Red (2012.10.22)
There’s an old poem by Neruda that I’ve always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever since the first time I read it. It says “love is so short, forgetting is so long.” It’s a line I’ve related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way. And when we’re trying to move on the moments we always go back to aren’t the mundane ones. They are the moments you saw sparks that weren’t really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened, and then saw it slip away without any warning. These are moments of newfound hope, extreme joy, intense passion, wishful thinking, and in some cases, the unthinkable letdown. And in my mind, every one of these memories looks the same to me. I see all of these moments in bright, burning red.
“Don’t pretend it’s such a mystery..Think about the place where you first met me.”
OMG! Taylor 😍😍😍 @taylorswift
do you ever think about the fact taylor swift made the lyric “autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place” and not “fall leaves falling down like pieces into place” because she’s a songwriter™ and knew that “fall leaves falling” would sound stupid
Also!
All Too Well is written almost entirely in alexandrines, a style of French poetry that consists of 12 syllables in a line, with a caesura (break) around the sixth syllable. Stress is on the sixth and last syllable, with secondary stresses in each half. Breaks in that style are used for emphasis or rhyme. It needs to be autumn to fit the phrase.
/basically/ all too well is the greatest song of all time, written in a style of poetry not used in English, set to both a country and rock style and ur fave could never
43 Lyrics That Prove Taylor Swift Is A Goddamn Genius
1. “My mind forgets to remind me that you’re a bad idea.” - “Sparks Fly”
2. “You searched the world for something else to make you feel like what we had.” - “Wonderland”
3. “You call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of being honest.” - “All Too Well”
4. “I can’t say hello to you and risk another goodbye.” - “I Almost Do.”
5. “The flowers that we’d grown together died of thirst.” - “Clean”
6. “Time won’t fly, it’s like I’m paralyzed by it.” - “All Too Well”
7. “When I was drowning, that’s when I could finally breathe.” - “Clean”
8. “People are people and sometimes we change our minds.” - “Breathe”
9. “I don’t know how to be something you miss.” - “Last Kiss”
10. “All we are is skin and bone, trained to get along.” - “Treacherous”
11. “You’re still all over me like a wine-stained dress I can’t wear any more.” - “Clean”
12. “What a rainy ending given to a perfect day.” - “Cold As You”
13. “Words, how little they mean, when you’re a little too late.” - “Sad Beautiful Tragic”
14. “Today is never too late to be brand new.” - “Innocent”
15. “You wear your best apology, but I was there to watch you leave.” - “The Last Time”
16. “Faster than the wind, passionate as sin.” - “Red”
17. “You come away with a great little story, of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you.” - “Cold As You”
18. “When you’re young, you just run, but you come back to what you need.” - “This Love”
19. “I can’t decide if it’s a choice, getting swept away.” - “Treacherous”
20. “We learn to live with the pain, mosaic broken hearts.” - “State of Grace’
21. “It turns out freedom ain’t nothing but missing you.” - “Back To December”
22. “The way you move is like a full-on rainstorm.” - “Sparks Fly”
23. “I’ll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep.” - “Last Kiss”
24. “Maybe this thing was a masterpiece until you tore it all up.” - “All Too Well”
25. “We were built to fall apart and fall back together.” - “Out of the Woods”
26. “My thoughts will echo your name until I see you again.” - “Enchanted”
27. “You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter” - “Mine”
28. “We need love but all we want is danger.” - “New Romantics”
29. “You’ve got your demons and darling they all look like me.” - “Sad Beautiful Tragic”
30. “Your eyes looked like coming home.” - “Everything Has Changed”
31. “The story’s got dust on every page.” - “Holy Ground”
32. “Someday when you leave me, I bet these memories follow you around.” - “Wildest Dreams”
33. “We’re happy, free, confused, and lonely at the same time.” - “22”
34. “I lived in your chess game but you changed the rules every day.” - “Dear John”
35. “He’s the only one who’s got enough of me to break my heart.” - “Teardrops on my Guitar”
36. “Untouchable like a distant diamond sky.” - “Untouchable”
37. “Don’t you dream impossible things?” - “Starlight”
38. “Doesn’t he know that I’ve had him memorized for so long?” - “I’d Lie”
39. “We fall in love ‘til it hurts or bleeds or fades in time.” - “State of Grace”
40. “People like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.” - “All You Had To Do Was Stay”
41. “Lantern burning, flickered in my mind for only you.” - “This Love”
42. “Nothing safe is worth the drive.” - “Treacherous”
43. “This is the golden age of something good and right and real.” - “State of Grace”
1989 Secret Messages
“These songs were once about my life. They are now about yours.”
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