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Taylor Swift for 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT'

album prologue!! i think u should read this to understand the album better

In summation

At this hearing

I stand before my fellow members of the tortured poet’s department

With a summary of my findings

A debrief, a detailed rewinding

For the purpose of warning

For the sake of reminding

As you might all unfortunately recall

I had been struck with a case of a restricted humanity

Which explains me plea here today of temporary i n s a n i t y

You see, the pendulum swings

Oh, the chaos it brings

Leads the caged beast to do the most curious things

Lovers spend years denying what’s ill fated

Resentment rotting away galaxies we created

Stars placed and glued meticulously by hand next to the ceiling fan

Tried wishing on comets.

Tried dimming the shine.

Tried to orbit his planet.

Some stars never

align

And in one conversation

I tore down the whole sky

Spring sprung forth with dazzling freedom hues

Then a crash from the skylight bursting through

Something old, someone hallowed, who told me he could be brand new

And so I was out of the oven and into the microwave

Out of the slammer and into a tidal wave

How gallant to save the empress from her gilded tower

Swinging a sword he could barely lift

But loneliness struck at the fateful hour

Low hanging fruit on his wine stained lips

He never even scratched the surface of me

None of them did

“In summations, it was not a love affair”

I screamed while bringing my fists to my coffee ringed desk

It was a mutual manic phase

It was self harm

It was house and then cardiac arrest

A smirk creeps onto this poets face

Because it’s the worst men that I write best

And so I enter into evidence

My tarnished coat of arms

My muses, acquired like bruises

My talismans and charms

The tick, tick, tick of love bombe

My veins of pitch black ink

All’s fair in love and poetry

It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. ✌️ I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours. 🤍 https://taylor.lnk.to/ttpd-theanthology

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The Bolter

The Albatross

Stevie Nicks wrote a poem for “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT”

for a fortnight