Hurray for my obsession with Taylor Swift and her great songwriting.Like many of my fellow girlfriends Swifties, I’m doing my best Speak Now (Taylor Version)and I love that Taylor chose the colors to represent each album. speak now, For example purple.
This is represented visually throughout the Eras tour, where she often matches her outfits to albums and has a huge house with rooms associated with each era as part of her set. Taylor has long loved color as her symbol. Her songwriting is full of colorful references, including every shade under the sun.
Some shades have an entire song dedicated to that color (“Maroon” or “Lavender Haze”). There are also colors that are beautifully woven into the lyrical storytelling. In my opinion, the 24 best Taylor Swift lyrics about color are:
1.
I used to believe that love is black or white/But it’s gold. – “morning”
2.
There’s a dent in your shape / A gold tattoo with your imprint on me. -“dress”
3.
My love was frozen blue/But you made me gold. – “Hold hands and dance”
Four.
Once upon a time I had an empire in my golden age/I was so highly regarded and great/They cheered when they saw my face/Now they fear I’ve fallen out of grace. — “Crumbling Castle”
Five.
Loving him was red, fiery red. —“red”
6.
The burgundy color of my T-shirt when you sprayed me with wine/And the blood that ran down my cheeks was so bright/The marks you made on my collarbone, the rust between the calls/The lips I used to call home were so scarlet and maroon. — “Maroon”
7.
The autumn chill that wakes me up, you loved the amber sky so much / Long limbs and frozen swims, you always passed where our feet touched. — “Marjorie”
8.
Green was the color of the lawn I used to read in Centennial Park/I thought I’d meet someone there. —“Invisible Thread”
9.
Did I paint your bluest skies the darkest grey/The universe far, far away. -“Coney Island”
Ten.
You built the walls and painted everything a shade of gray/And I stood there loving you and wishing they all went away. — “Cold as You”
11.
Time, wonderful time gave me blue, and gave me a purplish-pink sky. — “Invisible Thread”
12.
I feel the lavender haze creeping up on me/ Surreal, I’m the worst if I’ve cared what people say/ No deal, 1950s shit they want me to/ I just wanna stay in that lavender haze. — “Lavender Haze”
13.
The ultraviolet morning light below tells me that this love is worth fighting for. –“afterglow”
14.
My knuckles hurt like violets, I hit the wall with a sucker, I cursed you while talking in my sleep / Spineless in the grave of silence, I tore your banner, and the battle was brought underground. ――『Great War』
15.
Sapphire tears ran down my face and sadness filled my sky. — “Bejeweled”
16.
he is in the room Your opal eyes are all I want to see / He wants only you. — “Ivy”
17.
You paint me a blue sky and turn it back into rain. -“To Joan”
18.
And did the wounds of your twin flame turn you blue / And just for this one, did love hurt you too? — “All to Well (10 minutes version)”
19.
It’s new, the shape of your body, / It’s blue, the feelings I have; It’s a cruel summer. — “Cruel Summer”
20.
Don’t want any other shade of blue than you. / There is no greater sorrow in this world. -“hoax”
twenty one.
When you think of happiness, I hope you remember that little black dress. — “Tim McGraw”
twenty two.
I’m not the kind of girl who rudely barges into a white-veiled opportunity/But you’re not the sort of boy who marries the wrong girl. -“speak now”
twenty three.
Don’t call me ‘kid’, don’t call me ‘baby’ / Look at this godforsaken mess you made me. / You showed me colors that others didn’t see. — “Adultery”
twenty four.
The rest of the world was black and white, but we were screaming. – “outside the forest”
Well, Taylor Swift’s poetic genius, the Swifties, doesn’t end here. I’d love to hear your favorite mentions of color throughout her songwriting in the comments section below.
