That line about only eating kids cereal and sleeping in her mom’s bed after being groomed by a thirty year old makes me cry every time. Just something about that imagery breaks my heart
@@tcconnectionI get the feeling g it's about multiple relationships though John seems to be the one that still torments her. It's like what all did he do? Reading what Jessica Simpson said about him makes me ill. I'm guessing he played similar mind games with Taylor
I don't get why society keeps tightening the respectable age gaps between couples each decade.. Like he was literally just 10 years older than her smh. What do you want and why do you care? Should she date someone at the same exact birth day as her?? It's ALMOST becoming oppressive (social pressure).
"the story isn't mine anymore" is such a beautiful sentence in this context 🤍 it must actually feel so weird to process trauma through art that is shared into the world
@@SG-pu3rx cause you are going through something hard so you make it into a song and now the whole world knows about it and I suppose it might even stop feeling personal
I love how this circles back to All Too Well and the short film. She’s closing the door on TTPD and all the painful relationships from the past and giving the songs to us to fit into our own stories. It’s beautiful.
I wondered if the actors hitting their mark was about ATW the film. But the first verse has to be about John. Then weaves in Jake and then Joe at the end. So beautifully sung.
She basically said 'The story of us' isn't 'mine' (hers) anymore and gave us her albums as a collection of fates of her past relationships, she's handed us the manuscript to show our pain isn't as rare as we'd think, we can find comfort in them and fellow folks who are feeling the same. Thank You Taylor.
This second half of TTPD is like a long-lost older sister of Folklore and Evermore who had been wandering in the forest, came back, and became a chairman of TTPD to share her stories. Manuscript is SO beautiful. It's like the end of a play. Thank you, Taylor
Interestingly, a double spaced script is used in comedies. Dramas are single spaced. I'm curious if that was intentional with an underlying message, or just because. Being as calcuated and detail oriented as she is, I feel she knows the double space usage in comedic scripts and it was intentional. I've even played it with the sound off and read through as if it was a comedic script. It's an interesting take.
The best thing about Taylor is that she just doesn't write songs but she writes stories! I love it when songwriters tell a story on the song! Long live, The Tortured Poets Department!
From "one last souvenir from my trip to your shores" to long story short's "and my waves meet your shore ever and evermore" makes me think of her last reflection into the roller coast of the relationship before concluding that she's leaving the relationship bubble.
i used to think the lyric "do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there" said "do you miss the roller coaster ride into paradise and then i left you there" and this is apt w this comment
To me, this song describes how and why she wrote All Too Well; hints to the other person being an actor 'you're a professional' and him being older 'then she dated boys her own age', created the music video 'the actors were hitting their marks' and shared the story with the world 'the story isn't mine anymore'.
Maybe. But i'm sure the part of the shore links to long story short..."my waves meet your shore ever and evermore" and here she says "one last souvenir from my trip to your shores". She always compared herself to waves, unpredictable and unstable, and Joe to something firm and constant and here she closes their story with this last phrase. I'm not seeing people talking about that but it's pretty obvious to me.
Then there's the line: he said since she was wise beyond her years, everything was above board...hard to tell I'd it's about John Mayer or Jake Gyllenhaal. Idk why I'm feeling John Mayer but that lines really giving me the ick. Some older guy talking her into a relationship she wasn't really comfortable about with false promises.
i'm crying so hard,this is definitely the best outro song she had ever wrote.It's so sad but comforted at the same time,it's like you finally make peace with all your tortured and broken past and look forward.🥺
“And at last, she knew what the agony had been for” There’s something about this song, the piano, the reflection, the bittersweet remembering, how much it truly feels like a poem in a journal, all of it has me weeping. TTPD + The Anthology really struck a cord with something deep in my soul, in ways I’m still trying to put into words. I’ve been struggling the last several months and this album has exquisitely captured and conveyed all the feelings of anger, grief, melancholy, and detachment I’ve been feeling. Listening to it feels surreal.
Right - oh myword, oh my goodness, same!!! It’s like I myself wrote this comment I feel the same way exactly 🤍🩶🖤✌🏻🫶🏻🎧🪽🗝️💫✨💭✉️🖊️ Much love to you and us all We are here, we made it and now I am finally healing the way I always wanted and knew I needed to. Taylor has helped me along the way in my life, I’ve done work on myself too most of my life. But this album and the anthology too, it’s like each and every single part of my brain activated and woke up and is alive and I’m just myself again. For the first time fully, completely in a way I haven’t been since I was I think 17. Yet also at the same time the girl I was when I was 7yrs old and also 4yrs old. Like we found each other in my own secret garden and it’s like finally coming back home, truly. 🤍🩶🖤 It is profound and I’m still not over it Could say more but won’t here But I was doing the worst And now I’m doing better than I ever was🩶 Off the back of having my best year in 2023 (in terms of personally, mentally, stability, socially, my own growth in many way so far) Yay thank you Taylor Swift, Swifties, myself - now, back then and since and for the future too. It’s magical and remarkable to be at this current place. Never thought I’d feel the way I do and it’s just kind of indescribable really. ✌🏻🖊️🫶🏻🙂✨
As @sstitch97 wrote, it is as if I wrote this comment - everything you said is exactly how I feel! Thank you for expressing my thoughts and feelings better than I ever could - just like Taylor does!💞
The Manuscript is a lingering promise that holds tighter with each passing second. The layers to this track signifies just how much Taylor is willing to lay out everything on the table and say that she's still got the upper-hand in any situation she's placed herself in.
That whole last part reminds me of the Eras Tour - she's watching her band and dancers perform, she's watching her fans crying, singing, screaming, applauding, and somewhere through that experience she's healing. She found out what all that agony was for.
I'm 76 and Taylor has been writing the soundtrack of my life since I met her in 2008. But with The Manuscript she has lent legitimacy to the 180 thousand word memoir I wrote in 2014 called The Blue Dress. I'm waiting for the right publisher. Taylor Swift is the right publisher.
I didn't know how badly I needed this album until this morning. It feels like every corner of my trauma, from the resolved, unresolved, and still yet to be discovered, has been given the gentlest hug that I could ever want it to receive.
3:23 The circle storytelling like “we were both young when I first saw you” and “down the block there’s an antique shop and something in my head said ‘stop’ so I walked in”❤❤❤
Okay, THIS SONG. I can’t stop thinking about the build-up in the bridge! It's like "Dear Reader," in that there's so much allusion layered into each line. Here's my best guess: “And the years passed like scenes of a show The professor said to write what you know Looking backwards might be the only way to move forward.” Taylor has always channeled her life experiences-especially the difficult ones-into songs. We saw this with Midnights in particular: she looks at what happened in her past as a way of understanding the present. As she recovers from her broken heart, the only thing she can think to do to process it all is write what she knows: her experience. “Then the actors were hitting their marks And the slow dance was alight with the sparks And the tears fell in synchronicity with the score.” These lines make me think of The Eras Tour: a performance of kinds in which she reenacts her songs. The “actors” are the dancers on stage, who “hit their marks” (she uses this term in I Can Do It With A Broken Heart). The “slow dance” reminds me of the Lover choreography, but it could stand for any song of hers that is so beautiful it evokes tears from her fans. “And at last She knew what the agony had been for.” Through her experience with The Eras Tour, celebrating her entire career of songwriting, she realizes that all her difficult experiences gave her the music she needed to bring her here, to this moment, to this time in her life. Not only has she made something beautiful out of the agonies she experienced, but those songs also brought all of us fans together. “The only thing that’s left is the manuscript One last souvenir from my trip to your shores Now and then I re-read the manuscript But the story isn’t mine anymore.” The “manuscript” could represent this album (TTPD), but more likely it represents the collective body of songs about her six-year relationship with Joe-the songs, in a way, are all she has left of the relationship now. From this point, she’s accepted the grief and moved on. She still looks back on their time together, but now the story is out in the world. It’s not hers anymore; it’s ours. Thoughts???
For every young girl who is loved -- or groomed, maybe it depends on POV -- by an older man, this song opens the wound, rubs the scars and gives hope that she will get over it.
Absolutely beautiful. I feel like Taylor is closing the door on her past experiences and relationships and opening the door to her new reality and love of the man she is now with. I love this album, I love Taylor and all her music, but this new album(s) is her greatest of them all, imo. Her voice is so angelic and moving. I love her with Travis.
But she talks about the guy being older than her, it doesn’t fit with him. And it sounds like a really old relationship, I would say it’s about John Mayer or Jake Gyllenhaal.
@@Daniella9658 for me, this is her reflecting to either or both relationships due to the fact that she has to relive these emotions during the re-recordings.
I think it’s about Jake and she’s talking about writing the script for the All Too Well 10 min version. She mentions the actors - maybe meaning Sadie and Dylan..? Because there’s a dance scene in that video.
After drying my tears on this one, I wondered how many of these songs brought tears to Travis. He feels his emotions so strongly and Taylor expresses her emotions so well. ❤
@@justmejenny7986 I get the feeling its not that she's going to retire forever, but she's going to retire the old portions of her life that caused her pain but helped her get to the point she is at now. I'd perhaps expect her to take a break after the Eras tour, maybe get married and start a family (if that is where her relationship is going) and then have a new vibe when she releases new music. Just my thought/interpretation from all of the songs in TTPD and, especially, "The Manuscript."
@@belindaparedes6300 i think if she was going to do that, she wouldve already. its been clear the reason her and joe broke up was because he wanted to settle down and she didnt.
This is 100% about all too well and Jake. It fits so well. Especially when she said on the rep tour that we changed the meaning of all too well for her. It’s our story and looking back is when she made the short film and the actors falling into place is Sadie and Dylan. I love this song so much. It feels like a sadder chapter following mastermind for some reason
this is so Jake Gyllenhaal coded, like all too well really was a masterpiece. also, in the All Too Well music video, we see the protagonist making a book about her past experience, more metaphorically as the manuscript for Taylor
@@randombiri07 also, she created two music videos in the Red (Taylor's version) all about jale Gyllenhaal, go watch it: all too well (10 mins version) and I bet you think about me. Jake was an affair she never really got over easily, and possibly a past that hurts her, but she is finally letting go of all her ghosts
its definitely about the last stage which is acceptance. no matter if she recalls the bittersweet memory or moments, its just not her from "that earlier timespace" anymore. the freshness of the memory has faded
Taylor really ate her songwriting wheaties the day she penned this song just absolutely incredible work a memoir's worth of storytelling in just four minutes.
@@user-lh8im2vy8e you’re funny 😭 I’m not a Taylor “fan” by any means, but I’m not going to sit here and say she’s a bad artist. I didn’t compare the lyricism of the two albums. I said both are simple yet beautiful and if you listened to every song on eternal sunshine and said to yourself “there was nothing beautiful about any of those songs” then you are smoking something strong. Two albums can be beautiful in their own right.
As a fan of them both it's an odd comparison but I understand what you mean. Like the sparse wispy vocals and therapy filled lyrics. What I think is funny is that Halsey did a thing on Eternal Sunshine for her Manic album and guess who she's also dated?!?! Matty Healy that man must have rizz that you can only feel in person cause I don't see it at all
The feelings I'm experiencing now were took on another level by the piano, the voice, the story, well... the song in himself. Taylor Swift makes me FEEL ALIVE !!!
I'll never know why people are literally sleeping on this SONG! I mean the strength it takes to move forward, to know that the person we loved is not the same and not in love with us anymore or not in our life anymore even though at a certain point we thought that we would be the endgame! Letting all these things go takes so much strength. She wrote this entire process so painfully yet it sounds so beautiful. I hope she's happy now and everyone else who has gone through this phase in their life.
I love how the whole song until the last few lines is in third person before switching to first. she always uses you and I in her songs, so to hear the story with she and he gives it a detached, melancholy feel. it really emphasizes the fact that it’s just a script and the ending was inevitable and from the beginning, she was just reading her part
They say sometimes there is a stage of grief after acceptance. Revenge, so maybe the whole album is foreshadowing that reputation is coming soon since it is her revenge album! 🖤
At last she knew what the agony was for - "Taylor has found purpose out of her agony and heartbreak in the form of sharing it with the world, and realizing the impact she has on the audience, knowing she is not alone in how she feels." That's just so beautiful.
Thank you Taylor for giving us a surprise double album after working so hard touring and the TV re-releases you always keep us on our toes & now this is one of my favorite songs!! ❤🥹🫶
This song... Taylor, this song makes my tears fall in synchronicity with your score. What an incredible way to end such a beautiful album 🤍 Thank you for your genius
Re-reading the manuscript might mean re-recording her discography?! And yeah, the ATW reference because it was one of the biggest highlights of this re-recording process, and such an emotional milestone. And like she said in the Eras Tour movie, now she has given out all those stories to her fans for THEIR experiences.
Did anyone noticed that in the bottom right corner you get pages number and the counts end at 7 pages?? As in they dated for 6 years where there were many stories butnon the 7th year(page) she's concluding the end of it
So beautiful. The song... the whole album... the lyric videos are a whole new level. A few songs on this album get me in my feels, not because I have experienced anything like this, but it breaks my heart to know she has. and she expresses her pain unapologetically and beautifully. Taylor, I love you. You've shared your joy, sadness, hope and despair with us for so long and I'm grateful. Thank you!
That line about only eating kids cereal and sleeping in her mom’s bed after being groomed by a thirty year old makes me cry every time. Just something about that imagery breaks my heart
Jake was 29 and John was 32, hmm (yet both were more immature than young Tay)
@@tcconnectionI get the feeling g it's about multiple relationships though John seems to be the one that still torments her. It's like what all did he do? Reading what Jessica Simpson said about him makes me ill. I'm guessing he played similar mind games with Taylor
What a sad story
@@Man.from.the.90sgenerationyou wouldnt last an hour in the asylum where they raised me 🔥🔥🔥
I don't get why society keeps tightening the respectable age gaps between couples each decade.. Like he was literally just 10 years older than her smh. What do you want and why do you care? Should she date someone at the same exact birth day as her?? It's ALMOST becoming oppressive (social pressure).
"the story isn't mine anymore" is such a beautiful sentence in this context 🤍 it must actually feel so weird to process trauma through art that is shared into the world
I literally imagined like she's giving us some manuscripts to keep it safe for her and then she leaves..
Why?
@@SG-pu3rx cause you are going through something hard so you make it into a song and now the whole world knows about it and I suppose it might even stop feeling personal
Sorry
And its the last lyric of the album 😭
I love how this circles back to All Too Well and the short film. She’s closing the door on TTPD and all the painful relationships from the past and giving the songs to us to fit into our own stories. It’s beautiful.
So beautiful, I can't even put it into words 😢
I've noticed it too...
So wulnerable...But she said it before, that these stories are now ours 💔❤️🩹
I wondered if the actors hitting their mark was about ATW the film. But the first verse has to be about John. Then weaves in Jake and then Joe at the end. So beautifully sung.
@@kirstymckenzie1253Yess!! I think it's about all too well
I’ve thought about it too.
She basically said 'The story of us' isn't 'mine' (hers) anymore and gave us her albums as a collection of fates of her past relationships, she's handed us the manuscript to show our pain isn't as rare as we'd think, we can find comfort in them and fellow folks who are feeling the same.
Thank You Taylor.
This second half of TTPD is like a long-lost older sister of Folklore and Evermore who had been wandering in the forest, came back, and became a chairman of TTPD to share her stories. Manuscript is SO beautiful. It's like the end of a play. Thank you, Taylor
I love the way you formulate this comment
It's so much better cause the 2nd part is mainly produced by Dessner. The first part is mostly by Antonoff.
I was thinking the exact same thing! I just finished it🥹 and the whole time was piecing together the parallels of folklore
"Looking backwards might be the only way to move forward"
What a hauntingly beautiful lyrics..
This is why she wrote Midnights I think, she 'don't know' what's going wrong with her relationship, so she had to 'write what she know'.
"Hay que regresar al pasado, sabiendo que el pasado es lo que más cambia..." Society of the snow (movie)
Heyyy!!! I read that in a fortune cookie once :3
Not only is the song beautiful, this is one of the best lyric videos I've seen
i am agree
It's up there with I can do it with a broken heart and long live. Both much more than just a lv
This video is art!
I love that all of these lyric videos showcase different mediums of writing and their formats.
Interestingly, a double spaced script is used in comedies. Dramas are single spaced. I'm curious if that was intentional with an underlying message, or just because. Being as calcuated and detail oriented as she is, I feel she knows the double space usage in comedic scripts and it was intentional. I've even played it with the sound off and read through as if it was a comedic script. It's an interesting take.
“Now and then I re read the manuscript but the story isn’t mine anymore. “ 😭😢 so powerful lyric and iconic
The best thing about Taylor is that she just doesn't write songs but she writes stories! I love it when songwriters tell a story on the song! Long live, The Tortured Poets Department!
fr
i love the long live reference
Because she started as a country singer. That's what country artists do.
@@darlingdeb7010 That's definitely what drew her to the genre. Made perfect sense for her storytelling sensibilities.
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From "one last souvenir from my trip to your shores" to long story short's "and my waves meet your shore ever and evermore" makes me think of her last reflection into the roller coast of the relationship before concluding that she's leaving the relationship bubble.
i used to think the lyric "do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there" said "do you miss the roller coaster ride into paradise and then i left you there" and this is apt w this comment
To me, this song describes how and why she wrote All Too Well; hints to the other person being an actor 'you're a professional' and him being older 'then she dated boys her own age', created the music video 'the actors were hitting their marks' and shared the story with the world 'the story isn't mine anymore'.
no The Story Of Us-John Mayer
@@randombiri07 Omg. That's why there is a story of us reference in the fortnight music video!!
Maybe. But i'm sure the part of the shore links to long story short..."my waves meet your shore ever and evermore" and here she says "one last souvenir from my trip to your shores". She always compared herself to waves, unpredictable and unstable, and Joe to something firm and constant and here she closes their story with this last phrase. I'm not seeing people talking about that but it's pretty obvious to me.
Then there's the line: he said since she was wise beyond her years, everything was above board...hard to tell I'd it's about John Mayer or Jake Gyllenhaal. Idk why I'm feeling John Mayer but that lines really giving me the ick. Some older guy talking her into a relationship she wasn't really comfortable about with false promises.
This is the one. This piano moment captures her vulnerability like I have never heard before.
Yes it really does! 🤍🩶🫶🏻🪽
thank you chairman taylor 😭😭😭
love, fans of the tortured poets department
YES THANK YOU TAY
Thank u for the piano version. I'm so excited
Just some modern idiots ❤
i'm crying so hard,this is definitely the best outro song she had ever wrote.It's so sad but comforted at the same time,it's like you finally make peace with all your tortured and broken past and look forward.🥺
Oh my goodness, thank you for saying this - I totally agree! I cry every time I play this one - I just adore it. And her.
"The Manuscript" has thirteen letters in it. And this is how she chooses to end the album. Insane.
bye
“And at last, she knew what the agony had been for”
There’s something about this song, the piano, the reflection, the bittersweet remembering, how much it truly feels like a poem in a journal, all of it has me weeping. TTPD + The Anthology really struck a cord with something deep in my soul, in ways I’m still trying to put into words. I’ve been struggling the last several months and this album has exquisitely captured and conveyed all the feelings of anger, grief, melancholy, and detachment I’ve been feeling. Listening to it feels surreal.
Right - oh myword, oh my goodness, same!!!
It’s like I myself wrote this comment I feel the same way exactly
🤍🩶🖤✌🏻🫶🏻🎧🪽🗝️💫✨💭✉️🖊️
Much love to you and us all
We are here, we made it and now I am finally healing the way I always wanted and knew I needed to. Taylor has helped me along the way in my life, I’ve done work on myself too most of my life. But this album and the anthology too, it’s like each and every single part of my brain activated and woke up and is alive and I’m just myself again.
For the first time fully, completely in a way I haven’t been since I was I think 17.
Yet also at the same time the girl I was when I was 7yrs old and also 4yrs old.
Like we found each other in my own secret garden and it’s like finally coming back home, truly.
🤍🩶🖤
It is profound and I’m still not over it
Could say more but won’t here
But I was doing the worst
And now I’m doing better than I ever was🩶
Off the back of having my best year in 2023 (in terms of personally, mentally, stability, socially, my own growth in many way so far)
Yay thank you Taylor Swift, Swifties, myself - now, back then and since and for the future too.
It’s magical and remarkable to be at this current place.
Never thought I’d feel the way I do and it’s just kind of indescribable really.
✌🏻🖊️🫶🏻🙂✨
As @sstitch97 wrote, it is as if I wrote this comment - everything you said is exactly how I feel! Thank you for expressing my thoughts and feelings better than I ever could - just like Taylor does!💞
@@briannaspinelli2156 this is a huge complement, thank you so much. 🤍
@@briannaspinelli2156 it’s not a problem. I’m really happy my writing touched you so much. 🤍
The Manuscript is a lingering promise that holds tighter with each passing second. The layers to this track signifies just how much Taylor is willing to lay out everything on the table and say that she's still got the upper-hand in any situation she's placed herself in.
Your picture does not suit this comment 😭
@@tay_leaf😂
That whole last part reminds me of the Eras Tour - she's watching her band and dancers perform, she's watching her fans crying, singing, screaming, applauding, and somewhere through that experience she's healing. She found out what all that agony was for.
♡♩♡♩♡♩ >>>>
keren kali ya kan kak..
"and the tears fell in synchronicity with the score, and at last she knew what the agony had been for" just...beautiful
This song has one of the most beautiful bridges! Best part of the song.
It's amazing how she turns her heartbreaks and disappointments into goldmines.
♡♩♩T_T
I'm 76 and Taylor has been writing the soundtrack of my life since I met her in 2008. But with The Manuscript she has lent legitimacy to the 180 thousand word memoir I wrote in 2014 called The Blue Dress. I'm waiting for the right publisher. Taylor Swift is the right publisher.
I didn't know how badly I needed this album until this morning. It feels like every corner of my trauma, from the resolved, unresolved, and still yet to be discovered, has been given the gentlest hug that I could ever want it to receive.
3:23 The circle storytelling like “we were both young when I first saw you” and “down the block there’s an antique shop and something in my head said ‘stop’ so I walked in”❤❤❤
as someone with broken hearted filled journals, the final bit of this one really stabbed me through the heart
I know it feels like the end of the drawn out trauma someone’s been through, this one really hit
Poetically written, the Empress gracefully entangles her woven words into masterpieces for us all to endure. Lucky us.
Now I see why Taylor chose this as the main bonus track for the standard edition of the vinyl!
Okay, THIS SONG. I can’t stop thinking about the build-up in the bridge! It's like "Dear Reader," in that there's so much allusion layered into each line. Here's my best guess:
“And the years passed like scenes of a show
The professor said to write what you know
Looking backwards might be the only way to move forward.”
Taylor has always channeled her life experiences-especially the difficult ones-into songs. We saw this with Midnights in particular: she looks at what happened in her past as a way of understanding the present. As she recovers from her broken heart, the only thing she can think to do to process it all is write what she knows: her experience.
“Then the actors were hitting their marks
And the slow dance was alight with the sparks
And the tears fell in synchronicity with the score.”
These lines make me think of The Eras Tour: a performance of kinds in which she reenacts her songs. The “actors” are the dancers on stage, who “hit their marks” (she uses this term in I Can Do It With A Broken Heart). The “slow dance” reminds me of the Lover choreography, but it could stand for any song of hers that is so beautiful it evokes tears from her fans.
“And at last
She knew what the agony had been for.”
Through her experience with The Eras Tour, celebrating her entire career of songwriting, she realizes that all her difficult experiences gave her the music she needed to bring her here, to this moment, to this time in her life. Not only has she made something beautiful out of the agonies she experienced, but those songs also brought all of us fans together.
“The only thing that’s left is the manuscript
One last souvenir from my trip to your shores
Now and then I re-read the manuscript
But the story isn’t mine anymore.”
The “manuscript” could represent this album (TTPD), but more likely it represents the collective body of songs about her six-year relationship with Joe-the songs, in a way, are all she has left of the relationship now. From this point, she’s accepted the grief and moved on. She still looks back on their time together, but now the story is out in the world. It’s not hers anymore; it’s ours.
Thoughts???
ur actually so smart
That was perfect 🥺
Brilliant!
this makes perfect sense. thank you for putting my muddled blob of thoughts about this song into coherent words.
that's a very beautiful guess, I don't think I'd have thought it in any other way
The beginning piano chords foreshadow me falling to pieces by the end of the song.
For every young girl who is loved -- or groomed, maybe it depends on POV -- by an older man, this song opens the wound, rubs the scars and gives hope that she will get over it.
If this was her last album this song could fit as her last song, its like a summary of everything she's been through. I'm crying just listening to it.
♡♩♩T_T
What a beautiful wrap up ❤❤❤❤
I can't be the only one who has absolutely balled my eyes out to this song
You most certainly are NOT, my friend! Had to pull over the first time it played in my car, I was crying so hard.
Absolutely beautiful. I feel like Taylor is closing the door on her past experiences and relationships and opening the door to her new reality and love of the man she is now with. I love this album, I love Taylor and all her music, but this new album(s) is her greatest of them all, imo. Her voice is so angelic and moving. I love her with Travis.
Yes to all you! Beautifully said!
That's exactly what I was thinking.
This album is like if folklore and reputation had a baby
More like folklore and midnights
It’s folklores baby 💯 I feel like its 50 rep 50midnights and 💯 folklore
10000%
This album is around 7.39 times better than Reputation.
I don’t really get Reputation at all
6 pages for 6 years with Joe. 7th page is the only thing that left's - manuscript (TTDP album)
Omg--
She is a MASTERMIND
But she talks about the guy being older than her, it doesn’t fit with him. And it sounds like a really old relationship, I would say it’s about John Mayer or Jake Gyllenhaal.
@@Daniella9658 for me, this is her reflecting to either or both relationships due to the fact that she has to relive these emotions during the re-recordings.
@@Daniella9658as soon as I heard it I thought it was about John...so hauntingly beautiful
I think it’s about Jake and she’s talking about writing the script for the All Too Well 10 min version. She mentions the actors - maybe meaning Sadie and Dylan..? Because there’s a dance scene in that video.
Taylor, you are the best writer of this age.
Best singer songwriter of all time.
This new album is AMAZING!
FR
After drying my tears on this one, I wondered how many of these songs brought tears to Travis. He feels his emotions so strongly and Taylor expresses her emotions so well. ❤
Thought the same when listening to The Prophecy😢
If I didn't know how much Taylor loves creating music, this would have been a glorious and gorgeous goodbye. "The story isn't mine anymore..."
I had that thought as well. That she is going to retire after the end of the Eras tour to have a life.
@@justmejenny7986 I get the feeling its not that she's going to retire forever, but she's going to retire the old portions of her life that caused her pain but helped her get to the point she is at now. I'd perhaps expect her to take a break after the Eras tour, maybe get married and start a family (if that is where her relationship is going) and then have a new vibe when she releases new music. Just my thought/interpretation from all of the songs in TTPD and, especially, "The Manuscript."
@@belindaparedes6300 i think if she was going to do that, she wouldve already. its been clear the reason her and joe broke up was because he wanted to settle down and she didnt.
This is 100% about all too well and Jake. It fits so well. Especially when she said on the rep tour that we changed the meaning of all too well for her. It’s our story and looking back is when she made the short film and the actors falling into place is Sadie and Dylan. I love this song so much. It feels like a sadder chapter following mastermind for some reason
one of the most beautiful songs on the album, both lyrically and sonically
IS THIS ABOUT MISS AMERICANA? “..the slow dance was alight with the sparks.. the tears fell in synchronicity with the score..?.??
The instrumental of this song has me sobbing so bad
ME TOO!! SO GUT WRENCHING FOR WHAT 😭😭 got me curve into a ball and cry
The man - you - script
The fantasy of who you think he was going to be.
Billie?
wow.. yes!
Omg this is brilliant.
this song gets me in the FEELS
THIS LYRIC VID IS JUST *chefs kiss*
Never thought Taylor could ever top ‘Teardrops on my Guitar,’ but she vastly exceeds such here.
This album is pure therapy.
this is so Jake Gyllenhaal coded, like all too well really was a masterpiece. also, in the All Too Well music video, we see the protagonist making a book about her past experience, more metaphorically as the manuscript for Taylor
no John Mayer-The Story Of Us
@@randombiri07 have you read dear john because Taylor hated her too much
@@randombiri07 also, she created two music videos in the Red (Taylor's version) all about jale Gyllenhaal, go watch it: all too well (10 mins version) and I bet you think about me. Jake was an affair she never really got over easily, and possibly a past that hurts her, but she is finally letting go of all her ghosts
@@Schattenkind. no i don't think it is, it seems to be reflections of her past relationships jumbled together
THE LYRIC VIDEO WAS PERFECTLY MADE. love how it is in-sync with the lyrics
'One last trip to your shores ' is the sequel to 'my waves meet your shore ever and ever more' 😭
I love this song. It's about how she felt directing the music video for "All Too Well"
This has gotta be about turning her pain into the all too well short film ❤
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100%- it's her finally finishing the last page of that chapter. So simple but so stunning. My favourite I think ❤️
its definitely about the last stage which is acceptance. no matter if she recalls the bittersweet memory or moments, its just not her from "that earlier timespace" anymore. the freshness of the memory has faded
Agreed. I thought exactly the same thing.
This whole album is a masterpiece and her ending the album with this song is just perfcet
Taylor really ate her songwriting wheaties the day she penned this song just absolutely incredible work a memoir's worth of storytelling in just four minutes.
I literally love how simple artists have been going lately. Eternal Sunshine was so simple but also really beautiful (especially imperfect)
Comparing TTPD to Eternal Sunshine is such a massive insult to Taylor. This album is all about the songwriting--don't even.
@@user-lh8im2vy8e you’re funny 😭 I’m not a Taylor “fan” by any means, but I’m not going to sit here and say she’s a bad artist. I didn’t compare the lyricism of the two albums. I said both are simple yet beautiful and if you listened to every song on eternal sunshine and said to yourself “there was nothing beautiful about any of those songs” then you are smoking something strong. Two albums can be beautiful in their own right.
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start your ridiculous whining ….
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As a fan of them both it's an odd comparison but I understand what you mean. Like the sparse wispy vocals and therapy filled lyrics. What I think is funny is that Halsey did a thing on Eternal Sunshine for her Manic album and guess who she's also dated?!?! Matty Healy that man must have rizz that you can only feel in person cause I don't see it at all
"One last souvenir from my trip to your shore" makes me want to cry, I hope she enjoys her life now. I'll always love you Tay!
love seeing her journal, Her own words in motion with every single emotion and nothing held back. Love you Taylor Swift!
Omg the blend of White Horse and Cornelia Street melodies ❤❤❤ I’m in heaven!
The feelings I'm experiencing now were took on another level by the piano, the voice, the story, well... the song in himself. Taylor Swift makes me FEEL ALIVE !!!
Wow, brilliant song for the ending, filled with pure emotions and the strongest one on the album.
All of this is for her to give traumatized past a fully closure. As you should Taylor! We're so happy for you
I just had goosebumps it's so heartbreaking but also weirdly peaceful taylor you are genius song writer
I don't care what anybody says, this is the best song from the album
she hits so hard, i feel like crying..
this song reads like poem recital more than a song..
just so effective as an ending..
I'll never know why people are literally sleeping on this SONG! I mean the strength it takes to move forward, to know that the person we loved is not the same and not in love with us anymore or not in our life anymore even though at a certain point we thought that we would be the endgame! Letting all these things go takes so much strength. She wrote this entire process so painfully yet it sounds so beautiful. I hope she's happy now and everyone else who has gone through this phase in their life.
perfect outro for the album so TORTURED AND HURT the feeling of you're ready to give them your all but getting hurt in return 😭💔
One of the most beautiful works of art she's ever released.
♡♩♩T_T
I love how the whole song until the last few lines is in third person before switching to first. she always uses you and I in her songs, so to hear the story with she and he gives it a detached, melancholy feel. it really emphasizes the fact that it’s just a script and the ending was inevitable and from the beginning, she was just reading her part
This song is so underrated already!!!
They say sometimes there is a stage of grief after acceptance. Revenge, so maybe the whole album is foreshadowing that reputation is coming soon since it is her revenge album! 🖤
This song feels like last chapter of the very long story you got lost in. You lived in it for so long that you feel weird sadness now that it is over.
THE PERFECT ENDING 🥺🤍✨
♡♡♩T_T
Time heals all. We become wise.
♡♩♡♩ 💪💪
At last she knew what the agony was for - "Taylor has found purpose out of her agony and heartbreak in the form of sharing it with the world, and realizing the impact she has on the audience, knowing she is not alone in how she feels." That's just so beautiful.
I’m crying.Thats brutal
“I’m not a donor but I’d give you my heart if you needed it”
I LOVE YOU TAYLOR 😭💔
The Narrator going First Person Perspective gave me the goosebumps.
❤❤❤
This is my favorite lyric video so far. I loved the script she put in it!!! (Predicting a short fan made film lol)
"The only thing that's left is the manuscript, one last souvenir of my trip to your shores"
"My waves meet your shore ever and evermore"
Thank you Taylor for giving us a surprise double album after working so hard touring and the TV re-releases you always keep us on our toes & now this is one of my favorite songs!! ❤🥹🫶
Such a perfect closure.
This is the best set I've heard from them in a while!
This song hits so hard if you listened to the whole album in order 😪
This song... Taylor, this song makes my tears fall in synchronicity with your score. What an incredible way to end such a beautiful album 🤍 Thank you for your genius
The perfect ending to the album. It had to be in the standard version. ✨✍️
This all sounds so familiar...I have tears with every song that I hear...So thought-provoking!
I think this has to be one of fave of hers now. An underrated song from the album ❤
Re-reading the manuscript might mean re-recording her discography?! And yeah, the ATW reference because it was one of the biggest highlights of this re-recording process, and such an emotional milestone. And like she said in the Eras Tour movie, now she has given out all those stories to her fans for THEIR experiences.
UGHH THIS ALBUM IS AMAZING
This has me bawling. I feel like it’s a story about me looking back on me ages 18-22. 💔
It's insane how she made the lyric video an actual manuscript 🥹 The genius that you are, Ms. Swift!
The piano in the beginning is so haunting and beautiful... love this song...
The whole album is taking the era by Storm, Taylor's singing style is smooth and unique
If she plays this at a concert we should scream the lines if the “he” and “she” characters
My guess it will be a surprise song because it’s not on the setlist!!
Did anyone noticed that in the bottom right corner you get pages number and the counts end at 7 pages?? As in they dated for 6 years where there were many stories butnon the 7th year(page) she's concluding the end of it
Forever Swift ❤😇
Thank you Taylor for this album❤
So beautiful. The song... the whole album... the lyric videos are a whole new level. A few songs on this album get me in my feels, not because I have experienced anything like this, but it breaks my heart to know she has. and she expresses her pain unapologetically and beautifully. Taylor, I love you. You've shared your joy, sadness, hope and despair with us for so long and I'm grateful. Thank you!
This is my favourite song, its kinda like All too well but in acceptance version. I am crying remember my past relationship.