#talking taylor

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“don’t blame me for what you made me do” you’ll always be famous

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The Albatross and Dancing With Our Hands Tied together, such a natural pairing

YES YES YES let’s talk about it! her mashups continue to amaze me with their increasingly cohesive themes and interwoven stories.

people started talking putting us through our paces, i knew there was no one in the world who could take it, i had a bad feeling → cautions issued, he stood shooting the messengers, they tried to warn him about her

i’m a mess, but i’m the mess that you wanted → she’s the death you chose and all this terrible danger

i loved you in spite of deep fears that the world would divide us → locked me up in towers, but i’d visit you in dreams, and they tried to warn you about me

i’d kiss you as the lights went out, swaying as the room burned down, i’d hold you as the water rushes in if i could dance with you again → spread my wings like a parachute, i'm the albatross, i swept in at the rescue

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remember hearing taylor sing “i’m doing better than i ever was” for the first time? pure bliss.

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counting all the scars you made…every lesson forms a new scar…with every guitar string scar on my hand…it still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart…you drew stars around my scars…show me the places where the others gave you scars…

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“it would’ve been fun if you would’ve been the one” is such a casually devastating lyric

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okay but have you ever heard anything more romantic than “i don’t wanna look at anything else now that i saw you”?

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love how taylor says “don’t need another metaphor it’s simple enough,” then proceeds with “a wrinkle in time like the crease by your eyes. this is why they shouldn’t kill off the main guy.” girlie loves figurative language, and we love her for it.