So as you see me from the past getting ready to make this video and sit down
and like clean my glasses and whatever, you may notice in this video that I
refer to Taylor Swift's birthday and I talk about things that probably already
happened, and this is because this video was supposed to go out on December 13th
and didn't because of many many many technical difficulties so many. Like, oh
my god it's been miserable. This video is now up, I'm assuming if you're watching
this, so there's that. That's good. Also I accidentally deleted the sound so
the audio is going to be much worse than this. My sincerest apologies, okay. Now, for
the video. Hey, everyone and welcome to a video about my favorite holiday in the
world. Oh wait, my favorite holiday in the world. No, it's not Christmas what are you
talking about? It's today! It's Taylor Swift's birthday. And to celebrate, I'm
gonna do something similar to what I did a few months ago with Snow Patrol and
talk about my favorite lyrics from some of my favorite songs of Taylor Swift.
Happy birthday, Taylor. So because this is Taylor Swift
I chose 13 songs that had some of the greatest lyrics that I've ever heard or
laid my eyes on, and I gotta tell you this was extremely
difficult. Like, it was bad guys. I my heart was broken multiple times
because I had to cut songs that were my favorites of all time. But I think I
ended up with a pretty good list of great songs that everyone should listen
to because they're amazing. So the first one on that list is Enchanted by Taylor
Swift. This is from the Speak Now album and it's one of my favorite songs of all
time, and she sang it as the surprise song the day I went for the
Reputation tour and it was magical. She messed up for a half second there and
had to change the chords, the key on her guitar
I don't know how guitars work. But she that capo thing - she had to move it
around and start over and it was real cute. And yeah so here are some of my
favorite lyrics from this song. I apologize in advance for my terrible
singing. [Singing] And this is me praying that this was the very first page, not where the
story line ends, my thoughts will echo your name, until I see you again, these
are the words I held back as I was leaving too soon, I was enchanted to meet
you. Please don't be in love with someone and
please don't have somebody waiting on you." [speaking] I could keep going and going going
even though that's like near the end of the song. It's such a great song. It's so
much fun and it's just gorgeous. I love the metaphor of the story of like
turning a page and everything. And Taylor uses that metaphor a lot in her music
actually, and I, as a book lover, I I just absolutely love it, and this is just such
a pretty version of it, like I hope this is this isn't where we end, I hope this
is a beginning, and it's just beautiful and I love it.
So the second song on this list of the greatest lyrics of Taylor Swift of all
time definitively is Treacherous. It's one of my favorite songs. It's off of the
Red album, which is an excellent album. It deserved a Grammy. Red deserved a
Grammy. And the lyric I chose from that is pretty long. All of these lyrics are
gonna be pretty long because she's just so good at the extended stuff. And this
is the opening of the song. [singing] "Put your lips close to mine as long as they don't
touch out of focus eye to eye till the gravity's too much, and I'll do anything you
say if you say with your hands, and I'd be smart to walk away but you're quicksand."
[speaking] Oh such a good intro this is so much emotion, and there's so much feeling, and
it's quiet understated but still so powerful. It packs such a punch as the
opening lines of a song. It's excellent. So the third song on this
amazing list of amazing songs is one of my favorite songs of all time. I can
listen to this over and over again. It's also the first song that I thought I
didn't like until I listened to it multiple times
it's called Out of the Woods, and the lyric from it but I really love so much
is this [singing] "Oh your necklace hanging from the neck, the night we couldn't quite
forget, when we decided (we decided), to move the
furniture so we could dance, baby like we stood a chance, two paper airplanes flying
flying flying, and I remember thinking" [speaking] and then it goes into the chorus which
is just "are we out of the woods yet, are we out of the woods yet," over and over and over again and it's amazing. That
repetition just works so well for that song because it's about the anxiety of just
like being in a relationship and not knowing where you stand and like
constantly not knowing, and it works so well, and the verses like the one I just
"sang," like what the verses do is they anchor that anxiety in different moments
and they paint such clear pictures with such simple words and that's just -
it's just so beautiful. It's done so well and with "out of the woods" I actually - this
this song really holds a special place in my heart because I wrote a freaking
fanfic based on this song, and also based on another fanfic in the
Marvel Universe, but not not the cinematic universe, like the cool people do,
It's a lot. You can find it if you want to if you have an AO3 account it's
actually one of the proudest things I've written which is - I don't know if that's
sad or not, but pretty good if I do say so myself. But you do have to read a lot of
fic in order to get to my fic because it's based on a really really
long fic. I've said fic too much for this Taylor Swift video. Moving on! This
fourth song is really - it's become one of my favorites really recently which is
interesting because it came out a very long time ago. It was during the Speak
Now era, but I don't believe it was on an album fact check me I don't care. The
video for it is really cute and has nothing to do with why I like it.
This song is Ours and "this love is ours!" The lyric I really love from it is this
alright I'm not gonna sing this cuz I tried and I can't.
The beats are weird. Like, the pickup to it is weird. But here are the lyrics read
dramatically. "Seems like there's always someone who disapproves, they'll judge it
like they know about me and you, and the verdict comes from those with nothing
else to do. The jury's out, and my choice is you. And this song is so cute but
again, it's really interesting because this song has this really long
metaphor about the law and verdicts and juries and judging and it's so
interesting that that is in such a cutesy song and the only reason I think
it's in there it's because I have a very specific reading of the song, very very
specific. [snickers in gay] Aside from that I really love the long metaphors. They're so good and
Taylor does them so well. So this fifth song is also off of Red. It's one of my
favorite albums it has some of the best lyrics of any Taylor Swift album. This
song is Holy Ground, and it's such a fun song. It's so
fun. I literally couldn't find a short lyric that worked really well because
the verses work well as a whole, not in parts. But they work so well as as a
whole. This verse has two parts to it, and there's definitely change but it works
well as a full thing. [singing] "Spinning like a girl in a brand new dress we had this
big wide city all to ourselves we blocked the noise with the sound of I
need you, and for the first time I had something to lose, and I guess we fell apart
in the usual way, and the story's got dust on every page, but sometimes I wonder how
you think about it now, when I see your face in every crowd, and then it goes
into the chorus, and it's beautiful. But I really like this lyric because
it's about celebrating the relationship even though it ended, and it also uses
that nice little book metaphor that I was talking about earlier, which is
always great. It's such a happy moment that quickly shifts into a sad moment,
but it's still celebrating the happiness. and also the music in this song is very
celebratory which makes the sad parts not so sad because the good
parts still happened. This next song I think gets a bit of a
bad rap because it has similar emotions to a different song and this song is
Dear John, which I feel gets compared to All Too Well way too many times, because
it's not All Too Well, it's a completely different song. All Too Well is about
missing a relationship and being sad that something ended, while Dear John is
a revenge song, first and foremost. It's the big F You song that Taylor wrote, and I
think it's the best F You song that Taylor's written, even though Reputation
has some good ones. Like this is still like one of the best ones cuz it sounds
like heartbreak, but it's not. And my favorite part of the
song is near the end and here it is! [singing] You are an expert at sorry and keeping
lines blurry never impressed by my acing your tests all the girls that you've run
dry have tired lifeless eyes cause you burned them out, but I took your matches
before fire could catch me so don't look now, I'm shining like
fireworks over your sad empty town! [speaking] oh, it's so good and, she like shouts that
last part when she's singing it live and it's amazing and it's such a powerful
moment 'cause it goes through all the stages of heartbreak and ends at you
were horrible to me and I'm still good and I am still shining. It's such a good
song. It's such a good song about betrayal and moving on and becoming better. So
this next song is also one of my all-time favorites of Taylor's, and it's
also on the Red album. Could you tell I have a bias? Lyric0wise I have a bias but
all of them are good in their own ways. I will say but this song is one of my
favorites not because of the normal version. No no no, it's because of the
acoustic version. Like State of Grace has two sides to it like the normal kind
of rock version and the acoustic version and both are amazing but but the
acoustic version is like it's so good, like I just - It feels soft and indie and
I love that side of Taylor that's just it's just like a guitar and her voice
and a little bit of harmony, and it's gorgeous.
But we're not here to talk about the music we're here to talk about the
lyricsm but my favorite lyric from this song is amazing - and works even
better on the acoustic version. [singing] "We are alone just you and me up in your room -
and are slates are clean
Just twin fire signs and four blue eyes." [speaking] Again, it's Taylor
creating such a specific moment that you can just see or like feel, and it's so
good and again, it's simple, it's just two people in a room alone together, but she
imbues so much beauty in the simplicity of it and it works so well and that's
just what's great about the the State of Grace acoustic version. It's just so
good it's so good guys. So if you thought I was giving way too much love to Red
and Speak Now, don't worry this next song is an oldie but goodie. It's Tied
Together with a Smile. It's been one of my favorite songs since I first listened
to that debut album in middle school yeah I listened to it in middle school. I
am old. I am over a year out of college but guess what Taylor's older. Happy
birthday, Taylor. We're twin fire signs, we can we can joke like this.
I'm also sagittarius, it works! Ok so, Tied Together with a Smile. This is low,
deep Taylor. [singing] "I guess it's true that love is all you ever wanted,
cuz you're giving that away like it's extra change, hoping it will end up in
his pocket but he leaves you out like penny in the rain
whoa cuz it's not his price to pay, not his price to pay." [speaking] That's so fun
well it's not fun it's depressing. Again it's the long metaphors I think I just
love Taylor and long metaphors I ship it. It's so great.
Taylor Swift, long metaphors, love. And this is also an such an interesting
metaphor because this song is about someone who feels very sad and alone
and is hiding it all the time, and somehow that relates to money? She
does it so well, and it's just like, it seems like two completely different
concepts that work so well together which makes her such a good lyricist. So
this next song is another one that wasn't on an album it's one that she's
only performed twice and one that I will not even fake try singing, I'm not gonna
do that to this song. That's because this song is Ronan, and it's one of the most
beautiful songs, Taylor's ever written and one of the
songs I can't listen to very often because it makes me sob. if you don't
know the background behind the song Ronan, this woman was blogging while her
son - while her four-year-old son had cancer and passed away, and Taylor was
reading this blog and wrote a song for for him after he passed, and it's a
beautiful story look it up, but that's why she's only performed the song twice
and that was both while Maya Thompson, the mother was there, and she also gives
half of the lyric credit to Maya because Taylor took a lot from the blog
itself and talking to Maya and things like that. You will cry listening to the
song but let me just give you a snippet of it with some beautiful lyrics. "What if
I'm standing in your closet, trying to talk to you? What if I kept the
hand-me-downs that you won't grow into? What if I really thought some miracle
would see us through? But what if the miracle was even getting one moment with
you? I feel like I can't even say more and then what was written 'cause it's
beautiful and heartbreaking and it feels like I'm
dishonouring the song by saying anything even more than that. Listen to the song,
read the story, cry. So this next song is Wonderland, which I think was an extra
on the deluxe edition of 1989, correct me if I'm wrong. I love it so much because I
don't know if you could tell but I really like extended metaphors and this
song, I don't know if you could tell, is about Wonderland, like Alice's Wonderland
and it's this big metaphor about a relationship
feeling like a descent into the madness of Wonderland. The music and the lyrics
work incredibly well together like it's punchy, it's powerful, it's raw.
The production on this song is fantastic and you should give it a
listen. Here's the lyric that really sticks to me [singing] "I reach for you but you
were gone, I knew I had to go back home, you searched the world for something
else to make you feel like what we had, and in Wonderland we both went mad." [speaking] That's
the bridge of the song, and it's the one time where there's only Taylor's voice
and I think a little bit of reverb, and that's it. That's all there is in that
one part, and everything else is very highly produced and that bridge just - it
breaks from that and it's this moment of pure emotion
song that's chaos otherwise, and it worked so well.
It's when the some shifts from almost being happy that you're descending into
madness to crashing into reality of like "oh I have to get out of this." It's such a
good stuff and yeah big long metaphor, the best kind. Oh man, I should trademark that
or something. Just like Taylor does that was supposed to be a joke I love
you Taylor. See look, I have your face on a blanket! Where is your face? There's your face!
I have you on a blanket! I love you! So for this eleventh song I think it
would be almost a crime against humanity if I didn't include this song. You all
know what I'm talking about if you've gotten this far in the video. You've been
waiting for this. It's All Too Well by Taylor Swift. And it's so good like I
would say it's overrated by the fans or something because everyone loves it so
much but no, it - it's that good. When you just look at the lyrics, it's that
good. It's another one of those songs that captures moments of a relationship
really well and anchors it with the chorus. The way it's done is so good uh this
this song is why she's the queen of bridges. Like she's so good at writing
music like. I had trouble choosing like a part of this song to like give you as
like my favorite lyric from this song cuz really the entire song is my
favorite lyric of the song. Like, if I started singing this song I would have
to finish it like I would sing the entire - like what - six minutes of the song.
It's a long song and it's all amazing. And there's a nine-minute version
sitting in a drawer somewhere, Taylor. A great birthday present from you
for your birthday would be the full version of that song. It's lost to the
drawer, that the scarf is in as well that reminds you of innocence and smells like
me. Okay, let me get to the lyric that is my favorite right now. Who knows it if
it'll change tomorrow, it probably will. "Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it, I'd
like to be my old self again but I'm still trying to find it, after plaid
shirt days and nights when you made me your own, now you mail back my things and
I walk home alone but you keep my old scar from that very first week cuz it
reminds you of innocence and it smells like me you can't get rid of it cause
you remember it all too well and you call me up again just to break me like a promise so casually cruel in the
name of being honest, I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here cuz I remember it all, all, all too well." [speaking] I had to.
I had to. I apologize. Oh man, it's so good like it's just so good. You know why it's
so good. I'm moving on because we all know how amazing All Too Well is and we
can sing its praises for hours and hours and hours. So let's let's keep going. So
what song beat All Too Well? There are two songs that beat All Too Well. So this
twelfth song was gonna be my number one song or my number thirteen
song, but I had to include the last song which you'll wait, but this is up there
for me and this song is The Best Day, which is off of I want to see Fearless? I
have Fearless right in front of me, let me check. Yeah, it's off of fearless and it's beautiful. I
love it. It's so great. This is a song that's dedicated to her mom and how
wonderful she is, and those of you who have met her at the concerts and secret
sessions know how awesome she is and I've heard how awesome she is and this
song is the first thing that told me how awesome she ism and yeah I just want to
hang out with Taylor Swift's mom, to be honest. I wanna go window shop with her, I
want to do all the things with her. Let me give you my favorite lyrics, which is
This this one is particularly long because it's like the entire ending of
this song. [singing] There is a video I found from back when I was 3, you set up a paint set
in the kitchen and you're talking to me it's the age of princesses and pirate ships
and Seven Dwarves, and Daddy's smart and you're the prettiest lady in the whole wide
world, and now I know why all the trees change
in the fall, I know you were on my side even when I was wrong and I love you
forgiving me your eyes, staying back and watch me shine and I don't know if you
knew so taking this chance to say that I had the best day with you today. It's so
great it's so pretty! It's just about memories and nostalgia and just
appreciating what you have and who put you there and what got you there. I have
a lot of love for my parents so this song really just resonates with me and I
also have like a chalkboard from when I was three and that I'm sure there are
plenty of home videos of and it's just so relatable. My mom is the
prettiest in the entire world and so's Taylor's, every mom is, to be
honest. It's just such a pretty song so this last song, this 13th song the icing
on the cake that is Taylor Swift's lyric writing career is New Year's Day and I
picked one line from this song that is my favorite because it's a very simple
song it's a very stripped back song, it's a repetitive song in the best way, and
this is one of the parts that repeats. [Singing] Please don't ever become a stranger
who's laugh I could recognize anywhere." It's just so beautiful. That single line
captures such a moment. This song reminds me a lot of Enchanted, how it works
melodically and like with the - with the repetition at the end, and
it's also that same moment of "please don't be in love with someone else" is
Enchanted while this is 'I have you right now and I never want to lose you' and
it's just done in such a stripped back, beautiful way and this is the only lyric
you need you need that and "hold on to the memories" and like those two lyrics
just convey the entire song. You don't need anything else and that's how I
think Taylor's really grown with her lyrics. She doesn't need those extremely
long metaphors anymore they're amazing and I love love love when they happen
but also she's so skilled that she only needs that one line and that line can
just repeat and it's still perfect and it's amazing. Taylor, if you're watching
this for whatever reason I'm so sorry and happy birthday I really love your
lyrics I love your music and I love your personality and I love what you do. So,
thank you for giving us so much of your life through music for the rest of you I
just sincerely apologize. If you heard me ramble on and on about Taylor Swift for
this long you would probably like my video that's extremely similar on Snow
Patrol. One of the big heartbreaks of this video is me not being able to
include The Last Time by Taylor Swift and Gary Lightbody because just putting
the lyrics side-by-side with the others didn't make the cut but it was up there
and ooh, it broke my heart I had a playlist of like the best Taylor
lyrics that was 30 songs long and I was like maybe I could just do 29 songs
because that's how old she is and then I was like that would be 7 hour video
because I would have that much to talk about so that it was like ok no let's
keep it at 13 and break my heart. All right so that is it for this video
and if you want to see more videos like this where I talk about music
you know because I really like making them. Alright I'll see you guys next time.
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