flames to embers

rb to bonk prev with an empty paper towel roll

When you are young, they assume you know nothing but I knew you through the daze of the blades of the grass in summer. Cross your heart, won't tell no other. Parachutes for the free fall of being younger. Love you to the moon and to Saturn. I memorized the sound of your bare footsteps. Running wild, it's been a long time. Life has ways of leaving those days behind, but love has ways of bringing things back to life. Man, it's been a while, but I knew it, I knew you. And I knew you'd come back to me ‘cause I knew everything when I was young and just like a folk song, our love will be passed on.

The funny thing about people acting like Taylor had lost all of her songwriting abilities when showgirl came out is that she put out the most eloquent, lyrically dense 31-track album the year before. She put out songs that said things like “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” the year before and people thought her songwriting abilities had just vanished? God forbid a woman want to have fun and write something campy after pouring out her deepest, darkest secrets

AND I REMEMBERED I LOVED YOU!! CAME BACK WHEN IT MATTERED!! I SAW YOU!!! STANDING THERE IN THE LIGHT OF THE WINDOW!!! WEARING THAT SAME SMILE!!!!!! MAN ITS BEEN A WHILE!!!!! I KNEW IT!!! I KNEW YOU!!!!

i always forget that taylor swift is one of the biggest popstars ever and any time i listen to her im like has anyone ever heard of this woman.

“I knew you, through the daze of the blades of the grass in the summer, parachutes for the free fall of being younger” is an insane first three line run

wasn't it easier in your lunchbox days? always a bigger bed to crawl into -> and though i can't recall your face i still got love for you -> 'cause i thought that i'd never find that beautiful beautiful light that shimmers that innocent light back like when we were young -> came back when it mattered, i saw you standing there in the light of the window wearing that same smile, man, it's been a while, but i knew it i knew you

“Writing this song felt like a musical departure and coming home at the same time” SHE JUST PUT US ALL ON NOTICE

Harmonica Taylor is my favorite genre