#wow writing this just once again reminded me how freaking amazing taylor is at songwriting

[whileyourebythesea]

since it’s the first anniversary of folklore, i decided to make a post dedicated to all the lyrics i will never emotionally recover from

the 1:

- if you never bleed, you’re never gonna grow

- you know the greatest loves of all time are over now

- i persist and resist the temptation to ask you if one thing had been different, would everything be different today?

cardigan:

- when you are young, they assume you know know nothing, but i knew you

- when i felt like i was an old cardigan under someone’s bed, you put me on and said i was your favorite

- a friend to all is a friend to none

- you drew stars around my scars, but now i’m bleedin’

- marked me like a bloodstain

- i knew you tried to change the ending, peter losing wendy

- leavin’ like a father, running like water

tlgad:

- fifty years is a long time holiday house sat quietly on that beach, free of woman with madness, their men and bad habits, and then it was bought by me

- there goes the loudest woman this town has ever seen, i had a marvelous time ruining everything

exile:

- it took you five whole minutes to pack us up and leave me with it, holdin’ all this love out here in the hall

- you’re not my homeland anymore, so what am i defending now?

- you were my town, now i’m in exile, seein’ you out

- second, third, and hundredth chances, balancin’ on breaking branches, those eyes add insult to injury

- i’m not your problem anymore, so who am i offending now?

mtr:

- even on my worst day, did i deserve, babe, all the hell you gave me? cause i loved you, i swear i loved you til my dying day

- and if i’m dead to you, why are you at the wake? cursing my name, wishing i stayed, look at how my tears ricochet

- you know i didn’t want to have to haunt you, but what a ghostly scene

- and i can go anywhere i want, anywhere i want, just not home

- and you can aim for my heart, go for blood, but you would still miss me in your bones

- and when you can’t sleep at night, you hear my stolen lullabies

- you had to kill me but it killed you just the same

mirrorball:

- when i break, it’s in a million pieces

- i’m still trying everything to get you laughing at me

- and i’m still a believer, but i don’t know why, i’ve never been a natural, all i do is try, try, try

- i’m still trying everything to keep you looking at me

seven:

- and though i can’t recall your face, i still got love for you

- your braids make a pattern, love you to the moon and to saturn

- and i’ve been meaning to tell you, i think your house is haunted, your dad is always mad and that must be why

- and i think you should come live with me and we can be pirates, then you want have to cry, or hide in the closet

- passed down like folk songs, our love lasts so long

august:

- i remember thinking i had you

- wanting was enough, for me, it was enough, to live for the hope of it all, cancel plans just in case you’d call

- so much for summer love and saying “us”, cause you weren’t mine to lose

this is me trying:

- i had the shiniest wheels now their rusting

- i didn’t know if you’d care if i came back

- pulled the car off the road to the lookout, could’ve followed my fears all the way down

- i just wanted you to know that this is me trying

- they told me all of my cages were mental, so i got wasted like all my potential

- and my words shoot to kill when i’m mad, i have a lot of regrets about that

- it’s hard to be at a party when i feel like an open wound

illicit affairs:

- look at this godforsaken mess that you made me, you showed me colors you know i can’t see with anyone else

- look at this idiotic fool that you made me, you taught me a secret language i can’t speak with anyone else, and you know damn well, for you, i would ruin myself, a million little times

invisible string:

- chains around my demons, wool to brave the seasons, one single thread of gold tied me to you

- hell was the journey but it brought me heaven

mad woman:

- do you see my face in the neighbor’s lawn? does she smile? or does she mouth, “fuck you, forever”?

- and you’ll poke that bear til her claws come out, and you find something to wrap your noose around

- and women like hunting witches too, doing your dirtiest work for you, it’s obvious that wanting me dead has really brought you two together

epiphany:

- something med school did not cover, someone’s daughter, someone’s mother

- holds your hand through plastic now, “doc, i think she’s crashing out”, and some things you just can’t speak about

peace:

- i never had the courage of my convictions as long as danger is near, and it’s just around the corner, darling, cause it lives in me, no, i could never give you peace

- all these people think love’s for show, but i would die for you in secret

- and you know that i’d swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the trenches, give you my wild, give you a child

- i’d give you my sunshine, give you my best but the rain is always gonna come, if you’re standing with me

hoax:

- stood on the cliffside screaming, “give me a reason”

- i am ash from your fire

- you knew it still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart, but what you did is just as dark

- my only one, my kingdom come undone, my broken drum, you have beaten my heart

the lakes:

- i’ve come too far to watch some namedropping sleaze tell me what are my words worth

- i’m setting off, but not without my muse, no, not without you

#wow writing this just once again reminded me how freaking amazing taylor is at songwriting #my gosh these lyrics tore at my heart #folklore #taylor swift #long post #one year of folklore #folklore anniversary #folklore album #tswift