Long reside my obsession with Taylor Swift and her superb songwriting. Like a lot of my fellow Swifties, I am all in on Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), and love that Taylor has chosen a colour to signify every of her albums. Speak 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 filled with colourful mentions that contain each shade beneath the solar.
Some hues have total songs devoted to them (“Maroon” or “Lavender Haze”), whereas others are superbly woven into lyrical storytelling. In my opinion, listed here are Taylor Swift’s 24 finest lyrics involving colour:
1.
I as soon as believed love could be black and white, nevertheless it’s golden. – “Daylight”
2.
There is an indentation within the form of you/ Made your mark on me, a golden tattoo. — “Dress”
3.
My love had been frozen deep blue, however you painted me golden. — “Dancing With Our Hands Tied”
4.
Once, I had an empire in a golden age/ I was held up so excessive, I was nice/ They used to cheer once they noticed my face/ Now, I concern I have fallen from grace. — “Castles Crumbling”
5.
Loving him was crimson, burning crimson. — “Red”
6.
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 dwelling, so scarlet, it was maroon. — “Maroon”
7.
The autumn chill that wakes me up, you liked the amber skies a lot, lengthy limbs and frozen swims, you’d all the time go previous the place our ft may contact. — “Marjorie”
8.
Green was the colour of the grass the place I used to learn at Centennial Park/ I used to assume I’d meet anyone there. — “Invisible String”
9.
Did I paint your bluest skies the darkest grey/ A universe away. — “Coney Island”
10.
You put up the partitions and paint all of them a shade of grey, and I stood there loving you and wished all of them away. — “Cold As You”
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11.
Time, wondrous time, gave me the blues after which purple-pink skies. — “Invisible String”
12.
I really feel the lavender haze creepin’ up on me/ Surreal, I’m damned if I do give a rattling what folks say/ No deal, the Fifties shit they need from me/ I simply wanna keep in that lavender haze. — “Lavender Haze”
13.
This ultraviolet morning gentle beneath tells me this love is well worth the battle. — “Afterglow”
14.
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 Great War”
15.
Sapphire tears on my face, disappointment grew to become my entire sky. — “Bejeweled”
16.
He’s within the room; your opal eyes are all I want to see/ He desires what’s solely yours. — “Ivy”
17.
You paint me a blue sky and return and switch it to rain. — “Dear John”
18.
And did the dual flame bruise paint you blue/ Just between us, did the love affair maim you, too? — “All Too Well (10-Minute Version)”
19.
It’s new, the form of your physique, it is blue, the sensation I’ve bought; it is a merciless summer time. — “Cruel Summer”
20.
Don’t need no different shade of blue however you. No different disappointment on the earth would do. — “Hoax”
21.
When you assume happiness, I hope you assume that little black gown. — “Time McGraw”
22.
I am not the sort of lady who ought to be rudely barging in on a white veil event, however you aren’t the sort of boy who ought to be marrying the fallacious lady. — “Speak Now”
23.
Don’t name me ‘child’, do not name me ‘child’, have a look at this godforsaken mess that you just made me. You confirmed me colours you realize I cannot see with anybody else. — “Illicit Affairs”
24.
The remainder of the world was black and white however we had been in screaming colour. — “Out of the Woods”
Alright, Swifties, the poetic genius of Taylor Swift would not cease right here. I wish to hear your favourite mentions of colour all through her songwriting within the feedback beneath.
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