COMESWIFTLY

some kid just skateboarded down my street crying

betty wrote this

personally i think the reason taylor adds in lines like “to kiss in cars and downtown bars” and “august slipped away like a bottle of wine” in the high school love triangle songs is to show that these aren’t just ENTIRELY songs about teenagers. they’re songs that adult taylor swift is fueling her own feelings through, and these moments of the teenagers doing things that teenagers wouldn’t normally be doing or comparing their lives to is to show herself peaking through. taylor is all three of the characters, a part of herself is in all of them, and as she reflects on these parts of her life she can’t help but let herself seep into the stories. it shows how much she also is longing for the changes she could have made to these aspects of her life and to her younger years by allowing herself to edit them with what she knows now

in my defense i have none ¯\_(ツ)_/¯