#In summary: it's joever (for 2023 not for me!!!)

[thewildwoodpigeon]

what in the actual shit. What the fuck!!!!!!

[foxes-that-run]

What do you think of it's time to go?

Came across this and made me wonder - https://twitter.com/ThrowbackTaylor/status/1728963471071691065?t=Q7dsdKst92KLvY7cHTirSA&s=19

I thought the song was only about KK but the this line :

"I gave it my all, he gave me nothing at all Then wondered why I left" - this really goes with the vault songs especially.

And also:

"20 years at your job"

I think you mentioned the number 20 before too.

20 and how it's been paired

You are right, Taylor has not used twenty much in her songs, and only this and Epiphany are not about Harry. It's pairing is also interesting, it was released with Right where you left me:

And then she played it with Say Don't Go in the last Eras show of 2023. RWYLM and SDG are about holding onto that relationship, while ITTG is about knowing when to let go, but the ITTG lyrics don't seem to refer to Harry. I think she has put them together to ask herself and the listener "Is it over now?" I don't think she knows, but ITTG doesn't talk about him.

It's time to go

Taylor said It's time to go is about "listening to your guy when it tells you to leave. How you always know before you know, you know?" The Lyric video reflects this with fine cracks forming in a wall, it is about paying attention to when it is time to give up.

I think this song is about her overall philosophy and thoughts on how to know when to hold on and when to let something go. The lyrics point at a lot of times she's let something once important to her go including Joe, Karlie Kloss, Scooter, and her parents divorce.

I think she spent the pandemic reflecting on what she wanted. While folklore had a lot of 'what if's' in the Spring, by the fall/Winter on Evermore she was reflecting 'well then what is it that I want.' Then on midnights it was Joever.

Lyrics

When your dinner is cold and the chatter gets old You ask for the tab Or that moment again, he's insisting that friends Look at each other like that

This reads to me as Joe, he seems cold to me and was constantly pictured with friendly female friends on set. This scene sounds like what Taylor acts out for Tolerate it in the Eras show, and this (after this song was written) photo from October 2022 with her arms crossed while he mansplains something:

When the words of a sister come back in whispers That prove she was not in fact what she seemed Not a twin from your dreams She's a crook who was caught

I'm with everyone else thinking this refers to Karlie Kloss. Here's Buzzfeeds summary of why it's Kover.

20 years at your job Then the son of the boss gets the spot that was yours Or trying to stay for the kids When keeping it how it is will only break their hearts worse

The 20 years at a job nepotism line doesn't have a particular meaning for me, though I expect there is lots of it in her experience. The second half is about her parent's divorce, they were married for 22 years. This is the most indirect part of the song I think because it's a very personal topic, she has sung about it on Fearless before.

That old familiar body ache The snaps from the same little breaks in your soul You know when it's time to go Sometimes giving up is the strong thing Sometimes to run is the brave thing Sometimes walking out is the one thing That will find you the right thing Sometimes giving up is the strong thing Sometimes to run is the brave thing Sometimes walking out is the one thing That will find you the right thing

The chorus and bridge are the self-talk in the song to let things go when they have run their course. I have seen people say the things in this song she let go are "toxic" which I don't think Taylor is saying or is true, something can be good and end, people can do regrettable things and still have been important. (other than Scooter, because f*** him)

15 years, 15 million tears Begging 'til my knees bled I gave it my all, he gave me nothing at all Then wondered why I left

Taylor signed the deal with Scooter at age 15, this verse is about him and her masters.

Now he sits on his throne in his palace of bones Praying to his greed He's got my past frozen behind glass But I've got me

This is also about her masters, and she acts this out in the Eras show too, and I can see you MV:

That will find you the right thing That will find you the right thing And you know in your soul And you know in your soul When it's time to go You know, you know, you know, you know When it's time to go So then you go Then you go You just go

The outtro is almost exactly what she wrote in IG as the thesis, which is about knowing when to let things go, the song has listed the things she has let go that were once close to her.