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The story of us and last kiss remind me a lot of my relationship with my ex best friend !
i think last kiss it’s a HUGE song and i have a lot of respect and love for that song but i cant help feeling so freaking identified !! and i recently was listening the song and reading the lyrics and i was like - wait a damn secondit reminds me of a boy who i used to “”””date”””” and i was super into him and he clearly not
so when taylor sings “all that i know is that i don’t know how to be something you miss” make me cry a little too much
omg sorry my english is so bad i write “song” like 82 times
looo :) wrote: "omg sorry my english is so bad i write “song” like 82 times"omg i feel this lol
okay, i've decided i'd like to delve a little bit into why i relate the song "evermore" to my ex-best friend.more specifically i'd like to talk about "i rewind the tape but all it does is pause on the very moment all was lost". this verse is beyond amazing and every time i hear it it makes me reflect on the different versions of ourselves we are in other people's heads (especially those we no longer relate to). it's just that i think about my ex friend and i think about the idea she now has about me in her head. i mean, i was so different when we were still friends and many of my tastes and opinions have changed drastically. but she probably keeps that version of me vital, since it was the last one she knew. and even i think of her as the one she was, but is no longer. surely she is not the same as she was back then so how unfair it would be to feel resentment for a person (or version of her) that no longer exists, right?
anyway, I like that verse because every time I reminisce about that friendship it's as if the memories are a tape that I'm rewinding and that has its end in the last of our interactions. "I rewind the tape but all it does is pause on the very moment all was lost".
ok so ik this is probably universal for a large portion of this group but for me ivy and gold rush are the stories of what it feels like to fall for a woman, as a woman loving woman. “ My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand //
Taking mine, but it's been promised to another” - ivy
to me, this is like the classic pining for a woman who doesn’t know about your identity or is in a relationship.
and pretty much everything in gold rush is captures how it feels to fall for a friend, not wanting to anticipate it happening but noticing it fall into place (like dominoes)
ALSO, my tears ricochet is exactly what eating disorder recovery feels like to me, a sort of twisted love song to a long gone abusive partner, but simultaneously longing for the home and comfort it made me feel. the line about not being able to go with grace hits home too, for me about how i didn’t get the closure i wanted (not knowing what i was at my lowest, being forced into recovery, etc) but also about not wanting to give my ed the pleasure or control it craves by doing so. to me it also captures how the eating disorder kept on taking and taking all the while manipulating me into staying and thinking it wanted the best for me, telling me i was strong, brave, etc.
“And I can go anywhere I want
Anywhere I want, just not home
And you can aim for my heart, go for blood
But you would still miss me in your bones
And I still talk to you (when I'm screaming at the sky)
And when you can't sleep at night (you hear my stolen lullabies)
I didn't have it in myself to go with grace
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
You turned into your worst fears”
meganriley wrote: "ALSO, my tears ricochet is exactly what eating disorder recovery feels like to me, a sort of twisted love song to a long gone abusive partner, but simultaneously longing for the home and comfort it..."that's so interesting, i'd never before thought of it in that context but you're so right!
not for really any one specific reason but tied together with a smile kind of resonates with me and i relate to it a lot
cornelia street reminds me so much of a past friendship that's still pretty recent. we go to the same class and it's still painful to see her. i especially relate to "and if you ever walk away, I'd never walk Cornelia street again" because it hits so close to home. also the first few verses of closure: "it's been a long time and seeing the shape of your name still spells out pain, it wasn't right the way it all went down" are painful to hear because i relate to them for the same reason.
tell me why reminds me a lot of my parents relantionship w eachother, and come back be here reminds me of a past crush that moved away.
“tolerate it” is my parental issues in a nutshell
But I miss screaming fighting Kissing in the rain it’s 2am and I’m cursing ur name so in love that I acted insane- the way I loved you. I relate to that song with a boy I met on a cruise
I almost do reminds me of my longest lasting friendship with a guy I fell in love with and then something happened and I haven’t talked to him in a year
Enough for you and driver’s license reminds me of my first love
This is me trying, I have depression, I'm still struggling with to an extent but I've been to a very dark place and thought about lots of awful stuff. It was from 18 to 25. And I was such a happy kiddo, bright and smiling and I spent a lot of time drowning my feelings and doubting my life, my own existence. The two lyrics that are so important for me are "pouring out my heart to a stranger but I didn't pour the whiskey" and "it's hard to be at a party when you feel like an open wound". And if you know, I'm sorry babes, you deserve the whole world. The other song is "long story short". I left the dark place. I still have depressive episodes but they're nothing compared to those I had years before. I feel alive in a certain way and I'm totally different from who I was before, for sure. That's why "long story short I survived" hits hard on me.
Morgane wrote: "This is me trying, I have depression, I'm still struggling with to an extent but I've been to a very dark place and thought about lots of awful stuff. It was from 18 to 25. And I was such a happy k..."im so very glad to hear you're doing better <3
new year's day but primarily the bridge- it reminds me of all of my friends and the people I'm so scared of losing or drifting away
Never grow up means so much to me. My sister used to sing this to me growing up because I had nightmares after my dad died.
“this is why we can’t have nice things” reminds me of my ex high school friend
Bad blood reminds me of my middle school fr*ends
This Is Why We Cant Have Nice Things feels like an ex-friendship I had. It's so scary how it's identical to what I went through.
god so manyso with marjorie, soon you'll get better and cornelia street i feel specially identifed, my dad died of cancer when i was 8 and it changed me in soo many ways. i still fighting with depression and anxiety because of that.
forever & always and the story of us reminds me of my past best friend that suddenly just changed me for my other friend so.. yeah.
this is me trying is just the definition of my whole life lol.
nothing new omg my cheecks literally turn red for EVERYTHING and i'm freaking insecure because of that, also i've got and still have a lot of insecurities growing up since 7. i feel like i was treated like i should be strong and not perfect but as close to it as i could.
"i've never been a natural, all i do i try try try" so as i said my dad died when i was really young and my whole family like attendend my mom a LOT and kinda forgot about me and my lil brother, so i've been looking after him a looot and didn't take care of me at all. so when i tried to i realised i didn't know myself and i kinda lost my personality along the years so yeah. also makes me think about when we are all grown people and taylor still being our very old mom and omg i suffer a lot about it.
the line in illicit affairs “and you wanna scream don’t call me kid don’t call me baby look at this godforsaken mess that you made me” reminds me of my relationship with my mom
for example, i know "coney island" is allegedly about taylor's exes but i find meaning in it about my relationship with my dad. or "evermore" reminds me a lot of a best friend i used to have and our current relationship.
feel free to share yours! :)