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31 Of Taylor Swift's Most Iconic Songs

These are the best of the best, prove me wrong.

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31 Of Taylor Swift's Most Iconic Songs

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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

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