Posted on Dec 29, 2021

Here Are All Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Meticulously By Two Superfans Who Got In Several Fights Over This

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Note: While they are beautiful songs and represent important moments of Taylor's discography, we have decided this time to exclude "Ronan," 'Marjorie," and "Soon You'll Get Better," as we do not think they should be "ranked" against other songs.

Favorite lyric: "Maybe I should've seen the signs, should've read the writing on the wall."

Favorite lyric: "Some day I will be strong enough to lift not one but both of us."

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Favorite lyric: "And I don't try to hide my tears, my secrets, or my deepest fears. Through it all, nobody gets me like you do."

Favorite lyric: "Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything and everybody believed in you?"

Favorite lyric: "'Cause when I close my eyes and drift away, I think of you and everything's okay. I'm finally now believing."

Favorite lyric: "Wake up and smell the breakup. Fix my heart, put on my makeup."

Favorite lyric: "Just as long as you're mine, I'll be your everything tonight."

Favorite lyric: "If you're out there, if you're somewhere, if you're moving on. I've been waiting for you every day since you've been gone."

Favorite lyric: “So I beg on knees. Can we share IDs? Will you always need? We have common needs. We can sure deplete. We can be replete. Address table needs. It is swift your speed.”

Favorite lyric: "I would give it all up to be a part of this, a part of you."

Favorite lyric: "They aren't gonna help us, too busy helping themselves. They aren't gonna change this, we gotta do it ourselves. They think that it's over, but it's just begun."

Favorite lyric: "Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes, you say sorry just for show. If you live like that, you live with ghosts."

Favorite lyric: "In the middle of the night when I'm in this dream, it's like a million little stars spelling out your name."

Favorite lyric: "I'd be a fearless leader, I'd be an alpha type. When everyone believes ya, what's that like?"

Favorite lyric: "And the organ starts to play a song that sounds like a death march."

Favorite lyric: "Ocean blue eyes looking in mine. I feel like I might sink and drown and die."

Favorite lyric: "And all I think about is how to make you think of me and everything that we could be."

Favorite lyric: "Walking through a crowd, the village is aglow. Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats under coats."

Favorite lyric: "And I've cleaned enough houses to know how to cover up a scene."

Favorite lyric: "The master of spin has a couple side flings, good wives always know. She should be mad, should be scathing like me, but no one likes a mad woman."

Favorite lyric: "Something in his deep brown eyes has me sayin', he's not all bad like his reputation and I can't hear one single word they say."

Favorite lyric: "You're trying not to get lost in the sound but that song is always on, so you sing along."

Favorite lyric: "Church bells ring, carry me home. Rice on the ground looks like snow."

Favorite lyric: "And when you find everything you looked for, I hope your life will lead you back to my front door."

Favorite lyric: "We're so sad, we paint the town blue. Voted most likely to run away with you."

Favorite lyric: "You did a number on me but honestly, baby, who's counting? Who's counting? (One, two, three.)"

Favorite lyric: "Something med school did not cover. Someone's daughter, someone's mother."

Favorite lyric: "Want to see you pick up your phone, and tell her you're coming home."

Favorite lyric: "Don't know what's down this road, I'm just walking. Trying to see through the rain coming down."

Favorite lyric: "Don't you see the starlight, starlight? Don't you dream impossible things?"

Favorite lyric: "But sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you wanna go."

Favorite lyric: "They say you bought a bunch of land somewhere. Chose the rose garden over Madison Square."

Favorite lyric: "All those times that you didn't leave, it's been occurring to me I'd like to hang out with you for my whole life."

Favorite lyric: "I was trying to fly, but I couldn't find wings. But you came along and you changed everything."

Favorite lyric: "Talk to the wind, talk to the sky, talk to the man with the reasons why. And let me know what you find."

Favorite lyric: "In my heart is a Christmas tree farm where the people would come to dance under sparkling lights."

Favorite lyric: "I know I'm just a wrinkle in your new life. Staying friends would iron it out so nice."

Favorite lyric: "I forgot that you got out some popcorn as soon as my rep started going down, down, down."

Favorite lyric: "And therein lies the issue, friends don't try to trick you, get you on the phone, and mind-twist you."

Favorite lyric: "I hate accidents except when we went from friends to this."

Favorite lyric: "Don't want no other shade of blue but you. No other sadness in the world would do."

Favorite lyric: "And he can be my jailer, Burton to this Taylor. Every love I've known in comparison is a failure."

Favorite lyric: "Stick with me, I'm your queen like a Tennessee Stella McCartney on the Heath."

Favorite lyric: "Remind me how it used to be. Pictures in frames of kisses on cheeks."

Favorite lyric: "In backyards, winning battles with our wooden swords. But now we've stepped into a cruel world where everybody stands and keeps score."

Favorite lyric: "Echoes of your name inside my mind. Halo hiding my obsession. I once was poison ivy, but now I'm your daisy."

Favorite lyric: "15 years, 15 million tears, begging 'til my knees bled. I gave it my all, he gave nothing at all, then wondered why I left."

Favorite lyric: "You got shiny friends since you left town. A tiny screen's the only place I see you now."

Favorite lyric: "Out here, the wild ones are taming the fear within me. Scared to call them my friends and be broken again. Is this hope just a mystical dream?"

Favorite lyric: “No one could touch the way we laughed in the dark talking ‘bout your daddy’s farm we were gonna buy someday.”

Favorite lyric: "You could write a book on how to ruin someone's perfect day."

Favorite lyric: "I guess it's true that love was all you wanted, 'cause you're giving it away like it's extra change. Hoping it will end up in his pocket, but he leaves you out like a penny in the rain."

Favorite lyric: "And it was like slow motion standing there in my party dress. In red lipstick, with no one to impress."

Favorite lyric: "I'm really gonna miss you picking fights and me falling for it screaming that I'm right. And you would hide away and find your peace of mind with some indie record that's much cooler than mine."

Favorite lyric: "You played in bars, you play guitar, and I'm invisible and everyone knows who you are. And you'll never see, you sing me to sleep every night from the radio."

Favorite lyric: "So here I am in my new apartment in a big city, they just dropped me off. It's so much colder than I thought it would be, so I tuck myself in and turn my night light on."

Favorite lyric: "When you're young, you just run, but you come back to what you need."

Favorite lyric: "You had me crawling for you, honey, and it never would've gone away, no. You used to shine so bright, but I watched all of it fade."

Favorite lyric: "I want auroras and sad prose. I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet, 'cause I haven't moved in years."

Favorite lyric: "I don't think that passenger seat has ever looked this good to me."

Favorite lyric: "With your face and the beautiful eyes. And the conversation with the little white lies. And the faded picture of a beautiful night. You carry me from your car up the stairs."

Favorite lyric: "You've got a smile that takes me to another planet. Every move you make, everything you say is right, today was a fairy tale."

Favorite lyric: "Kiss me, try to fix it, could you just try to listen? Hang up, give up, and for the life of us we can't get back."

Favorite lyric: "Fifty years is a long time. Holiday House sat quietly on that beach free of women with madness, their men, and bad habits. And then it was bought by me."

Favorite lyric: "I bet it never, ever occurred to you that I can't say hello to you and risk another goodbye."

Favorite lyric: “Guess I never doubted it, then the here and the now floods in. Feels like I’m becoming a part of your past.”

Favorite lyric: "I'll be 87, you'll be 87, I'll still look at you like the stars that shine in the sky, oh my my my."

Favorite lyric: "And you wanna scream, don't call me 'kid,' don't call me 'baby.' Look at this godforsaken mess that you made me. You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else."

Favorite lyric: "He will try to take away my pain and he just might make me smile, but the whole time, I'm wishing it was you instead."

Favorite lyric: "Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen? Time went on for everybody else. She won't know it, she's still 23 inside her fantasy."

Favorite lyric: "This is falling in love in the cruelest way. This is falling for you when you are worlds away."

Favorite lyric: "And I stare at the phone, he still hasn't called. And then you feel so low you can't feel nothing at all. And you flashback to when he said forever and always."

Favorite lyric: "And now I know why all the trees change in the fall. I know you were on my side even when I was wrong."

Favorite lyric: "You searched the world for something else to make you feel like what we had and in the end, in Wonderland, we both went mad."

Favorite lyric: "One night, he wakes. Strange look on his face. Pauses, then says, 'You're my best friend.' And you knew what it was, he is in love."

Favorite lyric: "Break free and leave us in ruins. Took this dagger in me and removed it. Gain the weight of you, then lose it. Believe me, I could do it."

Favorite lyric: "I miss screaming and fighting and kissing in the rain. It's 2 a.m. and I'm cursing your name."

Favorite lyric: “Too young to know it gets better. I’ll be summer sun for you forever. Forever winter if you go.”

Favorite lyric: "There's no time for tears. I'm just sitting here planning my revenge. There's nothing stopping me from going out with all of your best friends."

Favorite lyric: "Remembering him comes in flashbacks and echoes. Tell myself it's time now, gotta let go. But moving on from him is impossible when I still see it all in my head in burning red."

Favorite lyric: "So I drive home alone, as I turn off the light. I'll put his picture down and maybe get some sleep tonight."

Favorite lyric: "And I should've been there, in the back of your mind. I shouldn't be asking myself, 'Why?' You shouldn't be begging for forgiveness at my feet."

Favorite lyric: "I'd kiss you as the lights went out. Swaying as the room burned down. I'd hold you as the water rushes in."

Favorite lyric: "Is this the end of all the endings? My broken bones are mending with all these nights we're spending up on the roof with a school girl crush, drinking beer out of plastic cups."

Favorite lyric: "You always knew how to push my buttons. You give me everything and nothing. This mad, mad love makes you come running to stand back where you stood."

Favorite lyric: "And you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you."

Favorite lyric: "If you kiss me, will it be just like I dreamed it? Will it patch your broken wings?"

Favorite lyric: "If a man talks shit, then I owe him nothing."

Favorite lyric: "I rewind the tape, but all it does is pause on the very moment all was lost."

Favorite lyric: "Loose lips sink ships all the damn time. Not this time."

Favorite lyric: “There’s a chain ‘round your throat, piece of paper where I wrote ‘I’ll wait for you.’ There’s a key on the chain, there’s a picture in a frame. Take it with you.”

Favorite lyric: "Flashback when you met me. Your buzzcut and my hair bleached. Even in my worst times, you could see the best in me."

Favorite lyric: "People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye."

Favorite lyric: "But I took your matches before fire could catch me so don't look now. I'm shining like fireworks over your sad empty town."

Favorite lyric: "I'll be there if you're the toast of the town, babe. Or if you strike out and you're crawling home."

Favorite lyric: "I think he knows his hands around a cold glass make me wanna know that body like it's mine."

Favorite lyric: "It's so excruciating to see you low. Just wanna lift you up and not let you go."

Favorite lyric: “And that’s when, I’ll be waiting at the front gate. That’s when, when I see your face. I’ll let you in, and baby, that’s when.”

Favorite lyric: "Someday you'll turn your radio on, I hope it takes you back to that place."

Favorite lyric: “Sometimes, I really wish that I could hate you. I’ve tried, but that’s just somethin’ I can’t do.”

Favorite lyric: "I can see you standing, honey. With his arms around your body. Laughin', but the joke's not funny at all."

Favorite lyric: "Pushed from the precipice, climbed right back up the cliff, long story short, I survived."

Favorite lyric: “What a waste, takin’ down the pictures and the plans we made. And it’s strange how your face doesn’t look so innocent. Your secret has its consequence and that’s on you, babe.”

Favorite lyric: "Time, wondrous time gave me the blues and then purple-pink skies."

Favorite lyric: "I know heaven's a thing. I go there when you touch me, honey. Hell is when I fight with you."

Favorite lyric: "I want to wear his initial on a chain 'round my neck, chain 'round my neck. Not because he owns me, but 'cause he really knows me."

Favorite lyric: "Hey Stephen, I could give you 50 reasons why I should be the one you choose. All those other girls, well, they're beautiful. But would they write a song for you?"

Favorite lyric: "I can't make it go away by making you a villain. I guess it's the price I paid for seven years in heaven."

Favorite lyric: "And when they call your name, and they put your picture in a frame. You know that I'll be there time and again, 'cause I loved you when."

Favorite lyric: "And to the fella over there with the hella good hair, won't you come on over, baby? We can shake, shake, shake."

Favorite lyric: "What must it be like to grow up that beautiful? With your hair falling into place like dominoes. My mind turns your life into folklore, I can't dare to dream about you anymore."

Favorite lyric: “You needed ass, well, what’s wrong with that?”

Favorite lyric: "I wake in the night, I pace like a ghost. The room is on fire, invisible smoke. And all of my heroes die all alone."

Favorite lyric: "Your braids like a pattern, love you to the moon and to Saturn. Passed down like folk songs, the love lasts so long."

Favorite lyric: "And it would've been sweet if it could've been me."

Favorite lyric: "I once believed love would be burning red, but it's golden."

Favorite lyric: “And I became hypnotized by freckles and bright eyes, tongue-tied."

Favorite lyric: "And I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want, just not home. And you can aim for my heart, go for blood, but you would still miss me in your bones."

Favorite lyric: "And I don't know why, but with you I'd dance in a storm in my best dress, fearless."

Favorite lyric: "Nothing safe is worth the drive."

Favorite lyric: "I like the way I can't keep my focus. I watch you talk, you didn't notice. I hear the words but all I can think is we should be together."

Favorite lyric: "We could just ride around and the road not taken looks real good now."

Favorite lyric: “‘Cause they don’t know about the night in the hotel. They weren’t riding in the car when we both fell. Didn’t read the note on the Polaroid picture. They don’t know how much I miss you.”

Favorite lyric: “So I lied, and I cried. And I watched a part of myself die. ‘Cause no amount of freedom gets you clean, I’ve still got you all over me.”

Favorite lyric: "And you know that I'd swing with you for the fences. Sit with you in the trenches. Give you my wild, give you a child. Give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other."

Favorite lyric: "'Cause we were like the mall before the internet, it was the one place to be. The mischief, the gift-wrapped suburban dreams. Sorry for not winning you an arcade ring."

Favorite lyric: "How's one to know? I'd live and die for moments that we stole on begged and borrowed time."

Favorite lyric: "So don't you worry your pretty little mind. People throw rocks at things that shine."

Favorite lyric: "And I'm still a believer but I don't know why. I've never been a natural. All I do is try, try, try. I'm still on that trapeze, I'm still trying everything to keep you looking at me."

Favorite lyric: "You'll see me in hindsight, tangled up with you all night burnin' it down. Someday when you leave me, I'd bet these memories follow you around."

Favorite lyric: "Marry me, Juliet, you'll never have to be alone. I love you, and that's all I really know. I talked to your dad, go pick out a white dress. It's a love story, baby, just say yes."

Favorite lyric: "People are people and sometimes it doesn't work out. Nothing we say is gonna save us from the fallout."

Favorite lyric: “I know someday I'm gonna meet her, it's a fever dream. The kind of radiance you only have at 17. She'll know the way and then she'll say she got the map from me. I'll say I'm happy for her, then I'll cry myself to sleep."

Favorite lyric: "Baby, I get mystified by how this city screams your name."

Favorite lyric: "'Cause baby, I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me."

Favorite lyric: "They told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential."

Favorite lyric: "Now you hang from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon. With your boots beneath my bed, forever is the sweetest con."

Favorite lyric: “I hold on to this pride because these days it’s all I have. And I gave to you my best and we both know you can’t say that.”

Favorite lyric: "My time, my wine, my spirit, my trust. Tryna find a part of me you didn't take up. Gave you so much but it wasn't enough. But I'll be alright. It's just a thousand cuts."

Favorite lyric: "So you were never a saint and I've loved in shades of wrong. We learn to live with the pain, mosaic broken hearts. But this love is brave and wild."

"Mr. Perfectly Fine" is teenage Taylor at her best, giving monikers and titular identities for each transgression of a shitty boyfriend. The song may be sung with her signature soft voice but it’s also stamped with that signature teen angst. Never before was a drag so beautiful, so catchy, and so irresistibly perfect.

Favorite lyric: “It’s such a shame. ‘Cause I was Miss ‘Here to stay.’ Now I’m Miss ‘Gonna be alright someday.’ And someday maybe you’ll miss me but by then, you’ll be Mr. ‘Too late.'”

“This is a song that for me is always gonna be about you,” Taylor told a stadium full of 70,000 screaming fans before playing the first few piano keys of “Long Live.” Ever since its 2010 release, the song has served as a monumental example of the unbreakable bond Taylor has with her fans — one that’s rare to find, especially among other artists of her fame. Retrospectively, the song was released on the early side of her career so the lyrics that reflect on crowds in stands and all the magic made have become more and more relevant with time. It’s the kind of song whose memories invoke feelings you’ll absolutely be telling your kids about someday when they “point to the pictures.” It’s essentially a snapshot of Taylor’s earliest glimpse of mega-success and ultimately a fraction of what she would soon achieve.

Favorite lyric: "Hold on to spinning around. Confetti falls to the ground. May these memories break our fall."

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“Out of the Woods” is Taylor’s metaphor for a precarious relationship. It’s an examination that comes with every relationship — or pseudo-relationship, depending on who’s listening. Have we reached the point of exclusivity? Have we made it past this rough patch? Are we out of the metaphorical woods? What makes it so brilliant is that the answer to those questions is answered in the bridge. Like the relationship, the chaotic and unnerving vocal production ended with an unforgettable crash.

Favorite lyric: "The rest of the world was black and white, but we were in screaming color."

It seems impossible for Taylor Swift to have any type of uncharted territory. Her discography covers the vast spectrum of love, relationships, and life in such a specific, intricate way. Yet with “Renegade,” we witness the newness of Taylor's sound with Big Red Machine and the novelty of the themes she explores. With her classic introspection and hyperawareness, Taylor croons, “Is it insensitive for me to say, ‘Get your shit together, so I can love you?’” before saying, “Is it really your anxiety that stops you from giving me everything? Or do you just not want to?” It’s essentially the thesis of the song: There’s messiness, frustration, and beauty in loving — and being loved by — an imperfect partner.

Favorite lyric: “Is it really your anxiety that stops you from giving me everything? Or do you just not want to?”

If there was one song from 1989 that summed up the energy of the album as a whole, it would be “Style.” Fusing synth-pop, funk-pop, and pop rock, the Taylor, Max Martin, and Shellback creation reflects on a past relationship in the sleekest, sexiest, and most mysterious way. We won’t say which but we think you can easily draw that conclusion. The entirety of the chorus quickly became one of Taylor’s most memorable pieces of work and since its release has earned its rightful staying power on Taylor’s live setlist.

Favorite lyric: "You got that James Dean daydream look in your eyes. And I got that red lip classic thing that you like."

“Getaway Car” has been a fan favorite ever since the 2017 release of Reputation, and for good reason. The track’s studio version is absolutely brilliant and purely electric when performed live. It’s a classic showcase of the magic that happens when Jack Antonoff and Taylor Swift work together. “I’m in a getaway car, I left you in the motel bar. Put the money in a bag and I stole the keys. That was the last time you ever saw me,” Taylor sang, making a situation that only she could experience something we could copy and paste to our past, present, and future relationships.

Favorite lyric: "I'm in a getaway car. I left you in a motel bar. Put the money in a bag and I stole the keys. That was the last time you ever saw me."

The storytelling and lyricism of “Champagne Problems” cuts through the listener's heart like a freshly sharpened steak knife. Even a casual Taylor listener knows she loves a turn of phrase, and the way she transformed a simple phrase like champagne problems, which is used to describe trivial problems, into a tragic story of love gone awry is remarkable.

The song culminates with a bridge with the same intensity and heartache as "All Too Well," but this time, it permeates even more maturity, more heartache, and more bite. The line in "All Too Well" that goes, "You call me up again just to break me like a promise," has now become "'She would've made such a lovely bride / 'What a shame she's fucked in the head,' they said." Finding new ways to explore that universal heartache, self-doubt, and that inner monologue of insecurity has always been Taylor's strongest suit. And in "Champagne Problems," every lyric, every line, and every execution of her low register paint that picture beautifully and tragically.

Favorite lyric: "One for the money, two for the show. I never was ready so I watch you go. Sometimes you just don't know the answer, 'til someone's on their knees and asks you. 'She would've made such a lovely bride / 'What a shame she's fucked in the head,' they said."

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“Blank Space” was a pivotal moment for Taylor’s career that often went unnoticed. Besides being a brilliantly infectious pop song, it’s one of the first times Taylor clapped back. If “Mean” was her first time checking unfair critics, “Blank Space” was her first time outsmarting them. “Blank Space” showed Taylor could take a joke, make a joke, and flip the narrative on its head. Oh yeah, and win an Emmy, a few Grammys, and almost 3 billion views. Don’t underestimate the power of “Blank Space” just because you and everyone else know every single brilliant word.

Favorite lyric: "'Cause, darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream."

“Holy Ground” is an up-tempo, drum-pulsating track that features Taylor — in all her New York–inspired early twenties naïveté — looking back on a relationship in true TS fashion, memorializing the relationship as something beautiful but ultimately unsuccessful. Unsurprisingly, when Taylor reminisces on a relationship, the smallest moments — a note with a joke on the door, a brief glance, etc. — become even grander, more poetic, and more important in the scheme of things.

Favorite lyric: "Tonight, I'm gonna dance for all that we've been through, but I don't wanna dance, if I'm not dancing with you."

From the moment Taylor starts singing the lyrics, “Salt air and the rust on your door,” the listener is immediately transported back to those blissful late teenage summers of a carefree, spontaneous romance. Besides its escapism and the way it fits so perfectly into the Folklore storyline, "August" delivers a double bridge. Like the rest of Folklore, the line “Back when we were still changing for the better” sounds so simple yet makes you think about your own adolescence, personal growth, and past. This form of escapism is a prime example of what made Folklore and a few months later Evermore such soothing quarantine albums.

Favorite lyric: "To live for the hope of it all. Cancel plans just in case you'd call and say, 'Meet me behind the mall.'"

When a TS song is over six minutes, you know shit’s about to go down. And what goes down in "Enchanted" is a romantic, trancelike track about a first-time meet. If normal people say, “Oh, I hope this person is single,” Taylor Swift sings, “Please don’t be in love with someone else, Please don’t have somebody waiting on you.”

Favorite lyric: "Please don't be in love with someone else. Please don't have somebody waiting on you."

The cherry on top of the purely pop 1989 is this Imogen Heap collab. Taylor’s never been shy when it comes to using metaphors. She takes common words and phrases and applies them to the interpersonal struggles we all experience. Whether it’s about a relationship, an addiction, or just an internal struggle, “Clean” is an ode to that feeling of self-liberation. “I think I am finally clean,” Taylor sings. Truly one of her best songs — sonically and lyrically. The song represents a pivotal moment for Taylor, as she begins to dabble in more layered vocal arrangements, synth pop sounds, and heavier production — something we’d soon become familiar with on Folklore and Evermore.

Favorite lyric: "You're still all over me like a wine-stained dress I can't wear anymore."

Sadder than any Taylor ballad was the underutilization of this song. This Taylor, St. Vincent, and Jack Antonoff love child was bound to be a sonically lush, beat-heavy masterpiece and that it is. The under-three-minute track is a smooth, catchy, synth-pop song with an undeniably infectious hook. The chorus alone gives this song the potential to be a chart-topping beast, but it’s the bridge that sets it apart from Taylor’s typical pop songs. If you’ve heard it, you know the primal scream she lets out, singing, “I love you, ain’t that the worst thing you’ve ever heard? He looks up grinning like a devil…” before a final bass drop. It’s the authentic, unvarnished emotion that permeates through the Lover album and the reexamination of small moments in life — like a drunken night out — that make Taylor so good at what she does. Perhaps "Cruel Summer" was meant to exist as an underused track, where it will continue to age like the finest of wines.

Favorite lyric: "So cut the headlights, summer's a knife. I'm always waiting for you just to cut to the bone."

In "Last Kiss," it's clear Taylor has started to really hone her craft. Between the time stamps of the pivotal moments of a breakup, forever-remembered dates of a heartbreak, and vivid depictions of an intimate last kiss shared with a now-estranged lover, "Last Kiss" makes for a devastating listening experience. The most memorable part of the song is the bridge:

"So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep. And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe. And I'll keep up with our old friends just to ask them how you are. Hope it's nice where you are."

It preludes the songwriting of "All Too Well." The small-but-important moments of a relationship have now turned to moments of loneliness, confusion, and sadness. Taylor described "Last Kiss" as a letter, and it seems like the author of the six-and-a-half track isn't quite ready to let go of something so impactful on their life — at least, not without reminiscing on all of its beauty.

Favorite lyric: "So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep. And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe. And I'll keep up with our old friends just to ask them how you are. Hope it's nice where you are."

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It’s revered among critics, fans, and haters for a reason. In the first two verses, it describes the typical steps in a relationship's timeline: the beautiful moments of singing in the car together, meeting a partner's parents and listening to childhood stories, and late nights of dancing in the kitchen. It's a song about remembering these moments, painfully aware that they now sit on a shelf in the past.

As if the original “All Too Well” wasn't enough of a gut punch, Taylor doubled the length, the lyrics, and the severity of the now-iconic track. What makes this version of “All Too Well” even more special — and worthy of the No. 1 spot — is the experience of listening to it. It may be your 50th time hearing it but you’re feeling the intensity of those added verses and eventually the added bridges as the song crescendos into that heartbreaking finale. “Just between us,” Taylor sings to millions of people about her pain, “Did the love affair maim you too?”

The best part of this version of “All Too Well” is the way it symbolizes the mythology of the original track. At first, “All Too Well” was a song Taylor would sing on tour, holding back tears, struggling to play without getting emotional. Then, she performed it on the Grammys after realizing how powerful and universal it had become to fans and listeners. And now, we finally have the real-life, elusive 10-minute version of the song and a short film to go with it.

Even more so than Taylor’s other songs, “All Too Well” seems to have taken on a life of its own — bigger, longer, and better than any of us could have ever imagined.

Favorite lyric: “And there we are again, when nobody had to know. You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath. Sacred prayer and we’d swear to remember it all too well.”

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Here Are All Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Meticulously By Two Superfans Who Got In Several Fights Over This

Hi! We're Sam and Ryan, and we're huge Swifties. Last year, we ranked Taylor's discography and since then, Taylor has updated and released a lot more music. So we thought it would be fun — and slightly chaotic — to rank her flawless discography together AGAIN.

Without further ado, we present all Taylor Swift's songs ranked:

181. "A Perfectly Good Heart"

180. "Both of Us" (with B.o.B)

179. "I'm Only Me When I'm With You"

178. "Innocent"

177. "Two Is Better Than One" (with Boys Like Girls)

176. "I Heart ?"

175. "Beautiful Eyes"

174. "If This Was a Movie"

173. "Birch" (with Big Red Machine)

172. "The Outside"

171. "Only the Young"

170. "Bad Blood"

169. "Untouchable" (Taylor's Version)

168. "Me!" (feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco)

167. "The Man"

166. "Speak Now"

165. "Gorgeous"

164. "Invisible"

163. "Welcome to New York"

162. "No Body, No Crime" (feat. Haim)

161. "Mad Woman"

160. "You Need to Calm Down"

159. "Superman"

158. "Highway Don't Care" (with Tim McGraw and Keith Urban)

157. "It's Nice to Have a Friend"

156. "Stay Beautiful"

155. "Look What You Made Me Do"

154. "Miss Americana & The Heart Break Prince"

153. "So It Goes..."

152. "Epiphany"

151. "The Last Time" (feat. Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol) (Taylor's Version)

150. "Girl at Home" (Taylor's Version)

149. "A Place in This World"

148. "Starlight" (Taylor's Version)

147. "Better Than Revenge"

146. "The Lucky One" (Taylor's Version)

145. "Stay Stay Stay" (Taylor's Version)

144. "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" (feat. Zayn)

143. "Crazier"

142. "Come in With the Rain" (Taylor's Version)

141. "Christmas Tree Farm"

140. "Closure"

139. "I Forgot That You Existed"

138. "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things"

137. "End Game" (feat. Ed Sheeran & Future)

136. "Paper Rings"

135. "Hoax"

134. "...Ready For It?"

133. "London Boy"

132. "Everything Has Changed" (feat. Ed Sheeran) (Taylor's Version)

131. "How You Get the Girl"

130. "Eyes Open"

129. "Don't Blame Me"

128. "It's Time to Go"

127. "Dorothea"

126. "Beautiful Ghosts"

125. "We Were Happy" (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)

124. "Tell Me Why" (Taylor's Version)

123. "Tied Together With a Smile"

122. "Mine"

121. "The Moment I Knew" (Taylor's Version)

120. "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (Taylor's Version)

119. "Superstar" (Taylor's Version)

118. "Never Grow Up" (Taylor's Version)

117. "This Love"

116. "Willow"

115. "You're Not Sorry" (Taylor's Version)

114. "Change" (Taylor's Version)

113. "The Lakes"

112. "I'd Lie"

111. "The Other Side of the Door" (Taylor's Version)

110. "Today Was a Fairytale" (Taylor's Version)

109. "Sad Beautiful Tragic" (Taylor's Version)

108. "The Last Great American Dynasty"

107. "I Almost Do" (Taylor's Version)

106. "Bye Bye Baby" (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)

105. "Mary's Song (Oh My My My)"