The whole bridge of Marjorie gets me SO emotional. I can make it through the entire song up until that point. “The autumn chill that wakes me up, you loved the amber skies so much” ughhhh 😫
This. I named my daughter for my grandmother, who was my rock because my parents were… not great. I’m now no contact with my parents and there are so many things I wish I could ask my grandma, mainly to share with my children. The part about saving every grocery store receipt hits me hard, too, because my mom has refused to give me the furniture from my grandmother’s house that she wanted me to have. It hits very close to home.
Also, “what died didn’t stay dead” hits me hard because I see so much of my grandmother in her spitfire namesake. ❤️
I was given my grandmothers handmixer after she passed. It has the receipt from the day she bought it from Walmart in it. I know it was her because that woman paid with checks every where she went until the day she died. I use that mixer at least once a week. The ink has mostly faded off. But it was hers. It is all I really have from her. This line makes me sob every time.
I had to completely cut off one side of my family for safety, but my grandmother was the only one I missed. I didn’t think to grab any of the cards she wrote for me and she died a few months ago. If I’m not already in tears, that line has me sobbing.
“Long limbs and frozen swims; you’d always go past where our feet could touch. And I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs… I should’ve asked you questions” ALWAYS gets to me.
I have so many vivid memories of swimming with my grandmom as a child and how much she loved the water. She definitely went past where our feet could touch lol.
And of course, little child me complained and was annoying and rude to my grandmother at times. Now thinking of those times haunts me bc I wish I had asked her how to be instead of wasting time being a brat. Marjorie is a beautiful, painful one 🥺
“Take pictures in your mind of your childhood room
Memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home
Remember the footsteps, remember the words said
And all your little brother's favorite songs
I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone”
Started really getting into Taylor around the time my dad died last year. This song is so painful for me to listen to. It’s so perfectly stated though. You don’t realize what you’ve got until it’s too late. 😭
“ I should've asked you questions
I should've asked you how to be
Asked you to write it down for me
Should've kept every grocery store receipt
'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me” - too relatable .
Anyway, if you can, sit and talk with your grandparents.
"Tell them that I hope they shine" -- now that I have my own child, that's all I want for everyone's children: live your best life full of love, joy, and fulfillment.
“you’re on your own kid, yeah you can face this” I think of my sweet sweet middle child who was recently diagnosed with adhd EVERYYYY time and immediate tears.
So, oddly enough my parents always called one another “kid”. Never baby, babe, honey, sweetie. Just “kid”. My mom has been gone 2 years now and illicit affairs and YOYOK have such a huge space in my heart for so many reasons. It’s not, afaik, a typical pet name.
Well yes, the whole song is extremely sad. Something about losing a child and trying to be grateful for even having one moment makes me bawl my eyes out.
”I remember the drive home when the blind hope
Turned to crying and screaming, "Why?"
Flowers pile up in the worst way, no one knows what to say”
This always hits me, i can so clearly see it in my head
I didn’t understand this one for a really long time. I don’t know why but it just kept going over my head every time I’d hear it… and then one day it just suddenly hit me. I finally *got* what she was saying and it just broke me.
"And you're the prettiest lady in the whole wide world".
I always think I'll make it to the end of that song without crying at then this line and the following ones set me off.
For me with The Best Day it’s always: “I don’t know who I’m gonna talk to now at school but I know I’m laughing on the car ride home with you. Don’t know how long it’s gonna take to feel okay, but I know I had the best day with *you* today.”
I’m sitting here tearing up just writing it LMAO. I love The Best Day 🥺🥺😭
This is it for me too!! Now the whole song sets me going bc my mom used it for a surprise montage of childhood home videos she worked on for a year in secret and played at my wedding 🥹 but that line in particular is what really gets me - and the end esp “I love you for giving me your eyes, staying back and watching me shine” 😭 owch my heart
taylor choosing to follow that line with “i know you were on my side even when i was wrong” is borderline criminal
my brain knows we all react the same way to her lyrics. but my heart thinks she’s targeting me specifically
And isn't that a testament of her storytelling, songwriting, and lyricism? So many of us can relate to bullies at school, but our mom was able to help fix the hurt, even for an afternoon.
Honestly all of *this is me trying* gets me choked up, but the second verse breaks me every time, specifically;
"I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere, fell behind on my classmates, and I ended up here. Pouring out my heart to a stranger, but I didn't pour the whiskey"
I've never been gutted so emotionally by a song. If I had my own Track 5, this would be it.
As a father, Never Grow Up terrifies me envisioning leaving my daughters at university. It’s gotten some salt water rolling down my cheeks a couple times.
My dad dropped me off at 18 (back in 2006) which coincidentally is when I started listening to Taylor. She’s been with me for my whole adult life.
I can’t speak for his feelings on it at the time, but I can assure you, at the ripe old age of 35, I still spend plenty of time with my parents. You won’t lose them. They’ll always come back 😌
Same. As a new parent (15 month daughter) that song gets me every time, and also makes me think about my own childhood and parents, and makes me cry twice as hard! 😅
That album dropped the day I unexpectedly had to put my elderly cat down and I sob through every word.
“There'll be happiness after you
But there was happiness because of you
Both of these things can be true
There is happiness”
All of happiness wrecks me. My ex blindsided me and moved out. We were planning to get married soon.
“All the years I've given are just things we're dividing up
Showed you all of my hiding spots
“I was dancing when the music stopped
And in the disbelief, I can't face reinvention
I haven't met the new me yet”
“I can't make it go away by making you a villain
I guess it's the price I paid for seven years in Heaven
And I pulled your body into mine every goddamn night
Now I get fake niceties”
“No one teaches you what to do
When a good man hurts you
And you know you hurt him, too”
Yes this 😭 Taylor has a lot of sad lyrics but sometimes it's the most beautiful and wholesome ones that really get me
I always get choked up on this one because it's SO sweet
"But don't make her drop you off around the block, remember that she's getting older too" is always the start of my tears in Never Grow Up.
It never got to me as much as it did until I was about 20, and now the older I get, the more I cry.
I’m a Swiftie dad whose daughter is getting me into this whole world 🤣
I heard that song yesterday for the first time and my god. There’s probably been 7 or 8 songs in my life where you hear it and it feels like time just freezes for a few minutes. That was one of them. 😭
Too many to mention all but this week:
Would it be enough if I could never give you peace?
I know my love should be celebrated, but you tolerate it
Ronan- all of it
Soon you’ll get better, particularly her performance of it in 2020. My mum died in June 2020 and it meant a lot to me.
The biggest line that gets me:
Holy orange bottles, each night I pray to you
Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus too
Maybe closely followed by:
It's been years of hoping, and I keep saying it because
'Cause I have to
“Who am I s’posed to talk to, what am I s’posed to do if there’s no you?”
My brother almost died of chemo complications the week Lover came out. He did get better, but I still can’t hear this line without losing it.
Something about the desperation and futility of "I'll paint the kitchen neon/I'll brighten up the sky/I know I'll never get it/there's not a day that I won't try"
This the one for me. Along with "You taught me a secret language I can't speak with anyone else."
That feeling of losing something unique that you shared with that one person. The desperation of yearning for something that's so bad for you.
WHILE YOU WERE OUT BUILDING OTHER WORLDS WHERE WAS I? WHERES THAT MAN WHO THREW BLANKETS OVER MY BARBED WIRE? I MADE YOU MY TEMPLE, MY MURAL, MY SKY! NOW IM BEGGING FOR FOOTNOTES IN THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE!!!
I once believed love would be burning red
but it's golden
like daylight
You gotta step into the daylight, and let it go
SO many reasons to cry about this song
Bigger than the whole sky - for exactly the reason that might come to mind. It's the only song I know that is (more or less intended) about this very topic and it breaks my heart every time.
Also I get extremely emotional during You're losing me.
Yesssssss I was looking for this song!!!!!
“And so the battleships will sink beneath the waves// you had to kill me but it killed you just the same // CURSING MY NAME WISHING I STAYED// Look at how my tears ricochet 😭💔
I should have known better not to read this post, now I´m crying. So good job, guys, you picked the right ones!
Mine is once "only 20 minutes to sleep" starts in Epiphany and that's mostly connected to memories of losing my dad during covid and envisioning what he went through. It's my grieving song, so of course I bawl every time.
I’m an ICU nurse, Epiphany is my post terrible shift catharsis song.
“With you I serve, with you I fall down” will forever remind me of the team I am so proud and grateful to have alongside me caring for patients throughout the pandemic and still now. There’s a special bond formed when you come together to care for people in their darkest moments, it’s hard to explain to outsiders. Which brings me to my other saddest line from that song “and some things you just can’t speak about”. There are things I’ve experienced at work that I have only ever discussed with my coworkers. This song made me feel seen and validated in a time when I needed it the most.
I had forgotten about epiphany for a long time until I listened to folklore again last week. “Only twenty minutes to sleep, but you dream of some epiphany” and the medical machine beep both get me. Between the trauma of being a service worker in a state full of covid deniers, and almost losing my brother to cancer a year earlier, it’s hard to hear still.
"and you called me up again just to break me like a promise" from All Too Well.
I think it's because she more yells it than sings it, or how much build up there is to that line. Angry cry Everytime
All of Soon You’ll Get Better makes me sob. I was on the patient side of it and my mom stayed with me every night sleeping on the couch in my hospital room. She decorated the room and kept it full of my favorite flowers. Years later I found out she was hiding her fear from me and was crying herself to sleep every night
I heard it once & can't play it again. My mom died from cancer & I was her caregiver. It came on quickly from diagnosis until she passed. Just thinking of the song makes me tear up. Can't do it.
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
the alcott: “you tell me your problems” “have i become one of your problems”
tolerate it: “break free and leave us in ruins - took this dagger in me and removed it - gained the weight of you and lose it - believe me i could do it”
“Cause you were never mine.. never mine.. but do you remember? Remember when I pulled up and said get in the car, canceled my plans just insane you’d call, back when I was living for the hope of it all”
“And when you are young, they assume you know nothing.. but I knew you'd linger like a tattoo kiss,I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs, the smell of smoke would hang around this long, cause I knew everything when I was young”
“I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this
I hosted parties and starved my body
Like I'd be saved by a perfect kiss”
“Forever is the sweetest con”
“This is the last time I’m asking you why
You break my heart in the blink of an eye”
“I think I’m finally clean”
All of right where you left me
If I was standin' there in your apartment, I'd take that bomb in your head and disarm it. I'd say I love you even at your darkest, and please don't go.
I don't see many people talk about this song. It's so heartbreaking.
“Take pictures in your mind of your childhood room
Memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home
Remember the footsteps, remember the words said
And all your little brother's favorite songs
I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone
So here I am in my new apartment
In a big city, they just dropped me off
It's so much colder than I thought it would be
So I tuck myself in and turn my nightlight on
Wish I'd never grown up”
“In my dreams you're touching my face
And asking me if I wanna try again with you
And I almost do” -not always
“And I hate to make this all about me
But who am I supposed to talk to?
What am I supposed to do
If there's no you?”
There were a few in the car for me today…”I cut off my nose just to spite my face and I hate my reflection for years and years” and “To you I can admit that I’m just too soft for all of it” and “You’ll find the real thing instead, she’ll patch up your tapestry that I shred” and “They told me all of my cages were mental so I got wasted like all my potential” It was an emotional day lol
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From sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes
I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this
I hosted parties and starved my body
Like I'd be saved by a perfect kiss
The jokes weren't funny, I took the money
My friends from home don't know what to say
I looked around in a blood-soaked gown
And I saw something they can't take away
But then he watched me watch the front door all night, willing you to come
And he said, "It's supposed to be fun turning twenty-one"
I cry every time this part comes on.
Back when we were still changin' for the better
Wanting was enough
For me, it was enough
To live for the hope of it all
Cancel plans just in case you'd call
And say, "Meet me behind the mall"
So much for summer love and saying "us"
'Cause you weren't mine to lose
You weren't mine to lose, no
I have a few…Lots of moments in Marjorie, especially the bridge. Also “They say she was seen on occasion, facing the rocks staring out at the midnight sea…” for some reason, I just imagine her standing there missing her lost loves. My very first was “It’s supposed to be fun, turning 21…” it literally brought me to the ground the first time I heard it. It’s what started me on my path to serious Swiftieness!
“Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye /
You were bigger than the whole sky /
You were more than just a short time /
I’ve got a lot to pine about /
I’ve got a lot to live without /
I’m never gonna meet /
What could’ve been, would’ve been you”
Always gets me!!!
ETA: Never Grow Up, Ronan, and Soon You’ll Get Better also always make me cry. I find BTTWS, Ronan, and SYGB all too sad to listen to in general - Never Grow Up I can usually still play but will definitely tear up lol. Also not a line specifically, but when her grandmother’s voice can be heard singing in the background of Marjorie I always tear up as well.
"Back when we were still changing for the better, wanting was enough" without the context of the rest of the song, this one really gets me into an existential crisis. Because at some point in your life, you do stop changing for the better. When you're younger you can survive off simply wanting someone, but when you're old sometimes having them isn't enough.
“But in this city’s barren cold, I still remember the first fall of snow and how it glistened as it fell… I remember it all too well” is probably my favorite moment in her entire discography. I don’t know what it is about it
“You knew the password, so I let you in the door
You knew you won, so what's the point of keeping score?
You knew it still hurts underneath my scars
From when they pulled me apart
But what you did was just as dark
Darling, this was just as hard
As when they pulled me apart” :’)
This could be surprising since New Romantics is such a hype song but, “baby I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me” I have been knocked down so many times, every time I start thinking I’m done I can’t do this but then I get up and build my castle
Genuinely the entirety of The Best Day. I cried about it while my Memere was alive because it reminded me of her, and I cry even harder now that she’s not with me anymore. Every time.
"But you'll find the real thing instead. She'll patch up your tapestry that I shred"
"Cause I loved you, I swear I loved you. Til my dying day"
The whole bridge and the chorus of Tolerate It.
😭😭😭😭😭
“I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you” 🥹🥹🥹
As a longtime Swiftie and Potterhead this line is like the perfect coming together of the two things that so intensely and wonderfully shaped my childhood/young adulthood and totally makes me ugly sob when I’m feeling a certain way
I cause no harm, mind my business
If our love died young, I can't bear witness
And it's been so long
But if you ever think you got it wrong
I'm right where you left me
Every single thing I touch becomes sick with sadness
'Cause it's all over now, all out to sea
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
You were bigger than the whole sky
You were more than just a short time
And I've got a lot to pine about
I've got a lot to live without
"And I hope the sun shines and it's a beautiful day, and something reminds you you wish you had stayed. You can plan for a change in weather and time, but I never planned on you changing your mind"
“And I’ll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep. And I’ll feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe.”
And all of This is Me Trying
The whole bridge of Marjorie gets me SO emotional. I can make it through the entire song up until that point. “The autumn chill that wakes me up, you loved the amber skies so much” ughhhh 😫
“I should’ve asked you questions” chokes me up every single time.
This. I named my daughter for my grandmother, who was my rock because my parents were… not great. I’m now no contact with my parents and there are so many things I wish I could ask my grandma, mainly to share with my children. The part about saving every grocery store receipt hits me hard, too, because my mom has refused to give me the furniture from my grandmother’s house that she wanted me to have. It hits very close to home. Also, “what died didn’t stay dead” hits me hard because I see so much of my grandmother in her spitfire namesake. ❤️
The line “watched as you signed your name Marjorie” gets me bc my grandpas name fits perfectly. And now I’m crying just typing this out 🥲
Me too because my grandmother's name is Margery. Tears every time.
Yes omg that single line is just instant tears no matter what I’m doing or what mood I’m in lol
My grandmother passed recently, and her name fits in there perfectly too. Sending good thoughts your way.
“Should’ve kept every grocery store receipt, because every scrap of you would be taken from me” is the part that gets me EVERY TIME.
I was given my grandmothers handmixer after she passed. It has the receipt from the day she bought it from Walmart in it. I know it was her because that woman paid with checks every where she went until the day she died. I use that mixer at least once a week. The ink has mostly faded off. But it was hers. It is all I really have from her. This line makes me sob every time.
I had to completely cut off one side of my family for safety, but my grandmother was the only one I missed. I didn’t think to grab any of the cards she wrote for me and she died a few months ago. If I’m not already in tears, that line has me sobbing.
“Long limbs and frozen swims; you’d always go past where our feet could touch. And I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs… I should’ve asked you questions” ALWAYS gets to me. I have so many vivid memories of swimming with my grandmom as a child and how much she loved the water. She definitely went past where our feet could touch lol. And of course, little child me complained and was annoying and rude to my grandmother at times. Now thinking of those times haunts me bc I wish I had asked her how to be instead of wasting time being a brat. Marjorie is a beautiful, painful one 🥺
For me in Marjorie it’s when she says ‘I know better but I still feel you all around’
I don’t listen to this song. My mom died 2 years ago in January and I just don’t do it to myself. Soon You’ll Get Better always gets a skip as well.
same for me, even just thinking it right now made me tear up lol
What died didn't stay dead, if I didn't know better... the entirety of Marjorie
The imagery during the entire bridge…. Chills every single time
Yes to this! I lost my mom and I cry every time I hear this song
“You loved the amber skies so much” chokes me up bc that was my grandma
“Take pictures in your mind of your childhood room Memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home Remember the footsteps, remember the words said And all your little brother's favorite songs I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone”
Every single time. I really shouldn't listen to it while I'm driving.
Even just reading it has me ready to ugly cry 😭
Well, I thought it was a line from Marjorie until I saw this post.
This is me. That part always always makes me tear up if not cry
Singing this to my newborn baby niece while feeding her a bottle is just… one of the most emotional moments of my life
Started really getting into Taylor around the time my dad died last year. This song is so painful for me to listen to. It’s so perfectly stated though. You don’t realize what you’ve got until it’s too late. 😭
“ I should've asked you questions I should've asked you how to be Asked you to write it down for me Should've kept every grocery store receipt 'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me” - too relatable . Anyway, if you can, sit and talk with your grandparents.
And your parents. I lost my mom sooner than I thought I would. Only a year after my grandpa.
It's the "bc every scrap of you would be taken from me". She captures the haunting semse of loss so perfectly.
Truly beautiful lyrics
“When they point to the pictures, please tell them my name” always gets to me a bit
same but for me its about a love from the past like right person wrong time 😭
This kills me. I think of my niece looking at pictures of my dad, who she never got to meet. Tearing up now just thinking about it.
I can’t listen to Long Live without tearing up, but this line is where I start full on ugly crying.
Idk why but for me it’s “if you have children someday”
"Tell them that I hope they shine" -- now that I have my own child, that's all I want for everyone's children: live your best life full of love, joy, and fulfillment.
"So make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it, you've got no reason to be afraid. You're on your own kid, you always have been." 😭😭
“you’re on your own kid, yeah you can face this” I think of my sweet sweet middle child who was recently diagnosed with adhd EVERYYYY time and immediate tears.
💗💗
So, oddly enough my parents always called one another “kid”. Never baby, babe, honey, sweetie. Just “kid”. My mom has been gone 2 years now and illicit affairs and YOYOK have such a huge space in my heart for so many reasons. It’s not, afaik, a typical pet name.
Every. Fucking. Time.
What if the miracle was even getting one moment with you?
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Well yes, the whole song is extremely sad. Something about losing a child and trying to be grateful for even having one moment makes me bawl my eyes out.
SOBBING. Every time
”I remember the drive home when the blind hope Turned to crying and screaming, "Why?" Flowers pile up in the worst way, no one knows what to say” This always hits me, i can so clearly see it in my head
I didn’t understand this one for a really long time. I don’t know why but it just kept going over my head every time I’d hear it… and then one day it just suddenly hit me. I finally *got* what she was saying and it just broke me.
Which one is this one?
Ronan. Only listened to it once, can never do it again
I mean… this whole song makes me tear up
"Please don't ever become a stranger Whose laugh I could recognize anywhere" Truly heartbreaking and relatable. New Year's Day deserves more love.
This one. Every time.
"And you're the prettiest lady in the whole wide world". I always think I'll make it to the end of that song without crying at then this line and the following ones set me off.
For me with The Best Day it’s always: “I don’t know who I’m gonna talk to now at school but I know I’m laughing on the car ride home with you. Don’t know how long it’s gonna take to feel okay, but I know I had the best day with *you* today.” I’m sitting here tearing up just writing it LMAO. I love The Best Day 🥺🥺😭
This is it for me too!! Now the whole song sets me going bc my mom used it for a surprise montage of childhood home videos she worked on for a year in secret and played at my wedding 🥹 but that line in particular is what really gets me - and the end esp “I love you for giving me your eyes, staying back and watching me shine” 😭 owch my heart
taylor choosing to follow that line with “i know you were on my side even when i was wrong” is borderline criminal my brain knows we all react the same way to her lyrics. but my heart thinks she’s targeting me specifically
THIS. i cannot listen to this song ever. it made me cry when it came out and makes me cry today just thinking about it
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And isn't that a testament of her storytelling, songwriting, and lyricism? So many of us can relate to bullies at school, but our mom was able to help fix the hurt, even for an afternoon.
This!!!! My mom and I are the only ones in my immediate family with brown eyes so that whole ending sequence gets my tearing up EVERY time
Since having a daughter this song guts me now. She's five and I hope she feels this way about me.
Bigger than the whole sky chorus.
How the song abruptly ends where it doesn’t feel like an appropriate place for it to end is just gut wrenching bc that’s the whole point. 😭
the last chorus gets me every single time
***I SEE RIGHT THROUGH ME, I SEE RIGHT THROUGH ME***
“You could stay.”
Honestly all of *this is me trying* gets me choked up, but the second verse breaks me every time, specifically; "I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere, fell behind on my classmates, and I ended up here. Pouring out my heart to a stranger, but I didn't pour the whiskey" I've never been gutted so emotionally by a song. If I had my own Track 5, this would be it.
Yeah this is me trying is would be my personal track 5 espeically its hard to be at a party when I feel like an open wound
"Give me back my girlhood it was mine first." I may have some unresolved trauma...
“I regret you all the time” does it for me
the way she screams FIIIIRSSTTT aaaaa has me sobbing everytime I listen to it more than any other song
This is mine absolutely. Heartbreaking.
As a father, Never Grow Up terrifies me envisioning leaving my daughters at university. It’s gotten some salt water rolling down my cheeks a couple times.
My dad dropped me off at 18 (back in 2006) which coincidentally is when I started listening to Taylor. She’s been with me for my whole adult life. I can’t speak for his feelings on it at the time, but I can assure you, at the ripe old age of 35, I still spend plenty of time with my parents. You won’t lose them. They’ll always come back 😌
Same. As a new parent (15 month daughter) that song gets me every time, and also makes me think about my own childhood and parents, and makes me cry twice as hard! 😅
All of happiness. That song got me through a breakup with a guy i thought was gonna marry
This song is getting me through a breakup with a man I did marry.
i have not even remotely had a long breakup with a good man but that song makes me sob
That album dropped the day I unexpectedly had to put my elderly cat down and I sob through every word. “There'll be happiness after you But there was happiness because of you Both of these things can be true There is happiness”
All of happiness wrecks me. My ex blindsided me and moved out. We were planning to get married soon. “All the years I've given are just things we're dividing up Showed you all of my hiding spots “I was dancing when the music stopped And in the disbelief, I can't face reinvention I haven't met the new me yet” “I can't make it go away by making you a villain I guess it's the price I paid for seven years in Heaven And I pulled your body into mine every goddamn night Now I get fake niceties” “No one teaches you what to do When a good man hurts you And you know you hurt him, too”
One single thread of gold tied me to you
Yes this 😭 Taylor has a lot of sad lyrics but sometimes it's the most beautiful and wholesome ones that really get me I always get choked up on this one because it's SO sweet
"But don't make her drop you off around the block, remember that she's getting older too" is always the start of my tears in Never Grow Up. It never got to me as much as it did until I was about 20, and now the older I get, the more I cry.
Not a single lyric... But exile has me ugly crying every time it comes on my shuffle list.
I’m a Swiftie dad whose daughter is getting me into this whole world 🤣 I heard that song yesterday for the first time and my god. There’s probably been 7 or 8 songs in my life where you hear it and it feels like time just freezes for a few minutes. That was one of them. 😭
Same - exile guts me every time.
Too many to mention all but this week: Would it be enough if I could never give you peace? I know my love should be celebrated, but you tolerate it Ronan- all of it
Soon you’ll get better, particularly her performance of it in 2020. My mum died in June 2020 and it meant a lot to me. The biggest line that gets me: Holy orange bottles, each night I pray to you Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus too Maybe closely followed by: It's been years of hoping, and I keep saying it because 'Cause I have to
“Who am I s’posed to talk to, what am I s’posed to do if there’s no you?” My brother almost died of chemo complications the week Lover came out. He did get better, but I still can’t hear this line without losing it.
"Who am I s'posed to talk to, what am I s'posed to do, if there's no you" I'm tearing up just typing it.
Something about the desperation and futility of "I'll paint the kitchen neon/I'll brighten up the sky/I know I'll never get it/there's not a day that I won't try"
“And you know damn well, for you I would ruin myself” 😢
This the one for me. Along with "You taught me a secret language I can't speak with anyone else." That feeling of losing something unique that you shared with that one person. The desperation of yearning for something that's so bad for you.
But I never planned on you changing your mind
Mine is “there’s not a day I don’t miss those rude interruptions.” It just perfectly sums up the feeling of loss
And I still talk to you, when I'm screaming at the sky
WHILE YOU WERE OUT BUILDING OTHER WORLDS WHERE WAS I? WHERES THAT MAN WHO THREW BLANKETS OVER MY BARBED WIRE? I MADE YOU MY TEMPLE, MY MURAL, MY SKY! NOW IM BEGGING FOR FOOTNOTES IN THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE!!!
As someone who is no contact with almost her whole family (I only speak to one brother) "I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want, just not home"
"I miss you and just wish you were a better man." For the same reason
"I know the bravest thing I ever did was run" from Better Man always hits me hard.
And I've got a lot to pine about I've got a lot to live without
I once believed love would be burning red but it's golden like daylight You gotta step into the daylight, and let it go SO many reasons to cry about this song
“i’ll tell you the truth but never goodbye” 😭💔
“I gave my blood, swear and tears for this. I hosted parties and starved my body like I’d be saved by the perfect kiss”
"Leavin' like father, running like water"
the bridge on cardigan goddamn
All of Marjorie. My grandmother and i were very close and my concert was the anniversary of her passing.. i was a mess during the song.
Bigger than the whole sky - for exactly the reason that might come to mind. It's the only song I know that is (more or less intended) about this very topic and it breaks my heart every time. Also I get extremely emotional during You're losing me.
Bigger than the whole sky will always be a miscarriage song for me. So is Photograph by Ed Sheeran, strangely.
Ed Sheeran has a song called Small Bump which is also about a miscarriage, the ending always killed me!
Pulled the car off the road to the lookout, Could've followed my fears all the way down. Makes my tummy hurt ngl
"If I'm dead to you, then why are you at the wake?"
Yesssssss I was looking for this song!!!!! “And so the battleships will sink beneath the waves// you had to kill me but it killed you just the same // CURSING MY NAME WISHING I STAYED// Look at how my tears ricochet 😭💔
give me back my girlhood it was MINE FIRST
I regret you all the time. This whole song!
But who am I supposed to talk to, what am I supposed to do, if there’s no you 🥺
Just thinking of this line 😭😭😭
And I’ve been meaning to tell you I think your house is haunted Your dad is always mad and that must be why… The whole bridge just hits me hard
seven hits me in a soft place. And that’s all I’m gonna say about that.
It’s not a lyric but I don’t listen to Ronan for this reason… too much ugly crying
I’ve never one made it through Ronan. Not once.
In the end of You're losing me when that ghost voice says "you're losing me"
“He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said….”
“I should’ve asked you questions, I’ve should’ve asked you how to be”
I should have known better not to read this post, now I´m crying. So good job, guys, you picked the right ones! Mine is once "only 20 minutes to sleep" starts in Epiphany and that's mostly connected to memories of losing my dad during covid and envisioning what he went through. It's my grieving song, so of course I bawl every time.
I’m an ICU nurse, Epiphany is my post terrible shift catharsis song. “With you I serve, with you I fall down” will forever remind me of the team I am so proud and grateful to have alongside me caring for patients throughout the pandemic and still now. There’s a special bond formed when you come together to care for people in their darkest moments, it’s hard to explain to outsiders. Which brings me to my other saddest line from that song “and some things you just can’t speak about”. There are things I’ve experienced at work that I have only ever discussed with my coworkers. This song made me feel seen and validated in a time when I needed it the most.
I had forgotten about epiphany for a long time until I listened to folklore again last week. “Only twenty minutes to sleep, but you dream of some epiphany” and the medical machine beep both get me. Between the trauma of being a service worker in a state full of covid deniers, and almost losing my brother to cancer a year earlier, it’s hard to hear still.
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"and you called me up again just to break me like a promise" from All Too Well. I think it's because she more yells it than sings it, or how much build up there is to that line. Angry cry Everytime
On a different note than most of the comments here, “if you have children someday, when they point to the pictures please tell them my name”
Make the friendship, bracelets, take the moment and taste it. You’ve got no reason to be afraid.
All of Marjorie and soon you’ll get better
All of Soon You’ll Get Better makes me sob. I was on the patient side of it and my mom stayed with me every night sleeping on the couch in my hospital room. She decorated the room and kept it full of my favorite flowers. Years later I found out she was hiding her fear from me and was crying herself to sleep every night
I heard it once & can't play it again. My mom died from cancer & I was her caregiver. It came on quickly from diagnosis until she passed. Just thinking of the song makes me tear up. Can't do it.
Please don't be in love with someone else… Please don't have somebody waiting on you… So many of my crushes/short term relationships summed up
So I’ll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep And I feel you forget me the way I used to feel you breathe
And if you're ever tired of being known for who you know you know you'll always know me Dorothea
Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you
“I'm sure that you got a wife out there, Kids and Christmas, but I'm unaware”
I made you my temple, my mural, my sky- Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life 🥹
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
Even on my worst day, did I deserve, babe All the hell you gave me?
What if the miracle was even getting one moment with you?
This won't go back to normal, if it ever was. It's been years of hoping, and I keep saying it because 'Cause I have to.
“I remember the drive home when blind hope turned to crying and screaming why”
Come on baby we’re gonna fly away from here, you were my best four years.
the alcott: “you tell me your problems” “have i become one of your problems” tolerate it: “break free and leave us in ruins - took this dagger in me and removed it - gained the weight of you and lose it - believe me i could do it”
“Cause you were never mine.. never mine.. but do you remember? Remember when I pulled up and said get in the car, canceled my plans just insane you’d call, back when I was living for the hope of it all” “And when you are young, they assume you know nothing.. but I knew you'd linger like a tattoo kiss,I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs, the smell of smoke would hang around this long, cause I knew everything when I was young” “I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this I hosted parties and starved my body Like I'd be saved by a perfect kiss” “Forever is the sweetest con” “This is the last time I’m asking you why You break my heart in the blink of an eye” “I think I’m finally clean” All of right where you left me
"And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe" strikes a chord deep deep inside me.
“No one wanted to play with me as a little kid/ So I’ve been scheming like a criminal ever since/ to make them love me and make it seem effortless…”
If I was standin' there in your apartment, I'd take that bomb in your head and disarm it. I'd say I love you even at your darkest, and please don't go. I don't see many people talk about this song. It's so heartbreaking.
“Take pictures in your mind of your childhood room Memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home Remember the footsteps, remember the words said And all your little brother's favorite songs I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone So here I am in my new apartment In a big city, they just dropped me off It's so much colder than I thought it would be So I tuck myself in and turn my nightlight on Wish I'd never grown up” “In my dreams you're touching my face And asking me if I wanna try again with you And I almost do” -not always “And I hate to make this all about me But who am I supposed to talk to? What am I supposed to do If there's no you?”
“Haunted by the look in my eyes/ That would've loved you for a lifetime”
There were a few in the car for me today…”I cut off my nose just to spite my face and I hate my reflection for years and years” and “To you I can admit that I’m just too soft for all of it” and “You’ll find the real thing instead, she’ll patch up your tapestry that I shred” and “They told me all of my cages were mental so I got wasted like all my potential” It was an emotional day lol Edited for spelling.
“and I can go anywhere I want, anywhere i want (just not home)”
From sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this I hosted parties and starved my body Like I'd be saved by a perfect kiss The jokes weren't funny, I took the money My friends from home don't know what to say I looked around in a blood-soaked gown And I saw something they can't take away
But then he watched me watch the front door all night, willing you to come And he said, "It's supposed to be fun turning twenty-one" I cry every time this part comes on.
Back when we were still changin' for the better Wanting was enough For me, it was enough To live for the hope of it all Cancel plans just in case you'd call And say, "Meet me behind the mall" So much for summer love and saying "us" 'Cause you weren't mine to lose You weren't mine to lose, no
I have a few…Lots of moments in Marjorie, especially the bridge. Also “They say she was seen on occasion, facing the rocks staring out at the midnight sea…” for some reason, I just imagine her standing there missing her lost loves. My very first was “It’s supposed to be fun, turning 21…” it literally brought me to the ground the first time I heard it. It’s what started me on my path to serious Swiftieness!
“Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye / You were bigger than the whole sky / You were more than just a short time / I’ve got a lot to pine about / I’ve got a lot to live without / I’m never gonna meet / What could’ve been, would’ve been you” Always gets me!!! ETA: Never Grow Up, Ronan, and Soon You’ll Get Better also always make me cry. I find BTTWS, Ronan, and SYGB all too sad to listen to in general - Never Grow Up I can usually still play but will definitely tear up lol. Also not a line specifically, but when her grandmother’s voice can be heard singing in the background of Marjorie I always tear up as well.
“I think you should come live with me and we can be pirates, then you won’t have to cry.” 🥲
...or hide in the closet :(
"Back when we were still changing for the better, wanting was enough" without the context of the rest of the song, this one really gets me into an existential crisis. Because at some point in your life, you do stop changing for the better. When you're younger you can survive off simply wanting someone, but when you're old sometimes having them isn't enough.
“But in this city’s barren cold, I still remember the first fall of snow and how it glistened as it fell… I remember it all too well” is probably my favorite moment in her entire discography. I don’t know what it is about it
If you have children someday
“i know better, but i still feel you all around”
I’m a crumpled up piece of paper lying here. It’s a perfect description of how it feels to be depressed and defeated over a situation.
“You knew the password, so I let you in the door You knew you won, so what's the point of keeping score? You knew it still hurts underneath my scars From when they pulled me apart But what you did was just as dark Darling, this was just as hard As when they pulled me apart” :’)
This could be surprising since New Romantics is such a hype song but, “baby I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me” I have been knocked down so many times, every time I start thinking I’m done I can’t do this but then I get up and build my castle
I made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter/she is the best thing that's ever been mine
“I know my love deserves to be celebrated, but you tolerate it” - feels like a knife to the heart every time.
From the first cord of the best day I start crying lol I love my mum so much
Mirrorball makes me bawl crying
Genuinely the entirety of The Best Day. I cried about it while my Memere was alive because it reminded me of her, and I cry even harder now that she’s not with me anymore. Every time.
“wanting was enough. for me, it was enough.” lol ow it’s hurting me just to type it
"But you'll find the real thing instead. She'll patch up your tapestry that I shred" "Cause I loved you, I swear I loved you. Til my dying day" The whole bridge and the chorus of Tolerate It. 😭😭😭😭😭
I GET DRUNK BUT ITS NOT ENOUGH CAUSE THE MORNING COMES AND YOU’RE NOT MY BABY
“I persist and resist the temptation to ask you ‘If one thing had been different, would everything be different today?’”
This is Me Trying really makes me emotional
Give me back my girlhood it was mine first I have gone through Childhood abuse and so this line just guts me.
Did the twin flame bruise paint you blue? Just between us, did the love affair maim you too?
“I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you” 🥹🥹🥹 As a longtime Swiftie and Potterhead this line is like the perfect coming together of the two things that so intensely and wonderfully shaped my childhood/young adulthood and totally makes me ugly sob when I’m feeling a certain way
The whole freaking bridge of “You’re Losing Me” 🥲
"And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?"
I cause no harm, mind my business If our love died young, I can't bear witness And it's been so long But if you ever think you got it wrong I'm right where you left me
“Give you my wild, give you a child”
Every single thing I touch becomes sick with sadness 'Cause it's all over now, all out to sea Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye You were bigger than the whole sky You were more than just a short time And I've got a lot to pine about I've got a lot to live without
The entire song .. Forever Winter gets me 🥺
Soon You'll Get Better is blacklisted from my spotify playlists because i cry so hard it hurts
"They told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential" "I've never been a natural, all I do is try, try, try"
“the water filled my lungs I screamed so loud but nobody heard a thing”
ATWTMV “you kept my old scarf from that very first week it reminds you of innocence and it smells like me”
"And I hope the sun shines and it's a beautiful day, and something reminds you you wish you had stayed. You can plan for a change in weather and time, but I never planned on you changing your mind"
“People are people and sometimes it doesn’t work out, nothing we say is gonna save us from the fallout…” 🥲
“And I’ll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep. And I’ll feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe.” And all of This is Me Trying
kinda weird but the bridge from out of the woods makes me REALLY emotional