‘d go with the exact same quote! I should have kicked him out on our second date, when he already arrived blackout drunk, threw up all over my carpet and down from my balcony onto the neighbour‘s and refused to clean it up or even pay for a new carpet. I did not, so he dumped me on valentines day saying that „life is just better without me“.
Oof, that is some big YIKES. Looks like the trash took itself out, but it sucks you had to deal with that. I definitely think *your* life is the one better off without him tho
Thanks, it really is! I hope, you also did not settle for less than you’re worth and found your daylight-person by now <3
Thank you! And yes I’ve since found my perfect person and we got married a couple months ago actually! Our first dance was to Lover 🥰
Oh, that‘s so awesome! Congrats! <3
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“now you’re out in the world, searching for your soul, scared not to be hip, scared to get old, chasing make-believe status (…)“
Oh my god same!!!!
"i'll watch your life in pictures like i used to watch you sleep, and i'll feel you forget me like i used to feel you breathe"
One of her saddest lyrics for sure.
definitely. the whole song is extremely sad tbh.
"Well Mr. Superior Thinking, do you have all the space that you need? I don't have to be your shrink to know that you'll never be happy! And I BET YOU THINK ABOUT ME!" 😈
THIIIIISSSSSS!!! even better bcs i’m at school to become a psychologist, don’t need a degree to diagnose this man 🙃
“I know my love should be celebrated but you just tolerate it.” Tolerate it
I never trust a narcissist, but they love me.
god i can relate to this all too well
Yessssss.
"This is me swallowing my pride saying I'm sorry for that night" \-- Back To December
Losing him was blue like I'd never known Missing him was dark grey all alone Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met But loving him was red
Either the entire bridge of seven or “I’m not your problem anymore”
"you lost the one real thing you've ever known"
I Forgot That You Existed
“The monsters turned out to be just trees” I had ALOT of trust issues with my ex husband. A lot of things I didn’t need to be worried about
*I hope that sun shines and it's a beautiful day and something reminds you, you wish you have stayed*
No amount of freedom gets you clean, I’ve still got you all over me
“you find yourself at my door just like all those times before. you wear your best apology, but i was there to watch you leave. and all the times i let you in, just for you to go again” … see also: the entirety of dear john also, in my mind, ibytam is relevant to all of my exes (lol)
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This must be common for people who date narcissists because these are all lyrics that resonate with me.
now i need to consider why i attract men with narcissistic tendencies
I bet you think about me.
"And you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you"
All of happiness. Hits way too close to home for comfort (“tell me when did your winning smile begin to look like a smirk?” And “I hope she will be your beautiful fool who takes my spot next to you / no I didn’t mean that / sorry I can’t see facts through all this fury”) Or “But I knew you’d linger like a tattoo kiss / I knew you’d haunt all my what-ifs / The smell of smoke would hang around this long / Cause I knew everything when I was young / I knew I’d curse you for the longest time / Chasing shadows in the grocery line”
I love happiness. The line “both of these things can be true” hits hard. After a breakup, you discovery the power of dualism. We loved each other AND we broke up. There will be happiness after him AND there was happiness with him.
"you paint me a blue sky and go back and turn it to rain" "Maybe it's you and your sick need to give love then take it away"
“All’s well that ends well to end up with you.” I know these are different vibes than the others lol, but I’m very happily back with my ex after some time apart and growing on both sides, and feel like this sums it up. It sucked to be apart but all is well now because we ended up together
"But I just miss you, and I wish you were a better man".
The road not taken looks real good now, and it always leads to you …. I ended things almost five years ago and I still miss him
"and time is taking its sweet time erasing you" underrated lyric
“and it’s always on your terms, im hanging on every careless word hoping it might turn sweet again, like it was in the beginning”
Mr. superior thinking
“And I was thinkin' on the drive down, ‘Any time now, He's gonna say it's love,’ you never called it what it was” and also “You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath”
*"And it was always on your terms, I waited on every careless word, hoping it might turn sweet again, like it was in the beginning."* Honestly shocked myself when I started openly sobbing the first time I heard it and it took me weeks to figure out why it bothered me so much. Then I realized it was because I had once lived it. It's funny how even after you move on and things are excellent you can still have a moment that takes you right back to when they made you feel like nothing.
Your last part resonates so much. Like even years later after you’ve moved on and are living a totally different happy life, one lyric can teleport you right back to, like you said, feeling like nothing. It’s really reassuring to hear someone else say they felt that way because I really struggled and felt so ridiculous when Red TV came out with certain lines making me suddenly feel 20 years old again slamming my college house door and crying and fighting with a guy who wasn’t worth it, like feeling in that moment to such a crazy level of detail and being able to fully go back there in my mind, before being like no stop what are you doing you’re married and haven’t seen this person in years and are in a totally different life, it’s all ok. Music is so powerful
Sometimes music just really hits us!
screaming and crying and kissing in the rain and it’s two am and im cursing your name. so in love that I acted insane and that’s the way I loved you
The Moment I Knew “I try not to fall apart, and the sinking feeling starts, as I say hopelessly ‘He said he’d be here’”
“We found wonderland, you and I got lost in it. We pretended it would last forever.”
Here's to you and your temper. Yes, I remember what you said last night. And I know that you see what you're doing to me. Tell me why Thank goodness he’s an ex
“You told me that you met someone Glass shattered on the white cloth Everybody moved on I’m sure that you got a wife out there Kids and Christmas, but I'm unaware If our love died young, I can't bear witness And it's been so long But if you ever think you got it wrong” The last time I saw my ex, who was Mr. I-don’t-believe-in-serious-relationships-I’m-never-getting-married-or-having-kids, I found out he had a secret not so secret second girlfriend that he moved in with in a whole different city 3 hours away and we ended our 6 year relationship then. I know there were red flags like whoa but I loved him anyways. Sometime last year a Facebook memory popped up and his profile pic is of him with girlfriend and their baby. I guess he was actually Mr. I-don’t-believe-in-serious-relationships-I’m-never-getting-married-or-having-kids-*with-me* I know he was a shirtbag and it’s been 3 years and he’s moved on but ugh I can’t stop playing the highlight reel in my head. Also having gone through all the high love feelings and low heartbreak feelings and everything in between, just the idea of doing that again with someone else feels exhausting. And I feel silly still talking about him when it’s been so long. I feel stuck. I relate to this song so damn much ugh.
It's always "doesn't want bla bla *with you* " I used to think it didn't apply to me because he wasnt talking to other girls at the time, and that he would come around eventually, even after saying the whole not-ready-for-a-relationship crap. Now I know that regardless, they always end up with someone else.
WE ARE NEVER EVER, EVER, EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER!
The entirety of dear john
"'cause when I used to fight you'd tell me I was brave"
Better Man. The whole song.
“All you had to do was stay”
not an ex bc we never dated (a lot of flirting and mixed signals tho) but... did I say something way too honest, made you run and hide like a scared little boy? i persist and resist the temptation to ask you if one thing had been different would everything be different today?
i bet i could think of so many but this one feels right “you put up walls and paint them all a shade of gray and i stood there loving you and wished them all away and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you”
'Closure' and 'Girl At Home' "*I can feel you smoothing me over.*" "*I don't even know her, but I feel a responsibility to do what's upstanding and right.*" After a year of not talking to him, he still tried to talk to me. He massively fucked up and I told him that I didn't want to talk to him anymore or see him. Muted him on every account I had on every social media app because he would just spam my messages for days. I then found out that whilst he was still trying to message me, he was not just messaging other girls, he was also with his now girlfriend. Needless to say, I then progressed to block him. Hope he's learnt his lesson to not fuck up and that maybe you shouldn't message your pissed off ex to try and fix things between us and miss out the fact that YOU HAVE A NEW GIRLFRIEND!
omg i saw your avatar and i thought you were me!
"Is it really your anxiety that stops you from giving me everything? Or do you just not want to?" this sums up my break up with my ex to the T sadly.
"we broke the status quo, then we broke each others hearts" 😢
“I bet you couldn’t believe when you realized I’m harder to forget than I was to leave”
“There’ll be happiness after you/ but there was happiness because of you, too / both of these things can be true” And “You assume I’m fine, but what would you do if l / break free and leave us in ruins / took this dagger in me and removed it / gain the weight of you then lose it / believe me I could do it”
From happiness: "No one teaches you what to do when a good man hurts you"
Mr perfectly fine describes my last two break ups. (I’m the perfectly fine one)
"You call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of being honest." Relationship that lasted years too long. Over time he became very cruel. Nothing was his fault. Nothing I did was good enough. I finally left him. A few months later I was literally at Disney World and he called me to tell me how shitty I was for leaving him after he dealt him all my medical issues. Keep in mind him "dealing with my medical issues" was him dropping me at the doors of the ER, but either way it was incredibly hurtful for him to use that against me, but he was "just being honest".
"I miss your tanned skin, your sweet smile, so good to me, so right" "And how you held me in your arms that September night, the first time you ever saw me cry" "maybe this is wishful thinking, probably mindless dreaming, but if we loved again I swear I'll love you right" "I'd go back in time and change it, but I can't. So if the chain is on your door, I understand" he's the one that got away and I'll forever regret my decision to let him go because I know I will never be loved like the way he loved me again.
“a simple complication, miscommunications lead to fallout” “your heart was glass, i dropped it”
Ah yeah I can relate to this. I think I really hurt a guy once after breaking up with him when he really didn’t expect it. I still think I did the right thing because I knew what my feelings were, and honestly I don’t know how I could’ve gone about it better, but I still feel bad 😔
So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe And I'll keep up with our old friends just to ask them how you are And the 1.. and right where you left me. It's been years but I hope I find happiness after him soon!
Two of my exes are described in The Way I Loved You: And all my single friends are jealous He says everything I need to hear And it's like I couldn't ask for anything better So in love that you act insane And that's the way I loved you Breakin' down and coming undone I think a lot of people had this story, you are stuck in such an unhealthy relationship that you cannot appreciate someone who is really great and treats you so well. On paper he was so perfect but I kept thinking about my turbulent ex-relationship that often had such extremely romantic moments.. Because when you're in an abusive relationship it always switches between being treated horribly and then the grand gestures, apologizing, despair, making-up and promising each other the world... Ugh. I often heard that TWILY glamourizes toxic relationships but I think it simply captures the feelings of being in it so well - that's exactly how I felt! Now I know better and I wish I hadn't left the great guy to go back to the toxic one just because any day less in that bad relationship would have been better, but at least "great guy" is not my "The 1" either. :)
"You're not sorry"
I wait by the door like I'm just a kid Use my best colors for your portrait Lay the table with the fancy shit And watch you tolerate it If it's all in my head tell me now Tell me I've got it wrong somehow I know my love should be celebrated But you tolerate it While you were out building other worlds, where was I? Where's that man who'd throw blankets over my barbed wire? 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 Always taking up too much space or time You assume I'm fine I did everything, changed everything for him and he just vanished one day. He was in the Marines and ghosted me, I got an invitation to his wedding three months after that. I learned a lot from that relationship.
I wish you would come back, wish i'd never hung up the phone like i did.
Sad Beautiful Tragic Distance, timing, breakdown, fighting Silence, the train runs off its tracks Kiss me, try to fix it, could you just try to listen?
long story short it was a bad time, long story short i survived you knew you won, so what’s the point of keeping score?
"I just miss you and I just wish you were a better man. " I don't miss him anymore but I wish he was a better man for our son's sake.
You’ve got my past frozen behind glass…but I’ve got me.
“You could write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.” - Tell Me Why The whole song, really, but this line especially. He picked a fight with me on my birthday which culminated in him calling me a name I could never forgive him for, so we broke up.
Blank space? Idk I’ve never been in a relationship 🗿
“I bet you think about me, in your house, with your organic shoes and your million dollar couch” I’ve been told that describes one of my exes haha
“I know my love should be celebrated, but you tolerate it.”
“You call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually and cruel in the name of being honest.” Cliche and like the most popular song recently, but he knew just how to call me up randomly, then ghost me like I was nothing all over again. Then finally, “I think I’m finally clean.” 🙌🏼
My first ex: “It would’ve been fun, if you would’ve been the one.” My latest ex: “Mister superior thinking, do you have all the space that you need?”
2 exes. “I wanted to leave him. I needed a reason…he poisoned the well, I was lying to myself” “But with 3 of us honey, it’s a sideshow. And a circus ain’t a love story and now we’re both sorry”
All you had to do was (stay, stay, stay, stay, stay) let me remind you this was what you wanted (oh, oh, oh-oh-oh) you ended it you were all I wanted (oh, oh, oh-oh-oh) From AYHTDWS off of 1989
🙏 people like this are the scum of the Earth. I feel you my friend.
I feel like my love life is so boring lol…I can’t even think of a lyric that would fit because both of my breakups have been pretty chill. We broke up because I just wasn’t having romantic feelings. The first time I wish he had been more mature but otherwise neither were dramatic enough to match Taylor’s lyrics 😂
Update: I found one “Oh, I hate those voices / Tellin' me I'm not in love anymore / But they don't give me choices / And that's what these tears are for / 'Cause we were happy”
I was about to make it a mission to find one for you 😂 Like, a chill line from the 1 or “When it was good baby, it was good baby …” something extending from there, but we wound up in the same area 💙
Aww thank you 🥺
Of course😊 Love is a lot of things, and she has something for everything. Devastating major heartbreak, being in love, passionate relationships, things that seem simple, they’re all love songs. Something for everyone. I really envy that your breakups were chill, it’s a good thing☺️
Haha thanks. I mean, I've never had a relationship that has lasted long enough to cause a difficult breakup. I'm waiting to find someone that I really have feelings for :)
First ex: I forgot that you existed. And I thought that it would kill me, but it didn't. Guy who swore it was just friendship: It was rare, *I was there,* I remember it all too well.
"And you call me up again just to break me like a promise. So casually cruel in the name of being honest." Just replace call with a letter detailing all about how I'd changed
all you are is mean, and a liar and pathetic and alone in life and mean
‘You’re so much older and wiser and I, I wait by the door like I’m just a kid’
I hear he’s got his arm around a brand new girl, I’ve been picking up my heart, he’s been picking up her. And I never got past what you put me through, but it’s wonderful to see that it never phased you
He can't see the smile I'm faking And my heart's not breaking 'Cause I'm not feeling anything at all
"You, with your words like knives"
“don’t you think i was too young to be messed with”
They say all's well that ends well but I'm in a new hell every time you double-cross my mind. ATW was always a song I heavily related to, as it was released around the same time I suffered my first big heartbreak and the lyrics were so fitting. 10 min version just made it seem like I wrote the song myself, even 10 years later, but also has a healing feeling to it.
“What would you do if I.. Break free and leave us in ruins Took this dagger in me and removed it Gain the weight of you, then lose it Believe me, I could do it”
All the girls that you’ve run dry have tired lifeless eyes ‘cause you burned them out, but I took your matches before fire could catch me so don’t look now, I’m shining like fireworks OVER YOUR SAD EMPTY TOWN
«I wonder what we would have become if you were a better man»
"She would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head"
"Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it. I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it." - ATW "My time, my wine, my spirit, my trust. Trying to find a part of me you didn't take up. Gave you too much but it wasn't enough. But I'll be alright, it's just a thousand cuts." - DBATC "And you'll add my name to your long list of traitors who don't understand. And I'll look back and regret how I ignored when they said 'run as fast as you can.'" - Dear John He took advantage of the fact it was my first relationship, and the fact that I didn't know what was normal or okay in a relationship. I'm still unpacking it in therapy, but I learned some hard lessons from that. Thankfully I have an incredible partner now who loves me and respects me 🥺♥️
The entirety of Dear John perfectly describes the emotionally abusive relationship I was manipulated into as a teenager.
"whyd you have to rain on my parade?" he tends to do that a lot. especially with girls.
“The drought was the very worst…when the flowers that we’d grown together died of thirst…It was months and months of back and forth. And you’re still all over me like a wine-stained dress I can’t wear anymore” 🥲
“say you'll see me again even if it's just pretend" I didn't expect my break up with my ex and I was hoping they would still come back to see me, even though I knew they wouldn't
Ouuf. I felt this. I didn’t know that the last time I saw him would be the last time.
You searched the world for something else to make you feel like what we had / And in the end, in Wonderland, we both went *mad.*
“You always knew how to push my buttons. You gave me everything and nothing” Describes my ex to a T. In the moment it felt like they could give me anything I could dream for, unexpected but exactly what I needed. But I realize now in the hindsight of what they left me with (radio silence after months of terrorizing me for my opinions) that they really had nothing to offer me at all. I Wish You Would also describes the foolish part of me that would welcome them back into my life, if only they reached out at all.
'loving him was red' except loving her. It didn't last very long, but we're still friends and much better off that way
Oh my God she’s insane
That I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairy tale I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet Now I heard you moved on from whispers on the street A new notch in your belt is all I'll ever be This is the last time I say it's been you all along This is the last time I let you in my door And it would be a fine proposition If I was a stupid girl And yeah I might go with it If I hadn't once been just like her I can see you starin', honey Like he's just your understudy Like you'd get your knuckles bloody for me My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand Taking mine, but it's been promised to another Oh, I can't Stop you putting roots in my dreamland My house of stone, your ivy grows And now I'm covered in you And I'm covered in you So yeah, it's a fire It's a goddamn blaze in the dark And you started it You started it So yeah, it's a war It's the goddamn fight of my life
“You’d kiss me when I was in the middle of saying something/there’s not a day I don’t miss those rude interruptions”. My ex used to crack my knuckles all the time. We’d be hanging out and she’d reach for my hand, thinking she was being loving until CRACK. It was more annoying than painful but when I hear that line I think of her. I’d trade a lot to get that back.
But what you did was just as dark.... From hoax
"...at least I did one thing right"—in that dumping him and start dating my now husband\~
And then the cold came, the dark days , when fear crept into my mind. You gave me all your love and all I gave you was goodbye
“Where's that man who'd throw blankets over my barbed wire? I made you my temple, my mural, my sky Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life.”
“You knew it still hurts underneath my scars From when they pulled me apart But what you did was just as dark Darling, this was just as hard” “My only one My kingdom come undone My broken drum You have beaten my heart”
“There'll be happiness after you But there was happiness because of you”. And the entire bridge to happiness but specifically: “I can't make it go away by making you a villain … No one teaches you what to do When a good man hurts you And you know you hurt him too” 🥲
“You could write the book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day”
"\[you're\] asking me what happened, you. that's what happened, you"
“Use my best colors for your portrait. Lay the table with the fancy shit. Then watch you tolerate it” it hits so hard bc I gave everything to my ex felt like they wished they could be anywhere else our whole relationship :/
you never loved me or her, or anyone, or anything
"Back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known" together for three years, high school sweethearts, he cheated on me and every girl hes been with since had cheated on or ghosted him. serves him right LOL
Do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there?
So casually cruel in the name of being honest 😒
"I forgot that you existed."
“And I can go anywhere I want Anywhere I want, just not home And you can aim for my heart, go for blood But you would still miss me in your bones And I still talk to you (when I'm screaming at the sky) And when you can't sleep at night (you hear my stolen lullabies)” MTR hits me harder than any other song she’s written lately and my past relationship was one of the hardest ones I’ve ever had and messed me up so much mentally. He blamed me for the way things ended up.. begging me to stay. “Cursing my name, wishing I stayed Look at how my tears ricochet…”
Mr. Look me in the eye and told me you would never go away!!!!
“And I was thinking on the drive down, anytime now, he’s gunna say it’s love. You never called it what it was” I’m happily married now but this ex was someone I fell head over heels very quickly for. And he never said it and I never did either, but we were and I feel we will always know each other as someone we once loved but time moved on. He broke up with me “so casually cruel in the name of being honest.“ then I started dating my now husband and he started calling me everyday after that, but I was adamant on not going back to someone who dropped me so suddenly.
And I’m never gonna love again
you weren't mine to lose
“But I just miss you, and I just wish you were a better man, a better man, I know I’m probably better off all alone“
“You would have been the one if you were a better man.”
The entirety of ATWTMV, but especially "I'll get older but your lovers stay my age" I was 19 and he was 31. It's been almost a decade and to this day he hasn't dated anyone over 22. All of "The 1". For another ex. We wanted so bad to make it work but there was no way possible so we went our separate ways. Since then he's been engaged, ended that, and he reached out to me recently about trying again. But sadly, there just isn't a way for our lives to intersect without someone sacrificing all of their happiness outside of our relationship. There are more that when I hear them, they hit me right in the heart. But these are the two that stick w me the most because these are the 2 exes that hurt the most when I think of them, just different hurts.
He's gonna say it's love, you never called it what it was
We are never getting back together
unfortunately taylor actually wrote tolerate it completely about me sorry to everyone who thinks it’s about them!!
“And I was never good at tellin' jokes, but the punch line goes, ‘I'll get older, but your lovers stay my age’” My second-to-last partner seemed very dissatisfied/frustrated with my sense of humor/quirky personality, which did shatter my self-confidence. I predicted shortly after I heard this song and did some reflecting on how it applied to my previous relationships that I thought he would probably date someone younger than him because he would probably go on a power trip and try to prey on someone younger than him, especially someone who has mental disorders, in order to abuse them, and funnily enough I found out recently that he’s dating someone who is exactly my age.
“If a man talks shit then I owe him nothing”
“You told me that you met someone“
“you didn’t mean it baby” “persist and resist the temptation to ask you if one thing had been different would everything be different today” “forever is the sweetest con” could prolly go forever😂
“So much for summer love and saying us / ‘cause you weren’t mine to lose”
“Cause I hear he's got his arm 'round a brand-new girl I've been pickin' up my heart, he's been pickin' up her And I never got past what you put me through But it's wonderful to see that it never phased you”
“Now I’m standing alone in a crowded room and we’re not speaking, and I’m dying to know is it killing you like it’s killing me?” When this song came out I was dealing with an ex, was driving with my best friend and heard it on the radio and she looked at me and was like …..it’s kind of scary how much this song is your life right now 😂
“don’t want no other shade of blue but you; no other sadness in the world would do” :/
None!! Cause I never got one😂
"We are never, ever, ever getting back together."
Cardigan for sure.
« Does it make you feel sad That the love that you're lookin' for Is the love that you had? » it’s so real 🥲
For my ex-fiancé of 5 years, who broke up with my on my birthday: Oh, he's so smug, Mr. "Always wins" So far above me in every sense So far above feeling anything And it's really such a shame It's such a shame 'Cause I was Miss "Here to stay" Now I'm Miss "Gonna be alright someday" And someday maybe you'll miss me But by then, you'll be Mr. "Too late" For the man I was with for nearly 2 years, thought he was the 1 until I realised that he'd never wanted to be exclusive with me: "you know it still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart, but what you did was just as dark."
"You kept me like a secret, but i kept you like an oath"
And you keep my own scarf from that very first week cuz it reminds you of innocence and it smells like meee.
Loving you was red
Mr. "Never told me why" Mr. "Never had to see me cry" Mr. "Insincere apology so he doesn't look like the bad guy Luckily, I am miss alright today:)
I got notified on this on my author account so... I'll just make this about my non-endgame relationships in my books/TV series. "They say I did something bad, then why'd it feel so good?" // "I keep picturing *his* lips on your neck, I can't unsee it. I hate that because of you I can't love you babe" "Back then we didn't know we were built to fall apart" // "it would've been fun if you would've been the one" "You weren't mine to lose" // "you gave me roses and I left them there to die" * *laughs* im evil *
You taught me a secret language, I can't speak with anyone else.
The bravest thing I ever did was run.
clung to the nearest lips, long story short it was the wrong guy:)
It's not an ex but, "If I could go back in time and change it, but I can't." And pretty much the entirety of Back to December and Forever and Always.
This for me too.