WERE YOU SENT BY SOMEONE 🚶♂️WHO WANTED ME DEAD 😵 DID YOU SLEEP 💤 WITH A GUN 🔫 UNDERNEATH OUR BED 🛌 WERE YOU WRITING ✍️ A BOOK 📖 WERE YOU A SLEEPER CELL 🧫 SPY 🕵️♂️ IN FIFTY 5️⃣0️⃣ YEARS WILL ALL THIS BE DECLASSIFIED🔎 AND YOU’LL CONFESS WHY 🤷♂️ YOU DID IT AND I’LL SAY 🗣️ GOOD RIDDANCE 👋 ‘CAUSE IT WASN’T SEXY 🫦 ONCE IT WASN’T FORBIDDEN 🚫 I WOULD’VE DIED 🥀 FOR YOUR SINS ☦️ INSTEAD I JUST DIED INSIDE 😫 AND YOU 🫵 DESERVE PRISON 🚔 BUT YOU WON’T GET TIME ⏰ YOU’LL SLIDE INTO INBOXES 📥 AND SLIP THROUGH THE BARS 🍻 YOU CRASHED 💥 MY PARTY 🥳 AND YOUR RENTAL CAR 🚗 YOU SAID NORMAL GIRLS 👩 WERE BORING 👎 BUT YOU WERE GONE BY THE MORNING 🌅 YOU KICKED 🦵 OUT THE STAGE LIGHTS 💡 BUT YOU’RE STILL PERFORMING 🎙️ and in plain sight you hid 🫣 but you are what you did 🖕 and i’ll forget you 💭 but i’ll never forgive the smallest 🤏 man 🧍♂️ who ever lived 🧬
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one thing about this album that I adore is how there are so many words that you don't really see that often in it. I've said it before about the references like I could talk forever about the things Taylor has so casually mentioned over the course of her career that have so many different meanings and connotations. so I decided to list most of the ones that have really stuck with me through the album (just ttpd for now BC I've spent all day on these). Please add anything you think of (comments/analysis/ramblings/rants) because I know I want to fully grasp this album and all of y'all are so cool
your quiet treason - FRTNT ← speechless
Queen of sandcastles - My Boy
litany - My Boy ← (a tedious recital / a long list of unpleasant things)
heavenstruck - DB ← what a word
the entire extraterrestrial metaphor - the layers... I'm tearing up {it's the onions}
fairy lights through the mist - SLL
up the hill - SLL ← Jack&Jill vibes
the gods of your bluest days - SLL
two graves, one gun ... you'll find someone - SLL ← the Romeo&Juliet effect I fear
how the west was won - But Daddy, ← world war reference... the great war by Taylor Swift {who said that?! what!?}
too high a horse... to rise above it - But Daddy,
precocious - But Daddy, ← (having developed certain abilities or inclinations at an earlier age than expected)
screeching tires and true love - But Daddy, ← are we out of the woods yet? in a Chevy truck that had a tendency of getting stuck
sanctimoniously performing soliloquies - But Daddy, ← giving baby's first shakespeare. first time I've seen that word in the plural
rolling thunder - Slammer ← storm coming, good husband or whatever taylor swift said
girl of his American Dreams - Slammer ← misssamericana+theheart breakprince?? OKAY!!
Is that a bad thing to say in a song? - Florida!!! ← break the fourth wall I dare you
throwing my life to the wolves or the ocean rocks - guilty as sin? ← there's only one way the media stops shitting on you. smth smth in death all sins are absolved
paradox - guilty as sin? ← (a contradictory statement which may prove to be true.)
trysts - guilty as sin? ← (a private romantic rendezvous between lovers)
keep these longings lockеd in lowercase - guilty as sin?
what if I roll the stone away? they're going to crucify me anyway - guilty as sin? ← as a recovering catholic I adore religious imagery. shoutout to Mary Magdalene
the who's who of who's that - who's afraid? ← feels like a song I've been listening to forever
like a record scratch - who's afraid? ← new romantics you will always be famous
is it a wonder I broke? let's hear one more joke - who's afraid? ← the name of a pain ive always felt
we took out all her teeth - who's afraid? ← in the immortal words of conan gray you're killing me
Put narcotics into all of my songs - who's afraid? ← so reallll
the gallows - who's afraid? ← a return to the familiar witchy imagery
waltzing back into rekindled flames - loml ← waltzing is a really interesting word choice here especially with out of the oven into the microwave in the prologue
you Holy Ghost - loml ← again the imagery
you blew in with the winds of fate - loml ← an invisible string, the planets and the fates {tying you to meeee} and all yhe stars aligned
impressionist paintings of heaven turned out to be fakes - loml ← {I'll fall for the con everytime}
you cinephile in black and white - loml ← {I'd watch it play out on a silent film again and again}
field of dreams engulfed in fire, your arsons match your somber eyes - loml ← this is poetry
pieces of me shattered as the crowd was chanting more - icdiwabh ← every mirror lyric fits somewhere here
try and come for my job - icdiwabh ← it's yours queen👑 I'm good
your Jehovah's Witness suit - the smallest man ← this is soo funny
rusting my sparkling summer - smallest man ← the rust that grew between telephones
a sleeper cell spy - smllst man ← such an out of pocket reference I adore
the entire second half of the bridge is soo beautiful ❤️ - smlst man
I'll forget you, but I'll never forgive - smlst mn ← killer line
The crown is stained, but you're the real queen - Clara Bow ← this entire song is smth else
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she almost drowned when she was six in frigid water
started with a kiss oh we must stop meeting like this / you made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
all her fucking lives flashed before her eyes it feels like the time when she fell through the ice / you say we’ll never make my parents mistakes
there’s escape in escaping / wondering why we bother with love if it never lasts
that’s when she sees the littlest leaks, just knows she must bolt / i was a flight risk with the fear of falling
ended with a slam of the door / that fight 2:30am, i ran out crying
as she was leaving / goodbye, that’s all i’ve ever known
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