#cornelia street lover

[that-was-a-bit-stupid-of-you]

I'D NEVER WALK CORNELIA STREET AGAIN

#taylor swift is a lyrical genius #taylor swift is an angel #taylor nation #taylor swift #taylors version #taylor stans #lover taylor swift #taylor swift lover #lover #lover album #cornelia street #cornelia street taylor swift #cornelia street lover #lover cornelia street #taylor swift cornelia street #swifties #taylornation

[fakemonalisa28]

I don’t know how to explain it but if I had to pick one Taylor Swift song to represent her entire discography to someone who never heard of her I would pick Cornelia Street

#maroon is a close second #Taylor swift #ramblings #Cornelia Street #Cornelia Street lover #actually this makes so much sense cause it’s the song that got me into Taylor Swift

[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

[lomltaylor]

#taylor swift #Lover #ttpd #Midnights #lavender haze #cornelia street #the tortured poets department #parallels

[labyrinth]

CORNELIA STREET The Eras Tour - Mexico City, Mexico (Night 3)

#taylor swift #the eras tour #lover #cornelia street #taylorswift #tsedit #tswiftedit #tswiftgif #tswifteditor #candy swift #usertaylorswiftdaily #userelena #tusermelissa #userthelasttime #usersar #uservivaldi #userleah #*mine: gifs

[breakbleheavens]

CORNELIA STREET The Eras Tour — Mexico City, Mexico (Night 3) | August 26, 2023

#tswiftedit #taylorswiftedit #tswiftgif #taylor swift #the eras tour #eras tour #lover #cornelia street #*mine #*2023 #*gifs #mine: eras tour #mine: lover #:(

[hope-ur-ok]

not the song I thought she would play when she said she saw people begging for one specific song

#my first thought was 'finally marys song' #taylor swift #the eras tour #lover #cornelia street #live audio

[andichoseyou]

Eras Tour surprise songs parallels

August 26, 2023—Mexico City, Mexico: Cornelia Street / You're on Your Own, Kid

#taylor swift #taylurking #my edit #tswiftedit #candy swift #ts edit #tsedit #tswiftlyrics #ts lyrics #lyrics #lyric edit #lyric parallels #eras tour #eras tour surprise songs #cornelia street #lover #you're on your own kid #midnights

[okaynotfineatall]

Cornelia Street / You’re Losing Me

#taylor swift #my posts #my edits #the swiftie tag #cornelia street #you’re losing me #swiftie #tsedits #lover #Midnights #lyric parallels

[sadbeautifulttragic]

windows flung right open, autumn air…

#taylor swift #taylorswift #tswift #tswiftedit #my edits #my paintings #cornelia street #lover #lyrics

[hits-differently]

cornelia street - t.s.

#taylor swift #*mine #tscreators #tswiftedit #taylorswiftedit #taylor swift edit #tswiftlyrics #the eras tour #*gifs #*lover #lover #cornelia street #lover era

[florencewellch]

Reputation or Lover this or that. Ready for It or Cruel Summer? End Game or Paper Rings? Delicate or The Archer? LWYMMD or Me!? So It Goes... or I Think He Knows? Gorgeous or London Boy? Getaway Car or Death by a Thousand Cuts? Dancing With Our Hands Tied or Cornelia Street? Dress or False God? This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things or I Forgot that You Existed? Call It What You Want or Lover the song? New Year's Day or Daylight? Reputation or Lover?

#ok lets do this #cruel summer #paper rings #the archer #lwymmd #i think he knows #london boy #getaway car #cornelia street #dress #neither #lover the song #daylight #i i guess lover because it has higher highs? #taylor swift

[thecoldcoffeecup]

who could ever leave me, darling?, but who could stay?

#the archer #taylor swift #the archer taylor swift #lover taylor swift #lover era #the eras tour #lover ts #cruel summer #lover album #i think he knows #mirrorball #miss americana and the heartbreak prince #false god #the man taylor swift #afterglow #cornelia street #the eras movie #the tortured poets department #this is me trying #dear reader taylor swift

[wineonmytshirt]

untouchable / cornelia street

#my edit #taylor swift #tswift #tswiftedit #tswiftdaily #candy swift #untouchable #cornelia street #fearless #lover #swifties #taylor's version #lyric parallels #tsuserkatie #tsuseraugust #tsusermeggie #tsuservio #tuserhaz #hauntedbythelook #userjake #tsuserjam #tsuserannie #tsuserlea #tsusermels #taylor swift edit #taylor swift lyrics #lyrics #music #aesthetic #typography

[lomltaylor]

#taylor swift #Meme #lover #cornelia street #ttpd #the tortured poets department #lyrics

[intheclearyetgood12]

Cornelia Street 💜 Mexico night 3 🫶

#taylor swift #cornelia street #surprise songs #eras tour #eras taylor swift #the eras era #t swift #taylors version #t swizzle #ts the eras tour #eras era #the eras tour mexico #lover #lover era