The next best thing to actually listening to a new Taylor Swift [1] album? Getting to dig through her masterful lyrics. You just know you're about to dive into countless phrases that have a way of effortlessly putting all your feelings into the perfect string of words. Swift's eighth studio album, Folklore [2], is once again filled with lyrics that will crack your heart open and make you feel like they were written just for you. Read on for just a few of the many heart-piercing lyrics that we can't get enough of.
- "I'm doing good, I'm on some new sh*t/Been saying 'yes' instead of 'no.'"
- "If you never bleed, you're never gonna grow/And it's alright now, but we were something, don't you think so?"
- "Persist and resist the temptation to ask you: if one thing had been different, would everything be different today?"
- "You drew stars around my scars, but now I'm bleedin.'"
- "In my defense, I have none, for never leaving well enough alone/But it would've been fun, if you would've been the one."
- "You were my town, now I'm in exile, seein' you out."
- "Heartbeat on the High Line, once in twenty lifetimes/And when I felt like I was an old cardigan under someone's bed, you put me on and said I was your favorite."
- "Even on my worst day, did I deserve, baby, all the hell you gave me?"
- "I loved you, I swear I loved you 'til my dying day."
- "I didn't have it in myself to go with grace, and you're the hero flying around, saving face/And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?"
- "August slipped away like a bottle of wine, 'cause you were never mine."
- "For me it was enough to live for the hope of it all, canceled plans just in case you'd call."
- "It's hard to be at a party when I feel like an open wound, it's hard to be anywhere these days when all I want is you."
- "You taught me a secret language I can't speak with anyone else, and you know damn well, for you, I would ruin myself."
- "So I got wasted like all my potential."
- "Time, mystical time/Cutting me open, then healing me fine."
- "Hell was the journey but it brought me heaven."
- "And isn't it just so pretty to think all along there was some invisible string tying you to me?"
- "Standing in your cardigan, kissin' in my car again/Stopped at a streetlight, you know I miss you."
- "All these people think love's for show, but I would die for you in secret."
- "Your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in/Don't want no other shade of blue but you, no other sadness in the world would do."