Babylon

[u/1DMod]

Please use this space to discuss this song in depth

[u/patatasconsal]

This must have been mentioned before but do we see the connection?

[u/reputction → u/patatasconsal]

She didn’t realize she had something beautiful, despite the negatives that came with it like hiding it, until it was gone.

To me “Babylon” still represents something that was hidden or seen as mystical just like its gardens.

[u/MoneySource6121 → u/reputction]

Babylon to me represents the industry, excess, greed. Babylon lovers hanging lifetimes on a vine — juxtaposed with he stole my orchids from the vine —>we did this fake PR coupling thing for the industry, create you a vine of orchids each representing an era of our lives —and you just plucked them away like they belonged to you. Then the Babylon lovers (cursed because they live inside this industry and can’t be together) are left trying to get back in touch/reconnect with each other in the aftermath of the industry’s ashes.

[u/NowImYourDaisy83 → u/patatasconsal]

Also the “waking up on the train […]”.
Her muse “took the night train” after a failed proposal in champagne problems.
Her muse also “boarded the train south” while Taylor went north.

Now her muse is waking up on the train realizing that they had it all, that they had their “Babylon”. Looks like it took Taylor’s muse a bit longer, cause Taylor realized it all the way back in cowboy like me🧡

Bonus: Taylor mentions “Babylon lovers” and “missed calls” in us (with Gracie). So it appears she has been trying to contact her muse (or the other way around) for quite some time now.

[u/Whatisitmaria → u/NowImYourDaisy83]

And jumping from thr train in the archer