#but from evermore onward she’s circling back ever and ever closer to their beginning
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but you should’ve seen him when he first got me…
dive bar on the east side, where you at? phone lights up my nightstand in the black. come here you can meet me in the back —> wait for the signal and I’ll meet you after dark, show me the places that the others gave you scars
I’m perfectly fine, I live on my own, I made up my mind I’m better off being alone. we met a few weeks ago, now you try on calling me ‘baby’ like trying on clothes —> oh, I’m falling in love, I thought the plane was going down. how’d you turn it right around?
I got a boyfriend, he’s older than us, he’s in the club doing I don’t know what. you’re so cool, it makes me hate you so much. whiskey on ice, sunset and vine, you’ve ruined my life by not being mine —> maybe I’ll see you out some weekend depending on what kind of mood and situationship I’m in and what’s in my system. I think there’s been a glitch.
our secret moments in a crowded room, they got no idea about me and you —> romance is not dead if you keep it just yours
and I snuck in through the garden gate every night that summer just to seal my fate —> head on the pillow, I could feel you sneaking in, as if you were a mythical thing, like you were a trophy or a champion ring and there was one prize I'd cheat to win
I scream, “for whatever it’s worth, I love you ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard?” he looks up grinning like the devil —> the first night that you saw me, nothing was gonna stop me, I laid the groundwork and then saw a wide smirk on your face: you knew the entire time! you knew that I’m a mastermind, and now you’re mine. yeah, all you did was smile.
back when we were card sharks playing games, I thought you were leading me on. I packed my bags, left Cornelia Street before you even knew I was gone. then you called, showed your hand, turned around before I hit the tunnel —> got a sense I’d been betrayed, your finger on my hairpin trigger. soldier down on that icy ground looked up at me with honor and truth, broken and blue, so I called off the troops. that was the night I nearly lost you
and he’s passing by rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky —> one night a few moons ago I saw flecks of what could have been lights but it might just have been you passing by unbeknownst to me
#this is me admitting I need a music tag#do you see the vision?#she’s been returning back to those same moments over and over again#because those first moments were so romantic!!!#you should’ve seen him when he first got me!!! you should’ve seen him when he first saw me!!!#the only songs that she wrote about him after Lover that AREN’T about the beginning of the relationship are:#mirrorball (trying EVERYTHING to keep you looking at me) peace (would it be enough?) hoax (your faithless love’s the only hoax I believe in#lavender haze (yikes) and sweet nothing (all you ever wanted was NOTHING.)#like???????????#like I deeply love the folklore songs#I think they were having hard times but there is SO much love in mirrorball peace and hoax#but from evermore onward she’s circling back ever and ever closer to their beginning#and she has nothing to say about their present-tense love that doesn’t get painfully recontextualized after the breakup#like I hate to put it this way (but I will) sweet nothing doesn’t become a Travis mashup. it becomes a joever mashup.#only the stuff about their beginning still rings true enough for her to sing it about her current love
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