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Taylor Swift and The

Note: huge thank you to @meandmypagancrew who collaborated with me on the lyrics for this post!

'Taylor Swift'

Tim McGraw: He said the way my blue eyes shined put those Georgia stars to shame that night

Tim McGraw: And then the time we woke up to find that summer gone

Tim McGraw: I hope you think my favorite song, the one we danced to all night long, the moon like a spotlight on the lake

Tim McGraw: And I'm back for the first time since then

Tim McGraw: There's a letter left on your doorstep and the first thing that you'll read is

Picture To Burn: State the obvious, I didn't get my perfect fantasy

Picture To Burn: That's fine, you won't mind if I say, by the way...

Teardrops On My Guitar: He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar

Teardrops On My Guitar: The only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star.

Teardrops On My Guitar: He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do

Teardrops On My Guitar: The kind of flawless I wish I could be

Teardrops On My Guitar: As I turn out the light, I'll put his picture down and maybe get some sleep tonight

Teardrops On My Guitar: The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart

Teardrops On My Guitar: He's the time taken up, but there's never enough

A Place In This World: Trying to see through the rain coming down

A Place In This World: Even though I'm not the only one who feels the way I do

A Place In This World: Got the radio on, my old blue jeans, and I'm wearing my heart on my sleeve

A Place In This World: Feeling lucky today, got the sunshine

Cold As You: And when you take, you take the very best of me

Cold As You: You come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you

Cold As You: Every smile you fake is so condescending, counting all the scars you made

The Outside: I know I didn't read between the lines

The Outside: I tried to take the road less traveled by but nothing seems to work the first few times

The Outside: This ain't the best view on the outside looking in

The Outside: I've been a lot of lonely places but I've never been on the outside

Tied Together With A Smile: Seems the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you

Tied Together With A Smile: The water's high, you're jumping into it

Tied Together With A Smile: You cry, but you don't tell anyone that you might not be the golden one

Tied Together With A Smile: But he leaves you out like a penny in the rain

Stay Beautiful: He smiles, it's like the radio

Stay Beautiful: Cory finds another way to be the highlight of my day

Stay Beautiful: I should say, hey, by the way, you’re beautiful

Should've Said No: It's strange to think the songs we used to sing, the smiles, the flowers, everything is gone

Should've Said No: I should've been there in the back of your mind

Should've Said No: And, baby, you know all the right things to say

Should've Said No: But do you honestly expect me to believe we could ever be the same?

Should've Said No: You say that the past is the past, you need one chance

Mary's Song (Oh My My My): I looked at you like the stars that shined in the sky, the pretty lights

Mary's Song (Oh My My My): And our daddies used to joke about the two of us

Mary's Song (Oh My My My): Take me back to the house in the backyard tree

Mary's Song (Oh My My My): Our daddies used to joke about the two of us

Mary's Song (Oh My My My): Take me back to the creek beds we turned up

Mary's Song (Oh My My My): Take me back to the time we had our very first fight

Mary's Song (Oh My My My): The slamming of doors instead of kissing goodnight

Mary's Song (Oh My My My): You stayed outside ‘til the morning light

Mary's Song (Oh My My My): Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle

Mary's Song (Oh My My My): I'll still look at you like the stars that shine in the sky, oh my my my...

Our Song: I was riding shotgun with my hair undone in the front seat of his car

Our Song: He's got a one-hand feel on the steering wheel, the other on my heart

Our Song: I look around, turn the radio down, he says, "Baby is something wrong?"

Our Song: Our song is the slamming screen door

Our Song: When we're on the phone and you talk real slow ‘cause it's late and your mama don't know

Our Song: Our song is the way you laugh

Our Song: The first date, "Man, I didn't kiss her, when I should have"

Our Song: I was walking up the front porch steps

Our Song: Got to the hallway, well, on my way to my lovin' bed

Our Song: I almost didn't notice all the roses and the note that said

Our Song: I've heard every album, listened to the radio

Our Song: 'Cause our song is the slamming screen door

Our Song: When we're on the phone and he talks real slow ‘cause it's late and his mama don't know

Our Song: Our song is the way he laughs

Our Song: The first date, "Man, I didn't kiss him, when I should have"

I'm Only Me When I'm With You: Friday night beneath the stars

I'm Only Me When I'm With You: You and I are painting pictures in the sky.

I'm Only Me When I'm With You: And sometimes we don't say a thing, just listen to the crickets sing.

I'm Only Me When I'm With You: Don't wanna fly if you're still on the ground

I'm Only Me When I'm With You: Well, you drive me crazy half the time, the other half I'm only trying to let you know that what I feel is true

Invisible: She can't see the way your eyes light up when you smile

Invisible: You can't see me wanting you the way you want her, but you are everything to me

Invisible: She's never gonna see the light, no matter what you do

A Perfectly Good Heart: Why would you wanna make the very first scar?

A Perfectly Good Heart: Maybe I should've seen the signs, should've read the writing on the wall

A Perfectly Good Heart: And realized by the distance in your eyes that I would be the one to fall

A Perfectly Good Heart: How do I get it back the way it was before?

'Fearless (Taylor's Version)'

Fearless: There's something 'bout the way the street looks when it's just rained, there's a glow off the pavement

Fearless: You walk me to the car and you know I wanna ask you to dance right there in the middle of the parking lot

Fearless: We're driving down the road, I wonder if you know

Fearless: Well, you stood there with me in the doorway

Fearless: It's the first kiss, it's flawless, really something, it’s fearless

Fifteen: You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors, it's the morning of your very first day

Fifteen: It's your freshman year and you're gonna be here for the next four years in this town

Fifteen: Laughing at the other girls who think they're so cool

Fifteen: And your mama's waiting up and you're thinking he's the one

Fifteen: And you're dancing 'round your room when the night ends, when the night ends

Fifteen: But in your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team

Fifteen: Take a deep breath as you walk through the doors

Love Story: I close my eyes and the flashback starts

Love Story: See the lights, see the party, the ball gowns

Love Story: See you make your way through the crowd and say, "Hello"

Love Story: I was crying on the staircase begging you, "Please don't go"

Love Story: You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess

Love Story: So I sneak out to the garden to see you

Love Story: My faith in you was fading when I met you on the outskirts of town

Love Story: He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said...

Hey Stephen: I didn't say half the things I wanted to

Hey Stephen: Of all the girls tossing rocks at your window, I'll be the one waiting there even when it's cold

Hey Stephen: Can't help it if I wanna kiss you in the rain

Hey Stephen: But I never seen nobody shine the way you do

Hey Stephen: The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name

Hey Stephen: I think you and I should stay the same

Hey Stephen: They're dimming the street lights

Hey Stephen: I could give you fifty reasons why I should be the one you choose

White Horse: The days drag on, stupid girl, I should have known, I should have known

White Horse: I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet, lead her up the stairwell

White Horse: My mistake, I didn't know to be in love you had to fight to have the upper hand

You Belong With Me: You're on the phone with your girlfriend

You Belong With Me: I'm listening to the kind of music she doesn't like

You Belong With Me: She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers

You Belong With Me: Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find that what you're looking for has been here the whole time

You Belong With Me: If you could see that I'm the one who understands you

You Belong With Me: Walk in the streets with you in your worn-out jeans

You Belong With Me: Oh, I remember you driving to my house in the middle of the night

You Belong With Me: I'm the one who makes you laugh when you know you're 'bout to cry

You Belong With Me: Can't you see that I'm the one who understands you?

Breathe: Music starts playing like the end of a sad movie

Breathe: It's the kinda ending you don't really wanna see

Breathe: You're the only thing I know like the back of my hand

Breathe: Every little bump in the road I tried to swerve

Breathe: Nothing we say is gonna save us from the fallout

Tell Me Why: Down here from the ground I see who you are

Tell Me Why: Why do you have to put down my dreams so you're the only thing on my mind?

You're Not Sorry: You don't have to call anymore, I won't pick up the phone

You're Not Sorry: This is the last straw, don't wanna hurt anymore

You're Not Sorry: Could've loved you all my life if you hadn't left me waiting in the cold

You're Not Sorry: This is the last straw, there's nothing left to beg for

The Way I Loved You: I miss screaming and fighting and kissing in the rain

The Way I Loved You: You're so in love that you act insane and that's the way I loved you

The Way I Loved You: I never knew I could feel that much and that's the way I loved you

The Way I Loved You: He can't see the smile I'm faking

The Way I Loved You: I'm so in love that I acted insane and that's the way I loved you

Forever & Always: I hold onto the night you looked me in the eye and told me you loved me

Forever & Always: One second it was perfect, now you're half way out the door

Forever & Always: And I stare at the phone, he still hasn't called

Forever & Always: Here's to silence that cuts me to the core

The Best Day: Past the pumpkin patch and the tractor rides

The Best Day: Look now, the sky is gold

The Best Day: I hug your legs and fall asleep on the way home

The Best Day: I don't know why all the trees change in the fall

The Best Day: I know I had the best day with you today

The Best Day: I come home crying and you hold me tight and grab the keys

The Best Day: I know I'm laughing on the car ride home with you

The Best Day: And I had the best days with you

The Best Day: You set up a paint set in the kitchen and you're talking to me

The Best Day: It's the age of princesses and pirate ships and the seven dwarfs, and Daddy's smart and you're the prettiest lady in the whole wide world

The Best Day: And now I know why all the trees change in the fall

The Best Day: I'm taking this chance to say that I had the best day with you today

Change: The final blow hits you

Change: You know it’s all the same, another time and place

Change: This revolution, the time will come

Change: It’s hard to fight when the fight ain’t fair

Change: The battle was long, it’s the fight of our lives, but we’ll stand up champions tonight

Change: It was the night things changed

Change: When the walls that they put up to hold us back fell down

Jump Then Fall: I like the way you sound in the morning

Jump Then Fall: We're on the phone and without a warning I realize your laugh is the best sound I have ever heard

Jump Then Fall: I like the way I can't keep my focus

Jump Then Fall: I hear the words but all I can think is we should be together

Jump Then Fall: Well, I like the way your hair falls in your face

Jump Then Fall: You got the keys to me, I love each freckle on your face

Jump Then Fall: I like the way you're everything I ever wanted

Jump Then Fall: The bottom's gonna drop out from under our feet

Jump Then Fall: The time is gonna come when you're so mad you could cry but I'll hold you through the night until you smile

Untouchable: Untouchable, burning brighter than the sun

Untouchable: In the middle of the night when I'm in this dream

Untouchable: But you're untouchable, burning brighter than the sun

Untouchable: In the middle of the night, waking from this dream I wanna feel you by my side standing next to me

Come In With The Rain: I know all the steps up to your door but I don't wanna go there anymore

Come In With The Rain: Talk to the wind, talk to the sky

Come In With The Rain: Talk to the man with the reasons why and let me know what you find

Come In With The Rain: Talk to yourself, talk to the tears

Come In With The Rain: Talk to the man who put you here and don't wait for the sky to clear

SuperStar: I knew from the first note played I'd be breaking all my rules to see you

SuperStar: You smile that beautiful smile and all the girls in the front row scream your name

SuperStar: And I knew when I saw your face, I'd be counting down the ways to see you

SuperStar: And you'll never see, you sing me to sleep every night from the radio

The Other Side Of The Door: In the heat of the fight I walked away

The Other Side Of The Door: Wait there in the pouring rain, come back for more

The Other Side Of The Door: Don't you leave 'cause I know all I need is on the other side of the door

The Other Side Of The Door: Going through the photographs, staring at the phone

The Other Side Of The Door: I remember the slamming door and all the things that I misread

The Other Side Of The Door: And I'll scream out the window

The Other Side Of The Door: With your face and the beautiful eyes and the conversation with the little white lies and the faded picture of a beautiful night

The Other Side Of The Door: You carry me from your car up the stairs

Today Was A Fairytale: You were the prince, I used to be a damsel in distress

Today Was A Fairytale: You took me by the hand and you picked me up at six

Today Was A Fairytale: But can you feel this magic in the air?

Today Was A Fairytale: It must have been the way you kissed me

Today Was A Fairytale: It must have been the way today was a fairytale

Today Was A Fairytale: Nothing made sense 'til the time I saw your face

You All Over Me: Once the last drop of rain has dried off the pavement

You All Over Me: The way the tires turn stones on old county roads, they leave 'em muddy underneath

You All Over Me: You find graffiti on the walls of old bathroom stalls

You All Over Me: But like the dollar in your pocket that's been spent and traded in, you can't change where it’s been

You All Over Me: The best and worst day of June was the one that I met you

Mr. Perfectly Fine: Mr. looked me in the eye and told me you would never go away

Mr. Perfectly Fine: Mr. every single day until the end I will be by your side

Mr. Perfectly Fine: Mr. always at the right place at the right time, baby

Mr. Perfectly Fine: Mr. insincere apology so he doesn't look like the bad guy

Mr. Perfectly Fine: Well, I thought you might be different than the rest, I guess you’re all the same

Mr. Perfectly Fine: So strategized all the eyes on you

Mr. Perfectly Fine: It's the best seat, in the best room

Mr. Perfectly Fine: I've been Miss misery for the last time

We Were Happy: We used to walk along the streets when the porch lights were shining bright

We Were Happy: I do recall, a good while back we snuck into the circus

We Were Happy: No one could touch the way we laughed in the dark

We Were Happy: We used to watch the sun go down on the boats in the water

That's When: When I wake up in the morning, that's when

That's When: I'll be waiting at the front gate

That's When: Then through the phone came all your tears

That's When: When I woke up in the morning, that's when

That's When: That's when you were waiting at the front gate

Don't You: My heart knows what the truth is

Bye Bye Baby: The rain didn't soak through my clothes

Bye Bye Baby: This is the last time I'll drive this way again

Bye Bye Baby: Lost in the gray and I try to grab at the fray

Bye Bye Baby: The picture frame is empty on the dresser, vacant just like me

Bye Bye Baby: I see your writing on the dash

Bye Bye Baby: The here and the now floods in

Bye Bye Baby: And all the pages are just slipping through my hands

'Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)'

Mine: I say, "Can you believe it?" as we're lying on the couch

Mine: The moment, I can see it

Mine: Do you remember, we were sitting there by the water?

Mine: You put your arm around me for the first time

Mine: You are the best thing that's ever been mine

Mine: Flash forward and we're taking on the world together

Mine: Do you remember all the city lights on the water?

Mine: You saw me start to believe for the first time

Mine: I ran out crying and you followed me out into the street

Mine: Braced myself for the "Goodbye" 'cause that's all I've ever known

Mine: You said, "I remember how we felt sitting by the water and every time I look at you, it's like the first time”

Mine: She is the best thing that's ever been mine

Sparks Fly: The way you move is like a full-on rainstorm and I'm a house of cards

Sparks Fly: You're the kind of reckless that should send me running but I kinda know that I won't get far

Sparks Fly: Meet me in the pouring rain, kiss me on the sidewalk, take away the pain

Sparks Fly: Get me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down

Sparks Fly: I'm on my guard for the rest of the world but with you I know it's no good

Sparks Fly: I'll run my fingers through your hair and watch the lights go wild

Sparks Fly: And lead me up the staircase, won't you whisper soft and slow?

Sparks Fly: And the sparks fly...

Back To December: We small-talk, work and the weather

Back To December: Because the last time you saw me is still burned in the back of your mind

Back To December: And I go back to December all the time

Back To December: And I think about summer, all the beautiful times, I watched you laughing from the passenger side and realized I loved you in the fall

Back To December: And then the cold came, the dark days when fear crept into my mind

Back To December: And how you held me in your arms that September night, the first time you ever saw me cry

Back To December: So if the chain is on your door, I understand

Speak Now: I am not the kind of girl who should be rudely barging in on a white veil occasion, but you are not the kind of boy who should be marrying the wrong girl

Speak Now: I’ll meet you when you’re out of the church at the back door

Speak Now: Fond gestures are exchanged and the organ starts to play a song that sounds like a death march

Speak Now: And I am hiding in the curtains, it seems that I was uninvited by your lovely bride-to-be

Speak Now: She floats down the aisle like a pageant queen

Speak Now: I hear the preacher say, "Speak now or forever hold your peace"

Speak Now: There’s the silence, there’s my last chance

Speak Now: Horrified looks from everyone in the room but I’m only looking at you

Speak Now: I’ll meet you when I’m out of my tux at the back door

Dear John: Long were the nights when my days once revolved around you

Dear John: Counting my footsteps, praying the floor won't fall through again

Dear John: I lived in your chess game but you changed the rules everyday

Dear John: Wondering which version of you I might get on the phone tonight

Dear John: The girl in the dress cried the whole way home, I should've known

Dear John: All the girls that you've run dry have tired lifeless eyes ‘cause you've burned them out

Dear John: The girl in the dress wrote you a song, you should've known

Mean: You, picking on the weaker man

Mean: But the cycle ends right now 'cause you can't lead me down that road

Mean: Washed up and ranting about the same old bitter things

The Story Of Us: I used to think one day we'd tell the story of us

The Story Of Us: How we met and the sparks flew instantly, and people would say, "They're the lucky ones"

The Story Of Us: I used to know my place was the spot next to you, now I'm searching the room for an empty seat

The Story Of Us: I don't know what to say, since the twist of fate when it all broke down, and the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now

The Story Of Us: I'm starting to think one day I'll tell the story of us, how I was losing my mind when I saw you here

The Story Of Us: Oh, I'm scared to see the ending, why are we pretending this is nothing?

The Story Of Us: The battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down if you said you'd rather love than fight

The Story Of Us: So many things that you wish I knew, but the story of us might be ending soon

The Story Of Us: And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now, now, now

The Story Of Us: I don't know what to say, since the twist of fate 'cause we're going down

The Story Of Us: And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now

The Story Of Us: The end

Never Grow Up: It's so quiet in the world tonight

Never Grow Up: You're in the car on the way to the movies and you're mortified your mom's dropping you off

Never Grow Up: But don't make her drop you off around the block

Never Grow Up: And don't lose the way that you dance around in your pj's getting ready for school

Never Grow Up: Remember the footsteps, remember the words said

Enchanted: Across the room your silhouette starts to make its way to me

Enchanted: The playful conversation starts, counter all your quick remarks

Enchanted: I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home

Enchanted: The lingering question kept me up, 2 AM, who do you love?

Enchanted: This is me praying that this was the very first page, not where the story line ends

Enchanted: These are the words I held back as I was leaving too soon

Better Than Revenge: Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did

Better Than Revenge: The story starts when it was hot and it was summer and...

Better Than Revenge: She came along, got him alone and let's hear the applause

Better Than Revenge: She had to know the pain was beating on me like a drum

Better Than Revenge: He was a moth to the flame, she was holding the matches

Better Than Revenge: Stealing other people's toys on the playground won't make you many friends

Better Than Revenge: She looks at life like it's a party and she's on the list

Better Than Revenge: You might have him but I always get the last word

Better Than Revenge: Let's hear the applause

Innocent: You wouldn't be shattered on the floor now if only you had seen what you know now then

Innocent: Wasn't it beautiful running wild 'til you fell asleep before the monsters caught up to you?

Innocent: Minds change like the weather

Haunted: And he just might make me smile but the whole time I'm wishing he was you instead

Last Kiss: I still remember the look on your face

Last Kiss: Lit through the darkness at 1:58

Last Kiss: The words that you whispered for just us to know

Last Kiss: I do recall now the smell of the rain, fresh on the pavement

Last Kiss: I ran off the plane, that July 9th, the beat of your heart

Last Kiss: But now I'll go sit on the floor wearing your clothes

Last Kiss: Your name, forever the name on my lips

Last Kiss: I do remember the swing of your step, the life of the party, you're showing off again

Last Kiss: How you kissed me when I was in the middle of saying something

Last Kiss: And I hope the sun shines and it's a beautiful day

Long Live: I said remember this moment in the back of my mind

Long Live: The time we stood with our shaking hands, the crowds in stands went wild

Long Live: We were the kings and the queens and they read off our names

Long Live: The night you danced like you knew our lives would never be the same

Long Live: It was the end of a decade but the start of an age

Long Live: Long live the walls we crashed through

Long Live: How the kingdom lights shined just for me and you

Long Live: I was screaming long live all the magic we made

Long Live: And bring on all the pretenders

Long Live: I pass the pictures around of all the years that we stood there on the side-lines wishing for right now

Long Live: We are the kings and the queens

Long Live: And the cynics were outraged, screaming, "This is absurd!"

Long Live: 'Cause for a moment a band of thieves in ripped-up jeans got to rule the world

Long Live: Long live all the mountains we moved

Long Live: I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you

Long Live: Confetti falls to the ground

Long Live: When they point to the pictures, please tell them my name

Long Live: Tell them how the crowds went wild

Long Live: Long live the walls we crashed through

Long Live: I had the time of my life, with you

Long Live: Long, long live the walls we crashed through

Ours: Strangers' silence makes me wanna take the stairs

Ours: And the verdict comes from those with nothing else to do

Ours: The jury's out, but my choice is you

Ours: The stakes are high, the water's rough, but this love is ours

Ours: Lurking in the shadows with their lip gloss smiles

Ours: 'Cause I love the gap between your teeth and I love the riddles that you speak

Superman: He puts papers in his briefcase and drives away to save the world or go to work, it's the same thing to me

Superman: Go save the world, I'll be around

Superman: I'll be right here on the ground when you come back down

Superman: But I hope someday you'll take me away and save the day, yeah

Superman: I always forget to tell you I love you, I loved you from the very first day

Superman: And I watch you fly around the world and I hope you don't save some other girl

Superman: I'm love-struck and looking out the window

Superman: Right here wishing the flowers were from you

Superman: Wishing the card was from you

Superman: Wishing the call was from you

Superman: 'Cause I loved you from the very first day

Electric Touch: Just an hour ‘til your car’s in the driveway

Electric Touch: Still hoping that the fire won’t burn me just one time, just one time

Electric Touch: In the heat of your electric touch

Electric Touch: I’ve been left in the rain, lost and pining

Electric Touch: I was thinking just one time, maybe the stars align

Electric Touch: And just one time, maybe the moment’s right

When Emma Falls In Love: When Emma falls in love, she paces the floor, closes the blinds, and locks the door

When Emma Falls In Love: Jokes about the way that this one could go wrong

When Emma Falls In Love: When Emma falls in love, I know that boy will never be the same

When Emma Falls In Love: ‘Cause she’s the kind of book that you can’t put down

When Emma Falls In Love: And all the bad boys would be good boys if they only had a chance to love her

When Emma Falls In Love: And to tell you the truth, sometimes I wish I was her

When Emma Falls In Love: Hangs in the air like stars in outer space

When Emma Falls In Love: She takes on the pain and bears it on her own

When Emma Falls In Love: She won’t lose herself in love the way that I did

When Emma Falls In Love: Turns out her heart fits right in the palm of his hand

I Can See You: You brush past me in the hallway

I Can See You: ‘Cause I can see you waiting down the hall from me

I Can See You: And I could see you up against the wall with me

I Can See You: You won’t believe half the things I see inside my head

I Can See You: Wait ‘til you see half the things that haven’t happened yet

I Can See You: That I can see you thrown your jacket on the floor

I Can See You: Oh, oh, I could see you waiting down the hall from me

I Can See You: And I could see you throw your jacket on the floor

Castles Crumbling: And I watch all my bridges burn to the ground

Castles Crumbling: Once, I was the great hope for a dynasty

Castles Crumbling: Smoke billows from my ships in the harbor

Castles Crumbling: Now they’re screaming at the palace front gates

Foolish One: My cards are on the table, yours are in your hand

Foolish One: And the voices say, “You are not the exception, you will never learn your lesson”

Foolish One: You will take the long way, you will take the long way down

Foolish One: Over coffee every morning while you’re watching the news

Foolish One: But then the voices say, “You are not the exception, you will never learn your lesson”

Foolish One: You will learn the hard way instead of just walking out

Foolish One: Now I’m sliding down the wall with my head in my hands saying, “How could I not see the signs?”

Foolish One: Oh, you haven’t written me or called but goodbye screaming in the silence

Foolish One: And the voices in my head are telling me why

Foolish One: ‘Cause you got her on your arm and me in the wings

Foolish One: And you will say you had the best of intentions

Foolish One: Ain’t never gonna come, oh, you will learn the hard way now

Foolish One: And thinking he’s the one, you should’ve been walking out

Foolish One: Foolish one, the day is gonna come for your confessions of love

Foolish One: When all is said and done, he just wasn’t the one, he just wasn’t the one

Timeless: Down the block, there’s an antique shop

Timeless: On the counter was a cardboard box and the sign said, “Photos 25 cents each”

Timeless: And two lovers laughing on the porch of their first house

Timeless: The kind of love that you only find once in a lifetime, the kind you don’t put down

Timeless: And you were headed off to fight in the war

Timeless: There was one of a teenage couple in the driveway

Timeless: Holding hands on the way to a dance and the date on the back said 1958

Timeless: Which brought me back to the first time I saw you

Timeless: And I’d die for you in the same way

Timeless: If I first saw your face in the 1500s off in a foreign land

Timeless: It was like an age-old classic, the first time that you saw me

Timeless: The story started when you said “Hello” in a crowded room a few short years ago

Timeless: We’ll have a cardboard box of photos of the life we’ve made

'Red (Taylor's Version)'

State of Grace: I'm walking fast through the traffic lights

State of Grace: And I never saw you coming and I'll never be the same

State of Grace: You come around and the armor falls

State of Grace: Pierce the room like a cannonball

State of Grace: We learn to live with the pain, mosaic broken hearts

State of Grace: This is the worthwhile fight

State of Grace: These are the hands of fate

State of Grace: This is the golden age of something good and right and real

Red: Faster than the wind, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly

Red: Loving him is like trying to change your mind once you're already flying through the free fall

Red: Like the colors in autumn, so bright just before they lose it all

Red: Memorizing him was as easy as knowing all the words to your old favorite song

Treacherous: Out of focus, eye to eye ‘til the gravity's too much

Treacherous: I hear the sound of my own voice asking you to stay

Treacherous: Forever going with the flow but you're friction

Treacherous: Two headlights shine through the sleepless night

Treacherous: And I just think you should, think you should know that nothing safe is worth the drive

I Knew You Were Trouble: I realize the blame is on me

I Knew You Were Trouble: Now I'm lying on the cold hard ground

I Knew You Were Trouble: Pretends he doesn't know that he's the reason why you're drowning

I Knew You Were Trouble: Now I heard you moved on from whispers on the street

I Knew You Were Trouble: He was long gone when he met me and I realize the joke is on me, hey

I Knew You Were Trouble: And the saddest fear comes creeping in, that you never loved me or her, or anyone, or anything, yeah

All Too Well: I walked through the door with you, the air was cold

All Too Well: We're singing in the car, getting lost Upstate

All Too Well: You almost ran the red 'cause you were looking over at me

All Too Well: Photo album on the counter, your cheeks were turning red

All Too Well: And your mother's telling stories about you on the tee ball team

All Too Well: 'Cause there we are again in the middle of the night

All Too Well: We're dancing around the kitchen in the refrigerator light

All Too Well: Down the stairs, I was there, I remember it all too well, yeah

All Too Well: So casually cruel in the name of being honest

All Too Well: Back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known

All Too Well: Down the stairs, you were there, you remember it all

22: We're happy, free, confused, and lonely at the same time

22: Tonight's the night when we forget about the deadlines

22: We ditch the whole scene and end up dreaming

22: We're happy, free, confused, and lonely in the best way

22: Tonight's the night when we forget about the heartbreaks

22: It feels like one of those nights we ditch the whole scene

I Almost Do: I bet you're sitting in your chair by the window looking out at the city

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together: I remember when we broke up the first time saying, "This is it, I've had enough"

Stay Stay Stay: I threw my phone across the room at you

Stay Stay Stay: You took the time to memorize me, my fears, my hopes, and dreams

Stay Stay Stay: I just like hanging out with you all the time

The Last Time: This is the last time I'm asking you this, put my name at the top of your list

The Last Time: This is the last time I'm asking you why you break my heart in the blink of an eye, eye, eye

The Last Time: And all the times I let you in, just for you to go again

The Last Time: This is the last time you tell me I've got it wrong

The Last Time: This is the last time I say it's been you all along

The Last Time: This is the last time I let you in my door

The Last Time: This is the last time, I won't hurt you anymore

The Last Time: This is the last time I’m asking you, last time I’m asking you, last time I’m asking you this

Holy Ground: I was reminiscing just the other day

Holy Ground: Yeah, you skip the conversation when you already know

Holy Ground: I left a note on the door with a joke we’d made and that was the first day

Holy Ground: We block the noise with the sound of, “I need you,” and for the first time I had something to lose

Holy Ground: And I guess we fell apart in the usual way and the story’s got dust on every page

Sad Beautiful Tragic: I stood right by the tracks, your face in a locket

Sad Beautiful Tragic: Distance, timing, breakdown, fighting, silence, the train runs off its tracks

Sad Beautiful Tragic: Hang up, give up, and for the life of us we can't get back

The Lucky One: New to town with a made-up name in the angel's city, chasing fortune and fame

The Lucky One: And the camera flashes make it look like a dream

The Lucky One: Another name goes up in lights, like diamonds in the sky

The Lucky One: And they’ll tell you now, you’re the lucky one

The Lucky One: Yeah, they’ll tell you now, you’re the lucky one

The Lucky One: But can you tell me now, you’re the lucky one, oh, oh, oh...

The Lucky One: And your lover in the foyer doesn't even know you and your secrets end up splashed on the news front page

The Lucky One: And all the young things line up to take your place

The Lucky One: And they still tell the legend of how you disappeared, how you took the money and your dignity and got the hell out

The Lucky One: They say you bought a bunch of land somewhere, chose the rose garden over Madison Square

The Lucky One: Let me tell you now, you’re the lucky one

The Lucky One: Bet you tell them now, you’re the lucky one, oh, oh, oh

Everything Has Changed: In the back of my mind making me feel like I just wanna know you better

Everything Has Changed: All I know is you held the door

Everything Has Changed: But I'll take them down, take them down and open up the door for you

Everything Has Changed: And all I feel in my stomach is butterflies, the beautiful kind, making up for lost time

Starlight: It was the best night, never would forget how we moved

Starlight: The whole place was dressed to the nines, and we were dancing, dancing

Starlight: I met Bobby on the boardwalk, summer of '45

Starlight: Picked me up late one night out the window

Starlight: The night we snuck into a yacht club party pretending to be a duchess and a prince

Starlight: You'll spend your whole life singing the blues if you keep thinking that way

Starlight: He was trying to skip rocks on the ocean, saying to me, “Don't you see the starlight, starlight? Don't you dream impossible things?"

Begin Again: Took a deep breath in the mirror

Begin Again: Turn the lock and put my headphones on

Begin Again: I've been spending the last eight months thinking all love ever does is break and burn and end

Begin Again: And we walked down the block to my car and I almost brought him up but you start to talk about the movies that your family watches

Begin Again: And for the first time what's past is past

The Moment I Knew: You should've been there, should've burst through the door, with that “baby I'm right here” smile

The Moment I Knew: I've got my eye on the door, just waiting for you to walk in, but the time is ticking

The Moment I Knew: And they're all laughing, as I'm looking around the room

The Moment I Knew: But there's one thing missing, and that was the moment I knew

The Moment I Knew: And the hours pass by, now I just wanna be alone

The Moment I Knew: They follow me down the hall

The Moment I Knew: And there in the bathroom, I try not to fall apart, and the sinking feeling starts

The Moment I Knew: But there was one thing missing, and that was the moment I knew

The Moment I Knew: And what do you do when the one who means the most to you is the one who didn't show?

The Moment I Knew: And I said, "I'm sorry too," and that was the moment I knew

Come Back... Be Here: 4 AM, the second day, how strange that I don't know you at all

Come Back... Be Here: Stumbled through the long goodbye

Come Back... Be Here: Spinning faster than the plane that took you

Come Back... Be Here: And this is when the feeling sinks in

Come Back... Be Here: The delicate beginning rush

Come Back... Be Here: The feeling you can know so much

Come Back... Be Here: This is falling in love in the cruelest way

Girl At Home: You're the kind of man who makes me sad

Girl At Home: While she waits up, you chase down the newest thing, and take for granted what you have.

Ronan: I remember your bare feet down the hallway

Ronan: Race cars on the kitchen floor, plastic dinosaurs

Ronan: I love you to the moon and back

Ronan: I can still feel you hold my hand, little man and even the moment I knew

Ronan: I remember the drive home when the blind hope turned to crying and screaming, "Why?"

Ronan: Flowers pile up in the worst way, no one knows what to say about a beautiful boy who died

Ronan: I remember the last day when I kissed your face

Ronan: What if I kept the hand-me-downs you won't grow into?

Ronan: What if the miracle was even getting one moment with you?

Better Man: And I see the permanent damage you did to me

Better Man: I wish it wasn't 4 AM, standing in the mirror saying to myself, you know you had to do it

Better Man: I know the bravest thing I ever did was run

Better Man: Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I can feel you again

Better Man: And I know why we had to say goodbye like the back of my hand

Better Man: Hoping it might turn sweet again like it was in the beginning

Better Man: If you were a better man you would've been the one

Nothing New: Then they hunt and slay the ones who actually do it

Nothing New: Criticize the way you fly when you’re soaring through the sky

Nothing New: And I wake up in the middle of the night

Nothing New: And someone else lights up the room, people love an ingénue

Nothing New: The kind of radiance you only have at seventeen

Nothing New: She’ll know the way and then she’ll say she got the map from me

Babe: Didn't wanna be the one that got away, yeah

Babe: Big mistake, broke the sweetest promise that you never should have made

Babe: I'm here on the kitchen floor, you call, but I won't hear it

Babe: This is the last time I'll ever call you, babe

Babe: This is the last time, this is the last time

Babe: Taking down the pictures and the plans we made, yeah

Babe: We're a wreck, you're the wrecking ball

Babe: This is the last time, I'll ever call you

Babe: You said no one else, this is the last time I'll ever call you babe

Message In A Bottle: And I’m down, feeling like a face in the crowd

Message In A Bottle: ‘Cause you could be the one that I love

Message In A Bottle: I could be the one that you dream of

Message In A Bottle: You could be the one that I keep and I could be the reason you can’t sleep at night

I Bet You Think About Me: And the girl in your bed has a fine pedigree

I Bet You Think About Me: Oh they sit around talking ‘bout the meaning of life and the book that just saved them that I hadn’t heard of

I Bet You Think About Me: Mr. Superior Thinking, do you have all the space that you need?

I Bet You Think About Me: Oh, block it all out, the voices so loud saying, “Why did you let her go?”

I Bet You Think About Me: Does it make you feel sad that the love that you’re looking for is the love that you had?

I Bet You Think About Me: Now you’re out in the world, searching for your soul

Forever Winter: I’d fall to pieces on the floor if you weren’t around

Forever Winter: He seems fine most of the time, forcing smiles and never minds

Forever Winter: When the lights go out it’s hard to breathe

Forever Winter: I pull at every thread trying to solve the puzzles in his head

Forever Winter: I’d be in pieces on the floor

Run: Give me the keys, I’ll bring the car back around

Run: There’s a key on the chain, there’s a picture in a frame, take it with you

Run: And run, like you’d run from the law

Run: And the note from the locket, you keep it in your pocket

The Very First Night: I’d write this in the sky

The Very First Night: I miss you like it was the very first night

The Very First Night: ‘Cause they don’t know about the night in the hotel

The Very First Night: They weren’t riding in the car when we both fell

The Very First Night: Didn’t read the note on the Polaroid picture

The Very First Night: We broke the status quo, then we broke each other’s hearts

The Very First Night: But don’t forget about the night out in LA

The Very First Night: Danced in the kitchen, chased me down through the hallway

The Very First Night: No one knows about the words that we whispered

The Very First Night: I remember the night at the hotel

The Very First Night: I was riding in the car when we both fell

The Very First Night: I’m the one on the phone as you whisper, “Do you know how much I miss you?”

The Very First Night: I wish that we could go back in time and I’d say to you, “I miss you like it was the very first night”

All Too Well (10 Minute Version): And you were tossing me the car keys

All Too Well (10 Minute Version): “Fuck the patriarchy” keychain on the ground

All Too Well (10 Minute Version): And I was thinking on the drive down, “Any time now, he’s gonna say it’s love”

All Too Well (10 Minute Version): Check the pulse and come back swearing it’s the same, after three months in the grave

All Too Well (10 Minute Version): The idea you had of me, who was she?

All Too Well (10 Minute Version): But then he watched me watch the front door all night, willing you to come

All Too Well (10 Minute Version): I was never good at telling jokes but the punchline goes, “I’ll get older, but your lovers stay my age”

All Too Well (10 Minute Version): And did the twin flame bruise paint you blue?

All Too Well (10 Minute Version): Just between us, did the love affair maim you, too?

All Too Well (10 Minute Version): ‘Cause in this city’s barren cold, I still remember the first fall of snow

All Too Well (10 Minute Version): Down the stairs, I was there, I was there

'1989 (Taylor’s Version)'

Welcome To New York: Walking through a crowd, the village is aglow

Welcome To New York: The lights are so bright but they never blind me, me

Blank Space: I can make the bad guys good for a weekend

Blank Space: You can tell me when it's over if the high was worth the pain

Blank Space: 'Cause you know I love the players and you love the game

Blank Space: You're the king, baby, I'm your queen

Blank Space: Wait, the worst is yet to come, oh no

Blank Space: I can make all the tables turn

Style: He can't keep his wild eyes on the road

Out Of The Woods: The rest of the world was black and white but we were in screaming color

Out Of The Woods: Are we out of the woods yet?

Out Of The Woods: Are we out of the woods?

Out Of The Woods: Are we in the clear yet?

Out Of The Woods: In the clear yet? Good

Out Of The Woods: The night we couldn't quite forget when we decided to move the furniture so we could dance

Out Of The Woods: Remember when you hit the brakes too soon?

Out Of The Woods: Twenty stitches in the hospital room

Out Of The Woods: When you started crying, baby, I did, too, when the sun came up, I was looking at you

Out Of The Woods: Remember when we couldn't take the heat?

Out Of The Woods: But the monsters turned out to be just trees, when the sun came up, you were looking at me

All You Had To Do Was Stay: People like you always want back the love they gave away

All You Had To Do Was Stay: The more I think about it now the less I know

All You Had To Do Was Stay: All I know is that you drove us off the road

All You Had To Do Was Stay: Had me in the palm of your hand

All You Had To Do Was Stay: I've been picking up the pieces of the mess you made

All You Had To Do Was Stay: People like you always want back the love they pushed aside but people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye

Shake It Off: 'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate

Shake It Off: Heartbreakers gonna break, break, break, break, break and the fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake

Shake It Off: I'm dancing on my own, I make the moves up as I go

Shake It Off: Just think while you've been getting down and out about the liars and the dirty, dirty cheats of the world, you could've been getting down to this sick beat

Shake It Off: And to the fella over there with the hella good hair, won't you come on over, baby? We can shake, shake, shake

I Wish You Would: Windows down, you pass my street, the memories start

I Wish You Would: You say it's in the past, you drive straight ahead

I Wish You Would: I wish you would come back, wish I never hung up the phone like I did

I Wish You Would: Headlights pass the window pane, I think of you

I Wish You Would: See your face, hear my voice in the dark

Bad Blood: And rub it in so deep, salt in the wound like you're laughing right at me

Bad Blood: Oh, it's so sad to think about the good times, you and I

Bad Blood: So don't think it's in the past, these kinda wounds they last and they last

Wildest Dreams: He said, "Let's get out of this town, drive out of the city, away from the crowds"

Wildest Dreams: I can see the end as it begins

Wildest Dreams: Say you'll remember me standing in a nice dress, staring at the sunset, babe

How You Get The Girl: Stand there like a ghost shaking from the rain

How You Get The Girl: She'll open up the door and say, "Are you insane?"

How You Get The Girl: And that's how it works, that's how you get the girl

How You Get The Girl: And that's how it works, that's how you lost the girl

How You Get The Girl: That's how it works, that's how you got the girl

This Love: This love is alive back from the dead

This Love: Tossing, turning, struggled through the night with someone new

This Love: Lantern burning, flickered in the night for only you

This Love: This love is glowing in the dark

I Know Places: See the vultures circling dark clouds

I Know Places: Cause they got the cages, they got the boxes and guns

I Know Places: They are the hunters, we are the foxes and we run

I Know Places: Lights flash and we'll run for the fences

I Know Places: Loose lips sink ships all the damn time, not this time

I Know Places: In the dead of night, your eyes so green

Clean: The drought was the very worst, when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst

Clean: Hung my head as I lost the war and the sky turned black like a perfect storm

Clean: When the butterflies turned to dust that covered my whole room

Clean: So I punched a hole in the roof, let the flood carry away all my pictures of you

Clean: The water filled my lungs, I screamed so loud but no one heard a thing

Wonderland: You search the world for something else to make you feel like what we had and in the end in wonderland we both went mad, oh

You Are In Love: The light reflects the chain on your neck

You Are In Love: You can hear it in the silence, silence

You Are In Love: You can feel it on the way home, way home

You Are In Love: You could see it with the lights out, lights out

You Are In Love: And you understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars

New Romantics: We're so young but we're on the road to ruin

New Romantics: We cry tears of mascara in the bathroom

New Romantics: 'Cause, baby, I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me

New Romantics: Baby, we're the new romantics

New Romantics: Heartbreak is the national anthem, we sing it proudly

New Romantics: The best people in life are free

New Romantics: We're all here, the lights and noise are blinding

New Romantics: We hang back, it's all in the timing

New Romantics: The rumors are terrible and cruel, but, honey, most of them are true

“Slut!”: I’ll pay the price, you won’t

“Slut!”: Send the code, he’s waiting there

“Slut!”: The sticks and stones they throw froze mid-air

“Slut!”: The wrong place at the right time

“Slut!”: We’ll pay the price, I guess

“Slut!”: Half asleep, taking your time in the tangerine neon light

Say Don’t Go: I’ve known it from the very start, we’re a shot in the darkest dark

Say Don’t Go: The waiting is a sadness fading into madness

Say Don’t Go: Halfway out the door, but it won’t close

Say Don’t Go: Why’d you have to twist the knife?

Say Don’t Go: Why’d you whisper in the dark just to leave me in the night?

Say Don’t Go: I’m standing on the sidewalk alone

Say Don’t Go: I’m trying to see the cards that you won’t show

Now That We Don’t Talk: You part the crowd like the Red Sea

Now That We Don’t Talk: Did you get anxious though, on the way home?

Now That We Don’t Talk: And from the outside, it looks like you’re trying lives on

Now That We Don’t Talk: I miss the old ways, you didn’t have to change

Now That We Don’t Talk: I call my mom, she said that it was for the best

Now That We Don’t Talk: Remind myself the more I gave, you’d want me less

Now That We Don’t Talk: I cannot be your friend so I pay the price of what I lost

Now That We Don’t Talk: Remind myself the way you faded ‘til I left

Now That We Don’t Talk: And the only way back to my dignity was to turn into a shrouded mystery

Suburban Legends: Flush with the currency of cool

Suburban Legends: I had the fantasy that maybe our mismatched star signs would surprise the whole school

Suburban Legends: You’d be more than a chapter in my old diaries with the pages ripped out

Suburban Legends: Tick-tock on the clock

Suburban Legends: Waves crash on the shore, I dash to the door

Suburban Legends: Waves crash to the shore, I dash to the door

Is It Over Now?: Once the flight had flown, with the wilt of the rose

Is It Over Now?: At least I had the decency to keep my nights out of sight

Is It Over Now?: And say the one thing I’ve been wanting, but no

Sweeter Than Fiction: Hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground, oh oh

Sweeter Than Fiction: Just a shot, just a shot in the dark, oh oh

Sweeter Than Fiction: You hit the ground running and now you're onto something

Sweeter Than Fiction: What a sight, what a sight when the light came on

Sweeter Than Fiction: It's like we don't remember the rain we thought would last forever and ever

Sweeter Than Fiction: All at once, the rest is history

Sweeter Than Fiction: I'll be one of the many saying, "Look at you now, look at you now, now"

Sweeter Than Fiction: I'll be one of the many saying, "You made us proud, you made us proud, proud"

Bad Blood (feat. Kendrick Lamar): Stabbed in the back, brimstone, fire jumping through

Bad Blood (feat. Kendrick Lamar): Still, all my life, I got money and power and you gotta live with the bad blood now

'reputation'

...Ready For It?: In the middle of the night, in my dreams, you should see the things we do, baby

...Ready For It?: But if I'm a thief then he can join the heist

...Ready For It?: I'm so very tame now, never be the same now, now

...Ready For It?: Baby, let the games begin, let the games begin

End Game: Ooh, you like the bad ones, too

End Game: We do the most, I'm in the Ghost like I'm whippin' a boat

End Game: I'm in a G5, ya, come to the A-side, ya

End Game: I don't wanna miss you like the other girls do

End Game: The truth is it's easier to ignore it, believe me

End Game: And you understand the good and bad end up in the songs

End Game: For all your beautiful traits and the way you do it with ease

End Game: After the storm, something was born on the 4th of July

End Game: I've passed days without fun, this end game is the one

End Game: With four words on the tip of my tongue, I'll never say it

End Game: I swear I don't love the drama, it loves me

End Game: So here's the truth from my red lips

I Did Something Bad: This is how the world works, now all he thinks about is me

I Did Something Bad: I can feel the flames on my skin

I Did Something Bad: So I fly 'em all around the world and I let them think they saved me

I Did Something Bad: This is how the world works, you gotta leave before you get left

I Did Something Bad: They're burning all the witches, even if you aren't one

Don't Blame Me: Lord, save me, my drug is my baby, I'll be using for the rest of my life

Don't Blame Me: Something happened for the first time in the darkest little paradise

Don't Blame Me: For you, I would cross the line

Delicate: This ain't for the best

Delicate: Dive bar on the east side, where you at?

Delicate: Phone lights up my nightstand in the black

Delicate: Come here, you can meet me in the back

Delicate: Just think of the fun things we could do

Delicate: Third floor on the west side, me and you

Delicate: Do the girls back home touch you like I do?

Delicate: Echoes of your footsteps on the stairs

Delicate: Sometimes when I look into your eyes, I pretend you're mine, all the damn time

Look What You Made Me Do: The role you made me play, of the fool, no, I don't like you

Look What You Made Me Do: You said the gun was mine

Look What You Made Me Do: But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time

Look What You Made Me Do: Honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time

Look What You Made Me Do: The world moves on, another day, another drama, drama

Look What You Made Me Do: And then the world moves on, but one thing's for sure

Look What You Made Me Do: I'll be the actress starring in your bad dreams

Look What You Made Me Do: I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now

So It Goes…: See you in the dark

So It Goes…: Back against the wall

So It Goes…: And all the pieces fall right into place

Gorgeous: You should take it as a compliment that I got drunk and made fun of the way you talk

Gorgeous: You should think about the consequence of your magnetic field being a little too strong

Gorgeous: And I got a boyfriend, he's older than us, he's in the club doing, I don't know what

Gorgeous: And you should think about the consequence of you touching my hand in a darkened room

Getaway Car: It was the best of times, the worst of crimes

Getaway Car: The ties were black, the lies were white

Getaway Car: X marks the spot, where we fell apart

Getaway Car: He poisoned the well, I was lying to myself

Getaway Car: I knew it from the first old fashioned, we were cursed

Getaway Car: We never had a shotgun shot in the dark

Getaway Car: You were driving the getaway car

Getaway Car: Don't pretend it's such a mystery, think about the place where you first met me

Getaway Car: There were sirens in the beat of your heart

Getaway Car: Should've known I'd be the first to leave, think about the place where you first met me

Getaway Car: It was the great escape, the prison break

Getaway Car: The light of freedom on my face

Getaway Car: He poisoned the well, every man for himself

Getaway Car: It hit you like a shotgun shot to the heart

Getaway Car: We were jet set Bonnie and Clyde until I switched to the other side

Getaway Car: I left you in the motel bar, I put the money in a bag and stole the keys, that was the last time you ever saw me

King Of My Heart: And we rule the kingdom inside my room

King Of My Heart: 'Cause all the boys and their expensive cars with their Range Rovers and their Jaguars never took me quite where you do

King Of My Heart: And all at once, you are the one I have been waiting for

King Of My Heart: And all at once, you are the one I have been waiting, waiting

King Of My Heart: Late in the night, the city's asleep

King Of My Heart: The taste of your lips is my idea of luxury

King Of My Heart: Is this the end of all the endings?

King Of My Heart: With all these nights we're spending up on the roof with a school girl crush

Dancing With Our Hands Tied: You said there was nothing in the world that could stop it

Dancing With Our Hands Tied: I knew there was no one in the world who could take it

Dancing With Our Hands Tied: Yeah, we were dancing like it was the first time, first time

Dancing With Our Hands Tied: I, I loved you in spite of deep fears that the world would divide us

Dancing With Our Hands Tied: I'm a mess, but I'm the mess that you wanted

Dancing With Our Hands Tied: I'd kiss you as the lights went out

Dancing With Our Hands Tied: Swaying as the room burned down

Dancing With Our Hands Tied: I'd hold you as the water rushes in

Dress: There is an indentation in the shape of you

Dress: I'm spilling wine in the bathtub

Dress: Even in my worst times, you could see the best of me

Dress: Even in my worst lies, you saw the truth in me

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: It was so nice throwing big parties, jump into the pool from the balcony

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Bass beat rattling the chandelier

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: I'm shaking my head, I'm locking the gates

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Did you think I wouldn't hear all the things you said about me?

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: But you stabbed me in the back while shaking my hand

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: And therein lies the issue, friends don't try to trick you, get you on the phone and mind-twist you

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: But I'm not the only friend you've lost lately

Call It What You Want: They took the crown but it's all right

Call It What You Want: All the liars are calling me one

Call It What You Want: My baby's fit like a daydream, walking with his head down, I'm the one he's walking to

Call It What You Want: My baby's fly like a jet stream, high above the whole scene

Call It What You Want: Windows boarded up after the storm

Call It What You Want: All the drama queens taking swings, all the jokers dressing up as kings

Call It What You Want: And I know I make the same mistakes every time

New Year's Day: There's glitter on the floor after the party

New Year's Day: Girls carrying their shoes down in the lobby

New Year's Day: Candle wax and Polaroids on the hardwood floor

New Year's Day: You and me from the night before, but don't read the last page

New Year's Day: You squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi

New Year's Day: I'll be there if you're the toast of the town, babe

New Year's Day: Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you

'Lover'

I Forgot That You Existed: Lived in the shade you were throwing 'til all of my sunshine was gone, gone, gone

I Forgot That You Existed: Laughed on the schoolyard as soon as I tripped up and hit the ground, ground, ground

I Forgot That You Existed: And I would've stuck around for ya, would've fought the whole town, so yeah

Cruel Summer: Fever dream high in the quiet of the night

Cruel Summer: Killing me slow, out the window

Cruel Summer: Devils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes

Cruel Summer: And it's new, the shape of your body

Cruel Summer: And it's blue, the feeling I've got

Cruel Summer: Hang your head low in the glow of the vending machine

Cruel Summer: So cut the headlights, summer's a knife

Cruel Summer: I'm always waiting for you just to cut to the bone

Cruel Summer: But if I bleed, you'll be the last to know

Cruel Summer: And I snuck in through the garden gate every night that summer just to seal my fate

Cruel Summer: And I scream, "For whatever it's worth, I love you, ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?"

Lover: We could leave the Christmas lights up 'til January, this is our place, we make the rules

Lover: We could let our friends crash in the living room, this is our place, we make the call

The Man: They'd say I played the field before I found someone to commit to

The Man: 'Cause if I was a man, then I'd be the man

The Man: They'd say I hustled, put in the work

The Man: And they would toast to me, oh, let the players play

The Archer: 'Cause cruelty wins in the movies

The Archer: I jump from the train, I ride off alone

The Archer: I've been the archer, I've been the prey

The Archer: I wake in the night, I pace like a ghost

The Archer: The room is on fire, invisible smoke

The Archer: All the king's horses, all the king's men couldn't put me together again

I Think He Knows: I think he knows his footprints on the sidewalk lead to where I can't stop

I Think He Knows: I am an architect, I'm drawing up the plans

I Think He Knows: We could follow the sparks, I'll drive

I Think He Knows: "So where we gonna go?" I whisper in the dark

Miss Americana And The Heartbreak Prince: I'm lost in the lights

Miss Americana And The Heartbreak Prince: Running through rose thorns, I saw the scoreboard and ran for my life

Miss Americana And The Heartbreak Prince: They whisper in the hallway, "She's a bad, bad girl"

Miss Americana And The Heartbreak Prince: The whole school is rolling fake dice

Miss Americana And The Heartbreak Prince: Miss Americana and the heartbreak prince

Miss Americana And The Heartbreak Prince: We're so sad, we paint the town blue

Miss Americana And The Heartbreak Prince: I see the high fives between the bad guys

Miss Americana And The Heartbreak Prince: Leave with my head hung, you are the only one who seems to care

Miss Americana And The Heartbreak Prince: I'm feeling helpless, the damsels are depressed

Miss Americana And The Heartbreak Prince: Boys will be boys then, where are the wise men?

Miss Americana And The Heartbreak Prince: And now the storm is coming

Paper Rings: The moon is high like your friends were the night that we first met

Paper Rings: Went home and tried to stalk you on the Internet

Paper Rings: Now I've read all of the books beside your bed

Paper Rings: The wine is cold like the shoulder that I gave you in the street

Paper Rings: Now I wake up in the night and watch you breathe

Paper Rings: Darling, you're the one I want

Paper Rings: In the winter in the icy outdoor pool when you jumped in first, I went in too

Paper Rings: Which takes me back to the color that we painted your brother's wall

Paper Rings: Honey, without all the exes, fights, and flaws we wouldn't be standing here so tall

Cornelia Street: We were in the backseat drunk on something stronger than the drinks in the bar

Cornelia Street: "I rent a place on Cornelia Street,” I say casually in the car

Cornelia Street: We were a fresh page on the desk filling in the blanks as we go

Cornelia Street: As if the streetlights pointed in an arrowhead leading us home

Cornelia Street: That's the kind of heartbreak time could never mend

Cornelia Street: We bless the rains on Cornelia Street, memorize the creaks in the floor

Cornelia Street: I turned around before I hit the tunnel, sat on the roof, you and I

Cornelia Street: You hold my hand on the street

Cornelia Street: Barefoot in the kitchen, sacred new beginnings

Death By A Thousand Cuts: I get drunk but it's not enough ‘cause the morning comes and you're not my baby

Death By A Thousand Cuts: I look through the windows of this love even though we boarded them up

Death By A Thousand Cuts: I dress to kill my time, I take the long way home

Death By A Thousand Cuts: I ask the traffic lights if it'll be all right, they say, "I don't know"

Death By A Thousand Cuts: I see you everywhere, the only thing we share is this small town

Death By A Thousand Cuts: You said it was a great love, one for the ages

Death By A Thousand Cuts: If the story's over, why am I still writing pages?

Death By A Thousand Cuts: Quiet my fears with the touch of your hand

London Boy: I saw the dimples first and then I heard the accent

London Boy: They say home is where the heart is but that's not where mine lives

London Boy: I enjoy walking Camden Market in the afternoon

London Boy: So I guess all the rumors are true

London Boy: And now I love high tea, stories from uni, and the West End

London Boy: You can find me in the pub, we are watching rugby with his school friends

London Boy: They say home is where the heart is, but God, I love the English

London Boy: Shoreditch in the afternoon

London Boy: On the Heath, just wanna be with you, wanna be with you

London Boy: You know I love a London boy, I enjoy walking SoHo, drinking in the afternoon

Soon You'll Get Better: The buttons of my coat were tangled in my hair

Soon You'll Get Better: That was the first time we were there

Soon You'll Get Better: I know delusion when I see it in the mirror

Soon You'll Get Better: You like the nicer nurses, you make the best of a bad deal

Soon You'll Get Better: I'll paint the kitchen neon, I'll brighten up the sky

False God: We were stupid to jump in the ocean separating us

False God: Staring out the window like I'm not your favorite town

False God: They say the road gets hard and you get lost when you're led by blind faith, blind faith

False God: The altar is my hips even if it's a false god

False God: Make confessions and we're begging for forgiveness, got the wine for you

False God: You’re the West Village, you still do it for me, babe

You Need To Calm Down: Say it in the street, that's a knock-out

You Need To Calm Down: But I've learned the lesson that stressing and obsessing ‘bout somebody else

You Need To Calm Down: Sunshine on the street at the parade, but you would rather be in the dark ages

You Need To Calm Down: You just need to take several seats and then try to restore the peace and control your urges to scream about all the people you hate

You Need To Calm Down: And we see you over there on the Internet comparing all the girls who are killing it

Afterglow: Hey, it's all me, in my head, I'm the one who burned us down

Afterglow: Meet me in the afterglow

Afterglow: This ultraviolet morning light below tells me this love is worth the fight

ME!: And you're the kind of guy the ladies want

ME!: I know that I went psycho on the phone

ME!: But one of these things is not like the others

ME!: Like a rainbow with all of the colors

ME!: I'm the only one of me, baby, that's the fun of me, oh

ME!: You're the only one of you, baby, that's the fun of you

ME!: And when we had that fight out in the rain, you ran after me and called my name

ME!: Strike the band up 1, 2, 3

It's Nice To Have A Friend: Light pink sky up on the roof

It's Nice To Have A Friend: Twenty questions, we tell the truth

It's Nice To Have A Friend: Something gave you the nerve to touch my hand

It's Nice To Have A Friend: Rice on the ground looks like snow

It's Nice To Have A Friend: Feels like home, stay in bed the whole weekend

Daylight: My love was as cruel as the cities I lived in

Daylight: Everyone looked worse in the light

Daylight: I'll tell you the truth but never goodbye

Daylight: Luck of the draw only draws the unlucky and so I became the butt of the joke

Daylight: I wounded the good and I trusted the wicked

Daylight: Clearing the air, I breathed in the smoke

Daylight: Maybe you ran with the wolves and refused to settle down

Daylight: Things will never be the same

Daylight: You gotta step into the daylight and let it go

Daylight: I want to be defined by the things that I love, not the things I hate, not the things that I'm afraid of, not the things that haunt me in the middle of the night

'folklore'

The 1: I hit the ground running each night, I hit the Sunday matinée

The 1: You know the greatest films of all time were never made

The 1: Roaring twenties, tossing pennies in the pool

The 1: But it would've been fun if you would've been the one

The 1: You meet some woman on the Internet and take her home

The 1: We never painted by the numbers, baby, but we were making it count

The 1: You know the greatest loves of all time are over now

The 1: I, I, I persist and resist the temptation to ask you, if one thing had been different, would everything be different today?

The 1: In my defense, I have none for digging up the grave another time

Cardigan: Chase two girls, lose the one

Cardigan: Your heartbeat on the High Line, once in twenty lifetimes

Cardigan: 'Cause I knew you stepping on the last train

Cardigan: Tried to change the ending, Peter losing Wendy

Cardigan: The smell of smoke would hang around this long ‘cause I knew everything when I was young

Cardigan: I knew I'd curse you for the longest time, chasing shadows in the grocery line

Cardigan: I knew you'd miss me once the thrill expired

The Last Great American Dynasty: Rebekah rode up on the afternoon train, it was sunny

The Last Great American Dynasty: Her saltbox house on the coast took her mind off St. Louis

The Last Great American Dynasty: Bill was the heir to the Standard Oil name and money and the town said, "How did a middle-class divorcée do it?"

The Last Great American Dynasty: The wedding was charming, if a little gauche

The Last Great American Dynasty: The doctor had told him to settle down

The Last Great American Dynasty: There goes the last great American dynasty

The Last Great American Dynasty: There goes the maddest woman this town has ever seen

The Last Great American Dynasty: Rebekah gave up on the Rhode Island set forever

The Last Great American Dynasty: Flew in all her Bitch Pack friends from the city

The Last Great American Dynasty: Filled the pool with champagne and swam with the big names

The Last Great American Dynasty: And blew through the money on the boys and the ballet

The Last Great American Dynasty: There goes the most shameless woman this town has ever seen

The Last Great American Dynasty: They say she was seen on occasion, pacing the rocks, staring out at the midnight sea

The Last Great American Dynasty: There goes the loudest woman this town has ever seen

Exile: Laughing, but the joke's not funny at all

Exile: Holding all this love out here in the hall

Exile: I think I've seen this film before and I didn't like the ending

Exile: I think I've seen this film before so I'm leaving out the side door

Exile: You didn't even see the signs

My Tears Ricochet: Even on my worst day, did I deserve, babe, all the hell you gave me?

My Tears Ricochet: I didn't have it in myself to go with grace and you're the hero flying around, saving face

My Tears Ricochet: And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?

My Tears Ricochet: You wear the same jewels that I gave you as you bury me

My Tears Ricochet: And I still talk to you when I’m screaming at the sky

My Tears Ricochet: And so the battleships will sink beneath the waves

My Tears Ricochet: You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same

My Tears Ricochet: And you're tossing out blame, drunk on this pain crossing out the good years

Mirrorball: Hush, I know they said the end is near

Mirrorball: You are not like the regulars, the masquerade revelers, drunk as they watch my shattered edges glisten

Mirrorball: And they called off the circus, burned the disco down

Mirrorball: When they sent home the horses and the rodeo clowns

Seven: Please picture me in the trees, I hit my peak at seven

Seven: Feet in the swing over the creek, I was too scared to jump in

Seven: But I, I was high in the sky with Pennsylvania under me

Seven: Sweet tea in the summer, cross your heart, won't tell no other

Seven: Love you to the Moon and to Saturn

Seven: Passed down like folk songs, the love lasts so long, oh

Seven: Then you won't have to cry or hide in the closet

Seven: Please picture me in the weeds before I learned civility

Seven: Sweet tea in the summer, cross my heart, won’t tell no other

August: Salt air, and the rust on your door, I never needed anything more

August: But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time

August: Your back beneath the sun, wishing I could write my name on it

August: Back when we were still changing for the better wanting was enough

August: For me, it was enough to live for the hope of it all

August: Canceled plans just in case you'd call and say, "Meet me behind the mall"

August: Remember when I pulled up and said, "Get in the car"

August: Back when I was living for the hope of it all, for the hope of it all, "Meet me behind the mall"

This Is Me Trying: I had the shiniest wheels, now they're rusting

This Is Me Trying: Pulled the car off the road to the lookout, could've followed my fears all the way down

This Is Me Trying: I was so ahead of the curve that the curve became a sphere

This Is Me Trying: Pouring out my heart to a stranger, but I didn't pour the whiskey

This Is Me Trying: You're a flashback in a film reel on the one screen in my town

Illicit Affairs: Take the road less traveled by

Illicit Affairs: And that's the thing about illicit affairs and clandestine meetings and longing stares

Illicit Affairs: Leave the perfume on the shelf that you picked out just for him

Illicit Affairs: Take the words for what they are, a dwindling, mercurial high

Illicit Affairs: A drug that only worked the first few hundred times

Invisible String: Green was the color of the grass where I used to read at Centennial Park

Invisible String: Teal was the color of your shirt when you were sixteen at the yogurt shop

Invisible String: Bad was the blood of the song in the cab on your first trip to LA

Invisible String: Bold was the waitress on our three-year trip getting lunch down by The Lakes

Invisible String: A string that pulled me out of all the wrong arms

Invisible String: Chains around my demons, wool to brave the seasons

Invisible String: Cold was the steel of my axe to grind for the boys who broke my heart

Invisible String: Gold was the color of the leaves when I showed you around Centennial Park

Invisible String: Hell was the journey but it brought me heaven

Invisible String: Time, wondrous time, gave me the blues and then purple-pink skies

Mad Woman: Do you see my face in the neighbor's lawn?

Mad Woman: The master of spin has a couple side flings, good wives always know

Betty: You heard the rumors from Inez

Betty: The worst thing that I ever did was what I did to you

Betty: Would you tell me to go fuck myself or lead me to the garden?

Betty: In the garden would you trust me if I told you it was just a summer thing?

Betty: Your favorite song was playing from the far side of the gym

Betty: I hate the crowds, you know that, plus, I saw you dance with him

Betty: Betty, right now is the last time I can dream about what happens when you see my face again

Betty: The only thing I wanna do is make it up to you

Betty: Will you kiss me on the porch in front of all your stupid friends?

Peace: I never had the courage of my convictions as long as danger is near

Peace: And it's just around the corner, darling, ‘cause it lives in me

Peace: The devil's in the details, but you got a friend in me

Peace: You paint dreamscapes on the wall

Peace: And you know that I'd swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the trenches

Peace: Give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other

Peace: But there's robbers to the east, clowns to the west

Peace: But the rain is always gonna come if you're standing with me

Hoax: Stood on the cliffside screaming, "Give me a reason"

Hoax: Your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in

Hoax: No other sadness in the world would do

Hoax: You knew the hero died so what's the movie for?

Hoax: You knew the password so I let you in the door

Hoax: You knew you won so what's the point of keeping score?

The Lakes: Take me to The Lakes where all the poets went to die

'evermore'

Willow: I'm like the water when your ship rolled in that night

Willow: Rough on the surface, but you cut through like a knife

Willow: And if it was an open-shut case I never would have known from the look on your face

Willow: The more that you say, the less I know

Willow: Head on the pillow, I can feel you sneaking in

Willow: Wait for the signal, and I'll meet you after dark

Willow: Show me the places where the others gave you scars

Willow: Now this is an open-shut case, I guess I should've known from the look on your face

Champagne Problems: You booked the night train for a reason

Champagne Problems: Your sister splashed out on the bottle, now no one's celebrating

Champagne Problems: Your Midas touch on the Chevy door, November flush and your flannel cure

Champagne Problems: And soon they'll have the nerve to deck the halls that we once walked through

Champagne Problems: One for the money, two for the show, I never was ready so I watch you go

Champagne Problems: Sometimes you just don't know the answer ‘til someone's on their knees and asks you

Champagne Problems: "She would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head," they said

Champagne Problems: But you'll find the real thing instead, she'll patch up your tapestry that I shred

Champagne Problems: Never leave you standing, crestfallen on the landing

Gold Rush: I don't like that falling feels like flying 'til the bone crush

Gold Rush: I see me padding across your wooden floors with my Eagles t-shirt hanging from the door

Gold Rush: At dinner parties, I call you out on your contrarian shit and the coastal town we wandered 'round had nеver seen a love as pure as it

Gold Rush: And thеn it fades into the gray of my day-old tea ‘cause it could never be

Gold Rush: And the coastal town we never found will never see a love as pure as it

Gold Rush: 'Cause it fades into the gray of my day-old tea ‘cause it will never be

'Tis The Damn Season: It's the kind of cold, fogs up windshield glass but I felt it when I passed you

'Tis The Damn Season: There's an ache in you, put there by the ache in me

'Tis The Damn Season: But if it's all the same to you, it's the same to me

'Tis The Damn Season: So we could call it even, you could call me "babe" for the weekend

'Tis The Damn Season: 'Tis the damn season, write this down

'Tis The Damn Season: I'm staying at my parents' house and the road not taken looks real good now

'Tis The Damn Season: I parkеd my car right between the Methodist and thе school that used to be ours

'Tis The Damn Season: The holidays linger like bad perfume

'Tis The Damn Season: Time flies, messy as the mud on your truck tires

'Tis The Damn Season: We could just ride around and the road not taken looks real good now

'Tis The Damn Season: Sleep in half the day just for old times' sake

'Tis The Damn Season: So I'll go back to L.A. and the so-called friends who'll write books about me, if I ever make it

'Tis The Damn Season: And wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I'm faking

'Tis The Damn Season: And the heart I know I'm breaking is my own to leave the warmest bed I've ever known

'Tis The Damn Season: And I'll be yours for the weekend, ‘tis the damn season

Tolerate It: I wait by the door like I'm just a kid

Tolerate It: Lay the table with the fancy shit and watch you tolerate it

Tolerate It: Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life

Tolerate It: Drawing hearts in the byline, always taking up too much space or time

Tolerate It: Gain the weight of you then lose it, believe me, I could do it

No Body, No Crime: But I ain't letting up until the day I die

No Body, No Crime: I wasn't letting up until the day he, no, no body, no crime

No Body, No Crime: I wasn't letting up until the day he died

Happiness: Honey, when I'm above the trees I see this for what it is

Happiness: But now I'm right down in it, all the years I've given is just shit we're dividing up

Happiness: I was dancing when the music stopped and in the disbelief, I can't face reinvention

Happiness: I haven't met the new me yet

Happiness: Past the blood and bruise, past the curses and cries, beyond the terror in the nightfall

Happiness: Haunted by the look in my eyes that would've loved you for a lifetime

Happiness: You haven't met the new me yet

Happiness: Dappled with the flickers of light from the dress I wore at midnight, leave it all behind

Happiness: I guess it's the price I paid for seven years in heaven

Happiness: But now my eyes leak acid rain on the pillow where you used to lay your head

Happiness: After giving you the best I had, tell me what to give after that

Happiness: All you want from me now is the green light of forgiveness

Dorothea: When we were younger down in the park

Dorothea: Honey, making a lark of the misery

Dorothea: A tiny screen's the only place I see you now

Dorothea: Ooh, this place is the same as it ever was, ooh, but you don't like it that way

Dorothea: The stars in your eyes shined brighter in Tupelo

Dorothea: When it was calmer, skipping the prom just to piss off your mom and her pageant schemes

Dorothea: And damn, Dorothea, they all wanna be you, but are you still the same soul I met under the bleachers?

Dorothea: Ooh, I guess I'll never know, ooh, and you'll go on with the show

Coney Island: And if this is the long haul, how'd we get here so soon?

Coney Island: The fast times, the bright lights, the merry go

Coney Island: And it gets colder and colder when the sun goes down

Coney Island: The question pounds my head, what's a lifetime of achievement?

Coney Island: If I pushed you to the edge, but you were too polite to leave me

Coney Island: Do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there?

Coney Island: 'Cause we were like the mall before the Internet, it was the one place to be

Coney Island: The mischief, the gift-wrapped suburban dreams

Coney Island: Were you waiting at our old spot in the tree line by the gold clock?

Coney Island: Were you standing in the hallway with a big cake, happy birthday

Coney Island: Did I paint your bluest skies the darkest gray?

Coney Island: And when I got into the accident the sight that flashed before me was your face

Coney Island: But when I walked up to the podium I think that I forgot to say your name

Coney Island: When the sun goes down

Coney Island: The sight that flashed before me was your face

Ivy: I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones in a faith forgotten land

Ivy: In from the snow, your touch brought forth an incandescent glow

Ivy: And the old widow goes to the stone every day, but I don't, I just sit here and wait, grieving for the living

Ivy: My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand

Ivy: I wish to know the fatal flaw that makes you long to be magnificently cursed

Ivy: He's in the room, your opal eyes are all I wish to see

Ivy: Clover blooms in the fields

Ivy: Spring breaks loose, the time is near

Ivy: He's gonna burn this house to the ground

Ivy: It's a goddamn blaze in the dark and you started it

Ivy: So yeah, it's a war, it's the goddamn fight of my life

Cowboy Like Me: And the tennis court was covered up with some tent-like thing

Cowboy Like Me: Now I'm waiting by the phone like I'm sitting in an airport bar

Cowboy Like Me: Perched in the dark, telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear

Cowboy Like Me: I could be the way forward, only if they pay for it

Cowboy Like Me: Eyes full of stars, hustling for the good life

Cowboy Like Me: We could be the way forward and I know I'll pay for it

Cowboy Like Me: And the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up

Cowboy Like Me: And the old men that I've swindled really did believe I was the one

Cowboy Like Me: And the ladies lunching have their stories about when you passed through town

Cowboy Like Me: Now you hang from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon

Cowboy Like Me: With your boots beneath my bed, forever is the sweetest con

Long Story Short: Fatefully, I tried to pick my battles 'til the battle picked me

Long Story Short: Misery, like the war of words I shouted in my sleep

Long Story Short: I was in the alley, surrounded on all sides

Long Story Short: The knife cuts both ways, if the shoe fits, walk in it 'til your high heels break

Long Story Short: And I fell from the pedestal, right down the rabbit hole

Long Story Short: Pushed from the precipice, clung to the nearest lips

Long Story Short: Long story short, it was the wrong guy

Long Story Short: Actually, I always felt I must look better in the rear view

Long Story Short: At the golden gates they once held the keys to

Long Story Short: When I dropped my sword, I threw it in the bushes and knocked on your door

Long Story Short: Your nemeses will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing

Long Story Short: And he's passing by, rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky

Long Story Short: If the shoe fits, walk in it everywhere you go

Long Story Short: Pushed from the precipice, climbed right back up the cliff

Marjorie: The autumn chill that wakes me up, you loved the amber skies so much

Marjorie: And I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs

Closure: It's been a long time and seeing the shape of your name still spells out pain

Closure: It wasn't right, the way it all went down

Closure: It cut deep to know ya, right to the bone

Closure: Guilty, guilty, reaching out across the sea that you put between you and me

Evermore: I replay my footsteps on each stepping stone, trying to find the one where I went wrong

Evermore: Writing letters, addressed to the fire

Evermore: And I was catching my breath, barefoot in the wildest winter

Evermore: Can't not think of all the cost and the things that will be lost

Evermore: Whether weather be the frost or the violence of the dog days

Right Where You Left Me: Matches burn after the other

Right Where You Left Me: Help, I'm still at the restaurant

Right Where You Left Me: Still sitting in a corner I haunt, cross legged in the dim light

Right Where You Left Me: I swear you could hear a hair pin drop right when I felt the moment stop

Right Where You Left Me: Glass shattered on the white cloth, everybody moved on

Right Where You Left Me: Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen?

Right Where You Left Me: Did you hear about the girl who lives in delusion?

Right Where You Left Me: And you're sitting in front of me at the restaurant when I was still the one you want

Right Where You Left Me: Cross legged in the dim light, everything was just right

Right Where You Left Me: I could feel the mascara run you told me that you met someone

Right Where You Left Me: Glass shattered on the white cloth, everybody moved on

It's Time To Go: When the dinner is cold and the chatter gets old, you ask for the tab

It's Time To Go: When the words of a sister come back in whispers that prove she was not in fact what she seemed

It's Time To Go: The snaps from the same little breaks in your soul

It's Time To Go: Twenty years at your job then the son of the boss gets the spot that was yours

It's Time To Go: Or trying to stay for the kids when keeping it how it is will only break their hearts worse

It's Time To Go: Sometimes giving up is the strong thing, sometimes to run is the brave thing

It's Time To Go: Sometimes walking out is the one thing that will find you the right thing

It's Time To Go: The snaps from the same little breaks in my soul

'Midnights'

Lavender Haze: Staring at the ceiling with you, oh, you don't ever say too much

Lavender Haze: I feel the lavender haze creeping up on me

Lavender Haze: The 1950s shit they want from me

Lavender Haze: The only kinda girl they see is a one night or a wife

Maroon: When the morning came we were cleaning incense off your vinyl shelf 'cause we lost track of time again

Maroon: And I chose you, the one I was dancing with in New York

Maroon: Looked up at the sky and it was

Maroon: The burgundy on my t-shirt when you splashed your wine into me and how the blood rushed into my cheeks, so scarlet, it was

Maroon: The mark thеy saw on my collarbone

Maroon: The rust that grew bеtween telephones

Maroon: The lips I used to call home, so scarlet, it was maroon

Maroon: When the silence came, we were shaking, blind and hazy

Maroon: How the hell did we lose sight of us again?

Maroon: Sobbing with your head in your hands, ain't that the way shit always ends?

Maroon: You were standing hollow-eyed in the hallway

Maroon: I feel you, no matter what the rubies that I gave up

Maroon: And I lost you, the one I was dancing with in New York

Anti-Hero: When my depression works the graveyard shift, all of the people I've ghosted stand there in the room

Anti-Hero: One day, I'll watch as you're leaving ‘cause you got tired of my scheming (For the last time)

Anti-Hero: I'm the problem, it's me

Anti-Hero: I'll stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror

Anti-Hero: It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero

Anti-Hero: Sometimes, I feel like everybody is a sexy baby and I'm a monster on the hill

Anti-Hero: Pierced through the heart but never killed

Anti-Hero: One day, I'll watch as you're leaving and life will lose all its meaning (For the last time)

Anti-Hero: I have this dream my daughter-in-law kills me for the money, she thinks I left them in the will

Anti-Hero: The family gathers around and reads it and then someone screams out, "She's laughing up at us from hell"

Snow On The Beach: And it's like snow at the beach, weird, but fucking beautiful

Snow On The Beach: Flying in a dream, stars by the pocketful

Snow On The Beach: Like snow on the beach

Snow On The Beach: Now it's like snow at the beach, weird, but fucking beautiful

Snow On The Beach: Are we falling like snow at the beach?

You're On Your Own, Kid: Summer went away, still the yearning stays

You're On Your Own, Kid: I play it cool with the best of them

You're On Your Own, Kid: It's okay, we're the best of friends, anyway

You're On Your Own, Kid: I search the party of better bodies just to learn that you never cared

You're On Your Own, Kid: I see the great escape, so long, Daisy May

You're On Your Own, Kid: I picked the petals, he loves me not

You're On Your Own, Kid: I play my songs in the parking lot, I'll run away

You're On Your Own, Kid: I search the party of better bodies just to learn that my dreams aren't rare

You're On Your Own, Kid: The jokes weren't funny, I took the money

You're On Your Own, Kid: 'Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned

You're On Your Own, Kid: So make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it

Midnight Rain: Chasing that fame, he stayed the same

Midnight Rain: Jumping off things in the ocean

Midnight Rain: All the love we unravel and the life I gave away

Question...?: I have to say, by the way, I just may like some explanations

Question...?: Did you lеave her house in the middle of the night?

Question...?: Fucking politics and gender roles and you're not sure and I don't know got swept away in the gray

Vigilante Shit: Draw the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man

Vigilante Shit: You did some bad things, but I'm the worst of them

Vigilante Shit: She had the envelope, where you think she got it from?

Vigilante Shit: Now she gets the house, gets the kids, gets the pride

Vigilante Shit: So on the weekends, she don't dress for friends

Vigilante Shit: The lady simply had enough

Vigilante Shit: Someone told his white collar crimes to the FBI

Bejeweled: Didn't notice you walking all over my peace of mind in the shoes I gave you as a present

Bejeweled: And by the way, I'm going out tonight

Bejeweled: When I walk in the room, I can still make the whole place shimmer

Bejeweled: And when I meet the band, they ask, "Do you have a man?"

Bejeweled: Don't put mе in the basement whеn I want the penthouse of your heart

Bejeweled: Did all the extra credit then got graded on a curve

Bejeweled: I can reclaim the land

Labyrinth: "It only hurts this much right now," was what I was thinking the whole time

Labyrinth: I thought the plane was going down, how'd you turn it right around?

Labyrinth: Lost in the labyrinth of my mind

Karma: You're talking shit for the hell of it

Karma: 'Cause if you dare, you'll see the glare of everyone you burned just to get there

Karma: And I keep my side of the street clean, you wouldn't know what I mean

Karma: Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend

Karma: Trick me once, trick me twice, don't you know that cash ain't the only price?

Karma: 'Cause karma is the thunder rattling your ground

Karma: Karma takes all my friends to the summit

Karma: Karma is the guy on the screen coming straight home to me

Sweet Nothing: They said the end is coming, everyone's up to something

Sweet Nothing: You're in the kitchen humming

Sweet Nothing: On the way home, I wrote a poem

Sweet Nothing: You say, "What a mind,” this happens all the time

Sweet Nothing: And the voices that implore, "You should be doing more"

Mastermind: Once upon a time, the planets and the fates and all the stars aligned

Mastermind: You and I ended up in the same room at the same time

Mastermind: And the touch of a hand lit the fuse of a chain reaction of countermoves

Mastermind: To assess the equation of you, checkmate, I couldn't lose

Mastermind: And the first night that you saw me, nothing was gonna stop me

Mastermind: I laid the groundwork, and then just like clockwork, the dominoes cascaded in a line

Mastermind: 'Cause we were born to be the pawn in every lover's game

Mastermind: Strategy sets the scene for the tale

Mastermind: I'm the wind in our free-flowing sails and the liquor in our cocktails

Mastermind: And the first night that you saw me, I knew I wanted your body

Mastermind: This is the first time I've felt the need to confess

Mastermind: I laid the groundwork and then saw a wide smirk on your face

Mastermind: You knew the entire time, you knew that I'm a mastermind

The Great War: Tore your banners down, took the battle underground

The Great War: Flashes of the battle come back to me in a blur

The Great War: My hand was the one you reached for all throughout the Great War

The Great War: Always remember, uh-huh, tears on the lеtter

The Great War: I vowed not to cry anymore, if wе survived the Great War

The Great War: And maybe it's the past that's talking, screaming from the crypt

The Great War: All that bloodshed, crimson clover, uh-huh, the bombs were closer

The Great War: Always remember, uh-huh, the burning embers

The Great War: I vowed not to fight anymore if we survived the Great War

The Great War: Somewhere in the haze, got a sense I'd been betrayed

The Great War: So I called off the troops

The Great War: That was the night I nearly lost you, I really thought I lost you

The Great War: Bloodshed, crimson clover, uh-huh, the worst was over

The Great War: I vowed I would always be yours 'cause we survived the Great War

The Great War: I will always be yours 'cause we survived the Great War

Bigger Than The Whole Sky: No words appear before me in the aftermath

Bigger Than The Whole Sky: Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, you were bigger than the whole sky

Paris: And all the outfits were terrible, 2003 unbearable

Paris: Did you see the photos?

Paris: No, I didn't see the news ‘cause we were somewhere else

Paris: I was taken by the view, like we were in Paris

Paris: Privacy sign on the door and on my page and on the whole world

Paris: Levitated above all the messes made

Paris: Sit quiet by my side in the shade, and not the kind that's thrown, I mean the kind under where a tree has grown

Paris: I want to transport you to somewhere the culture's clever

Paris: Let the only flashing lights be the tower at midnight in my mind

High Infidelity: I bent the truth too far tonight

High Infidelity: Do I really have to chart the constellations in his eyes?

High Infidelity: Dragged my feet right down the aisle

High Infidelity: At the house lonely, good money, I'd pay if you'd just know me

High Infidelity: Seemed like the right thing at the time

High Infidelity: You know there's many different ways that you can kill the one you love, the slowest way is never loving them enough

High Infidelity: Oh, there's many different ways that you can kill the one you love, and it's never enough, it's never enough

Glitch: The system's breaking down

Would've, Could've, Should've: If you would've blinked, then I would've looked away at the first glance

Would've, Could've, Should've: If you tasted poison, you could've spit me out at the first chance

Would've, Could've, Should've: And I damn sure would've never danced with the devil at nineteen, and the god's honest truth is that the pain was heaven

Would've, Could've, Should've: If you never touched me, I would've gone along with the righteous

Would've, Could've, Should've: The tomb won't close, stained glass windows in my mind, I regret you all the time

Would've, Could've, Should've: The wound won't close, I keep on waiting for a sign, I regret you all the time

Would've, Could've, Should've: Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts

Dear Reader: Dear reader, burn all the files, desert all your past lives

Dear Reader: Dear reader, the greatest of luxuries is your secrets

Dear Reader: Dear reader, when you aim at the devil, make sure you don't miss

Hits Different: I washed my hands of us at the club

Hits Different: I pictured you with other girls in love then threw up on the street

Hits Different: Rip the band-aid off and skip town likе an asshole outlaw

Hits Different: Freedom felt like summеr then on the coast

Hits Different: Now the sun burns my heart and the sand hurts my feelings

Hits Different: And I never don't cry (And I never don't cry) at the bar

Hits Different: I find the artifacts, cried over a hat, cursed the space that I needed

Hits Different: I trace the evidence, make it make some sense, why the wound is still bleeding

Hits Different: You were the one that I loved, don't need another metaphor it's simple enough

Hits Different: A wrinkle in time like the crease by your eyes, this is why they shouldn't kill off the main guy

Hits Different: Dreams of your hair and your stare and sense of belief in the good in the world, you once believed in me

Hits Different: I heard your key turn in the door down the hallway, is that your key in the door? Is it okay? Is it you?

You're Losing Me: Remember looking at this room, we loved it 'cause of the light, now I just sit in the dark and wonder if it's time

You're Losing Me: I'm getting tired, even for a phoenix, always rising from the ashes, mending all her gashes, you might just have dealt the final blow

You're Losing Me: I sent you signals and bit my nails down to the quick

You're Losing Me: And the air is thick with loss and indecision

You're Losing Me: Now you're running down the hallway, you know what they all say

You're Losing Me: And all I did was bleed as I tried to be the bravest soldier

You're Losing Me: I'm the best thing at this party

Karma (feat. Ice Spice): Karma takes all my friends to the summit / facts

Other Songs written by Taylor

All Of The Girls You Loved Before: When you think of all the late nights, lame fights over the phone

All Of The Girls You Loved Before: Wake up in the morning with someone but feeling alone

All Of The Girls You Loved Before: And taught you the way you call me "baby," treat me like a lady

All Of The Girls You Loved Before: All of the girls you loved before made you the one I've fallen for

All Of The Girls You Loved Before: I'm so thankful for all of the girls you loved before

All Of The Girls You Loved Before: When I think of all the makeup, fake love out on the town

All Of The Girls You Loved Before: Crying in the bathroom for some dude whose name I cannot remember now

All Of The Girls You Loved Before: The girls you loved before made you the one I've fallen for

Beautiful Ghosts: So I watch from the dark, wait for my life to start

Beautiful Ghosts: And the memories were lost long ago but at least you have beautiful ghosts

Beautiful Ghosts: A flicker of light before the dawning

Beautiful Ghosts: Out here, the wild ones are taming the fear within me

Beautiful Ghosts: And the memories were lost long ago so I'll dance with these beautiful ghosts

Best Days Of Your Life: I'll be there in the back of your mind, from the day we met 'til you were making me cry

Best Days Of Your Life: And it's just too bad you already had the best days, the best days of your life

Best Days Of Your Life: I'll be there in the back of your mind, from the day we met to the very last night

Best Days Of Your Life: And does she know, know about the times you used to hold me

Best Days Of Your Life: Wrapped me in your arms and how you told me I'd be the only one?

Carolina: And she's in my dreams, into the mist, into the clouds

Carolina: Carolina stains on the dress she left

Carolina: Indelible scars, pivotal marks, blue as the life she fled

Carolina: Hide me like robes, down the back road

Carolina: But the sleep comes fast and I'll meet no ghosts

Carolina: It's between me, the sand, and the sea

Christmas Must Be Something More: Would the song still survive without five golden rings?

Christmas Must Be Something More: So here's to the birthday boy who saved our lives

Christmas Must Be Something More: What if angels did not pay attention to all the things that we wished they would always do?

Christmas Must Be Something More: It seems the last thing on your mind is that the day holds something special

Christmas Tree Farm: In my heart is a Christmas tree farm where the people would come to dance under sparkling lights

Christmas Tree Farm: Bundled up in their mittens and coats and the cider would flow

Christmas Tree Farm: Under the mistletoe, watching the fire glow, and telling me, "I love you"

Christmas Tree Farm: There's a light in the barn, we run inside out from the cold

Christmas Tree Farm: In the town, kids are dreaming of sleighs and they're warm and they're safe

Christmas Tree Farm: And when the world isn't fair, I pretend that we're there

Christmases When You Were Mine: Please take down the mistletoe ‘cause I don't wanna think about that right now

Christmases When You Were Mine: My mama's in the kitchen, worrying about me

Christmases When You Were Mine: I've been doing fine without you, really, up until the nights got cold

Christmases When You Were Mine: When you were putting up the lights this year, did you notice one less pair of hands?

Crazier: I'd never gone with the wind, just let it flow

Crazier: 'Til you open the door, there's so much more

Crazier: You lift my feet off the ground, you spin me around

Eyes Open: The tricky thing is yesterday we were just children

Eyes Open: Everybody's watching to see the fallout

Eyes Open: The night goes dark, keep your eyes open

I Don't Wanna Live Forever: Wondering if I dodged a bullet or just lost the love of my life

I Don't Wanna Live Forever: I've been looking sad in all the nicest places

I Heart ?: Wake up and smell the breakup

I Heart ?: I got an I heart question mark written on the back of my hand

I Heart ?: Wait right by the phone every night

I Heart ?: It didn't go the way you planned

If This Was A Movie: Stand in the rain outside 'til I came out

If This Was A Movie: Now I'm pacing down the hall, chasing down your street

If This Was A Movie: Flashback to the night when you said to me

If This Was A Movie: I just want it back the way it was before

If This Was A Movie: Before the fight, before I locked you out

If This Was A Movie: It's not the kind of ending you wanna see now

If This Was A Movie: Baby, what about the ending?

Only The Young: It keeps me awake, the look on your face the moment you heard the news

Only The Young: The game was rigged, the ref got tricked, the wrong ones think they’re right

Only The Young: Only the young, only the young can run

Only The Young: You brace for the sound you've only heard on TV

Only The Young: You go to class, scared, wondering where the best hiding spot would be

Only The Young: And the big bad man and his big bad clan, their hands are stained with red

Only The Young: Up there's the finish line

Renegade: The shape of you was jagged and weak

Renegade: Open the blinds, let me see your face

Renegade: You wouldn't be the first renegade to need somebody

Renegade: And if I would've known how sharp the pieces were you'd crumbled into, I might've let them lay

Safe And Sound: Just close your eyes, the sun is going down

Safe And Sound: The war outside our door keeps raging on

Safe And Sound: Hold onto this lullaby even when the music's gone

The Alcott: I get myself twisted in threads to meet you at The Alcott

The Alcott: I go to the corner in the back where you'd always be

The Alcott: And the last thing you wanted is the first thing I do

The Alcott: I tell you my problems, you tell me the truth

The Alcott: It's the last thing you wanted, it's the first thing I do

The Alcott: It's the last thing you wanted / Tell me which side are you on, dear

The Alcott: It's the first thing you do / Give me some tips to forget you

The Alcott: And I tell you the truth / Could it be easy this once?

The Joker And The Queen (Remix): The road that was broken brought us together

The Joker And The Queen (Remix): When I fold, you see the best in me

The Joker And The Queen (Remix): The joker and the queen

This Is What You Came For: We go fast with the game we play

Two Is Better Than One: I remember what you wore on the first day

Two Is Better Than One: But there's so much time to figure out the rest of my life

Two Is Better Than One: I remember every look upon your face, the way you roll your eyes, the way you taste

You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home: You're late again so get out the door

You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home: Let go, get up and hit the dance floor

You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home: But when the lights go down, it's the ending of the show

You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home: You can change your mind, that's just the way it goes

You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home: Yeah they know exactly who you are back home, where the real you is a superstar

Official Alternate Releases

Picture To Burn (2006 Version): That's fine, I'll tell mine you're gay, by the way

Better Than Revenge (2010 Version): She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress

Lover (feat. Shawn Mendes): We could light a bunch of candles and dance around the kitchen, baby

Lover (feat. Shawn Mendes): Pictures of when we were young would hang on the wall

Lover (feat. Shawn Mendes): We would sit on the stoop

Lover (feat. Shawn Mendes): Look in my eyes, they will tell you the truth

Lover (feat. Shawn Mendes): The girl in my story has always been you

Lover (feat. Shawn Mendes): I’d go down with the Titanic, it’s true, for you, lover

Betty (Clean Version): Would you tell me to go straight to hell or lead me to the garden?

Happiness (Clean Version): All the years I’ve given is just things we’re dividing up

Ivy (Clean Version): Oh, I can't, my pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand

Ivy (Clean Version): It’s a violent blaze in the dark and you started it, you started it

Ivy (Clean Version): It’s the fiercest fight of my life and you started it, you started it

Cowboy Like Me (Clean Version): And the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to mess this up

Maroon (Clean Version): Sobbing with your head in your hands, ain’t that the way it always ends?

Anti-Hero (feat. Bleachers): Pierced through the heart of 90s guilt, maybe I'm the problem, it's me

Snow On The Beach (Clean Version): It’s like snow at the beach, weird, but it was beautiful

Snow On The Beach (Clean Version): Are we falling like snow at the beach, weird, but it was beautiful

Karma (Clean Version): You flip the script for the hell of it

Hits Different (Clean Version): Rip the Band-Aid off and skip town like an unhinged outlaw

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