#cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned / everything you lose is a step you take

[shivrcys]

'You're On Your Own KId' is such a Hürrem coded song

[shvroyism]

Literally what listening to the You’re on your own, kid bridge feels like

[bitethehandthatneedsme]

you’re on your own kid is so stanford sam……….

[glowingin-thedark]

If y’all absolute heathens could quit making the broken ass link between Bucky and Anti-Hero when Sweet Nothing, The Great War, and You’re On Your Own Kid are RIGHT THERE i would Deeply Appreciate It. Bucky is not and has never been an Anti-Hero, he is Literally a conscripted soldier turned POW & torture victim for 70 FUCKING YEARS and i will not stand for this slander of his character.

[daeneryssansa]

'Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned. Everything you lose is a step you take. So make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it. You've got no reason to be afraid.

[allamericansbitch]

Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned Everything you lose is a step you take So make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it You've got no reason to be afraid You're on your own, kid, yeah, you can face this You're on your own, kid, you always have been

[coldasyou]

Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned Everything you lose is a step you take So make the friendship bracelets Take the moment and taste it You've got no reason to be afraid 

-insp

[monica-geller]

I HOSTED PARTIES AND STARVED MY BODY LIKE I'D BE SAVED BY A PERFECT KISS THE JOKES WEREN'T FUNNY I TOOK THE MONEY MY FRIENDS FROM HOME DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY I LOOKED AROUND IN A BLOOD SOAKED GOWN AND I SAW SOMETHING THEY CAN'T TAKE AWAY CAUSE THERE WERE PAGES TURNED WITH THE BRIDGES BURNED EVERYTHING YOU LOSE IS A STEP YOU TAKE SO MAKE THE FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS TAKE THE MOMENT AND TASTE IT YOU'VE GOT NO REASON TO BE AFRAID YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN KID YEAH YOU CAN FACE THIS YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN KID YOU ALWAYS HAVE BEEN

[indouloureux]

FROM SPRINKLER SPLASHES TO FIREPLACE ASHES I GAVE MY BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS FOR THIS I HOSTED PARTIES AND STARVED MY BODY LIKE I'D BE SAVED BY A PERFECT KISS THE JOKES WEREN'T FUNNY I TOOK THE MONEY MY FRIENDS FROM HOME DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY I LOOKED AROUND IN A BLOOD SOAKED GOWN AND I SAW SOMETHING THEY CAN'T TAKE AWAY 'CAUSE THERE WERE PAGES TURNED WITH THE BRIDGES BURNED EVERYTHING YOU LOSE IS A STEP YOU TAKE SO MAKE THE FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS TAKE THE MOMENT AND TASTE IT YOU GOT NO REASON TO BE AFRAID YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN KID YEAH YOU CAN FACE THIS YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN KID YOU ALWAYS HAVE BEEN.

[alltootayloralisonswift]

from sprinkler splashes

to fireplace ashes

i gave my blood, sweat and tears

for this

i hosted parties and starved my body, like i’d be saved by the perfect kiss

the jokes weren't funny, i took the money, my friends from home don't know what to say

i looked around in a blood-soaked gown and i saw something they can't take away

'cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned

everything you lose is a step you take

so make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it, you've got no reason to be afraid

[daisyswift3]

You’re Losing Me Analysis

I wanted to do a short analysis on You’re Losing Me. My first impression of this song is that it’s another breakup song addressed to her fans in allegorical form like high infidelity (see this post). There are multiple lyrics that substantiate this interpretation. It’s horribly ironic that swifties think this is a song abt Joe when it’s really abt them and their refusal to SEE her. I’m more certain than ever now that the eras tour is a goodbye to her fans before she comes out

You say “I don’t understand” and I say “I know you don’t” // This is reminiscent of the bridge of Dear Reader. These desperate prayers of a cursed man spilling out to you for free but darling, darling, please, you wouldn't take my word for it if you knew who was talking. There is a communication issue between her and her fans. Her fans don’t know who she really is and are gonna be really confused when she comes out bc they thought they knew her

We thought a cure would come through in time…Now I just sit in the dark and wonder if it’s time // This parallels the archer. Should she stay in her dark closet or step into the daylight? Dark side, I search for your dark side. But what if I'm alright, right, right, right here? Also the mention of time makes me think of “meet me at midnight” and all the clock/time imagery she’s been using lately alluding to a countdown. Spring breaks loose, the time is near / Are we only biding time 'til I lose your attention? Her Cinderella facade is abt to expire at midnight

The heartbeat is an obvious callback to wildest dreams which she includes twice in the setlist, once in the 1989 era and once in the seven spoken word poem which again makes use of this Cinderella metaphor. This poem essentially tells her fans “You can cling onto this idealized version of me in my Cinderella dress or you can meet the real me at midnight”

Do I throw out everything we built or keep it? // Again the archer. Should she come out and potentially ruin her career and her relationship w her fans or stay in the closet? She chose the first option and burned the lover house down. Dear reader burn all the files, desert all your past lives / He's gonna burn this house to the ground…So yeah it’s a fire it’s a goddamn blaze in the dark / 'Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned. Everything you lose is a step you take. So make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it. You've got no reason to be afraid

You might have just dealt the final blow // Don’t Blame Me transitioning into LWYMMD. Her singing “The old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Because she’s dead” while all the glass closets keeping her past selves trapped shatter and they walk out finally freed. The Anti Hero mv where her daughter in law (representing the hardcore swifties) is the person that kills her and the younger son (gaylors) points this out which enrages her and sparks a brawl. Happiness, which includes a reference to the Cinderella/midnight metaphor, being a eulogy to the old Taylor and her relationship w her fans—“dappled with the flickers of light from the dress I wore at midnight, leave it all behind”

These lyrics make it pretty clear who she’s talking to imo. How can you say that you love someone you can’t tell is dying? I sent you signals // Sending signals to be double crossed / You didn’t even hear me out, I gave so many signs so many times

Now you’re running down the hallway // Dear reader, get out your map, pick somewhere and just run

I gave you all my best me’s, my endless empathy // After giving you the best I had, tell me what to give after that

Fighting in only your army, frontlines // Combat, I’m ready for combat / So yeah it’s a war, it’s the goddamn fight of my life

A pathological people pleaser who only wanted you to see her // All of mirrorball and Nothing New. The Dear Reader bridge. They see right through me. Can you see right through me? The delicate mv. Giant Taylor begging the audience to see her in the eras tour Anti Hero performance and storming off after being ignored

Gif courtesy of @iwanthermidnightz

Lastly this track follows Dear Reader and when read together it sounds like she’s telling her fans goodbye

[theoldtaylors]

i'm not saying that yoyok live would solve ALL my problems but i am saying that summer went away still the yearning stays I play it cool with the best of them I wait patiently he's gonna notice me it's okay we're the best of friends anyway I hear it in your voice you're smoking with your boysI touch my phone as if it's your face I didn't choose this town I dream of getting out there's just one who could make me stay all my days from sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes I waited ages to see you there I search the party of better bodies just to learn that you never cared you're on your own kid you always have been I see the great escape so long daisy may I picked the petals he loves me not something different bloomed writing in my room I play my songs in the parking lot I'll run away from sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes I called a taxi to take me there I search the party of better bodies just to learn that my dreams aren't rare you're on your own kid you always have been from sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this I hosted parties and starved my body like I'd be saved by a perfect kiss the jokes weren't funny I took the money my friends from home don't know what to say I looked around in a blood soaked gown and I saw something they can't take away cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned everything you lose is a step you take so make the friendship bracelets take the moment and taste it you've got no reason to be afraid you're on your own kid yeah you can face this you're on your own kid you always have been

[ivy-covered-mirrorball]

so the page turning thing taylor is doing made me think:

'Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned/Everything you lose is a step you take'

like. burning bridges. burning the lover house. burning her past.

'Spring breaks loose, but so does fear/He's gonna burn this house to the ground'.

what if 'he' is the heteronormative view she has had to pander to? and by coming out, by turning the page to reveal her truth, her queerness, she is allowing her past to be burned and destroyed in the name of love? BUT. ivy ends with

'My house of stone, your ivy grows/And now I'm covered/In you'

her house is STONE. you Cant burn STONE. her Real self is safe, and covered in the growth of love and new beginnings. she was afraid of coming out bc she was afraid of losing Everything, but realized somewhere along the way thats ok. she has what matters. besides:

'So make the friendship bracelets/Take the moment and taste it/You've got no reason to be afraid'

after all!! i'm not saying comingoutlor but...

[bejeweled-13]

Some of my favorite Taylor Swift lyrics are the ones where she changes the perspective on the situation at the end of a (usually) sad song. Here are some examples:

"Long story short, it was a bad time. Long story short, I survived" ~ 'Long Story Short'

"And I couldn't be sure I had a feeling so peculiar this pain wouldn't be for evermore" ~ 'Evermore'

"'Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned. Everything you lose is a step you take. So make the friendship bracelets. Take the moment and taste it. You've got no reason to be afraid. You're on your own, kid. Yeah, you can face this" ~ 'You're On Your Own Kid'

"The day is gonna come for your confessions of love. When all is said and done, he just wasn't the one. No, he just wasn't the one" ~ 'Foolish One'

[glowingin-thedark]

“I see the great escape, so long, Daisy Mae

I picked the petals, he loves me not

Something different bloomed, writing in my room

I play my songs in the parking lot

I'll run away”

[woso-dreamzzz]

how you do the lyric things for princesse, what about you’re on your own kid for bambi 😭

Another nerdy analysis!

TW for Bambi's eating disorder

Summer went away Still, the yearning stays I play it cool with the best of them Bambi's childhood leaving her after Jaume is born and how she just kind of accepts it while still yearning for attention she doesn't get

I wait patiently He's gonna notice me It's okay, we're the best of friends Anyway Bambi waiting on the attention from Alexia or at least any idea that Alexia still cares about her

I hear it in your voice You're smoking with your boys Alexia constantly being out with the team or with Olga and Jaume while Bambi is pushed to the side

I touch my phone as if it's your face I didn't choose this town I dream of getting out Bambi wishing she could stay with Alba and Jenni rather than going back to Alexia

There's just one who could make me stay All my days But Alexia's attention and love being offered makes it so easy for Bambi to go back to her

From sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes I waited ages to see you there Bambi's waited so long for the attention that she doesn't even care if it comes late just so long as she has it

I search the party of better bodies Just to learn that you never cared Bambi believing that Alexia never actually cared about her, that she was just the 'test run' so Alexia could be the perfect mother to Jaume

You're on your own, kid You always have been Bambi has always been isolated in her family, at least in her own opinion. She doesn't quite fit

I see the great escape So long, Daisy May I picked the petals, he loves me not Jenni taking Bambi to Mexico and Bambi coming to the conclusion that it's because Alexia doesn't love her

Something different bloomed Writing in my room I play my songs in the parking lot I'll run away Bambi further isolating herself further by choosing dance over football and the way it just pushes Alexia further away from her

From sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes I called a taxi to take me there Bambi might as well be taking herself to dance because Alexia would never stick around and she never fully knew Bambi's schedule

I search the party of better bodies Just to learn that my dreams aren't rare Bambi can never live up to Alexia's dreams of having a footballer daughter and they both have to come to terms with that

You're on your own, kid You always have been Bambi's always been fairly by herself. She's not the best socially so she doesn't really have friends when she's younger

From sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this Bambi worked super hard to do ballet. She's truly sweat, cried and bled for her dance

I hosted parties and starved my body Like I'd be saved by a perfect kiss Bambi suffers with an eating disorder in both versions. She's truly starved her body before and she desperately craves someone taking care of her when she's an adult because for years she felt like she didn't deserve it

The jokes weren't funny, I took the money My friends from home don't know what to say All of the Barcelona girls not knowing how to react during Bambi's hoe era and when she brings much older women home

I looked around in a blood-soaked gown And I saw something they can't take away Bambi bleeding in her pointe shoes from practising too hard and just holding onto her dancing because it's the one thing that's been with her since she was very young

'Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned Everything you lose is a step you take Alexia burning bridges by giving Bambi up in Jenni's Version and her actions towards Bambi burning bridges between her and Alba

So make the friendship bracelets Take the moment and taste it You've got no reason to be afraid Bambi growing up and dancing professionally. Coming out of her hoe era and meeting her girlfriend (depending on the version) and everything suddenly just making sense for her

You're on your own, kid Yeah, you can face this You're on your own, kid You always have been Alexia choosing to either keep or let Jenni keep Bambi but either way Bambi actually gets attention and begins to thrive. But the trauma stays with her forever