#I’d swing with you for the fences sit with you in the trenches

[thedoorsofmyheart]

You shit-talked me under the table,

Talkin' rings and talkin' cradles…

I wish I could un-recall,

how we almost had it all.

Dancing phantoms on the terrace,

Are they second-hand embarrassed?

That I can't get out of bed,

'Cause something counterfeit's dead.

[noirleo]

peace is soo leo coded. all my leo people go give it a listen and report back please

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

Her singing “I’ll be there if you’re the toast of the town babe or if you strike out and you’re crawling home” and “you know that I’d swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the trenches, give you my wild, give you a child, 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, is it enough?” and all of that was in fact not enough for him is making me lose my mind.

[fitsinthepalm]

there’s glitter on the floor after the party. girls carrying their shoes down in the lobby. candle wax and polaroids on the hardwood floor. you and me from the night before. don’t read the last page but i stay when you’re lost and you’re scared and you’re turning away. i want your midnights but i’ll be cleaning up bottles with you on new year’s day. 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. don’t you know that i’d swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the trenches. give you my wild, give you a child. 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. is it enough? but there’s robbers to the east, clowns to the west. i’d give you my sunshine, give you my best, but the rain is always gonna come if you’re standing with me. so would it be enough if i could never give you peace? please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh i could recognize anywhere. please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh i could recognize anywhere. our coming of age has come and gone. suddenly this summer it’s clear.

[evermoredeluxe]

“you shit-talked me under the table, talking rings and talking cradles, i wish i could unrecall, how we almost had it all” (loml) // “and you know that i’d swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the trenches, give you my wild, give you a child” and “are they second-hand embarrassed, that i can’t get out of bed because something counterfeit's dead?” (loml) // “nights are so starry, blood moonlit, it must be counterfeit, i think there's been a glitch”

the way she was convinced that it was a glitch and that it must be fake because how could it be true? how could this person light up my days and promise me the world and marriage and kids? but it is is true, and i’d do anything for him! he’s the love of my life! but oh wait… it was indeed counterfeit and it’s the loss of my life… believing in something truly and fully even though you didn’t want to, but you were convinced, and then seeing it be shattered right in front of your eyes

[taylorswiftandx]

Taylor Swift and War

Note: huge thank you to @meandmypagancrew who assembled the lyrics for this post! A quick reminder that these type of posts can be quite subjective and we have taken a pretty broad view, but please comment if you think something has been left out.

'Taylor Swift'

(no war)

'Fearless (Taylor's Version)'

Tell Me Why: I took a chance, I took a shot and you might think I’m bulletproof but I’m not

Change: It's a sad picture, the final blow hits you

Change: This revolution, the time will come

Change: We’ve been outnumbered, raided and now cornered

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

Change: Tonight we’ll stand, get off our knees, fight for what we’ve worked for all these years

Change: The battle was long, it’s the fight of our lives

Change: It’s a revolution, through your hands up

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

'Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’'

Mean: You can take me down with just one single blow

Mean: You, with your switching sides and your wildfire lies and your humiliation

Innocent: I guess you really did it this time, left yourself in your warpath

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

Timeless: Even if we’d met on a crowded street in 1944, and you were heard off to fight in the war

Timeless: I would’ve read your love letters every single night and prayed to God you’d be coming home all right

'Red (Taylor's Version)'

State of Grace: You come around and the armor falls, pierce the room like a cannonball

Ronan: You fought it hard like an army guy

Better Man: Push my love away like it’s some kind of loaded gun

Nothing New: Shoot you down and then they sigh and say “She looks like she’s been through it”

All Too Well (10 Minute Version): I’m a soldier who’s returning half her weight

'1989 (Taylor’s Version)’

Bad Blood: Band-aids don’t fix bullet holes

I Know Places: They take their shots, but we’re bulletproof

Clean: Hung my head as I lost the war

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

Bad Blood (feat. Kendrick Lamar): Now POV of you and me, similar Iraq

Bad Blood (feat. Kendrick Lamar): It was my season for battle wounds, battle scars, body bumped, bruised

'reputation'

(no war)

'Lover'

The Archer: Combat, I’m ready for combat

You Need To Calm Down: You are somebody that I don’t know but you’re taking shots at me like it’s Patrón

You Need To Calm Down: You are somebody that we don’t know but you’re coming at my friends like a missile

'folklore'

Exile: You’re not my homeland anymore, so what am I defending now?

My Tears Ricochet: And so the battleships will sink beneath the waves

Mad Woman: My cannons all firing at your yacht

Epiphany: Keep your helmet, keep your life, son

Epiphany: Just a flesh wound, here’s your rifle

Epiphany: Crawling up the beaches now, “Sir, I think he’s bleeding out”

Epiphany: With you I serve, with you I fall down, down

Peace: And you know that I’d swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the trenches

'evermore'

Tolerate It: I greet you with a battle hero’s welcome

Tolerate It: When did all our lessons start to look like weapons pointed at my deepest hurt?

Long Story Short: Fatefully, I tried to pick my battles ‘til the battle picked me

Long Story Short: We live in peace, but if someone comes at us, this time, I’m ready

Evermore: Whether weather be the frost or the violence of the dog days

'Midnights'

Mastermind: Strategy sets the scene for the tale

The Great War: Flashes of the battle come back to me in a blur

The Great War: All that bloodshed, crimson clover

The Great War: My hand was the one you reached for all throughout the Great War

The Great War: I vowed not to cry anymore if we survived the Great War

The Great War: You drew up some good faith treaties

The Great War: The bombs were closer

The Great War: I vowed not to fight anymore if we survived the Great War

The Great War: Soldier down on that icy ground

The Great War: Broken and blue, so I called off the troops

The Great War: There’s no morning glory, it was war, it wasn’t fair

The Great War: I vowed I would always be yours 'cause we survived the Great War

You’re Losing Me: All I did was bleed as I tried to be the bravest soldier

You’re Losing Me: Fighting in only your army, front lines, don’t your ignore me

Other Songs written by Taylor

Eyes Open: Yesterday, we were just children playing soldiers, just pretending

Eyes Open: In backyards, winning battles with our wooden swords

Renegade: You fire off missiles cause you hate yourself, but do you know you’re demolishing me?

Safe and Sound: The war outside our door keeps raging on

The Alcott: Everything that’s mine is a landmine

Official Alternate Releases

(no war)

[likeadevils]

what do you think is the implication of New Years Day X Peace mash up?

one one hand, it’s a fairly obvious mashup— i remember hearing “and you know that i’d swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the trenches” and immediately being reminded of “i’ll be there if you’re the toast of the town, babe, or if you strike out and you’re calling home”— if i were taylor looking back through my catalog, the two would definitely be highlighted as a mashup to do eventually

the really interesting part is how she chose to end it, placing the beginning of peace at the end of the mashup. in its original context, “i’ve never had the courage of my convictions as long as danger is near” is immediately refuted by the rest of the song promising that she will stay through thick and thin. but in the mashup, it comes after she promises to stay. instead of starting from a place of fear and moving into a place of conviction, she does the exact opposite, and it changes the whole song. instead of “i’ve always ran away when danger is near, but i will stay with you no matter what” it turns into “i promised to stay with the you despite it all, but in the end the danger was too great”

the second really interesting thing she does is follow it up with the end of new year’s day (“but there’s glitter on the floor after the party, girls carrying their shoes down in the lobby, candle wax and polaroids on the hard wood floor… you and me forevermore”). in the end the danger was too great… but the record of the good times remain. there is a part of that love that will be forevermore, in memory and photographs and in the songs she’s singing right now. the promise was broken, but how can it, when every time someone plays new year’s day or peace, it is made again? a part of her, that left her body a long time ago but nonetheless exists right now, is squeezing his hand three times in the backseat, swinging with him for the fences, sitting with him in the trenches. and i’m sure we’ll hear more about it on tortured poets

[reputayswift]

I hear crickets outside…sounds like our coming of age has come and gone, suddenly this summer it’s clear. I never had the courage of 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, if 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’ve got a friend in me…would it be enough, if I could never give you peace? Your integrity makes me seem small, you paint dreamscapes on the wall. I talk shit with my friends, it’s like I’m wasting your honor…..And you know that I’d. Swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the trenches. Give you my wild, give you a child. 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…is it enough? But there’s robbers to the east, clowns to the west, I’d give you my sunshine, give you my best, but the rain is always gonna come if you’re standing with me…but I’m a fire and I’ll keep your brittle heart warm, if 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’ve got a friend in me. Would it be enough? If I could never give you peace? Would it be enough? If I could never give you peace? Would it be enough? if I could never give you peace…

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Never not thinking about peace and how so much of the song is her offering up what she can bring to the relationship if he’ll take it, and now I’m hearing “give you the silence” line in a new light.

Because the verse goes, “and you know that I’d swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the trenches, give you my wild, give you a child,” listing all the things she will gladly give him. It’s if you’ll let me I’m here: for better or for worse (fences/trenches), to pledge my devotion/faith in you (wild), for whatever life may hold (child). Yes those sound like certain vows on purpose.

“Give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other,” is one of those lines that sounds like great comfort in some ways: after all, who wouldn't want to be so wholly understood by their loved one that they know they are loved even in their shared silence? BUT, thinking about it in the context of, "and you know that I'd," and in that of, "He don't understand me, splintered back in winter, silent dinners, bitter," it suddenly made me think of, like the other things she's putting on the table in the verse, that silence could be aspirational rather than the experiential.

It's like, I could give you this very sacred thing, I could give you the quiet in our home you so desperately crave, because I understand you (and hope you understand me). But it makes me wonder if the real emphasis on the line is not the silence (denoting that peace), but the understanding each other. Because as we've seen in her discography, and particularly in the last few albums, she is so desperate to feel seen and heard and known, and wants that to go both ways. And with the recurring theme of losing that understanding or maybe even never quite having it to begin with hello he never even scratched the surface of me none of them did, it makes my mind jump to thinking that the bargaining in the song and in that line is, I will give you the silence you hold to if you let me in (the safe).

I find it so sad that in the demise of the relationship songs, one of the defining elements is feeling misunderstood, like your partner just fundamentally doesn’t know who you are in a way that is shattering. You say you don’t understand. He doesn’t understand me. Does it feel alright to not know me? I just don’t understand how you don’t miss me* (*yes I know that one may or may not be Joever but even if it isn’t Joever it’s Joever in spirit because oven -> microwave WHATEVER that is not the point of this). How much sad did you think I had in me? I stopped trying to drill the safe. I didn’t opt in to be your odd man out. He never even scratched the surface of me.

Peace has always been so full of anxiety, and the beauty of the song to me was always her reconciling these big fears with the things she knew she could offer to make a better life, and it felt so poignantly grown-up, like watching that coming of age play out in song. But the idea that that silence that was offered as a token of love instead almost became weaponized, a way for the person to instead retreat and avoid her is so, so sad. That she was like “ok, I totally get that’s what you need, let’s sit in that together” (hello renegade) to it being like, “oh so you actually just want to freeze me out” is such a dagger. It almost feels now more like, I could give you these things I know you crave, if only you’ll let me in. And the answer, of course, was that she wouldn’t be. She felt like she had such a fundamental understanding of his needs, and it seems from the following albums that he didn’t of her.

I don’t feel like I’ve fully explained the lightbulb moment that went off in my head. But. Well. Here we are.

[gojonanami]

wanna write a ‘peace’ inspired fic for gojo

“but I’d swing with you for the fences / sit with you in the trenches”

[sorrowingsoldier]

And you know that I'd swing with you for the fences Sit with you in the trenches Give you my wild, give you a child

[kanejforever]

And you know that I'd swing with you for the fences Sit with you in the trenches

@kanejdaily‘s Kanej Week - Day 2: Song lyrics

[youreonyourownkid]

our coming-of-age has come and gone suddenly the summer it’s clear i never had the courage of 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 if 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? your integrity makes me seem small you paint dreamscapes on the wall i talk shit with my friends it’s like i’m wasting your honor and you know that i’d swing with you for the fences sit with you in the trenches give you my wild give you a child 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 is it enough? but there’s robbers to the east clowns to the west i’d give you my sunshine give you my best but the rain is always gonna come if you’re standing with me but i’m a fire and i’ll keep your brittle heart warm if 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? would it be enough if i could never give you peace? would it be enough if i could never give you peace?

[pvffinsdaisies]

The UK & Ireland as Taylor Swift songs

ENGLAND: The Archer

“Combat, I’m ready for combat. I say I don’t want that, but what if I do? ‘Cause cruelty wins in the movies, I’ve got a hundred thrown-out speeches I almost said to you.

(…)

I’ve been the archer, I’ve been the prey. Who could ever leave me, darling, but who could stay?

Dark side, I search for your dark side, but what if I’m alright, right, right here? And I cut off my nose just to spite my face, and then I hate my reflection for years and years.

I wake in the night, I pace like a ghost. The room is on fire, invisible smoke. And all of my heroes die all alone, help me hold onto you.

(…)

All the king’s horses, all the king’s men, couldn’t put me together again ‘cause all of my enemies started out friends. Help me hold onto you.”

IRELAND: Mad Woman

“What did you think I’d say to that? Does a scorpion sting when fighting back? They strike to kill, and you know I will. (…)

Every time you call me crazy, I get more crazy. What about that? And when you say I seem angry, I get more angry.

And there’s nothing like a mad woman; what a shame she went mad. No one likes a mad woman; you made her like that. And you poke that bear til the claws come out, and you find something to wrap your noose around. And there’s nothing like a mad woman.

Now I breathe flames each time I talk, my canons all firing at your yacht. They say “move on”, but you know I won’t. And women like hunting witches too, doing your dirtiest work for you. It’s obvious that wanting me dead has really brought you two together.

(…)

I’m taking my time, taking my time, cause you took everything from me. Watching you climb, watching you climb, over people like me. The master of spin has a couple side flings, good wives always know. And she should be mad, should be scathing like me but

No one likes a mad woman.”

NORTHERN IRELAND: Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?

“The who’s who of ‘who’s that?’ Is poised for the attack, but my bare hands paved their path. You don’t get to tell me about ‘sad’

(…)

The scandal was contained, the bullet had just grazed. At all costs, keep your good name. You don’t get to tell me you feel bad.

Is it a wonder I broke? Let’s hear one more joke, then we could all just laugh until I cry.

(…)

So tell me everything is not about me, but what if it is? Then say they didn’t do it to hurt me, but what if they did? I wanna snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made me. You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me. So all you kids can sneak into my house with all the cobwebs- I’m always drunk on my own tears, isn’t that what they all said- then I’ll sue you if you step on my lawn. That is fearsome and I’m wretched and I’m wrong. Put narcotics into all of my songs, and that’s why you’re still singing along.

So I leap from the gallows and I levitate down your street. Crash the wedding like a record scratch as I scream, “Who’s afraid of little old me?” I was tame, I was gentle ‘til the circus life made me mean, “don’t you worry, folks, we took out all her teeth!” Who’s afraid of little old me? Well, you should be.

SCOTLAND: Peace

“But I’m a fire and I’ll keep your brittle heart warm if 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?

Your integrity makes me seem small; you paint dreamscapes on the wall, I talk shit with my friends. It’s like I’m wasting your honour.

And you know that I’d swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the trenches. Give you my wild, give you a child. 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. Is it enough?

But there’s robbers to the east, clowns to the west. I’d give you my sunshine, give you my best, but the rain is always gonna come if you’re standing with me.”

WALES: Seven

“Please, picture me in the trees, I hit my peak at seven feet in the swing, over the creek. I was too scared to jump in, but I, I was high in the sky, with Pennsylvania under me, are there still beautiful things?

Sweet tea in the summer. Cross your heart, won’t tell no other. And though I can’t recall your face, I still got love for you. Your braid’s like a pattern, love you to the moon and to Saturn. Passed down like folk songs, the love lasts so long.

And I’ve been meaning to tell you, I think your house is haunted. Your dad is always mad, and that must be why. And I think you should come live with me and we can be pirates, then you won’t have to cry or hide in the closet. And just like a folk song, our love will be passed on.

Please, picture me in the weeds, before I learnt civility. I used to scream ferociously anytime I wanted.”

[cakesunflower]

sasusaku (taylor’s version)

got bored at work and came up with this. it’s not in any particular ordered of sasuke & sakura’s story, but just whatever song & lyric came to me in that moment. might add more to it :)

All You Had To Do Was Stay

Hey, all you had to do was stay / Had me in the palm of your hand / Then why'd you have to go and lock me out when I let you in?

This Love

This love is good, this love is bad / This love is alive back from the dead / These hands had to let it go free / But this love came back to me.

Now That We Don’t Talk

I miss the old ways / You didn’t have to change / But I guess I don’t have a say / Now that we don’t talk.

Red

Remembering him comes in flashbacks and echoes / Tell myself it’s time now gotta let go / But moving on from him is impossible / When I still see it all in my head.

Daylight

Maybe you ran with the wolves and refused to settle down / Maybe I've stormed out of every single room in this town / Threw out our cloaks and our daggers because it's morning now / It's brighter now.

The Archer

Who could ever leave me, darling? / But who could stay?

Paper Rings

I want your complications too / I want your dreary Mondays / Wrap your arms around me, baby boy.

Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince

And I don't want you to go / I don't really wanna fight / ‘Cause nobody's gonna win / I think you should come home.

Right Where You Left Me

If our love died young, I can't bear witness / And it's been so long / But if you ever think you got it wrong / I’m right where you left me.

Invisible String

Something wrapped all of my past mistakes in barbed wire / Chains around my demons, wool to brave the seasons / One single thread of gold tied me to you.

Peace

And you know that I’d swing with you for the fences / Sit with you in the trenches / Give you my wild, give you a child / 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 / Is it enough?

The Story Of Us

I’m scared to see the ending / Why are we pretending this is nothing? / I’d tell you I miss you but I don't know how / I’ve never heard silence quite this loud.

[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)