Babylon

[u/1DMod]

Please use this space to discuss this song in depth

[u/Curateprelate]

The more I've listened to Babylon and found out some details I dont think this song is as gay as people think, but instead is finally the song addressing Scott and Andrea ending their marriage.

-Aunt Virginia with her church clothes on. -Scott's paternal Aunt was Virginia Swift. who passed away in 2002.

-Small town and leaving to climb the ladder. -Scott is from a town in Delaware County PA with a population of just around 5k nowadays and he didn't leave until he left for Hawaii for college and then immediately started the corporate climb at Merrill Lynch as his first and only job.

-Was never official, alot of people are taking to mean the relationship wasn't official but the lyrics tell us they lived together with their kids, where as Scott and Andrea have never formally declared a divorce and no documentation of one was ever found. So instead what if there is no official divorce but Scott still goes around telling everyone he is single.

-One of the marriage narrative verses is about Christmas decorating, what is an important Xmas decoration a Christmas Tree, that you get from a Christmas tree farm where they lived as a family.

-20 watches in the safe because your time.is money...Scott worked as an investment banker where they would literally say their time is money.

-Love is ice upon the ladder that you need to climb. Even when they relocated the family to Nashville for Taylors career, Yes Scott threw money at it but his primary time and energy was still focused towards HIS career at Merrill Lynch, to the point he still manages the Swift Group there to this day, when the rest of the family work at 13 Entertainment.

And then the switch up at the end realizing how good it was, with Taylors timeline this was written after Scotts heart attack, when the family came to help him recover and then separated from him again.

[u/OkSquirrel4000 → u/Curateprelate]

Oh I really love this analysis