The night Taylor dropped Evermore, she wrote to a fan on YouTube, “I have about 50 fav lyrics but right now it’s . . . ‘Never be so kind you forget to be clever. Never be so clever you forget to be kind.’” That’s the advice her grandmother gives her in this song. She wishes her adult self could have learned even more from this wise woman. But that’s part of grief—the work is never done, and there’s never a resolution to the story. (Even if the album had “Closure”—the least Swiftian of concepts.)
