LIST: Best Lyrics From Taylor Swift’s 1989

Summed up, the best lyrics from Taylor Swift’s new album:

1. “Like any great love, it keeps you guessing. Like any real love, it’s ever-changing. Like any true love, it drives you crazy. But you know you wouldn’t change anything.”

2. “Saw you there and I thought, oh my God. Look at that face, you look like my next mistake.”

3. “Love’s a game, want to play?”

4. “I can make the bad guys good for a weekend.”

5. “So it’s gonna be forever, or it’s gonna go down in flames.”

6. “Got a long list of ex-lovers. They’ll tell you I’m insane. Cause you know I love the players and you love the game.”

7. “Cause we’re young and we’re reckless. We’ll take this way too far.”

8. “Find out what you want, be that girl for a month.”

9. “Cause darling I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.”

10. “Boys only want love if it’s torture, don’t say I didn’t warn ya.”

11. “I should just tell you to leave, cause I know exactly where it leads.”

12. “I got that red lip classic thing that you like.”

13. “I got that good girl faith and a tight little skirt.”

14. “When we go crashing down, we come back in every time. Cause we never go out of style.”

15. “The rest of the world was black and white, but we were in screaming color.”

16. “We were built to fall apart, then fall back together.”

17. “Are we in the clear yet? In the clear yet, good.”

18. “People like you always want back the love they gave away, and people like me wanna believe you when you say you’ve changed.”

19. “All I know is that you drove us off the road.”

20. “All you had to do was stay, had me in the palm of your hand. Then why’d you have to go and lock me out when I let you in? Stay, hey, now you say you want it back, now that it’s just too late. Well, it could’ve been easy, all you had to do was stay.”

21. “Here you are now calling me up, but I don’t know what to say. I’ve been picking up the pieces of the mess you made.”

22. “People like you always want back the love they pushed aside, but people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.”

23. “Let me remind you this was what you wanted. You ended it. You were all I wanted, but not like this. Not like this. Not like this.”

24. “I go on too many dates, but I can’t make them stay (Ha!) At least that’s what people say.”

25. “I never miss a beat. I’m lighting on my feet. And that’s what they don’t see.”

26. “And to the fella over there with the hella good hair. Won’t you come on over baby we could shake, shake.”

27. “You’re thinking that I hate you now… guess you still don’t know what I never said.”

28. “I wish you would come back. Wish I never hung up the phone like I did. I wish you knew that I’ll never forget you as long as I live. I Wish you were right here, right now.”

29. “I wish we could go back and remember what we were fighting for. I wish you knew that I miss you too much to be mad anymore.”

30. “We’re a crooked love in a straight line down.”

31. “You always knew how to push my buttons. You give me everything and nothing.”

32. “Did you have to do this, I was thinking that you could be trusted. Did you have to ruin, what was shining now its all rusted.”

33. “Rub it in so deep. Salt in the wound like you’re laughing right at me.”

34. “Did you think we’d be fine, still got scars on my back from your knife, so don’t think it’s in the past, these kinda wounds they last and they last. Did you think it all through; all these things will catch up to you. And time can heal but this wont, so if you’re coming my way, just don’t.”

35. “Band-aids don’t fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show.”

36. “I thought heaven can’t help me now. Nothing lasts forever, but this is gonna take me down.”

37. “He’s so tall and handsome as hell. He’s so bad but he does it so well. I can see the end as it begins.”

38. “His voice is a familiar sound, nothing lasts forever. But this is getting good now.”

39. “You see me in hindsight. Tangled up with you all night.”

40. “Someday when you leave me I bet these memories follow you around.”

41. “I want you for worse or for better. I would wait forever and ever. Broke your heart, I’ll put it back together. ”

42. “Remind her how it used to be, with pictures in frames of kisses on cheeks. Tell her how you must have lost your mind. And you left her all alone, and never told her why.”

43. “This love is good, this love is bad. This love is alive, back from the dead. These hands had to let it go free and this love came back to me.”

44. “Been losing grip, oh, sinking ships. You showed up, just in time.”

45. “Your kiss, my cheek. I watched you leave. Your smile, my ghost. I fell to my knees.”

46. “When you’re young you just run, but you come back to what you need.”

47. “You stand with a hand on my waist line. Good to see that we’re out in plain sight. I can hear them whisper as we pass by.”

48. “Love’s a fragile little flame, it could burn out. It could burn out.”

49. “Just grab my hand and don’t ever drop it, my love.”

50. “Lose lips, ships sink, all the damn time, not this time.”

51. “The drought was the very worst. When the flowers that we’d grown together died of thirst. It was months, and months of back and forth. You’re still all over me like a wine-stained dress I can’t wear anymore. Hung my head, as I lost the war, and the sky turn black like a perfect storm.”

52. “The butterflies turned to dust they covered my whole room.”

53. “So I punched a hole in the roof. Let the flood carry away all my pictures of you.”

54. “10 months sober, I must admit. Just because you’re clean don’t mean you don’t miss it.”

55. “We found wonderland. You and I got lost in it and we pretended it could last forever.”

56. “I reached for you but you were gone. I knew I had to go back home. You searched the world for something else, to make you feel like what we had.”

57. “You can hear it in the silence. You can feel it on the way home. You can see it with the lights out. You are in love, true love.”

58. “You keep his shirt. He keeps his word. For once you let go of your fears and your ghosts.”

59. “You kiss on sidewalks. You fight and you talk. 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.”

60. “You two are dancing in a snow globe round and round. And he keeps the picture of you in his office downtown. And you understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars. And why I’ve spent my whole life trying to put it in words.”

61. “We’re all bored, we’re all so tired of everything. We wait for trains that just aren’t coming.”

62. “We show off our different scarlet letters. Trust me, mine is better.”

63. “We’re so young, we’re on the road to ruin. We play dumb, but we know exactly what we’re doing. We cry tears of mascara in the bathroom. Honey, life is just a classroom.”

64. “Heartbreak is the national anthem, we sing it proudly. We are too busy dancing to get knocked off our feet.”

65. “We’re all here, the lights and boys are blinding. We hang back, it’s all in the timing. It’s poker, you can’t see it in my face, but I’m about to play my Ace.”

66. “We need love, but all we want is danger.”

67. “Please take my hand and please take me dancing… Please leave me stranded… it’s so romantic.”

And it’s like I said before, I’m pretty sure Taylor Swift reads my diary.

Love,
Ruby