Take Me To The Lakes Where All The Poets Went To Die. I Don’t Belong, And My Beloved, Neither Do You.

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i just can’t get over it

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Kristina O’neill via Instagram stories (3/24/23)

Taylor is known to pay attention to the smallest details to send the right message. Is it possible that the message she wants to send our way completely went over our heads?

Let’s talk about the END GAME video. She laid out multiple tells about an unspoken truth for people to assume, but what if she also gave us the end of her game of hide and go seek with her most precious easter egg, her truth.

There is no coincidence, she carefully staged two fleeting scenes that reveals her muse. If you look closer, the girl in black is exactly placed in the same position as the black cat.

Both eyes on her.

There’s an undeniable theme that Reputation exhumes: A love so dark yet pure that she cannot resist but to bask in.

Now, let’s digest the two scenes so we could better understand how relevant this is to the narrative so far.

There are two things the two subjects in the back has in common:

Being a figure of darkness; both are observed as being covered in black. Why is this relevant? Darkness is a tool for concealment. The absence of light provides an unbeatable cover for the truth. Calculated movements, unnoticed touches, stolen glances and hidden truth all dwell in the dark shadows of night. This affair is a secret.

Here are lyrics to support this:

“No one has to know”

“Our secret moments in a crowded room

They got no idea about me and you(…)

Everyone thinks that they know us

But they know nothing about—…”

“I loved you in secret…

Picture of your face in an invisible locket”

“Something happened for the first time

In the darkest little paradise”

They are both looking at her. Regardless of ones reason or intention to stare, one thing is undeniable, there is an underlying need; an unspoken wanting. Her lover wants her as much as she does. The whole album makes us aware of how intense the attraction Taylor feels for her lover and the silent gaze proves that the attraction is mutual.

Let’s now focus our attention to the Cat.

Generally, cats are perceived as fluffy, adorable, silly and sometimes grumpy animals. But that isn’t what Taylor wants us to see. She specifically chosen a BLACK CAT to stand in as her lover in the dark.

A simple google search will give you an idea of a Black Cat’s Reputation: Superstition, prejudice, bringer of good or bad luck.

Superstition - a widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences. of an action or event, or a practice based on such a belief.

Prejudice - preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

Given these definitions, we arrive to an understanding that their affair is hidden because of people’s unjustified beliefs and preconceived opinions about their love.

But, what’s beautiful is that the black cat also symbolizes that Taylor is aware that choosing to be with her lover can either help her reach the pinnacle of success or cause her to lose her balance and succumb to her downfall. Good luck or bad luck.

And she still took the risk.

See you in the dark

She hid her in plain sight,

She used a cat to make us wonder.

Now we see her in the light,

We see that she is indeed her lover.

Come here, dressed in black now

Scratches down her back now

All eyes on you, my magician

All eyes on me,

Your illusionist.

P. S. The black cat’s eyes are green.

u/happyfrogz gets it 😉🥰🤭 see their reddit post

gonna need therapy after this

Happy 31st birthday to my girl, Karlie Elizabeth Kloss!! ☀️💖💛🎉🥳🎈🎊🎁

I hope this 31st year brings you new growth, new challenges, and much more love. I hope you take some time for yourself to reflect, rest, relax and reset. Then take a little more time to celebrate with people who make you feel whole and loved for who you are. 🥳🎉

Happy 31st, girlie 💛☀️

Taylor literally told you everything in the bridge of this song three years ago and y’all just let it slide.

“With every guitar string scar on my hand I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover. My heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue. All's well that ends well to end up with you.” - Lover

She starts out

“With every guitar string scar on my hand I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover.”

She’s saying she’s choosing to take this person with every bit of baggage they have because she knows this person has done the same for her.

Then she says one of the best yet simplest word plays:

“My heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue. All's well that ends well to end up with you.”

Why is it the best? Because you gift something borrowed and something blue to brides. So her heart is this person. And “yours” is her describing her heart which her person has. She’s literally saying my heart (my person) has been borrowed by someone else and it makes me blue. Said differently they have each others’ heart. So the possession describes the person.

We can also look at Cruel Summer where she again tells you she is the blue where she says “it’s blue this feeling I got”

To flesh it out further think of Paper Rings: “I’m with you even if it makes me blue.” Taylor’s the one who is blue.

She even says it in invisible string “Time, wondrous time gave me the blues and then purple pink skies.”

We can look at hoax drawing the same distinction with the following lyric: “You have beaten my heart. Don't want no other shade of blue but you. No other sadness in the world would do.” She is describing that she’s okay with this blue feeling because she loves this person who’s borrowed unconditionally.

We can even jump to evermore (the song) where she touches on this gray sky imagery that she uses to describe hoax in the Long pond studio sessions. She says “Gray November I've been down since July.” This is literally the follow up to Cruel Summer where as stated above she describes her feeling as blue. But she ends evermore with hope. She is enduring this and holding on to the feeling (the faith) that this won’t last forever.

Conclusion

I just love the Lover bridge.

listen all that I’m saying is that I’m having heart palpitations over taylor saying let the games begin on october 21 2018 and releasing midnights on october 21 2022 because NONE OF IT was accidental. none of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!