I’ve been seeing some super fun Taylor song CAFs going around (I can’t remember who posted the original, but credit to them!) so thought I’d do a part 2 Taylor Swift lyrics quiz as she is a modern day poet imo.
DW: Choose your favourite lyric from the album Taylor Swift (2006)
When you think happiness / I hope you think that little black dress / Think of my head on your chest / And my old faded blue jeans {Tim McGraw}: Faye, Marin, Lourdes, Branwen, Mirabel, Antonia
But you don’t tell anyone / That you might not be the golden one / And you’re tied together with a smile / But you’re coming undone {Tied Together with a Smile}: Oriana, Beryl, Winn, Scarlet, Lucinda, Ruth
I should’ve been there / In the back of your mind / I shouldn’t be asking myself, “Why?” / You shouldn’t be beggin’ for forgiveness at my feet {Should’ve Said No}: Bridie, Cosette, Ingrid, Florence, Esme, Wilhelmina
You come away with a great little story / Of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you {Cold as You}: Briony, Damaris, Augusta, Camille, Roslyn, Jessamine
DP: Choose your favourite lyric from the album Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (2021)
I’ve found time can heal most anything / And you just might find who you’re supposed to be / I didn’t know who I was supposed to be / At fifteen {Fifteen}: Addison, McKenna, Rayne, Harlow, James, Linden
I never knew I could feel that much / And that’s the way I loved you {The Way I Loved You}: Ripley, Sage, Carson, Emery, Leighton, Briar
I love you for giving me your eyes / Staying back and watching me shine {The Best Day}: Devin, Parker, Sunny, Saylor, Blair, Raleigh
I lived, and I learned / Had you, got burned / Held out, and held on / God knows, too long {You All Over Me}: Rowan, Sutton, Lucky, River, Ari, Eden
DS: Choose your favourite lyric from the album Speak Now (2010)
The last time you saw me / Is still burned in the back of your mind / You gave me roses and I left them there to die {Back to December}: Jasper, Heath, Elwood, Corin, Otis, Wolfe
I took your matches before fire could catch me / So don’t look now / I’m shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town {Dear John}: Charlie, Wren, Phineas, Artie, Milo, Stefan
I’ll spend forever wondering if you knew / I was enchanted to meet you {Enchanted}: Darcy, Forrest, Hayes, Linus, Franklin, Yancy
You and I walk a fragile line / I have known it all this time / Never ever thought I’d see it break {Haunted}: Percy, Shepherd, Grayson, Robin, Teddy, Florent
DD/DS: Choose your favourite lyric from the album Red (Taylor’s Version) (2021)
Tonight I’m gonna dance / Like you were in this room / But I don’t wanna dance / If I’m not dancing with you {Holy Ground}: Hazel, Posie, Sylvia, Hettie, Lenora, Daisy & Chester, Alden, Miller, Griffin, Leo, Tate
This is the last time I’m asking you this / Put my name at the top of your list {The Last Time}: Belle, Alina, Elsie, Fleur, Ida, Josephine & Oscar, Westley, Henry, Calder, Simon, Lane
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 {All Too Well}: Corinne, Odette, Matilda, Iris, Nora, Fauna & Garland, Joshua, Lior, Watson, Roan, Conall
How can a person know everything at 18 but nothing at 22? / And will you still want me when I’m nothing new? {Nothing New}: Fleur, Briallen, Evie, Rhiannon, Indigo, Poppy & Bryn, Pierce, Ellison, Harvey, Remy, Rhodes
DS: Choose your favourite lyric from the album 1989 (2014):
You took a Polaroid of us / Then discovered / The rest of the world was black and white / But we were in screaming color {Out Of The Woods}: Freddie, Emrys, Lysander, Ben, Sawyer, Cole
We’re a crooked love/ In a straight line down / Makes you wanna run and hide / Then it makes you turn right back around {I Wish You Would}: Collin, Orion, Cyrus, Hunter, Madden, Lachlan
Say you’ll remember me / Standing in a nice dress / Staring at the sunset, babe / Red lips and rosy cheeks / Say you’ll see me again / Even if it’s just pretend {Wildest Dreams}: Edmund, Alfie, Hawthorne, Rafferty, Eli, Jonathon
When you’re young, you just run / But you come back to what you need {This Love (Taylor’s Version)}: Thatcher, George, Benjamin, Leif, Ned, Maxwell
DD: Choose your favourite lyric from the album Reputation (2017):
We can’t make any promises / Now can we, babe? / But you can make me a drink {Delicate}: Romy, Iris, Frances, Essie, Penelope, Felicity
Whisky on ice, Sunset and Vine / You’ve ruined my life, by not being mine {Gorgeous}: Dorothy, Ruby, Olive, Meredith, Iona, Cassie
Flashback to my mistakes / My rebounds, my earthquakes / Even in my worst lies, you saw the truth of me {Dress}: Grace, Elsie, Evangeline, Violet, Annabel, Zooey
And therein lies the issue, friends don’t try to trick you / Get you on the phone and mind-twist you / And so I took an axe to a mended fence {This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things}: Elin, Beatrice, Lila, Lavender, Edith, Sophie
DD: Choose your favourite lyric from the album Lover (2019):
I hate accidents except when we went from friends to this {Paper Rings}: Opal, Betsy, Cora, Ava, Connie, Audrey
My time, my wine, my spirit, my trust / Trying to find a part of me you didn’t take up / Gave you too much but it wasn’t enough / But I’ll be all right, it’s just a thousand cuts {Death by a Thousand Cuts}: Martha, Kira, Sadie, Maude, Tess, Virginia
But we might just get away with it / Religion’s in your lips / Even if it’s a false god / We’d still worship {False God}: Emmeline, Bessie, Minnie, Lydia, Greta, Hallie
I lived like an island, punished you with silence / Went off like sirens, just crying / Why’d I have to break what I love so much? {Afterglow}: Alice, Hedy, Louisa, Maeve, Pearl, Adelaide
DS: Choose your favourite lyric from the album Folklore (2020):
I didn’t have it in myself to go with grace / 'Cause when I’d fight, you used to tell me I was brave {My Tears Ricochet}: Toby, Rufus, Ash, Rory, Laurie, Elliot
You taught me a secret language / I can’t speak with anyone else / And you know damn well / For you, I would ruin myself / A million little times {Illicit Affairs}: Silas, Byron, Felix, Cosmo, Dexter, Beckett
So much for summer love and saying “us” / 'Cause you weren’t mine to lose {August}: Oliver, Ieuan, Rupert, Otto, Declan, Royce
If you kiss me, will it be just like I dreamed it? / Will it patch your broken wings? {Betty}: Liam, Bertie, Emmett, Gabriel, Jonas, Constantine
DD: Choose your favourite lyric from the album Evermore (2020):
Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind / Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneaking in / As if you were a mythical thing {Willow}: Stella, Rosa, Effie, Nuala, Miriam, Zelda
You’ll find the real thing instead / She’ll patch up your tapestry that I shred {Champagne Problems}: Clara, Phoebe, Delia, Frances, Maisie, Mabel
The road not taken looks real good now / And it always leads to you in my hometown {'Tis The Damn Season}: Ailsa, Imogen, Larkin, Pippa, Abigail, Georgiana
Hey Dorothea / Do you ever stop and think about me? / When we were younger / Down in the park / Honey, making a lark of the misery {Dorothea}: Viviane, Amber, Emilia, Cressida, Isla, Elspeth