the way that “you’re losing me” starts off slow and composed and oh im just sitting here thinking but as it progresses it gets more hysterical and desperate and all over the place and she’s going from trying to prove she’s worth it and the best thing at the party to empathizing with him “i wouldn’t marry me either” to try and convince him to fight and to do something and then the slow realization in the end as the song calms down again that he’s made a decision and that’s just it

THE ACTUAL AUDIO

my heart won’t start anymore (stop ‘cause you’re losing me)

Barbie + text posts

I wouldn’t marry me either, a pathological people-pleaser…

you're losing me - taylor swift

i know they’re about two different people but i can’t stop thinking about ‘as i tried to be the bravest soldier fighting in only your army’ and ‘i’m a soldier who’s returning half her weight.’ like damn taylor really gives it her all. i feel sick.

i like shiny things but i would marry you with paper rings// the only kind of girl they see is a one-night or a wife//she would've made such a lovely bride what a shame she's fucked in the head//and i wouldn’t marry me either

uhm

something in the "there's many different ways that you can kill the one you love / the slowest way is never loving them enough" to the "how can you say that you love someone you can't tell has died" pipeline

Taylor writing song after song about how she worked so hard to make sure she would never lose him to her writing a song about how he didn’t even notice or care that he needed to try and keep her is

I know we keep saying "this doesn't change Midnights" but actually over the last month it's been settling in for me that Midnights very much feels like an album written by someone processing the end of a relationship - revisiting old pain, revisiting deep love, reflecting on a lonely future... I don't know. I think this breakup was a very slow burn and you can hear that on Midnights.

“You know how much I hate that everybody just expects me to bounce back just like that” and “I’m getting tired even for a phoenix always rising from the ashes” are siblings.