"Fortnight" (featuring Post Malone): In the archetypal way of TTPD, Taylor Swift and Post Malone squad up to sing astir a "temporary" romance that lasted for a fortnight (two weeks).

"And I emotion you, it's ruining my life," the lyrics tease. "I touched you, for lone a fortnight."

It appears the opus is simply a notation to Taylor's rekindled romance with The 1975's Matty Healy, which archetypal began successful 2014 and revived a decennary aboriginal successful the outpouring of 2023 pursuing her breakup with Joe Alwyn. 

And though the revival of Taylor and Matty's narration was brief, it was jam-packed with emotion, according to these lyrics. 

She told iHeartRadio the opening fig is "fatalistic" conscionable similar the remainder of the "tragic" album. 

"The Tortured Poets Department": While fans previously pointed retired the connection betwixt the album's sanction TTPD and Joe's WhatsApp radical chat called "The Tortured Man Club," the titular opus really includes references to Matty.

Even the track's opening lyrics, "You near your typewriter astatine my apartment," gives a motion to Matty, who noted helium "really" likes typewriters in a 2019 interview with GQ.

Later connected successful the song, the lyrics connection much penetration into Taylor and Matty's beardown bond. Taylor adjacent recalls, "At meal you instrumentality my ringing disconnected my mediate digit and enactment it connected the 1 radical enactment wedding rings on. And that’s the closest I’ve travel to my bosom exploding."

Taylor's lyrics besides see shoutouts to writer Dylan Thomas—"you're not Dylan Thomas"—and singer-songwriter Patti Smith—"I'm not Patti Smith." As good arsenic Charlie Puth. "You smoked past ate 7 bars of cocoa / We declared Charlie Puth should beryllium a bigger artist."

"My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys": "I'm queen of sandcastles helium destroys," Taylor sings connected the 3rd opus connected the album, successful which she recalls a spouse who ran distant from their relationship. 

"Cause I knew excessively overmuch / There was information successful the vigor of my touch," the lyrics note. "Saw everlastingly truthful helium smashed it up."

The Grammy victor told iHeartRadio the way is simply a "metaphor from the position of a child's toy," wherever the kid breaks the artifact and doesn't privation to play with it anymore—just similar successful relationships, wherever "we're truthful valued successful the beginning." It's astir the denial that the romance can't spell backmost to that.

She antecedently compared lovers to toys successful 2019's "Cruel Summer," successful which she sang, "Bad, atrocious boy, shiny artifact with a terms / You cognize that I bought it."

"Down Bad": In the lyrics to this song, Taylor reflects connected being ghosted by a guy, who she calls her "twin," aft being infatuated by him.

"How situation you deliberation it's romanticist / Leaving maine harmless and stranded," she sings. "Cause f--k it, I was successful emotion / So f--k you if I can't person us."

The "stranded" lyric whitethorn dependable acquainted to Swifties, fixed that Taylor uses it successful the 1989 opus "New Romantics": "Please permission maine stranded / It's truthful romantic."

Taylor admitted to iHeartRadio that "Down Bad" compares the "idea of being emotion bombed—where idiosyncratic rocks your satellite and dazzles you and past benignant of abandons you—as an alien abduction." The creator said erstwhile the quality was "dropped backmost off" successful her hometown, she misses the different "weird" world.

"I've conscionable been exposed to a full antithetic postulation and beingness I didn't cognize was possible," Taylor explained. "How tin you conscionable enactment maine backmost wherever I was before?"

"So Long, London": Taylor has been known to reserve way 5 for her astir heartbreaking songs, and, yes, "So Long, London" decidedly fits the bill.

In this track, Taylor reflects connected the extremity of her narration with Joe (who antecedently inspired "London Boy") and the memories they shared successful the metropolis unneurotic implicit the years. She besides alludes to what led to the demise of their relationship. 

"I didn't opt successful to beryllium your unusual antheral out," she sings. "I founded the nine she's heard large things astir / I near each I knew, you near maine astatine the location by the Heath."

"But Daddy I Love Him":  Taylor raised eyebrows erstwhile she spent clip with Matty, who's been called retired for his controverisal comments implicit the years. In "But Daddy I Love Him," she addresses a akin taxable of wanting a narration to enactment contempt disapproval from the extracurricular world.

"No I'm not coming to my senses," she declares. "I cognize it's brainsick but he's the 1 I want."

"Fresh Out the Slammer": After getting retired of a agelong narration with Joe, Taylor seemingly knew who she wanted to call: Matty. 

"I did my time," she sings. "Now beauteous babe I'm moving backmost location to you."

"Florida!!!" (featuring Florence and the Machine): What to bash erstwhile you request an escape? Head to Florida. At least, that's what Taylor and Florence Welch counsel successful this track. 

"You tin bushed the vigor if you bushed the charges excessively / They said I was a cheat, I conjecture it indispensable beryllium true," Taylor sings, referencing speculation astir her idiosyncratic life. "And my friends, each odor similar weed oregon small babies / And the metropolis reeks of driving myself crazy."

"I request to forget, truthful instrumentality maine to Florida," the lyrics aboriginal continue. "I've got immoderate regrets, I'll hide them successful Florida."

Taylor explained that the opus was really inspired by existent transgression sagas astir escaping town.

“I’m ever watching like Dateline—people, you know, person these crimes that they commit," she told iHeartRadio. "Where bash they instantly skip municipality and spell to? They spell to Florida, you know? They similar effort to reinvent themselves, person a caller identity, blend in. And I deliberation erstwhile you spell done a heartbreak, there’s a portion of you that thinks, 'I privation a caller name, I privation a caller life, I don’t privation anyone to cognize wherever I’ve been oregon cognize maine astatine all.'” 

One past concealed astir "Florida!!!"? Taylor's pal Emma Stone helped constitute the song.

"Guilty arsenic Sin?": In different evident motion to Matty, Taylor starts "Guilty arsenic Sin?" with the lyrics, "Drowning successful the Blue Nile / He sent maine downtown lights." Well, it conscionable truthful happens that, backmost successful 2022, Matty named The Blue Nile's Hats arsenic 1 of his favourite albums of the 1980s.

"Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?": Taylor tackles her critics successful this passionate track."Is it a wonderment I broke? Let’s perceive 1 morе joke," she sings. "Then we could each conscionable laughter until I cry."

"I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)": As Taylor notes successful this song, she believed she could assistance alteration someone, contempt immoderate naysayers.

"The fume unreality billows retired his rima similar a freight bid done a tiny town," she sings. "The jokes that helium told crossed the barroom were revolting and acold excessively loud."

"Thеy shingle their heads saying, 'God, assistance her' erstwhile I archer 'em he's my man," the lyrics continue. "But your bully lord doesn't request to assistance a digit / I tin hole him, no, really, I tin / And lone I can." 

"Loml": In this moving track, Taylor archetypal sings astir being called the emotion of someone's beingness "about a cardinal times." However, the dynamic soon changed. 

"If you cognize it successful 1 glimpse, it's legendary," she notes. "What we thought was for each clip was momentary."

She ends the opus by letting the idiosyncratic know, "You're the nonaccomplishment of my life."

While it could beryllium astir her agelong narration with Joe, lyrics astir "rekindled flames" and "we were conscionable kids, babe" hint it's astir her spark with Matty aft each these years: "I've felt a glow similar this ne'er earlier and ne'er since."

"I Can Do It With a Broken Heart": The opus appears to beryllium astir Taylor slaying her Eras Tour contempt the heartbreak, noting that she's "hittin' my marks" connected signifier successful beforehand of a chanting crowd. She hides her emotions by putting connected a beardown face: "Lights, camera, bitch smile."

Though this opus is upbeat, it's filled with lyrics of unrequited love. 

"I'm truthful obsessed with him, but helium avoids maine similar the plague / I outcry a lot, but I americium truthful productive, it's an art," she sings. "You cognize you're bully erstwhile you tin adjacent bash it with a breached heart."

"The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived": Taylor has a fewer questions for "the smallest antheral who ever lived," who seemingly near their narration retired of nowhere.

"You kicked retired the signifier lights, but you're inactive performing," she sings. "And successful plain show you hid / But you are what you did."

"The Alchemy": After ditching "the clowns," Taylor recovered the feline connected the Chiefs. In "The Alchemy," an apparent motion to her NFL subordinate boyfriend Travis Kelce, Taylor makes respective sports references.

"I haven't travel astir successful truthful agelong / But I'm coming backmost strong," Taylor sings. "So erstwhile I interaction down, telephone the amateurs and chopped 'em from the team."

She aboriginal references her past "blokes," who "warm the benches," noting "we been connected a winning streak."

"Clara Bow": The lyrics to the last opus connected the medium code the transportation betwixt Taylor and the precocious histrion Clara Bow, whose life, akin to Taylor's, was subjected to overmuch speculation and scrutiny.

"It's hellhole connected world to beryllium heavenly," Taylor sings. "Them's the brakes, they don't travel gently."

The lyrics besides enactment a spotlight connected the comparisons of women successful the nationalist eye, with the notation of Clara, Stevie Nicks and Taylor herself.

And, arsenic if being told to the adjacent prima successful line, "You look similar Taylor Swift / In this light, we're loving it," the lyrics state. "You've got edge, she ne'er did / The future's bright, dazzling."

"The Black Dog": The creator mourns the deficiency of closeness she present has with her ex aft they utilized to beryllium confidantes, singing, "I americium idiosyncratic who, until caller events / You shared your secrets with / And your determination / You forgot to crook it disconnected / And truthful I ticker arsenic you walkInto immoderate barroom called The Black Dog / And pierce caller holes successful my heart."

Fans judge she's expressing her grief pursuing her breakup with Joe, matching up an outfit Taylor wore successful a behind-the-scenes video of her signaling the way to an outfit she wore retired successful New York connected May 18, 2023—suggesting she made the opus earlier her breakup with Matty was revealed successful June 2023.

"thanK you aIMee": After surprising fans astatine 2 a.m. with a treble album, featuring 15 further Tortured Poet songs, Swifties were quick to spot Kim Kardashian's sanction successful the rubric of "thanK you aIMee."

"And it wasn't a just fight, oregon a cleanable termination / Each clip that Aimee stomped crossed my gravе," Taylor sings, seemingly referencing the infamous telephone telephone betwixt her and Kanye West that Kim posted online successful 2016. "And past she wrote hеadlinesIn the section paper, laughing astatine each babe measurement I'd take."

But, arsenic the lyrics note, Taylor is stronger now: "All that clip you were throwin' punches, I was buildin' somethin' / And I couldn't hold to amusement you it was existent / Screamed "F--k you, Aimee" to the nighttime sky, arsenic the humor was gushin' / But I can't hide the mode you made maine heal."

"So High School": Taylor seems to comparison her emotion communicative with Travis to a saccharine precocious schoolhouse romance.

"Are you gonna marry, buss oregon termination me?" she sings. "It's conscionable a game, but truly I'm bettin' connected each 3 for america two."

Travis was erstwhile asked successful a viral throwback video to play "kiss, marry, kill" with Taylor, Katy Perry and Ariana Grande. (He said he'd buss Taylor and wed Katy.)

In "So High School," Taylor besides alludes to Travis opening doors for her and possibly the nighttime she rode successful a convertible with him aft 1 of his shot games, noting, "Get my car door, isn't that sweet? Then propulsion maine to thе backseat." 

Not to notation this mic-drop: "You cognize however to ball, I cognize Aristotle."

"Cassandra": This way is inspired by the past Greek clairvoyant Cassandra. According to the Brooklyn Museum, "The deity Apollo, enamored of her, granted her the powerfulness of prophecy but, erstwhile she rejected him, sabotaged that powerfulness with a curse that nary 1 would judge her predictions."

Taylor seems to beryllium singing astir however she warned the nationalist astir 1 of her enemies—and she feels everyone present knows the person's existent colors. 

"So, they killed Cassandra archetypal 'cause she feared the worst," she sings. "And tried to archer the municipality / So they filled my compartment with snakes, I regret to accidental / Do you judge maine now?"

"I Look successful People's Windows": The song paints a heartbreaking picture of missing a erstwhile lover. In the chorus, she sings, "I look successful people's windows / In lawsuit you're astatine their array / What if your eyes looked up and met excavation / One much time."

It brings to caput her 2019 ballad "Death by a Thousand Cuts," successful which she laments, "I look done the windows of this emotion / Even though we boarded them up / Chandelier's inactive flickering present / 'Cause I can't unreal it's good erstwhile it's not."

"The Prophecy": Taylor begs the powers that beryllium to assistance her a caller person aft a breakup, apt pursuing her divided with Joe. 

"I've been connected my knees / Change the prophecy," work the lyrics. "Don't privation wealth / Just idiosyncratic who wants my institution / Let it erstwhile beryllium me."

Fans judge the opus could not beryllium astir Matty due to the fact that she included an Easter Egg for "The Prophecy" successful the "Karma" euphony video, which dropped connected May 26, 2023—before her breakup with The 1975 musician. The video shows Taylor dressed arsenic a aureate statue, nodding to these "Prophecy" lyrics: "But adjacent statues crumble if they're made to wait." (Taylor adjacent confirmed the Easter Egg by liking a instrumentality tweet astir the connection.)

"Peter": She sings astir a antheral who told her was gonna "grow up" and past "come find" her to commencement their lives. However, 1 hint astir Peter's property tipped fans disconnected that Peter is astir apt a pseudonym for Matty.

"And you said you'd travel and get me, but you were 25," Taylor sings. "And the support beingness of those fantasies has expired."

Indeed, Matty was astir 25 years aged successful 2014, erstwhile the brace grew adjacent and helium famously supported Taylor by wearing a 1989 T-shirt.

The Peter successful this opus is besides apt the aforesaid Peter successful 2020's "Cardigan" ("Peter losing Wendy") arsenic a notation to Peter Pan.

"Lost to the 'Lost Boys' section of your life," work the lyrics of her caller 2024 track. "Forgive me, Peter, delight cognize that I tried."

Still not convinced Matty is THE Peter? When helium and Taylor were dating successful May 2023, she mouthed the words "This 1 is astir you. You cognize who you are. I emotion you" connected signifier astatine the Eras Tour portion performing "Cardigan."

"The Manuscript": The lyrics whitethorn notation her romance with Jake Gyllenhaal oregon John Mayer since she sings astir an property spread (they are 9 and 12 years older than she is, respectively).

“In the property of him, she wished she was 30 / And made java each greeting successful a Frеnch press," Taylor sings, aboriginal adding, "She thought astir however helium said since she was truthful omniscient beyond her years / Everything had been supra committee / She wasn't sure."

One large mentation is that she wrote "The Manuscript" portion revisting "All Too Well"—believed to beryllium astir Jake—to grounds the 10-minute mentation for 2021's Red (Taylor's Version). She turned the ballad into a abbreviated film, which she seems to allude to successful "The Manuscript": "Then the actors / Were hitting their marks / And the dilatory creation / Was alight with the sparks / And the tears fell / In synchronicity with the score."

The lyrics besides telephone to 1 of Taylor's predominant comments astir "All Too Well," successful that she feels the opus has present go much astir the fans than the romance she had: "Now and past I reread the manuscript / But the communicative isn't excavation anymore."