

This From the Vault track from Red is a chilling look into the anxiety Swift felt at this point in her career, and feels like an ominous foreshadowing of the media target she'd truly become in the coming years. "Criticize the way you fly when you're soaring through the sky, shoot you down and then they sigh and say, "She looks like she's been through it." (Nothing New)
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From the earliest days of her career, Miss Swift knew how to nail a tearjerker. "You come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you." (Cold As You) I think releasing two surprise albums in a year proves that.)

(Swift seems to be doing just fine, though. It can be challenging to feel like you're not able to do what you need to get ahead and stay ahead. To me, these lyrics perfectly describe the restlessness of COVID-19 lockdowns. Fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here." (This is Me Trying) "I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere. In just a few words, it sums up the fallen dreams of doomed love. This is one of my all-time favorite lyrics. OK sorry, I couldn't help it - one more from All Too Well. "You taught me about your past thinking your future was me." (All Too Well) That distinction can make all the difference. This line succinctly illustrates the very different way two people can view the same relationship: One as something sacred and cherished, the other as something to keep hidden and downplay. "You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath." (All Too Well, 10 Minute Version) On SNL Saturday, Swift performed that new 10-minute version of All Too Well. (You can read about why Swift is rerecording her albums here.) Last week, Swift dropped her latest rerecorded album, Red (Taylor's Version), which not only includes the long-awaited extended version of fan favorite track All Too Well, but also a handful of other From the Vault songs that pull at our heartstrings. On top of new album drops, Swifties now also look forward to rereleases of the singer-songwriter's first six albums, which include never-before-released "From the Vault" songs. Every time Swift releases an album, fans know we're in for a rollercoaster ride of powerful emotion, strong storytelling and revealing personal narrative. Taylor Swift's vast musical catalog has something for just about everyone, from fans of bops (Alexa, play 1989) to those who enjoy heart-wrenching lyrics (See: Folklore, Evermore). I hate to see it going away and I hope it doesn’t and I just wanted to write this song about it.Throughout nine albums and two rerecordings, Taylor Swift has demonstrated her strong lyrical abilities (in addition to everything else). They were having trouble staying alive, staying in business, because of all the big chain stores coming in and everything that takes over these days and I think it’s a very colorful and important part of American history. A lot of the small town businesses and mom and pop stores and the independence of some of the people who had actually built those towns because of that. A lot of places were sad because uh, a lot of them seemed dried up. And it was sad because I realized how much they had changed since I had been back in those areas. I guess in search of something, in search of a simpler time in my life, or whatever but I went through a lot of small towns that reminded me of where I was raised, places I had come from. I went in that direction and through a lot of old areas that I’d traveled through. I didn’t know where I was going, I just stopped, picked up an atlas so I wouldn’t get lost.

I got in my car one day and just headed south. He broke the ground where we grew our gardenĪlan stated this at the beginning of the official music video.Ī while back I just needed to get away. You can buy the whole world in just one tripĪn old black man came with his mule and his plow Now the stores are lined up in a concrete strip You buy a lotto ticket and food off the shelf The new stores came where you do it yourself

He pumped your gas and he cleaned your glassĪnd one cold rainy night he fixed your flat That the people go round but they seldom thinkĪbout the little man that built this town Now the court square's just a set of streets Or renovated and called historic districts There's Johnson's Hardware and Morgan's Jewelry
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Looking in windows at things I couldn't want I remember walkin' 'round the court square sidewalks
