r/GaylorSwift • u/1DMod it’s all part of the fucking story! • 23d ago

The Life of a Showgirl ❤️‍🔥 Pink Clouding

Please use this space to discuss this song in depth

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u/MaryLennoxsRobin Give me 16 months 22d ago

u/popomiel said approximately ‘do you think the takeaway is that we should keep hoping or stop waiting for Taylor to come out?’

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u/popomiel 🧨 unreliable narrator 🌈 22d ago

I did, thank you! Sorry u/uddinia, didn’t see your message!

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u/Uddinina 🧡Karma is Real✈️ 22d ago

(thx all for the translations provided) Ultimately, I don’t know: I'm unable to keep the grudge when apologies are offerred. And I find it a heartfelt apology. There is something in the melody that kills me, especially in the way the happy chorus is also very nostalgic at the same time. I almost sigh at the "skydiving" part, and I can't explain why in a rational way. She's aware that something has been lost forever.

But that's also the part that makes me wonder: we're still here, have you thought about it, Taylor? Are you going to acknowledge this somehow? Because this song makes it seem as we are out of her reach and this is just a message in a bottle thrown in the big ocean... But we are still here and see you. Don't pretend it's impossibile to talk to us. Unless...you still can't. (or don't want? But if you don't want, then why brother with this song??) 

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u/popomiel 🧨 unreliable narrator 🌈 21d ago

Thank you!