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Originally Posted by Alphavictim
The lyrics I've seen/heard from her new album have been awful! The title track especially has some baffling stuff; she's not a singer/songwriter sharing intimate moments, she's a stadium act with professional co-writers who launders her dirty laundry in public - or rather: A woman in her mid 30s playing the role of a teenager because that's what her persona is and what her fan base wants. The lack of believability alone ruins it for me (just like Jagger was never a convincing tortured artist).
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Well each one to his one but she doesnt have too many Song writers in it and Jon does have quite a few on the new album himself.
Plus Taylor does seem a Lot smarter. I didnt Luke her earlier Albums but the the COVID records some of the lyrics from her nrw one are pretty poetic, IMO
And you say I abandoned the ship
But I was going down with it
My white-knuckle dying grip
Holding tight to your quiet resentment
And my friends said it isn't right to be scared
Every day of a love affair
Every breath feels like rarest air
When you're not sure if he wants to be there
You swore that you loved me but where were the clues?
I died on the altar waiting for the proof
saw in my mind fairy lights through the mist
I kept calm and carried the weight of the rift
Pulled him in tighter each time he was drifting away
My spine split from carrying us up the hill
Wet through my clothes, weary bones caught the chill
I stopped trying to make him laugh
Stopped trying to drill the safe
Thinkin, how much sad did you think I had
Did you think I had in me?
Oh, the tragedy ...
You know you're good when you can even do it
With a broken heart
I can hold my breath
I've been doing it since he left
Cause once your queen had come
You treat her like an also-ran
You didn't measure up
In any measure of a man
Who's gonna tell me the truth
When you blew in with the winds of fate
And told me I reformed you
When your impressionist paintings of Heaven
Turned out to be fakes
Well, you took me to hell, too
And all at once, the ink bleeds
A con man sells a fool