#and how exile is maybe the best example of this metaphor across her entire discography

[sawthetruthinme]

i love when taylor writes about towns in her songs !! because usually the towns can be metaphors for something bigger... a life / an experience/ a person/.. oftentimes it feels like a stand in for taylor herself, where instead of saying “i” she says “my town” … etc. maybe i’ll elaborate with better logic in a longer post later but yeah . just contemplating on:

“my town was a wasteland” “it always leads to you and my hometown” “our whole town came and our mamas cried” “when my world wakes up today, you’ll be in another town” “this is a big world, that was a small town” “left a small town never looked back” “i’m shining like fireworks over your sad empty town” “we shouldn’t be in this town” “let’s get out of this town” “i’ll be there if you’re the toast of the town” “the only thing we share is this small town” “staring out the window like i’m not your favorite town” “maybe i stormed out of every single room in this town” “you were my town, now i’m in exile” “the loudest woman this town has ever seen” “you’re a flashback in a film reel on the one screen in my town” “the coastal town we wandered round had never seen a love as pure as it” “you got shiny friends since you left town” “the ladies lunching have their stories about when you passed through town” “i didn’t choose this town, i dream of getting out” “karma’s gonna track you down step by step from town to town” “you don’t live in my part of town” “rip the band aid off and skip town” etc. etc. etc.