I’m a forest fire, you’re the kerosene.
I had a life here before you but now it’s burning.
I know better and you’re ignoring me.
Still, if you asked me to run away, I’d go easily.
“Swift often sings of alienation and yearning. She has an unusual number of songs about being left behind. Not by the culture—though I think she worries about that, too—but by someone she cared about who couldn’t countenance the immensity of her life. In her world, love is conditional and frequently temporary. (‘You could call me ‘babe’ for the weekend,” she sings on ‘’tis the damn season,’ a line I’ve always found profoundly sad.) On the chorus of ‘The Archer,’ she sings, “Who could ever leave me, darling? / But who could stay?” Toward the end of the song, she adds a more hopeful line: “You could stay.”As she sang that “you” on Saturday, she raised an arm and pointed directly to the audience. Swift has written many songs that describe her devotion as a punishment to be endured. ‘I love you, ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard?’ she bellows on ‘Cruel Summer.’ She believes that the force of her affection will push people away. But her fans have remained. They have buoyed her; in turn, she has given them everything.”
y’all know that trope where two people have been separated/apart and when they finally see each other they’re practically clinging to each other and you can practically feel the happiness and relief radiating off of them? that’s my crack
“I didn’t find the perfect moment because I think that today was about just having today. And I think we’re one of those couples with a long story, when people ask how we found each other. I will see her every now and then. And maybe one year she will be with somebody, and then next year I will be with somebody. And it’s gonna take a long time. And then it’s perfect, I’m in no rush.”
