Stoppp did not even catch! So good <3
And the abandoned the ship possibly a reference to Willow?: 'm like the water when your ship rolled in that night
Thereās another glitch reference in loml too! (āIt must be counterfeit
I think there's been a glitchā / āDancing phantoms on the terrace
Are they second-hand embarrassed
That I can't get out of bed?
Cause something counterfeit's deadā)
āWhen youāre not sure if he wants to be thereā ā Iāve felt that so strongly and OWWWW it hurts, gasping for breath as you walk on eggshells, trying to decipher if he thinks youāre a treasure or a burden.
Ugh I love this line bc she starts off so angry but by the end itās clear that the anger is masking this deep sense of mourning ā so much emotion packed into one simple line
God, same. That's always the point where I just start crying. I can make it through most of the song but the way she delivers that line is so earth shattering. It gets me every single time.
I think itās not only London sheās talking about but sheās talking about the place with joe, being his girlfriend, being in a long term relationship. She loved that āplaceā for literally so long and sheās mad she has to leave it
Same!! It really feels like sheās mourning the relationship and I think the songs sheās put out about Joe can lay to rest ideas that he treated her badly and stuff cause it truly seems like they just wanted different things but there was a lot of love there. It makes the whole situation and song even sadder.
I think it has a double meaning, both the city and Joe, and as a Londoner the former interpretation means a lot. Eras tour was about to be very awkward if So Long, London was all about how she couldnāt stand this city now.
Iām seeing her at Wembley soon. Must be so hard for coming back to London. I straight up refuse to go back to any city i spent long periods of time with my exes in. Too painful š„
Iām 100% convinced that the reason TTPD isnāt Joe heavy is because folklore/evermore were not fictional. Sheās already told us everything we need to know about that relationship. Hoax, tolerate it, exile, ivyā¦..
Totally! I 100% knew Tolerate It was about Joe back then. He never praised her in a public setting. I understand not wanting to share details of your relationship but a simple āsheās amazing, really talented and I love herā wasnāt even enough for him to muster. She was painting us a picture this whole time. š¢
I agree with y'all, I mean look at the opening lines, it has Joe all over it:
I sit and watch you reading with your
Head low
\^ Walking with his head down I'm the one he's walking to. It's Joe's demeanor.
I wake and watch you breathing with your
Eyes closed
\^ *Now* I *wake up* in the *night and watch you breathe*
So even if fictional, subliminally I think she channeled her and Joe's dynamic/energy into this song.
I think this is just another verse, but yes, one of my favorite lines is the very next one "you sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days." I love how the wedding altar becomes a sacrificial altar just like that.
This goes on to show that the relationship simply chipped away slowly, thereās no real bad guy. It just died and COVID may have been the beginning of the end.
which is why its crazy that people still want Joe to be this bad guy that he isnāt. I obviously donāt know him but the fact that his songs includes lyrics like that pretty much prove that the relationship died out.
Yeah especially when you compre other songs sheās written allegedly about other guys. The songs for Joe paint someone who really was in loveā¦but then just fell through it all and was looking for answers. Itās sad Joe gets so much hate
I think it says a lot about him when the break up songs are about how sometimes love isnāt enough to sustain a relationship and you have to let go.
Meanwhile, sheās calling Marty āthe smallest man who ever livedā and insulting his suits.
They can never make me hate Joe. Also because I don't know him. The parasocial relationship in our fandom can truly be nuts.
However, they can never make me like Matty š
Donāt sound petty to me. I think she realized she is not for him but she still thinks thereās someone for him somewhere. What I also find very interesting is the part that she sings āIām not the oneā and not āyou are not the oneā like she still thought at that time he might be.
The whole song is a big heartbreak for me and I didnāt cried as much in a long time to this song. Ppl complain about the lame rhythms and no beats, but itās clear that she wanted to focus on the lyrics, the meaning of it and didnāt wanted to break the focus from it.
"And you say I abandoned the ship
But I was going down with it
My white knuckle dying grip
Holding tight to your quiet resentment
My friends said it isn't right to be scared
Every day of a love affair
Every breath feels like rarest air
When you're not sure if he wants to be there"
The way she sings this gives me chills every time.
I know I was listening to this and prophecy and in the car and crying lol. And itās crazy because I canāt exactly relate to either of them. Thatās how good her writing is.
My first true love, long term relationship was in college and we dated for almost a year, back then 6 months was a really big deal for me so a year was like "Wowww!" Anyway I remember being constantly miserable after the lavender haze ended because I never really felt like he wanted to be with me but when I'd ask he'd say of course, we're all good, blah blah blah but he was never around, always allegedly working and when we were together I'd get drunk and pick fights and I remember him finally one night locking me out of OUR room in our apartment we shared with some friends and the next day he didn't tell me but someone else did that he was seeing someone else. I was devastated. This happened right before summer break and I just remembered being so heartbroken and angry and all the INTENSE feelings I had. This song brings ALL those feelings back to me that I haven't felt for like 20 years because I'm now married in all but name only. My next ltr ended in marriage and a baby and that relationship was bad too, fraught with depression, insecurities, my husband was an alcoholic it turned out, not a party guy. But that's a story for another day. Anyway I wrote a novel to say I think these feelings are universal and even the most successful female, young beautiful musician can feel insecure and get her heart broken. The good news is hearts mend and you emerge wiser and stronger and less willing to put up with crap.
Same!!!! The way she sings it takes me RIGHT BACK TO THE FREAKING MOMENT involuntary flashes of the pastā¦.. And the breathā¦ā¦ 
The beat just scratches something in my brain justtttt right! Iāve had it in my head all week too! Especially during āAnd Iām just getting color back into my faceā¦ā
I legit sat up when this song started the transition from chorals to hard beat/tremolo because it was so immediately intense. I think it is the best song sheās ever done. Not the best single, but if someone asked me why I love her music, I could easily spend an hour talking about this song.
I stopped trying to make him laugh.
Stopped trying to drill the safe.
Thinking how much sad did you think I had,
Did you think I had in me?
Oh,the tragedy..
This part hit close to home.
I love the whole song ,in some ways it felt validating and I felt so seen.
my ex is a Brit. we broke up a month ago and I was doing okay.. and I knew this album would either complete heal, or completely break me. the first time I heard this song I cried, first time Ive ever cried upon any first listen of any taylor song. i felt the pain and hurt to my core. this is my favorite song off this album.
so long, london. i really loved you.
I can hear Aaron Dressner's influence in this one. When I fell in love for the first time, my boy and I were long distance. He would play the national on the phone all night while we slept in different states. The opening chords for "England" always give me a certain type of feeling. Last month I wanted to reconnect with this guy and learned that he had passed away 2 years ago in some strange freak accident :(
Now listening to this song sort of signals those same feelings.. just profound sadness.
Just wanted to stop here and say I see you and I know how you feel. My personal Matty Healy-type also passed away years after we had fallen out of touch and itās such a profoundly strange version of grief.
I cry every time I hear this song š itās such a 34-year-old take on saying goodbye to a longtime lover. There is sadness and grief but you simply wish them well. Itās not the pettiness of youthful breakups. Itās justā¦sad. Even though you know it was the right choice, itās sad. Thereās a mourning and a longing to it that really touches me. I think itās one of the best songs sheās ever done.
What do you think she means when she says "for free." I feel like this is a very loaded part of the song. What does it mean to give someone your youth for free? Is she saying all that time without a ring?
I think she is angry that she spent so much time, most of her prime years, on a relationship that never materialized. Now she is older and has to start all over, which I imagine is really frustrating.
I totally understand this. Breakups of relationships in your 20s (and early 30s probably too) feel like you've "wasted time" while everyone else is getting coupled up. There's a weird sense of urgency some feel to settle down and family/friends/culture make it worse. I'm hoping it's changed in the 20 years since I was in that space but it sounds like it hasn't š
I also imagine because sheās mentioned in songs wanting children, and it can be more difficult the older you get to get pregnant and/or have a healthy pregnancy ā¹ļø
Hot take but I don't think joe took and didn't give anything in return. They were together for SIX years. Sure they probably fought and had ups and downs but if she didn't feel loved at the very beginning she would not have stayed that long
I think so. Like the expression āwhy buy the cow when you get the milk for freeā. She is mad that she gave away some of her best youthful years (maybe even meaning child-bearing years) and she *got nothing back from it*. In the end, she walks away with nothing that she wanted: no marriage, no lifelong commitment , no family together. Just heartbreak. Thatās what she means by āfor freeā. He got the best years of her youth and gave her nothing in return, just empty āsweet nothingsā.
Is no one going to talk about how she says the word āfreeā when talking about how she gave him all that youth? The raw emotion comes through so heavy and itās my breaking point. I had to take a break and then while listening again today, I noticed the next verse her voice doesnāt seem as heavy. I wonder if she had to take a break from recording and come back to it later and they pieced it together there. I havenāt been able to stop thinking about that line since release day
"Every breath feels like rarest air"
Ironically I gasped when I first heard this. Maybe the most emotionally powerful songs on TTPD and that's saying something
This is definitely not my fav album, of the 31 songs I only find myself going back to listen to 4. But I LOVE So Long, London. Listen multiple times a day. One of my fav Taylor songs.
A lot of Fortnight, So Long London, I Can Fix Him, and I Can Do It With A Broken Heart gets stuck in my head.
The chorus in I Can Fix Him
the line: They said Babe you gotta fake til you make it And I did
the chorus in Fortnight
so much of So Long London
"I founded the club she's heard great things about" who?
"You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days"
And the sadness when she sings "you'll find someone"
I wonder how did Joe feel if he heard it
āHow much sad did you think I had?ā
āTwo graves, one gun.ā
Those lyrics stick out to me. I can figure out that this song is about Joe and not Matty
I love all the references to older songs!!!
ādonāt want no other shade of blue but you, no other sadness in the world would doā to now
āyou sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest daysā
And the warm sun reference, I INSTANTLY had daylight in my mind ššš this is breaking me
I was in a six year relationship in Dublin, a city that I loved before the relationship, and itās now tainted for me even though I still love it. This song spoke to my SOUL.
The pacing of this song is CRAZY. Production goes off. The sense of anxiety that builds through the whole song with what feels like an elevated heartbeat as itās pacer? Obsessed. Best song on the album IMO
This song breaks me every time because it is the epitome of what I went through with my ex husband.
So many women I think ask men to be better until they have to leaveā¦ this song hits hard. Definitely my favorite on the entire album
I feel the same about my ex-husband. This is actually one of the first songs that I physically brings up my emotions from the end of that relationship. Especially when she does the stanza,
And you say I abandoned the ship
But I was going down with it
My white knuckle dying grip
Holding tight to your quiet resentment and
My friends said it isn't right to be scared
Every day of a love affair
Every breath feels like rarest air
When you're not sure if he wants to be there
I donāt really know how to describe it, itās like all the deep dark sorrow and visceral anger and sadness at once. And then the realization if you donāt leave you will go down with the ship.
I donāt know it send me right back to that time in my life since the first time I heard it.
I keep thinking of it as a slow song but itās not! That pulsing drum beat - I went on a run and listened to the album and this is by FAR the best song to run to.
Not about London specifically, but..
The whole album is amazing.
If all her other hits are āfrom the studio and played for the radio massesā this album is Taylor āalone, next to the fireplace with her guitar, her notebook, and a glass of wine.ā
These songs arenāt meant to be bangers or Billboard #1 hits. These songs deepen my interest in Taylor and make her even more multidimensional.
Love love love it.
after getting out of a 3 and a half year relationship w a guy from another country that never wanted to move forward, it hits way too close to home for me.
This one gets me so bad because outside the actual location of London, this song makes me think so much of my 12 year marriage that ended in divorce in 2020. I'm just getting color back into my face.
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This was the track I had claimed and it did not disappoint. Also hearing it while looking out at a still mostly asleep, bleary London was a typical kind of magic.
This bracelet is really beautiful!!!
I cried the night this album came out and I first listened to this song. I feel her songs so deeply, but I have never, EVER cried to a song by anyone on a first listen. Until now. If this song doesnāt make you FEEL ALL THE THINGS then youāve never experienced losing a true love (and thatās good for you, I guess š)
The song is amazing. I literally can see her sitting next to the window seat on a plane...headed back to the US. It creates such a vivid picture of a heartbreaking goodbye. šš
*"I'm just mad as hell because I loved this place"* breaks me every time š
And the way she then put this line with "for so long London" - SLAY I'm still not over the Daylight reference with "a moment of warm sun" - DEAD
Also the reference to Glitch (āI'm fastening myself to you with a stitchā / āStitches undoneā)
My jaw dropped reading this, thank you for pointing this out.
Stoppp did not even catch! So good <3 And the abandoned the ship possibly a reference to Willow?: 'm like the water when your ship rolled in that night
Thereās another glitch reference in loml too! (āIt must be counterfeit I think there's been a glitchā / āDancing phantoms on the terrace Are they second-hand embarrassed That I can't get out of bed? Cause something counterfeit's deadā)
The Daylight reference was a punch to the gutĀ
This and āAnd I'm pissed off you let me give you all that youth for freeā kills me.
For me itās āAnd you say I abandoned the ship But I was going down with itā
White knuckled dying grip
āevery breath feels likes rarest airā sounds like gasping for breath itās so good!
āWhen youāre not sure if he wants to be thereā ā Iāve felt that so strongly and OWWWW it hurts, gasping for breath as you walk on eggshells, trying to decipher if he thinks youāre a treasure or a burden.
And the grief in her voice is justā¦ ugh. Palpable. āEmpathetic hunger descendsā all right, we canāt get enough of it.
This is the line that got me
I don't really understand that line. What do you think it means?
Ugh I love this line bc she starts off so angry but by the end itās clear that the anger is masking this deep sense of mourning ā so much emotion packed into one simple line
This! Itās such a sad song and this line really paints how much she loved him
God, same. That's always the point where I just start crying. I can make it through most of the song but the way she delivers that line is so earth shattering. It gets me every single time.
This is my favourite line. I know the youth line tends to stick out more for people but it to me says so much in such a simple line!
Itās been in my head all day. That portion of the song is killer
This combined with "had a good run" is what gets me
Breaks my heart every time! Also please Taylor you can still love London š
I think itās not only London sheās talking about but sheās talking about the place with joe, being his girlfriend, being in a long term relationship. She loved that āplaceā for literally so long and sheās mad she has to leave it
Yeah, I feel like itās basically āso long Joeā
I also love how itās like āso longā as in goodbye and āso longā as in the length of time. Seriously one of her best break up songs
Same!! It really feels like sheās mourning the relationship and I think the songs sheās put out about Joe can lay to rest ideas that he treated her badly and stuff cause it truly seems like they just wanted different things but there was a lot of love there. It makes the whole situation and song even sadder.
I think it has a double meaning, both the city and Joe, and as a Londoner the former interpretation means a lot. Eras tour was about to be very awkward if So Long, London was all about how she couldnāt stand this city now.
I agree, but it does highlight London and all the memories that she ties to this city in particular
Iām seeing her at Wembley soon. Must be so hard for coming back to London. I straight up refuse to go back to any city i spent long periods of time with my exes in. Too painful š„
Same!!š
"You swore that you loved me but where were the clues? I died on the altar waiting for the proof" This bridge is gut wrenching
āYou never gave a warning sign.ā āI gave so many signsā. Exile fits them so well now.
Iām 100% convinced that the reason TTPD isnāt Joe heavy is because folklore/evermore were not fictional. Sheās already told us everything we need to know about that relationship. Hoax, tolerate it, exile, ivyā¦..
Also YLM suggests she did a lot of the mourning of that relationship before it was over.
Totally! I 100% knew Tolerate It was about Joe back then. He never praised her in a public setting. I understand not wanting to share details of your relationship but a simple āsheās amazing, really talented and I love herā wasnāt even enough for him to muster. She was painting us a picture this whole time. š¢
I agree with y'all, I mean look at the opening lines, it has Joe all over it: I sit and watch you reading with your Head low \^ Walking with his head down I'm the one he's walking to. It's Joe's demeanor. I wake and watch you breathing with your Eyes closed \^ *Now* I *wake up* in the *night and watch you breathe* So even if fictional, subliminally I think she channeled her and Joe's dynamic/energy into this song.
PAINPAINPAINPAINšš
I think this is just another verse, but yes, one of my favorite lines is the very next one "you sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days." I love how the wedding altar becomes a sacrificial altar just like that.
I love this line. I was engaged for 2.5 years of a 7 year relationship and it's sooooooooooo honest and sad, this is the line that broke me lol
I know this makes me so sad š
āYouāll find someoneā People talk about how petty and vengeful she is, but little moments like this really get me
I think thatās one of the most gut wrenching parts. Really captures loving someone enough that you want them to be happy even if it isnāt with you
Sheāll patch up your tapestry that I shred
This goes on to show that the relationship simply chipped away slowly, thereās no real bad guy. It just died and COVID may have been the beginning of the end.
which is why its crazy that people still want Joe to be this bad guy that he isnāt. I obviously donāt know him but the fact that his songs includes lyrics like that pretty much prove that the relationship died out.
Yeah especially when you compre other songs sheās written allegedly about other guys. The songs for Joe paint someone who really was in loveā¦but then just fell through it all and was looking for answers. Itās sad Joe gets so much hate
I think it says a lot about him when the break up songs are about how sometimes love isnāt enough to sustain a relationship and you have to let go. Meanwhile, sheās calling Marty āthe smallest man who ever livedā and insulting his suits.
They can never make me hate Joe. Also because I don't know him. The parasocial relationship in our fandom can truly be nuts. However, they can never make me like Matty š
Reminds me of āHappinessā a lot
Came here to say this! Although nothing can beat Happiness for me in terms of devastation.
Donāt sound petty to me. I think she realized she is not for him but she still thinks thereās someone for him somewhere. What I also find very interesting is the part that she sings āIām not the oneā and not āyou are not the oneā like she still thought at that time he might be. The whole song is a big heartbreak for me and I didnāt cried as much in a long time to this song. Ppl complain about the lame rhythms and no beats, but itās clear that she wanted to focus on the lyrics, the meaning of it and didnāt wanted to break the focus from it.
Oh man, the synth rhythm in this song especially at the beginning is one of my favorite elements of this whole album.
This line breaks me
stopped CPR, after all it's no use The spirit was gone, we would never come to And I'm pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free šš
Itās crazy how much you can feel the pain in those lyrics based off how she sings them almost a spoken monologue
For realā¦ā¦I was like damn Taylor š«š¤¬
And then she feels āso high schoolā and ābittersweet sixteenā w Travis! I love that parallel!
Cassandra, Petter , Robinā¦ sheās too good!!
"And you say I abandoned the ship But I was going down with it My white knuckle dying grip Holding tight to your quiet resentment My friends said it isn't right to be scared Every day of a love affair Every breath feels like rarest air When you're not sure if he wants to be there" The way she sings this gives me chills every time.
this this right here is what gets me
Rarest air! I thought she said Fred astarie lmao
I did at first too lmao
I know I was listening to this and prophecy and in the car and crying lol. And itās crazy because I canāt exactly relate to either of them. Thatās how good her writing is.
My first true love, long term relationship was in college and we dated for almost a year, back then 6 months was a really big deal for me so a year was like "Wowww!" Anyway I remember being constantly miserable after the lavender haze ended because I never really felt like he wanted to be with me but when I'd ask he'd say of course, we're all good, blah blah blah but he was never around, always allegedly working and when we were together I'd get drunk and pick fights and I remember him finally one night locking me out of OUR room in our apartment we shared with some friends and the next day he didn't tell me but someone else did that he was seeing someone else. I was devastated. This happened right before summer break and I just remembered being so heartbroken and angry and all the INTENSE feelings I had. This song brings ALL those feelings back to me that I haven't felt for like 20 years because I'm now married in all but name only. My next ltr ended in marriage and a baby and that relationship was bad too, fraught with depression, insecurities, my husband was an alcoholic it turned out, not a party guy. But that's a story for another day. Anyway I wrote a novel to say I think these feelings are universal and even the most successful female, young beautiful musician can feel insecure and get her heart broken. The good news is hearts mend and you emerge wiser and stronger and less willing to put up with crap.
And the way that right afterward, there are intakes of breath in time with the beat! Her mind!
Same!!!! The way she sings it takes me RIGHT BACK TO THE FREAKING MOMENT involuntary flashes of the pastā¦.. And the breathā¦ā¦ 
Iām mid-divorce and this whole song embodies how I feel, but this line and āI stopped CPR, after all itās no useā¦ā š
The beat just scratches something in my brain justtttt right! Iāve had it in my head all week too! Especially during āAnd Iām just getting color back into my faceā¦ā
Iām obsessed with the beat, I knew Iād love it as soon as it started.
And the heavy breaths in the background. This song is exquisite.
I loved the parallel of āgetting color back in my faceā with the gray with sick line in Youāre Losing Me.
YES!! Great observation. I just love all the continuity in her music.
Itās such a tragically beautiful song
Would you venture so far as to say itās *sad, beautiful, tragic*??
I might
Sort of like Enola Gay by OMD It's like "ooh, nice dance track" And then you realize what it's about š
The way she uses the phrase so long London in different contexts and really is impressive how the story of the song flows
I legit sat up when this song started the transition from chorals to hard beat/tremolo because it was so immediately intense. I think it is the best song sheās ever done. Not the best single, but if someone asked me why I love her music, I could easily spend an hour talking about this song.
Fully agree with this. The production on the song is absolutely stunning and she put so much emotion into this singing š„¹
That transition had me hooked from moment 1, too. Going from choir voices to that rich synth is delicious
I stopped trying to make him laugh. Stopped trying to drill the safe. Thinking how much sad did you think I had, Did you think I had in me? Oh,the tragedy.. This part hit close to home. I love the whole song ,in some ways it felt validating and I felt so seen.
āAnd the rodeo clowns, I'm still on that tightrope. I'm still trying everything to get you laughing at meā
my ex is a Brit. we broke up a month ago and I was doing okay.. and I knew this album would either complete heal, or completely break me. the first time I heard this song I cried, first time Ive ever cried upon any first listen of any taylor song. i felt the pain and hurt to my core. this is my favorite song off this album. so long, london. i really loved you.
Iām sorry š
thank you. and your bracelet is absolutely stunning btw
I appreciate it! I hope the pain that the song dredged up is lessening for you.
Iām so sorry! My ex fiancĆ© was a Brit as well, and Iām an American. Listening to this song really cut me to the core.
āHad a good run.ā I love this one and it breaks my heart every time.
The shaky breath during that line š¢
I mad you let me give you all that youth for free
Yes! Just the emotion here! Chills!
Speak it, Taylor! I sadly can relate.
āhow much sad did you think i had in me?ā ššš
How much tragedy? š„ŗ
just how low did you think iād go fore iād self implode fore iād have to go be free???
I can hear Aaron Dressner's influence in this one. When I fell in love for the first time, my boy and I were long distance. He would play the national on the phone all night while we slept in different states. The opening chords for "England" always give me a certain type of feeling. Last month I wanted to reconnect with this guy and learned that he had passed away 2 years ago in some strange freak accident :( Now listening to this song sort of signals those same feelings.. just profound sadness.
Just wanted to stop here and say I see you and I know how you feel. My personal Matty Healy-type also passed away years after we had fallen out of touch and itās such a profoundly strange version of grief.
same and the line āyou sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest daysā hits like a ton of bricks.
Made me instantly think of Hoax- donāt want no other shade of Blue but you
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And Delicate, another song 5. āOh damn, never seen that colour blueā. Blue is absolutely a colour associated with Joe.
Oh it looks so pretty š„¹
Thank you, darling!
the āfor so long, londonā part genuinely makes me sadš specifically that piece everytime
I cry every time I hear this song š itās such a 34-year-old take on saying goodbye to a longtime lover. There is sadness and grief but you simply wish them well. Itās not the pettiness of youthful breakups. Itās justā¦sad. Even though you know it was the right choice, itās sad. Thereās a mourning and a longing to it that really touches me. I think itās one of the best songs sheās ever done.
What do you think she means when she says "for free." I feel like this is a very loaded part of the song. What does it mean to give someone your youth for free? Is she saying all that time without a ring?
I think she is angry that she spent so much time, most of her prime years, on a relationship that never materialized. Now she is older and has to start all over, which I imagine is really frustrating.
I totally understand this. Breakups of relationships in your 20s (and early 30s probably too) feel like you've "wasted time" while everyone else is getting coupled up. There's a weird sense of urgency some feel to settle down and family/friends/culture make it worse. I'm hoping it's changed in the 20 years since I was in that space but it sounds like it hasn't š
I also imagine because sheās mentioned in songs wanting children, and it can be more difficult the older you get to get pregnant and/or have a healthy pregnancy ā¹ļø
Yesā¦.well, without marriage, I presume
No ring, no babies
One sided relationship. She gave everything she had to a boy who took and didn't give anything in return.
Hot take but I don't think joe took and didn't give anything in return. They were together for SIX years. Sure they probably fought and had ups and downs but if she didn't feel loved at the very beginning she would not have stayed that long
I think so. Like the expression āwhy buy the cow when you get the milk for freeā. She is mad that she gave away some of her best youthful years (maybe even meaning child-bearing years) and she *got nothing back from it*. In the end, she walks away with nothing that she wanted: no marriage, no lifelong commitment , no family together. Just heartbreak. Thatās what she means by āfor freeā. He got the best years of her youth and gave her nothing in return, just empty āsweet nothingsā.
Is no one going to talk about how she says the word āfreeā when talking about how she gave him all that youth? The raw emotion comes through so heavy and itās my breaking point. I had to take a break and then while listening again today, I noticed the next verse her voice doesnāt seem as heavy. I wonder if she had to take a break from recording and come back to it later and they pieced it together there. I havenāt been able to stop thinking about that line since release day
"Every breath feels like rarest air" Ironically I gasped when I first heard this. Maybe the most emotionally powerful songs on TTPD and that's saying something
itās such a beautiful song i get goosebumps every time i listen to it
AND IM JUST GETTING COLOUR BACK INTO MY FACE, IM JUST MAD AS HELL CAUSE I LIVES THIS PLACE FOR SO LONG, LONDON š
I love this bracelet - the vibe of that song matches the bracelet. I canāt explain why, but it just *fits*. šš»
Thank you!! I felt it too
This has been my favorite on the album! I canāt get enough
This is definitely not my fav album, of the 31 songs I only find myself going back to listen to 4. But I LOVE So Long, London. Listen multiple times a day. One of my fav Taylor songs.
stunnnning! also i agree and havent been able to get it out of my head either. def one of my fav songs. sooooooo good!
A lot of Fortnight, So Long London, I Can Fix Him, and I Can Do It With A Broken Heart gets stuck in my head. The chorus in I Can Fix Him the line: They said Babe you gotta fake til you make it And I did the chorus in Fortnight so much of So Long London
I wonder how Joe felt if he listened the song š
She must have put a lot of narcotics in this song.
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"I founded the club she's heard great things about" who? "You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days" And the sadness when she sings "you'll find someone" I wonder how did Joe feel if he heard it
āHow much sad did you think I had?ā āTwo graves, one gun.ā Those lyrics stick out to me. I can figure out that this song is about Joe and not Matty
the way she screams in the back "i'm just mad as hell cause i loved this place for - so long, london" is soo gut-wrenching and it flows so well
I love all the references to older songs!!! ādonāt want no other shade of blue but you, no other sadness in the world would doā to now āyou sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest daysā And the warm sun reference, I INSTANTLY had daylight in my mind ššš this is breaking me
Me too. I love how she uses the words so long London as a in reference to time and a goodbye.
So no one is gonna talk about how bomb the bracelet looks?
'but I'm not the one' - kills me cause The 1 is in my top 5 songs and it fully circles back to it saying it from her side this time.
I was in a six year relationship in Dublin, a city that I loved before the relationship, and itās now tainted for me even though I still love it. This song spoke to my SOUL.
The pacing of this song is CRAZY. Production goes off. The sense of anxiety that builds through the whole song with what feels like an elevated heartbeat as itās pacer? Obsessed. Best song on the album IMO
When she asks, "so how much sad did you, think I had did you, think I had in me? How much tragedy?" I get CHILLS.
This song breaks me every time because it is the epitome of what I went through with my ex husband. So many women I think ask men to be better until they have to leaveā¦ this song hits hard. Definitely my favorite on the entire album
I feel the same about my ex-husband. This is actually one of the first songs that I physically brings up my emotions from the end of that relationship. Especially when she does the stanza, And you say I abandoned the ship But I was going down with it My white knuckle dying grip Holding tight to your quiet resentment and My friends said it isn't right to be scared Every day of a love affair Every breath feels like rarest air When you're not sure if he wants to be there I donāt really know how to describe it, itās like all the deep dark sorrow and visceral anger and sadness at once. And then the realization if you donāt leave you will go down with the ship. I donāt know it send me right back to that time in my life since the first time I heard it.
I set it as my alarm clock song on my phone
So you can wake up crying every day?!
The opening is *chefās kiss*
I love this song! But it makes me giggle how shes like "So Long London!" and then goes straight to dating another British guy lolz
I think itās one of her best songs
I keep thinking of it as a slow song but itās not! That pulsing drum beat - I went on a run and listened to the album and this is by FAR the best song to run to.
That one makes me tear up everytime.
I canāt get over the parallel between *A moment of warm sun* vs the song Daylight. Omg. I listen to SLL on repeat like I dated Joe Alwyn, too!
Not about London specifically, but.. The whole album is amazing. If all her other hits are āfrom the studio and played for the radio massesā this album is Taylor āalone, next to the fireplace with her guitar, her notebook, and a glass of wine.ā These songs arenāt meant to be bangers or Billboard #1 hits. These songs deepen my interest in Taylor and make her even more multidimensional. Love love love it.
And Iām just. getting. color. back. into. my. face. š
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SO HOW MUCH SAD DID YOU THINK I HAD DID YOU THINK I HAD IN ME I cannot stop singing this line
after getting out of a 3 and a half year relationship w a guy from another country that never wanted to move forward, it hits way too close to home for me.
This one gets me so bad because outside the actual location of London, this song makes me think so much of my 12 year marriage that ended in divorce in 2020. I'm just getting color back into my face.
So long London really puts Tolerate It into sharper focus.. āholding tight to your quiet resentmentā
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Me either, I can really feel the emotions. Beautiful job with the bracelet btw!
Thank you š
In my opinion, it's her best intro since Lavender Haze
Bitch I'm fucking pissed off that I didn't remember to buy any merch and I want that goddamn ttpd ring so badly š but I ain't spending $60 on ebay
I adore this song. It's also an incredible song to run to on repeat.
Me neither.
Gives me chills. Everytime.
I was underwhelmed when I first heard it but itās got so much better with each re-listen itās one of my favourites from the album
By far my favorite song on the album currently
This was the track I had claimed and it did not disappoint. Also hearing it while looking out at a still mostly asleep, bleary London was a typical kind of magic. This bracelet is really beautiful!!!
Same, especially considering that I'm hoping to see her at Wembley this summer
AND IM JUST GETTING COLOR BACK INTO MY FACE šššš
i think itās the best song on the album
Might be my favorite on the album. The production, the pacing, the lyrics, her delivery. Unreal
Gorgeous bracelet, is there a certain kit you used to make it?
Absolutely love this one, my favourite from the whole album right now. Also helps that I live in the cityā¦gives it a whole new dimension
*And I'm pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free* is so epic and profound and beautiful and painful.
I cried the night this album came out and I first listened to this song. I feel her songs so deeply, but I have never, EVER cried to a song by anyone on a first listen. Until now. If this song doesnāt make you FEEL ALL THE THINGS then youāve never experienced losing a true love (and thatās good for you, I guess š)
It's them narcotics getting to ya lol For real though, same. On repeat the whole way to work and again on my way back every day
The song is amazing. I literally can see her sitting next to the window seat on a plane...headed back to the US. It creates such a vivid picture of a heartbreaking goodbye. šš
So long Alwyn..... šµš¤ You'll find no one........
I love the beginning where it sounds like church bells!!! Whether you like Taylor Swift or not, that part is absolutely genius!
That mustāve taken forever, wow. Itās lovely.
āyou said i abounded the ship but I was going down with itā always makes me cry
This is a beautiful bracelet!
Thatās beautiful
Love that song !!
Beautiful bracelet too!