#the smallest man who ever lived

[stillgotscars]

the smallest man who ever lived - taylor swift

#taylor swift #tswiftedit #my edit #typography #the tortured poets department #the smallest man who ever lived

[reputayswift]

were you:

☑️ sent by someone??? (who wanted ME dEAD?)

did you:

☑️ sleep with a gun? (underNEATH our bed???)

were you:

☑️ writing a boᵒᵏ????

☑️ a SLEEPER CELL SPY?

in 50 years will all this be declassified?

🔘 (yes)

⚪️ (no)

and you’ll

confess why you did it (500 words or less)

_________________________________

and I’ll say:

☑️ good riddance!

☑️ it wasn’t SEXy once it wasn’t forbidden

I would’ve:

⬜️ DIED for your SINS

☑️ just died inside

and you:

⬜️ deserve prison

☑️ won’t get time

you’ll:

☑️ slide into INboxes

☑️ slip through the BARS

you:

☑️ crashed my party (and your rental car)

☑️ said “normal girls were boring 🤪”

☑️ were gone by the morning

☑️ kicked out the stage lights

☑️ are still performing

and in plain sight you:

☑️ hid

but you are:

☑️ what you did

and I’ll:

☑️ forget you

⬜️ forgive

Signature:

the smallest man who ever lived…

#long post #tays takes #taylor swift #the tortured poets department #the smallest man who ever lived

[iwanthermidnightz]

#taylor swift #ttpd #parallels #the smallest man who ever lived

[indeliblescarspivotalmarks]

taylor swift writing the smallest man who ever lived bridge

#cause its FIRE #she knew what she was doing #swiftie #taylor swift #taylorswift #taylor #ts #taylor swift eras #taylornation #taylurking #tsmwel #the smallest man who ever lived #ttpd #tsttpd #ts ttpd #the tortured poets department

[pinkgrapefloyd]

daniel larusso & terry silver / the smallest man who ever lived

#daniel larusso #cobra kai #terry silver #the karate kid 3 #tkk3 #the karate kid #giddy up girls it's hurt/no comfort o'clock #i don't even like the first half of this song but goddamn... the second half just grabbed me and wouldn't let go #and said 'this is about terry and daniel' #everything about daniel's reaction to silver in ck season 4&5 is just so heartbreaking to me. the anger. the grief. the guilt. #the absolute terror in his face. the unspoken implications. it's all so heavy to me. the sauna scene alone... jesus christ #i have so many feelings about tkk3 #terry silver i will rip out your blood vessels with my bare hands #the smallest man who ever lived #pinkgrapefloyd #pinkgrapefloydedit #also i'm sorry the ck screencaps are so much worse than the tkk ones. these were the best ones i could find

[mccdreamys-writes]

yes.

- @kllingdaddy

#criminal minds #cm #cm lauren #criminal minds lauren #lauren reynolds #lauren #cm valhalla #criminal minds valhalla #valhalla #ian doyle #reynolds #doyle #emily #emily prentiss #agent prentiss #ssa prentiss #lauren x ian #edit #criminal minds edits #cm edit #cm edits #criminal minds edit #emily prentiss edit #taylor swift #the smallest man who ever lived #ttpd #the tortured poets department

[taylornation]

The smollest boy who ever lived. 🤏

#Taylor Swift #THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT #TS TTPD #The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

[wildfloweronwheels]

this tracklist has me thinking so many thoughts you guys.

they broke up a fortnight into tour... the first show post joever was in florida... who's afraid of little old me being a twist on who's afraid of virginia woolf a film which starred elizabeth taylor and richard burton about a couple whose relationship breaks down at late night drinks in front of people... my boy only breaks his favourite toys - is she the toy??? free from the slammer where the slammer is an obvious reference to jail after all the criminal metaphors of her and joe tricking the system... but daddy i love him being a reference to the little mermaid where she gave up her voice for a man... clara bow being a 1920's film star who found her voice, married a guy who denied they were ever married publicly and then died + the majority of her fame coming from silent films where she literally didn't need to have a voice and then successfully transitioning into 'talkies' (films with sound).... the smallest man who ever lived vs. 'the loudest woman this town has ever seen who had a marvellous time ruining everything'... oh boy.

#taylor swift #taylor and joe #joe alwyn #ts11 #the tortured poets department #putting pieces together #fortnight #florida!!! #who's afraid of little old me? #my boy only breaks his favourite toys #free from the slammer #but daddy i love him #clara bow #the smallest man who ever lived

[vanessa-rafesgirl]

me since april 19th

#taylor swift #i love you taylor #ts ttpd #ttpd era #taylor swift ttpd #ttpd #the tortured poets department #the tortured poets department taylor swift #taylor swift the tortured poets department #thank you aimee #the black dog #i hate it here #i can fix him (no really i can) #fortnight #post malone #the tortured poets society #my boy only breaks his favorite toys #fresh out the slammer #the smallest man who ever lived #the alchemy #the albatross #so long london

[midnightsslut]

religion is one of the most prominent recurring themes on the album, and it has been present in some capacity for quite a few records now. taylor previously compared love to religion: her saving grace, her belief system, and a fated divine intervention (false god, cornelia street, and cruel summer are the best examples of this). ‘sacred new beginnings that became my religion’ and ‘we’d still worship this love even if it’s a false god’ are two of the defining statements about her philosophy on the lover album.

taylor doesn’t want to leave all of that behind on ttpd, at least not at the beginning. the first supernatural force she mentions is the spaceship on down bad, which she compares to a skylight of freedom in the epilogue. *something* has finally come to save her from her life of suffering. she doesn’t care if it’s a force of good at first; if anything, she’s just fine being taken away by aliens. she views this man as her destiny. it isn’t until guilty as sin? that taylor starts to ponder the moral implications of what she’s doing. is she guilty as sin for wanting to leave her previous religion and relationship behind? she comes to the conclusion that, even if she rolls the stone away and gets resurrected/redeemed, she cannot avoid the fallout. she is okay with the thought of having to wait, as long as both lovers vow to be together forever, just as she once did with someone else in false god. ‘I choose you and me religiously’ finishes the bridge of the song in a direct callback to cornelia street.

the next mention of religion has murkier imagery. she claims that she does not need the Lord’s help to save this man. she sees the halo that he has, and she can fix him herself. now that she feels free of her prior cage, she isn’t looking for divine intervention anymore. she wants control. she is their route to salvation.

when the relationship falls apart, she retreats back into the position of a believer rather than a divine figure. she compares him to a Holy Ghost who promised to save her and take her to heaven. instead, she is in hell in every sense of the word: she’s down bad and feels guilty for digging up the grave. he was a jehovah’s witness who promised that she could break free of the cage imposed by love without changing her religion altogether; she would’ve just had to switch denominations. she could still have a marriage and kids! she could still have a blue tortured poet! the man was different, but not the dreams they had together. the story of the first part of the album ends here. her faith has been broken, and she has only found any semblance of sanity by refusing to mention these belief systems altogether.

side b/the anthology blends the christian imagery of side a with goddesses, sorcerers, and prophecies. she bargains with these powers to let her have the future she wants (the prophecy). she doesn’t sound like someone believing in salvation. if anything, she feels cursed. she decides that the concept of divinely ordained timing will never work in certain relationships (‘the goddess of timing once found us beguiling / she said she was trying / peter, was she lying?’). this disdain extends onto her perception of other people’s faith (‘bet they never spared a prayer for my soul’). she does position herself as a prophet in cassandra, but even then, she admits that the role has hurt her. perhaps the pain in thank you aimee was meant to be, or perhaps she was just strong enough to build a legacy in spite of it, boulder by boulder. is she a martyr? does she want to be? or did she save herself?

the only real love song on this half of the album makes no mention of fate or any divine forces. it wasn’t meant to be. it’s not a supernatural invisible string or lightning in a bottle. she is just in love.

the album ends with the manuscript, which revisits an old story of a defining, formative heartbreak. as she sings ‘at last, she knew what the agony had been for’ while describing the legacy of her writing, she seems to revert to thinking about the purpose of trauma. the only exception is that, in this case, she is the one who found meaning in her pain by turning it into a manuscript. writing is her belief system now, and she proselytizes by telling her stories and thus giving up the manuscript.

ultimately, her belief in destiny has chewed her up and spat her out. she so desperately clung to her existing belief systems that she was fooled by a conman, which left her feeling cursed. religion is supposed to be with someone even in their darkest moments, but the album explains that taylor often felt abandoned. the only constant in her life was, well, herself. she’ll be okay, but her pen will be her saving grace.

#idk why I wrote this essay but it needed to be said #this could be taken further by actually unpacking each mention of religion on midnights and lover but i ain’t doing all that #the manuscript #cassandra #Cornelia street #false god #cruel summer #lover #the prophecy #the smallest man who ever lived #but daddy I love him #I can fix him #guilty as sin #ttpd #thank you Aimee #peter

[allthetorturedpoets]

OH MY GOD. “the smallest man who ever lived” what if the message of the song is that she was actually never the monster on the hill or too big to hang out and he just made her feel like her life was too large because he was the smallest man who ever lived

#this is not meant to be a diss on ja and i could be totally wrong but i was thinking about she’s talked a lot about the size of her life #and now we have this song coming #talia talks #the tortured poets department #the smallest man who ever lived

[majuandrad]

To: The smallest man who ever lived ♟️📃 @taylorswift @taylornation

#taylor swift #taylor swift ttpd #taylor swift fanart #ttpd #the tortured poets department #the smallest man who ever lived #tsmwel #fanart #digital art #illustration

[sombrewoodlandfairy]

the tortured poets department wallpapers

part 1 | part 2

#taylor swift #taylornation #tswiftlyrics #tswiftnation #tswiftedits #tswiftedit #tswiftdaily #tsusermeggie #tsuserella #tsuserbella #tsuserlaura #tsusermels #tsuserjen #tsuserclaire #tsuserannie #the tortured poets department #ttpd #i can fix him (no really i can) #loml #i can do it with a broken heart #the smallest man who ever lived #the alchemy #clara bow #the manuscript #the bolter #the albatross #the black dog #phone wallpaper #wallpapers #wallpaper

[xcleanx]

were you sent by someone who wanted me dead? did you sleep with a gun underneath our bed? were you writing a book? were you a sleeper-cell spy? in fifty years will all this be declassified? and you'll confess why you did it… and i'll say good riddance ’cause it wasn't sexy once it wasn't forbidden…. I WOULD’VE DIED FOR YOUR SINS INSTEAD I JUST DIED INSIDE!!!!!!!!! AND YOU DESERVE PRISON BUT YOU WON’T GET TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU’LL SLIDE INTO INBOXES AND SLIP THROUGH THE BARS YOU CRASHED MY PARTY IN YOUR RENTAL CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU SAID NORMAL GIRLS WERE BORING BUT YOU WERE GONE BY THE MORNING!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU KICKED OUT THE STAGE LIGHTS BUT YOU’RE STILL PERFORMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…………. and in the plain sight you hid……. and you are what you did…… and i’ll forget you but i’ll never forgive…. the smallest man who ever lived.

#HOW CAN YOU JUST SIT AND WRITE SOMETHING LIKE THAT??????????? #i swear this song is gonna stay with me my whole life #taylor swift #the smallest man who ever lived #the tortured poets department

[inthat-lavenderhaze]

#taylor swift #ttpd #the tortured poets department #the smallest man who ever lived

[kay-elle-cee]

"I WOULD'VE DIED FOR YOUR SINS INSTEAD I JUST DIED INSIDE YOU DESERVE PRISON BUT YOU WON'T GET TIME"

#taylor swift #ttpd #the smallest man who ever lived