![]() ![]() "I once believed love would be burning red / But it's golden" – "Daylight" from "Lover"Īcknowledging she's grown from "Red" but appreciating it as a part of her past enough to include it on her latest album? We don't know a better person.Ĥ1. In the first moments of her first pop-but-not-technically-pop album, Swift proved to naysayers that her lyrical genius isn't defined to one genre.Ĥ3. “’Cause it's all over, it's not meant to be / So I'll say words I don't believe” – "Bigger Than the Whole Sky" from "Midnights (3am Edition)"Ī perfect distillation of how we try and rationalize heartbreak. "Back when you fit in my poems like a perfect rhyme" – "Holy Ground" from "Red" Wish you could go back and tell yourself that.Ĥ4. "Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday but I realized some bigger dreams of mine / And Abigail gave everything she had to a boy who changed his mind" – "Fifteen" from "Fearless"īigger dreams? Try 11-time winner and 41-time nominee at the Grammys, two-time Time 100 Most Influential People recipient and 2019 American Music Awards Artist of the Decade honoree. Review: Taylor Swift is a kid again on 'Lover,' a big, messy embrace of a new albumĤ5. No, you're crying over a musical instrument. "He says he's so in love / He's finally got it right / I wonder if he knows he's all I think about at night" – "Teardrops on My Guitar" from "Taylor Swift" ![]() "Cold was the steel of my axe to grind for the boys who broke my heart / Now I send their babies presents" – "Invisible String" from "Folklore"įrom exposing your teenage ex-boyfriend for dumping you over the phone to sending gifts to his newborn: That's forever and always for you.Ĥ6. The Dear John letters continue - and only get more vitriolic.Ĥ7. Luckily, her rerecordings have begun to serve as a triumphant reclaiming of the old works that got her here.Ĥ8. "And if you never saved me from boredom / I could have gone on as I was / But, lord, you made me feel important / And then you tried to erase us" – "Would've Could've Should've" from "Midnights (3am Edition)" This melancholy summation of Swift's public battle against music executive Scooter Braun for her masters (the reason she's rerecording her first six studio albums) is heartbreakingly weary. “He's got my past frozen behind glass / But I've got me” – “It’s Time To Go - Bonus Track” from “Evermore” "Back then we didn't know / We were built to fall apart / We broke the status quo / Then we broke each other's hearts" – "The Very First Night (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)" from "Red (Taylor's Version)"Ĭould this be the prequel to "Out of The Woods?" Again, referencing your own past lyrics is simply iconic, legendary behavior.Ĥ9. Seek the Lord while He may be found call upon Him while He is near.We love this moment in the song where terror twists into triumph.ĥ0. None of us will escape death, for it is an appointment that we all will keep. I can only hope and pray that your prayer too is "Lord, teach me to number my days". ![]() If you have not been living your days here on earth as wise, but as foolish, I urge, beg and plea with you on today that you would incline your ear unto wisdom that is only found in the Word of God. Scripture declares in Hebrews 9:27 As it is appointed for men to die once, but after this comes the judgment. Have you ever given thought to these things? What is the number of your days? What will be the day of my last breath? When my last breath is drawn, will I have lived my life as one wise or foolish? When life on this side is over, where will I spend eternity? The foolish and unbelieving person thinks that life on earth is it, but many who have rejected Christ and His Gospel will be horrified after transitioning from earth to eternity realizing that they will be separated from God forever. How are you living out the days that God has numbered for you? What are you doing with your time? Are you wasting it by making unwise decisions, or is your life producing fruit that will multiply in the kingdom of God?Ī fool despises wisdom and instruction. Scripture declares that the number of our days on earth is already known by God and that none of us will live one minute beyond the time that God has already given each one of us.Įven if we lived to be 100 or even 200 years, what are those years in comparison to eternity. ![]() Job 14:5 Our time on earth is brief the number of our days is already decided by you.Įvery man has been allotted a number of days here on earth. ![]()
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