"you shit-talked me under the table, talking rings and talking cradles" has always been somewhat perplexing to me. she's twisting the phrase "to drink someone under the table," i.e. to handle your liquor better than them. what's always escaped me though is what was taylor talking shit about? and it just dawned on me. she's calling back to "i talk shit with my friends, it's like i'm wasting your honor." i talk a lot of shit, but yours takes the cake. for all your honor and dignity, you made promises of marriage and children that you never intended to keep, and now i can't move on because i carry that memory when those promises felt real.