#inthaf

[ohgaylor]

gorgeous // It’s Nice To Have A Friend // Mastermind (all lyric connections)

#taylor swift #lyric*connections #gorgeous #it’s nice to have a friend #inthaf #mastermind #repuation #lover #midnights #reputation x lover parallels #parallels #taylor swift parallels #mine

[taylortruther]

even if it's a stretch, i'm compelled by this thought. like, a song about love being so pure - because of your youth and innocence, but also because it's a memory of warmth and care. the face of that love doesn't even matter when the feeling that lingers, the innocence, becomes its legacy. your braids like a pattern, love you to the moon and to saturn, this love lasts so long.

and then consider how, twenty years later, as an adult, you feel like you get older but never wiser, so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere. you're so far from the child you were, and you have so little to show for it but scars and fear of ghosts. then you find that warm pure love again, in a person who makes you feel safe, like the child you used to be. just being in their arms takes you back to that time when you were fierce and unapologetic, you hadn't been hurt, you weren't caught up in your own web and afraid of making the wrong move again and again. been sleeping so long in a twenty year dark night... it's nice to have a friend.

#i had fun #idk i mean who knows if taylor intended for this to be connected #inthaf #seven #daylight #ciwyw #timt #parallels #mine

[meaningtotellyou]

does anyone other than me even like it’s nice to have a friend

#pp #it’s nice to have a friend #inthaf

[unformula1]

day THREEE!!!! of loscar posts until we get a loscar podium!!! do we start writing fics now instead of photo posts?!!!

#f1 #formula one #formula 1 #f1 fandom #loscar post #loscar fics #loscar #oscar piastri #mclaren #logan sargeant #williams racing #taylor swift #this is why we cant have nice things #tiwwchnt #reputation #lover taylor swift #its nice to have a friend #inthaf #not shipping #this is not a shipping post

[new-york-no-shoes]

From its nice to have a friend to feeling like I just lost a friend

#taylor swift #breathe #inthaf #the eras tour #eras tour

[corneliaavenue]

im not kidding when i say the people who get its nice to have a friend as a surprise song are some of the luckiest swifties

#UNDERAPPRECIATED SONG! #inthaf

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

Taylor Swift was right, it is nice to have a friend.

#taylor swift #inthaf #lover #(this post is about my cat btw) #(she’s cuddling next to me and is ready for nap time)

[foxes-that-run]

It's nice to have a friend

INTHAF is gentle, sparse and otherworldly, like a dream. It’s the first taste of the nostalgic songs about childhood interplaying with adulthood that would come on Folklore with Betty, August, Seven as well as the 1 and Cardigan. There is a through-line to the story when Folklore is played after Lover:

It’s nice to have a friend is a dream where childhood sweethearts stay together in an idealised world, it’s the ‘what if’ in The 1.

Daylight is about learning love exists with challenges, deciding to let go of expectations and baggage to let love in.

The 1 is seeing a lost love she wished had been the one after time apart, now older but still wondering.

Lyrics

[Verse 1] School bell rings, walk me home Sidewalk chalk covered in snow Lost my gloves, you give me one "Wanna hang out?" Yeah, sounds like fun Video games, you pass me a note Sleeping in tents

The imagery in this verse is young childhood. The first verse is reminiscent of Begin Again, where Harry walks Taylor to her car, is a gentleman, shows her kindness and innocence. The next track Daylight also references Red.

In August Taylor also referred back at school as a metaphor for touring.

Sidewalk chalk is also in the Reputation poem, why she disappeared “Cracked her bones on the pavement she once decorated as a child with sidewalk chalk” in this dream world it’s covered in snow.

[Chorus] It's nice to have a friend (Ooh) It's nice to have a friend (Ooh)

The simple chorus is innocent and dreamy

[Verse 2] Light pink sky, up on the roof Sun sinks down, no curfew Twenty questions, we tell the truth You've been stressed out lately, yeah, me too Something gave you the nerve To touch my hand

Twenty is a Haylor theme 13+7

The second verse is getting older and moving from friendship into something more.

The light pink sky is reminiscent of this instagram post from a Penthouse in Cannes after the NRG awards when they reconnected. Harry posted the same shot on her birthday. 20 questions is a third song on this album about Harry with 20 (13+7, which is also referenced in Daylight, Lover and I love you by Alex and sierra). Gorgeous also has a reference to touching a hand in a darkened room. The Lover Album cover also has light pink sky mixed with blue. This top photo was released 19 October 2023 when Cruel Summer went #1, the others were posted to Harry and Taylor’s instagrams in 2013:

[Verse 3] Church bells ring, carry me home Rice on the ground looks like snow Call my bluff, call you "Babe" Have my back, yeah, every day Feels like home, stay in bed The whole weekends

The last verse is the moving into a what if, the song jumps from a hand touch to newlyweds.

This verse references many Haylor songs:

Carry me home | Take me home in Style

Call my bluff | Call my bluff in End Game

Feels like home | eyes look like coming home in everything has changed

Call you 'babe' | Harry is 'babe' is in Delicate, New Years Day, I don't wanna live forever & Wildest Dreams. In To be So Lonely Harry says "Don't call me baby again / You got your reasons / I know that you're tryna be friends / I know you mean it"

#haylor #lover album #inthaf

[confusionmeisss]

MY SONGS THAT SURVIVED BLONDIE IN THE 2023 SEASON OF THE ERAS TOUR:

- it’s nice to have a friend

- hoax

- epiphany

- the way i loved you

- don’t you

- dear reader

- peace

- i did something bad

- electric touch

- closure

- happiness

#i seen ppl doin this on twitter. & im a tumblr girlie so i wanted to do it on here :) #ali’s thoughts & opinions 📼 #taylor swift #the eras tour #eras tour #inthaf #it’s nice to have a friend #hoax #epiphany #the way i loved you #twily #don’t you #dear reader #peace #i did something bad #idsb #electric touch #closure #happiness #surprise songs #surprise songs survivors

[abiglifeinsurancepolicy]

call my bluff, call you “babe”

is an example of why taylor swift is so good because it’s from the least popular track on one of her least popular albums

inthaf stans are you with me

#taylor swift #ts #tswift #lover #lover era #inthaf

[thrownoutspeeches]

themes of marriage in Lover vs Midnights

+ bonus

#taylor swift #tswiftlyrics #lyric analysis #taylor swift lyrics #lover #midnights #gaylor #paper rings #midnight rain #dear reader #inthaf #lavender haze #parallels

[whenthegoldrays]

Applying Taylor Swift songs to my favorite ships • Day 1

Phineas Flynn x Isabella Garcia-Shapiro (Phineas and Ferb)

Cruel Summer

"Said 'I'm fine', but it wasn't true / I don't wanna keep secrets just to keep you, and I snuck in through the garden gate every night that summer just to seal my fate, and I scream for whatever it's worth, 'I love you, ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?'"

Essentially Isabella's desire to confess her love all summer long, and the confession in the song is really giving Night of the Living Pharmacists to me.

It's Nice to Have a Friend

"Something gave you the nerve to touch my hand... It's nice to have a friend"

And basically the entire song telling a couple's journey from childhood best friends to (sort of, almost) high school sweethearts to lovers/married couple. It's also an extremely Phineas Flynn thing to be literally married to Isabella, his soulmate, love of his life, and still be calling her his "friend" skhbdhgjskkk

#taylor swift #phineas and ferb #phineas flynn #isabella garcia shapiro #phinabella #cruel summer #it's nice to have a friend #inthaf #lover album #elly's posts #ts x my favs #tsmyfavs*

[taylortruther]

What’s inthaf about bestie? Joe?

it depends on what you mean. what is inthaf's literal interpretation? it's a tender love song about marrying your childhood best friend.

the figurative interpretation? it's about the tenderness and safety one feels when they find a person that completes them. like taylor sings in christmas tree farm, "and when i'm feeling alone / you remind me of home" - he makes her feel understood in an intimate and special way

#inthaf

[moonlitswimmingpooltv]

i am absolutely BEGGING for taylor to release the spooky creepy scary version of inthaf that was used in the trailer for m3gan it sounds AMAZING

#taylor swift #inthaf #m3gan

[wineonmytshirt]

i haven’t seen a preview for M3GAN until now (trying to pick a movie to attempt to see in theaters tomorrow) and hearing its nice to have a friend in the background. did not see that coming. biggest jump scare of the entire trailer.

#jen talking to you guys #inthaf

[empathetichungers]

If you hate INTHAF, you don't get to love Sweet Nothing. those are the rules.

#slightly joking but... #i'm also slightly gatekeeping #it's the sister song of INTHAF #and i ADORE that song so i'm guarding sweet nothings with a knife #taylor swift #taylurking #midnights #ts10 #tsmidnights #sweet nothing #it's nice to have a friend #INTHAF