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favorite lyrics ➝ taylor swift | midnights pt. 2

[dearreader]

im once again thinking of taylor uses marriage in her songs as not literally but more metaphorically to show us, the reader/listener, what she was giving and promising. cause in high infidelity she says “dragged my feet right down the aisle” which is definitely her picking a guy at the age of 25 to settle down with because that’s what everyone wanted but her choosing wrong and her being stuck cause if she broke up with him it’s all “when’s the new album taylor?” and “she can’t keep a man” and so then we get stuff like the infamous locket post i posted earlier saying “one year down”, like she just ran a marathon.

like she was talking about this relationship as like “i’m doing it i’m doing it” and not “i’m in love”… and then you hear stuff like “lock broken, slur spoken” “your picket fences sharp as knives” or even her describing being with him long term (marriage) as suffocating and draining and she felt herself slowly dying praying for something, praying for attention it love from his person she now has to be with for life… like “dragged my feet right down the aisle” “at the house lonely” “wait by the door like i’m just a little kid” “my pain fits in the palm of your freezing hands taking mine, but it’s been promised to another” “walking all over my piece of mind, in the shoes i gave you as a present” “you said i was free loading” and so much more i can’t type out cause my phones dying so tumblrs being a butt about my typing speed.

but it just makes you think… what was it like behind closed doors? what was he saying or doing to her? we know from interviews that he didn’t like going to award shows with her unless he was nominated cause he was intimidated by her. so the reference to marriage we hear in folklore and evermore (and on high infidelity) are more about this idea of being trapped in a loveless marriage by outside forces, in both instances of fake and real marriage divorce is almost like being shunned by society and shamed for it since you promised your life to each other… and she was like “no more dating around i settled down… oh wait no wrong guy”

but then when we hear references on lover it’s more sweet. like “i take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover” and the final bridge of its nice to have a friend have it been more like, she’s willing to commit to him cause she’s seen what will come of a committed relationship to someone, she knows what can be said if it doesn’t work, but she isn’t worried this time cause she picked right

i don’t think i’m explaining it right but just… taylor using marriage as more of a metaphor for her life rather than actually being married is so interesting cause marriage is supposed to be this symbolic bond between two people of love forever but it’s being used here to both trap her but also be freeing to her in other relationships

[plainsimpletaylor]

Taylor Swift’s single era on Midnights, a lyric analysis

Here’s the thing: I think Taylor Swift has been in her single era for the past few months and she’s already told us about it on Midnights. Here’s an exploration of this theme on the album. (This is a long post but worth it.)

Dear Reader

Let’s start with Dear Reader because the outro is screaming that she’s single. The way Taylor Swift uses her own motifs that she’s been building across her entire career to really hammer this message home that she is alone just destroys me.

To Taylor, going home is going home to a lover. It’s the physical act of making a house a home. It is this gentle, comforting, cozy kind of love. Her specifying that she’s going a house instead of a home underlines that she’s alone. She is physically in a house, but she is not emotionally at home. And no one would take her word for it because her being alone is counter to the public narrative of her six-year relationship.

And just in case she wasn’t clear enough already, she emphasizes that she’s alone yet again by bringing in another of her motifs: that love is a game.

She is no longer playing a two-player game. She’s playing solitaire, which says in the name of the game itself how solitary it is. And then, to underscore this even further, absolutely no one is watching and seeing her play this game. (I have so many more thoughts on this lyric alone, but to avoid tangents here, I’ll write a different post to discuss that further at some point.)

So, with these two lyrics, she has established and emphasized several different ways that she’s alone. She’s single.

Now, let’s look at the lyric in between the two above. This is describing her feeling trapped in her own house. Here’s where Eras Tour visuals come in to align with this song.

‼️ Spoiler warning for eras tour visuals

Going “home” to Taylor has a specific meaning but so does a “house” because of the Lover House that represents her entire body of work so far. The Lover House is the house that Taylor built (or bought with the songs she wrote as she says in the Miss Americana documentary). It’s very significant that she is literally burning down the Lover House every single night at tour, and this lyric in Dear Reader gives more context to this visual.

In Dear Reader, the house is trapping her. Across all her work, Taylor has written over and over about cages and fences and boxes to evoke the feeling of being trapped. I find the use of the word “pen” here to be a very specific choice. "Pen” both means a physical pen locking something away as well as a writing instrument. She feels trapped inside this house that she built with her own writing.

I don’t think she resents her past work — but the narrative the public has created for her from it. Her early work is characterized by fairytale romances and idealizing the idea of marriage as a happy ending. And now, so many people keep expecting her to get married and have kids and retire so she can live out that narrative in real life. But as seen in other songs on Midnights like Lavender Haze, she’s decided that life isn’t for her.

So, she is burning down the Lover House, which represents the pen she feels trapped in, in order to be freed of the expectations the public has for her and have more control of her own public image and narrative.

Lavender Haze

The idea of feeling boxed in or trapped by societal roles and the public’s expectations is exemplified in Lavender Haze.

Her history is the Lover House and her career and the muses people assign to all of those songs. This is also her history of having written about an idealized version of marriage as a picture perfect happy ending. That is the standard to which a lot of the public is holding her to well over a decade later.

And now, she’s telling the public that she no longer wants that idea of marriage or that kind of happy ending. The lyric above is a critique of the entire societal standard that still categorizes women into two distinct boxes: either you’re the femme fatale temptress or the doting housewife. And she’d rather talk about anything else than whether or not she’ll get married.

She’s damned, or trapped, if she cares about the public’s expectations. She’ll be shoved into one of those two boxes: the temptress that can’t ever hold down a man or a doting housewife that’s expected to retire from her highly successful career in order to have children and that perfect happy ending.

And she especially does not want to be the housewife type figure. She directly says that doesn’t want that 1950s shit. It’s clear to me from this song that she wants to be successful in her career and just be herself without having all these expectations and gender roles forced upon her.

Lavender Haze is all about rejecting the traditional idea of marriage and charting her own path in life that’s outside of the public’s expectations. And the music video’s visuals support this, especially when the last shot is of her alone and seemingly happy without a lover.

This theme of rejecting the narrative that the public wants for her exists throughout Midnights because the album is about nights across her life, and her entire life has been shaped by her relationship with fame.

Midnight Rain

Obviously, the song that most directly echoes Lavender Haze in terms of rejecting the idea of marriage is Midnight Rain.

I don’t think Midnight Rain is about a recent time in her life, but she still chose to include a song about this on the album to further contribute to this theme of taking her narrative into her own hands. Midnight Rain positions Taylor as a complete opposite to the lover in the song — and by extension her career as opposite to that idealized fairytale happy ending type of romance.

Bejeweled

The entirety of Bejeweled sounds like it’s reflecting on a break up and getting back out there afterward. But for being in her single era, this one lyric stands out. And if you change the punctuation in “I don’t remember,” it can have two different meanings.

“I don’t remember” = whether or not she has a man is so unimportant she doesn’t remember for sure if she does or not

“I don’t, remember?” = I don’t have a man, why don’t you remember that?

The Bejeweled music video is also directly countering the fairytale happy ending romance. It’s a retelling of Cinderella where she ends up happy and alone. She literally turns down a proposal from the prince so that she can have her castle she won with her talent all to herself with her dragons/cats. That’s very single era to me.

You’re On Your Own, Kid

YOYOK is basically a pep talk she’s giving to her self about how she’s always been alone and how she can still be okay being alone. (cw: ed mention)

This specific lyric gets me because it’s once again a rejection of that idealized fairytale happy ending. Romance isn’t going to suddenly heal her like in the stories because real life isn’t a fairytale. Perfect magical kisses don’t exist.

At the end of the song, she realizes she’s always been alone and that’s a source of comfort. She’s always had the tools to handle whatever life throws at her all on her own.

Taylor Swift is in her single era, and that’s okay!

I realize after writing all this out that it sounds like she’s sad in being single, but I don’t think she is. Every single one of these songs, aside from Dear Reader, has an upbeat note to it in the production and melody as well as some of the lyrics. Dear Reader can come back around to being upbeat with the Eras Tour visuals of her burning down the Lover House and being freed from everyone’s expectations.

Each and every piece of this is an example of her reclaiming her narrative for herself — and working to define her career not by any of her relationships or the public’s expectations, but by what she wants and her talent and her artistry. She wants to stand alone and proud on her own. That is definitely a happy thing.

[dharshini25]

Best believe I’m still bejeweled💎✨💙

[marigoldprintss]

You’re on Your Own, Kid Sticker - Midnights album

Link to Redbubble shop

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ETN Season 3 guests as Taylor Swift lyrics

JC- “Some guy said my aura’s moonstone just ‘cause he was high” -Bejewled

Roi- “Got nothing in my brain” -Shake It Off

Teala- “It’s obvious that wanting me dead has really brought you two together” -mad woman

Colleen- “I don’t like your perfect crime, how you laugh when you lie” -Look What You Made Me Do

Safiya- “Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die” -the lakes

Rosanna- “We can plant a memory garden. Say a solemn prayer, place a poppy in my hair. There’s no morning glory it was war it wasn’t fair” -The Great War

Manny- “I hope I never lose you, hope it never ends” -Cornelia Street

Matt- “Never take advice from someone who’s falling apart” -Dear Reader

Nikita- “This is how the world works, you gotta leave before you get left” -I Did Something Bad

Joey- “and it’s fine to fake it till you make it till you do, till it’s true” Snow On the Beach

[bisluthq]

What kills me is that Travis mom seems much more likely to have done lyrical analysis than Travis… she was talking about how she listened to the album over and over and was blown away by how brilliant and insightful Taylor is, like clearly paying attention to the lyrics a lot, and saying she thinks it’s her best work. Then, she liked some random IG post of an article about how Joe Alwyn didn’t let Taylor Swift Bejewled (or smth to that effect) 💀💀 She also said there were a few she thought were about Travis, but needs to ask him haha. But what this most likely means is that she understood full well what was going on when she listened to her sons girlfriend’s song about masturbating to her ex while being in a relationship with her other ex 😭😭😭

unless she thinks guilty as sin is about Travis dude? Like if she doesn’t know the timeline maybe she’s like “oh that’s kinda cute they knew each other/of each other for a while and she was into him” and maybe like she didn’t consider it’s about Joe/Matty??? Idk??? Just spitballing?

[actual-sleeping-beauty]

FLASH ROUND!!

BFF to Teardrops On My Guitar Tayor

BFF to You Belong With Me MV Taylor

BFF to Our Song Taylor

BFF to I Knew You Were Trouble Taylor

BFF to Blank Space Taylor

BFF to Look What You Made Me Do Taylor

BFF to Lover Taylor

BFF to Cardigan Taylor

BFF to Willow Taylor

BFF to Bejeweled Taylor

Extras For Funsies if you want!!!

…Ready For It Taylor MV BFF?

Anti-Hero Taylor MV BFF?

End Game Taylor MV BFF?

Wildest Dreams Taylor MV BFF?

22 Taylor MV BFF?

Oh goodness this is a lot!

teardrops - @stars-alinged but instead it's me and you making a mess in chemistry

ybwm - @dessners for g reasons

our song - @jonismitchell because she is always writing!

ikywt - @ishouldhateyou bc this is what being in your early twenties is like lmao

blank space - @ftpanon bc that is some blank space mv level shit

lwymmd - @1989tv because i feel like all of the different taylors would enjoy your lyric-posting

lover - @hozierswift it just feels like your vibe bestie

cardigan - @faultlinegracie again, this is vibes based. specifically the mossy piano

willow - @danceinmybestdress you make edits, willow taylor plays her lute in the box. it's two creatives together

bejewled - @whatisamildopinion i feel like you would enjoy bejewled taylor's style and also bc your drawing reminded me of that color scheme

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I was tagged by @bodyelectric77 and y'all are about to be dissappointed.

Rules: In a new post, post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I....do not have a WIP folder. I only have one WIP at a time, and a notes app full of chapter titles/ideas. I sometimes start a doc and make like...bones of a story but its like phrases like "so and so nose. talk about x. trauma" Thats..honestly yeah how it goes BUT how about I give y'all a couple upcoming chapter titles? That..sounds fair? I mean you all know thats just taylor swift lyrics but. Yeah.

In the wildest winter catching my breath (which I hope to get up literally in the next few hrs)

Won't let nobody hurt you, won't let noone break your heart

Best Believe I'm still Bejewled (I can still make the whole place shimmer is an alternative title too)

Alls Well that ends well to end up with you

yeah they're taylor swift lyrics! we know this is what I produce!! I also like..barely know enough fic writers to do this okay! I love u bestie I love u besties im tagging

@kentwells @catoscloves @mollywog@tobns

[dearreader]

“sapphire tears on my face/sadness became my whole sky”

is such a gut wrenching because taylor essentially was turning her heartbreak into money, like she took her heartbreak and made it profitable for herself and others because if she broke up with someone it would sell papers.

like she was becoming monetized and every aspect of herself was being sold to the highest bidder, even in her darkest moments there was someone who was willing to sell it to make a quick buck, even her closest friend at the time was doing it to her.

like it’s just….. so heartbreaking

[meaningtotellyou]

I'm still fucking thinking about that Bejewled tweet. Like. Who the fuck are you?? 1. The creature has not done anything to be aligned with Taylor lyrics. 2. Like. You know she doesn't know you right?? Like. She's not your bestie. You're so parasocial it's creepy, and your racism is showing, get a fucking grip, Twitter person.

LIKE?????? what are these people even talking about!! they see one pap walk shot and think that creature is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to taylor i don’t fucking get it

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The bad batch but as Midnights song

So here is something absolutely no one asked for but here is what songs i think the batchers are on Midnights by Taylor Swift based on lyrics and vibes

Lavender haze - Omega

“All this shit is new to me”

Tell me this song is not her, I dare you. The beat, the vibes and everything about it

Maroon - Echo

“The lips i used to call home”

This has no real logical explanation besides from a fanfic I made up in my head about being echo’s S/O and them loosing him because of the citadel and them missing him and then getting him and the lips they used to call home back again. And then also recalling memories of spilling wine on each other

Anti-hero - Crosshair

How could I not? He is the anti hero of the batch if they ever had one.

However I dont think he is the problem, Its not his fault and to me he is still perfect.

“I wake up from dreaming one day i’ll watch as your leaving”

“I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror”

And for the crosshair girls: “it must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero”

Snow on the beach - Echo

Because sadly, man has insecurities

“You wanting me tonight feels impossible”

Also: “life is emotionally abusive” cause MAN HAS BEEN THROUGH IT

You’re on your own kid - Omega

This one is tough because well it could fit them all BUT I think it fits omega the most because well, She is the only kid and the only one of them that had ever gotten to feel like a kid

“Cause there were pages turned

With the bridges burned

Everything you lose is a step you take

So make the frienship bracelets

Take the moment and take it

You’ve Got no reason to be afraid”

Midnight rain - Crosshair

“I wanted that pain” enough said

Question… ? - Tech

Simply for the line: “i just may like some explanations”

I also feel like Tech would be one to day “thats nice, im sure that’s what’s suitable”

And just in general man would ask many questions

Vigilante shit - Crosshair

Okay so man seems like the type to get revenge when he has been wronged so this is just perfection for him

“Dont get sad, get even”

“Lately i’ve been dressing for revenge”

Bejewled - Wrecker

Simply for the vibes

Lanyrinth - Hunter

Hunter again because this line:

“You know how much i hate that everybody just expects me to bounce back”

Bonus!

Wrecker in this one specific line:

“You know how scared I am of elevators” from that one scene during clone wars where he is scared to get on the escalator and asks how far up they are going.

Sweet nothing - Echo

Seems like a sweet nothing type of guy

“ you’re in the kitchen humming’ he is a humming in the kitchen type of person and he also doesnt want anything from his partner except for their pressence and time

Mastermind - Tech

Man is a mastermind and man would make a very detailed plan to get you to fall in love with him after doing an insane amount of research so yes, he is the mastermind and i will take no arguments

“To asses the equation of you”

“I laid the groundwork and then just like clockwork the dominos cascaded in a line”

“And now you’re mine, it was all by design”

“Cause im a mastermind”

The great war - all of them

They all fought in the clone wars except for Omega but she was still effected.

I honestly cant listen to this without thinking of them

“ flashes of the battle come back to me like a blur”

“It turned into something bigger

Somewhere in the haze, Got a sense i’d been betrayed”

Them when they found out about the chips

Bigger than the whole sky - the whole batch minus tech

The batch after they thought they lost Tech in the season 2 finale. THEY THOUGHT THEY LOST HIM BUT THEY DIDNT CAUSE HE SURVIVED OKAY. HE IS ALIVE AND I REFUSE TO BELIEVE ANYTHING ELSE

“Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

You were bigger than the whole sky”

Paris - Hunter when in love

“I want to brainwash you into loving me forever”

High infedelity - Crosshair

"You know there's many different ways that you can kill the one you love The slowest way is never loving them enough"

i'm just gonna go cry if you'll excuse me

Glitch - Hunter

"i was supposed to sweat you out"

would totally be the type of guy to try and swet someone out

would've, could've, should've - omega

"Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first"

dear reader - the entire batch

"Dear reader If it feels like a trap, you're already in one Dear reader Get out your map, pick somewhere and just run"

enough said

Thank you for your time and i apologise for the Crosshair songs

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Taylor Swift Midnights Sticker - Lavender Haze