Songs Lyrics About Doing It All Over Again Even if It Ends

From "I hope yous think of me" to "all's well that ends well to stop up with you," Taylor Swift'due south lyrics have "enchanted" us for more than a decade.

Taylor Swift's years in the spotlight take taken listeners from her country roots in 2006's cocky-titled "Taylor Swift" to the moody surprise quarantine albums "Folklore" and "Evermore" and now a triumphant return to her past with her "Red (Taylor's Version)" rerecording.

Crossing genres and countless fashion choices, Swift has taken her place as a music icon. Longtime listeners know her discography all too well: They associate certain albums with specific periods of their lives and tether some of her most memorable lines to moments of their ain.

"I take this formula for music. If I continue to write songs about my life, and my life is ever changing, so my music volition ever be changing," Swift told USA TODAY in 2010. She was right.

We ranked Swift'south 62 best song lyrics from over the years – some heartbreaking, some triumphant – all works of lyrical genius that her biggest fans can't aid merely to sing again and again.

62. "Lord, what will become of me / Once I've lost my novelty?" – "Nothing New (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) (Taylor's Version)" from "Cerise (Taylor'due south Version)"

Likewise us every time we update this commodity. Cheers for reading, everyone!

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61. "Don't treat me similar some situation that needs to be handled / I'm fine with my spite and my tears, and my beers and my candles" – "Closure" from "Evermore"

A line that will go down in Swift's breakup song hall of fame.

60. "No amount of freedom gets you lot clean / I've still got yous all over me" – "You All Over Me (feat. Maren Morris) (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)" from "Fearless (Taylor's Version)"

We can never run away from our bug; Swift (and Morris) clear that like the country queens they are.

59. "Your faithless love's the just hoax I believe in" – "Hoax" from "Sociology"

Believing in "faithless" honey?! Nosotros have no pick merely to stan a paradoxical queen.

58. "The skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to f--- this up" – "Cowboy Like Me" from "Evermore"

Two people finding love against all odds: nosotros beloved to see it.

57. "You lot sympathize now why they lost their minds and fought the wars / And why I've spent my whole life trying to put it in words." – "You Are in Love" from "1989 (Deluxe Edition)"

Putting specific and universal feelings into words: What Swift does best.

56. "You play stupid games, you lot win stupid prizes" – "Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince" from "Lover"

All other games and prizes are canceled.

55. "Sorry, I can't see facts through all of my fury" – "Happiness" from "Evermore"

Self-aware self-correction: classic Swift.

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54. "Clover blooms in the fields / Bound breaks loose, the time is about" – "ivy" from "Evermore"

Spring breaks? Become it? Nosotros sure do.

53. "Did y'all hear about the girl who lives in mirage? / Breakups happen every day, yous don't accept to lose it / She'southward notwithstanding 23 inside her fantasy" – "Right Where Yous Left Me - Bonus Track" from "Evermore"

Another case of natural language-in-cheek self-awareness from the queen of breakdown songs reminds us that we're totally fine living inside the fantasy of Swift's discography.

52. "I had a marvelous time ruining everything" – "The Final Bully American Dynasty" from "Folklore"

Get ahead and save this one for your side by side Instagram caption.

51. "Please don't ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere" – "New year's day's Mean solar day" from "Reputation"

Squeeze our hand three times, why don't you.

l. "How can a person know everything at eighteen / But nothin' at twenty-ii?"  – "Nothing New (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) (Taylor's Version)" from "Red (Taylor's Version)"

Spoiler alarm: It only gets messier from there. We meet you and thank you, Taylor.

49. "Untouchable, burning brighter than the sun / And when you're shut I feel similar coming undone" – "Untouchable" from "Fearless"

Snappy, romantic, poetic: The Taylor Swift trifecta.

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48. "You drew stars around my scars but at present I'thousand haemorrhage" – "Cardigan" from "Sociology"

OK, the rhyming of "stars" and "scars" on its own is enough to send our hearts all a-flutter. Merely the trigger-happy shift to "haemorrhage" shows how fifty-fifty though we may heal, it doesn't take much to send usa spiraling now and again. Nosotros're bleeding (metaphorically) with you, Taylor.

47. "Barefoot in the kitchen / Sacred new beginnings / That became my organized religion, listen" – "Cornelia Street" from "Lover"

Swift's storytelling works all-time with tiny details similar these.

46. "I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me" – "New Romantics" from "1989"

This is a very tall castle, if you think nearly Scooter Braun, Katy Perry and Kimye.

45. "My castle crumbled overnight / I brought a pocketknife to a gunfight / They took the crown but it'southward alright" – "Call It What You Want" from "Reputation"

Referencing your own lyrics? Ultimate power motility.

44. "Back then we didn't know / We were congenital to fall apart / Nosotros bankrupt the status quo / Then we bankrupt each other'southward hearts" – "The Very First Night (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)" from "Red (Taylor's Version)"

Could this be the prequel to "Out of The Woods?" Once again, referencing your own past lyrics is simply iconic, legendary behavior.

43. "He's got my past frozen behind glass / Only I've got me" – "It'southward Time To Get - Bonus Track" from "Evermore"

This melancholy summation of Swift's public battle confronting music executive Scooter Braun for her masters (the reason she'south rerecording her beginning half-dozen studio albums) is heartbreakingly weary. Luckily, her rerecordings take begun to serve as a triumphant reclaiming of the erstwhile works that got her here.

42. "Common cold was the steel of my axe to grind for the boys who broke my centre / Now I send their babies presents" – "Invisible String" from "Sociology"

From exposing your teenage ex-swain for dumping you lot over the telephone to sending gifts to his newborn: That'due south forever and e'er for y'all.

41. "He says he's so in love / He's finally got it right / I wonder if he knows he's all I remember about at night" – "Teardrops on My Guitar" from "Taylor Swift"

No,you'recrying over a musical instrument.

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40. "Back then I swore I was gonna marry him anytime merely I realized some bigger dreams of mine / And Abigail gave everything she had to a boy who inverse his mind" – "15" from "Fearless"

Bigger dreams? Try 11-fourth dimension winner and 41-time nominee at the Grammys, two-time Fourth dimension 100 Virtually Influential People recipient and 2019 American Music Awards Artist of the Decade honoree. Wish you could become back and tell yourself that.

39. "Back when you fit in my poems like a perfect rhyme" – "Holy Footing" from "Red"

In the first moments of her showtime popular-but-non-technically-popular album, Swift proved to naysayers that her lyrical genius isn't divers to one genre.

38. "I in one case believed dearest would be burning red / But information technology'south gilded" – "Daylight" from "Lover"

Acknowledging she's grown from "Blood-red" only appreciating information technology every bit a part of her by enough to include it on her latest album? We don't know a better person.

37. I think I've seen this film before / And I didn't like the catastrophe / You're not my homeland anymore / So what am I defending now? – "Exile" from "Sociology"

A archetype excellent Taylor Swift lyrical run. Defend u.s.a., Taylor, please!

36. "He said the way my blue eyes shined / Put those Georgia stars to shame that night / I said, 'That'south a lie'" – "Tim McGraw" from "Taylor Swift"

No offense to Georgia stars, obviously.

35."I want auroras and sad prose / I want to watch wisteria abound correct over my bare feet / 'Cause I oasis't moved in years / And I want you right here" – "The Lakes" from "Folklore"

Swift waxes poetic about finding happiness in quiet moments of solitude with her "lover," and nosotros couldn't exist happier for her.

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34. "It takes everything in me just to get upwards each day / But it's wonderful to see that you're OK" – "Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) from "Fearless (Taylor's Version)

The sarcasm jumped out and did a backflip. How perfect(ly fine).

33. "I snuck in through the garden gate / Every night that summer merely to seal my fate" – "Cruel Summertime" from "Lover"

Who wouldn't want to traipse around through gardens all summer long?

32. "I never grew upward, it'southward getting so former" – "The Archer" from "Lover"

In which Swift lays out in eight words just how aware she is of all the criticisms thrown at her (and also sneaks in a reference to "Never Grow Upwardly" track from "Speak Now").

31. "You booked the night train for a reason / And then yous could sit there in this injure"  – "Champagne Problems" from "Evermore"

Nosotros imagine this is what information technology would audio like if Journeying really did finish believing.

thirty. "And I was never adept at telling jokes, but the punchline goes / I'll go older, just your lovers stay my age" – "All Likewise Well (ten Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)"  from "Crimson (Taylor'due south Version)"

Hell hath no fury like a Taylor Swift scorned. Of all the daggers she's written over the years about onetime flames, this is one of her nearly pointed.

29. "But I took your matches before burn down could grab me / So don't look at present, I'thou shining similar fireworks over your sad, empty town" – "Dearest John" from "Speak Now"

Talk nearly a Dear John letter. Ouch.

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28. "Take the words for what they are: A dwindling, mercurial high / A drug that only worked the starting time few hundred times" – "Illicit Affairs" from "Sociology"

"Look at this godforsaken mess that you made me" – us, subsequently listening to Swift sing about the destruction of feeling like you're losing the person you love.

27. "You did a number on me / But honestly, baby, who's counting?" – "Then It Goes..." from "Reputation"

Taylor reinvented math with xi iconic words. Who is counting?

26."I made you lot my temple, my mural, my sky / Now I'thou begging for footnotes in the story of your life" – "Tolerate It" from "Evermore"

Decease by a 1000 cuts in a single sentence, from, yes, the singer of "Death By a Thousand Cuts." Honorable mention to the line that follows: "Drawing hearts in the byline," which we can just presume was about us.

25. "I knew you dancing in your Levis, drunk under a streetlight" – "Cardigan" from "Folklore"

Swift loves writing these tiny details virtually knowing someone intimately. And we beloved her for it.

24. "That night we couldn't quite forget / When nosotros decided to move the furniture so nosotros could trip the light fantastic / Infant, like nosotros stood a risk" – "Out of the Forest" from "1989"

Getting lost never sounded so practiced.

23. "Information technology never e'er occurred to you / That I can't say 'hello' to yous / And take a chance another goodbye" – "I Well-nigh Do" from "Cherry-red"

Those chills yous feel? Yeah, we go those reading these every time. "Hello" and "goodbye" never seemed so loaded.

22. "And if I get burned, at least we were electrified" – "Apparel" from "Reputation"

This girl is on burn, indeed.

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21. "But betwixt us, did the love matter maim you too?" – "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)"

Lines like this in the x-minute version take united states of america feeling all likewise unwell.

20. "Should've kept every grocery store receipt / 'Cause every scrap of you would exist taken from me" – "Marjorie" from "Evermore"

From the adult female who brought you "I'thousand a crumpled up piece of newspaper lying here," we bring you this glorious run. This song hits especially different during the coronavirus pandemic as a nation overrun with morbidity turns to music for solace.

19. "I didn't have information technology in myself to go with grace / 'Cause when I'd fight, yous used to tell me I was brave – "My Tears Ricochet" from "Folklore"

The "used to" does all the work hither. Our tears haven't stopped ricocheting since listening.

eighteen. "The monsters turned out to exist only copse / When the sunday came up yous were looking at me" – "Out of the Woods" from "1989"

"Where the Wild Things Are" got the rewrite information technology never asked for, and nosotros are not lament.

17. "The night you danced similar you lot knew our lives would never be the same / You held your head like a hero / On a history volume page / It was the finish of a decade / Just the start of an age" – "Long Live" from "Speak Now"

Production on this album began in 2009, the yr Swift turned twenty, and wrapped in 2010. What a decade – and an age – the 2010s have been for her.

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16. "'Cause I hear he's got his arm 'round a brand-new girl / I've been pickin' upward my heart, he's been pickin' upward her" – "Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) from "Fearless" (Taylor'south Version)

We're not sure how Swift pulled this off but she actually picked up our hearts and threw them on the basis while we listened to these lyrics. All "Mr. Perfectly Fine" fellas out there should have notes.

15. "I can't decide if it'south a option: getting swept away" – "Treacherous" from "Scarlet"

*Swoons*

14. "With every guitar string scar on my manus / I accept this magnetic force of a human being to be my lover" – "Lover" from "Lover"

For longtime Swifties, there's nothing sweeter than hearing her triumphantly declare she's in love.

13. "And y'all wanna scream, 'don't call me kid, don't telephone call me baby / Wait at this godforsaken mess that y'all made me'"  – "Illicit Affairs" from "Folklore"

If y'all're non screaming forth to these lyrics every time, yous're doing it incorrect.

12."The road not taken looks existent good now" – "'Tis the Damn Season" from "Evermore"

Robert Frost who? Anyone else's spin of the often-referenced verse form would come off as cliché. Simply Swift's artful turn of phrase has us over here thinking about our (non-toxic) exes.

eleven. "They say all's well that ends well, simply I'k in a new hell / Every time you lot double-cross my mind" – "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor'southward Version)" from "Red (Taylor's Version)"

The WORDPLAY. William Shakespeare himself could never.

10. "Time won't fly, information technology'south like I'm paralyzed past it / I'd like to be my old cocky over again, just I'm still trying to find it / Later on plaid shirt days and nights when you fabricated me your own / Now you post back my things and I walk dwelling lonely" – "All Also Well" from "Red"

It's a attestation that nosotros can't cut this downwards whatsoever shorter. "All As well Well" – and its extended cutting – wins everything. End of story.

ix. "You held your pride like you should have held me" – "The Story of Us" from "Speak Now"

Cruel, before savage became a part of our mainstream lexicon. Swift is the queen of the snappy plow of phrase.

eight. "But she wears short skirts / I wear T-shirts / She'southward cheer captain / And I'm on the bleachers" – "Y'all Belong With Me" from "Fearless"

Before "Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince," there was "You Vest With Me." Swift captures the high schoolhouse experience so effortlessly it'southward like we never graduated.

7. "They told me all of my cages were mental / So I got wasted like all my potential" – "This is Me Trying" from "Folklore"

Another beautifully written turn of phrase. She's yet got it, x years later on.

6. "Yous kept me like a hush-hush, but I kept you lot similar an adjuration" – "All As well Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor'south Version)" from "Red (Taylor's Version)"

We cannot expect to scream this in a (fully-vaccinated) crowded bar ASAP. Now that's an oath.

5. "I'thou nevertheless a believer but I don't know why / I've never been a natural / All I practise is try, endeavor, endeavour – "Mirrorball" from "Folklore"

That repetitive "try, try, endeavour" sends the states spinning. We recommend checking out the Las Culturistas assay of "Folklore" rails-by-rail, if you haven't already, for an apt take on "Mirrorball" and Taylor Swift's incredible work ethic.

iv. "You said it was a great dearest, one for the ages / But if the story's over, why am I still writing pages?" – "Death By a Thousand Cuts" from "Lover"

The queen of breakdown songs used to worry about what would happen when she was happily in a relationship, but rejoiced when she woke upwards one day with lyrics in her mind that would eventually go "Cuts."

"I was like, 'information technology's still here! Yes!" she said in her NPR Tiny Desk Concert. "This song is my proof. I don't have to stop writing nearly heartbreak and misery. Which, for me, is incredible news."

three. "You tin can programme for a change in weather condition and fourth dimension / But I never planned on you changing your mind" – "Last Kiss" from "Speak Now"

Don't mind us, but we'll get sit on the flooring, listening to this one on repeat.

ii. "You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter / You are the best thing that's always been mine" – "Mine" from "Speak At present"

Eat your hearts out, careless men.

1. "You call me up over again just to break me like a promise / And so casually cruel in the proper noun of being honest" – "All Besides Well" from "Scarlet"

This jewel of a lyric has everything you could perchance want. Simile? Ingemination? Heartbreak? Check, check, check.

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