evermore

Five months ago, when Taylor released this surprise into the world, she said it was a sister album to folklore; that's exactly what it feels like. Since it's intended to be a chapter two, it makes sense that it doesn't quite feel or sound like a strong stand-alone album. However, lyrically, I think evermore is one of her best. Each song sort of feels like a poem ripped out of a diary. Here are a few of my favorite lines from evermore:

        willow

"But I come back stronger than a '90s trend."

        champagne problems

“Sometimes you just don’t know the answer ’til someone’s on their knees and asks you."

        gold rush

“My mind turns your life into folklore, I can't dare to dream about you anymore."

        'tis the damn season

“There's an ache in you, put there by the ache in me."

        tolerate it

"Use my best colors for your portrait."

        no body, no crime (ft. haim)

“And I've cleaned enough houses to know how to cover up a scene."

        happiness

“All the years I've given is just shit we're dividing up."

        dorothea

“And damn, Dorothea, they all wanna be ya, but are you the same soul I met under the bleachers?"

        coney island (ft. the national)

"What's a lifetime of achievement, if I pushed you to the edge but you were too polite to leave me?"

        ivy

“Oh I can't stop you putting roots in my dreamland."

        cowboy like me

“And the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up."

        long story short

"Past me, I wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things. Your nemeses will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing."

        marjorie

"Should've kept every grocery store receipt. 'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me."

        closure

“Seeing the shape of your name still spells out pain."

        evermore (ft. bon iver)

“I'm on waves, out being tossed. Is there a line that I could just go cross?"

        bonus tracks:

        right where you left me

"Did you hear about the girl who lives in delusion?"

        it's time to go

"I gave it my all, he gave me nothing at all, then wondered why I left."