Thread by @TheBookofTaylor, folklore x evermore song parallels, a thread the 1 x right where [...]

folklore x evermore song parallels, a thread

the 1 x right where you left me

“I have this dream you're doing cool shit/ Having adventures on your own/ You meet some woman on the internet and take her home”

“I'm sure that you got a wife out there/ Kids and Christmas, but I'm unaware”

“Roaring 20s, tossing pennies in the pool”

“She’s still twenty-three inside her fantasy”

“And it's been so long/ But if you ever think you got it wrong/ I'm right where/ You left me”

“I, I, I persist and resist the temptation to ask you/ If one thing had been different/ Would everything be different today?”

“You know the greatest loves of all time are over now”

“If our love died young/ I can't bear witness”

cardigan x happiness

“Playing hide-and-seek and giving me your weekends”
“But I knew you dancin' in your Levi's”

“Showed you all of my hiding spots/ I was dancing when the music stopped”

“You drew stars around my scars/ But now I'm bleedin'”
“I knew I’d curse you for the longest time”

“Past the blood and bruise/ Past the curses and cries”

“I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs/ The smell of smoke would hang around this long”
“Your heartbeat on the High Line/ Once in twenty lifetimes”

“Beyond the terror in the nightfall/ Haunted by the look in my eyes/ That would've loved you for a lifetime”

“Chase two girls, lose the one”

“I hope she'll be a beautiful fool/ Who takes my spot next to you”

the last great american dynasty x champagne problems

“Who knows, if she never showed up, what could've been/ There goes the maddest woman this town has ever seen/ She had a marvelous time ruining everything”

“‘She would've made such a lovely bride/ What a shame she's fucked in the head,’ they said”

“And the town said, ‘how did a middle class divorcée do it?’”

“Your hometown skeptics called it/ champagne problems”

“Filled the pool with champagne and swam with the big names”

“Dom Pérignon, you brought it”*

*Rebekah Harkness was known to use the champagne brand Dom Pérignon to clean out her pool

exile x coney island

“You’re not my homeland anymore/ so what am I defending now”

“Did I close my fist around something delicate?/ Did I shatter you?”

“Second, third, and hundredth chances/ Balancin' on breaking branches/ Those eyes add insult to injury”

“Over and over/ Lost again with no surprises/ Disappointments, close your eyes/ And it gets colder and colder/ When the sun goes down”

“And it took you five whole minutes/ To pack us up and leave me with it/ Holdin' all this love out here in the hall”

“Did I leave you hanging every single day?/ Were you standing in the hallway/ With a big cake, happy birthday”

“I think I've seen this film before/ So I'm leaving out the side door”

“And do you miss the rogue/ Who coaxed you into paradise and left you there?”

my tears ricochet x evermore

“‘Cause when I’d fight you used to tell me i was brave”

“Can’t remember what I used to fight for”

“And so the battleships will sink beneath the waves”

“And when I was shipwrecked I thought of you”

“You wear the same jewels that I gave you as you bury me”

“I rewind the tape but all it does is pause/ at the moment all was lost/ sending signals/ to be double-crossed”

"And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?"

"Staring out an open window/ Catching my death"

“And when you can't sleep at night you hear my stolen lullabies"

"In the cracks of light/ I dreamed of you"

august x gold rush

“Salt air, and the rust on your door/ I never needed anything more”

“And the coastal town we wandered 'round had nеver seen a love as pure as it”

“But I can see us lost in the memory”

“My mind turns your life into folklore”

“Back when I was livin' for the hope of it all”

“I can't dare to dream about you anymore”

“August slipped away into a moment in time/ 'cause it was never mine”

“'Cause it fades into the gray of my day-old tea/ 'cause it will never be”

this is me trying x it’s time to go

“It's hard to be anywhere these days when all I want is you/ you're a flashback in a film reel on the one screen in my town”

“He's got my past frozen behind glass/ but I've got me”

“They told me all of my cages were mental/ so I got wasted like all my potential”

“That old familiar body ache/ the snaps from the same little breaks in my soul”

“But I'm here in your doorway/ I just wanted you to know that this is me trying”

“Sometimes giving up is the strong thing/ sometimes to run is the brave thing/ sometimes walking out is the one thing/ that will find you the right thing”

“And it's hard to be at a party when I feel like an open wound”

“When your dinner is cold and the chatter gets old/ you ask for the tab”

illicit affairs x ‘tis the damn season

“Leave the perfume on the shelf that you picked out just for him”

“The holidays linger like bad perfume”

And you wanna scream don't call me ‘kid,’ don't call me ‘baby’”

“You could call me ‘babe’ for the weekend”

“Take the road less traveled by”

“And the road not taken looks real good now”

“You taught me a secret language I can't speak with anyone else”

“There's an ache in you, put there by the ache in me”

“A dwindling, mercurial high”

“I won't ask you to wait if you don't ask me to stay”

“For you, I would ruin myself/ a million little times”

“And the heart I know I'm breakin' is my own/ to leave the warmest bed I've ever known”

invisible string x willow

“A string that pulled me/ out of all the wrong arms, right into that dive bar”

“Wherever you stray, I follow”

“Hell was the journey but it brought me heaven”

“Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind”

“Time, curious time/ Gave me no compasses, gave me no signs/ Were there clues I didn't see?”

“Wreck my plans, that's my man”

“Something wrapped all of my past mistakes in barbed wire/ Chains around my demons”

“Show me the places where the others gave you scars”

peace x long story short

“But I'm a fire and I'll keep your brittle heart warm/ if your cascade ocean wave blues come”

“Now I just keep you warm/ and my waves meet your shore/ ever and evermore”

“I'd give you my sunshine, give you my best/ but the rain is always gonna come if you're standing with me”

“And we live in peace/ But if someone comes at us, this time, I'm ready”

“I never had the courage of my convictions/ as long as danger is near/ and it's just around the corner, darling/ 'cause it lives in me”

“I tried to pick my battles 'til the battle picked me/ misery/ like the war of words I shouted in my sleep”

hoax x tolerate it

“My twisted knife”

“Took this dagger in me and removed it”

“My barren land/ I am ash from your fire”

“Break free and leave us in ruins”

“Your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in”

“I know my love should be celebrated but you tolerate it”

“I greet you with a battle hero's welcome”

“You knew the hero died so what's the movie for”

“You knew it still hurts underneath my scars/ from when they pulled me apart/ but what you did was just as dark”

“Where's that man who'd throw blankets over my barbed wire?”

betty x cowboy like me

“Your favorite song was playing/ from the far side of the gym/ I was nowhere to be found/ I hate the crowds, you know that/ plus, I saw you dance with him”

“And you asked me to dance/ but I said, ‘Dancin' is a dangerous game’”

“Betty, I'm here on your doorstep/ and I planned it out for weeks now”

“Now I'm waiting by the phone/ like I'm sitting in an airport bar”

“Would you tell me to go fuck myself/ or lead me to the garden?/ In the garden, would you trust me/ if I told you it was just a summer thing?”

“Now you hang from my lips/ like the Gardens of Babylon”

“I was walking home on broken cobblestones/ just thinking of you when she pulled up like/ a figment of my worst intentions”

“And the skeletons in both our closets/ plotted hard to fuck this up”

Honorable mentions:

epiphany x marjorie
-Although the lyrics themselves do little to mirror one another, they are parallel still because of their subject matter. epiphany featuring the struggles of Taylor’s grandfather and marjorie being an ode to her grandmother

mad woman x no body, no crime
-vengeful women biting back. Need I say more?

the lakes x ivy
-the descriptive settings of these two songs drenched in nature really pull these two songs together

seven x dorothea
-both are a recounting of childhood loves, reminiscing on simpler times with a strong rural setting implied

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