This song is for the rats who hurled themselves into the ocean when they saw that the explosives in the cargo hold were just about to blow (and maybe they won’t survive the waves, but they still escaped the certain death that was staying still).
This song is for the soil that’s toxic clear down to the bedrock, where nothing of consequence can grow. Drop your seeds there. Let them go (and they will never flourish, but you don’t have to carry the weight of those expectations).
This song is for the people who tell their families that they’re sorry for things they can’t and won’t fell sorry for (and it’s a sort of burden, to apologize for other people’s grief, to be guilty for doing what you needed).
And once there was a desk, and now it’s in a storage locker somewhere, and this song is for the stickpins and the cottons I left in the top drawer (and once those stickpins kept you alive, but then they were killing you, and it was dangerous and pointless to jump out of that boat but you still did it, and you’re still here).
I wanna sing one for the cars that are right now headed silent down the highway; and it’s dark, and there is nobody driving, but something has got to give (and either crashing or running out of fuel or going off the tracks, they’re going to stop. They’re going to stop.)
I saw you waiting by the roadside.
You didn’t know that I was watching,
But now you know.
I was just listening to Karma by Taylor Swift and I thought that Katara would LOVE this song especially the part where Taylor goes "Ask me what I learned from all these tears" Also any other songs ya'll think she would like?
"So all cholesterol is good. Change is absolutely necessary. And whatever you said about hot lady summer, it sounded like you kind of had it figured out."
idk why but misty has to be one of my favorite jazz standards. like it’s such a delicately beautiful and poignant piece of just pure loving for this one person and it makes me want to fucking sob
i swear to god if nobody's soldier gets the eat your young treatment (the political message becomes overshadowed by people just calling the song sexy) i will scream. loud.
Begging swifties to understand that Taylor didn’t write reputation and Lover with the knowledge of how the relationship was going to end and that trying to “excavate” those albums for evidence to prove a specific theory as to why it ended is not how they should be viewed. Taylor wrote those songs feeling a very specific way because that’s what she was experiencing and she is now reflecting on them with hindsight and relates to them differently than when she first created them. These conflicting emotions can exist; how she views it now doesn’t diminish how she felt about it when she first released it.
I love you albums. I love you songs connected by similar themes. I love you listening to songs in a specific order picked by the artist. I love you reoccurring motifs throughout the same album. I love you album covers. I love you albums with extended editions. I love you songs that reference each other.