Lengthy stay my obsession with Taylor Swift and her superb songwriting. Like lots of my fellow Swifties, I’m all in on Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model), and love that Taylor has chosen a coloration to characterize every of her albums. Communicate Now, for instance, is purple.
We see this visually represented all through The Eras Tour, the place she typically matches outfits to albums and has an enormous home as a part of the set with rooms related to every period. Taylor has lengthy liked colours as symbolism. Her songwriting is stuffed with colourful mentions that contain each shade below the solar.
Some hues have total songs devoted to them (“Maroon” or “Lavender Haze”), whereas others are superbly woven into lyrical storytelling. For my part, listed here are Taylor Swift’s 24 greatest lyrics involving coloration:
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I as soon as believed love can be black and white, but it surely’s golden. – “Daylight”
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There’s an indentation within the form of you/ Made your mark on me, a golden tattoo. — “Gown”
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My love had been frozen deep blue, however you painted me golden. — “Dancing With Our Arms Tied”
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As soon as, I had an empire in a golden age/ I used to be held up so excessive, I was nice/ They used to cheer after they noticed my face/ Now, I concern I’ve fallen from grace. — “Castles Crumbling”
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Loving him was crimson, burning crimson. — “Crimson”
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The burgundy on my T-shirt once you splashed your wine into me and the way the blood rushed into my cheeks, so scarlet, it was/ The mark you noticed on my collarbone, the rust that grew between telephones, the lips I used to name residence, so scarlet, it was maroon. — “Maroon”
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The autumn chill that wakes me up, you liked the amber skies a lot, lengthy limbs and frozen swims, you’d at all times go previous the place our ft may contact. — “Marjorie”
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Inexperienced was the colour of the grass the place I used to learn at Centennial Park/ I used to suppose I might meet any individual there. — “Invisible String”
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Did I paint your bluest skies the darkest grey/ A universe away. — “Coney Island”
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You set up the partitions and paint all of them a shade of grey, and I stood there loving you and wished all of them away. — “Chilly As You”
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Time, wondrous time, gave me the blues after which purple-pink skies. — “Invisible String”
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I really feel the lavender haze creepin’ up on me/ Surreal, I am damned if I do give a rattling what individuals say/ No deal, the Nineteen Fifties shit they need from me/ I simply wanna keep in that lavender haze. — “Lavender Haze”
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This ultraviolet morning mild beneath tells me this love is well worth the combat. — “Afterglow”
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My knuckles had been bruised like violets, sucker punching partitions, cursed you as I sleep-talked/ Spineless in my tomb of silence, tore your banners down, took the battle underground. — “The Nice Warfare”
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Sapphire tears on my face, disappointment grew to become my complete sky. — “Bejeweled”
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He is within the room; your opal eyes are all I want to see/ He needs what’s solely yours. — “Ivy”
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You paint me a blue sky and return and switch it to rain. — “Expensive John”
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And did the dual flame bruise paint you blue/ Simply between us, did the love affair maim you, too? — “All Too Nicely (10-Minute Model)”
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It is new, the form of your physique, it is blue, the sensation I’ve bought; it is a merciless summer time. — “Merciless Summer time”
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Don’t need no different shade of blue however you. No different disappointment on the earth would do. — “Hoax”
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If you suppose happiness, I hope you suppose that little black costume. — “Time McGraw”
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I’m not the form of lady who needs to be rudely barging in on a white veil event, however you aren’t the form of boy who needs to be marrying the flawed lady. — “Communicate Now”
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Do not name me ‘child’, do not name me ‘child’, have a look at this godforsaken mess that you simply made me. You confirmed me colours you understand I am unable to see with anybody else. — “Illicit Affairs”
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The remainder of the world was black and white however we had been in screaming coloration. — “Out of the Woods”
Alright, Swifties, the poetic genius of Taylor Swift does not cease right here. I wish to hear your favourite mentions of coloration all through her songwriting within the feedback beneath.
