Not a pretty scene—mascara running, glass shattering. A long time ago. But she’s still trapped in that moment, paralyzed in the past. Everybody moved on. She stayed there. She can hear what people whisper at the other tables. “Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen?” they ask each other. “She’s still twenty-three, inside her fantasy, how it was supposed to be.” Every time she wails, “You left me noooo,” she sounds more desperate, over Aaron Dessner’s obsessive banjo hook. The banjo keeps urging her to get out of there, but she can’t move. It’s the only Swift song with an actual cry
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from communing with ghosts in "Marjorie" we move to embodying the ghost in "Right Where You Left Me"
