#if i heard i was so ahead of the curve the curve became a sphere fell behind all my classmates and i ended up here

[vonlipvig]

speaking of being a swiftie, she played THIS IS ME TRYING as a secret song yesterday??? sincerely i would just curl up into a ball and die

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

Might do a version with other singers

Alex I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere / Screaming “who could ever leave me, darling" but who could stay? / I once believed love would be black and white, but it's golden / They all wanna be ya, but are you still the same soul I met under the bleachers? / They say home is where the heart is, but that's not where mine lives / I search the party of better bodies, just to learn that my dreams aren't rare / They see right through me, I see right through me / And I screamed for whatever it's worth, “I love you," ain't that the worst thing you ever heard? / Karma is the guy on the screen, coming straight home to me Claremont-Diaz

and

Henry With my calamitous love and insurmountable grief / Would it be enough if I could never give you peace? / I know better, but I still feel you all around / You are not like the regulars, the masquerade revelers, drunk as they watch my shattered edges glisten / To you I can admit, than I’m just too soft for all of it / I’m the one who burned us / I looked around in a blood-soaked gown, and I saw something they can't take away / All of this silence and patience, pining and desperately waiting / And they’ll tell you now you’re the lucky one Fox

and

June Something different bloomed, writing in my room / He was sunshine, I was midnight rain / Lord, what will become of me once I've lost my novelty? / It turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you / Could all be separated from my good ideas and power moves? / You take my hand and drag me head first, fearless / I don't like slow motion, double vision in rose blush / I jump from the train, I ride off alone / I hate accidents, except when we went from friends to this Claremont-Diaz

and

Nora I'm damned if I do give a damn what people say / I wake in the night, I pace like a ghost / What's a girl gonna do? A diamond's gotta shine / Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room? / Baby, we're the new romantics. The best people in life are free / You don't know about me, but I'll bet you want to / And I got that red lip classic thing that you like / Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend / I’m so sick of running as fast as I can Holleran

and

Pez When I walk in the room, I can still make the whole place shimmer / Swear to be overdramatic and true / He got that boyish look that I like in a man / You know how much I hate that everybody just expects me to bounce back / I'll be summer sun for you forever / And when you find everything you looked for, I hope your life will lead you back to my door / He smiles, it’s like the radio / I love each freckle on your face / What if I told you none of it was accidental? And the first night that you saw me nothing was gonna stop me Okonjo

and

Bea What a shame she went mad / I should've asked you how to be, asked you to write it down for me / I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror / Got the radio on, my old blue jeans / And by the way, I’m going out tonight / Karma’s gonna track you down, step by step, from town to town / Everything you lose is a step you take / If a man talks shit then I owe him nothing / All your closets of backlogged dreams, and how you left them all to me Fox

[taylorswiftandx]

Taylor Swift and Becoming

'Taylor Swift'

(no becoming)

'Fearless (Taylor's Version)'

Bye Bye Baby: Feels like I'm becoming a part of your past

'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)'

(no becoming)

'Red (Taylor's Version)'

Better Man: I wonder what we would've become if you were a better man

Nothing New: Lord, what will become of me once I've lost my novelty?

Message In A Bottle: And I became hypnotized by freckles and bright eyes, tongue tied

'1989 (Taylor's Version)'

Wonderland: Haven't you heard what becomes of curious minds?

'reputation'

New Year's Day: Please don't ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere

'Lover'

Cornelia Street: Sacred new beginnings that became my religion, listen

Daylight: And so I became the butt of the joke

'folklore'

This Is Me Trying: I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere

'evermore'

Ivy: So tell me to run or dare to sit and watch what we'll become and drink my husband's wine

'Midnights'

Anti-Hero: Midnights become my afternoons

Bejeweled: Sapphire tears on my face, sadness became my whole sky

Bigger Than The Whole Sky: Every single thing I touch becomes sick with sadness

Other Songs written by Taylor

The Alcott: Have I become one of your problems?

Official Alternate Releases

(no becoming)

[persephoneed]

Tag War: Last Line

This time I was tagged by @anotherbluesunday - thank you so much, lovely!! ❤️❤️

Here’s another snippet from chapter 5 of “i was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere” aka the wyler time loop au (gotta shamelessly self-plug lol)

The “old meeting house,” as it’s called, is closed for renovation, but that doesn’t discourage them; they pick the lock with ease and enter undetected. The first thing that catches Wednesday’s eye is an imposing portrait of a middle aged pilgrim - stern and unforgiving in his expression. Tyler stops beside her.

“That was the head magistrate, Joseph Crackstone. I think he’s related to the Gates family - I don’t really remember where I heard that from.”

Tagging my friend @chaoticstupiddm because you just updated but I’m greedy and I want more Monsters and Woes lol. Also anyone else who wants to participate, please consider yourself tagged!!!

[septembersghost]

Hey jess 💜 what's your favorite lyric from each taylor swift album?

hi liv!!! 😘💜 ooooh, i love this question too and it's ALSO hard to answer - i just know i'm going to expose myself as a sad girlie here lol. there are lyrics of hers i dearly love that are much more specific to her own journey, and there are ones i tend to keep in my pocket that resonate very personally to me for various reasons.

my favorite singular lyrics aren't even necessarily from my favorite complete song on an album, which is interesting too!

debut: and you come away with a great little story, of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you (cold as you)

fearless: the music starts playing like the end of a sad movie, it's the kind of ending you don't really wanna see, 'cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down. now i don't know what to be without you around (breathe)

speak now: i took your matches before fire could catch me, so don't look now, i'm shining like fireworks over your sad empty town (dear john. almost chose a MUCH sadder line from this song - well maybe it's me and my blind optimism to blame, or maybe it's you and your sick need to give love and take it away - but that bridge is so cathartic.)

also: hold on, to spinning around, confetti falls to the ground, may these memories break our fall (long live)

red: so you were never a saint, and i've loved in shades of wrong, we learn to live with the pain, mosaic broken hearts, but this love is brave and wild (state of grace. every line? these are the hands of fate, you're my achilles' heel, this is the golden age of something good and right and real!)

also!: time won't fly, it's like i'm paralyzed by it. i'd like to be my old self again, but i'm still trying to find it (all too well)

1989: lantern burning, flickered in the night for only you, but you were still gone; in losing grip, on sinking ships, you showed up just in time (this love)

also (i know i've cheated three times now): the water filled my lungs, i screamed so loud, but no one heard a thing. rain came pouring down, when i was drowning, that's when i could finally breathe (clean)

reputation: all my flowers grew back as thorns, windows boarded up after the storm, he built a fire just to keep me warm (call it what you want)

lover: i wake in the night, i pace like a ghost, the room is on fire, invisible smoke, and all of my heroes die all alone, help me hold on to you (the archer)

folklore: HOW does one choose a favorite lyric off of folklore?! help! i'm listing more for this, i have to!

i'm still a believer, but i don't know why. i've never been a natural, all i do is try, try, try (mirrorball)

to live for the hope of it all (august)

love you to the moon and to saturn, passed down like folk songs, the love lasts so long (seven)

i'm a fire, and i'll keep your brittle heart warm if your cascade ocean wave blues come, all these people think love's for show, but i would die for you in secret (peace)

chains around my demons, wool to brave the seasons. one single thread of gold tied me to you (invisible string)

they told me all of my cages were mental ... i was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere, fell behind on my classmates, and i ended up here (this is me trying)

what should be over burrowed under my skin in heart-stopping waves of hurt ... my calamitous love and insurmountable grief (the lakes)

evermore: when i was shipwrecked, i thought of you, in the cracks of light, i dreamed of you. it was real enough to get me through (evermore)

i'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones in a faith-forgotten land (ivy)

now you hang from my lips like the gardens of babylon, with your boots beneath my bed, forever is the sweetest con (cowboy like me)

conclusively i have no self-restraint 😌💖✨🎶

[taysbaebe]

some of my favourite taylor swift lyrics of all time

“hell was the journey but it brought me heaven” — invisible string, folklore

“is it insensitive for me to say, get your shit together? so i can love you. is it really your anxiety that stops you from giving me everything? or do you just not want to?” — renegade

“i’m still on that trapeze, i’m still trying everything to keep you looking at me” — mirrorball, folklore

“i can’t make you go away by making you a villain” — happiness, evermore

“please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh i could recognise anywhere” — new year’s day, reputation

“a red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground, with no one around to tweet it” — the lakes, folklore

“i hate to make this about me, but who am i supposed to talk to? what am i supposed to do if there’s no you?” — soon you’ll get better, lover

“i was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere. fell behind all my classmates and i ended up here.” — this is my trying, folklore

“fighting with a true love is boxing with no gloves, chemistry ‘till it blows up, ‘till there’s no us” — afterglow, lover

“you drew stars around my scars, but now i’m bleeding” — cardigan, folklore

“i’m so sick of running as fast as i can, wondering if i’d get there quicker if i was a man” — the man, lover

“so casually cruel in the name of being honest. i’m a crumbled up piece of paper lying here” — all too well, red tv

“stood on the cliffside screaming, give me a reason” — hoax, folklore

“from sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes. i gave my blood, sweat and tears for this.” — you’re on your own kid, midnights

“and i lived in your chess game. but you changed the rules everyday.” — dear john, speak now

“the water filled my lungs, i screamed so loud but no one heard a thing.” — clean, 1989

[cowboy-like-moony]

Song/lyrics that you can really relate to?

People Watching and Crush Culture by Conan Gray (I clearly have a very exiting love life)

this is me trying by Taylor Swift especially the lyrics "They told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potentiall and my words shoot to kill when I'm mad, I have a lot of regrets about that. I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere. Fell behind on my classmates, and I ended up here..." (oh my god she's insane she wrote a song about me) I also relate to Never Grow Up

Brutal by Olivia Rodrigo, like I actually was crying because of something the day the song came out and I said some of the lyrics to my mother (before I heard the song I mean, also it weren't the exact same lyrics because I was speaking German, but it was the same sentiment) and then I listend to it and I was like "oh"

idontwannabeyouanymore by Billie Eilish (I swear I'm fine, I probably also relate to happier, I'm just having trouble thinking of any right now)

I also relate to the first verse of Scrawny because I also don't untie my shoes, freak myself out and can't deal with change (I can't sleep with the light on tho)

[friendandfolklore]

Taylor really HEARD ME with this banger

“I’ve been having a hard time adjusting;

I had the shiniest wheels, now they’re rusting”

“They told me all of my cages were mental,

So I got wasted like all my potential”

“I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere”

Like??? Did you read my journal

[mosaicc-brokenn-heartss]

some of my playlists for u:

good morning 🌞 - wake up, it’s a beautiful morning.

✨u r the protagonist✨ - the key to survival is to live slow, live fast and feel alive.

vacanza italiano - for daydreaming about vacations with my mafia husband

i wanna be the girl you’re singing about - i always wanted to be one of those girls whose name was a the title of a magical song, so this is a celebration of the it girls in music

hanging out with myself - when you're on your own, in your own space, with your own thoughts and alternating between being okay with that and not.

stars hollow soundtrack ✩ - songs that feel like an autumnal day in stars hollow, a cup of coffee at luke's and falling in love over and over again (how it feels to be a gilmore girl)

summer lovin’ - how it feels to be in love with someone in the endless days of heat.

an ode to friendships that feel warm - for when you find people that feel like sunshine

r e s e t & d e t o x - to clear your head, heart, mind and soul. 

in love with my future - for manifesting and holding onto hope for the idealised dream of being independent, happy and stable

green fingers 🌿 - a playlist for gardening, planting and watering... to help my plants grow, feel loved and safe.

wes anderson sounds - (music from: bottle rocket, rushmore, the royal tenenbaums, the life aquatic with steve zissou, the darjeeling limited, fantastic mr. fox, moonrise kingdom, the grand budapest hotel, isle of dogs, the french dispatch)

❁ ghibli ❁ - “Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through.”

cottagecore 🍄 - looking for faeries and picking fruit

what if we hold hands and lay in a field of wild flowers? 🌸 - (plural noun): a flower of an uncultivated variety or a flower growing freely without human intervention. // romantic picnic bitch energy

little adventures - for all of life's mini adventures: supermarket trips, museums, getting lost in the countryside, taking detours, walking down quiet streets... climbing, exploring, taking it all in.

young, free and running wild - you'll never be this young again. you are free to be whoever you need to be. you can explore. you're filled with premature nostalgia for the moments you are currently living. you love the things and people around you with all of your being. 

to the seaside - the air is easier to breathe here. 

sunset songs - tunes for when the sun goes down. time to unwind and process the day.

your eyes meet across the room - you've never seen them before and don't know their name but you want to find out every secret they've ever had. you'd spend the rest of the night at their side. the colour of their eyes is your new favourite shade.

rooftop euphoria - let's climb up as high as this city can take us and look down at the world beneath us. let's remember how small we are and find some comfort in it.

the days when the sadness is quiet - it's never gone, not really, but some days your heart feels overwhelmingly lighter, and it's easier to find the light.

classics that make me feel something - songs you can't remember actually learning the lyrics to, that set your soul on fire.

i’m in love with al pacino! - my heart belongs to johnny, sonny, bobby, tony, arthur and michael

burnt out gifted kid energy - i was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere

political angst - make your voice heard. fight with everything you have. don’t let them stop your power.

you + me in the backseat - in the backseat of the car. your soundtrack drowns out anything but your feelings. fire burns inside you.

lullabiezzz - songs to fall asleep to

memory lane - walking hand in hand through the past. for nostalgia and remembering it all too well.

hometown nostalgia - you know every street corner. you remember everything and everyone you loved here.

the end of the world - the sun is rising over the hill for the last time. you don't have enough hands to hold everyone. all of the hate you once had doesn't matter anymore. you cling onto the memories and take a deep breath.

slow mornings with you - warmth seeping through the curtains. knowing you have nowhere to be. before toothpaste. stillness. contentment. being with your person.

oh no, i’m in love - the penny has dropped

stay close to me - for the kind of love you hope stays forever. for the kind of love you never want to put down. 

we’re driving into the sunset and your hand is on my knee - the wind is in your hair. the streets are empty. the radio is too loud. all you know is that you're in love with the person in the seat beside you. 

growing pains - time isn't stopping and we're all getting too old and our youth is slipping away

dissociation station // music to switch off to - wondering how you'll ever have the strength to rejoin the world around you.

slow dancing in the kitchen - barefoot in the kitchen, swaying with hips pressed together, noses brushing, comforted by each other's laughs, soft singing voices and declarations of happiness at being close to the other person.

rainy daze - rainy days and mondays always get me down

longing for escape - take my hand. we’ve been stuck for too long. let's get out of this town. we won't look back.

under the stars ✧ - come sit with me. we'll trace constellations in the sky.

ravenclaw common room - "Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, where those of wit and learning, will always find their kind."

sneaking out to meet you at midnight - the thrill of climbing out the window, making you way to your secret hiding place, and having a person to pour all your romanticism into, waiting for you. 

end of love - you're unsure how or why you got here, but now it's over and you can't stop feeling.

eternal - (adjective: eternal; noun: Eternal): lasting or existing forever; without end.

ethereal goddess shit 🌙 - pov: you are an ethereal goddess and everything you touch and embody is magic.

touch starved <3 - sexy shit...

eiffel for you - a french summer. you drink coffee and eat a pastry at a café. beautiful women and couples in love stroll by. the air is crisp and sweet. 

new city, big dreams - a place just for you. boxes of your past life surround you. a new life awaiting. your look out at the city. it's been waiting for you.

dreamy turner ♡ - pov: you've been in love with alex turner for over a decade

bookstore daze 📚 - bibliophile (noun): a person who collects or has a great love of books.

instrumentals - // for reading and writing and studying // (classical, ghibli, wes anderson, disney, romance, cinema)

let’s feel things 🍷 (a playlist for drinking red wine) - songs for late night wine drunk dancing, tears and feelings. 

i’d do it all over again - a million times over without regret.

witching hour 🕯- for all your witching hour needs.

the last train - for those half-awake train journeys

great space race 🪐 - let's take a rocketship to space.

coffee breath - you can tell a lot about a person from the way they take their coffee.

meloncholia - my sadness is sending me into the abyss (this is a mess but it's all the songs that make me feel sad)

‘isn’t it too dreamy?’ - twin peaks inspired // (mostly for audrey horne, the love of my life, my bisexual awakening)

seething 👿 - when your blood boils

[chickawah23]

Excuse me Ella...what?!

So I’m finally listening to the album and “California” by Lorde...

Bruh 👀

Like I’m honestly starting to think Taylor and her artist friends like Jack and Ella all are on a discord server or Google doc where they write in prose and get feedback and share ideas. Because so many themes overlap so easily across these bodies of work. It feels like they were born out of conceptual chats with creative friends and we are just watching how each of these creative people interpret the same concept. If that makes sense.

______

Below are just lyrical parallels that came to mind as i was listening to the song for the first time.

“And I can still see it all (In my head). Back and forth from New York (Sneaking in your bed). I once believed love would be (Burning red) but it's golden like daylight.” - Daylight

“You're a bandit like me. Eyes full of stars. Hustling for the good life never thought I'd meet you here. It could be love. We could be the way forward. And I know I'll pay for it.” - cowboy like me

“As if you were a mythical thing. Like you were a trophy or a champion ring. And there was one prize I'd cheat to win” - willow

“So I'll go back to L.A. and the so-called friends who'll write books about me if I ever make it and wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I'm fakin'. And the heart I know I'm breakin' is my own to leave the warmest bed I've ever known. We could call it even. Even though I'm leaving. And I'll be yours for the weekend.” - tis the damn season

“Rebekah gave up on the Rhode Island set forever. Flew in all her Bitch Pack friends from the city. Filled the pool with champagne and swam with the big names and blew through the money on the boys and the ballet.” - TLGAD

“Take me to the Lakes where all the poets went to die I don't belong and, my beloved, neither do you. Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry. I'm setting off, but not without my muse.” - the lakes

“But there's robbers to the east, clowns to the west. I'd give you my sunshine, give you my best. But the rain is always gonna come if you're standin' with me.” - peace

The “gifted children” line I heard two ways.

“Give you my wild, give you a child.” - peace

“I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere. Fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here. - this is me trying

“Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen? Time went on for everybody else, she won't know it. She's still twenty-three inside her fantasy. How it was supposed to be.” - RWYLM

“I never grew up, it's getting so old. Help me hold on to you.” - The Archer

“I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet 'cause I haven't moved in years and I want you right here. A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground with no one around to tweet it. While I bathe in cliffside pools with my calamitous love and insurmountable grief.” - the lakes

“All these people think love's for show but I would die for you in secret. The devil's in the details, but you got a friend in me.” - peace

“And the coastal town we wandered 'round had never seen a love as pure as it. And then it fades into the gray of my day old tea 'cause you know it could never be.” And “ And the coastal town we never found will never see a love as pure as it 'cause it fades into the gray of my day old tea 'cause it will never be.” - gold rush

[stuckonvenus]

This Is Me Trying ↠ Ellie & Gabe

❝ I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere Fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here Pourin' out my heart to a stranger But I didn't pour the whiskey, I just wanted you to know That this is me trying . ❞

( @outoftheashcs )

The day was young, with the smog in the sky shifting from the inky black that signaled nighttime to a grungy pink that meant the sun was rising. Normally Lionel didn’t wake up so early and he hadn’t, as a matter of fact, he was still asleep whenever a ping sounded and AM alerted him of a voice message left for him.

“Uhhhh, play it,” he murmured, the noise only waking him up halfway. By the time the message had begun playing throughout every room in the penthouse, he was back asleep.

“Hey, Ellie-belly... I know it’s probably early for you, but I wanted to call anyway and, um, just tell you that everyone’s okay here,” A woman’s voice said, strong and perseverant before a couple beats past and a choked sob could be heard from the other line. “Stars, s-sorry baby. I’m so sorry. You should’ve never — never seen me and Driscoll together and I think about it everyday and... Okay. I’m okay. Your brother’s okay, and your father’s okay. They’re going to stay that way. I promise. Thank you for... For being so good about this. Come home soon. I love you. Bye.”

[v-1enna]

taylor swift lyrics that personally attack me:

i don't know what i want, so don't ask me / 'cause i'm still tryna figure it out

how can i ever try to be better? / nobody ever lets me in

i would give it all up to be / a part of this

you're tied together with a smile but you're coming undone

i don't know who i'm gonna talk to [now] at school

i'm miss gonna be alright someday

i just realised everything i have is someday gonna be gone

i don't wanna grow up / wish i'd never grown up

in dreams, i meet you in warm conversation / we both wake in lonely beds, different cities

are we out of the woods yet? / are we out of the woods yet? / are we out of the woods yet? / are we out of the woods?

are we in the clear yet? / are we in the clear yet? / are we in the clear yet? / in the clear yet? good

hung my head as i lost the war / and the sky turned black like a perfect storm

the water filled my lungs / i screamed so loud / but no one heard a thing

is it cool that i said all that? / is it chill that you're in my head? / 'cause i know that it's delicate

i never grew up, it's getting so old

i cut off my nose just to spite my face / and i hate my reflection for years and years

they see right through me / can you see right through me? / i see right through me

and i hate to make this all about me / but who am i supposed to talk to? / what am i supposed to do? / if there's no you?

this won't go back to normal, if it ever was / it's been years of hoping, and i keep saying it because / 'cause i have to

hey, it's all me, in my head

but it's not what i meant / sorry that i hurt you

there are so many lines that i've crossed, unforgiven

luck of the draw only draws the unlucky / and so i became the butt of the joke / i wounded the good and i trusted the wicked

i had a marvelous time ruining everything

and i'm still a believer, but i don't know why / i've never been a natural, all i do is try, try, try

i just wanted you to know that this is me trying

they told me all of my cages were mental / so i got wasted like all my potential

i was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere / fell behind all my classmates and i ended up here

actually just the entirety of this is me trying

every time you call me crazy, i get more crazy / what about that? / and when you say i seem angry, i get more angry

what a shame she's fucked in the head

there'll be happiness after you / but there was happiness because of you, too

is insensitive for me to say "get your shit together so i can love you"?

is it really your anxiety that stops you from giving me everything? / or do you just not want to?

you fire off missiles 'cause you hate yourself

lol

[sapphire374]

5, 13, 34 ts ask game :)

5. What’s your dream collab?

Ngl I’m still waiting for a Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift collab. I feel like the day that releases is the day the internet breaks 😂. Like no joke they have the power to break the internet with that release. My two absolute favorite artists are Taylor Swift (of course number one) and my second fave is Shawn Mendes so I would LOVE IT if they could collab. I know they sang the Lover remix together (and did such a good job on it) but I wish they can do something original together, like no remixes. Because I love the Lover remix but it was amazing on it’s own either way already. I also recently heard a rumor that for the 1989 Taylor’s Version release there’s a Taylor and Shawn collab. I really do hope that’s true cause my favorite Taylor album with my other favorite artist?!! I would freak out 😶

13. Favorite lyrics?

Wow in general?!! That’s hard lol! Because I have so many but if I had to choose than it would be the few below (because I can’t just choose one set that’s too hard 😂):

- People throw rocks at things that shine

- 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

- I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone (Never Grow Up)

- It’s a rollercoaster kind of rush and I never knew I could feel that much

- Rain came pouring down, when I was drowning that’s when I could finally breathe

- I didn’t have it in myself to go with grace, cause when I’d fight you used to tell me I was brave. And if I’m dead to you, why are you at the wake?

- And when I can’t sleep at night (you hear my stolen lullabies)

- And it’s hard to be at a party, When I feel like an open wound

- I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere. Fell behind on my classmates and I ended up here

- I bet you got pushed around, somebody made you cold. But the cycle ends right now cause you can’t lead me down that road, and you don’t know what you don’t know

I really love some of these lyrics because of how beautifully Taylor captivates an emotion in a metaphor or through imagery.

34. Which song most describes you?

Oooh interesting. I guess it would have to be Never Grow Up and Best Day.

[taylorswiftdiscographyrate]

#30-21

30. Clean (8.141) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 5.4

It’s a shame that this is the only collab between Taylor and Imogen Heap, because Imogen’s sound would be so interesting for Taylor to explore further. That being said, Clean is gorgeous, and it’s well loved for a reason.

Highlighted comments: @yourivysgrows: “I have lyrics from this one tattooed for a reason”

29. my tears ricochet (8.159) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 4

A track 5! This is such a heartwrenching song, even more so once you realise what it’s about.

Highlighted comments: @yourivysgrows: “Fuck Sc*tt and Scoot the Toot”

28. ‘tis the damn season (8.160) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 6

Honestly, I can’t say I’m a massive fan of this one. It’s fine, I guess. I like how it loosely connects with dorothea - those types of connections between songs are what I live for on the folkmore/everlore duo.

Highlighted comments: @corneliaavenue: “my favorite Christmas song”

27. I Did Something Bad (8.184) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 4.3

This absolutely goes off live, and deserves all the accolades just for that. It really should’ve been a full fledged single.

Highlighted comments: @treacherousdemo: “the live version is a 10 though”  @everfolk: “This was almost my 11 song”

26. willow (8.220) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 6.5

Cute! This song is very cute. In a good way. I really like it.

Highlighted comments: @liabilitys: “taylor getting lesbians to chant 'that's my man'? her power” @corneliaavenue: “this is the first Taylor song my fiance actually enjoys.” @yourivysgrows: “A beautiful ass opener”

24. Lover / The Story of Us (8.225) Lover: Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 3 The Story of Us: Highest score was 9.5; Lowest score was 6

A tie between two excellent songs! Lover is a sweet ballad, and I love how proud Taylor was/is of it. It was also the only single from the album that I liked, so that’s a win! There was also the remix with Shawn Mendes, but let’s just pretend it didn’t happen <3

Highlighted comments: @liabilitys: “im not as obsessed w this song as i feel i should be but the bridge goes hard” @corneliaavenue: “I cried the first time I heard this song” @yourivysgrows: “One of my wedding songs for sure”

The Story of Us is a very different song to Lover, but it’s an absolute banger nonetheless. I’m so happy to see it rank so highly, because it goes so hard.

Highlighted comments: @yourivysgrows: “A girl in my class listened to this & stole the silence line for a paper and I was pissed” (say no to plagiarism!) @corneliaavenue: “i still think the "next chapter" and "the end" were revolutionary” (oh my god remember when Taylor said “next chapter” in her 2018 AMAs speech and everyone thought it was a The Story of Us reference and easter egg for the next era and it turns out The Story of Us is 4:26 long and then ME! was released on 4/26? She’s literally insane)

23. this is me trying (8.228) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 4

BRB, I’m just going to go cry over “I was so ahead of the curve the curve became a sphere / Fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here” for the millionth time.

Highlighted comments: @corneliaavenue: “I cant talk right now, I'm doing sad gifted kid burnout shit” @yourivysgrows: “I relate the most to this one and I appreciate it fully”

22. Death by a Thousand Cuts (8.238) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 4

I’ve actually always found this to be a bit overrated, but the bridge goes so hard and I know how much this fandom loves bridges, so I guess it is to be expected. This is based off of a Netflix film I never watched and probably never will.

Highlighted comments: @yourivysgrows: “Made me watch and love Someone Great (THAT BRIDGE)”

21. Blank Space (8.269) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 6.3

Now THIS was a cultural reset. Miss Swift went off, taking the negative perception of her as a serial dater and turning it up to the extreme to create a satirical character. Legendary. Iconique. Queen shit. Also the fact that the “SYDNEY” chant has become part of the fan canon is so cool to me because that’s my city <3

Highlighted comments: @corneliaavenue: “iconic” @yourivysgrows: “God tier, iconic, crafted perfect”

[faedawayyy]

folklore.

taylor swift songs that very specifically catch certain times in this rp. it’s not like “oh some of the lyrics relate”. it’s how i genuinely saw the whole situation unfold/the most accurate comparisons. if your chara isn’t active and/or you dont rly share much with me, obviously they won’t be there as much. i’m not gonna apologise for that :’)

the 1 - very specifically riley and wes in their current era from riley’s pov. i feel like it makes sense bc the song isn’t bitter and there’s clearly still some sort of sentiment there but at the same time, it’s not unhealthy or moping? 

cardigan - almost as if we’ve done a 180 and spun to the other side of wes’s life, janey and wes from janey’s pov. i feel like the references to being young and making mistakes are super janey and also all the mentions of familiarity. 

the last great american dynasty - from the pov of the insider or any ‘rich girl’ looking into margo’s life. i feel like she’s definitely the most questionable of the girls from that circle and the whole song has a gossipy undertone to it. it’s just very margo and her return to the springs gave me this vibe completely.

exile - the mess surrounding soraya, owen, dallas and gisele, but VERY SPECIFICALLY dallas and gisele and soraya and owen. i feel like verse 1 & chorus is owen to soraya, verse 2 & chorus is gisele to dallas, the bridge sounds very, very, very owen and soraya. ESPECIALLY when it’s like: “you never gave a warning sign”  “i gave so many signs”  “never learned to read your mind”  etc. etc. etc. bc i dont know, i remember it becoming VERY clear that she was set on dallas. the last part of the song is from all of their povs 

my tears ricochet - mabel and brody, mabel and brody, mabel and brody. i feel like she really, really liked him and he’d paint out that he was totally loyal to disney but definitely led her on but wasn’t as outright about his feelings as she was and it eventually (along with a lot of other things) led her completely out of town. i just completely see it for this one. 

mirrorball - clyde and poppy BUT from clyde’s pov, not poppy’s. the metaphor of clyde being the mirror ball and poppy being the light is so accurate for their whole arc through the rp in my opinion. it’s so safe and comforting but it doesn’t sweep over any ugly parts either. the bridge is very clyde and kind of how he was treated by everybody else. 

seven - i always say this but the progression of dallas and soraya’s relationship before it got dark; it’s very summery, romantic and has the references of escaping problematic families/people through almost child-like comforts. this would obviously be from soraya’s pov. i also feel like it’s them now, but it’s a memory more so than a direct song.

august - roxy’s pov about mason. they had a very short-lived, cute connection but it was obvious she wasn’t really his girlfriend/they never made it to the next level. i will ALWAYS hate mason for roxy - that’s the only ex i feel like he’s actually done dirty, and i feel like there was definitely a point where she believed in it and then a very obvious point when she realised he’s not as angelic/nice as he initially seems and the bridge captures that so well. i’m rly not meaning for all of these to be about my characters.

this is me trying - JIWON ON HER OWN WITH HER HOTEL BUSINESS AND EXPECTATIONS. like, she’s so perfect and great on the outside and this big popstar but she has so many people doubting her. i feel like “ahead of the curve/the curve became a sphere” is so. on. point. she gets rly ahead in her st judes career but then ends back up at point 1 when she’s trying to prove herself with the hotel. 

illicit affairs - danny and zara. in literally every verse we’ve had (?) the little shits...and zara’s pov for sure. i feel like it’s (obviously) really easy to hate like “the other woman”, but i feel like this song rly highlights that it can still genuinely be love but just unfortunately not under the right circumstances idk. it just makes so much sense to me. the bridge ESPECIALLY. i feel like i’ve heard zara almost say those exact words. 

invisible string - matt and oliver concerning matt’s return. i know they’re not together (i wish they would) but i feel like everything happened so naturally, like matt ended things with maelyn and oliver arrived shortly after...it fits with the whole being tied together with string/remembering little details about each other/fate kind of guiding them together (if you think i’m implying they should date, u are right) 

mad woman - to ME this is very soraya and gigi again, looking into the others relationship. so soraya @ owen observing him and gigi. gigi @ dallas observing him and soraya. idk, i know i keep talking about it but i feel like there were so many raw feelings in that plot and i genuinely saw it from every point of view. the “it’s obvious that wanting me dead really brought you two together” is so soraya @ owen and dallas and the crazy/angry line is definitely gisele @ dallas, bc that was A LOT of their relationship 

epiphany - i feel like i ALWAYS misinterpret this song LMAO i’m sorry, but it really reminds me of matt’s mental health struggles. i feel like it’s almost like an internal monologue type song and i rly like the song when it’s in that context. i hate it as like, a love song. it’s so shit/lazy in that context LOL. 

betty - JACK AND BRIELLE. i know a lot of people don’t know about their connection but it’s so high school boy messes up with high school girl LOL. if i had to put it in a more known context, then definitely wes x roxy x riley...roxy being betty and wes being james. arabella totally would’ve been inez LOL 

peace and hoax - (skip, they bore me to fucking tears. sorry swifites)

the lakes - it’s all about escaping and being in love and these are the specific couples/friendships it super reminds me of.

kendall and mason

zara and danny 

christelle and blake 

pHoenix and GABE (they own this song in my mind) 

madison and bash 

soraya and dallas - i’m not sorry 

[helly-watermelonsmellinfellon]

Best lyrics on 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒.

the 1 - 

“And if you never bleed, you're never gonna grow.” 

“We never painted by the numbers, baby, but we were making it count. You know the greatest loves of all time are over now.” 

cardigan - 

“And when I felt like I was an old cardigan under someone's bed, you put me on and said I was your favorite.” 

“I knew you tried to change the ending, Peter losing Wendy. I knew you. Leavin' like a father, running like water.”

“I knew I'd curse you for the longest time. Chasin' shadows in the grocery line. I knew you'd miss me once the thrill expired, and you'd be standin' in my front porch light.”

the last great american dynasty - 

“The wedding was charming, if a little gauche. There's only so far new money goes. They picked out a home and called it "Holiday House". Their parties were tasteful, if a little loud. The doctor had told him to settle down. It must have been her fault his heart gave out.” 

“Filled the pool with champagne and swam with the big names, and blew through the money on the boys and the ballet. And losing on card game bets with Dalí.”

“They say she was seen on occasion, pacing the rocks, staring out at the midnight sea. And in a feud with her neighbor, she stole his dog and dyed it key lime green. Fifty years is a long time. Holiday House sat quietly on that beach. Free of women with madness, their men and bad habits. And then it was bought by me.”

“I had a marvelous time ruining everything.”

exile ft. Bon Iver - 

“I think I've seen this film before, and I didn't like the ending. You're not my homeland anymore, so what am I defending now? You were my town, now I'm in exile, seein' you out.”

“I can see you starin', honey. Like he's just your understudy. Like you'd get your knuckles bloody for me. Second, third, and hundredth chances. Balancin' on breaking branches. Those eyes add insult to injury.”

“I’m not your problem anymore, so who am I offending now?”

“You didn't even hear me out. (You didn't even hear me out.) You never gave a warning sign. (I gave so many signs.)”

my tears ricochet - 

“We gather here, we line up, weepin' in a sunlit room. And if I'm on fire, you'll be made of ashes too.”

“I didn't have it in myself to go with grace. And you're the hero flying around saving face. And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? Cursing my name, wishing I stayed. Look at how my tears ricochet.”

“We gather stones, never knowing what they'll mean. Some to throw, some to make a diamond ring. 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.”

“And you can aim for my heart, go for blood. 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. Cursing my name, wishing I stayed. You turned into your worst fears. And you're tossin’ out blame, drunk on this pain. Crossin’ out the good years.”

mirrorball - 

“I'm a mirrorball. I can change everything about me to fit in. You are not like the regulars, the masquerade revelers. Drunk as they watch my shattered edges glisten.”

“And they called off the circus, burned the disco down. When they sent home the horses and the rodeo clowns, I'm still on that tightrope. I'm still trying everything to get you laughing at me. And I'm still a believer, but I don't know why. I've never been a natural, all I do is try, try, try. I'm still on that trapeze. I'm still trying everything to keep you looking at me.”

seven -

“Please picture me in the trees. I hit my peak at seven feet in the swing over the creek. I was too scared to jump in. But I was high in the sky with Pennsylvania under me. Are there still beautiful things?”

“Sweet tea in the summer. Cross your heart, won't tell no other. And though I can’t recall your face, I still got love for you. Your braids like a pattern, love you to the Moon and to Saturn. Passed down like folk songs. The love lasts so long.”

“And I've been meaning to tell you, I think your house is haunted. Your dad is always mad and that must be why. And I think you should come live with me, and we can be pirates. Then you won't have to cry or hide in the closet.”

august - 

“But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time. 'Cause it was never mine. And I can see us twisted in bed-sheets, August sipped away like a bottle of wine. 'Cause you were never mine.”

“Back when we were still changin' for the better. Wanting was enough. For me it was enough. To live for the hope of it all. Canceled plans just in case you'd call, and say, ‘Meet me behind the mall.’ So much for summer love and saying ‘us’, ‘cause you weren't mine to lose.”

“Remember when I pulled up and said, ‘Get in the car’? And then canceled my plans just in case you'd call? Back when I was livin' for the hope of it all.”

this is me trying - 

“I've been having a hard time adjusting. I had the shiniest wheels, now they're rusting. I didn't know if you'd care if I came back. I have a lot of regrets about that. Pulled the car off the road to the lookout. Could've followed my fears all the way down.”

“They told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential. And my words shoot to kill when I'm mad. I have a lot of regrets about that. I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere. Fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here. Pouring out my heart to a stranger, but I didn't pour the whiskey.”

“At least I’m trying.”

illicit affairs - 

“And that's the thing about illicit affairs, and clandestine meetings, and longing stares. It's born from just one single glance, but it dies and it dies and it dies! A million little times.”

“Take the words for what they are. A dwindling, mercurial high. A drug that only worked the first few hundred times.”

“And that's the thing about illicit affairs, and clandestine meetings, and stolen stares. They show their truth one single time, but they lie and they lie and they lie! A million little times.”

“And you wanna scream, ‘Don't call me "kid," don't call me "baby". Look at this godforsaken mess that you made me. You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else. Don't call me "kid," don't call me "baby". Look at this idiotic fool that you made me. You taught me a secret language I can't speak with anyone else.’”

“‘And you know damn well, for you I would ruin myself a million little times.’”

invisible string - 

“Time, curious time, gave me no compasses, gave me no signs. Were there clues I didn't see? And isn't it just so pretty to think all along there was some invisible string tying you to me?”

“Bad was the Blood of the song in the cab on your first trip to LA. You ate at my favorite spot for dinner. Bold was the waitress on our three-year trip, getting lunch down by the lakes. She said I looked like an American singer.”

“A string that pulled me out of all the wrong arms, right into that dive bar. Something wrapped all of my past mistakes in barbed wire. Chains around my demons, wool to brave the seasons. One single thread of gold tied me to you.”

“Cold was the steel of my axe to grind for the boys who broke my heart. Now I send their babies presents. Gold was the color of the leaves when I showed you around Centennial Park. Hell was the journey but it brought me heaven.”

mad woman - 

“What did you think I'd say to that? Does a scorpion sting when fighting back? They strike to kill, and you know I will. What do you sing on your drive home? Do you see my face in the neighbor's lawn? Does she smile? Or does she mouth, ‘Fuck you forever’?”

“And there's nothing like a mad woman. What a shame she went mad. No one likes a mad woman. You made her like that. And you'll poke that bear 'til her claws come out, and you find something to wrap your noose around. And there's nothing like a mad woman.”

“Now I breathe flames each time I talk. My cannons all firin' at your yacht. They say ‘move on,’ but you know I won't. And women like hunting witches too. Doing your dirtiest work for you. It's obvious that wanting me dead has really brought you two together.”

“Every time you call me crazy, I get more crazy. What about that? And when you say I seem angry, I get more angry.”

“I'm taking my time, ‘cause you took everything from me. Watching you climb over people like me. The master of spin has a couple side flings. Good wives always know. She should be mad, should be scathing like me, but no one likes a mad woman.”

epiphany - 

“Keep your helmet, keep your life, son. Just a flesh wound, here's your rifle. Crawling up the beaches now. ‘Sir, I think he's bleeding out!’ And some things you just can't speak about.”

“Something med school did not cover. Someone's daughter, someone's mother, holds your hand through plastic now. ‘Doc, I think she's crashing out!’ And some things you just can't speak about.”

“Only twenty minutes to sleep, but you dream of some epiphany. Just one single glimpse of relief, to make some sense of what you've seen.”

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

betty - 

“You heard the rumors from Inez. You can't believe a word she says most times, but this time it was true. The worst thing that I ever did, was what I did to you.”

“But if I just showed up at your party, would you have me? Would you want me? Would you tell me to go fuck myself, or lead me to the garden? In the garden, would you trust me if I told you it was just a summer thing? I'm only seventeen, I don't know anything, but I know I miss you!”

“I was walking home on broken cobblestones, just thinking of you when she pulled up like a figment of my worst intentions. She said, ‘James, get in, let's drive.’ Those days turned into nights. Slept next to her, but I dreamt o’ you all summer long!”

“Yeah, I showed up at your party, will you have me? Will you love me? Will you kiss me on the porch in front of all your stupid friends? If you kiss me, will it be just like I dreamed it? Will it patch your broken wings? I'm only seventeen, I don't know anything, but I know I miss you! Standin’ in your cardigan! Kissin' in my car again! Stopped at a streetlight, you know I miss you!”

peace - 

“But I'm a fire and I'll keep your brittle heart warm if your cascade, ocean wave blues come. All these people think love's for show, but I would die for you in secret. The devil's in the details, but you got a friend in me. Would it be enough if I could never give you peace?”

“Your integrity makes me seem small. You paint dreamscapes on the wall. I talk shit with my friends, it's like I'm wasting your honor. And you know that I'd swing with you for the fences. Sit with you in the trenches. Give you my wild, give you a child. Give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other. Family that I chose, now that I see your brother as my brother. Is it enough? But there's robbers to the east, clowns to the West, I'd give you my sunshine, give you my best. But the rain is always gonna come if you're standin' with me.”

hoax - 

“You know I left a part of me back in New York. You knew the hero died so what's the movie for? You knew it still hurts underneath my scars, from when they pulled me apart. You knew the password so I let you in the door. You knew you won so what's the point of keeping score? You knew it still hurts underneath my scars, from when they pulled me apart. But what you did was just as dark. Darling, this was just as hard as when they pulled me apart.”

“My only one. My kingdom come undone. My broken drum, you have beaten my heart. Don't want no other shade of blue but you. No other sadness in the world would do.”