EVERMORE BREAKDOWN - Part 4 - Finally reacting to bonus tracks!!! 

right where you left me is if the lyric “time won’t fly it’s like i’m paralyzed by it” was an entire song

I feel like "right where you left me" is one of Taylor's saddest songs.....

Awww.... little did they know they'd be invited by Scott Swift to the eras tour and given handwritten letters from Taylor 2 years later.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

That’s just perfect right after the all too well short film trailer

Right Where You Left Me always gives me this vision of a ghost haunting one corner of a cafe after getting her heart broken, and everyone can see her, but she's not scary, she just looks sad

You need a shirt that says “This bridge is illegal” in the folklore/evermore font. I would 100% buy it

THE WAY YOU DROPPED THIS AFTER TAYLOR ANNOUNCED THE ALL TOO WELL SHORT FILM IM NOT OKAY

The line "sometimes to run is the brave thing" is also super reminiscent of Better Man where she wrote "you know the bravest thing I ever did was run"

BESTIEESS HAVE YOU SEEN THAT TAYLOR IS RELEASING A SHORT FILM WITH DYLAN O'BRIEN AND SADIE SINK FOR ALL TOO WELL? I'm so excited!!

Why everyone ignore "she is still 23" in the song, that's the most specific thing she said in the song. When she was 23, media and millions of people told her to move on from the heartbreak she was going through at that time, and told her to stop writing breakup songs and find a new perspective.

RWYLM: “find somewhere, some perspective” correlates to the line in Labyrinth, “You know how much I hate That everybody just expects me to bounce back… just like that” captures the same feeling/circumstance.

I think that Evermore is definitely more based in fictional stories. Folklore is very much Taylor processing the trauma of losing her past albums, grieving her relationship with Scott, dealing with a spite towards everything Scooter, media and others did to her as well as escaping all of it by thinking of the future of her art, her relationship with Jo and with her fans too. Every single song on Folklore is inspired by her life. It's actually like Reputation 2.0 but this time around, Taylor decided she would avoid diving into the drama that happened to her by hiding her own stories behind metaphors and fictional characters. One of the main criticism of Reputation was that it was very unrelatable to others and too focused on the drama surrounding Taylor, so i think Taylor has learnt from this and made an album that was just as personal to her as Reputation, but she promoted it as a collection of fictional stories, which was super clever. Evermore on the other hand, appears to actually have some stories that were completely imagined. Ivy, Cowboy like me, Tolerate it, Champagne problems, Tis the damn season, Dorothea, Right where you left me and NBNC all seem to be fully fictional. The rest of Evermore though is an extension of the themes from Folklore and in fact, I consider the song Evermore to be the real closer to both albums as it's the end of the healing process from the trauma and depression she has experienced in the past and while the song is heartbreaking (like the rest of Folkmore), it ends on a hopeful note. For this reason I just can't see Folklore and Evermore as separate albums. Without Evermore, you are left with no real closure to the story told on Folklore.

i love her reference in evermore to cornelia street “floors of a cabin creaking under my step” - evermore “memorize the creeks in the floor” - cornelia street

I love in Closure how Taylor says, Don’t treat me like some situation that needs to be “handled” and you can HEAR the quotation marks.

Right where you left me is such a good example of Taylor using a fictional narrative to convey emotions she has DEFINITELY felt before. Not just the heartbreak, but facing judgment for being heartbroken. She was 23 during the red era and that was PEAK “Taylor only writes about her exes” discourse time. She’s also talked about feeling “frozen” at the age she got famous and I feel like this song is her imagining what turn her life could have taken if she’d never managed to unfreeze herself!

Right where you left me is by far my favorite bonus song. I’m a little offended it was left off the album.

I think closure is way more specific as to who it’s about than it appears. And I 100% think that person is Karlie. First there’s the connection between “she’s a crook who was caught” and the “guilty, guilty.” It’s also just intriguing for Taylor to choose those specific words when Karlie is in-laws with Jared Kushner/Ivanka Trump, especially since she was writing this around election time last year. Karlie also left Scooter Braun’s management late last year and has really had no public or social media interaction with him this year, which puts the “it wasn’t right, how it all went down, looks like you know that now” in a different context. She is also the one who best fits the “wrinkle in your new life.” She got married, had a kid, got a new friend group. And yet every interview she’s done she’s been asked about Taylor, and she’s gone out of her way to “smooth things over” by claiming they’re on good terms. She says this in 73 questions, Watch What Happens Live, etc. I also think Scott and Scooter are narcissists that will never admit it wasn’t right for the fight with her masters to go down like this. In my opinion they aren’t losing sleep at night even though they should be, and they are not writing apology letters, which is why Taylor goes on to say Scott is sitting on his throne in his palace of bones praying to his greed. 😅

RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME is my top 3 on this album for sure. Even #1 on some days.💔 I definitely also played it on repeat and cried out my eyes while being in awe of her writing. It’s so hard to rank songs though because evermore is literally perfect. How am I meant to choose between Ivy, Champagne problems, cowboy like me, and tolerate it?!? Not to mention tis the damn season and Coney Island... I literally bought a record player for this album. 📀

right where you left me is literally my favorite sound from evermore

Marjorie brings me to tears everytime. I think it's an underrated stunning song!

“Writing letters addressed to the fire” has always made me think of the lyric “I’ve got a hundred thrown out speeches I almost said to you” from the archer. Two of my all time favourite lyrics🤍

the line "dust collected on my pinned up hair" also shows how long she been hung up on what happened like an old doll that's been left in your attic for years that you forgot about.

The line “I’ve got me”…..me! Was also the first single she released that she owned from Lover!

the marjorie bridge may just be my favourite taylor bridge (it’s so hard to commit to saying that ahah!), but it’s just the core feeling of being alive that she encapsulates perfectly - the appreciation and yet fragility of life in a song that also tackles death is another level of genius and i will never not cry hearing it because it transcends reality!!!!!

the last lyrics in its time to go are “so then you go, then you go, you just go” and the last lyrics in daylight are “you gotta step into the daylight and let it go, let it go, just let it go” they’re both songs about finding peace and doing the right thing and it’s beautiful how she can tie them together like that also love how they’re both the album closers for each album

The it's time to go "sometimes to run is the brave thing" reminds me of Better Man when she said "the bravest thing I ever did was run"

You guys spoke about Evermore (all 4 parts) for more than 6 hours and I'm here for it

I think the “I love you” was meaning “I’ve seen your videos, and I love you”. I really hope to see pictures of you meeting Taylor someday…

WE NEED A REACTION TO THE ALL TOO WELL SHORT FILM PLEASEEE

I kind of “re-discovered” Taylor after the short film All too well was released. I went in deep trying to understand why she was re-recording her albums, what was different in the extended version of All too well and who it was referred to. And then I stumbled in your reaction to the short film! AND NOW I’m at the fourth video breakdown on evermore. I’m discovering her genius through your insight and your interpretations.It’s totally a new feeling listening to a song and being able to understand its deep meaning and all the metaphors. And knowing how much she values her lyrics and her fans listening closely, I guess it’s the way to go! You girls are amazing and you are doing such a great job! And your friendship? Gold.

The "I should have asked you questions" line in Marjorie gets me every time! EVERY EVERY TIME!

"You were there" in Evermore makes me think of "Who could stay ?/You could stay" in the Archer. I just know that Taylor is going to point out to the public during this part when she sings it just like she did it with the Archer

right where you left me is my favorite song in the album, and I actually think it's my favorite Taylor Swift song of all time, I love it THAT MUCH! I was so excited to watch you guys talk about it and I'm so happy that you love it too ❤❤❤

I feel like the transition between Right Where You Left Me and It's Time To Go is so so brilliant, because the one song ends with the narrator stuck in the restaurant after the breakup, and then the first line of Right Where You Left Me is all about realizing it's time to leave the restaurant and move on with your life...

Congrats on Taylor recognizing you! You two really deserved it and I hope she watches all your videos!

Something interesting I noticed about the song Evermore is the lyric changes after “and I was catching my breath” - first it’s “starting at an open window, catching my death” indicating that she’s inside, looking outside through a window. Next time it’s “barefoot in the wildest winters” indicating she’s now gone outside, into the storm, away from the warmth and safety of shelter. After the stormy bridge, the third rendition comes as “floors of a cabin creeping under my step” which shows that she’s gone back inside, where it’s warm and safe, especially with the connotation of the word ‘cabin’ :)

taylor had just announced the all too well short film 😭😭😭 this is such perfect timing y’all

7:39 marjorie 33:30 closure 47:37 evermore 1:14:47 right where you left me 1:38:35 it's time to go

Marjorie makes me cry EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. It's such a profound and meaningful song

I love revisiting these breakdown videos. I always pick up on something new that I maybe didn’t process before. Talking through the song “evermore”, the part where you identify the “you” in and “you were there” as her fans… I think that’s really astute. I always assumed it was Joe she was talking about… that he was the one who was there for her as she went through that dark time in 2016. And that may be true for the song as well, but going with the idea that it was the fans she’s thinking about in the “you”, that ties in then so strongly with how I always interpreted the “you” in “cardigan” to be the fans as well. So putting together “in the cracks of light, I thought of you” from “evermore” with the light that she follows throughout the “cardigan” music video… the light in the video comes out of the old piano in the dreary cabin and takes her to a fairy tale place (the forest glen) where everything is lovely and bright and lush and the piano is grander and her music is just flowing out of it (like water) and she even looks like she’s performing a concert as opposed to just composing alone. This represents the early time in her career when everything was going great with her music and her fans and the media. But then she opens the piano bench this time (as opposed to opening the piano like in the first scene) and it takes her to the next scene where “out on waves, she’s being tossed”. I don’t know if the bench is like “Pandora’s box” or if it just represents her pursuing something other than her music and her true fans, or simply represents a departure from the track she was on (the shift from country to pop and the new scrutiny that brought her? The social popularity she craved in her NYC life with the “SQUAD”?), but it leads her away from that fairy glen where everything is good and right and now she’s drowning in the water. She was in control of the water before as it flowed out of the piano she played… now it has overtaken her. She has nothing to hold on to as she is tossed about. But then she sees the piano again and she clings to it for a long time (looking for “a line that she can just go cross”, perhaps?) until finally a crack of light again comes out from the piano and she follows it back home to the cabin where she is safe again. “And she was catching her breath, floors of a cabin creaking under her step”. She returns to where it is just her and the music again and not everything else… the media, the rivals, the fake friends and fickle “fans” who all abandoned her when she was canceled. And then she looks straight into the camera for the first time in the whole video… straight into the eyes of every true fan watching it and is like, “I see you. And you see me.” She had a “feeling so peculiar, this pain wouldn’t be for Evermore.” Cardigan and Evermore are sister songs… first time I’ve put that together. (Maybe someone else already figured this out! 😂)

Taylor finally noticed you guys that was MAGICAL and UNBELIEVABLE! CONGRATS GUYS. KEEP DOING THIS SEGMENT. DECODING THE SONGS.

I have to point out that when she says “but I’ve got me” in it’s time to go that ME! was the first single she released that SHE OWNED!

I love the theory saying that Closure is written from Tom Hiddleston's pov after Taylor maybe wrote to him to apologize : - "the shape of your name still spells out pain" could refer the whole "i love taylor shirt" thingy - "across the sea that you put between you and me" could be about the fact that after their break-up Taylor was in the US and Tom in the UK (and it parallels False God where the ocean separating Taylor and Joe very clearly is the Atlantic ocean) - "don't treat me like some situation that needs to be handled" really works in this context too knowing how Tom was way more into their relationship than her - and the english accent that she seems to have in the chorus (can't really say myself but people say she has one so...why not) could refer to Tom being the one expressing his feelings I think it suits very well the whole "story written from other people's perspective" that Folklore et Evermore work with

Oh, and your reactions are superior bc you not only parse the lyrics for meaning, but you note production choices and melodies and give flowers to the entire structure of a song- some of us didn’t understand the differences in structure or what a bridge TRULY was! You two are angels.

Majorie is something else. I get goosebumps and tears every time I hear it

I love the outfit coordination

right where you left me is my top 1 taylor song, it's SO GOOD

Bonnie: "this is a great storytelling song. Is one of the ones where Taylor perfectly demonstrates how she takes you along a progressing story and just like..." Me: "breaks you."

LOVED THE VIDEO ! You guys are the best I also think that in right where you left me , the “ you left me no , you left me no , you left me no choice “ almost sounds like she’s crying and hiccuping and can not complete her sentence at the first two times .

It must have been so unreal when Taylor Swift reacted to you guys!!! You girlies really deserve this 🥺❤️

Right where you left me breaks my heart everytime 💔

I hope Closure will grow on you guys. It is one of my favorites of the album and it’s so underrated.

The piano coming over the banging sound in the song ‘closure’ is like the lyrics ‘I can feel you smoothing me over’. Like the piano is attempting to dull the percussive drumming

i actually didn't know people felt that way about closure, it's always been one of my favourite songs hahah

a total of 6 hours 45 minutes and 13 seconds for 17 songs, impressive

I just wanna say that when Emily bought that keyboard and learned how to play Evermore on it, I also purchased one and Evermore is the first song I learned to play. 💖

BLONDIE JUST ANNOUNCED ALL TOO WELL 10 MINUTE VERSION SHORT FILM AND NOW EVERMORE BREAKDOWN FROM YOU GUYS IM GONNA DIE 😭

I think closure is about her friendship with Karlie. Just a weird feeling. I know it doesn't make sense with the sounds but hear me out. Like you said, she's never discussed Karlie in a song, until it's time to go. She flat out calls Karlie out in that. So why? Why now? Why after all this time is Karlie on her mind in that way? I think after folklore Karlie wrote Taylor a letter. Which sparked closure and the line in it's time to go. For me it's totally about Karlie.

Can I say, first of all, you girls look gorgeous! But more importantly, thank you so much for the evermore breakdown vids! They’ve been my go-to comfort videos and I’ve enjoyed them so much ♥️

yess! so happy to see this posted! Also re: closure - this is one of my favorites haha. I feel like the sound of the song sounds exactlyyy like the lyric "I can feel you smoothing me over." The 'clanking' is all the commotion she's experienced and the piano comes in to try to smooth it over ... but the clanking persists.

I’m just so happy you two exist. Thank you for making me feel like I have two friends with whom I can enjoy some TS :)

Merch idea: "THAT is a PERFECT song." Love how emotional Bonny gets during the song Evermore...always look forward to your content!!!

the way Bonny said "wow" then Em said "wow" and Bonny said "wow" again and Em said "wow" and then I said "wow" ugh it feels like I'm in the room with them lmao

The 3rd verse in "it's time to go" makes me emotional bc i can really feel the pain and the betrayal she must have felt in the whole scott situation.

I really love that tay said that she considers right where you left me and it’s time to go as alternate epilogues for evermore because that’s exactly what they are. Her genius is unmatched.

Swifties: Taylor, please please give us a 10 min version of All Too Well Also Swifties: We can't survive in a world where there is a 10 min version of All Too Well. I will die...

This is my comfort. You guys make such a welcoming space that it makes me feel like I have friends who love and respect Taylor as much as I do.

Although late, I'm compelled to write that the instrumental to closure made me fall in love with it. The vocoder on certain lines & the strings in the bridge are just beautiful additions. It cured it from being skipped.

I think since she simultaneously did the rerecordings for fearless, ‘right where you left me’ has this country vibe. she basically inspired herself with her old music but added a mature spin on it... it’s also one of my favourites out of evermore. love you guys, dying over here over Red TV. 1 hour ahhhhhhhh

I was so happy to hear you talk about “right where you left me” because AAAAAHHHH ITS THE BEST FUCKING SONG 😭😍🤌🏻✨

Your breakdown of the bridge in Evermore brought me to tears today. So, that happened. Thank you 🙏🏻

i have got 13 things to say 1 love the matching outfits 2 literally how are u still alive 3 you 1000% deserve it 4 love how much yall use ur hands while speaking/ when excited bc thats such a mood and adorable 5 you both always look stunning 6 love to hear you sinng along its cute and you both actually sound good 7 am in love with your accent 8 the vibe of your videos is just perfection (thank you for spending hours on the floor for us) 9 your friendship seems so pure i want that in my life as well 10 i love to hear how you connect to songs due to own experiences (because as a 17 year old lesbian who only had 2 crushes on 2 ex best friends and no relationship i dont have that ahaha) 11 its concerning how much time i spent watching your videos and how i adapted phrases into my vocabulary and how often i use them (sadly barely anyones hears bc i am german and mostly talk english to myself) 12 absolutely crazy about the way you two express everything you say it is impressive, relateable and adorable 13 you are absolutely serving us and I dont know what we did to deserve your content ❤ also your doggo

I think in closure when she says the shape of your name spells out pain...the shape sounds like a handwritten letter in cursive, and I can only picture a female friend writing a handwritten letter

You guys don't understand, I'm saying, you dont understand how you two making me so so so so happy everytimeeeee. Like every video, every post and Instagram feed as well.. love you. You guys are like my besties. I know we don't know each other. But I hope you understand ❤

CONGRATULATIONS i always thought it was only a matter of time you got her attention!!!! Well deserved

The banging and clanging at the beginning of Closure actually sounds like a train on tracks to me! I always imagine it like a cinematic shot of the train driving over the camera and then pulling away as the piano kicks in.

Omg never thought about how "reaching out across the sea that you put between you and me" could be metophorical as well. Always thought of it as literal

Marjorie is a very heart breaking song. But once I watched the lyric video, I definitely bawled. Watching her grandma with her. It hurts so much. Reminds me of my own grandpa. He know so much, but I'm too dumb to understand his wiseness. Miss you grandpa. Also "catching my death" means getting a severe cold. Because it's a winter and she opened the window.

Closure and tolerate it are my absolute faves on this album! The clanging in closure speaks to me on a spiritual level as does the entirety of tolerate it 🥺

I feel like evermore tells more fairytales than folklore. And also evermore is so underrated. I think evermore might be one of my favorites. Guys thank you for your videos. I love them 💛

Thank you guys for all the work you put into this series!! it's been amazing! I love this stretch of songs. I've lost my parents, and the line "Should've kept every grocery store receipt, 'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me" is maybe the lyric that destroys me the most from any song ever written.

I feel like the 2nd part of the first two verses in "time to go" are things she has experienced, the Karlie situation in the first verse and "Trying to stay for the kids when keeping it how it is will only break their hearts worse" about her parents divorce. Love your videos

Omg! The All too well trailer just came out and now thisss 🤩 My swiftie heart can’t 🤚🏻❤️🧣

'Closure' is one of my fave songs from this album. So strange for me that people don't like it as much. My top songs from Evermore are "Ivy", "Happiness", "Tis the damn season" and "Closure".

I love closure, but my favourite thing about it is in the lyric video it's written as I don't need your "closure" - indicated that the other person is the one suggesting they both need closure and Taylor's like...nah I'm good 😂

Girls, you are perfect!! I was so glad that taylor noticed you guys! I love watching these videos because you represent me in 100% of the reactions, it's so gratifying to be swiftie and share these experiences with other swifties! Evermore is of my top favorite Taylor albums, the songs on this album have so much to teach us, Taylor excels with every lyric and keeps making songs that connect us with her even though we haven't had the same experiences, it's amazing! ps: I'm as excited to see the red breakdown as I am to hear the red taylor's version ♥

Taylor Swift: "'sometimes to run is the brave thing'' - it`s time to go ''the bravest thing i ever did was run'' - better man obsessed

I'm so happy for you two. I love your videos. They are highlights to my day when a new video pops on my feed.💜

i literally cannot make it through marjorie without balling my eyes out. the way that Taylor perfectly captures her grandmother's spirit as well as the beautiful imagery in that offensive bridge just gets me every single time. the line 'should've kept every grocery store receipt cause every scrap of you would be taken from me' is my favourite from the song. the emotion behing that line is so incredible. as someone who has lost someone very dear to me in the last year, i will always think of them when i listen to marjorie and realise that those who we lose are never truly gone, and stay with us in spirit. so beautiful

been waiting for this one I can’t wait to watch ♥️♥️♥️

I just love watching your videos. I absolutely love how its like sitting down with friends and reacting together.

In the song Evermore, just want to talk about the lyric "staring through an open window, catching my death". There's a common phrase in the UK/England that can sometimes be "wrap up warm or you'll catch your death", OR "put a coat on, you'll catch your death" or what ever variation you wish. So in my mind she's deliberately sat with the window open in freezing cold November "catching her death", basically she doesn't care that she might get so cold from sitting there that she might get ill.

As someone who is insanely close with my grandparents, Marjorie fucked me up the first time I heard it. This year I also suffered the loss of a dear friend who was like a parental figure to me and so this song just became that much more special to me. I've never heard something that encapsulates love and pain so well in one package and I cry every time I hear it.

Thank you guys so much for this breakdown of Evermore (the track)! It gave me such a bigger appreciation and connection to the song and it’s grown into my top 10 😳

Personally the banging and clanging of closure is the reason why it's one of my favorite Taylor's song 😂 Can't wait for your reaction to Red TV and All Too Well short film

I love this series. You two are a gift

To hear the breakdown of Marjorie, given what it has become in the Eras tour has me in tears here on a Tuesday afternoon 😭😭😭

I needed a TS's analysis ! I was typing "evermore analys..." and saw the notification !!!!! OH MY GOD !!!! TIMING !!!!!!!!! love the video before it even strated

Closure: I’m fine with my…. tears and my beers and my candles. ‘There’s a Tear in my Beer’ is an old country music song: Scott vibes. The depth of her lyrics… she really is a savant and, well, a mirrorball 🪩

The banging and the clanging 🤣