#‘only if they pay for it / your a bandit like me / eyes full of stars / hustling for the good life / never thought I’d meet you here.’

[ohdorothea]

More information about the tournament here and lyrics are below the cut! Happy voting!!!

cowboy like me lyrics

And the tennis court was covered up

With some tent-like thing

And you asked me to dance

But I said, "Dancin' is a dangerous game."

Oh, I thought

This is gonna be one of those things

Now I know

I'm never gonna love again

I've got some tricks up my sleeve

Takes one to know one

You're a cowboy like me

Never wanted love

Just a fancy car

Now I'm waiting by the phone

Like I'm sitting in an airport bar

You had some tricks up your sleeve

Takes one to know one

You're a cowboy like me

Perched in the dark

Telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear

Like it could be love

I could be the way forward

Only if they pay for it

You're a bandit like me

Eyes full of stars

Hustling for the good life

Never thought I'd meet you here

It could be love

We could be the way forward

And I know I'll pay for it

You're a cowboy like me

Perched in the dark

Telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear

Like it could be love

I could be the way forward

Only if they pay for it

You're a bandit like me

Eyes full of stars

Hustling for the good life

Never thought I'd meet you here

It could be love

We could be the way forward

And I know I'll pay for it

And the skeletons in both our closets

Plotted hard to fuck this up

And the old men that I've swindled

Really did believe I was the one

And the ladies lunching have their stories about

When you passed through town

But that was all before I locked it down

Now you hang from my lips

Like the Gardens of Babylon

With your boots beneath my bed

Forever is the sweetest con

I've had some tricks up my sleeve

Takes one to know one

You're a cowboy like me

And I'm never gonna love again

I'm never gonna love again

I'm never gonna love again

ivy lyrics

How's one to know?

I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones

In a faith-forgotten land

In from the snow

Your touch brought forth an incandescent glow

Tarnished but so grand

And the old widow goes to the stone every day

But I don't, I just sit here and wait

Grieving for the living

Oh, goddamn

My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand

Taking mine, but it's been promised to another

Oh, I can't

Stop you putting roots in my dreamland

My house of stone, your ivy grows

And now I'm covered in you

I wish to know

The fatal flaw that makes you long to be

Magnificently cursed

He's in the room

Your opal eyes are all I wish to see

He wants what's only yours

Oh, goddamn

My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand

Taking mine, but it's been promised to another

Oh, I can't

Stop you putting roots in my dreamland

My house of stone, your ivy grows

And now I'm covered

Clover blooms in the fields

Spring breaks loose, the time is near

What would he do if he found us out?

Crescent moon, coast is clear

Spring breaks loose, but so does fear

He's gonna burn this house to the ground

How's one to know?

I'd live and die for moments that we stole

On begged and borrowed time

So tell me to run

Or dare to sit and watch what we'll become

And drink my husband's wine

Oh, goddamn

My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand

Taking mine, but it's been promised to another

Oh, I can't

Stop you putting roots in my dreamland

My house of stone, your ivy grows

And now I'm covered in you

And I'm covered in you

So yeah, it's a fire

It's a goddamn blaze in the dark

And you started it

You started it

So yeah, it's a war

It's the goddamn fight of my life

And you started it

You started it

Oh, I can't

Stop you putting roots in my dreamland

My house of stone, your ivy grows

And now I'm covered

In you

In you

Now I'm covered in you

In you

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

can we please talk about tim mcgraw x cowboy like me

we can!

Looks like we're back to Singapore again!

First of all: hearing her sing Tim McGraw with her adult voice is sooooooooooo touching. I've said this before, but for instance, Fifteen being sung by a 30 year old hits SO MUCH HARDER than it does by an 18 year old, and completely changes the perspective on it; it's so much more poignant to consider it being told by someone with that much more life experience and that much further removed from their youth.

Similarly, growing up has the same effect on Tim McGraw to me. No longer is it a teenager singing about her boyfriend who moved away; it's a woman reflecting on the naivety of youth and how much simpler love seemed back then than it does now two decades on. It's one of those songs that truly does stand the test of time, because it takes on different meanings throughout the decades. (It's like the yeehaw version of Midnight Rain in some ways.) And I think singing it in a mashup like this only heightens that, because it juxtaposes the youthful innocence with the grown-up love in Cowboy Like Me.

Second of all: I knew she loved Cowboy Like Me but I don't think I realized just how many times she played it until I started getting these asks 😂

The theme of the mashup is: Cowboys listen to Tim McGraw too!

(I'm kidding... only not really lol.)

In all seriousness, I think the "hook" to me is the dance of the story:

But when you think 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... And you asked me to dance, but I said, "Dancing is a dangerous game" / Oh, I thought, this is gonna be one of those things / Now I know I'm never gonna love again

Because there are a few ways I could take it! One, it's a grown-up woman retelling the big love from her youth. Or another is that she's comparing love as an adult to the love from her youth. That first tender dance turns into a more nuanced, more loaded dance as an adult as life adds baggage to it.

I think it's a beautiful juxtaposition of how one's view of love might change over the decades, but not one's pursuit of it.

Also: You're a bandit like me, eyes full of stars / Hustling for the good life, never thought I'd meet you here -> He said the way my blue eyes shined put those Georgia stars to shame that night / I said, "That's a lie" is 🤌

I think I must be too tired to do this one because on the one hand, I feel like I have SO MUCH I want to say that I can't verbalize, but on the other, I feel like I have nothing to say because it's just a really beautiful medley.

I think it's interesting how Tim McGraw is a song that's told in hindsight; the relationship is already long over, and it's her hoping she'll be remembered and still be loved long after they've gone their separate ways and moved on. And then Cowboy Like Me is two people coming together despite all odds and vowing to stay together. So if I had to see it as one story, I'd say the girl who stays behind in Tim McGraw grows up and finally finds that love again that makes her feel the way she did as a kid.

I think my favourite bit is:

You're a bandit like me Eyes full of stars Hustling for the good life Never thought I'd meet you here It could be love We could be the way forward And I know I'll pay for it ... And I'm back for the first time since then I'm standing on your street And there's a letter left on your doorstep And the first thing that you'll read Is when you think Tim McGraw I hope you think my favorite song Someday you'll turn your radio on I hope it takes you back to that place

A) it sounds beautiful and B) it plays right into those themes of remembrance and memory and longing for youth and possibly even reclaiming youth.

And I also love the ending:

When you think Tim McGraw I hope you think of me ... You're a cowboy like me He said the way my blue eyes shined Put those Georgia stars to shame that night I said, "That's a lie"

So, is she remembering the cowboy long after it's over? Or did she find herself a new cowboy long after that first love? It can be taken either way IMO, and either way, it's an interesting story!

And that does it for mashup madness for tonight! Thank you for flying wavesoutbeingtossed airlines, please ensure you've collected all your belongings before exiting the aircraft ❤️ (also my inbox is still full so we have to hit a pause on the game until I catch up 😂)

[daisyjonesgf]

have we considered that conway and sweet girl were so incredibly cowboy like me coded? like yes she was planning to manipulate him into loving her to win, but he realized like halfway through and did it right back, a strategy to get popular in the Capitol while manipulating the other person

"you had some tricks up your sleeve, takes one to know one, you're a cowboy like me"

literally them using the same strategy on each other

"perched in the dark, telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear like it could be love"

literally them in the games and their interviews trying to sell the idea of being in love to sponsors so they can stay alive longer

"I could be the way forward, only if you pay for it"

being the new victor if the sponsors support BUT also at the cost of the other person's life

"you're a bandit like me, eyes full of stars, hustling for the good life"

literally the game plan is all about hustling the other person and the Capitol to stay alive but also live the life that's been so talked up, the Victor's life

"and the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up"

the idea that conway knew she still loved finnick and had been with him was like an unspoken thing that could shatter the whole plan, and conway really loving her but pushing it down to try and manipulate her so he could win could've fucked it up if he let his love take precedence

"and the old men I've swindled really did believe I was the one"

sweet girl at conway, he really did think they were meant to be for a while

"now you hang from my lips like the gardens of babylon"

the words they tell the other to try and keep the illusion up may or may not be founded in some truth you know, the lines are so blurry

"forever is the sweetest con"

the idea that sweet girl has and always will love conway is what keeps the con going or at least what she thinks will, and conway always and forever having loved sweet girl is what makes him conning her back so clever

my pookies 😔

[nothoughtsjustmhaandotherthings]

"cowboy like me" - Shuǐ/Jack's Playlist

guys making song analysis posts without giving spoilers for the fic is hard omg

But! Here we are with another installment! "cowboy like me" was actually one of the first songs I added to the Shuǐ playlist when I was still going for a vibe and not focusing on personal lore. So, mostly vibes here, not a whole lot of plot connections. But we have fun!

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And the tennis court was covered up With some tent-like thing And you asked me to dance But I said, "Dancing is a dangerous game"

This set some of the foundation for the scene in And Now I'm Covered In You where Shuǐ and Jack dance for the first time.

Oh, I thought This is gonna be one of those things

Shuǐ's past hesitations about Jack's motives regarding her.

Now I know I'm never gonna love again

Now those hesitations have melted away and she's certain that he's the only person she could bring herself to fall in love with.

I've got some tricks up my sleeve Takes one to know one You're a cowboy like me

Cowboys are just land pirates so it works out. I said what I said.

Never wanted love Just a fancy car Now I'm waiting by the phone Like I'm sitting in an airport bar

Honestly, this lyric could be either Shuǐ or Jack. They were both more interested in the thrill of the chase (The Game!!!) at the beginning, and now they're...pining.

You had some tricks up your sleeve Takes one to know one

Acceptance on Shuǐ's part--there's no denying that she and Jack are cut from the same cloth, as they say.

You're a cowboy like me Perched in the dark Telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear Like it could be love

Jack plays the long game, using his words to get what he wants.

I could be the way forward Only if they pay for it

Shuǐ prefers more directly rewarding methods. (Like punching people.)

You're a bandit like me Eyes full of stars Hustling for the good life Never thought I'd meet you here

Another commentary about how similar they are. It is ironic that Sao's threat of marriage directly leads to Shuǐ running away with a man she eventually falls in love with.

It could be love We could be the way forward And I know I'll pay for it

Consequences be damned; Shuǐ is all in at this point.

And the skeletons in both our closets Plotted hard to fuck this up

Let's be real, these are two incredibly damaged individuals. There are gonna be rough patches. I can't tell you what they'll be, though.

And the old men that I've swindled Really did believe I was the one

This lyric is also spoilery. All I can say is it won't make sense with the Shuǐ you get to know in (You're In The) Wind, but it will later on.

And the ladies lunching have their stories about When you passed through town But that was all before I locked it down

A little hint at Jack's promiscuous past.

Now you hang from my lips Like the Gardens of Babylon With your boots beneath my bed Forever is the sweetest con

The Gardens of Babylon, which are said to have never existed..."forever is the sweetest con"...hmmmm

I've had some tricks up my sleeve Takes one to know one You're a cowboy like me

And we'll end with Shuǐ getting back into The Game. ;)

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And now, the taglist!!

@dance-in-the-morning-glow, @burymeinmelodies

[foxes-that-run]

Cowboy like me

CLM is a love story where 2 outsiders living a life as grifters meet at a wedding and fall in love unexpectedly. It's sweet, it can be viewed as a Haylor metaphor for 2 celebrities finding love when they weren't looking. Suburban Legends is very similar to this interpretation.

Lyrics

And the tennis court was covered up With some tent-like thing And you asked me to dance But I said, "Dancing is a dangerous game" Oh, I thought This is gonna be one of those things Now I know I'm never gonna love again

A marquee on a tennis court sounds like they are at a wedding. An alternative interpretation could be that Taylor is referring to when she had a Trampoline on her Tennis Court and wrote Everything Has Changed, 20 May 2012 when she and Harry got back together.

Dancing is a dangerous thing indicates they have chemistry and are trying to avoid being together. As in Delicate and So it Goes Taylor physical touch risks their relationship escalating

Taylor and Harry were both at Ed Sheeran’s wedding in a marquee, circus tent like thing in Suffolk, 7 September 2019. Taylor then went to Paris to record City of Lover 9 September, while Joe in Toronto. Harry MIA 2 - 12 September, other than wedding reports. Thanks @cntfightmydemonsthyknowhowtoswim for help with these dates

I've got some tricks up my sleeve Takes one to know one You're a cowboy like me Never wanted love Just a fancy car Now I'm waiting by the phone Like I'm sitting in an airport bar You had some tricks up your sleeve Takes one to know one

Similar to in Suburban Legends where she “Didn’t come here to make friends / we were born to be suburban legends / when you hold me it holds me together” Taylor feels she loves her muse is not reciprocated. But she is now waiting by the phone.

She identify’s the muse as Harry who has an expensive car collection, she often refers to him as driving. Taylor used Harry’s cars to differentiate him from Joe in King of my Heart.

You're a cowboy like me Perched in the dark Telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear Like it could be love I could be the way forward Only if they pay for it

Taylor and her muse are the same, to me 'cowboy like me' is a metaphor for them having the same job.

As in many Haylor songs this has commodified their love life, here the Rich folk (executives and fanbase) pay for it

You're a bandit like me Eyes full of stars Hustling for the good life Never thought I'd meet you here It could be love We could be the way forward And I know I'll pay for it

Taylor has found love in this unlikely place of industry networking but here she knows she will pay for that love. This price is emotional and the backlash she described in Slut! She also sings about not coming here for love in Suburban Legends

And the skeletons in both our closets Plotted hard to **** this up And the old men that I've swindled Really did believe I was the one And the ladies lunching have their stories about When you passed through town But that was all before I locked it down

Skeletons are secrets, here they are sentient, able to plot to mess it up. This is perhaps people with secret dealings or relationships.

On reputation Taylor referred to her other lovers as older than Harry, the youngest. (Ready for it?) and older men as playthings (don’t blame me). Taylor is saying the older men she’s dated have never had her heart but his muse does/

I hear the ladies who lunch as fans and media, gossip about them both. In Now that we don’t talk and Is it over now? Hearing rumours of her muse dating others was a problem, however she’s now locked it down and she is not a problem. This may be that she and her muse have reached an accord on this.

Now you hang from my lips Like the Gardens of Babylon With your boots beneath my bed Forever is the sweetest con

There is no evidence Gardens of Babylon existed so historians question if it is real or myth. Similar to the You are in Love lyric “no proof, not much” that speaks to the hidden relationship.

Taylor is sleeping with her muse, forever is the sweetest con could have multiple meanings, I hear it as she will be with her muse forever, hidden from the rich folk (us).

I've had some tricks up my sleeve Takes one to know one You're a cowboy like me

Taylor and her muse are living the same life, hustling to reach fame and fortune. She sees that her lover plays the same games as her. In To be so lonely Harry also referred to agreeing when Taylor called him on a trick, his trick was to talk to her because he missed her.

Taylor also refers to tricks in Ready for it “you’ve been calling my bluff on all my usual tricks”

And I'm never gonna love again I'm never gonna love again Mm, mm, oh, oh I'm never gonna love again

Never gonna love again could have a double meaning, either she will never love again because this muse is her forever muse, or she's sworn off love forever. To me, the proceeding verses are leading up to the first, this muse is her forever muse.

[moonyhigh]

~☾~

You're a cowboy like me

Perched in the dark

Telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear

Like it could be love

I could be the way forward

Only if they pay for it

~☆~

You're a bandit like me

Eyes full of stars

Hustling for the good life

Never thought I'd meet you here

It could be love

We could be the way forward

And I know I'll pay for it

~☪︎~

Now you hang from my lips

Like the Gardens of Babylon

With your boots beneath my bed

Forever is the sweetest con

ac - likeafunerall

[threewaywithdelusion]

Treacherous:

Put your lips close to mine / as long as they don’t touch

And I’d be smart to walk away / but you’re quicksand

This slope is treacherous / this path is reckless / this slope is treacherous / and I I I like it

I can’t decide if it’s a choice / getting swept away / I hear the sound of my own voice / asking you to stay

Two headlights shine through the sleepless night and I will get you a- get you alone / your name has echoed through my mind and I just think you should think you should know / that nothing safe is worth the drive and I would follow you home

This hope is treacherous

Haunted (Andrew pov, Baltimore):

You and I walk a fragile line / I have known it all this time / but I never thought I’d live to see it break

Come on, come on don’t leave me like this / I thought I had you figured out / something’s gone terribly wrong / you’re all I wanted / come on, come on, don’t leave me like this / I thought I had you figured out / can’t breath whenever you’re gone / can’t turn back, now I’m haunted

Oh, holding my breath / won’t see you again / something keep me holding on to Nothing

cowboy like me:

Now I know I’m never gonna love again

I’ve got some tricks up my sleeve / takes one to know one / you’re a cowboy like me / … / you’ve got some tricks up your sleeve / takes one to know one / you’re a cowboy like me

Never wanted love, just a fancy car

You’re a bandit like me / eyes full of stars / hustling for the good life, never thought I’d meet you here / it could be love / we could be the way forward / and I know I’ll pay for it

And the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up

peace (Neil pov):

Suddenly this summer it’s clear / I never had courage in my convictions / as long as danger is near / and it’s just around the corner, darling / cause it lives in me / no I could never give you peace

But I’m a fire and I’ll keep your brittle heart warm / when your cascade ocean wave blues come / all these people think love’s for show, but I would die for you in secret / the devil’s in the details but you got a friend in me / would it be enough if I could never give you peace?

And you know that I’d swing with you for fences / sit with you in the trenches

Give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other

Family that I chose / (now that I see your brother as my brother)

[artemis-fowled]

no bc listen its like. cowboy like me is such a blunder song and i’ll never be over it its like??

now im waiting by the phone like im sitting in an airport bar (every moment gob is waiting by the phone? that scene with kitty??) You had some tricks up your sleeve takes one to know one you're a cowboy like me (i dont think explanation is needed honestly) Perched in the dark telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear like it could be love I could be the way forward only if they pay for it (gob finding his worth in doing whatever it takes to make his dad proud- smth that will never happen, but going to extremes where he “sacrifices his body” for the family; kitty and lucille 2) you're a bandit like me eyes full of stars hustling for the good life never thought I'd meet you here it could be love we could be the way forward and I know I'll pay for it (because?? they are same and not same and they just, get each other- and they have this electric connection and gob does pay for it, he is humiliated at the parade and he is grieving bc he thinks tony is dead dead dead and confused bc of course there was a trap door but then whats happening rn and then he gets the body and he reaches out to tony! he gets the gay mafia off tony’s contract! and tony reciprocates so hard!)

the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up (bc like, theyre literally plotting and falling at the same time, gob is going to make tony fall in love with him and then break his heart/sabotage his career? tony is trying to get fakeblock money? and then theyre same and theyre not taking the chances given to allow them to complete their schemes, and then there’s cinco and ann and “gob’s straight?”and forget-me-nows and the gay mafia-)and the old men that i swindled really did believe i was the one and the ladies lunching have their stories about when he passed through town but that was all before i locked. it. down. (just thinking about gob flitting through relationships, about his sex work, about how we do see people-his girlfriends- do fall in love with him, and maybe it doesnt last but it does happen, and then theres tony and hes rebranded as the gay magician but he’s got that secret thing with sally and-) now he hangs from my lips like the gardens of babylon with his boots beneath my bed, forever is the sweetest con (because! theyre together again! gob saved his career instead of sabotaging it! theyre going to do handstuff, theyre same and not same in all the right ways and come on, tony is so obviously enamored in the wall scene, iirc tony is the one to suggest hand stuff-)

love story of all time

[ohdorothea]

More information about the tournament here and lyrics are below the cut! Happy voting!!!

long story short lyrics

Fatefully

I tried to pick my battles

'Til the battle picked me

Misery

Like the war of words I shouted in my sleep

And you passed right by

I was in the alley surrounded on all sides

The knife cuts both ways

If the shoe fits, walk in it

'Til your high heels break

And I fell from the pedestal

Right down the rabbit hole

Long story short, it was a bad time

Pushed from the precipice

Clung to the nearest lips

Long story short, it was the wrong guy

Now I'm all about you

I'm all about you

I'm all about you

Actually

I always felt I must look better in the rear view

Missing me

At the golden gates they once held the keys to

When I dropped my sword

I threw it in the bushes and knocked on your door

And we live in peace

But if someone comes at us

This time I'm ready

'Cause I fell from the pedestal

Right down the rabbit hole

Long story short, it was a bad time

Pushed from the precipice

Clung to the nearest lips

Long story short, it was the wrong guy

Now I'm all about you

I'm all about you

I'm all about you

No more keepin' score

Now I just keep you warm (Keep you warm)

No more tug of war

Now I just know there's more (Know there's more)

No more keepin' score

Now I just keep you warm (Keep you warm)

And my waves meet your shore

Ever and evermore

Past me

I wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things

Your nemeses will defeat themselves

Before you get the chance to swing

And he's passing by

Rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky

And he feels like home

If the shoe fits, walk in it

Everywhere you go

And I fell from the pedestal

Right down the rabbit hole

Long story short, it was a bad time

Pushed from the precipice

Climbed right back up the cliff

Long story short, I survived

Now I'm all about you

(And now) I'm all about you, ah

(And now) I'm all about you

(And now) I'm all about you, ah

Yeah, yeah

I'm all about you

(And now) Yeah, yeah

I'm all about you

Long story short, it was a bad time

Long story short, I survived

cowboy like me lyrics

And the tennis court was covered up

With some tent-like thing

And you asked me to dance

But I said, "Dancin' is a dangerous game."

Oh, I thought

This is gonna be one of those things

Now I know

I'm never gonna love again

I've got some tricks up my sleeve

Takes one to know one

You're a cowboy like me

Never wanted love

Just a fancy car

Now I'm waiting by the phone

Like I'm sitting in an airport bar

You had some tricks up your sleeve

Takes one to know one

You're a cowboy like me

Perched in the dark

Telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear

Like it could be love

I could be the way forward

Only if they pay for it

You're a bandit like me

Eyes full of stars

Hustling for the good life

Never thought I'd meet you here

It could be love

We could be the way forward

And I know I'll pay for it

You're a cowboy like me

Perched in the dark

Telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear

Like it could be love

I could be the way forward

Only if they pay for it

You're a bandit like me

Eyes full of stars

Hustling for the good life

Never thought I'd meet you here

It could be love

We could be the way forward

And I know I'll pay for it

And the skeletons in both our closets

Plotted hard to fuck this up

And the old men that I've swindled

Really did believe I was the one

And the ladies lunching have their stories about

When you passed through town

But that was all before I locked it down

Now you hang from my lips

Like the Gardens of Babylon

With your boots beneath my bed

Forever is the sweetest con

I've had some tricks up my sleeve

Takes one to know one

You're a cowboy like me

And I'm never gonna love again

I'm never gonna love again

I'm never gonna love again

[feywanders]

tied together with a smile ⸻ taylor swift

hold on, baby you're losing it. the water's high, you're jumping into it and letting go and no one knows that you cry, but you don't tell anyone, that you might not be the golden one; and you're tied together with a smile but you're coming undone.

change ⸻ fearless (taylor's version)

tonight we'll stand, get off our knees, fight for what we've worked for all these years; and the battle was long, it's the fight of our lives, but we'll stand up champions tonight. it was the night things changed, can you see it now? these walls that they put up to hold us back fell down. it's a revolution, throw your hands up, cause we never gave in.

enchanted ⸻ speak now (taylor's version)

there i was again tonight; forcing laughter, faking smiles; same old tired, lonely place. walls of insincerity, shifting eyes and vacancy, vanished when i saw your face; all i can say is it was enchanting to meet you. your eyes whispered " have we met? " cross the room, your silhouette starts to make its way to me. the playful conversation starts, counter all your quick remarks, like passing notes in secrecy; and it was enchanting to meet you.

nothing new feat. phoebe bridgers ⸻ red (taylor's version)

i've had too much to drink tonight, how did i go from growing up to breaking down and i wake up in the middle of the night, it's like i can feel time moving. how can a person know everything at eighteen, but nothing at twenty-two; and will you still want me when i'm nothing new?

wildest dreams ⸻ 1989 (taylor's version)

say you'll remember me, standing in a nice dress, staring at the sunset, babe. red lips and rosy cheeks, say you'll see me again even if it's just in your wildest dreams.

new year's day ⸻ reputation

you squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi, i can tell that it's gonna be a long road. i'll be there if you're the toast of the town, babe; or if you strike out and you're crawling home. don't read the last page, but i stay when it's hard, or it's wrong, or we're making mistakes. i want your midnights, but i'll be cleaning up bottles with you on new year's day.

daylight ⸻ lover

i don't wanna look at anything else now that i saw you. i don't wanna think of anything else now that i thought of you. i've been sleeping so long in a 20-year dark night, and now i see daylight; i only see daylight. i wanna be defined by the things that i love. not the things that i hate, not the things i'm afraid of, not the things that haunt me in the middle of the night. i just think that you are what you love.

mirrorball ⸻ folklore

hush, when no one is around my dear. you'll find me on my tallest tiptoes, spinning in my highest heels, love, shining just for you. hush, i know they said the end is near; but i'm still on my tallest tiptoes, spinning in my highest heels, love, shining just for you.

cowboy like me ⸻ evermore

you're a cowboy like me, perched in the dark, telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear; like it could be love, i could be the way forward, only if they pay for it. you're a bandit like me, eyes full of stars, hustling for the good life, never thought i'd meet you here; it could be love, we could be the way forward and i know i'll pay for it.

would've, could've, should've ⸻ midnights

if clarity's in death, then why won't this die? years of tearing down our banners, you and i. living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts. give me back my girlhood, it was mine first.

[chaoslynx]

@pen18:

Cowboy like me and innocent by Taylor swift

You're a cowboy like me Perched in the dark Telling all the rich folks anything they want to hear Like it could be love I could be the way forward Only if they pay for it You're a bandit like me Eyes full of stars Hustling for the good life Never thought I'd meet you here It could be love We could be the way forward And I know I'll pay for it And the skeletons in both our closets Plotted hard to fuck this up And the old men that I've swindled Really did believe I was the one

.

Your string of lights is still bright to me Who you are is not where you've been You're still an innocent Did some things you can't speak of But at night you live it all again You wouldn't be shattered on the floor now If only you had seen what you know now then

can you all send me more songs that make you think of Ashie or bfish please?

[libidomechanica]

And slowly arched grew again; a bachelor now to mankind

A sonnet sequence

               1

And slowly arched grew again; a bachelor now to mankind. But as in those the Sea of him through too poetical: men stick; and when his beauties whirlpool full of the sublimest exultation, to the trees, not to go with content to show it gave; and a stripling frankincense doth notes strappin, the views the gossip led upon their rank and several lines be seen in twilight, and all his debt. So should excuse with me! In die capiendus. With their surly, I rather example praise for his Justice, and now comment; and still the weak hand cry, and rioting on this poets of birds.

               2

To wander’d hallucinations; all try to tell those who camest told it is they did not gainsay, humanity must be so bold, and can ne’er weary caverns of a sudden grow, while I spurres with such occasion, where a mantle far more; and the tiny swells, it is strain as none, the little care touched no dark creeper, first investigation. Amongst the kelp clings the in it he cause thee; he’d come up in her milder-mooned brow, and high stars that either sofa for fantasy was level of spiced woodbine, of all its lava, with her to it out of vices married ear!

               3

Without more it would excuse my hart. Of her love of heavenly niggard time, only tender. And the time acquired: the Sprite goes by and no less; and the river, making addition. But rather placed around. That upstarted, and in the fat pillow’s twitter, in balance: city, to ride, and every loved a virtues that of discover, a wounding all the desired, there dost things, not a Moslems perish distant memory; the way in soft phrase offended mistakes, is much disgrace I sued the knew, to Corinth—O the bandit’s despatch! More subtle Greek, because of his trade.

               4

In his pulse betoken or praised, the room, for they never should revoke through at time the greatly foot of gentle material— men are made ice seemed to quote to the trophies of quean. Or rather you, soon apple, sings here! We find you be liege, ’ said before they walls of thee we grown bought, quoth he, as if nursed by one and nor binde; the moonshine and thousand much form an antique song of thy destiny, alert he cheek recline, empty the night, down, downcast, yet freedom as now on an Alpine steeple, whether gloom enough; but from it the found here, the most afford to make you, chopping air.

               5

And said, this poets of us have descending it, though ice, lute, which precious characters of Tyranny of my life and save;—a mighty Mother worst caused with a hole inside-out, or that was bootless grown and upon her empery of masts; a wild you have goaded. You love Platonical, and polish, or help as wolves on ray, or to sing, their long the seldom pay they seem’d path? But whereof sheep, his phantom upon the could breath. Voice even should be christen’d spirit of many, make then he find favourites of me to his dressed, like the casement’s present paine. Not be made.

               6

In a golden sand—how few the mouths never moon, added, or what wondering: it is but cast and baffled by the scent in thine the mitigated further curious Gods; that head: ashes sat he should pervades a construction with dewy gem, fright, nor side. Whereby I know by which a deserving even thou starves amidst thou to me. The more a sentimental friend to concealment needs tempt to reverence. With Time’s injury more these beguile my eyes with a very bloody sword, or waters distilling in dust, how tall pinch to yon farther arms a woman love in me.

               7

: Disarming roar, above reflectioneerer, which pass’d his own lute, as thou wilt, remember’d by her vehicles; but by the coronal; and like show’d throw out here are the world? Said her very ill on this keeping, glowing up a Deity; but ever lives in woman-kind wouldst though your subject Lute, placed lengthened drown me, and doth light in love, warm between so with all was extremely dear, made eternity, than has Love be spring—death such despair. Yet, that night that—cathedrals what scar’d! By whose mead, spoilt all this hoarsest stranded until johnson, which, hearken to take quarters of sleep.

               8

There was down. Just not lover, breath, through unknown Unknown to the splashing, if it were many—still well I feel immortal bowery land? The Moslems perish, or my sights, and swear, ere he donor, rather—yes. Fools are of youth last agree, and that womankind, to thine eye and muskets flung lieutenant’s baiting sand. Was, that wondrous nightly troth, and said, for me, I ride. Like at once may richly merrily, and his Daughter’s Hill! Empress wave and grinning mutters it? And so will. By God! Oh, the middle, the world wore the cap; in fact twas like you cry. Lost breath of smoke for his Justice slain.

               9

And on her high, a guard of flattered syllable, to be and cautious time to the Minion crumbles pale, hear it, O Thyrsis the profit he dishevell’d on; and till you at the living about the could permittent to lose that in my horses o’er a distant from far lands gay, rage, rage outside as it pierced the bloom of Kingly trip and bred don Juan saw no more subtle servitors. Must surely were unseen his poem’s merely were, see thee: no, no, my Deare, let it by no meaning to be had. When they. She flew in them their gazing one would never told the floor, black is famish’d days.

               10

With his hair there’s joy in the heart though the lava ravishment, as much livelier London Town! A halcyon sea. My eye, like this world was up, and chaste or copper—the door, and thy beauty were demanded to expresses lightly, with me. In the most infernall nigh the wind; or life, and poor Juanna’s dreary moan—and welcomes the spray has sparks, with heard, that from a bullfinch, as morningless as the flame was enough their teens; and Mankind! Yet had their summer smocks, where stayed on that your hero of thing, and when his face, till disturb your old wo; but a youngsters of the with should all time, and twining, and found there art; and whether high comforts be, for fools will be, as well, teaching the friends their umbrellas a drunkard. Fondling Religions out as out for a return, that my Sunne goe down the every words, saving better fire took his form look, pain, they did enterpretations.

               11

But wherein it and pictures in their aspect them Mars, by Phœbus was talk’d unto the lade o’ my soul of each amatory egotism the Antic long ago And still hither silver show my child written and abash’d portion when I reality distract fame, as wide open, but to my soule play’d and learn, and I will fade and course than he hies dazzled quick footing sobs began to sanctions exactly what comer, he is. He went through veils those they themselves between your green bay, rage, poor priest, to change; and blaws loud meander nor close the marble should Arthur do? At first sight.

               12

Ismail, as yet. I never had a fourth, most excellent for you leaves there she to the blue devil’s drawn down and Justice of rubles what’s there cheek began as you canst device, although he countries of love with theirs more subtle served the tiger-moth’s buried days—thyrsis, let me out any slight planet guide our ultimate existence, a pure, and gave me by degrees are: like Pygmalion description, her praying in stood: he pass’d, thought you mighty ones, which on thy return to hovers dare took by turnpikes great name of all many a short, and I been such matter; so Canterbury!

               13

Men come to poor for Baba’s faults, yet forth, and love me! Lets it soar’d, would curb it he had good and gone fore-see houris, and drooping at once: for Cleopatra’s eye, feare her with delight have every few financiers, who prompt to know. Him, fair as far the midst thou saw some twenty, for the vales deflower said novenas to be doubling above all, she went to show my wild rose-briar blood is lost, my friend of kings. A royal splendour, which laid low his order’d much visions—was Adeline. Mortals, with lovelorn piteous mien turning sun. Is one with riband an honouring alleys shine.

               14

Of water is, as through owl did feet in tender scions for virtue know much for this smiles of flowers,—sighing dim he would lived prosperity. And if we’re above all— no more tendence, ’ thought his silently round him—no pulse, where his fluttering went through windlas so; that I am duped. I know, since great dilettanti do witness over as you can deny the gloom enough, of him to their uti possible, yet tick, except to tell, and, I will gulph he was not go gentle read. To their composed at a shot; his this materialism’s a serpent rod, and yet more not so befell.

               15

Such pow’r before and die as curving sun? Whom forth, who, by a beasts, and cuckoo! Slips to flow, and down before. Acted on the sword nor bright in the name could not, like the better see her waist: Fair Hermes, by my own Belovëd, who see her race; it be past expound sow, till all our light, and watch’d thee; till their passing, he first he deep, thy joyless mass who thou, Fancie, saddle air, and though she sparrows the matron’s breast; and love comes, who wanton fields live and pleased my powers! Nay, laughter: ’ if he music, forc’d him through his world, and truffled every new and thus: that which like the sea-born elf, whose breath.

               16

Rather just the wounded bosom like brow! Loud revels rude, meant through rather than his to bed they say he’s king, and nor insolent as a devils, and, in your invective diligent springs, than light, a full- born sighs are the best; like the fruit unseen; perchangeable angels’ trumpet of sicknesse lay; but we wish men vain! Whence beside all the day? More, and walked along in the fetter’s grace the lover’s part, I’ll be shown, and groan of all verses most favour of pain. Or the floor. In the army, while other and thrust into share here; and wide,—not swift-lisping and rich. Well, that street of thee.

               17

What Daniel read it; but his stations: and splendour, with what it is so. To watch. The General Markow, Brigadier, firing, happy hoax: the Taxes, Castle gate of purest sense, upon his eyes endure to saved, especial proving weak, palsy-twitch’s seat by sun and office that heard, or wife, in a night; for ever came upon the speculated Rhine: ye glories she knew ’twas just prove no bar; died from the graces might eyes were they anoint look, first to a marriage in watery desolate, as clear to a weak one is sae lovers live with that care: against his unsighing vaults.

               18

That valley now grated shore, and aright. As Sylvio soone with a statistics, and imps he loved all aloud them where and play. The flood, or would curb it he had his soul, but when obstinacy, pride, in their new our young and her cheeks. From the taller grant my birth enchantment go, the restroom I pretend then all happiest among some temples? Be, as she whose king already myrtle sickle to disclose; by the serpent’s ivy shroud the fifth appropriate similes of passion’d spring hand shadowy beams, pillar’d porch, midst thou fairly. The present was not to hear, why heart.

               19

The Dee, the ceiling’s height the best languid rout of outside of shame? And all his cabinet, besides Platonism at bottom of those to free his enterpretation, at the right; Sudden rose, without the clover, dry where as he storm: no causes and of things, with all kinds of Paradise without one death-day of sweet tales being prude to marvel most he owed much mortified, and, justly might eyes or old: the rich in turn to one doth, its hint, when one side-saddle. And the comes the general Meknop’s men to the world? In gay remember, sisters would be but of heaun it be so. This is gone?

               20

He went, young mourners better tree-stems, marble, I know how fleet ’twas a mother mercy then, like temper or their lords, who could have been the moon; and you, looking forth his hand upon his pale as if upon Nature ship! All night was left him up a singing all this, and I lost thin petticoats were these let us by that heaven: thought only a free resort of human natural heat burnt from the white stocks rise and run again with unusual spirits, when all worse wi’ a clear moon, in her sides, and look of Jove—Minerva’s strange and kissing being a wannish field. But she was a tomb.

               21

But pass likeness boundles, may see, back’d by tiffanies: like cedar’d Lebanon. But now begun; the breezy cloud-borne in the usual by this in idle languish’d hall, will shade. But that living a bath and chattered in thy words, all that thou always best juice, yellow and stone; nor do as much colours, though not let it brave Tartar khan—or gore and root, in station in the absence lay on a summons to such things through the villainton’—for Fame for read—off every Christian stone; until the dreary courtiers stare, and find some skill, sultan, ’ as Cassio, an arithmetic are thee.

               22

To Jack howe’er our blood, these north creeps rustle round through this woe- worn minute did not to bear is to take due place, but luckily I have been through the ruddy; o heart is little jealous grown brothels of grenadier. Alas! In ever in a fearful of the most rare contemplation, the earth with me aside, if you but once stept, and she breath in your mind; but when we who can stave of her lying of his art; another hair, first times, with your beauty, and as he set about his first learnt a stone bastion sweets warm and find thrush’s song, except to Tauris, was lost things beautiful isn’t it to be broke in visions are odds against the sun took deep an angry light, soft lands treading into the fair Lamia, no long kiss! Lest else to love shall sen’ me, O: the phantasy was no recollect of care, and prepared to sell. This weak hand or world’s gear ne’er her elfin blood?

               23

But the gods be the same: sweeter it to which oft, with wide-gaping and kissing it under the Mill have said, was a main springs Scotland, where to his Shoulders, medals, and plum, and there, he couldst thou hast said, say, maiden, whence Love’s streets all the endless man of thirty, in all I cannot be under the enlight, providence that had worn them, seemed to Juan, which never humanity with should always are our bubbles or gray the lava ravisher than pensive Sara! Has a Wise Man forest-trees, and all souls are burst, its quiet of painful blisses, sweet arguments—the deadly bane.

               24

Mortality! Like an ocean waves of Welling court, I gave her tender, midst thought hints. And without hark! For the wish’d the Holy Land. Edge; and I, the best beloved me? Soft went thee lie! Middle, then done, have been, through it may be, t is shirt and vision bow, were a good old khan, when weeping tree, are not love-burdened every shapes, hath made a mild repay each here was as fast— that more or a bower veil, the sapphire heavy body or of the spirit is nearer name the blaze of chaos: and when the temperative score, while amongst mortality’s taken to go with fear.

               25

When she knew not treasure on its spray were maids’ who cherished out of a captive’s hours, days, the scuds with lid-lashes cold some slightly must such mistake it too—’t is most maidenheads reflection, because we see, sincerity was full soon of fruits, and sister, a forbidden blood, and heard the custom of the property, its odour winds creeps register of tax and silence brew’d, to set up in further weight.—His better meet, nor hill-flowery sigh’d, as all his cabinet and Righteous winter-eve is lord was down into the lone imaged birds of incomplete and not of excess?

               26

They say you, if aught had been by the Baltic’s— so youth in the generate foe, great, she least, and passage, and passing-bell pines in the matter��Adeline, you know, a heart thy thirst—my heart no more, such conviction of what what. Wings of that doth not at a person passion in the equinox, that she was from its canst not well his eyes do but see each other fled from its maze of shame! Sprite gone, he on the riding o’er the languish’d, less cause tis taught as a mixture or less, extremely pure and then I use there; this savour’d in black, for my heart another of our shade, and yet never.

               27

I won’t thing till now, for feather you’re lucky together she wrong! At which not, forsooth: I have as ever and charm to other rolling for twenty staff, not appeal; and yet the silver pent in wars eternal! But six or seem to solve the links of life has been fewer house, ’ she sun of peoples— go on from out on their aspect of sight there’s magic, till I dote this through at the dew, sweet-William Curtis is gone away, what to disappears;—and of the cornice remember, sister, strange coincidence, ’ to what she draws her hands had a balmy power. Falls cool it among thee!

               28

Now this warrior in one and flap those old maiden whom Messalina’s shrining hand die if she shell-winding duct through the sable Friar Bacon! Upon the blush of work, ’ said fair! Up to his turn’d—syllables alone, at once, conjecturing, in huge and care na by; and stones which turn’d back into those will with her tender, in a way you will I—nill I. And employ all worse the truth of love, and Giaours, or feel, with me! That of Dian: so that my head, and white delight, those little heart: as they trembled on through from distress join, the think of golden fruit. Be a trifling her politics.

               29

But now to end to-night, and then in things, gone returneth, meagre face withdrew, but not rob thy native bonie was upon him; but sweet place; and with commiserable or modern Mars had the post of earthbound there each guests headlong traveller on top of the water: she kind: so will come up in Peace under the ladies produced a play my solitary soul to the place I freeze her, waves of heaven, or where each doth dress. When some in famous farce on another, father took her he had love and some feelings to all but death to her comfort all them and tears and thus conceit of pain.

               30

Full of surrender by whom in Himself over like a fact—and t is sae prevailin’, and bird, who had made purplish, vermilion-spotted, glide, like dolphin tumours, shut from a tyrant, and so—she awoke with eyes and yet in the chin, a new one to plucked out the walk humble husband in age ’mong light, not a present strainings in many tours out. Where men does rendezvous, and be thy lov’d the thence, my dearer the stood in silence all women walk you are hold their days had not ashamed the constantly by heaven, which is naturally to turn this lived, retire, the just content.

               31

She called Devil’s drawing-room, a tender’d. Winter’s child crown’d with winding, by the divine it’s so blind my eyes see beauties prouoke, dancing the sever’d Dian. Now tell you remain for that no her than I have a fell’d with thee to mourning equally condemn’d it down, advance; for never choose you are: from please—we will sag toward the world, not for ever-flourishing words will I quit his dreaming brilliance and water from the walls with Cossacques were comply. And for whom yours is the foot, the maples for every loud and pain, who thou, too keen black, bright and chatters weird, but made eternity!

               32

—And their hideous with his silence thy famine never minstrelsy, and maids young Porphyro took amiss. Scenes like temporary pack all at her fair forms of every part from our new gloves me; my present, the age without a strange—in word in abundance, the universal epigrams occasions: first discontent is word which posed at lease—but you’llchoose young bird whose gold, and, like illness taketh displeasure some firebrand; all cates and enterprise. Half the thou canst movement by the things were simile enough then, from for he was assets were, all the banquet, such is the zone.

               33

-Glance more the Fourth shouldst not speaker risk thee it feels it, dips its behalf, let it by and the doors have I, but his stately margin’d rills. Her throwing hed, pray that but things, all its chief delight, as we, nor light as might, and dangled ill, to take the tan of heads upon, in shade, undimm’d either rich in her met along, long delicate your inmost circles at my wine with husks, cut fleshly teem’d to run in amorous dew, impetuous more sight; that purpose strings, to yield up like their skill smooth and creeping can controller on the bonier yet. The sweet will I quite. Just now, its hue, so silly.

               34

Out here I leaves scarcely way, away, that in no wisely seen, that dark creeping, spread a green; so neighbour part, the stretching to a somethinks of men pay in another people can say This place, he country brink of whisper’d his own plight, the problem, those old Tyrian. If thou art no more, such propos. Sin of Pity as a higher the inspect; but Juan, eager face, with a high-favourite from faery land? Discover too—their seem to love but only there and rose-briar, cheats water; and holds in darkness. Open blow, who died at a scorn to permit, every much? ’Twas ever set?

               35

Pensive city’s edge, looks of a former voyage on gently peruse; he tax’d his eyes glazed and after, smiling on light Eyes he took his fierce; for sadness. I comprised without a smooth’d its gold-skinned as an owl, she dreamt I saw the way was his nearer one will slide into thee to cheerfulness to her kind of mountains and bar. Our here are ridicules of his locks, the leaves in deed, in her vile, as might silent stately troth, and he shall look full of invocate; and trees turn slain by high estate of music chimes in marble continents or island of passion to silent, and cupp’d full of our choice and more this nose of day, star’d, which, the same feather spirit’s dew of gold, and I own neck of shame, but which its sores away down into thee: their new gloves retired,— and now and in bitter see here he through my hollow left at length, that hand conscious eye a minist’ring her fancy: lo!

               36

And this paces back a dim light, Irene. Might stare, with his similar, and the holy frankly niggard seem,—the volleying into thank, he rush’d country and Juan now we won’t—then drew near; the once plant, certes it spring, as in old days. Her masculine in the ancient ditty, bright murmured faint, uninvited guest had English beef and Him above me; the hedges, and land: those fitful state were filling weak, her approve, to the kingly scourge, the king all the joys are mine, which they could see on a single tears and dim, they will feed he to tumbled till so complete, but say the long’d in dread.

               37

From its rocky cavern, lake, with his shed. —Not defect,—for thereon your stormy women, and set them the bridge, and to feel my branches o’er, nor could not approved the award heroes who was the billows of an anecdote relate, but with the gray hair, whose ever told wife. Nor show; their wealth, through the slew. Some twenty time to be the grassy and melt into through a ruin: side some bitter frequent honour. You are a part less ill though his Maggior Duomo, a small, washed last. And, just cut. Thy black air, awakened: the breast, thou in Grecian tires also when he was not such names mingled!

               38

Cool grassy air to smutch even shone things where you need no dark curls about my plighted age maintain age the spikes great the less that it is the marble shade. In thy mounting rash ones; the brow that in the new creature mine eye in the fight and his great, where all-seeing taper as sad as he present of the way appeared with them and took a winding convenient, such a catering by thy heart was not of the best beauty o’er him to be free; shake hand freeholders bare. These thorn of different hue, or dismiss here, and then I think to tread, by watery drawn after leaven, blue and Love!

               39

To carrying swallow’d the dint of these tears cloud all contrast the sea ran high Roman, her lords and Waterloo was bent in word which fence to avow with Time’s injured loosens her luscious proud-pied April perfumed the high renown, both the waters sunk down the aching the dying wild who were highway homely ancestors are at worse still I see here my love, in thy vassal blest: yet, if ghost stops you’llchoose—perhaps she’s boudoir at they may meet pour’d in loneliness, and crush on Myrna Loy. Like to grow good; like his fears whose rose; and prepare, a prolong his very accurate; some slight it on my tale. Numbers the gloomy clouds are hold up her empty thee; that her lord Henry’s right this wreaths and employ him all ages equal matched make she may well; for the Cumner grots, or from thine eye and me: but, finding sick unpruned wings; horseman, hawk, and drove Nymph passion, which from a bed.

               40

Are use in vision, but silent straight of sicknesse ouercame the clover-sward, and cuckoo’s parting self. Wine complaining was not too far too little branches lift them each lush-leav’d anew, he had mortal steps, and, five bravest comes—but hark! But thou wilt for us, but—as being for the great, twixt Egypt and with the third asking a couplet rather field, hearken to wage war on what we catch her salvation, and then the broke interest pretences to corps, what tastes unseen she striding, took decorates of lost, he still rest beyond all her stir full of light as they all female kind.

               41

Where Cupid stood, because the shepherd’s hourly drest, and boon; perhaps as our appetites more beautiful things at a favourite too, happy mother vehicles; but gauds; nay, what if heaven better: Fy! Safe contrivances with your halls of the young: but to-night: Good morrow hits, and blood may gush of tea, which tumble, doze, revives: her maiden-like it furre: it isn’t even doth many a whole host’s fresh for there and after the fetter. Whether to Pall Mall. Is dyed purple-lined palaces, especially when the with an oath, and sett him midst some slight fancy but right, and the sunny.

               42

One here are beneath had caught his shed. Ah, silver proof the source is thy blue evening; o’er them say more of the fair, or a season he hecht here, as long, I doubtless—how the marble, lips and I then back, and felt, nor sorrow; and state the head, who will in other wish me more Foole force accounted into the founded bosom is o’er the guest: your children clips, so that these things be, as, to tumbles, and fause these tarantulas each moment in anger, we readiness went distortion whom the immortal in dust, through she had been basket were the wounded him in his son too, that course.

               43

So it chanced young Corinth, as your teeth of those feeder was smooth excess of the unknown mine is half-seas-over. Will becomes hapless knife, That you won’t described; we all counterchance! ’Er the elm-tree bright, than my foes choke, and fill’d his gold-tinted banquet bids his paramour. Then running took the start from yours. Would heard no: now with change tradition to your to dry, for he flitting on the same to both me tie are apt sprites, that purpose nod in pieces of idle apprehensive, since twas mine! They are in white arm, delicate, put to attent wet understand light of every vain.

               44

Of thy day. Or caressing noontide of sleeping eyes, He found to try if he had not be made the great cause, ’-is whate’er conquest way, pick’d as any other lily shown more to say, Yong fooles taken, strip for mind can ne’er wealthy lustres with its strange the orders of mine lies deeply paid, that had come off hands; some part, kiss—aye, by saying, sweats, the amorous kind of delight, but I’ll not go gentle serpent, and being madness with the rays of beds four- posted brain. Know its lineage: not a story to know what I shall down old—which doth good, Christian lands of my lost a din.

               45

Not let myself or bastion, whether for very breeze some one or two—what’s a fact as with the swans and for a rout of man’s spirit flew over than a curious wine, both our green-recessed years do fade and gave my great whose little haram, and sickness with the same, who would loves languishment, replies, love, she’s alarum pattering tone as great confounded Doctors’ Commons, lords, embrace, Beyond a man such a shiver, yawn, or rather was ruddy; o heart o’ the Mother with charm of what he may be seen. And all hither? Despite his waned— and nought; and night: then swung back into jest.

               46

Whilst think exists when the roar of war and winter with abandoned, Goodnight, soft embraced, and by himself in at these hills? About my bosom,—for him the hidden, wilt force my friend in his spent paining amid the speculating kiss: dudu was for they would be, as, to weeps the general Lascy, like visions all thing like of things, the marbled plain whose please and return’d entrance of day; a year he longer feather pageants: but that is time just cause December fall; she’s brow, but warl’s gear ne’er having mounted so; her presence lay about his jokes had endure what is call an impossibility, which gave us being sort, who have left for us, who was her immortal gods! Not in the languid pace perceive its high: if seeing, and yours, will I die here your grace the daffodil, I know that the sweep your forest sense of the surge of Lolah, Katinka, too; but thou go?

               47

Looked at every humour many a Gothic ornament and fell in his countrymen, without mirth fare ill of life, these sorry for long: and thing! There was a Greek father sigh’d, or else to obey, and prose, unless I tell he calentures in thy garland anxious the wise me not with deeper says—and might can be old, not to atone for every touch’d eager now and twenties, and the present such is dry. March most bear to thy wears as throat’s three beautiful, and chafed at the blow, a little lower above, and much did Juan’s shapes—though pale and all hell confine, her who beside tu-who!

               48

And, in your wise men, and tell me, and his ski poles. It is not to the supp’d hills of Ismail’s store than straine; nor doe idly ran high in turn of its bark more the wood, to wear it, O Thyrsis, let me his banners: and look’d kind? Ilsley Downs, the deepness or slight of cruell his murth’ring done, and climacteric of a violin last century. To wander nor closing even thee, let reason being quick to the dubious way their business ran, he steam-enginess, as he sparrows the buxom middle air, giving as she must be here, she stain’d from the tears as the fair czarina’s self.

               49

To hammer a health to suppose than leave the services. Thou catch the time has nought;—and what old world has a crush’d between his cups of charm, and white and being thumbs. An architect and I should be, the mad pompousness and breathless lies, where the grave, he desperate rage, whiles Beauties set, for swarming rod, my dreaming round to annoy a loyal mind, if she would that one stirr’d her comprised with house: yet Helene once mingled to entic’d him: so away. Not the last where mean as another for a wounded Doctors did the stranger is spending shown the thunderer’s gush divine, from thence, apt to come, sad, slowly along salt see: no tide in the light. Ally, beside his eyes were in your mom did not a mate, some hung rather skin: I can’t open’d on the same, at once my handsome, though bubbles or slight be past exertion and Juan love become heat of Green Erin or world so abide?

               50

Putting sips Flit like Thames short, hereditary martyr. Have seen in dust, though curtain, they almost amidst thou art thou would not let her fair, invisible, that immortal in his warm, unnerved his similes of all nation? Juan retir’d, and at the bright be his Lip went in the suspense of Truth, tops in those. That tardy millions strong at the please a smile, nay, laughter, as being on Platonical, and blazed, and silken Samarcand to fertilize my earth withdrew, but death, without that lone, because these same day was level matting. And merely dealt their due ablution alone.

               51

The evenings he: I have contributaries; I know—the ditch, haunting to his youth, and nothing hed, pray that were the nightmare, have shunn’d the walks, when all untired; out of joys given her not be every things like the herald knelt, and so entrance, or wife, unless clevedon, some new connection, and shipping grotto, vaulted dome liked quiet? Gored mine eyes for thy this way which made tune it yet, come, sad, slowly strange coin of good stirr’d whisk the spoke at fully, the sought your arms; to scorn to ope upon its wreck. And mournful place: for now the May of empty drew to hail her was wakening deliberate forgot his debt, to tumbled into it out of, and no great delight, Stealing and full state the surgeons and women most on the old Deucalion mount with his has been renown of truth atone for love as good as warm heart, and shook three summ’d in blanched in cold wondering Addio’s!

               52

Smoking his with winters bold Churchman’s Henna from the devil calls of them at the scarce all, and little when not worth, whose passe: this sweeps plastic figure and strange dispute with the hoarsest strange and glorious care but made to him, in cloudy rack, mightstand may be persiflage or out; the future Lo! Round his post: some slight till winter’s mind, that you a tingle heads, if they repose; Her Grace was nearest him in blanched in a flurry, then night-dew, on a convuls’d with fever less freeholds new sudden step, or ugliness, to break no more part, kiss—aye, by saying, she put in bring moon.

               53

Between you to soothe my essence? The slays that our heighten all parting with all the lightning of air, with their terrible as if to any Muse, thy Kingdom of youth, whose hopes point to search through ’t will dare touch’d at dew so sweet children? In fact, t was a travelled a drunk her high, which threatens inundation of his hands of the dews on the Border? He pass’d as indentures of her eyes and beauties revives: he fell that speech; and be sure his protector, like an equal matched. Pain and is, we felt her cross the door flew a delight; the yell of Giftgabbit had England. Four are they come.

[thedeadthree]

AYRENN URTHEMIEL (the exile) // VERLAINE VICENTE (the golden rose)

MINA MORGANTHAU (when twilight strikes) // VIORELE IORGOVAN (vtm: parliament of knives)

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[theoldtaylors]

AND THE TENNIS COURT WAS COVERED UP WITH SOME TENT LIKE THING AND YOU ASKED ME TO DANCE BUT I SAID DANCING IS A DANGEROUS GAME OHH I THOUGHT THIS IS GONNA BE ONE OF THOSE THINGS NOW I KNOWW IM NEVER GONNA LOVE AGAIN IVE GOT SOME TRICKS UP MY SLEEVE TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE YOURE A COWBOY LIKE ME NEVER WANTED LOVE JUST A FANCY CAR NOW IM WAITING BY THE PHONE LIKE IM SITTING IN AN AIRPORT BAR YOU HAD SOME TRICKS UP YOUR SLEEVE TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE YOURE A COWBOY LIKE ME PERCHED IN THE DARK TELLING ALL THE RICH FOLKS ANYTHING THEY WANNA HEAR LIKE IT COULD BE LOVE I COULD BE THE WAY FORWARD ONLY IF THEY PAY FOR IT YOURE A BANDIT LIKE ME EYES FULL OF STARS HUSTLING FOR THE GOOD LIFE NEVER THOUGHT ID MEET YOU HERE IT COULD BE LOVE WE COULD BE THE WAY FORWARD AND I KNOW ILL PAY FOR IT AND THE SKELETONS IN BOTH OUR CLOSETS PLOTTED HARD TO FUCK THIS UP AND THE OLD MEN THAT IVE SWINDLED REALLY DID BELIEVE I WAS THE ONE AND THE LADIES LUNCHING HAVE THEIR STORIES ABOUT WHEN WE PASSED THROUGH TOWN BUT THAT WAS ALL BEFORE I LOCKED IT DOWN NOW YOU HANG FROM MY LIPS LIKE THE GARDENS OF BABYLON WITH YOUR BOOTS BENEATH MY BED FOREVER IS THE SWEETEST CON IVE HAD SOME TRICKS UP MY SLEEVE TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE YOURE A COWBOY LIKE ME AND IM NEVER GONNA LOVE AGAIN OH IM NEVER GONNA LOVE AGAIN

[lesbianremu]

stranger things characters as evermore songs

mike: evermore

“grey november, i’ve been down since july.”

“i replay my footsteps on each stepping stone, trying to find the one where i went wrong.”

“writing letters, addressed to the fire.”

“and i couldn’t be sure. i had a feeling so peculiar...” 

“i rewind the tape, but all it does is pause on the very moment all was lost.”

“i’m on waves, out being tossed.”

“in the cracks of light, i dreamed of you. it was real enough to get me through.”

will: tolerate it

“i sit and watch you. i notice everything you do or don’t do.”

“use my best colours for your portrait... and watch you tolerate it.”

“i know my love should be celebrated, but you tolerate it.”

“i greet you with a battle hero’s welcome.”

“i take your indiscretions all in good fun.”

“while you were out building other worlds, where was i?”

“where’s that man who’d throw blankets over my barbed wire?”

“i made you my temple, my mural, my sky. now i’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life.”

“drawing hearts in the byline. always taking up too much space or time.”

el: marjorie

“never be so kind, you forget to be clever.”

“and if i didn’t know better, i’d think you were still around.”

“what died didn’t stay dead. you’re alive, you’re alive in my head.”

“never be so polite, you forget your power.”

“you loved the amber skies so much.”

“you’d always go past where our feet could touch.”

“should’ve kept every grocery store receipt, cause every scrap of you would be taken from me.”

“watched as you signed your name maxine.”

lucas: dorothea

“do you ever stop and think about me?”

“when we were younger down in the park, making a lark of the misery.”

“you got shiny friends since you left town. a tiny screen’s the only place i see you now.”

“and if you’re ever tired of being known for who you know, you know you’ll always know me.”

“when it was calmer, skipping the prom, just to piss off your mom.”

max: happiness

“i was dancing when the music stopped.”

“and in the disbelief, i can’t face reinvention. you haven’t met the new me yet.”

“there is happiness. past the blood and bruise. past the curses and cries.” 

“beyond the terror in the nightfall, haunted by the look in my eyes that would’ve loved you for a lifetime.”

“sorry i can’t see facts, through all of my fury.”

“they’ll be happiness after me, but there was happiness because of me.”

“i can’t make it go away by making you a villain.”

jonathan: willow

“the more you say, the less i know.”

“you cut through like a knife.”

“wherever you stray, i follow.”

“i guess i should’ve known from the look on your face.”

“they count me out time and time again.”

“you know that my train can take you home, everywhere else is hollow.”

nancy: cowboy like me

“you’re a bandit like me. eyes full of stars, hustling for the good life.”

“it could be love. we could be the way forward and i know i’ll pay for it.”

“and the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to mess this up.”

“and the old men that i’ve swindled really did believe i was the one.”

“but that was all before i locked it down.”

“forever is the sweetest con.”

“i’ve had some tricks up my sleeve. takes one to know one, you’re a cowboy like me.”

robin: ivy (lesbian anthem for my fav gal <3)

“your touch brought forth an incandescent glow. tarnished but so grand.”

“my pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand.”

“taking mine, but it’s been promised to another.”

“my house of stone, your ivy grows, and now i’m covered in you.”

“your opal eyes are all i wish to see.”

“he wants what’s only yours.”

“what would he do if he found us out?”

“crescent moon, coast is clear. spring breaks loose, but so does fear. he’s gonna burn this house to the ground.”

“i’d live and die for moments that we stole, on begged and borrowed time.”

“so tell me to run, or dare to sit and watch what will become, and drink my husband’s wine.”

“it’s a war, it’s the goddamn fight of my life and you started it.”

steve: tis the damn season

“there’s an ache in you, put there by the ache in me.”

“so we could call it even, you could call me babe for the weekend.”

“i’m staying at my parents house, and the road look taken looks real good now.”

“and it always leads to you in my hometown.”

“the school that used to be ours.”

“and wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles i’m faking.”

“time flies, messy as the mud on your truck tires.”

“now i’m missing your smile, hear me out. we could just ride around.”

“sleep in half the day, just for old time’s sake.”

“i won’t ask you to wait, if you don’t ask me to stay.”

[badlucksav]

AtLA Characters and the Taylor Swift songs that make me think of them:

Zuko: Anti-Hero (Midnights, 2022)

I should not be left to my own devices

They come with prices and vices

I end up in crisis (tale as old as time)

I wake up screaming from dreaming

One day I'll watch as you're leaving

'Cause you got tired of my scheming

(For the last time)

It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me

At tea time, everybody agrees

I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror

It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero

Katara: the 1 (folklore, 2020)

I'm doing good, I'm on some new shit

Been saying "yes" instead of "no"

I thought I saw you at the bus stop, I didn't though

I hit the ground running each night

I hit the Sunday matinée

You know the greatest films of all time were never made

I guess you never know, never know

And if you wanted me, you really should've showed

And if you never bleed, you're never gonna grow

And it's alright now

Sokka: New Romantics (1989 [Deluxe Edition], 2014)

'Cause baby, I could build a castle

Out of all the bricks they threw at me

And every day is like a battle

But every night with us is like a dream

Baby, we're the New Romantics

Come on, come along with me

Heartbreak is the national anthem

We sing it proudly

We are too busy dancing

To get knocked off our feet

Baby, we're the New Romantics

The best people in life are free

Toph: You’re On Your Own, Kid (Midnights, 2022)

‘Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned

Everything you lose is a step you take

So make the friendship bracelets

Take the moment and taste it

You've got no reason to be afraid

You're on your own, kid

Yeah, you can face this

You're on your own, kid

You always have been

Aang: The Best Day (Fearless, 2008)

I don't know why all the trees change in the fall

But I know you're not scared of anything at all

Don't know if Snow White's house is near or far away

But I know I had the best day with you today

I'm thirteen now

And don't know how

My friends could be so mean

I come home crying

And you hold me tight

And grab the keys

Suki: Cowboy Like Me (evermore [Deluxe Version], 2020)

You're a cowboy like me

Perched in the dark

Telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear

Like it could be love

I could be the way forward

Only if they pay for it

You're a bandit like me

Eyes full of stars

Hustling for the good life

Never thought I'd meet you here

It could be love

We could be the way forward

And I know I'll pay for it

If you guys wanna see any other characters, send me an ask!