my tears ricochet EXPLAINED!
When I first heard this song I saw it as being about someone who Taylor was grateful for in her life and who got lost in her success and eventually his own and eventually erased all that they had built together.
He put her through hell after she left even though she loved her time with him and left with grace and on good terms. Once she left they brought in a partner who was in the deal to basically own Taylor’s music, acting as though Taylor’s not around. However, they don’t fail to still acknowledge the part she played in their success by trying and put out her old songs in different ways without her consent or at least knowledge. Then began the he said she said battle showing us that they wished she had stayed with them. After all, they are where they are because of Taylor. Taylor didn’t want it to get the way it did but she didn’t have a choice and felt betrayed because they parade her music around while they try to bury her deeper, because to them it’s not about the person who made the art, or the fact that the art wouldn’t exist without her. It’s about the money that comes from the art. He used to be in her corner telling her how brave she was and was one of her biggest supporters. When it came time for Taylor to decide where the next path in her journey would be, she was made aware that she wouldn’t be able to own her work immediately or only if she gave something in return. She was able to go to any label anywhere but not home to where her songs and “stolen lullabies” are. No matter what she is in the foundation and bones of her former label no matter how successful they become. She only speaks with him when in frustration “screaming at the sky.” But Taylor knows that when he can’t sleep at night it’s her stolen songs (lullabies) playing in his head, because they haunt him wherever he goes. He tried to put her down by making that deal with a new partner but hurt himself just the same. He became his worst fears that he never thought he’d be in the beginning and resorts to blaming others and through it all, he threw an amazing 13 years as well as the artist away.
“Did I deserve all the hell you gave. Cause I loved you till my dying day”
“And if I’m dead to you why are you at the wake?”
“Cursing my name. Wishing I’d stayed”
“You know I didn’t want to have to haunt you, but what a ghostly scene”
“You wear the same jewels that I gave you as you bury me”
“When I’d fight you used to tell me I was brave”
“And I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want just not home”
“But you would still miss me in your bones”
“And I still talk to you, when I’m screaming at the sky”
“And when you can’t sleep at night you hear my stolen lullabies”
“You had to kill me but it killed you just the same”
“You turned into your worst fear”
“You’re tossing out blames, crossing out the good years”
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