delacourtings | [album review] 1989

she lost him but she found herself and somehow
that was everything

one.

welcome to new york.
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favorite lyrics:

everybody here was someone else before

and you can want who you want

boys and boys and girls and girls.

two.
blank space.
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you look like my next mistake.

got a long list of ex-lovers
they'll tell you i'm insane
but i've got a blank space, baby
and i'll write your name.

three.
style.
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you got that james dean daydream
look in your eye
and i got that red lip classic
thing that you like.

you got that long hair slicked back
white t-shirt
and i got that good girl faith
and tight little skirt.

four.
out of the woods.
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remember when
you hit the brakes too soon
twenty stiches
in a hospital room.

the monsters turned out
to be just trees.

five.
all you had to do was stay.
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people like you always want back
the love they gave away
and people like me always believe you
when you say you've changed.

i've been picking up the pieces
of the mess you made.

six.
shake it off.
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i go on too many dates
but i can't make them say
at least that's what people say.

i never miss a beat
i'm lightning on my feet
but that's what they don't see.

it's like i've got this music

in my mind
saying it's gonna be alright.

seven.
i wish you would.
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you always knew
how to push my buttons
you give me everything and nothing.

eight.
bad blood.
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band-aids don't fix bulletholes
you say sorry just for show.

nine.
wildest dreams.
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i said no one has to know what we do
his hands are in my hair
his clothes are in my room.

you'll see me in hindsight
tangled up with you all night.

ten.
how you get the girl.
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tell her how you must have lost your mind
when you left her all alone
and never told her why.

eleven.
this love.
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this love is good, this love is bad
this love is alive back from the dead.

twelve.
i know places.
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they got the cages
they got the boxes
and guns
they are the hunters
we are the foxes
and we run.

just grab my hand
and don't ever drop it.

thirteen.
clean.
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you're still all over me
like a wine stained dress.

hung my head as i lost the war
and the sky turned to black like
a perfect storm.

ten months sober
i must admit, just because
you're clean don't mean you don't miss it.

+deluxe.

fourteen.
wonderland.
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took a wrong turn and
we fell down the rabbit hole.

whispers turned to talking
and talking turned to screams.

fifteen.
you are in love.
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for once you let go
of your fears and your ghosts
one step not much
but it said
enough.

one night he wakes
strange look on his face
pauses, he says
you're my best friend
and you knew
what is was he was
in love.

sixteen.
new romantics.
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i could build a castle
out of all the bricks they threw at me.

there isn't a single song i don't like on this album (to be completely honest, there isn't a single taylor swift song in existence i don't like). the weakest link is probably welcome to new york (which i forgive solely for the girls and girls line) but overall, it's still, a solid, woderful, amazing album. taylor's said how hard she's worked on it and how much it means to her and it definitely shows.

buy 1989 on itunes here