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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life: Taylor is a Bruce Springsteen fan and she covered his song “Dancing in the Dark” on the Speak Now tour - this song has the lyric in it “can’t start a fire, can’t start a fire without a spark”

Here’s a clip of her speaking about it: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJ7g8DLJ/

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<aside> 🌈 Queer History:

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<aside> ➕ See also:

Ash/Ashes/Embers

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Debut

• Invisible: There’s a fire inside of you that can’t help but shine through

• Picture To Burn: As far as I’m concerned, you’re just another picture to burn

• Picture To Burn Taymojis

  

  

Fearless

• Untouchable: Untouchable, burning brighter than the sun
• You All Over Me: I lived, and I learned, had you, got burned

Speak Now

• Dear John:

  • But I took your matches before fire could catch me so don’t look now
  • All the girls that you’ve run dry have tired lifeless eyes 'cause you burned them out

• Mean: You, with your switching sides and your wildfire lies and your humiliation

• Back To December: Because the last time you saw me is still burned in the back of your mind

• Never Grow Up: No one’s ever burned you, nothing’s ever left you scarred

• Innocent: Time turns flames to embers, you’ll have new Septembers

• Better Than Revenge Taymoji

  

Red

• Prologue: And there’s something to be proud of about moving on and realizing that real love shines golden like starlight, and doesn’t fade or spontaneously combust. Maybe I’ll write a whole album about that kind of love if I ever find it. But this album is about the other kinds of love that I’ve recently fallen in and out of. Love that was treacherous, sad, beautiful, and tragic. But most of all, this record is about love that was red
• Red: But loving him was red, oh red, burning red
• State Of Grace: Just twin fire signs, four blue eyes
• Begin Again: I’ve been spending the last eight months thinking all love ever does is break and burn and end