do you ever think about how we started with “even in my worst times, you saw the truth in me” and ended with “a pathological people pleaser who only wanted you to see her”
and when speak now taylor’s version is released and i see people FINALLY giving speak now (the song) the love it deserves, i want you all to remember that i liked it even when it wasn’t cool :)
i know i just reblogged this a few hours ago but i keep thinking about this man and his powerful emanations. i think this might actually be the physical manifestation of the soul of new york city. if he dies the city itself becomes pillars of dust
THE 1 is what she says. DBATC is what she wants to say.
In my head The 1 is something she tells the muse and DBATC is something she wants to tell him. How?
Both songs have such a contrasting beginning. DBATC opens with the speaker revealing she is not fine AT ALL. She is drunk, faking happiness, and is absolutely miserable. But in the 1, she lets the muse think she is doing great. This could either mean that she is actually “doing good [she’s] on some new shit” or that she no longer feels like she is close with the muse enough to let them know how she truly feels.
“I thought I saw you at the bus stop I didn’t though” and “I see you everywhere the only thing we share is this small town” says the same thing. But the emotional weight in both of these lyrics are different. It’s like she is trying to be casual about it but its killing her inside.
I hit the ground running each night, I hit the Sunday matinee//I dress to kill my time I take the long way home I ask the traffic lights if it will be allright》 She tells them she has found a routine and is no longer *upset* when in reality she’s doing all of this as an attempt to move on from him and it’s seemingly not working.
The ‘greatest loves’ of all time were never made//You said it was a great love one for the ages》 she wants to remind him that he said they were a 'great love’ but she doesn’t want to seem too invested in case he no longer feels that way.
She casually asks 'we were something don’t you think so?’ when in reality she is going through her 'my heart my hips my body my love tryna find a part of me that you didn’t touch’ phase.
We never painted by the numbers baby but we were making it count//our country guess it was a lawless land》 the writer and the muse did not have an official 'relationship’ but what they had was real.
There could be more and I will add things as soon as I realise it
