To celebrate the 2nd birthday of Taylor's best album, post a verse/chorus/any lyrics from any of the 31 tracks that you love.

I'll start with The Manuscript bridge:

And the years passed like scenes of a show
The Professor said to write what you know
Looking backwards might be the only way to move forward
Then the actors were hitting their marks
And the slow dance was alight with the sparks
And the tears fell in synchronicity with the score
And at last, she knew what the agony had been for

You acting like I remember a favorite lyric from TTPD! Hahaha! Girl pls

4 minutes ago, Just a Gay on ATRL said:

You acting like I remember a favorite lyric from TTPD! Hahaha! Girl pls

I got you sis, it's this from Guilty As Sin:

I keep these longings lockеd in lowercase, inside a vault
Somеone told me, "There's no such thing as bad thoughts, only your actions talk"
These fatal fantasies, giving way to labored breath, taking all of me
We've already done it in my head
If it's make-believe.. why does it feel like a vow, we'll both uphold somehow?

Hand on the throttle

Thought I caught lightning in a bottle, oh

But it's gone again

Pad around when I get home

I guess a lesser woman would've lost hope

A greater woman wouldn't beg

But I looked to the sky and said, "Please"

Say it once again with feeling
How the death rattle breathing
Silenced as the soul was leaving
The deflation of our dreaming
Leaving me bereft and reeling
My beloved ghost and me
Sitting in a tree
D-Y-I-N-G

I'm gonna have to be the basic one here, but..

Now I'm down bad, crying at the gym (Crying at the gym)
Everything comes out teenage petulance
"**** it if I can't have him" (**** it if I can't have him)
"I might just die, it would make no difference"
Down bad, waking up in blood (Waking up in blood)
Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up
**** it if I can't have us
I might just not get up
I might stay down bad

Like I lost my twin
**** it if I can't have him (Down bad)
Down bad
Waving at the ship
**** it if I can't have him

I loved your hostile takeovers
Encounters closer and closer
All your indecent exposures
How dare you say that it's-
I'll build you a fort on some planet
Where they can all understand it
How dare you think it's romantic
Leaving me safe and stranded
'Cause **** it, I was in love
So **** you if I can't have us
'Cause **** it, I was in love

So if I sell my apartment
And you have some kids with an internet starlet
Will that make your memory fade from this scarlet maroon
like it never happened
Could it be enough to just float in your orbit
Can we watch our phantoms like watching wild horses
Cooler in theory but not if you force it
To be, it just didn't happen

So if you want to break my cold, cold heart
Say you loved me
And if you want to tear my world apart
Say you'll always wonder

From TTPD the bridge of Guilty as Sin?:

What if I roll the stone away
They're gonna crucify me anyway
What if the way you hold me is actually what's holy?
If long-suffering propriety is what they want from me
They don't know how you've haunted me so stunningly
I choose you and me religiously

This is also my favourite song from TTPD and one of my favourite songs from Taylor.

Honourable mention are these lyrics from Down Bad:

Did you really beam me up?
In a cloud of sparkling dust
Just to do experiments on
Tell me I was the chosen one
Show me that this world is bigger than us
Then sent me back where I came from
For a moment I knew cosmic love
...
I loved your hostile takeovers
Encounters closer and closer
All your indecent exposures
How dare you say that it's –
I'll build you a fort on some planet
Where they can all understand it
How dare you think it's romantic
Leaving me safe and stranded
'Cause f*** it, I was in love
So f*** you if I can't have us

From The Anthology bridge of imgonnagetyouback:

I can feel it comin', hummin' in the way you move
Push the reset button, we're becoming something new
Say you got somebody, I'll say, "I got someone too"
Even if it's handcuffed, I'm leaving here with you
Bygones will be bygone, eras fadin' into gray
We broke all the pieces but still want to play the game
Told my friends, "I hate you but I love you just the same"
Pick your poison, babe
I'm poison either way

I love the melody of this part so much.

Honourable mention is The Prophecy as a whole, but I especially love the beginning:

Hand on the throttle
Thought I caught lightning in a bottle
Oh, but it's gone again
And it was written
I got cursed like Eve got bitten
Oh, was it punishment?
Pad around when I get home
I guess a lesser woman would've lost hope
A greater woman wouldn't beg
But I looked to the sky and said


Happy birthday, TTPD!

Edited April 21Apr 21 by music_cunt

Something something fortnight something something

And I won't confess that I waited,

but I let the lamp burn
As the men masqueraded,

I hoped you'd return
With your feet on the ground,

tell me all that you'd learned
'Cause love's never lost when perspective is earned
And you said you'd come and get me,

but you were 25
And the shelf life of those fantasies has expired
Lost to the Lost Boys chapter of your life

Forgive me, Peter, please know that I tried
To hold on (hold on) to the days (to the days)
When you were mine
But the woman who sits by the window

has turned out the light

Edited April 19Apr 19 by Redstreak

I didn't opt in to be your odd man out

I founded the club she's heard great things about

I left all I knew

You left me at the house on the heath

I stopped CPR

after all it was 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

For so long

London

Stitches undone

Two graves

one gun

I'll find someone

Your hologram stumbled into my apartment
Hands in the hair of somebody in darkness named Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
And I just watched it happen
As the decade would play us for fools
And you saw my bones out with somebody new
Who seemed like he would've bullied you in school
And you just watched it happen

If you want to break my cold, cold heart
Just say, 'I loved you the way that you were'
If you want to tear my world apart
Just say you've always wondered

You left your typewriter at my apartmebt sttaight from the torture poets department

I can feel it comin', hummin' in the way you move
Push the reset button, we're becoming something new
Say you got somebody, I'll say, "I got someone too"
Even if it's handcuffed, I'm leaving here with you

Bygones will be bygone, eras fadin' into gray (fadin' into gray)
We broke all the pieces but still want to play the game (oh)
Told my friends, "I hate you but I love you just the same"
Pick your poison, babe
I'm poison either way

Gray and blue and fights and tunnels
Handcuffed to the spell I was under
For just one hour of sunshine
Years of labor, locks and ceilings
In the shade of how he was feeling
But it's gonna be alright, I did my time

Now pretty baby, I'm running back home to you
Fresh out the slammer, I know who my first call will be to
(Fresh out the slammer, oh)

Camera flashes, welcome bashes
Get the matches, toss the ashes off the ledge
As I said in my letters, now that I know better
I will never lose my baby again

My friends tried, but I wouldn't hear it
Watch me daily disappearing
For just one glimpse of his smile
All those nights you kept me going
Swirled you into all of my poems
Now we're at the starting line, I did my time

So, I look in people's windows
Like I'm some deranged weirdo
I attend Christmas parties from outside
I look in people's windows
In case you're at their table
What if your eyes looked up and met mine
One. more. time.

6 minutes ago, 3R1K said:

So, I look in people's windows
Like I'm some deranged weirdo
I attend Christmas parties from outside
I look in people's windows
In case you're at their table
What if your eyes looked up and met mine
One. more. time.

I Look In Grammy Voters' Windows is lowkey top 3 on the album and a thesis statement about the whole thing, but people aren't ready for that conversation.

The Black Dog is my favorite song on TTPD and you can randomly choose any line in it and it'll be masterclass, but I loveeeeee the opening:

I am someone who, until recent events

You shared your secrets with

And your location

You forgot to turn it off

And so I watch as you walk

Into some bar called The Black Dog

And pierce new holes in my heart

You forgot to turn it off

And it hits me…

Gut wrenching, heart breaking, etc. TTPD is definitely my fave Taylor album

I relate to So Long London, it has become one of my favorite Taylor songs ever and it's the only one I like from TTPD

You swore that you loved me but where were the clues?
I died on the altar waiting for the proof
You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days
And I'm just getting color back into my face
I'm just mad as hell cause I loved this place for so long, London

I especially love the way she smartly plays with these words.

If you know it, in one glimpse, it's legendary

What we thought was for all time was momentary

Still alive, killing time at the cemetery

Never quite buried

The only thing that's left is the manuscript

One last souvenir from my trip to your shores

Now and then, I reread the manuscript

But the story isn't mine anymore

It feels like such a satisfying closure to the story. I love the sense of relief in her voice as she sings these lyrics. The perfect full circle!

I'll save all my romanticism for my inner life and I'll get lost on purpose; this place made me feel worthless.

As someone who has always maladaptively daydreamed because the real world is so tiring, this song (I Hate It Here) is genuinely so special to me.

1 hour ago, Icarus said:

I got you sis, it's this from Guilty As Sin:

I keep these longings lockеd in I love lowercase, inside a vault
Somеone told me, "There's no such thing as bad thoughts, only your actions talk"
These fatal fantasies, giving way to labored breath, taking all of me
We've already done it in my head
If it's make-believe.. why does it feel like a vow, we'll both uphold somehow?

I love this song but me and my manhattan trade? Ahhh my memory I don't know it hurts

Reading these and I'm supposed to believe this album is BAD!? There were legitimate critiques of Showgirl to be made, but many of y'all were LYING about TTPD and just pressed by Taymania/her nonstop winning. I mean, we have a DISCOGRAPHY's worth of best lines on page one from all different songs. I need people to be serious about TTPD quickly. It's a CAREER highlight in one of the best discographies of all time.

Edited April 19Apr 19 by DevilsRollTheDice

"You swore that you loved me but where were the clues?

I died on the altar waiting for the proof

You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days"

The gag she gave us. I was howling when I first heard it 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪