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“I held my life and wished it kept; my dearest love, I’m not done yet. How many years I’ll know out there, I found something in the woods somewhere.”

— “In the Woods Somewhere,” Hozier

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RED (Taylor’s Version), Taylor Swift

“These are the hands of Fate—you’re my Achilles heel.” — State of Grace (Taylor’s Version)

“Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street: faster than the wind; passionate as sin; ending so suddenly.” — Red (Taylor’s Version)

“Put your lips close to mine, as long as they don’t touch—out of focus, eye to eye, ‘til the gravity’s too much,” AND, “All we are is skin and bone, trained to get along, forever going with the flow—but you’re friction.” — Treacherous (Taylor’s Version)

“He was long gone when he met me.” — I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor’s Version)

“There we are again in the middle of the night. We’re dancing ‘round the kitchen in the refrigerator light. Down the stairs, I was there, I remember it all too well.” — All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)

“You don’t know about me, but I’ll bet you want to.” — 22 (Taylor’s Version)

“I bet you think I either moved on or hate you, ‘cause each time you reach out, there’s no reply. I bet it never, ever occurred to you that I can’t say hello to you and risk another goodbye.” — I Almost Do (Taylor’s Version)

“You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me—but we are never, ever, ever, ever getting back together.” — We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Taylor’s Version)

“It’s been occurring to me, I’d like to hang out with you for my whole life.” — Stay Stay Stay (Taylor’s Version)

“This is the last time I’m asking you why you break my heart in the blink of an eye.” — The Last Time (Taylor’s Version)

“Tonight I’m gonna dance for all that we’ve been through, but I don’t wanna dance if I’m not dancing with you.” — Holy Ground (Taylor’s Version)

“I stood right by the tracks, your face in a locket. Good girls—hopeful they’ll be and long they will wait.” — Sad Beautiful Tragic (Taylor’s Version)

“It was a few years later I showed up here, and they still tell the legend of how you disappeared, how you took the money and your dignity and got the hell out.” — The Lucky One

“All I know is we said hello, and your eyes look like coming home.” — Everything Has Changed (featuring Ed Sheeran) (Taylor’s Version)

“He said, ‘Look at you, worrying so much about things you can’t change. You’ll spend your whole life singing the blues if you keep thinking that way.’ He was trying to skip rocks on the ocean, saying to me, ‘Don’t you see the starlight, starlight? Don’t you dream impossible things?” — Starlight (Taylor’s Version)

“And you throw your head back laughing like a little kid. I think it’s strange that you think I’m funny ‘cause he never did.” — Begin Again (Taylor’s Version)

“And it was like slow motion, standing there in my party dress, in red lipstick, with no one to impress—and they’re all sitting around me singing “Happy Birthday to You,” but there was one thing missing, and that was the moment I knew.” — The Moment I Knew (Taylor’s Version)

“This is when the feeling sinks in—I don’t want to miss you like this.” — Come Back… Be Here (Taylor’s Version)

“It would be a fine proposition if I was a stupid girl.” — Girl At Home (Taylor’s Version)

“Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I can feel you again—but I just miss you, and I just wish you were a better man.” — Better Man (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

“It’s like I can feel time moving.” — Nothing New (featuring Phoebe Bridgers) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

“What a shame—didn’t want to be the one that got away.” — Babe (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

“You could be the one that I love, and I could be the one that you dream of.” — Message in a Bottle (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

“Does it make you feel sad that the love that you’re looking for is the love that you had?” — I Bet You Think About Me (featuring Chris Stapleton) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

“I’ll be summer sun for you forever—forever winter if you go.” — Forever Winter (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

“Give me the keys, I’ll bring the car back around. We shouldn’t be in this town.” — Run (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

“We broke the status quo, then we broke each other’s hearts.” — The Very First Night (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

“Wind in my hair, I was there, I was there. Down the stairs, I was there, I was there. Sacred prayer, I was there, I was there. It was rare, you remember it.” — All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

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Stranger in the Alps, Phoebe Bridgers

“One of your eyes is always half shut—something happened when you were a kid. I didn’t know you then, and I’ll never understand why it feels like I did.” — Smoke Signals

“You said when you met me, you were bored—and you, you were in a band when I was born.” — Motion Sickness

“Last night I blacked out in my car, and I woke up in my childhood bed, wishing I was someone else, feeling sorry for myself—then I remembered someone’s kid is dead.” — Funeral

“I don’t want to be alone. I don’t want to be alone anymore.” — Demi Moore

“I asked you, ‘How is playing drums?’—You said, ‘It’s too much shit to carry.’—‘And what about the band?’—You said, ‘They’re all getting married.’” — Scott Street

“When I’m sick and tired, and when my mind is barely there, when a machine keeps me alive and I’m losing all my hair—I hope you kiss my rotten head and pull the plug.” — Killer

“He came up through the water, and without a sound. With my back to the shoreline, I dreamt that he drowned.” — Georgia

“Your revolution is a deathbed, and the music is your maid.” — Chelsea

“Playing ‘Would You Rather?’ when it comes to fire, you always say that you’d prefer to drown. You were still in the ambulance when the cops suggested you’re the one who tried to burn it down.” — Would You Rather

“You got me good—I knew you would—but you missed my heart.” — You Missed My Heart

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SOUR, Olivia Rodrigo

“I’m so tired that I might quit my job, start a new life—and they’d all be so disappointed, ‘cause who am I if not exploited?” — brutal

“I know if you were true, there’s no damn way that you could fall in love with somebody that quickly.” — traitor

“Guess you didn’t mean what you wrote in that song about me.” — drivers license

“It’s always one step forward and three steps back. I’m the love of your life until I make you mad.” — 1 step forward, 3 steps back

“When you gonna tell her that we did that too? She thinks she’s special, but it’s all reused. That was our place—I found it first! I made the jokes you tell to her!” — déjà vu

“Good for you. You’re doing great out there without me, baby—like a damn sociopath!” — good 4 u

“Maybe I’m just not as interesting as the girls you had before, but god! You couldn’t have cared less about someone who loved you more.” — enough for you

“Think of me fondly when your hands are on her.” — happier

“I kind of wanna throw my phone across the room.” — jealousy, jealousy

“I was your willing accomplice, honey. I watched as you fled the scene, doe-eyed as you buried me.” — favorite crime

“Does she know how proud I am she was created with the courage to unlearn all of their hatred?” — hope ur ok

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Punisher, Phoebe Bridgers

“I don’t know how, but I’m taller. It must be something in the water.” — Garden Song

“You called me from a pay phone—they still got pay phones. It cost a dollar a minute to tell me you’re getting sober, and you wrote me a letter, but I don’t have to read it. I’m gonna kill you if you don’t beat me to it.” — Kyoto

“What if I told you I feel like I know you?” — Punisher

“I can count on you to tell me the truth when you’ve been drinking and you’re wearing a mask.” — Halloween

“You were screaming at the Evangelicals—they were screaming right back, from what I remember—when you said, “I will never be your vegetable, because I think when you’re gone, it’s forever.” But, you know I’d stand on the corner, embarrassed with a picket sign, if it meant I would see you when I die.” — Chinese Satellite

“You couldn’t have stuck your tongue down the throat of somebody who loves you more.” — Moon Song

“One hand on the wheel, one in your mouth. Turn me on; turn me down.” — Savior Complex

“I used to light you up. Now I can’t even get you to play the drums.” — ICU

“She turns up the music so thoughts don’t intrude, predictably winds up thinking of Elvis, and wonders if he believed songs could come true.” — Graceland Too

“No, I’m not afraid to disappear; the billboard said: “The End Is Near.” I turned around, there was nothing there—yeah, I guess the end is here.” — I Know the End

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Not a lyric, but oof.

The final paragraph of Emily Wilson’s note on her translation of the Odyssey:

“There is a stranger outside your house. He is old, ragged, and dirty. He is tired. He has been wandering, homeless, for a long time, perhaps many years. Invite him inside. You do not know his name. He may be a thief. He may be a murderer. He may be a god. He may remind you of your husband, your father, or yourself. Do not ask questions. Wait. Let him sit on a comfortable chair and warm himself beside your fire. Bring him some food, the best you have, and a cup of wine. Let him eat and drink until he is satisfied. Be patient. When he is finished, he will tell his story. Listen carefully. It may not be as you expect.”

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Maybe this makes me basic, but I don’t know a better piece of lyricism than the first two stanzas of Hallulejah (the two stanzas kept at the beginning of every version). The struggling faith! The feminine power! The recognized audacity in referring directly to God, in asking a derisive question to his FACE! The notion of “Hallelujah!”being used as an appeal to God, but also as a question and a cry. And besides that, there’s this theme of faith in and worship of tangible things, things like music and human connection, and this idea that these things are holy in themselves, not just as conductors of worship towards something bigger.

And I really should not have listened to this song when I’m this tired, so I’m promptly getting off my pedestal and going to sleep.

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“It’s always corporate infrastructure over the structure of your face.”

—Jackboot Jump, Hozier

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“Since it all begun, to its reckoning, there the reason comes in the common tongue of your loving me. Be thankful some know it lovingly—there the reason comes in the common tongue of your loving me.”

—Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue), Hozier

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“When I first saw you, the end was soon.

To Bethlehem it slouched, and then must have caught a good look at you.”

—NFWMB, Hozier

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Melodrama, Lorde

“Honey, I’ll come get my things, but I can’t let go.” — Green Light

“I know this story by heart: Jack and Jill get fucked up and possessive when it get dark.” — Sober

“We’ll end up painted on the road, red and chrome, all the broken glass sparkling. I guess we’re partying.” — Homemade Dynamite

“Well, summer slipped us underneath her tongue; our days and nights are perfumed with obsession.” — The Louvre

“I’m a liability—get you wild, make you leave. I’m a little much for everyone.” — The Louvre

“I still remember everything—how we’d drift buying groceries, how you’d dance for me.” — Hard Feelings/Loveless

“We told you this was melodrama. Oh, how fast the evening passes, cleaning up the champagne glasses.” — Sober II (Melodrama)

“I am my mother’s child—I’ll love you ‘til my breathing stops. I’ll love you ‘til you call the cops on me.” — Writer In the Dark

“In my head, in my head, I do everything right. When you call, when you call, I’ll forgive and not fight, because ours are the moments I play in the dark—we were wild and fluorescent, come home to my heart.” — Supercut

“Maybe all this is the party . . . Maybe we just do it violently.” — Liability (Reprise)

“I hate the headlines and the weather—I’m nineteen and I’m on fire.” — Perfect Places

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NFR!, Lana Del Rey

“You talk to the walls ‘til the party gets bored of you, but I don’t get bored—I just see you through. Why wait for the best when I could have you?” — Norman Fucking Rockwell

“You lose your way, just take my hand. You’re lost at sea, then I’ll command your boat to me again.” — Mariners Apartment Complex

“It’s me, your little Venice bitch, on the block with the neighborhood kids, calling out, “Bang bang, kiss kiss!” — Venice Bitch

“I moved to California, but it’s just a state of mind.” — Fuck it I love you

“Evil, we’ve come to tell you that she’s evil, most definitely. Evil—ornery, scandalous and evil, most definitely. The tension, it’s getting hotter; I’d like to hold her head underwater.” — Doin’ Time

“I would like to think that you would stick around.” — Love song

“You try to push me out, but I just find my way back in. Violet, blue, green, red to keep me out—I win.” — Cinnabon Girl

“All of the guys tell me lies, but you don’t—you just crack another beer and pretend that you’re still here. This is how to disappear.” — How to disappear

“I shouldn’t have done it, but I read it in your letter. You said to a friend that you wish you were doing better. I watched to reach out, but I never said a thing.” — California

“My baby used to dance underneath my architecture. He was ‘70s in spirit, ‘90s in his frame of mind.” — The Next Best American Record

“I’m wasted. Don’t leave—I just need a wake-up call.” — The greatest

“I bought me a truck in the middle of the night. It’ll buy me a year if I play my cards right.” — Bartender

“I said, ‘Don’t be a jerk—don’t call me a taxi!’ sitting in your sweatshirt, crying in the backseat, ooh. I just want to dance with you.” — Happiness is a butterfly

“I’ve been tearing up town in my fucking white gown like a goddamn-near sociopath.” — hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it

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Evermore, Taylor Swift

“I’m like the water when your ship rolled in that night.” — willow

“I dropped your hand while dancing, left you out there, standing crestfallen on the landing.” — champagne problems

“Walk past, quick brush—I don’t like slow motion double vision in rose blush. I don’t like that falling feels like flying ‘til the bone crush.” — gold rush

“If I wanted to know who you were hanging with while I was gone, I would’ve asked you.” — ‘tis the damn season

“I wait by the door like I’m just a kid.” — tolerate it

“They think she did it, but they just can’t prove it; they think she did it, but they just can’t prove it; she thinks I did it, but she just can’t prove it.” — no body, no crime ft. Haim

“In our history, across our great divide, there is a glorious sunrise, dappled with the flickers of light from the dress I wore at midnight. Leave it all behind and there is happiness.” — happiness

“The stars in your eyes shined brighter in Tupelo.” — dorothea

“Do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there? Will you forgive my soul when you’re too wise to trust me and too old to care?” — coney island ft. The National

“And the old widow goes to the stone every day, but I don’t—I just sit here and wait, grieving for the living.” — ivy

“We could be the way forward, and I know I’ll pay for it.” — cowboy like me

“And I fell from the pedestal, right down the rabbit hole—long story short, it was a bad time.” — long story short

“Never be so polite, you forget your power; never wield such power, you forget to be polite.” — marjorie

“Yes, I got your letter. Yes, I’m doing better. It cut deep to know ya, right to the bone.” — closure

“And I was catching my breath, barefoot in the wildest winter, catching my death.” — evermore ft. Bon Iver

“I stayed there, dust collected on my pinned-up hair.” — right where you left me

“That old, familiar body ache, the snaps from the same little breaks in your soul—you know when it’s time to go.” — it’s time to go

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Folklore, Taylor Swift

“We were something, don’t you think so? Roaring twenties, tossing pennies in the pool—and if my wishes came true, it would have been you.” — the 1

“I knew you tried to change the ending—Peter losing Wendy.” — cardigan

“They say she was seen on occasion, pacing the rocks, staring out at the midnight sea.” — the last great american dynasty

“I can see you staring, honey, like he’s just your understudy, like you’d get your knuckles bloody for me.” — exile ft. Bon Iver

“If I’m dead to you, why are you at the wake?” — my tears ricochet

“I’m still on that trapeze—I’m still trying everything to keep you looking at me.” — mirrorball

“Before I learned civility, I used to scream ferociously any time I wanted.” — seven

“‘Will you call when you’re back at school?’ I remember thinking I had you.” — august

“And my words shoot to kill when I’m mad—I have a lot of regrets about that.” — this is me trying

“And you know damn well, for you I would ruin myself a million little times.” — illicit affairs

“Cold was the steel of my axe to grind for the boys who broke my heart. Now I send their babies presents.” — invisible string

“Every time you call me crazy, I get more crazy—what about that?” — mad woman

“With you I serve, with you I fall down, down. Watch you breath in, watch you breathing out, out.” — epiphany

“Betty, right now is the last time I can dream about what happens when you see my face again.” — betty

“Would it be enough if I could never give you peace?” — peace

“You knew the hero died, so what’s the movie for?” — hoax

“Take me to the Lakes, where all the poets went to die—I don’t belong, and my beloved, neither do you.” — the lakes

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Lover, Taylor Swift

“And I would’ve stuck around for ya—would’ve fought the whole town, so yeah.” — I Forgot That You Existed

“And I snuck in through the garden gate every night that summer just to seal my fate, and I scream, ‘For whatever it’s worth, I love you—ain’t that the worst thing you’ve ever heard!’ (He looks up, grinning like a devil.)” — Cruel Summer

“We could leave the Christmas lights up ‘til January. This our place—we make the rules.” — Lover

“When everyone believes ya—what’s that like?” — The Man

“Who could ever leave me, darling . . . But who could stay?” — The Archer

“He’s got that boyish look like I like in a man. I am an architect—I’m drawing up the plans. He’s so obsessed with me, and boy, I understand— boy, I understand.” — I Think He Knows

“Running through rose thorns, I saw the scoreboard and ran for my life.” — Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince

“I like shiny things, but I’d marry you with paper rings.” — Paper Rings

“Baby, I get mystified by how this city screams your name, and baby, I’m so terrified of if you ever walk away—I’d never walk Cornelia Street again.” — Cornelia Street

“I dress to kill my time; I take the long way home. I ask the traffic lights if it’ll be all right—they say, ‘I don’t know.’” — Death By A Thousand Cuts

“He likes my American smile, like a child when our eyes meet.” — London Boy

“The buttons of my coat were tangled in my hair—in doctor’s office lighting, I didn’t tell you I was scared. That was the first time we were there.” — Soon You’ll Get Better ft. The Chicks

“I know Heaven’s a thing. I go there when you touch me—honey, Hell is when I fight with you.” — False God

“And I ain’t trying to mess with your self expression, but I’ve learned the lesson that stressin’ and obsessing ‘bout somebody else is no fun.” — You Need To Calm Down

“Fighting with a true love is boxing with no gloves.” — Afterglow

“Baby doll, when it comes to a lover, I promise that you’ll never find another like me!” — ME! ft. Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco

“Twenty questions; we tell the truth. You’ve been stressed out lately—yeah, me too.” — It’s Nice To Have A Friend

“Maybe you ran with the wolves and refused to settle down; maybe I stormed out of every single room in this town.” — Daylight

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Fearless (Taylor’s Version), Taylor Swift

“I don’t know why, but with you I’d dance in a storm in my best dress, fearless.” — Fearless (Taylor’s Version)

“In your life, you’ll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team.” — Fifteen (Taylor’s Version)

“You were Romeo—you were throwing pebbles, and my daddy said, ‘Stay away from Juliet!’” — Love Story (Taylor’s Version)

“I can’t help it if you look like an angel.” — Hey Stephen (Taylor’s Version)

“I’m not a princess; this ain’t a fairytale; I’m not the one you’ll sweep off her feet, lead her up the stairwell.” — White Horse (Taylor’s Version)

“Oh, I remember you driving to my house in the middle of the night—I’m the one who makes you laugh when you know you’re ‘bout to cry.” *clap, clap* — You Belong With Me (Taylor’s Version)

“People are people and sometimes it doesn’t work out.” — Breathe ft. Colbie Caillat (Taylor’s Version)

“And here’s to you and your temper—yes, I remember what you said last night.” — Tell Me Why (Taylor’s Version)

“And you got your share of secrets, and I’m tired of being last to know.” — You’re Not Sorry (Taylor’s Version)

“He can’t see the smile I’m faking, and my heart’s not breaking ‘cause I’m not feeling anything at all.” — The Way I Loved You (Taylor’s Version)

“And it rains in your bedroom—everything is wrong. It rains when you’re here and it rains when you’re gone.” — Forever and Always (Taylor’s Version)

“I don’t know who I’m gonna talk to now at school, but I know I’m laughing on the car ride home with you.” — The Best Day (Taylor’s Version)

“But I believe in whatever you do.” — Change (Taylor’s Version)

“We’re on the phone and, without a warning, I realize your laugh is the best sound I have ever heard.” — Jump Then Fall (Taylor’s Version)

“It’s half full and I won’t wait here all day.” — Untouchable (Taylor’s Version)

“I could stand up and sing you a song, but I don’t want to have to go that far.” — Come In With The Rain (Taylor’s Version)

“I knew from the first note played I’d be breaking all my rules to see you.” — Superstar (Taylor’s Version)

“Babe, if you know everything, tell me why you couldn’t see—when I left, I wanted you to chase after me.” — The Other Side of the Door (Taylor’s Version)

“Can you feel this magic in the air? It must have been the way you kissed me.” — Today Was A Fairytale (Taylor’s Version)

“Once the last drop of rain has dried off the pavement, shouldn’t I find a stain? But I never do.” — You All Over Me ft. Maren Morris (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

“It takes everything in me just to get up each day, but it’s wonderful to see that you’re okay.” — Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

“No one could touch the way we laughed in the dark, talking ‘bout your daddy’s farm—and you were gonna marry me.” — We Were Happy (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

“I said, ‘When can I come back?’” — That’s When ft. Keith Urban (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

“Don’t you smile at me and ask me how I’ve been.” — Don’t You (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

“Bye bye to everything I thought was on my side.” — Bye Bye Baby (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)

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Wasteland, Baby!, Hozier

“Power is my love when my love reaches to me.” — Nina Cried Power ft. Mavis Staples

“I’m almost me again; she’s almost you.” — Almost (Sweet Music)

“Move like grey skies, move like a bird of paradise, move like an odd sight come out at night.” — Movement

“Your secret is safe with me, and if secrets were like seeds—when I’m lying under marble, marvel at flowers you’ll have made.” — No Plan

“At first chance, I’d take the bed warmed by the body; I once warmed my hands over a burning Maserati.” — Nobody

“Who could ask you to be sound or to feel saved again? Just stick around until you hear that music play again.” — To Noise Making (Sing)

“The nights were as dark as my baby, and half as beautiful too.” — As It Was

“Remember me, love, when I’m reborn as a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn.” — Shrike

“I’d be the voice that urged Orpheus when her body was found; I’d be the choiceless hope in grief that drove him underground; I’d be the dreadful need in the devotee that made him turn around; and I’d be the immediate forgiveness in Eurydice—imagine being loved by me.” — Talk

“Be like the love that discovered the sin, that freed the first man and will do so again.” — Be

“Your friends are a fate that befell me—hell is the talking type. I’d suffer hell if you’d tell me what you’d do to me tonight.” — Dinner and Diatribes

“With each love I cut loose, I was never the same; watching still living roots be consumed by the flame.” — Would That I

“Whose heart would not take flight, betray the moon as acolyte on first and fierce affirming sight of sunlight?” — Sunlight

“All the fear and the fire of the end of the world happens each time a boy falls in love with a girl.” — Wasteland, Baby!