I'm not sure why all the analysis of right where you left me is focusing on a breakup/friendship betrayal so maybe there's something I'm missing, but to me it's very much a song about fame and popularity. not too unlike mirrorball or even the archer. to me, the relationship is more allegorical than about someone specific. like it's about feeling left behind and unable to move forward while people around you do. taylor spoke in miss americana about feeling frozen at the age she became famous - "did you hear about the girl who got frozen? time went on for everybody else" and "she's still 23 in her fantasy" (with that being her age in the red era where she got huge crossover fame but also huge criticism). all the jokes and jabs at her being overly emotional and obsessed with breakups - "did you hear about the girl who lives in delusion? breakups happen every day, you don't have to lose it." the breakup in the song can represent both the actual breakups she's been through and the times that the public have effectively broken up with her. then it can be contrasted with it's time to go to highlight how there's a part of her that feels like that but also she's now able to go through a heartbreak or betrayal and let it go, instead of still feeling stranded in that restaurant.

“I can’t stop you putting roots in my dreamland my house of stone your ivy grows and now I’m covered in you” okay but how absolutely beautiful is that ???

In case 2020 hasn’t broken your mind enough please don’t forget that we started this year in the middle of TS7 era and now TS10 is next

booty shorts that say “your Midas touch on the Chevy door November flush and your flannel cure this dorm was once a madhouse I made a joke well it’s made for me how evergreen our group of friends don’t think we’ll say that word again and soon they’ll have the nerve to deck the halls that we once walked through one for the money two for the show I never was ready so I watch you go sometimes you just don’t know the nswer til someone’s on their knees and asks you she would’ve made such a lovely bride what a shame she’s fucked in the head they said but you’ll find the real thing instead she’ll patch up your tapestry that I shred”

gold rush as a tour opener.....

i cannot stop thinking about “gleaming..... twinkling.....” playing throughout a stadium as taylor rises up from below the stage and starts singing at the verses

there goes the dumbest bitch that this town has ever seen