NINE WING ONE FOR TAYLOR 📯

i wrote this out and then checked up on how ubiquitous sifting in the sand is because it’s something i grew up knowing as a kid that listened to a lot of ella jenkins, but i was so surprised to see so few google search results for it (like literally just one pdf in the actual smithsonian archives?!) so now im unsure its as common a kids call and response -style song/game as i remember it. here are the lyrics:

i also remember a version of it being like a campfire ghost/bloody murder story type thing. the basic idea is that there’s a monster or criminal of sorts getting progressively closer to the speaker as the speaker recounts the story.

and anyway what it has to do with fortnight, it’s just a loose sense of similarity i felt, but the way each verse you get the sense that taylor and the person are physically getting closer and closer in proximity to one another.

now you’re in my backyard, now you’re at my mailbox, now you’re trying to run away, but you can’t run away without touching me, now i can’t run away without touching you

oh oh sorry so the point of this that i was trying to make was this little theme that i see in the song feels so much like what kaylor has been in so many years, slowly getting closer and inevitably closer to one another publicly

“I think when people hear the song ‘I knew it, I knew you’ at the end of Toy Story 5, I think that it would be really awesome if they thought of somebody that they had amazing memories with, that they haven’t seen in a long time… or someone that they miss, knowing that that person could come back into their life or just the feeling that like sometimes peoples paths diverge and that doesn’t mean that that’s the last time that you get to feel those memories or know that person and sometimes when you look back on your childhood those memories - that’s special in itself.”