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You should think about the consequence of you touching my hand in a darkened room...Something gave you the nerve to touch my hand...I’m begging for you to take my hand...And then you squeeze my hand as I’m about to leave...And the touch of a hand lit the fuse...My hand was the one you reached for...I washed my hands of us at the club

therewasholyground

Taylor Swift // song titles that appear in other songs

mini-wrants

People straight up do not realize that part of the reason manufacturing is not returning to the United States in massive waves is because we have things like “OSHA” and “environmental laws” and “minimum wages.”

It’s not even just about fair wages. It’s literally about the fact that you can’t dump industrial waste in a river here anymore.

Our cheap goods are so cheap because South American and Asians environments are being destroyed so you can buy a $40 pair of shoes every 3 months.

Cutting granite countertops has lead to a rapid increase in silicosis in the lungs out in California. All the working men and women in my family have died from pulmonary fibrosis. They were carpet layers, Post office workers, floor tilers. Staying safe in manufacturing jobs is annoying but also very, very expensive. Real manufacturing factories belch smoke and dust and grime that causes asthma and birth defects in surrounding communities. Everyone wants their manufacturing jobs back until they realize their kids are living directly under the Asthma Plant.

There will come a time when the workers in these countries rise up and demand better and things will start to even out, but if you want to honestly “do your part,” you gotta stop buying cheap shit for no reason.

Not every event needs to be celebrate with a baseball cap or a coozie or a t shirt or a keychain. Not every wall in the house has to have a picture or a cute phrase on it. The knickknacks are killing people.

mini-wrants

Yep!

taylorswiftandx

Taylor Swift and Rain

‘Taylor Swift’

A Place In This World: Trying to see through the rain coming down

Cold As You: Oh, what a shame, what a rainy ending given to a perfect day

Tied Together With A Smile: But he leaves you out like a penny in the rain

Stay Beautiful: I’m taking pictures in my mind so I can save them for a rainy day

‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’

Fearless: There’s something ‘bout the say the street looks when it’s just rained

Hey Stephen: Can’t help it if I wanna kiss you in the rain

The Way I Loved You: But I miss screaming and fighting and kissing in the rain

Forever And Always: And it rains in your bedroom, everything is wrong, it rains when you’re here and it rains when you’re gone

Come In With The Rain: Just know I’m right here hoping that you’ll come in with the rain

The Other Side Of The Door: Wait there in the pouring rain, come back for more

You All Over Me: Once the last drop of rain has dried off the pavement

Bye Bye Baby: It wasn’t just like a movie, the rain didn’t soak through my clothes down to my skin

‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’

Sparks Fly: The way you move is like a full-on rainstorm

Sparks Fly: Drop everything now, meet me in the pouring rain

Dear John: You paint me a blue sky, and go back and turn it to rain

Last Kiss: I do recall now the smell of the rain fresh off the pavement

Electric Touch: I’ve been left in the rain, lost and pining

When Emma Falls In Love: She waits and takes her time ‘cause little Miss Sunshine always thinks it’s gonna rain

When Emma Falls In Love: Now he’ll be her shelter when it rains

‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’

Everything Has Changed: All I know is pouring rain and everything has changed

‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’

How You Get The Girl: Stand there like a ghost, shaking from the rain

Clean: Rain came pouring down, when I was drowning that’s when I could finally breathe

Sweeter Than Fiction: It’s like we don’t remember the rain we thought would last forever and ever

'reputation’

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: So why’d you have to rain on my parade?

'Lover’

Cornelia Street: We bless the rains on Cornelia Street, memorize the creaks in the floor

London Boy: Show me a gray sky, a rainy cab ride

ME!: And when we had that fight out in the rain, you ran after me and called my name

'folklore’

peace: But the rain is always gonna come if you’re standing with me

'evermore’

happiness: But now my eyes leak acid rain on the pillow where you used to lay your head

'Midnights’

Midnight Rain: Rain, he wanted it comfortable, I wanted that pain

Midnight Rain: He was sunshine, I was midnight rain

Midnight Rain: All of me changed like midnight rain

High Infidelity: Rain soaking, blind hoping, you said I was freeloading

'The Tortured Poets Department’ / 'The Anthology’

My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys: The voices in his head called the rain to end our days of wild

The Black Dog: How you don’t miss me in the shower and remember how my rain-soaked body was shaking

The Albatross: And when that sky rains fire on you and you’re persona non grata

'The Life of a Showgirl’

Ruin the Friendship: Glistening grass from September rain

Other Songs written by Taylor

If This Was A Movie: Stand in the rain outside 'til I came out

The Alcott: I’ll ruin it all over / Rain on my parade

You’ll Always Find Your Way Back Home: You wake up, it’s raining and it’s Monday

Official Alternate Releases

(no rain)

Official Draft Lyrics

(no rain)

cowboyhatesithere

This remains probably the funniest thing Swifties have ever accomplished. Why don’t we talk about this more.

canisitsnotlupus

I think this is super important to remember.

rubyvroom

No kill shelters result in animals dumped on the highway and tossed in the river because the rescues wont take them. That’s the part they never tell you.

Meanwhile the spca will take every animal, and if they have to euthanize them at least it will be done kindly and not via neglect or cruelty.

rubyvroom

Because people in the notes are not getting this, let me explain:

No-kill shelters TURN AWAY animals. When they’re full - and they often are because most of these no-kill shelters are small - they stop taking them in. While they are “taking their time to find the right homes for every single animal”, many other animals never get in the door. Somehow they don’t count those animals, or track what happens to them. A success for them doesn’t include the ones they turned away. They’re taking their time because they can.

The No-Kills who brag about 100% adoption rates are the worst, because they tend to reject the most. The animals who will be difficult to adopt out? They just don’t take those. Special needs? Too old? If they’re going to be hard to adopt out, they can claim to be full, even if they’re not.

They are telling owners they absolutely cannot take their fifteen year old cat because they are full of litters of kittens. Adorable kittens that will turn over quickly, and boost their adoption numbers. So what happens to the fifteen year old cat? After days of being rejected at the shelters they get dumped on the side of the road somewhere, or worse.

You cannot imagine the VOLUME of animals that a city shelter deals with. The kill shelters are not allowed to turn anyone away. The difficult cases, the special needs, the elderly, the feral. The dog that bites, the cat that pees everywhere. Every animal is going to be taken in and treated with kindness. They are going to be assessed and treated for their fleas and conditions and behavioral problems. They will get their time on the adoption floor. They will get the best chance possible to find a new home. And if it’s not possible, they will be humanely euthanized, and that cage space will go to the next animal who is already waiting for it. It never stops. While you were working on the paperwork to adopt out 1 cat, three people brought in 4 more. It’s a numbers game that you cannot win if you aren’t turning people away.

A lot of times kill shelters get the animals that the no-kill shelters refused to take. Maybe their owners bring them. Or maybe they got literally thrown in the garbage, abandoned, or put in a bag and tossed in the river, when the no-kill shelter said they were full. The police and rescuers will bring these poor injured animals to the city shelter where they will be cared for. The volunteers will spend days and weeks trying to wash the tar out of their fur, or treat their broken bones, or whatever other horrible thing has happened to them. They will feed and house them. They will put most of them in new homes. They will save many many more animals, by orders of magnitude, than a no-kill shelter ever will. A no-kill shelter will brag about dozens or maybe hundreds of adoptions. Kill shelters are dealing in thousands of successful adoptions, and they still have to euthanize because it just isn’t enough. There are just so many animals to take in.

And then, after all this, the No-Kill Shelters get to claim the moral high ground somehow, and self-righteous types will refuse to adopt from the only shelter that takes absolutely everyone. It’s infuriating.

wavesoutbeingtossed

Whats your favorite lyric parallel on The Life Of A Showgirl?

Oooh are we talking within the album or between albums? Anyway I can’t pick just one so you’re gonna get all the ones I can remember that really should be their own posts but anyway here we are!

If we’re talking within the album:

You were dancing through the lightning strikes, sleepless in the onyx night -> It’s about to be the sleepless night you’ve been dreaming of

The eldest daughter of a nobleman, Ophelia lived in fantasy -> Every eldest daughter was the first lamb to the slaughter

I swore my loyalty to me, myself and I, right before you lit my sky up -> When you found me I said I was busy, that was a lie -> You caught me off my guard

You had to make your own sunshine -> It seems to be that you and me, we make our own luck

If we’re talking throughout other albums:

Nostalgia is a mind’s trick -> I had a bad habit of missing lovers past

Slow is the quicksand, poison blood from the wound of the pricked hand / Oh, still I dream of him -> But love was a cold bed full of scorpions, the venom stole her sanity -> Did you sleep with a gun underneath our bed?

I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind people need a key to get to / The only one is mine -> Tis locked inside my memory and only you possess the key / No longer drowning and deceived, all because you came for me

Wise men once said, “One bad seed kills the garden,” “One less temptress,” “One less dagger to sharpen,” / Locked me up in towers but I’d visit in your dreams and they tried to warn you about me -> All that time I sat alone in my tower, you were just honing your powers, now I can see it all

I can’t find a pulse, my heart won’t start anymore for you -> You saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia

All that child’s play back in school is forgiven under my rule -> Don’t care where the hell you’ve been ‘cause now you’re mine

I lay the table with the fancy shit and watch you tolerate it -> You finally left the table, and what a simple thought / you’re starving til you’re not

I thought my house was haunted, I used to live with ghosts -> My beloved ghost and me, sitting in a tree, D-Y-I-N-G -> Dancing phantoms on the terrace, are they secondhand embarrassed that I can’t get out of bed because something counterfeit’s dead?

All the perfect couples said when you know you know, and when you don’t you don’t -> They say when it’s right, you know / each bar plays our song, nothing has ever felt so wrong

As she was leaving, it felt like freedom -> Failure brings you freedom, and I can bring you love

All the right guys promised they’d stay / Under bright lights they withered away, but you bloom -> He was a hothouse flower to my outdoorsman

They say I’m bad news, I just say “thanks” -> They said I did something bad, then why’s it feel so good?

Please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere -> Don’t you ever end up anything but mine -> You are the best thing that’s ever been mine

They don’t make loyalty like they used to -> Putting someone first only works when they’re in your top five -> Darling what you did was just as dark as when they pulled me apart

Your thoughtless ambition started the ignition on foolish decisions which led to misguided visions that to fulfill your dreams you had to get rid of me -> You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same / Cursing my name, wishing I’d stayed, you turned into your worst fears / And you’re tossing out blame, drunk on this pain, crossing out the good years

You want a fight? You found it / I’ve got the place surrounded / You’ll be sleeping with the fishes before you know you’re downing -> I didn’t have it in myself to go with grace, and so the battleships will sink beneath the waves

I was your father figure, you pulled the wrong trigger -> Two graves, one gun -> If I’m on fire, you’ll be made of ashes too

Mistake my kindness for weakness and find your card cancelled -> You know I didn’t want to have to haunt you, but what a ghostly scene -> Fighting in only your army / Frontlines, don’t you ignore me / I’m the best thing at this party

Industry disrupters and soul deconstructors and smooth-talking hucksters out glad-handing each other / And the voices that implore, “you should be doing more,” / To you I can admit that I’m just too soft for all of it -> But I’m not a bad bitch, and this isn’t savage / I’m never gonna let you down, I’m never gonna leave you out / So many traitors, smooth operators, but I’m never gonna break that vow, I’m never gonna leave you now

I’ll drink what you think and I’m high from smoking your jokes all damn night -> You know the last time I laughed this hard was on the trampoline in somebody’s backyard

I feel so high school every time I look at you -> Cause I thought that I’d never find that beautiful beautiful life that shimmers that innocent life back like when we were young

Pretty soon I learned cautious discretion when your first crush crushes something kind / When I said I didn’t believe in marriage, that was a lie -> He said that if the sex was half as good as the conversation was, soon they’d be pushing strollers, but soon it was over -> She thought about how he’d said since she was so wise beyond her years, everything had been above board / She wasn’t sure -> You know that I’d […] give you my wild, give you a child […], is it enough? -> You shit-talked me under the table, talking rings and talking cradles

All this time I didn’t know you were breaking down / I’d fall to pieces on the floor if you weren’t around -> After I left school I lost track of you / Abigail called me with the bad news / Goodbye, and we’ll never know why

You know that I’d give you my wild, give you a child -> Are you really gonna talk about timing in times like these -> I just want you / Have a couple kids, got the whole block looking like you

Would it be enough if I could never give you peace? -> WE tell the world to leave us the fuck alone, and they do, wow

At least I did one thing right -> I thought I had it right once, twice, but I did not

I made wishes on all the stars -> Tried wishing on comets, tried dimming the shine / Tried to orbit his planet, some stars never align

Daisy’s bare naked, I was distraught / He loves me not—he loves me not -> How can you say you love someone you can’t tell is dying? -> You swore that you loved me, but where were the clues? I died on the altar waiting for the proof

Penny’s unlucky, I took him back -> Whether I’m gonna be your wife or gonna smash you bike, I haven’t decided yet but I’m gonna get you back -> I heard your key turn in the door down the hallway / Is that your key in the door? Is it okay? Is it you?

They’re burning all the witches even if you aren’t one / They got their pitchforks and proof, their receipts and reasons -> It’s easy to love you when you’re popular / The optics click, everyone prospers / But one single drop, you’re off the roster / “Tone deaf and hot, let’s fucking off her”

Bring a tiny violin to a knife fight -> I brought a knife to a gunfight

They took the crown, but it’s alright -> They want to see you rise, they don’t want you to reign

High above the whole scene, loves me like I’m brand new, so call it what you want to -> You can call me “honey” if you want, ‘cause I’m the one you want

Oh, damn, never seen that colour blue -> I’m with you even if it makes me blue -> I’m a fire and I’ll keep your brittle heart warm when your cascade ocean wave blues come -> You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days -> You touched my face and redefined all those blues when you say, “honey”

When anyone called me late night, he was screwing around with my mind asking, “what are you wearing tonight?” / Too high to remember in the morning -> Drowning in the Blue Nile, he sent me “Downtown Lights,” I hadn’t heard it in awhile -> In public showed me off, then sank in stoned oblivion

I waited on every careless word, hoping it might turn sweet again like it was in the beginning -> You fire off missiles cause you hate yourself, but do you know you’re demolishing me? -> Holding tight to your quiet resentment -> You said normal girls were boring, but you were gone by the morning -> When anyone called me “lovely,” they were trying to find ways not to praise me / But you say it like you’re in awe of me and you stay until morning

Took your money and your dignity and got the hell out -> Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die / I don’t belong here, my beloved, and neither do you -> I’m married to the hustle and now I know the life of a showgirl, babe, I wouldn’t have it any other way

fortn13ght

darkbluetennessee

ocean blue eyes looking in mine i feel like i might sink and drown and die -> i'm on waves out being tossed -> wet through my clothes weary bones caught the chill -> and you say i abandoned the ship but I was going down with it

cages-boxes-hunters-foxes

“I think we had that like, every isngle song on this record, you know? It just really, you know, like we felt like we were capturing lightning in a bottle with every single one of these songs. And I’ve honestly like, never had so much fun making a record, and I’ve never had so much fun listening to a record I’ve made. It really just, it really matches where I am in my life in such a precise and exact way, and just like, kind of feels good to have on, so luckily, we had that every song.”

— Taylor to SiriusXM on having 'Aha!' moments while making The Life Of A Showgirl (x)

cages-boxes-hunters-foxes

“Oh my god, I think it was just, a different type of muscle I was exercising, you know what I mean? Like, at that point in the tour, I was on the European leg of it, which was a lot more shows than I had done on the American leg of it. So it was like, more shows, less days off, so the physical exhaustion and soreness was at an all-time high at the same time as I was starting to do that show with muscle memory. And it took awhile for that to happen, because, I mean, it’s a three-and-a-half-hour show, but I was starting to be able to be like, ‘Wait, my body’s getting more tired, my mind is more able to do this on autopilot, and I never want to do this show on autopilot. So I need to do something to like, flex these creative muscles and go in there and like, really exercise that other part of my brain.’ And what it ended up doing was like reinvigorating every single aspect of my life, including the tour, which made me just able to recommit myself to the show even more, if that makes any sense.”

— Taylor to SiriusXM on making The Life Of A Showgirl during the Eras Tour (x)

cages-boxes-hunters-foxes

“Oh my god, we have so many core childhood memories. We are like, best friends now, but we used to get into absolute battles. It was like psychological warfare every single day when we were children. It was like, I would try to like, get him to like, I’d try to annoy him so much that he like, lashed out, and try to get him in trouble. It was a nightmare. But then he learned all the sounds that annoy me. Like, he learned that if you repeat everything I say back to me when I’m seven years old, that’s going to bother me—just the sibling stuff that everybody does. But it’s crazy, like we work together now, and we’re best friends. I don’t know what year it happened, but we just basically looked at each other and were like, ‘Truce. You’re pretty cool.’ So just know if you have kids and they’re at each other’s throats constantly, they’ll probably grow up and be best friends."

— Taylor to SiriusXM on her relationship with her brother (x)

darkbluetennessee

can i speak my truth? taylor shouldn't have split up the poems across variants. i know for a lot of people it wouldn't make a difference, but for the fans i think this would've been really helpful in crystalizing the story showgirl is telling. just like the ttpd epilogue, this adds soooo much!! split up the photos and the trinkets but not the album prologue, not important pieces of the puzzle.

darkbluetennessee

lolll you guys are killing me with your "well actually this wouldn't have made a difference because not every single person reads the poems, and even if they do it doesn't matter." i'm clearly not talking about them, and i already said as much! i'm saying for fans who have historically read the prologues and want to interact with the full body of work, we should have had access to the poem. i own a physical copy of this album but i do not have this full prologue, and i wish taylor wouldn't have done that because it chops up her work.

cam1lla

Ruby Rose thank you for your service 🫡🫡🫡

onlytiktoks

agallonofmilky

can we stop promoting the idea that nature has to look beautiful to be good?

katameme-deactivated20250120

cages-boxes-hunters-foxes

“The first? I love that. Meaning like going back—[Ed, who left the question] found his old phone, so he’s really into this. I saw him a couple days ago, and he was talking about having found his old phone. I’m saying this to you as I’m scrolling back. So like, I’m looking back right now, and I actually have, it’s really funny that it was him, because I have a picture of him like, holding one of my cats. I think this was like, this has to be 2013, maybe? I think we’re on the Red Tour. I also have some pictures of me and Max Martin and Shellback, which is really funny, because we ended up going back and making another album together. There’s so many cats, but it’s back when my cats were like, extremely tiny, when they were like hamster-size. And now they’re huge, and happy, and just happy, elderly cats, so that shows you how time flies. That’s what I got for you.”

— Taylor to SiriusXM on the oldest photo in her camera roll (x)

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