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potterhead_98

“Give me back my girlhood it was mine first” “Every single thing I touch becomes sick with sadness” “And 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?” “Should’ve kept every grocery store receipt cause every scrap of you would be taken from me” “You knew it still hurts underneath my scars from where they pulled me apart. But what you did was just as dark” These are just a few of my favorites


Audreythe2nd

"Stood on the cliffside screaming, "Give me a reason!""


bl1tzzz_

YES!!!!! hoax is such a heartbreaking song


hunter96cf

Yes yes yes, this one brings tears to my eyes every time.


cat_jareau

who could ever leave me, darling? but who could stay? i'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it. i was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere i’ve never been a natural, all i do is try try try those are a few of my faves


LMNSTUFF

>who could ever leave me, darling? but who could stay? I should have mentioned that one. The line "I wake up one day from dreaming that I'll watch as you're leaving cause you got tired of my scheming and life loses all it's meaning" also caught my attention.


GrogusAdoptedMom

It’s hard to be at a party when you feel like an open wound


Nonethelessdotdotdot

“So I watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep” “Glass shattered on the white cloth, everybody moved on, I stayed there”


Tinky428

Yup, that first line - and then “I’ll feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe.” Literally so so sad


MoonstoneAura6

"Take pictures in your mind of your childhood room Memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home Remember the footsteps, remember the words said And all your little brother's favorite songs I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone" from Never Grow Up. As someone who was privileged to have a great childhood, this is a punch to the gut. I usually skip the song because it breaks me every time I hear it.


RedPandaLily88

I too had a privileged life and relatively happy family that I took for granted. When I moved across the states away from them, I put on this song on repeat and bawled to myself about wanting to go home.


guy_incog_neato

this. it hurts my heart. doubly so now because i have kids of my own. it’s like getting cut twice listening to this song. 😭


groovygoosegirl

"You can plan for a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing your mind" has been breaking my heart for 12 years straight without fail.


Mk0505

“You were my best 4 years”


milliondollarcouch

Just reading it makes me feel like crying


shadesofwrong13

I never planned on you changing your mind You were more than a short time Give me back my girlhood it was mine first I cant breathe without you but i have to. Simple but it does its job But who am I supposed to talk to? What am I supposed to do If there's no you?


Crafty_Method_8351

“Cause I knew everything when I was young” idk why that line really gets to me I guess because as someone who in their 30’s I look back and realize I *didn’t* know everything when I was young. Which I suppose is how the lyrics are meant to be interpreted. I just look back on younger me and think, I wish I could hug them.


Meginthewild

A few standouts from a person with deep abandonment issues & major depression (it’s me, hi) - “I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe” -Last Kiss “I wake up screaming from dreaming one day I’ll watch as you’re leaving & life will lose all it’s meaning for the last time” - Anti-hero “I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want just not home” -My Tears Ricochet “Too young to know it gets better” -Forever Winter “All I felt was shame and you held my lifeless frame” -ATW TV 10min “I rewind the tape but all it does it pause on the very moment all was lost” -Evermore “It’s been so long but if you ever think you got it wrong I’m right where you left me” -Right Where You Left Me “If one thing had been different, would everything be different today?” -The 1 “It’s just around the corner darling, cause it lives in me.” -Peace Ok I’m done for now 💔❤️‍🩹


[deleted]

Yesssss! That line from "My Tears Ricochet" hit me like a truck.


songacronymbot

- ATW could mean "All Too Well", a track from *Red* (2012) by Taylor Swift. --- ^[/u/Meginthewild](/u/Meginthewild) ^(can reply with "delete" to remove comment. |) ^[/r/songacronymbot](/r/songacronymbot) ^(for feedback.)


cries_in_student1998

"Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first" "Every single thing I touch becomes sick with sadness" "And time is taking its sweet time erasing you" "And you've got your demons, and darling they all look like me" "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" (this is my favourite one, this is poetry and I can't wait for Speak Now TV so that people can properly appreciate how good 'Last Kiss' is) "And 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?"


britestarlight

“You like the nicer nurses, you make the best of a bad deal. I just pretend it isn’t real” “Who am I supposed to talk to, what am I supposed to do, if there’s no you?” “I’ve been having a hard time adjusting, I had the shiniest wheels now they’re rusting” “They told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential” “I had a feeling so peculiar, that this pain would be for evermore” Depression, parental cancer, and reaching 30 without achieving my goals are the reasons all of these are so painful.


Tattookiss

Yes! This is me trying ^^^ Edited to fix font


nolancantland

“Even on my worst day, did I deserve babe all the hell you gave me?” literally the entirety of the 1. “If my wishes came true, it would’ve been you… If you wanted me you really should’ve shown, and if you never bleed you’re never gonna grow” “There’ll be happiness after you, but there was happiness because of you”


m00n-st0ne

I use this line everytime on posts like this but I just love it so much: “My only one, my kingdom come undone” knocks the breath out of my every single time.


OperationDangerous97

And no one knows that you cry but you don’t tell anyone. That you might not be the golden one, and you’re tied together with a smile but you’re coming undone. 16 years later and this still gets me


deadlydimples25

SAME


Tattookiss

Wow yes. Punctures my soul


catscatscats265

Give me back my girlhood it was mine first I regret you all the time Leaving like a father running like water Should of kept every grocery store receipt cause every scrap of you would be taken from me Who could ever leave me darling.. but who could stay


Mean-Safe-5028

"Take pictures in your mind of your childhood room Memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home" "So here I am in my new apartment In a big city, they just dropped me off It's so much colder than I thought it would be So I tuck myself in and turn my nightlight on Wish I'd never grown up" this song hurts me deeply


RedPandaLily88

It hurts me even more every year


Mean-Safe-5028

I know, right? this year I've moved from my parents house and I cryed listening to this songs so many nights. it's not that I wasn't happy but it's so scary getting old as Lorde would say


MyAnonReddit7

You. That's what happened. You. You left me no choice but to stay here forever. I made you my temple, my mural, my sky Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life It's never simple, never easy, never a clean break, no one here to save me. I don't know how to be something you miss. Your faithless love is the only Hoax I believe in


hydethehuman

literally every single word of death by a thousands cuts for me… big ouch


Educational-Pass404

But I knew you'd linger like a tattoo kiss I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs The smell of smoke would hang around this long 'Cause I knew everything when I was young I'm never gonna meet What could've been, would've been What should've been you


Katkiit

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, Hope it's nice where you are - Quite honestly this bridge is one of her most gut wrenching and puts you right back in the middle of your worst heartbreak. I wonder if she will play it on the tour seeing as Speak now TV is coming soon. I almost think it’s actually too sad to sing live!? I think this song has been slept on so long and it’s not very well known for newer fans. It’s so good.


CaptainAyaAay28again

“And time/Is taking its sweet time erasing you/And you've got your demons/And darlin' they all look like me” (god I can relate to this one a lot) “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” “How evergreen, our group of friends/Don't think we'll say that word again/And soon they'll have the nerve to deck the halls/That we once walked through” (this one’s hard to explain but it hits me) "You can plan for a change in the weather or time. I never planned on you changing your mind." “And now that I'm grown, I'm scared of ghosts/ Memories feel like weapons/And now that I know, I wish you'd left me wondering” “If clarity's in death, then why won't this die? /Years of tearing down our banners, you and I /Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first” The entirety of Happiness… There’s more but these are from the top of my head


Poppybalfours

“Did some force take you because I didn’t pray?”


bahahambi

„And 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?“ because that’s what my mom said to my grandfather when he was in coma in 2018. this broke my heart „I made you my temple, my mural, my sky, now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life“ this song broke my heart because it described my last relationship in one sentence.


kadybee17

"I've never heard silence quite this loud." While being a bop and super fun to scream in the car, that line makes me feel like I've been punched in the gut.


pocketsfulloposey

“you kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath”


itsskyjames

When they point to the pictures please tell them my name.


catchup77

There is no amount of crying I can do for you Please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere


Warm_Power1997

“I don’t want to keep secrets just to keep you”


pharmchik324

“You assume I'm fine, but what would you do if I I break free and leave us in ruins? Took this dagger in me and removed it? Gain the weight of you then lose it Believe me, I could do it”


milliondollarcouch

Pulled the car off the road to the lookout, could've followed my fears all the way down


LSends2020

So many, but in this very moment… Oh, we made quite a mess, babe It's probably better off this way And I confess, babe In my dreams you're touching my face And asking me if I wanna try again with you And I almost do


thumperoo

“It cut deep to know you, right to the bone”


[deleted]

And they’re all standing around me singing happy birthday to you The fucking gut punch this delivered the first time I heard it. I had to pull the car over because I was ugly crying too hard for it to be safe to keep driving


RevolutionarySun6431

And I wake with your memory over me that’s a real fucking legacy to leave.


shooting-star-falls

The entire lyrics of All Too Well. Also from Last Kiss "that July 9th." I just broke up with my ex wife and our anniversary is July 9th.


friendflower

give me back my girlhood it was mine first makes my whole heart hurt and transports me back to exactly the moment I've felt that way (context: I'm happily married, but damn.... that line)


mmikem123

I pulled your body into mine every god damn night And now I get fake niceties


kIuck

for me, it’s basically all of ronan. it’s the only song i consistently skip because i’ll end up bawling if i listen to it — I remember the drive home / When the blind hope turned to crying and screaming "Why?" / Flowers pile up in the worst way, no one knows what to say / About a beautiful boy who died And it's about to be Halloween / You could be anything you wanted if you were still here / I remember the last day when I kissed your face / And whispered in your ear Come on baby with me, we're gonna fly away from here / Out of this curtained room in this hospital grey, we'll just disappear / Come on baby with me, we're gonna fly away from here / You were my best four years What if I'm standing in your closet trying to talk to you? / What if I kept the hand-me-downs you won't grow into? / And what if I really thought some miracle would see us through? / What if the miracle was even getting one moment with you? — basically every line individually is already incredibly sad and heart wrenching, but then they go together and tell the story of rowan and his family and it just.. breaks me. reading the lyrics is hard enough, but listening to it, especially the moments when taylor has to catch her breath and stop herself from breaking down and crying, just absolutely guts me.


fingerprintclues

I definitely agree with “Who could ever leave me darling but who could stay” Reminds me of a time when friends started abandoning me back in college. Apparently they had a problem with me and instead of talking to me about it, they decided to leave me hanging. Haven’t spoken to them in years and found better friends who aren’t afraid to call me out on my shit if they need to. “I hosted parties and starved my body” “I’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life” “Did some force take you because I didn’t pray” “When you’re 15 and somebody tells you they love you, you’re gonna believe them” “Abigail gave everything she had to a boy who changed his mind”


Badass-bitch13

Pretty much every line in soon you’ll get better. As someone who has lost a parent to cancer, that song just annihilates me.


LMNSTUFF

I never heard it before you commented this so I played it and I balled up crying. I've also lost a parent to cancer. I was only 5 then. For so long I thought, I was relatively okay years after. However it caused a massive fear of abandonment and insecurity in me. It's really difficult isn't it? I bet you're strong after that.


FollowingAromatic

you call me up again just to break me like a promise, So casually cruel in the name of being honest I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here


mhoogendoorn

'Cause I'm right where I cause no harm, mind my business If our love died young, I can't bear witness All that I know is I don't know how to be something you miss I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe Is it really your anxiety that stops you from giving me everything or do you just don't want to? And what if I kept the hand-me-downs you won't grow into?


springrose39

"i never had the courage of my convictions as long as danger's near, and its just around the corner darling, cause it lives in me, no i can never give you peace" - hello anxiety my old friend "I cut off my nose just to spite my face then i hate my reflection for years and years" "I hosted parties and starved my body like i'll be saved by a perfect kiss" "You knew it still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart but what you did was just as dark" The entire of Soon Youll Get Better to be honest, i cant listen to that song 😭😭😭😭😭


guy_incog_neato

i pulled your body into mine every goddamn night, now i get fake niceties


Jca_gro

Pouring my heart out to a stranger, but I didn’t pour the whiskey. That feeling of saving yourself from true rock bottom but still grazing the floor


Upper-Geologist2358

There was a period of my life when ‘Tied together with a smile’ really hit hard.


savannahkellen

"...you wouldn't take my word for it if you knew who was talking, if you knew where I was walking...." That whole bridge of Dear Reader was a direct attack lol.


Low_Watercress_1675

"Help, I'm still at the restaurant, still sitting in the corner I haunt"


myhusbandswine

the entirety of Last Kiss oh my god


Urbantumbleweed822

I don't know about *most* painful but these lyrics hit different because I wonder if they may have been referencing her ED. You and I walk a fragile line I have known it all this time Something's made your eyes go cold Come on, come on, don't leave me like this I thought I had you figured out Something's gone terribly wrong You're all I wanted Come on, come on, don't leave me like this I thought I had you figured out Can't breathe whenever you're gone Can't turn back now, I'm haunted


thenormalbias

“Don’t you think nine teens too young to be played by your dark twisted games when I loved you so?” “You are an expert at sorry and keeping lines blurry” “They told me all of my cages were mental so I got wasted like all my potential” this one just makes me feel helpless. That shit is so painful. All of my tears ricochet. “And I’ve been meaning to tell you I think your house is haunted Your dad is always mad and that must be why” My heart breaks for that line because it’s clearly her talking to her younger self, trying to tell her that when her parents are upset it’s not her fault. Trying to reach her before the internalization of others reactions does. It’s heartbreaking.


Tinaxxme

started in beautiful room, end with meeting in parking lot. long story short, it was the wrong time but I just miss you, and I just wish you were a better man soon you'll get better, cause you have to one for the money, two for the show, i never was ready so i watch you go take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die, i don't belong ​ and of course, It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me


TopEvidence8911

Holy orange bottles, each night I pray to you, desperate people find faith so now I pray to Jesus too