#Grey and blue and a fights and tunnels handcuffed to the spell I was under for just one glimpse of his smile

[please-picturemeintheweeds]

Why do you care what Joe Alwyn thinks?

That’s a good question! I think a big part of it is that instinctual protectiveness about Taylor bc of how many people I’ve seen hurt her. It’s not unlike how your ears perk up if someone is talking about something an ex of your friend said about her. Chalk it up to parasocialism maybe haha I also just am nosy and find it more interesting/light hearted than doomscrolling. I do think I tend to care more than is “normal” to care about a total stranger (so is Taylor), but that’s why I’m here on the special interest website to post and read posts about Taylor swift’s cinematic universe, idk. I don’t ever seek out information about what he thinks, but if I encounter it organically in the swiftie ecosystem I don’t feel the need to pretend I didn’t hear it. Im not really interested in the moral purity contest around being a swiftie. I like gossip and I like chatting with the girlies in my phone about pop culture idk and I like feeling righteously grouchy about loser dudes I guess.

maybe more deeply, I think I care what he thinks because it gives me a window into how this man carries himself, and how his opinions/actions may have effected my girl Taylor and her art. It’s so rare to get insight into how he ticks, so when something comes up, it fleshes out my mental picture of him. For someone who was sooo honorable for not talking shit with their friends, he sure talks a lot of shit!!! If he doesn’t want me to hate him, he shouldn’t keep staying stupid shit about Taylor 🤷🏼‍♀️

I tend to not care at all about his existence/thoughts most of the time, but when he’s blabbing publicly about Taylor, that feels more fair game (I know none of it is actually ethical. in particular the last piece we were discussing which was something someone overheard him saying, and not a consensual quote, I think).

[ts-kk-blog]

OMG OMG OMG wtf OMG !!!!

Fresh out of the slammer is so kaylor coded like it's giving they made it together

Karlie elizabeth kloss (sunshine) said she's the american dream.

Also fresh out of the slammer is the 7 song in the ablum and taylor 7 album was lover when it all Down

(He don't understand me Splintered back in winter, silent dinners, Bitter he was with her in dreams Grey and blue and fights and tunnels, Handcuffed to the spell I was under)

[sealochs]

i made you my temple, my mural, my sky; now i'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life. / grey and blue and fights and tunnels, handcuffed to the spell i was under, for just one hour of sunshine. / my white knuckle dying grip, holding tight to your quiet resentment, and my friends said it isn't right to be scared every day of a love affair; every breath feels like rarest air, when you're not sure if he wants to be there. / showed you all of my hiding spots, i was dancing when the music stopped; and in the disbelief i can't face reinvention; i haven't met the new me yet. / i gave you all my best me's, my endless empathy; and all i did was bleed as i tried to be the bravest soldier; fighting in only your army; frontlines, don't you ignore me; i'm the best thing at this party. you're losing me. / & are you really gonna talk about timing in times like these? and let all your damage damage me? and carry your baggage up my street? and make me your future history? it's time. / if you know it in one glimpse, it's legendary; what we thought was for all time was momentary; still alive, killing time at the cemetery; never quite buried. / and so we hereby conduct this post-mortem; he was a hot house flower to my outdoorsman; our maladies were such we could not cure them, and so a touch that was my birthright became foreign. / and i still can't believe it. old habits die screaming. / your faithless love's the only hoax i believe in.

[friendsdontlieokay]

Album: The tortured Poets Department

Song: Fresh Out The Slammer

TV Show: Stranger Things

Character: Max Mayfield

I'm running back home, splintered back in winter, silent dinners, bitter he was with her. Grey and blue and fights and tunnels, handcuffed to the spell I was under, for just one hour of sunshine, years of labor, locks and ceilings, camera flashes, welcome bashes, get the matches, toss the ashes off the bench. As I said in my letters, now that I know better, I will never lose my baby again. My friends tried but I wouldn't hear it, watched me daily disappearing and no matter what I've done it wouldn't matter anyway. Ain't no way I'm gonna screw up now that I know what's at stake here. At the park where we used to sit on children's swings, but it's gonna be alright, I did my time

[graciebaberams]

GREY AND BLUE AND FIGHTS AND TUNNELS HANDCUFFED TO THE SPELL I WAS UNDER FOR JUST ONE HOUR OF SUNSHINE

[speaknowworldtour]

“i just wanna keep calling your name until you come back home” // “now pretty baby, i’m running back home to you”

“he can be my jailer burton to this taylor” // “fresh out the slammer” // “but it’s gonna be alright, i did my time”

“it’s blue, the feeling i got and it’s a cruel summer” // “another summer takin cover rolling thunder he don’t understand me”

“barefoot in the wildest winter catching my death” // “splintered back in winter”

“lay the table with the fancy shit and watch you tolerate it” // “silent dinners, bitter”

“slept next to her but i dreamt of you all summer long” // “he was with her in dreams”

“grey november” // “don’t want no other shade of blue but you” // “grey and blue”

“i packed my bags, left cornelia street before you even knew i was gone but then you called showed your hand, i turned around before i hit the tunnel” // “and fights and tunnels”

“all eyes on you my magician” // “handcuffed to the spell i was under”

“i once believed love would be burning red but it’s golden like daylight” // “for just one hour of sunshine”

“i polish plates until they gleam and glisten” // “don’t put me in the basement” // “staring at the ceiling with you” // “years of labour, locks and ceilings”

“i blew things out of proportion now you’re blue” // “in the shade of how he was feeling”

“i hope i never lose you” // “now that i know better i will never lose my baby again”

“cancel plans just in case you call” // “watch me daily disappearing”

“do i really have to tell you how he bought me back to life” // “all those nights you kept me going”

“back when you fit in my poems like a perfect rhyme” // “swirled you into all of my poems”

“and you’d be standing in my front porch light” // “to the house where you still wait up and that porch light gleams”

“salute to me, i’m your american queen” // “to the one who says i’m the girl of his american dreams”

“i’d like shiny things but i’d marry you with paper rings” // “wearing imaginary rings”

(note: this is just parallels from previous albums there are so many more within this album that i could go on about but this post is so long already)

[jalwyn21]

guys so which songs are about joe?

like do we think he said he would kill himself if she ever left? i think that if it wasn’t because of the title it would seem like it is another song about matty, but maybe I just think that because the only other songs where she talks about being in love on this album are about him.

so… so long, london, loml and maybe ttpd? that’s it?

The title track is about Matty. Joe has no tattoos.

Matty told Lucy (from Boygenius ) he would kill himself and she told Jack. That song has nothing to do with Joe. (Sometimes I wonder if you're gonna screw this up with me But you told Lucy that you'd kill yourself if I ever leave And I had said that to Jack about you, so I felt seen Everyone we know understands why its meant to be Cause we're crazy)

So long, London, loml and The Back Dog are definitely about Joe. Fresh out too, I think :

Grey and blue and fights and tunnels handcuffed to the spell I was under

Years in the shade of how he was feeling

About his mental health, again..

[thenighttrain]

Now, pretty baby, I'm running back home to you Fresh out the slammer, I know who my first call will be to

another summer taking cover rolling thunder he don't understand me! splintered back in winter, silent dinners, bitter he was with her in dreams. grey and blue and fights and tunnels handcuffed to the spell i was under FOR JUST ONE HOUR OF SUNSHIIIINEE years of labour locks and ceilings in the shade of how he was feeling but it's gonna be alright i did my tiiiime

spoiler alert: it was not alright

[love-and-books320]

The "Blue was the color that we painted your brothers wall, honey without all the ex's, fights, and flaws, we wouldn't be standing here so tall" to "Grey and blue and fights and tunnels, handcuffed to the spell I was under" pipeline

[jalwyn21]

Her empathy:

Watched me daily disappearing For just one glimpse of his smile

I stopped trying to make him laugh, stopped trying to drill the safe

Another summer, taking cover, rolling thunder. He don't understand me Splintered back in winter, silent dinners

Grey and blue and fights and tunnels, Handcuffed to the spell I was under

For just one hour of sunshine Years of labor, locks and ceilings In the shade of how he was feeling

The more I look at the lyrics and how she talks about him, the more I despise her.

did you guys notice that the main theme she put about her relationship with joe in this album was that it felt like a cage to her because he was depressed. the song, so long london makes me feel so sorry for joe because she is resenting him for having his blue days and not snapping out of his depression faster so that she can have a perfect wedding. it's so insensitive given how joe was there for her during her darkest days and pulled her out of it, deleted her social media apps so she wouldn’t see the mean things people say about her etc etc. he was there for her when nobody else was. but she couldn’t be there for him when it was his time. she got bored and started rekindling her fling with matty when joe was dealing with his issues on his own. and she wonders why he wouldn’t marry her?

the worst thing happened after the breakup. she knows that joe deals with depression and yet she sent her fans after him to harass him on a daily basis for a whole year! she used the cheating rumours as a marketing scheme to release an album about matty. she let her fans harass any woman that worked with joe. how can a person be so vile?

[graciebaberams]

Grey and blue and fights and tunnels handcuffed to the spell I was under, for just an hour of sunshine. Years of labor locks and ceilings in the shade of how he was feeling, but it’s gonna be alright, I did my time.

camera flashes, welcome bashes, kept the matches tossed the ashes off the ledge. As I said in my letters now that I know better I will never lose my baby again. My friends tried but I wouldn’t hear it, watched me daily disappearing for just one glimpse of his smile. All those nights you kept me going, swirled you into all of my poems, now we’re at the starting line, I did my time.

[graciebaberams]

Grey and blue and fights and tunnels handcuffed to the spell I was under, for just one hour of sunshine