Watch the Most Beautiful of Women Bloom and Start Again Lyrics

From "I promise you think of me" to "all'due south well that ends well to end upward with you," Taylor Swift'due south lyrics have "enchanted" us for more than a decade.

Taylor Swift'due south years in the spotlight have taken listeners from her country roots in 2006'south cocky-titled "Taylor Swift" to the moody surprise quarantine albums "Folklore" and "Evermore" and now a triumphant return to her by with her "Ruby-red (Taylor's Version)" rerecording.

Crossing genres and countless mode choices, Swift has taken her place as a music icon. Longtime listeners know her discography all likewise well: They associate certain albums with specific periods of their lives and tether some of her most memorable lines to moments of their own.

"I accept this formula for music. If I continue to write songs about my life, and my life is e'er changing, then my music will always be changing," Swift told USA TODAY in 2010. She was right.

We ranked Swift's 62 best song lyrics from over the years – some heartbreaking, some triumphant – all works of lyrical genius that her biggest fans tin can't assist but to sing again and over again.

62. "Lord, what will get of me / Once I've lost my novelty?" – "Zero New (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) (Taylor's Version)" from "Red (Taylor'south Version)"

Also u.s. every fourth dimension we update this article. Cheers for reading, everyone!

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61. "Don't treat me like some state of affairs that needs to be handled / I'm fine with my spite and my tears, and my beers and my candles" – "Closure" from "Evermore"

A line that will go down in Swift's breakup song hall of fame.

threescore. "No amount of freedom gets you make clean / I've still got you all over me" – "Yous All Over Me (feat. Maren Morris) (Taylor'due south Version) (From The Vault)" from "Fearless (Taylor'due south Version)"

We tin can never run away from our bug; Swift (and Morris) clear that like the country queens they are.

59. "Your faithless honey'southward the simply hoax I believe in" – "Hoax" from "Folklore"

Assertive in "faithless" dear?! We have no pick but to stan a paradoxical queen.

58. "The skeletons in both our closets plotted difficult to f--- this up" – "Cowboy Like Me" from "Evermore"

Two people finding dear against all odds: nosotros honey to meet it.

57. "Y'all empathise at present why they lost their minds and fought the wars / And why I've spent my whole life trying to put information technology in words." – "Yous Are in Love" from "1989 (Deluxe Edition)"

Putting specific and universal feelings into words: What Swift does all-time.

56. "You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes" – "Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince" from "Lover"

All other games and prizes are canceled.

55. "Sorry, I can't see facts through all of my fury" – "Happiness" from "Evermore"

Self-aware self-correction: archetype Swift.

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54. "Clover blooms in the fields / Spring breaks loose, the time is about" – "ivy" from "Evermore"

Spring breaks? Get it? We sure practise.

53. "Did you hear about the girl who lives in mirage? / Breakups happen every solar day, you don't have to lose it / She'south still 23 inside her fantasy" – "Correct Where You Left Me - Bonus Track" from "Evermore"

Another case of tongue-in-cheek self-awareness from the queen of breakup songs reminds us that we're totally fine living inside the fantasy of Swift's discography.

52. "I had a marvelous fourth dimension ruining everything" – "The Last Bang-up American Dynasty" from "Folklore"

Get ahead and save this one for your next Instagram caption.

51. "Please don't always go a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere" – "New year's day" from "Reputation"

Clasp our hand three times, why don't you.

50. "How can a person know everything at xviii / Just nothin' at xx-two?"  – "Nothing New (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) (Taylor'south Version)" from "Crimson (Taylor'southward Version)"

Spoiler warning: It only gets messier from in that location. We see you and cheers, Taylor.

49. "Untouchable, burning brighter than the sun / And when you're close I feel like coming undone" – "Untouchable" from "Fearless"

Snappy, romantic, poetic: The Taylor Swift trifecta.

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48. "Y'all drew stars around my scars but now I'thousand bleeding" – "Cardigan" from "Folklore"

OK, the rhyming of "stars" and "scars" on its own is enough to send our hearts all a-flutter. Just the vehement shift to "bleeding" shows how even though we may heal, information technology doesn't accept much to ship united states spiraling now and once again. We're haemorrhage (metaphorically) with you, Taylor.

47. "Barefoot in the kitchen / Sacred new ancestry / That became my organized religion, listen" – "Cornelia Street" from "Lover"

Swift'due south storytelling works best with tiny details like these.

46. "I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me" – "New Romantics" from "1989"

This is a very tall castle, if you think well-nigh Scooter Braun, Katy Perry and Kimye.

45. "My castle crumbled overnight / I brought a knife to a gunfight / They took the crown only information technology's alright" – "Telephone call Information technology What You Want" from "Reputation"

Referencing your own lyrics? Ultimate power move.

44. "Back so we didn't know / We were congenital to fall apart / We broke the status quo / Then we bankrupt each other's hearts" – "The Very Starting time Dark (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)" from "Cherry (Taylor's Version)"

Could this exist the prequel to "Out of The Forest?" Again, referencing your own past lyrics is simply iconic, legendary behavior.

43. "He'southward got my by frozen behind glass / But I've got me" – "It's Fourth dimension To Go - Bonus Rails" from "Evermore"

This melancholy summation of Swift's public battle confronting music executive Scooter Braun for her masters (the reason she'due south rerecording her first 6 studio albums) is heartbreakingly weary. Luckily, her rerecordings have begun to serve as a triumphant reclaiming of the quondam works that got her here.

42. "Cold was the steel of my axe to grind for the boys who bankrupt my heart / Now I send their babies presents" – "Invisible String" from "Sociology"

From exposing your teenage ex-boyfriend for dumping you over the phone to sending gifts to his newborn: That's forever and always for you.

41. "He says he's so in love / He'southward finally got it right / I wonder if he knows he'southward all I think about at night" – "Teardrops on My Guitar" from "Taylor Swift"

No,y'all'recrying over a musical instrument.

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40. "Back so I swore I was gonna ally him someday but I realized some bigger dreams of mine / And Abigail gave everything she had to a male child who changed his listen" – "Fifteen" from "Fearless"

Bigger dreams? Try eleven-time winner and 41-fourth dimension nominee at the Grammys, two-time Time 100 Most Influential People recipient and 2019 American Music Awards Artist of the Decade honoree. Wish you could become back and tell yourself that.

39. "Back when you fit in my poems similar a perfect rhyme" – "Holy Basis" from "Scarlet"

In the starting time moments of her first pop-but-non-technically-pop album, Swift proved to naysayers that her lyrical genius isn't defined to one genre.

38. "I once believed love would be burning red / But it's golden" – "Daylight" from "Lover"

Acknowledging she'southward grown from "Red" just appreciating information technology every bit a part of her past enough to include information technology on her latest anthology? We don't know a better person.

37. I retrieve I've seen this film before / And I didn't like the ending / You're not my homeland anymore / So what am I defending at present? – "Exile" from "Folklore"

A classic excellent Taylor Swift lyrical run. Defend the states, Taylor, please!

36. "He said the way my blueish eyes shined / Put those Georgia stars to shame that night / I said, 'That's a lie'" – "Tim McGraw" from "Taylor Swift"

No crime to Georgia stars, apparently.

35."I want auroras and sorry prose / I want to sentry wisteria grow right over my blank anxiety / 'Crusade I haven't moved in years / And I want you correct here" – "The Lakes" from "Folklore"

Swift waxes poetic most finding happiness in quiet moments of solitude with her "lover," and we couldn't be happier for her.

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34. "It takes everything in me merely to become upwardly each day / But it's wonderful to see that you're OK" – "Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor'due south Version) (From the Vault) from "Fearless (Taylor's Version)

The sarcasm jumped out and did a backflip. How perfect(ly fine).

33. "I snuck in through the garden gate / Every nighttime that summer just to seal my fate" – "Cruel Summer" from "Lover"

Who wouldn't desire to traipse around through gardens all summer long?

32. "I never grew up, information technology'south getting so old" – "The Archer" from "Lover"

In which Swift lays out in 8 words simply how aware she is of all the criticisms thrown at her (and likewise sneaks in a reference to "Never Abound Upward" track from "Speak At present").

31. "You booked the dark train for a reason / So you could sit there in this injure"  – "Champagne Problems" from "Evermore"

Nosotros imagine this is what it would sound similar if Journey actually did terminate believing.

xxx. "And I was never adept at telling jokes, only the punchline goes / I'll become older, but your lovers stay my historic period" – "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)"  from "Red (Taylor's Version)"

Hell hath no fury like a Taylor Swift scorned. Of all the daggers she's written over the years most former flames, this is ane of her most pointed.

29. "But I took your matches before burn down could catch me / So don't look at present, I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town" – "Dearest John" from "Speak Now"

Talk about a Dear John letter. Ouch.

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28. "Accept the words for what they are: A dwindling, mercurial high / A drug that just worked the kickoff few hundred times" – "Illicit Affairs" from "Sociology"

"Look at this godforsaken mess that you fabricated me" – us, afterward listening to Swift sing almost the devastation of feeling like you lot're losing the person y'all honey.

27. "You did a number on me / But honestly, baby, who's counting?" – "Then It Goes..." from "Reputation"

Taylor reinvented math with 11 iconic words. Who is counting?

26."I made you my temple, my landscape, my sky / Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life" – "Tolerate Information technology" from "Evermore"

Death by a thousand cuts in a single sentence, from, aye, the singer of "Death By a Chiliad Cuts." Honorable mention to the line that follows: "Cartoon hearts in the byline," which we tin can only assume was about usa.

25. "I knew you dancing in your Levis, drunk under a streetlight" – "Cardigan" from "Folklore"

Swift loves writing these tiny details about knowing someone intimately. And we dearest her for it.

24. "That night we couldn't quite forget / When nosotros decided to move the furniture so we could dance / Babe, like nosotros stood a take chances" – "Out of the Woods" from "1989"

Getting lost never sounded so practiced.

23. "It never ever occurred to yous / That I can't say 'hello' to you / And risk another goodbye" – "I About Practise" from "Ruby"

Those chills you feel? Yeah, we go those reading these every fourth dimension. "Hello" and "farewell" never seemed so loaded.

22. "And if I get burned, at least we were electrified" – "Clothes" from "Reputation"

This girl is on fire, indeed.

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21. "Just between us, did the beloved affair maim y'all too?" – "All Also Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor'southward Version)"

Lines like this in the 10-minute version take us feeling all besides unwell.

20. "Should've kept every grocery store receipt / 'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me" – "Marjorie" from "Evermore"

From the woman who brought y'all "I'm a crumpled up piece of newspaper lying here," we bring you this glorious run. This vocal hits particularly different during the coronavirus pandemic as a nation overrun with morbidity turns to music for solace.

19. "I didn't accept it in myself to get with grace / 'Crusade when I'd fight, you used to tell me I was brave – "My Tears Ricochet" from "Folklore"

The "used to" does all the work hither. Our tears oasis't stopped ricocheting since listening.

18. "The monsters turned out to be just trees / When the sun came up you were looking at me" – "Out of the Woods" from "1989"

"Where the Wild Things Are" got the rewrite it never asked for, and we are not complaining.

17. "The night you danced like you knew our lives would never be the aforementioned / You lot held your head like a hero / On a history book folio / It was the end of a decade / Merely the start of an historic period" – "Long Live" from "Speak Now"

Production on this album began in 2009, the yr Swift turned 20, and wrapped in 2010. What a decade – and an age – the 2010s have been for her.

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16. "'Crusade I hear he's got his arm 'round a brand-new girl / I've been pickin' up my heart, he's been pickin' upwardly her" – "Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) from "Fearless" (Taylor's Version)

We're non sure how Swift pulled this off but she actually picked up our hearts and threw them on the footing while nosotros listened to these lyrics. All "Mr. Perfectly Fine" fellas out there should take notes.

15. "I can't determine if it'southward a choice: getting swept abroad" – "Treacherous" from "Red"

*Swoons*

fourteen. "With every guitar string scar on my hand / I take this magnetic strength of a human to be my lover" – "Lover" from "Lover"

For longtime Swifties, in that location's nix sweeter than hearing her triumphantly declare she's in love.

13. "And y'all wanna scream, 'don't telephone call me kid, don't call me infant / Look at this godforsaken mess that you made me'"  – "Illicit Affairs" from "Folklore"

If you're non screaming along to these lyrics every time, you're doing information technology wrong.

12."The route not taken looks real skillful at present" – "'Tis the Damn Season" from "Evermore"

Robert Frost who? Anyone else'southward spin of the oft-referenced poem would come up off as cliché. Simply Swift's artful turn of phrase has us over here thinking about our (non-toxic) exes.

11. "They say all'due south well that ends well, just I'm in a new hell / Every time y'all double-cross my mind" – "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)" from "Ruddy (Taylor's Version)"

The WORDPLAY. William Shakespeare himself could never.

10. "Fourth dimension won't wing, it'southward similar I'thou paralyzed by it / I'd like to be my onetime cocky again, simply I'1000 however trying to find information technology / After plaid shirt days and nights when you fabricated me your own / At present you mail service back my things and I walk home solitary" – "All Too Well" from "Red"

It's a testament that we can't cut this down any shorter. "All Also Well" – and its extended cutting – wins everything. End of story.

9. "Yous held your pride like you lot should have held me" – "The Story of Us" from "Speak Now"

Savage, before savage became a part of our mainstream lexicon. Swift is the queen of the snappy turn of phrase.

8. "Merely she wears short skirts / I wear T-shirts / She's cheer captain / And I'chiliad on the bleachers" – "You Vest With Me" from "Fearless"

Before "Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince," there was "Yous Belong With Me." Swift captures the high schoolhouse experience so effortlessly information technology'southward similar we never graduated.

7. "They told me all of my cages were mental / So I got wasted like all my potential" – "This is Me Trying" from "Folklore"

Some other beautifully written plough of phrase. She's even so got it, 10 years later.

6. "You kept me like a secret, simply I kept you like an oath" – "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)" from "Red (Taylor'southward Version)"

We cannot wait to scream this in a (fully-vaccinated) crowded bar ASAP. Now that's an oath.

5. "I'k still a laic but I don't know why / I've never been a natural / All I do is try, try, try – "Mirrorball" from "Folklore"

That repetitive "endeavor, try, effort" sends us spinning. We recommend checking out the Las Culturistas analysis of "Folklore" track-past-track, if yous haven't already, for an apt accept on "Mirrorball" and Taylor Swift's incredible work ethic.

iv. "You said it was a neat love, i for the ages / Merely if the story's over, why am I still writing pages?" – "Death By a Thousand Cuts" from "Lover"

The queen of breakup songs used to worry about what would happen when she was happily in a relationship, but rejoiced when she woke upwards one 24-hour interval with lyrics in her mind that would somewhen become "Cuts."

"I was like, 'it'southward nevertheless hither! Yes!" she said in her NPR Tiny Desk Concert. "This vocal is my proof. I don't have to terminate writing about heartbreak and misery. Which, for me, is incredible news."

3. "You tin can plan for a modify in weather and time / But I never planned on you irresolute your listen" – "Final Osculation" from "Speak Now"

Don't mind us, but we'll go sit on the flooring, listening to this 1 on repeat.

two. "Y'all made a rebel of a devil-may-care man'due south careful daughter / You are the best matter that's ever been mine" – "Mine" from "Speak Now"

Consume your hearts out, careless men.

one. "You call me up over again just to break me like a promise / Then casually barbarous in the proper noun of beingness honest" – "All Too Well" from "Ruddy"

This gem of a lyric has everything y'all could possibly want. Simile? Alliteration? Heartbreak? Check, check, check.

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