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#also Morgana's 'you gotta do what's right and damn the consequences'
icharchivist · 7 months
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god Merlin 1x04 is still peak. Merlin drinking poison instead of Arthur to save his life. Arthur disobeying his father to look for a cure no matter what. Merlin spending his whole suffering, dying, mumbling Arthur's name in his sleep begging for him to come back lest he falls into a trap. Arthur refusing to give up. Merlin casting magic to save Arthur and lead him away from the cure to save him instead. Arthur refusing to listen and endangering himself for the cure still. Arthur smuggling and hiding the cure, begging his father to give Merlin the cure even if Arthur had to be locked away for months as long as saving Merlin was possible. Arthur still smuggling the cure back to Merlin at all cost. episode 1x04 my beloved.
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For @quoderospero: You asked for this
Under the cut is my full list of Taylor Swift lyrics that hurt me and make me think of Merthur mostly, but also other characters. Enjoy and feel pain with me!
Also tagging @violetchachkii in case you get bored and ever want to hurt me with gifsets :)
Don’t Blame Me: 
“For you, I would fall from grace, just to touch your face”
Breathe: Honestly, this whole song is just Merlin directly after 5x13
“Now I don’t know what to be without you around”
“I can’t breathe without you, but I have to”
“Never wanted this, never want to see you hurt. Every little bump in the road I tried to swerve.”
“Nothing we say is gonna save us from the fallout”
King of My Heart:
“And all at once you are the one I have been waiting for, king of my heart, body and soul”
Last Kiss: a lot of this doesn’t fit lyrically, but the general feeling is very post 5x13
“Never imagine we’d end like this. Your name, forever the name on my lips”
“The life of the party, you’re showing off again, and I roll my eyes, and you pull me in”
The Story of Us: 
“So many things that I wish you knew. So many walls up I can’t break through”
“I used to know my place was the spot next to you”
If This Was A Movie:
“Six months gone and I’m still reaching, even though I know you’re not there”
“Come back, come back, come back to me like you would, you would, if this was a movie”
“If you’re out there, if you’re somewhere, if you’re moving on. I”ll be waiting for you, wary since you’ve been gone”
“But if this was a movie you’d be here by now”
The Other Side of the Door:
“I said leave, but all I really want is you”
“And don’t you leave, cause I know all I need is on the other side of the door”
“I can’t even look at you, I don’t need you but I do, I do, I do”
Mine:
“You are the best thing that’s ever been mine”
Treacherous:
“Put your lips close to mine, as long as they don’t touch. Out of focus, eye to eye, til the gravity’s too much. And I’ll do anything you say, if you say it with your hands. And I’d be smart to walk away, but you’re quicksand.”
“I can’t decide if it’s a choice, getting swept away. I hear the sound of my own voice, asking you to stay. And all we are is skin and bone, trained to get along. Forever going with the flow, but you’re friction.”
This Love: Actually, fuck this song because it’s gonna make me cry. Literally post 5x13 until Arthur comes back
“Clear blue water, high tide, came and brought you in...current swept you out again, and you were just gone and gone, gone and gone.”
“In silent screams, in wildest dreams, I never dreamed of this.”
“Your smile, my ghost, I fell to my knees”
“These hands had to let it go free and this love came back to me”
Stay Beautiful:
“If you and I are a story that never gets told, if what you are is a daydream I never get to hold, at least you’ll know.”
You Belong With Me:
“Been here all along so why can’t you see you belong with me?”
Sad, Beautiful, Tragic:
“Words, how little they mean, when you’re a little too late”
“In dreams I meet you in warm conversation. And time is taking its sweet time erasing you”
FIfteen: This is Merlin arriving in Camelot
“Count to ten, take it in, this is life before you know who you’re gonna be”
Superman: This song is more Arthur as a character and Arthur/Gwen as a ship
“He’s got his mother’s eyes, his father’s ambition”
State of Grace: 
“And I never saw you coming. And I’ll never be the same”
“These are the hands of fate, you’re my Achilles heel, this is the golden age of something good and right and real”
New Year’s Day:
“Don’t read the last page, but I stay when you’re lost and I’m scared and you’re turning away”
“Hold on to the memories they will hold on to you”
Delicate:
“I pretend you’re mine all the damn time”
Superstar:
“I’m no one special just another wide eyed [boy] who’s desperately in love with you”
“You smile that beautiful smile and all the girls in the front row scream your name”
I Did Something Bad: This whole song is Morgana but here’s the highlight
“If a man talks shit than I owe him nothing. I don’t regret it one bit cause he had it coming.”
I’m Only Me When I’m With You: Once again, basically the whole song
“And sometimes we don’t say a thing, just listen to the crickets sing. Everything I need is right here by my side.”
“And I know everything about you, I don’t wanna live without you”
“Well you drive me crazy half the time, the other half I’m only trying to let you know what is and isn’t true. And I’m only me when I’m with you.”
“When I’m with anybody else, it’s so hard to be myself and only you can tell”
Everything Has Changed:
“Cause all I know is we said hello, and your eyes look like coming home. All I know is a simple thing, everything has changed.”
“Come back and tell me why I’m feeling like I missed you all this time”
“You’ll be mine and I’ll be yours all I know since yesterday is everything has changed”
A Place in This World: Again, Merlin in Episode 1
“I don’t know what I want, so don’t ask me, cause I’m still trying to figure it out. Don’t know what’s down this road, I’m just walking”
Look What You Made Me Do: Whole song is Morgana
“The role you made me play of the fool, no I don’t like you.”
“But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time.”
“Maybe I got mine, but you’ll all get yours.”
Come Back, Be Here:
“And this is when the feeling sinks in, I don’t want to miss you like this. Come back, be here.”
“If I had known what I know now, I never would have played so nonchalant”
“This is falling in love in the cruelest way. This is falling for you when you are worlds away”
“I can’t help but wish you took me with you”
Change:
“But I believe in whatever you do, and I’ll do anything to see it through.”
“It was the night things changed, can you feel it now? The walls that they put up to hold us back fell down”
Holy Ground:
“And right there where we stood was holy ground”
“And sometimes I wonder how you’d think about it now, and I see your face in every crowd”
I Know Places:
“And I know for you, it’s always me”
“And I know for me, it’s always you”
Haunted:
“Come on, come on, don’t leave me like this...something’s gone terribly wrong you’re all I wanted”
Call it What you Want:
“Bridges burn, I never learn, at least I did one thing right”
Gorgeous:
“You should think about the consequence of your magnetic field being a little too strong”
“You should take it as a compliment that I got drunk and made fun of the way you talk”
Long Live: Strap in folks, this is another one that almost made me cry
“It was the end of a decade, but the start of an age.”
“All the kingdom lights shined just for me and you”
“I was screaming long live all the magic we made”
“One day we will be remembered”
“Long live all the mountains we moved, I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you”
“Can you take a moment-promise me this. That you’ll stand by me forever, but if God forbid fate should step in. And force us into a goodbye-if you have children someday-when they point to the pictures, please tell them my name?”
Innocent:
“Who you are is not what you did”
“You wouldn’t be shattered on the floor now, if only had seen what you know now then”
Today Was a Fairytale 
“You’ve got a smile that takes me to another planet”
“All that I can say is now it’s getting so much clearer. Nothing made sense till the time I saw your face.”
Dress:
“There is an indentation in the shape of you. Made your mark on me a golden tattoo”
“My hands are shaking from holding back from you”
“I don’t want you like a best friend”
“All of this silence and patience, pining and anticipation”
“Even in my worst times you could see the best of me”
Dancing With Our Hands Tied:
“I loved you in spite of deep fears that the world would divide us”
“Oh, cause it’s gravity keeping you with me”
“I’d kiss you as the lights went out, swaying as the room burned down”
Fearless:
“And I don’t know how it gets better than this, you take my hand and drag me headfirst, fearless”
Out of the Woods: 
“We were built to fall apart, then fall back together”
Sparks Fly:
“I’m on my guard for the rest of the world but with you, I know it’s no good.”
Tied Together With a Smile: Arthur and Merlin at alternate points in the series
“And you cry, but you don’t tell anyone, that you might not be the golden one”
“I guess it’s true that love was all you wanted, cause you’re giving it away like it’s extra change.”
Cold As You:
“You put up walls and paint them all a shade of gray. And I stood there loving you and wished them all away.”
I Wish You Would
“I wish you knew that, I’d never forget you as long as I live.”
Come in With the Rain: Merlin post 5x13
“I’ll leave my window open cause I’m too tired at night to call your name. Just know I’m right here hoping that you’ll come in with the rain.”
White Horse: post 5x13
“I had so many dreams about you and me, happy endings, now I know.”
Ours: Honestly, the whole song
“If you were here we’d laugh about their vacant stares, but right now, my time is theirs.”
“People throw rocks at things that shine and life makes love look hard”
Red: Another one that hit me like a mack truck
“Loving him is like trying to change your mind once you’re already flying through the free fall”
“Losing him was blue like I’ve never known, missing him was dark gray all alone. Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met. But loving him was red.”
“Remembering him comes in flashbacks and echoes, tell myself it’s time now, gotta let go, but moving on from him is impossible when I still see it all in my head, burning red.”
Stay, Stay, Stay: The tone of the song is very them
“All those times that you didn’t leave, it’s been occurring to me I’d like to hang out with you for my whole life.”
Enchanted:
“The playful conversation starts, counter all your quick remarks like passing notes in secrecy”
“All I can say is I was enchanted to meet you”
“Please don’t be in love with someone else, please don’t have somebody waiting on you”
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If you made it through this, you deserve a prize but I hope you enjoyed!
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