I wish I could say that I had a precise point ranking system to do this but like in ~true Taylor Swift fashion~ ...I just followed my gut and ranked the songs that I know pierced our hearts the most.
31. Clean
Favorite lyric: 'You're still all over me like a wine-stained dress I can't wear anymore'
30. The Last Time (feat. Gary Lightbody)
Favorite lyric: 'You wear your best apology, but I was there to watch you leave.'
29. Sparks Fly
Favorite lyric: 'I'm on my guard for the rest of the world but with you I know its no good.'
28. Haunted
Favorite lyric: 'He will try to take away my pain and he just might make me smile, but the whole time, I'm wishing it was you instead.'
27. Paper Rings
Favorite lyric: 'I hate accidents except when we went from friends to this.'
26. Everything Has Changed
Favorite lyric: 'And your eyes look like coming home'
25. Begin Again
Favorite lyric: 'And for the first time. What's past is past'
24. The Story of Us
Favorite lyric: 'This is looking like a contest of who can act like they care less. But I liked it better when you were on my side'
23. Enchanted
Favorite lyric: 'Please don't be in love with someone else. Please don't have somebody waiting on you.'
22. Sad Beautiful Tragic
Favorite lyric:
'Words, how little they mean
When you're a little too late'
21. State of Grace
Favorite lyric:
'So you were never a saint
And I've loved in shades of wrong
We learn to live with the pain
Mosaic broken hearts
But this love is brave and wild'
20. august
Favorite lyric:
'Back when we were still changing for the better
Wanting was enough
For me, it was enough
To live for the hope of it all'
19. Should've Said No
Favorite lyric:
'I shouldn't be asking myself why
You shouldn't be begging' for forgiveness at my feet'
18. Holy Ground
Favorite lyric: 'Tonight, I'm gonna dance for all that we've been through, but I don't wanna dance, if I'm not dancing with you.
17. Ivy
Favorite lyric: 'How's one to know? I'd live and die for moments that we stole on begged and borrowed time'
16. The Lucky One
Favorite lyric:
'And they tell you that you're lucky
But you're so confused,
'Cause you don't feel pretty, you just feel used.'
15. Cruel Summer
Favorite lyric: 'I don't wanna keep secrets just to keep you'
14. peace
Favorite lyric: 'Give you my wild, give you a child. Give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other.'
13. Crazier
Favorite lyric: 'I was trying to fly, but I couldn't find wings. But you came along and you changed everything.'
12. mad woman
Favorite lyric: 'She should be mad, should be scathing like me, but no one likes a mad woman'
11. the lakes
Favorite lyric: 'I want auroras and sad prose. I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet, 'cause I haven't moved in years.'
10. Long Live
Favorite lyric:
'Long live all the mountains we moved
I had the time of my life
Fighting dragons with you'
9.The Way I Loved You
Favorite lyrics:
'But I miss screaming and fighting
And kissing in the rain
And it's 2 a.m. and I'm cursing your name
You're so in love that you act insane
And that's the way I loved you'
8. Champagne Problems
Favorite lyrics:
'One for the money, two for the show. I never was ready so I watch you go. Sometimes you just don't know the answer, 'til someone's on their knees and asks you. 'She would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head,' they said'
7. this is me trying
Favorite lyric:
'They told me all of my cages were mental
So I got wasted like all my potential'
6. seven
Favorite lyric:
'Before I learned civility
I used to scream ferociously'
5. Change
Favorite lyric:
'We're getting stronger now, finding things they never found. They might be bigger but we're faster and never scared'
4. Forever & Always
Favorite lyric: 'Here's to silence, that cuts me to the core'
3. exile (feat. Bon Iver)
Favorite lyric: 'I can see you standing, honey. With his arms around your body. Laughin', but the joke's not funny at all.'
2. Last Kiss
Favorite lyric:
'So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep
And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe'
1. All Too Well
Favorite lyrics:
'And you call me up again
Just to break me like a promise
So casually cruel in the name of being honest
I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here
'Cause I remember it all too well'
I cannot even put into words how hard it was to narrow ALL of Taylor Swift's discography to 31 songs...and then rank them.
Sincerely,
a swiftie since '06