#ttpd parallels

[speaknowworldtour]

“help me hold onto you” // “pulled him in tighter each time he was drifting away”

“i’m still trying everything to get you laughing at me” // “stop trying to make him laugh stopped trying to drill the safe”

“how long could we be a sad song til we were too far gone to bring back to life?” // thinking “how much sad did you think i had, did you think i had in me? oh the tragedy”

“you know i love a london boy” // “so long, london”

“you’ll find the real thing instead” // “you’ll find someone”

“don’t put me in the basement when i want the penthouse of your heart” // “i’ll get your longing glances and she’ll get your ring” // “i didn’t opt in to be your odd man out”

“i can’t find a pulse my heart won’t stop anymore” // “i stopped cpr after all its no use. the spirit was gone we would never come to”

“give you my wild, give you a child + our coming of age has come and gone” // “and i’m pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free”

“is this the end of all the endings? my broken bones are mending” // “stitches undone”

“you had to kill me but it killed you just the same” // “two graves one gun”

“i’m gonna find someone someday who might actually treat me well” // “i’ll find someone”

“i’m like the water when your ship rolled in that night” // “and when i was shipwrecked i thought of you” // “and so the battle ships will sink beneath the waves” // “and you say i abondoned the ship but i was going down with it”

“is it really your anxiety that stops you from giving me everything or do you just not want to?” // “holding tight to your quiet resentment” + “every breath feels like rarest air when you’re not sure if he wants to be there”

“wondering which version of you i might get on the phone tonight?” // “my friends said it isn’t right to be scared everyday of a love affair”

“and i wouldn’t marry me either” // “you swore that you loved me but where were the clues? i died on the altar waiting for the proof”

“don’t want no other shade of blue but you, no other sadness in the world would do” // “is it insensitive for me to say ‘get your shit together so i can love you’?” // “you sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days”

“my face was grey” // “i’m just getting color back into my face”

“i’d never walk cornelia street again” // “i’m just mad as hell cause i loved this place for so long”

“i once believe love would be black and white. but it’s golden.” // “a moment of warm sun but i’m not the one”

[lomltaylor]

[eclipsedsuns]

hoax parallels: loml

[self-made-cages]

Alright. Getaway Car (the song) is a triumph (sonically, but also culturally). She wanted to leave him and needed a reason, and when that reason showed up she jetted off in grand fashion. But it didn't have legs, nothing good starts in a getaway car, she puts the money in a bag and steals the keys to get off on her own, until she walks into a dive bar and can begin again. She writes this glorious anthem that romanticizes the shit out of this episode of 2016.

But then 6 years later, she wants to leave him and needs a reason again. LOOK HOW WELL IT WORKED OUT LAST TIME! Of course she's going to choose the magical move-on drug, she's already in a dark and dangerous place, and she needs that shove to get off the cliff she's been broaching for years. And it starts off just the same, running with her dress unbuttoned through this field of love bombs. But then she's the one left behind in the desert when he drops her with the bag and runs. And it's devastating, it's nuclear, because he clearly should be in prison for what he's done to her, but they were Bonnie and Clyde: they're both criminals, they were both wrong. She's left off far worse than where she started, because she still has all of that original trauma, but now this weight of the sin she's committed is sitting on her too. The dramatic myth she'd invented didn't save her, it damn near killed her.

[lightmeuppp]

and all at once, you are the one I have been waiting for // and all at once, the ink bleeds

[webanglikethat]

TTPD PARALLEL

right where you left me // I can do it with a broken heart

[iknewyouweretroubletv]

I can make the bad guys good for a weekend // a perfect case for my certain skill set

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

So Long, London & lyric parallels

part 1 | part 2

[speaknowworldtour]

“and my daddy said stay away from juliet” // “i just learned these people only raise you to cage you”

“sarahs and hannahs in their sunday best clutching their pearls sighing ‘what a mess’” // “and the verdict comes from those with nothing else to do”

“and my mother accused me of losing my mind but i swore i was fine” // “no i’m not coming to my senses”

“you made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter” // “dutiful daughter all my plans were laid”

“i don’t wanna grow up” // “i never grew up, it’s getting so old” // “growing up precocious sometimes means not growing up at all”

“and any snide remarks from my father about your tattoos will be ignored cause my heart is yours” // “lord knows the words we never heard just screeching tires and true love”

“and it’s not theirs to speculate if it’s wrong” // “i don’t cater to all these vipers dressed in empath’s clothing”

“people throw rocks at things that shine but they can’t take what’s ours” // “thinking it can change the beat of my heart when he touches me and counteract the chemistry and undo the destiny”

“the jury’s out but my choice is you” // “if all you want is grey for me than it’s just white noise and it’s just my choice”

“i talked to your dad go pick out a white dress” // “went to my parents and they came around… even my daddy just loves him”

[lomltaylor]

Lyric Parallels

[godforbidfate]

FROM THE DESK OF TAYLOR SWIFT Chairman, The Tortured Poets Department (2006-2024)

[andichoseyou]

Hits Different / Fortnight

[lipslikethegardensofbabylon]

you paint dreamscapes on the wall… your impressionist paintings of heaven turned out to be fakes… I talk shit with my friends… you shit talked me under the table… give you my wild, give you a child… talking rings and talking cradles…

[folkloredpoets]

ttpd's track 5 // folklore, lover, midnights

[thepredatorywasp]

"It’s about how horrible being famous is.” (taylor before playing "the lucky one" in arlington, texas)

clara bow - the last great american dynasty - nothing new - the profecy - the lucky one

[angeblancrose]