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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life:

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<aside> 🌈 Queer History:

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<aside> ➕ See also: Scar/Wound/Injury/Cut/Gashes

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Debut (October 24, 2006)

Fearless (November 11, 2008)

Speak Now (October 25, 2010)

• Sparks Fly: Kiss me on the sidewalk, take away the pain
• Better Than Revenge: She had to know the pain was beating on me like a drum
• Haunted: He will try to take away my pain and he just might make me smile

Red (October 22, 2012)

• State Of Grace: We learn to live with the pain, mosaic broken hearts

1989 (October 27, 2014)

• Blank Space: You can tell me when it’s over if the high was worth the pain

Reputation (November 10, 2017)

Lover (August 23, 2019)

• ‣ on Cruel Summer- This song is one that I wrote about the feeling of a summer romance, and how often times a summer romance can be layered with all these feelings of, like, pining away and sometimes even secrecy. It deals with the idea of being in a relationship where there's some element of desperation and pain in it, where you're yearning for something that you don't quite have yet, it's just right there, and you just, like, can't reach it.

folklore (July 24, 2020)

• My Tears Ricochet: And you’re tossing out blame, drunk on this pain