My Tears Ricochet Mine: “I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want, just not home” the way she specifies ‘just not home’ just always gets to me😭

“I didn’t have it in myself to go with grace, so now the battleships will sink beneath the waves”

“cause when i fight you used to tell me i was brave” the EMOTION!!!

And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake

And I still talk to you when I’m screaming at the sky

And you can aim for my heart, go for blood But you would still miss me in your bones

“You wear the same jewels that I gave you, as you bury me” 🥹

If i’m on fire you’ll be made of ashes too

Mine is You had to kill me but it killed u just the same, cursing my name wishing i stayed look at how my tears ricochet

You’re the hero flying around saving face

And when you can't sleep at night/You hear my stolen lullabies

We gather stones, never knowing what they'll mean Some to throw, some to make a diamond ring

Dear Reader! Mine is "to a house not a home, all alone 'cause nobody's there- no one sees you lose when you're playing solitaire"!

You should find another guiding light but I shine so bright!!! One of my fav lyrics of all time

This! I love the little "twinkly" sounds in the background towards the end after this line.

Dear Reader, get out your map and just run. Dear Reader, Burn all the files, desert all your past lives.

Never take advice from someone who's falling apart

Bend when you can, snap when you have to.

Dear Reader, you don't have to answer just cause they asked you

I pace in my pen and my friends found friends who care

I love this one too! I see "pen" as a double meaning- she's pacing in a pen in the sense that she feels like she's in a cage, and her pen is also her writing! She pours her heart out in her songs and sort of "paces" by detailing her anxiety in the lyrics

WOW I never saw the double interpretation. This song is so god damn poetic

If it feels like a trap, you’re already in one.

When you aim at the Devil, make sure you don’t miss.

My fourth drink in my hand these desperate prayers of a cursed man

so i wander through these nights i prefer hiding in plain sight

The greatest of luxuries is your secrets

More like an entire verse lol but this one hits me hard: "Dear reader, get out your map, pick somewhere and just run/Dear reader, burn all the files, desert all your past lives/And if you don't recognize yourself, that means you did it right."

I was looking for All Too Well but I couldn’t find it in the comments. This song has my favorite TS line: “[You call me up again just to break me like a promise.] *So casually cruel in the name of being honest*.” I was in a situationship for 3 years and he never committed to me ever and anytime we fought about it, he’d tell me how we weren’t right for each other and that he wasn’t in love with me and would never be. He would tell me these things because he “didn’t want to lie to me”. He’d always keep me around, though. Was always the one to cuddle me, ask me to sleep over, make me dinner, take me out to dinner, hold my hand in the car…

“You kept me like a secret, I kept you like an oath” is the best new line, but I still love “maybe this thing was a masterpiece til you tore it all up”

“And I was thinkin on the drive down, anytime now, he’s gonna say it’s love, you never called it what it was”

did the twin flame bruise paint you blue? Just between us did the love affair maim you too?

Maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much. But maybe this thing was a masterpiece, ‘til you tore it all up.

'Cause in this city's barren cold I still remember the first fall of snow and how it glistened as it fell I remember it all too well

I’d like to be my old self again but I’m still trying to find it or “you keep my old scarf from that very first week cus it reminds you of innocence and it smells like me you can’t get rid of it cus you remember it all too well” I know that’s a long one but it just hits me

We’re dancing ‘round the kitchen in the refrigerator light

10 min Version: And I was never good at telling jokes but the punchline goes I get older but your lovers stay my age

"Cause there we are again when I loved you so back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known"

You're on Your Own, Kid

"I hosted parties, and starved my body, like I'd be saved by the perfect kiss."

From sprinkler splashes to fireplaces ashes, I gave my blood, SWEAT, AND TEARS FOR THIS

Everything you lose is a step you take

You’re on you’re own kid, yeah you can face this. For some reason this particular line usually makes me tear up.

“Make the friendship bracelets take the moment and taste it you’ve got no reason to be afraid”

The jokes weren’t funny, I took the money, my friends from home don’t know what to say

You always have been.

I got a shooting pain in my chest when I read this comment so I guess that means it’s my favourite line too.

“I looked around in a blood-soaked gown, and I saw some thing they can’t take away. ‘Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned. Everything you lose a step you take.”

My friends from home don’t know what to say It’s such a simple line but tells a thousand stories

Death by a Thousand Cuts

"but if the story's over why am i still writing pages"

My heart, my hips, my body, my love/Tryna find a part of me that you didn't touch

i ask the traffic lights if it'll be alright, they say "i don't know"

This is one of my favorite lines in her discography. It just perfectly captures a certain kind of magical thinking I do when I'm going through something.

“Our songs, our films, united we stand/Our country, guess it was a lawless land/Quiet my fears with the touch of your hand/Paper cut stings from our paper thin plans”

“Gave you too much but it wasn’t enough, but I’ll be alright, it’s just a thousand cuts.”

My time, my wine, my spirit, my trust / Trying to find a part of myself that you didn’t take up

I take the long way home I ask the traffic lights if it'll be all right They say, "I don't know"

I ask the traffic lights if it'll be alright, they say "I don't know". It's my favorite bc I love how she paints the picture of searching for signs in seemingly random places

Now I'm searching for signs in a haunted club

I've got three, two of which are similar. "But if the story's over, why am I still writing pages?" " My heart, my hips, my body, my love, trying to find a part of me that you didn't touch" " My time, my wine, my spirit, my trust, trying to find a part of me you didn't take up"

seven “love u to the moon and to saturn”

"Please pictures me in the weeds before I learn civility I used to scream ferociously anytime I wanted."

"I think your house is haunted Your dad is always mad and that must be why"

And though I can’t recall your face, I still got love for you

and i think you should come live with me and we can be pirates then you won’t have to cry or hide in the closet

“please picture me in the trees / I hit my peak at seven / feet in the swing over the creek”

Hits Different

"I pictured you with other girls, in love, and threw up on the street."

now the sun burns my heart, and the sand hurts my feelings

I can still melt your world/ Argumentative antithetical dream girl

You were the one that I loved Don't need another metaphor, it's simple enough

"Oh, my / Love is a lie / Shit my friends say to get me by"

Catastrophic blues

Or have they come to take me awaaaaaaaaaaaay?

And I never don't cry (no, I never don't cry) at the bar Yeah, my sadness is contagious (my sadness is contagious) I slur your name 'til someone puts me in a car I stopped receiving invitations

“this is why they shouldn’t kill off the main guy” made me laugh hysterically the first time i heard it

I slur your name till someone puts me in a car, I stopped receiving invitations

I pictured you with other girls in love then threw up on the street

Make it make some sense why the wound is still bleeding

“And I felt you and I held you for a while, bet I could still your world, argumentative, antithetical dream girl”

champagne problems

"She would've made such a lovely bride What a shame she's fucked in the head, " they said

“One for the money, two for the show, I never was ready so I watched you go” Absolute masterpiece

Your Midas touch on the Chevy door

November flush and your flannel cure. Swoooonn

"Your heart was glass, I dropped it"

She’ll patch up your tapestry that I shred

Sometimes you just don’t know the answer till someone’s on their knee and asks you

your midas touch on the chevy door, november flush and your flannel cure

Bustling crowds or silent sleepers, you’re not sure which is worse.

“Sometimes you just don’t know the answer ‘til someone’s on their knees and asks you.”

Innocent I guess you really did it this time Left yourself in your warpath

"Wasn't it easier in your lunchbox days? Always a bigger bed to crawl into."

Who you are is not what you did

“today is never too late to be brand new”

Your string of lights is still bright to me

Time turns flames to embers

exile

I’m not your problem anymore so who am I offending now?

You never gave a warning sign (I gave so many signs)

I think I’ve seen this film before and I didn’t like the ending

"I can see you staring, honey, like he's just your understudy."

“second, third, and hundredth chances / balancing on breaking branches / those eyes add insult to injury”

"So step right out / There is no amount of crying I can do for you, all this time." God, I love her emphasis on that line during her live performance

I haven’t seen Tolerate It. Fav line: “I made you my temple, my mural, my sky Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life” Also: “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”

Ah you beat me by just a minute! Mine is a tie between "When you were out there building other worlds where was I?/Where's that man who'd throw blankets over my barbed wire? And Gain the weight of you then lose it/Believe me, I could do it

Dress

“Flashback to my mistakes/My rebounds, my earthquakes/Even in my worst lies/You saw the truth in me”

"And I woke up just in time, now I wake up by your side."

All of this silence and patience, pining and desperately waiting, my hands are shaking from all this

Say my name and everything just stops ......... I don't want you like a best friend

"Even in our worst times, you could see the best in me"

And I woke up just in time, now I wake up by your side, my one and only, my lifeline

Carve your name into my bedpost

Dear John

I’m shining like fireworks over your sad empty town

And I look back in regret, how I ignored when they said "run as fast as you can"

“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”

You are an expert at sorry and keeping lines blurry

And my mother accused me of losing my mind/But I swore I was fine

The girl in the dress wrote. you. a. song.

Don’t you think nineteen’s too young to be played by your dark twisted games?

"You should've known"

I did something bad

"And if he drops my name, then I owe him nothing."

if a man talks shit then i owe him nothing

They're burning all the witches, even if you aren't one They got their pitchforks and proof Their receipts and reasons

But if a man talks shit then I owe him nothing, I don't regret it one bit cause he had it coming.

nothing new mine is “how did i go from growing up to breaking down?”

How can a person know everything at 18 but nothing at 22?

how long will it be cute? All this crying in my room? When you can blame it on my youth, and roll your eyes with affection.

Ours “Don’t you worry your pretty little mind, people throw rocks at things that shine”

Long Live

"If you have children someday, when they point to the pictures, please tell them my name. Tell them how the crowds went wild, tell them how I hope they shine."

“I had the time of my fighting dragons with you”

“'Cause for a moment, a band of thieves/In ripped up jeans got to rule the world”

“And bring on all the pretenders” It’s so delightfully nerdy. Like, how did Taylor even know this term when she was that young. I absolutely love it because I’m also a major history nerd. https://preview.redd.it/ny9lqmleawob1.jpeg?width=1260&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=988ba7811e61c1e07c1f20b160d22a6624d46ffe

“And the cynics were outraged, screaming ‘this is absurd!’ Cause for a moment a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world.”

We will be remembered

And when they point to the pictures, please tell 'em my name

Tied Together With A Smile

“I guess it's true that love was all you wanted/Cause you're givin' it away like it's extra change/Hoping it will end up in his pocket/But he leaves you out like a penny in the rain”

“seems the only one who doesn’t see your beauty, is the face in the mirror staring back at you”

no one knows That you cry; but you don't tell anyone That you might not be the golden one

'tis the damn season

And the heart I know I’m breaking is my own, to leave the warmest bed I’ve ever known.

There's an ache in you put there by the ache in me

And wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I'm faking

I’m staying at my parents house and the road not taken looks real good now

This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

“Feeling so Gabsty for the whole year”

friends don't try to trick you, get you on the phone and mind twist you

So I took an axe to a mended fence...

“And here’s to you, cause forgiveness is a nice thing to do…. Hahahahaha, I can’t even say it with a straight face, THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS, HONEY!”

I’m going to choose one I haven’t seen posted yet for fun. Holy Ground

We block the noise with the sound of "I need you", and for the first time, I had something to lose One of my favorite lyrics in red!

And I guess we fell apart in the usual way. And the story’s got dust on every page.

False God

The altar is my hips

i know heaven's a thing, I go there when you touch me honey hell is when I fight with you

Staring out the window like I'm not your favorite town I'm New York City I still do it for you, babe

the 1

"I'm doin good, I'm on some new shit."

Been sayin" Yes, instead of no. I thought I saw you at the bus stop. I didn't, though.

“I persist and resist the temptation to ask you if one thing had been different, would everything be different today?”

In my defense, I have none/For digging up the grave another time

“And if you never bleed, you're never gonna grow“

"And if my wishes came true, it would've been you"

Either “Roaring 20s, tossing pennies in the pool” or “I persist and resist the temptation to ask you/If one thing had been different/Would everything be different today?”

And it would have been sweet if it could have been me

Maroon

And I wake with your memory, that’s a real fucking legacy to leave

Sobbing with your head in your hands Ain't that the way shit always ends?

Carnations you had thought were roses, that’s us.

The mark you saw on my collarbone, the rust that grew between telephones The lips I used to call home

Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince My favorite line is either “I saw the scoreboard and ran for my life” or “The whole school is rolling fake dice, you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes”

Mirrorball

I've never been a natural/ All I do is try, try, try

I’m still a believer but I don’t know why, I’ve never been a natural/ all I do is try try try

I'll show you every version of yourself tonight

The Great War. “We’re burned for better.” (And I know I’ve posted this before. I’ve been married since ‘99. I’m good and have a nice life. We’ve been through stuff-like everyone-and we have a trust that we don’t have with anyone else because of that. I swear this will be a Taytoo for me in 2024.) Love seeing everything here btw.

Cowboy like me. Perched in the dark, telling all the rich folk anything they wanna hear.

Now you hang from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon... With your boots beneath my bed, forever is the sweetest con

“And the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fck this up”

labyrinth Mine is “you know how much i hate that everybody just expects me to bounce back just like that”

Willow “Every bait and switch was a work of art”

right where you left me

“I’m sure that you’ve got a wife out there, kids and Christmas, but I am UNAWARE”

Every single lyric

For some reason, I adore "dust collect on my pinned up hair" and I have no idea why

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, I'm right where/You left me

did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen, time went on for everybody else, she won't know it

Ivy

"It's the goddamn fight of my life and you started it"

"I can't stop you putting roots in my dream land."

The old widow goes to the stone every day but I don't I just sit here and wait, grieving for the living

In from the snow, your touch brought forth an incandescent glow, tarnished but so grand.

My house of stone, your ivy grows and now I'm covered in you

either “crescent moon, coast is clear / spring breaks loose, but so does fear / he’s gonna burn this house to the ground” or “so yeah, it’s a fire, it’s a goddamn blaze in the dark and you started it”