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Hoy duele, mañana dolerá menos y pasado mañana ya no dolerá más... 🥀
Dicen que el primer corazón roto, es solo eso...un corazón roto, que pasara y que volverás a ser la misma de antes, pero es mentira. Un corazón roto si duele y mucho, te duele en cada célula de tu cuerpo y alma, te duele hasta que el corazón palpita a mil por hora y sientes que vas a morir, duele hasta que las lágrimas se secan en tus mejillas, duele de una y mil maneras, pero duele. Un corazón roto llega para demostrarnos que somos fuertes y que podemos con esto y mucho más, porque vendrán muchos corazones rotos, miles más...pero la formula está en sabes sanar nuestro corazón, amarnos con locura a nosotros mismos y dejar ir el dolor y todo lo que nos hace daño, porque nadie muere de un corazón roto, y aunque lo sintamos así, resurgiremos como una mariposa en metamorfosis, reconstruyéndonos a nosotros mismos y siendo mejores. ❤️🩹
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State of Grace by Taylor Swift, a lyrical analysis
An intro
One of my favourite songs from Taylor!! I just love the line "So you were never a saint, and I loved in shades of wrong, we learn to live with the pain, mosaic broken hearts!" I like how the song sets the tone of Red with the lyric "Love is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right." This song is hopeful, and encapsulates the feeling of a new love, yet with a warning message.
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"Traffic lights" is an imagery that is used by Taylor throughout the album and also later on in Lover.
In Holy Ground, she writes "Took off faster then a green light, go!" and in All Too Well, "You almost ran the red cuz you were looking over at me."
Later on, in Death by a Thousand Cuts, she sings "I ask the traffic lights if it'll be alright and they said-
In DBATC, Taylor says that she looked to the traffic lights for reassurance, as a sign that everything was going to be alright.
In State of Grace, I believe that traffic lights set the scene for the song, especially with the strong drum beats as the introduction. It paints a fast-paced, electric scene of a city, perhaps reflecting upon her hectic lifestyle, further highlighted in "and all we know is touch and go."
"We are alone with our changing minds" also reflects upon the fickle nature of affection.
Taylor further reflects upon the fragile nature of love in "We fall in love till it hurts or bleeds or fades in time" which is a lyric parallel to Begin Again, ("...thinking all love ever does is break, burn and end").
In the chorus, she addresses the subject of the song, her lover at this instant. She reflects upon how their love has taken her by surprise and affected her in a way that she'll "never be the same".
The armour that she puts on after past forays into love drops when she is with this person. Their presence is so huge and electric that it seems that the room erupts, "like a cannonball".
Referring to "Up in your room and our slates are clean", "Slate" basically means blackboard, so to have clean slates could mean that their stories, narratives are rewritten and changed by each other.
"Just twin fire signs, four blue eyes" could mean that at the time, it seemed that they were compatible for each other due to the fact that they had so much so much in common, down to their horoscopes and eye colour. This probably gave her a sign that it could be something different from the past.
It also means that at that moment, nothing mattered to her more than that person--she was wholly absorbed by his presence.
MY FAVORITE VERSE!!!!!
In this verse, she acknowledges their flaws when it comes to love-all the grey areas and in-betweens. He was never the best when it comes to being a lover, and neither was she.
Their hearts had been broken before, as she sings in "Mosaic broken hearts"--Hearts that had been broken and shattered into pieces but pulled back together again to form a mosaic.
Yet, she and her lover "lives with the pain" and carry on with their love, diving into it fearlessly and recklessly.
And we come to the title of the song, "State of Grace" which refers to a state of goodness and peace. This is somehow in contrast with the next line "This is the worthwhile fight."
She often refers to love as a battle, as can be seen in her later song "The Great War" and "Afterglow". In the Great War, she sings about a conflict during a relationship, "I vowed I would always be yours if we survived the Great War" and in Afterglow, "Fighting with a true love is boxing with no gloves". (I've always found Afterglow and The Great War similar in terms of subject matter)
Additionally, in "I Wish You Would" she sings "I wish we could go back and remember what we were fighting for" she refers to love as being something that had to be fought for; it clearly wasn't something easy.
Yet, she refers to this challenge as "worthwhile" as it was something that she cherished and at the time wanted to last.
She also references some Greek mythology in the next few lines, "Hands of fate"--perhaps referring to the Fates?
The fates are 3 divinities in Greek Mythology representing the inescapable destiny of life. Interestingly, the concept of fate and destiny appears in her later song, "Invisible String"---"All along there was some invisible string tying you to me." (next mashup on the eras tour maybe? 👀)
She thinks of this love as something fated, supposed to happen to her. (Although this is juxtaposed by the line, "I never saw you coming") At the end of it, even though she was surprised at how he has affected her, she believes that their love is meant to be.
Another reference to events in Greek Mythology is "You're my achilles heel" --She refers to him as her weakness, a source of her vulnerability. This is also a callback to her previous lyric "You come around and the armour falls". She can be vulnerable when she's with him.
Interestingly, with the battle concept, having no armour and referring to him as her "achilles heel" makes her more susceptible to being wounded in the ruthless game of love.
Despite this, she is earnest in her belief that this love is "the golden age of something good and right and real".
This reflects upon the earnest hoping that a relationship (in its early stage) would last and become stronger. 🥹
I love Taylor's writing in this song, and how her later songs seem to reference this song. This really does set the tone for Red, in its vulnerable hope, clearly written to indicate the start of a relationship.
dISCLAIMER!
these are just my intepretations, not meant to be a portrayal of Taylor's personal life and feelings!
#mosaicbrokenhearts#youremyachillesheelllll#souwereneverasaint#ineversawyoucominggggggg#loveisaruthlessgame#taylor swift#ts#lyricsanalysis#justmysillythoughts#hermindomg#stateofgrace
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🗞 Headliners x State of Grace collaboration tee is now available in navy online and in store 🗞 : : 📰 sjheadliners.com 📰 : : #sanjose #japantown #japantownsj #sjheadliners #headliners #hlmonogram #hlpaperboy #paperboyproduct #paperboy #blocklife #200block #stateofgrace #stateofgracetattoo (at Headliners) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiStRQHrZVL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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ten songs + ten people
rules: put your music on shuffle and list the first ten songs that come up, then tag ten other people.
thank u for the tag @joelsversion !! xx
feel good inc. - gorillaz
where do we go - solange
psycho killer - talking heads
blackbird - nina simone
ROS - mac miller
belle bouteille - lausse the cat
da art of storytellin' - outkast
la murga - michael bibi
right down the line - gerry rafferty
oh to be in love - kate bush
that was..... a rollercoaster
npt (sorry if anyone has already been tagged!): @cool-iguana @tinygarbage @persephone-girl @dinsdjrn @nostalxgic @mrsquill @willowsvalley @beardedjoel @darkroastjoel @stateofgrac
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some favorite outfits from the #red era that also match the setlist from - state of grace - to: - stay stay stay -
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Me, preparing myself for November 12th, aka Red (Taylor's Version):
#red taylor's version#red tv#red tv era#taylorswift#november 12th 2021#pain#love#alltoowell#stateofgrace#themomentiknew#treacherous#22#foreverwinter#staystaystay#ikywt#holyground#beginagain
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This is the golden age of something good and right and real ❤
🎃 State of Grace
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Love is a ruthless game,
Unless you play it good and right,
These are the hands of fate,
You're my Achilles heel
“State of Grace” by taylor swift
#taylorswift#red#stateofgrace#red taylor’s version#lovequotes#autumm#darkacademia#lyricalgenius#songlyrics
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Not enough people are talking about how we are getting STATE OF GRACE RERECORDED... like I dunno about you but I'm not gonna SURVIVE THAT let alone THE WHOLE ALBUM PLUS NEW SONGS.
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FAVORITE RED LYRICS - PART V
#taylorswift#tswiftedit#redlyrics#redera#red#redalbum#theluckyone#everythinghaschanged#stateofgrace#treacherous#ed sheeran
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State of Grace - SUMMARY. (on Wattpad) https://my.w.tt/WSoB1fk8wcb Grace Blakely is perfectly content with her workaholic father and her witty best friend, Jake. Summer has just begun, and for the next few months she does't have to worry about senior year and college. As she slowly gets over her ex-boyfriend, Dylan, and comes to terms with her crush on Jake, reality rattles her again. Her father comes home with a woman she's never met.. A woman he plans on marrying.
Writing this book is half the reason I’ve been so MIA. Go check out the first three chapters now and let me know what you think!
#alive#arizona#grace#jake#lacrosse#party#romance#soccer#state#teenagers#teen-fiction#books#wattpad#amreading#welcometotheshipwreck#letsgetwrecked#stateofgrace#novel#workaholic
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state of grace essay
state of grace is the first track off taylor swift’s fourth studio album RED. state of grace was released on october 16, 2012 as a promotional single along with other songs like begin again and red. state of grace was the only song that didn’t later get released as a music video. the song was written by taylor swift and produced by nathan chapman and taylor swift. the song is different from all the other songs on RED as it is a mix of rock, alternative rock and arena rock. the song was produced at blackbird studios in nashville, tennessee. it is four minutes and fifty six seconds long making it the third longest song on red. state of grace was lucky to have a acoustic version on the red deluxe version. the acoustic version is far away from the original. instead of having high production it is a simple and slow song.
state of grace was written about taylor swift’s ex jake gyllenhaal. you can see this in the lyric “twin fire signs and four blue eyes”. jake and taylor are both sagittarius making them both fire signs. they also both have blue eyes. taylor swift describes the song as the feeling when you first fall in love with someone in a epic way. jake and taylor meet unexpectedly this is seen in the lyric “and i never saw you coming/and i’ll never be the same. this love in the beginning according to taylor is “brave and wild”. but it doesn’t last for long as the song progresses the love is described as “loved in the shades of wrong” which is unfortunate but luckily taylor has found her life long partner joe alwyn.
now you might be wondering why i love the song state of grace so much. well first of all vocals. there are a number of high notes in this song and taylor manages to nail each and one of them in the studio version and live. second it’s such a great album opener. the album RED is about love and what better way to start an album about love than state of grace! it describes when you fall in love with someone as shown above. third it’s relatable. admit it you’ve fallen in love with someone before. if you decided to take the next step is another conversation. but this song describes when you first fall in love with someone which is relatable. lastly this song is a lyrical masterpiece. the lyrics I listed before are just some of the amazing lyrics in this song. take for example “we learn to live with the pain, mosaic broken hearts” this line has so many meanings in one!! “ this is the golden age of something good and right and real” that in my opinion is the best way to end a song. i could go on and on about how much i love state of grace but that would be too read!
hope you understand why it’s my stan song hopefully learned some facts about he song too!
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Red tour ❤️ This is one of my earlier drawings, but I thought it would be worthwhile to post to see my improvement from then vs now. I think that this quote is also very important because it inspires you to be yourself and to not let others’ judgement affect you!(the quote is from the 1989 clean speeches) What is your favourite song on red? #taylorswift #redtaylorswift #redtour #cleanspeech #stateofgrace #everythinghaschanged #22 #ikywt #wanegbt #swiftie #swifties #taylortoldthetruth #taylorlurking #istandwithtaylor #maketaylornumberone @taylorswift @taylornation https://www.instagram.com/p/B-hlvxXhhnf/?igshid=147ms3ne0ixrl
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Happy Father’s Day to this loving and supportive father!! I hope every one of you enjoyed today. My heart is with everyone who has lost their fathers, who has never known them, who have lost a relationship with them, and those who know their fathers or paternal figures but wish they didn’t. #taylorswift #taylornation #taylurking #jaylor #joealwyn #red #redera #redalbum #stateofgrace #redsong #redtaylorswift #treacherous #iknewyouweretrouble #ikywt #alltoowell #22 #ialmostdo #wanegbt #weareneverevergettingbacktogether #staystaystay #thelasttime #holyground #sadbeautifultragic #theluckyone #everythinghaschanged #edsheeran #starlight #beginagain #taylorswiftedit #taylorswiftedits https://www.instagram.com/p/CBuVHZUn3gp/?igshid=12f9trs1q20tp
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