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From "I hope you call up of me" to "all'due south well that ends well to end upwardly with yous," Taylor Swift'southward lyrics take "enchanted" us for more a decade.

Taylor Swift'due south years in the spotlight accept taken listeners from her country roots in 2006'southward self-titled "Taylor Swift" to the moody surprise quarantine albums "Sociology" and "Evermore" and now a triumphant return to her past with her "Cherry (Taylor's Version)" rerecording.

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

"I accept this formula for music. If I keep to write songs about my life, and my life is always changing, and then my music volition e'er be irresolute," Swift told Usa TODAY in 2010. She was right.

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

62. "Lord, what will get of me / Once I've lost my novelty?" – "Nada New (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) (Taylor'south Version)" from "Red (Taylor's Version)"

As well us every fourth dimension we update this article. Cheers for reading, everyone!

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

A line that will go down in Swift's breakup song hall of fame.

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

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

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

Believing in "faithless" love?! We have no pick just to stan a paradoxical queen.

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

Two people finding love confronting all odds: we love to come across it.

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." – "Y'all Are in Love" from "1989 (Palatial Edition)"

Putting specific and universal feelings into words: What Swift does all-time.

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

All other games and prizes are canceled.

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

Self-aware cocky-correction: classic Swift.

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54. "Clover blooms in the fields / Leap breaks loose, the fourth dimension is near" – "ivy" from "Evermore"

Spring breaks? Get it? Nosotros sure do.

53. "Did you hear about the girl who lives in mirage? / Breakups happen every mean solar day, y'all don't have to lose it / She's all the same 23 inside her fantasy" – "Correct Where You Left Me - Bonus Track" from "Evermore"

Another instance of tongue-in-cheek self-awareness from the queen of breakup songs reminds us that we're totally fine living within the fantasy of Swift's discography.

52. "I had a marvelous time ruining everything" – "The Final Great American Dynasty" from "Folklore"

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

51. "Please don't ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere" – "New Year's Day" from "Reputation"

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

50. "How can a person know everything at eighteen / Merely nothin' at twenty-two?"  – "Nothing New (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) (Taylor's Version)" from "Red (Taylor's Version)"

Spoiler alert: Information technology only gets messier from there. We see y'all and thank you, Taylor.

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

Snappy, romantic, poetic: The Taylor Swift trifecta.

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48. "You drew stars around my scars only at present I'm bleeding" – "Cardigan" from "Sociology"

OK, the rhyming of "stars" and "scars" on its ain is enough to transport our hearts all a-flutter. But the violent shift to "bleeding" shows how even though we may heal, it doesn't accept much to transport u.s.a. spiraling now and once again. We're bleeding (metaphorically) with you, Taylor.

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

Swift'due south storytelling works best 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 only it'southward alright" – "Telephone call It What You Desire" from "Reputation"

Referencing your own lyrics? Ultimate power move.

44. "Back and then nosotros didn't know / We were built to fall apart / Nosotros broke the condition quo / And so we bankrupt each other's hearts" – "The Very First Night (Taylor'southward Version) (From The Vault)" from "Red (Taylor's Version)"

Could this be the prequel to "Out of The Woods?" Once again, referencing your own by lyrics is simply iconic, legendary behavior.

43. "He's got my by frozen backside drinking glass / But I've got me" – "It's Time To Go - Bonus Rail" from "Evermore"

This melancholy summation of Swift'south public boxing confronting music executive Scooter Braun for her masters (the reason she's rerecording her first six studio albums) is heartbreakingly weary. Luckily, her rerecordings have begun to serve as a triumphant reclaiming of the sometime works that got her hither.

42. "Common cold was the steel of my axe to grind for the boys who broke my middle / Now I send 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 always for you.

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

No,you lot'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 male child who inverse his mind" – "15" from "Fearless"

Bigger dreams? Try 11-fourth dimension winner and 41-time nominee at the Grammys, two-time Time 100 Most Influential People recipient and 2019 American Music Awards Artist of the Decade honoree. Wish you could become back and tell yourself that.

39. "Back when you fit in my poems like a perfect rhyme" – "Holy Ground" from "Cherry-red"

In the first moments of her first pop-but-not-technically-pop album, Swift proved to naysayers that her lyrical genius isn't divers to 1 genre.

38. "I once believed love would exist burning crimson / Simply it'southward golden" – "Daylight" from "Lover"

Acknowledging she's grown from "Red" merely appreciating it as a function of her by enough to include it on her latest album? We don't know a better person.

37. I recollect I've seen this motion picture before / And I didn't like the ending / You're not my homeland anymore / So what am I defending at present? – "Exile" from "Sociology"

A classic excellent Taylor Swift lyrical run. Defend us, Taylor, please!

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

No criminal offence to Georgia stars, obviously.

35."I want auroras and sorry prose / I want to lookout man wisteria grow correct over my bare feet / 'Crusade I oasis't moved in years / And I desire you lot correct here" – "The Lakes" from "Folklore"

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

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34. "It takes everything in me just to become upward each day / Merely it's wonderful to see that you lot're OK" – "Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) from "Fearless (Taylor'south 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 just to seal my fate" – "Brutal Summertime" from "Lover"

Who wouldn't desire to traipse around through gardens all summer long?

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

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

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

We imagine this is what it would sound like if Journey actually did finish believing.

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

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

29. "Just I took your matches before fire could grab me / So don't await now, I'm shining similar fireworks over your sorry, empty boondocks" – "Dear John" from "Speak Now"

Talk virtually a Dear John letter. Ouch.

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28. "Take the words for what they are: A dwindling, mercurial high / A drug that only worked the starting time few hundred times" – "Illicit Affairs" from "Folklore"

"Look at this godforsaken mess that you made me" – usa, later listening to Swift sing about the devastation of feeling like you're losing the person you dearest.

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

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

26."I made yous my temple, my landscape, my heaven / Now I'1000 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: "Cartoon hearts in the byline," which we can only assume was virtually us.

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 nosotros love her for it.

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

Getting lost never sounded so good.

23. "It never always occurred to you / That I can't say 'hello' to you / And risk another cheerio" – "I Almost Practice" from "Cherry"

Those chills you experience? Yeah, we become those reading these every time. "Hullo" and "bye" never seemed and then loaded.

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

This daughter is on fire, indeed.

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21. "Merely betwixt us, did the honey affair maim you too?" – "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)"

Lines like this in the x-minute version accept united states feeling all too unwell.

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

From the woman who brought y'all "I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying hither," we bring you this glorious run. This song hits particularly different 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 / 'Cause when I'd fight, y'all used to tell me I was dauntless – "My Tears Ricochet" from "Folklore"

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

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

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

17. "The night you danced like y'all knew our lives would never be the same / You held your caput like a hero / On a history volume page / Information technology was the end of a decade / But the starting time of an age" – "Long Live" from "Speak Now"

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

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xvi. "'Cause I hear he's got his arm 'circular a brand-new girl / I've been pickin' up my eye, he'southward been pickin' up her" – "Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor'due south Version) (From the Vault) from "Fearless" (Taylor'due south Version)

Nosotros're not sure 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 accept notes.

15. "I tin can't decide if information technology'due south a choice: getting swept abroad" – "Treacherous" from "Red"

*Swoons*

14. "With every guitar cord scar on my paw / I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover" – "Lover" from "Lover"

For longtime Swifties, there's nada sweeter than hearing her triumphantly declare she's in beloved.

13. "And you lot wanna scream, 'don't call me kid, don't telephone call me baby / Look at this godforsaken mess that you lot made me'"  – "Illicit Affairs" from "Sociology"

If you're not screaming forth to these lyrics every time, you're doing it wrong.

12."The road not taken looks real adept now" – "'Tis the Damn Season" from "Evermore"

Robert Frost who? Anyone else's spin of the oftentimes-referenced poem would come off equally cliché. But Swift'due south artful turn of phrase has united states over here thinking about our (non-toxic) exes.

11. "They say all's well that ends well, but I'm in a new hell / Every time y'all double-cross my mind" – "All Likewise Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)" from "Red (Taylor's Version)"

The WORDPLAY. William Shakespeare himself could never.

10. "Time won't wing, it's like I'thousand paralyzed by it / I'd like to be my old cocky again, merely I'm still trying to find it / Afterward plaid shirt days and nights when you lot fabricated me your own / Now y'all mail back my things and I walk home solitary" – "All Too Well" from "Red"

Information technology's a testament that nosotros can't cut this downwardly whatever shorter. "All Likewise Well" – and its extended cut – wins everything. End of story.

9. "You held your pride like you should take held me" – "The Story of Us" from "Speak Now"

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

eight. "But she wears short skirts / I wear T-shirts / She's cheer captain / And I'm on the bleachers" – "You lot Belong With Me" from "Fearless"

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

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

Another beautifully written turn of phrase. She'southward still got it, x years later.

half-dozen. "You kept me like a clandestine, simply I kept you like an oath" – "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor'southward Version)" from "Crimson (Taylor's Version)"

Nosotros cannot wait to scream this in a (fully-vaccinated) crowded bar ASAP. At present that's an oath.

five. "I'm still a believer only I don't know why / I've never been a natural / All I do is try, try, effort – "Mirrorball" from "Folklore"

That repetitive "endeavour, endeavor, try" sends us spinning. Nosotros recommend checking out the Las Culturistas analysis of "Sociology" rails-by-track, if yous oasis't already, for an apt take on "Mirrorball" and Taylor Swift's incredible work ethic.

4. "You lot said information technology was a great beloved, one for the ages / Only if the story'due south over, why am I still writing pages?" – "Expiry By a Thousand Cuts" from "Lover"

The queen of breakup songs used to worry about what would happen when she was happily in a relationship, but rejoiced when she woke upward one twenty-four hour period with lyrics in her mind that would somewhen become "Cuts."

"I was like, 'it's yet here! Aye!" she said in her NPR Tiny Desk Concert. "This song is my proof. I don't have to cease writing nigh heartbreak and misery. Which, for me, is incredible news."

3. "You can plan for a change in atmospheric condition and time / But I never planned on you changing your mind" – "Last Kiss" from "Speak Now"

Don't listen us, but we'll get sit on the floor, listening to this one on repeat.

2. "You fabricated a rebel of a devil-may-care homo's careful daughter / You are the best affair that's ever been mine" – "Mine" from "Speak Now"

Eat your hearts out, careless men.

ane. "Yous call me up once more just to suspension me like a promise / So casually cruel in the name of being honest" – "All Too Well" from "Red"

This gem of a lyric has everything you could peradventure want. Simile? Alliteration? Heartbreak? Check, bank check, check.

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