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From "I hope y'all think of me" to "all's well that ends well to terminate up with you lot," Taylor Swift's lyrics take "enchanted" united states of america for more than than a decade.

Taylor Swift'south years in the spotlight have taken listeners from her state roots in 2006's self-titled "Taylor Swift" to the moody surprise quarantine albums "Folklore" and "Evermore" and at present a triumphant return to her past with her "Red (Taylor'south Version)" rerecording.

Crossing genres and endless manner choices, Swift has taken her place as a music icon. Longtime listeners know her discography all too well: They acquaintance certain albums with specific periods of their lives and tether some of her nearly memorable lines to moments of their own.

"I have this formula for music. If I keep to write songs about my life, and my life is always irresolute, so my music will always be changing," Swift told United states TODAY in 2010. She was right.

We ranked Swift's 62 all-time vocal lyrics from over the years – some heartbreaking, some triumphant – all works of lyrical genius that her biggest fans can't help simply to sing once again and again.

62. "Lord, what volition become of me / One time I've lost my novelty?" – "Aught New (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) (Taylor'southward Version)" from "Red (Taylor'south Version)"

Likewise us every time nosotros update this article. Thank you for reading, everyone!

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61. "Don't treat me like some situation that needs to be handled / I'chiliad fine with my spite and my tears, and my beers and my candles" – "Closure" from "Evermore"

A line that will get down in Swift's breakdown vocal hall of fame.

60. "No amount of freedom gets you clean / I've still got you all over me" – "Y'all All Over Me (feat. Maren Morris) (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)" from "Fearless (Taylor'south Version)"

Nosotros tin never run away from our issues; Swift (and Morris) clear that like the country queens they are.

59. "Your faithless dear'southward the only hoax I believe in" – "Hoax" from "Folklore"

Believing in "faithless" love?! Nosotros take no pick but to stan a paradoxical queen.

58. "The skeletons in both our closets plotted difficult to f--- this up" – "Cowboy Like Me" from "Evermore"

Two people finding beloved against all odds: we love to see information technology.

57. "You understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars / And why I've spent my whole life trying to put information technology in words." – "You Are in Honey" from "1989 (Deluxe Edition)"

Putting specific and universal feelings into words: What Swift does best.

56. "You play stupid games, you lot win stupid prizes" – "Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince" from "Lover"

All other games and prizes are canceled.

55. "Sorry, I can't see facts through all of my fury" – "Happiness" from "Evermore"

Self-aware self-correction: classic Swift.

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54. "Clover blooms in the fields / Jump breaks loose, the time is near" – "ivy" from "Evermore"

Spring breaks? Get it? We sure practise.

53. "Did y'all hear well-nigh the girl who lives in mirage? / Breakups happen every day, you don't have to lose information technology / She'southward yet 23 inside her fantasy" – "Right Where You Left Me - Bonus Runway" from "Evermore"

Another case of natural language-in-cheek self-sensation from the queen of breakdown songs reminds the states that we're totally fine living inside the fantasy of Swift'southward discography.

52. "I had a marvelous fourth dimension ruining everything" – "The Last Great American Dynasty" from "Folklore"

Go alee and save this one for your next Instagram caption.

51. "Delight don't e'er become a stranger whose express joy I could recognize anywhere" – "New year's day's Twenty-four hours" from "Reputation"

Squeeze our hand three times, why don't you.

l. "How can a person know everything at eighteen / But nothin' at xx-2?"  – "Nothing New (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) (Taylor's Version)" from "Ruby-red (Taylor's Version)"

Spoiler alert: It only gets messier from in that location. We encounter you lot and cheers, Taylor.

49. "Untouchable, burning brighter than the lord's day / And when you're close I feel similar coming undone" – "Untouchable" from "Fearless"

Snappy, romantic, poetic: The Taylor Swift trifecta.

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48. "You lot drew stars around my scars but now I'm bleeding" – "Cardigan" from "Sociology"

OK, the rhyming of "stars" and "scars" on its own is enough to transport our hearts all a-palpitate. Merely the vehement shift to "bleeding" shows how even though we may heal, information technology doesn't take much to ship us spiraling now and once again. Nosotros're bleeding (metaphorically) with you, Taylor.

47. "Barefoot in the kitchen / Sacred new beginnings / That became my organized religion, heed" – "Cornelia Street" from "Lover"

Swift'southward storytelling works all-time with tiny details like these.

46. "I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me" – "New Romantics" from "1989"

This is a very tall castle, if you think about Scooter Braun, Katy Perry and Kimye.

45. "My castle crumbled overnight / I brought a knife to a gunfight / They took the crown but it'due south alright" – "Call It What Yous Want" from "Reputation"

Referencing your own lyrics? Ultimate power motion.

44. "Back then we didn't know / We were built to fall apart / We bankrupt the status quo / Then we broke each other'southward hearts" – "The Very Offset Night (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)" from "Red (Taylor'due south Version)"

Could this be the prequel to "Out of The Woods?" Again, referencing your ain past lyrics is simply iconic, legendary beliefs.

43. "He's got my past frozen behind drinking glass / But I've got me" – "It'due south Time To Go - Bonus Track" from "Evermore"

This melancholy summation of Swift's public battle against music executive Scooter Braun for her masters (the reason she's rerecording her first half-dozen studio albums) is heartbreakingly weary. Luckily, her rerecordings have begun to serve as a triumphant reclaiming of the old works that got her here.

42. "Cold was the steel of my axe to grind for the boys who broke my heart / Now I ship their babies presents" – "Invisible String" from "Folklore"

From exposing your teenage ex-boyfriend for dumping you over the phone to sending gifts to his newborn: That's forever and ever for you.

41. "He says he's and so in love / He's finally got it right / I wonder if he knows he's all I call up near at nighttime" – "Teardrops on My Guitar" from "Taylor Swift"

No,yous'recrying over a musical instrument.

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40. "Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday but I realized some bigger dreams of mine / And Abigail gave everything she had to a boy who inverse his mind" – "Fifteen" from "Fearless"

Bigger dreams? Try xi-time winner and 41-time nominee at the Grammys, two-fourth dimension Fourth dimension 100 Near Influential People recipient and 2019 American Music Awards Artist of the Decade honoree. Wish you could go back and tell yourself that.

39. "Back when you fit in my poems like a perfect rhyme" – "Holy Basis" from "Red"

In the kickoff moments of her first pop-but-not-technically-popular album, Swift proved to naysayers that her lyrical genius isn't defined to ane genre.

38. "I once believed love would be called-for red / But it's aureate" – "Daylight" from "Lover"

Acknowledging she'due south grown from "Red" simply appreciating it as a part of her by enough to include information technology on her latest album? We don't know a amend person.

37. I think I've seen this film before / And I didn't similar the ending / You're not my homeland anymore / Then what am I defending now? – "Exile" from "Folklore"

A archetype excellent Taylor Swift lyrical run. Defend united states of america, Taylor, please!

36. "He said the way my blueish eyes shined / Put those Georgia stars to shame that night / I said, 'That's a prevarication'" – "Tim McGraw" from "Taylor Swift"

No law-breaking to Georgia stars, plain.

35."I desire auroras and sad prose / I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet / 'Cause I oasis't moved in years / And I want yous correct here" – "The Lakes" from "Folklore"

Swift waxes poetic about finding happiness in quiet moments of solitude with her "lover," and we couldn't be happier for her.

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34. "Information technology takes everything in me but to get up each day / But it's wonderful to encounter that you're OK" – "Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) from "Fearless (Taylor's Version)

The sarcasm jumped out and did a backflip. How perfect(ly fine).

33. "I snuck in through the garden gate / Every dark that summer but to seal my fate" – "Roughshod Summer" from "Lover"

Who wouldn't want to traipse effectually through gardens all summer long?

32. "I never grew up, it's getting so onetime" – "The Archer" from "Lover"

In which Swift lays out in eight words merely how aware she is of all the criticisms thrown at her (and besides sneaks in a reference to "Never Grow Upwards" rail from "Speak Now").

31. "You booked the night railroad train for a reason / So you lot could sit there in this injure"  – "Champagne Issues" from "Evermore"

We imagine this is what information technology would sound like if Journey actually did cease assertive.

30. "And I was never good at telling jokes, just the punchline goes / I'll get older, but your lovers stay my age" – "All Likewise Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)"  from "Red (Taylor'south Version)"

Hell hath no fury like a Taylor Swift scorned. Of all the daggers she'south written over the years about former flames, this is one of her most pointed.

29. "Simply I took your matches before fire could catch me / So don't look now, I'g shining like fireworks over your distressing, empty town" – "Dearest John" from "Speak Now"

Talk nearly a Dearest John letter. Ouch.

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28. "Take the words for what they are: A dwindling, mercurial loftier / A drug that only worked the outset few hundred times" – "Illicit Affairs" from "Sociology"

"Look at this godforsaken mess that you lot fabricated me" – us, after listening to Swift sing about the devastation of feeling like you're losing the person y'all dear.

27. "You did a number on me / But honestly, baby, who's counting?" – "Then Information technology Goes..." from "Reputation"

Taylor reinvented math with 11 iconic words. Who is counting?

26."I made you my temple, my mural, my sky / Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life" – "Tolerate It" from "Evermore"

Death by a thousand cuts in a single sentence, from, yes, the singer of "Death By a Thousand Cuts." Honorable mention to the line that follows: "Drawing hearts in the byline," which we can only assume was near the states.

25. "I knew you dancing in your Levis, drunk under a streetlight" – "Cardigan" from "Folklore"

Swift loves writing these tiny details about knowing someone intimately. And we love her for it.

24. "That night we couldn't quite forget / When we decided to move the furniture so we could trip the light fantastic / Baby, like we stood a chance" – "Out of the Woods" from "1989"

Getting lost never sounded so good.

23. "It never ever occurred to y'all / That I can't say 'hello' to you / And risk another bye" – "I Almost Exercise" from "Scarlet"

Those chills you feel? Yep, we get those reading these every fourth dimension. "Hullo" and "bye" never seemed so loaded.

22. "And if I become burned, at to the lowest degree we were electrified" – "Dress" from "Reputation"

This girl is on burn down, indeed.

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21. "But betwixt usa, did the love matter maim you too?" – "All Besides Well (x Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)"

Lines like this in the 10-minute version have us feeling all besides unwell.

20. "Should've kept every grocery store receipt / 'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me" – "Marjorie" from "Evermore"

From the woman who brought you "I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying hither," we bring yous this glorious run. This song hits especially unlike during the coronavirus pandemic equally a nation overrun with morbidity turns to music for solace.

19. "I didn't accept it in myself to go with grace / 'Crusade when I'd fight, you used to tell me I was brave – "My Tears Ricochet" from "Folklore"

The "used to" does all the work here. Our tears haven't stopped ricocheting since listening.

18. "The monsters turned out to be just trees / When the sunday came up you were looking at me" – "Out of the Woods" from "1989"

"Where the Wild Things Are" got the rewrite information technology never asked for, and nosotros are not lament.

17. "The nighttime you danced like you lot knew our lives would never be the same / You held your head similar a hero / On a history book folio / It was the terminate of a decade / But the get-go of an historic period" – "Long Live" from "Speak Now"

Production on this album began in 2009, the yr Swift turned 20, and wrapped in 2010. What a decade – and an age – the 2010s have been for her.

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16. "'Crusade I hear he'due south got his arm 'round a make-new girl / I've been pickin' upwards my heart, he's been pickin' up her" – "Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) from "Fearless" (Taylor's Version)

We're not certain how Swift pulled this off but she actually picked up our hearts and threw them on the ground while we listened to these lyrics. All "Mr. Perfectly Fine" fellas out there should take notes.

xv. "I can't determine if it'south a selection: getting swept abroad" – "Treacherous" from "Red"

*Swoons*

fourteen. "With every guitar cord scar on my hand / I take this magnetic force of a human to exist my lover" – "Lover" from "Lover"

For longtime Swifties, there'south zilch sweeter than hearing her triumphantly declare she's in dearest.

xiii. "And you wanna scream, 'don't phone call me kid, don't call me baby / Look at this godforsaken mess that y'all made me'"  – "Illicit Diplomacy" from "Folklore"

If you're not screaming along to these lyrics every time, y'all're doing it incorrect.

12."The road non taken looks real good now" – "'Tis the Damn Season" from "Evermore"

Robert Frost who? Anyone else's spin of the often-referenced poem would come off as cliche. But Swift's aesthetic plow of phrase has the states over here thinking near our (non-toxic) exes.

xi. "They say all's well that ends well, merely I'g in a new hell / Every fourth dimension you double-cross my mind" – "All Too Well (10 Infinitesimal Version) (Taylor's Version)" from "Ruby (Taylor'south Version)"

The WORDPLAY. William Shakespeare himself could never.

10. "Time won't fly, it'due south like I'm paralyzed by it / I'd similar to exist my old self again, but I'thousand still trying to find it / After plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your own / At present y'all postal service back my things and I walk abode alone" – "All Too Well" from "Red"

Information technology'due south a testament that we tin't cut this down any shorter. "All Too Well" – and its extended cut – wins everything. End of story.

nine. "You lot held your pride similar you should have held me" – "The Story of The states" from "Speak Now"

Savage, before savage became a role of our mainstream lexicon. Swift is the queen of the snappy plough of phrase.

8. "Only she wears short skirts / I wearable T-shirts / She's cheer captain / And I'1000 on the bleachers" – "You Belong With Me" from "Fearless"

Before "Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince," there was "You Belong With Me." Swift captures the high school experience so effortlessly it'south similar we never graduated.

7. "They told me all of my cages were mental / So I got wasted like all my potential" – "This is Me Trying" from "Folklore"

Some other beautifully written turn of phrase. She's still got it, ten years later.

6. "You kept me like a secret, merely I kept yous like an oath" – "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)" from "Red (Taylor'southward Version)"

We cannot wait to scream this in a (fully-vaccinated) crowded bar ASAP. Now that'south an oath.

5. "I'm withal a laic but I don't know why / I've never been a natural / All I practice is try, try, attempt – "Mirrorball" from "Folklore"

That repetitive "endeavor, try, try" sends us spinning. We recommend checking out the Las Culturistas analysis of "Folklore" track-by-track, if you haven't already, for an apt take on "Mirrorball" and Taylor Swift'due south incredible work ethic.

4. "You lot said it was a bang-up dear, one for the ages / But if the story'due south over, why am I still writing pages?" – "Decease By a Thou Cuts" from "Lover"

The queen of breakup songs used to worry virtually what would happen when she was happily in a relationship, simply rejoiced when she woke upwardly one day with lyrics in her mind that would somewhen become "Cuts."

"I was similar, 'it'south still here! Yes!" she said in her NPR Tiny Desk Concert. "This song is my proof. I don't accept to end writing well-nigh heartbreak and misery. Which, for me, is incredible news."

3. "You can program for a alter in conditions and time / But I never planned on you irresolute your heed" – "Last Kiss" from "Speak At present"

Don't mind united states, but we'll go sit on the floor, listening to this one on repeat.

2. "You made a rebel of a devil-may-care man'south careful daughter / You are the best matter that's e'er been mine" – "Mine" from "Speak Now"

Eat your hearts out, careless men.

i. "You call me upwards again just to break me like a hope / Then casually cruel in the proper name of beingness honest" – "All Likewise Well" from "Red"

This jewel of a lyric has everything you could perchance want. Simile? Ingemination? Heartbreak? Check, check, check.

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