Favourite Taylor Swift lyrics

I like songwriters who can use simple words to make us understand complex emotions, and who can write little personal details that can make us picture the scene they're singing about very clearly. These are some of my favourite examples of that in Taylor's songs.

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You called me up again just to break me like a promise,
So casually cruel in the name of being honest.

We're singing in the car getting lost upstate,
Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place.

Here we are again in the middle of the night
We're dancing around the kitchen in the refrigerator light.

Maybe we got lost in translation
Maybe I asked for too much
But maybe this thing was a masterpiece 'til you tore it all up.

I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it.

I'll do anything you say if you say it with your hands.

He's long gone when he's next to me, and I realize the blame is on me.

I bet it never occurred to you that I can't say hello to you and risk another goodbye.

All I've seen since 18 hours ago is green eyes and freckles and your smile in the back of my mind making me feel like I just want to know you better.

It's been occurring to me I'd like to hang out with you for my whole life.

I remember your blue eyes looking into mine like we had our own secret club.

You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter, and you're the best thing that's ever been mine.

The way you move is like a full-on rainstorm
And I'm a house of cards.

My mind forgets to remind me you're a bad idea.

It turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you.

You have pointed out my flaws again as if I don't already see them.

Your little hand is wrapped around my finger
And it's so quiet in the world tonight.

I wish I'd never grown up.

People throw rocks at things that shine
And life makes love look hard.

I’ll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep,
And I’ll feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe.

You run your hands through my hair, absent-mindedly making me want you.

He's the only one who's got enough of me to break my heart.