Taylor uses an old saying to joke about her much older ex continuing to date women her age after their breakup. Things get a little spicy in the fourth verse. And I was never good at telling jokes, but the punch line goes I’ll get older, but your lovers stay my age From when your Brooklyn broke my skin and bones I’m a soldier who’s returning half her weight And did the twin flame bruise paint you blue? Just between us, did the love affair maim you, too? ‘Cause 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 Taylor looks back on her life after the split and shares how she craves a sense of normalcy. Time won’t fly, it’s like I’m paralyzed by it I’d like to be my old self again, but I’m still trying to find it After plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your own Now you mail back my things and I walk home alone But you keep my old scarf from that very first week ‘Cause it reminds you of innocence and it smells like me You can’t get rid of it ‘Cause you remember it all too well, yeah ‘Cause there we are again when I loved you so Back before you lost the one real thing you’ve ever known In the third verse, Taylor reveals that her ex broke up with her because of an age gap when she should’ve been having fun for her 21st birthday. They say all’s well that ends well, but I’m in a new Hell Every time you double-cross my mind You said if we had been closer in age maybe it would have been fine And that made me want to die The idea you had of me, who was she? A never-needy, ever-lovely jewel whose shine reflects on you Not weeping in a party bathroom Some actress asking me what happened, you That’s what happened, you You who charmed my dad with self-effacing jokes Sipping coffee like you’re on a late-night show 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” Taylor calls out possible things that could’ve led to their split and how ending their relationship made her feel. Well, maybe we got lost in translation Maybe I asked for too much But maybe this thing was a masterpiece ‘Til you tore it all up Running scared, I was there I remember it all too well And you call me up again just to break me like a promise So casually cruel in the name of being honest I’m a crumpled up piece of paper lying here ‘Cause I remember it all, all, all Taylor uses this chorus to share more personal moments and reveals the pain she remembers after feeling like she was a secret. ‘Cause there we are again in the middle of the night We’re dancing ’round the kitchen in the refrigerator light Down the stairs, I was there I remember it all too well And there we are again when nobody had to know You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath Sacred prayer and we’d swear To remember it all too well, yeah And I know it’s long gone and There was nothing else I could do And I forget about you long enough To forget why I needed to She accuses her former partner of being unwilling to admit they were in love and reveals that her ex came back after their split, but it was too late. Taylor uses this verse to share deets about her experiences with her ex’s family and the fun things they used to do together.
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