#god this song is so good

[neverbesokind]

Oh my god it's The Alchemy day I have SO many thoughts about this song so I'm gonna try and condense them.

First of all, the song starts and ends with "This happens once every few lifetimes," which is a statement filled to the BRIM with irony, in my view. The entire album up to this point has been concerned with two romances, both of which Taylor states she felt were destined and fated and "storybook" in their own ways. The entirety of TTPD is exploring how these fated, destined, storybook romances could actually crumble, and with it, her faith and belief in the existence of fate and destiny and storybook love.

But THEN... almost at the end of the standard run of the album, Taylor states that she's getting back from recovering from this tragedy - "I'm back / The hospital was a drag / Worst sleep that I ever had". She gets back from the messy process of healing from the events described on the album, and despite everything finds herself falling in love again.

This is why the title is significant, too. Alchemy is the pseudoscience of making a material into something more valuable. And this reflects the emotional process of Taylor falling in love again - she felt like the past two tragedies took the shine off of everything, killed her belief that love could ever work. But then, despite everything, she falls in love again and the normal, even tragic world she lived in before is transformed into something golden.

And then the first line repeats again, to reflect the cyclical nature of what she has experienced. Obviously, "this" doesn't happen once every few lifetimes, it's happened twice before on the album and is happening again in this song. She's falling in love, she's finding something beautiful and fated, and she can't help but find it gorgeous and meaningful, even if she's been shown again and again that she might be proven wrong in the end. And it feels so special that even if it's obvious that it isn't a once-in-a-lifetime experience, it feels that rare and that precious.

In this song, love is the alchemy, the process of turning normalcy into meaning and beauty, and she can't help it.

[sfsolstice]

I still can't believe That you noticed me An ocean away The heavens would say It was meant to be

[drewbs]

addicted to chappell roan

[lostinplanetmars]

halsey stan first

human being second 🫡

[deermouth]

And the angel smiled to himself again.

He said, "I can't believe I'm asking

But, Sir Galahad, please tell me,

What is that makes you want to go to Heaven?

In Heaven there's no lamb chops,

Queen Guineveres for handjobs,

Marijuana, Kenny Rogers, or ecstasy.

No pillaging, no rape—

Perhaps you've come by some mistake to me—

This seems more error than knight errantry."

[voltives]

found out that the “woman is” music video from lempicka just dropped and remembered i have tickets for april …. eden espinosa the phenomenal and gorgeous woman you are …

[ceroseis]

I HAD A WOMAN IN WISONSIN AND A WOMAN IN MAINEEEEE BUT THEY TOLD ME THAT THEY'D NEVER LOVE A MAN SO INSANE

[ittyybittybaker]

∞

Favorite Lyric Ask Game

I'm just trying to keep it together, but it gets a little harder when it never gets better

(Aka this is THE Kevin Day Song to me and this line always makes me feel INSANE)

[hellohomosapeins]

do yk please please please let me get what i want by muse? i think it’s my favorite cover actually, maybe even better than deftones (IF NOT FOR THE FACT IT WAS LIKE 2 FUCKINT MINUTES)

well i know it now, i just listened to it and OMG????? ITS SO GOOD?? watch me listen to this on repeat for days on end now.

[ilostyou]

STAY hey! all you had to do was! stay!

[lady-assnali]

Catch me fighting my Alexa because she never knows I want Adore Delano

She’s played Old Dominion and Soulja Boy while I’m literally sitting here in my lil fairy lighted apartment just asking her to just please play Pretty Boys Cry

[hoes4hoseok]

I BET YOU'RE SICK OF ITTTTT, BELIEVE ME SO AM I!! ALWAYS THE PROBLEM KID, I COULD NEVER PICK A SIDE!! 🤌🤧😫