@jordantaylor3182

3 weeks ago

This is long but SO worth it. I absolutely need someone to hear this and join me in the chaos. I think Taylor and Matty Healy were on again / off again so many times without us knowing, and listening to these lyrics, I think it proves it. In ‘My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys,’ she says we could’ve played for keeps THIS TIME hinting that there were previous times it just didn’t work, but this time she really wanted it. She says “put me back on MY shelf,” as in a place where he continuously pulls her down from, plays with her, and then puts her away again, perfectly describing the on again/ off again relationship. In Fresh out the Slammer she says “I’m fresh out the Slammer, I know who my first call will be to,” comparing her relationship with Joe to prison, but now that it’s over, she can go “running back home,” to Matty. She says “He was with her in dreams,” saying Joe was thinking about another woman. Then i compare that to ‘Guilty as Sin?’ where she says “Without ever touching his skin, how can I be guilty as sin?” basically asking “If all I ever did was think about Matty, is that really cheating and does that actually make me guilty if I never touched him when I was with Joe.” In The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived’ she says “it wasn’t sexy once it wasn’t forbidden,” meaning if they had snuck around a few times in between their other relationships, but this time it was made public and then he no longer wanted it once it wasn’t forbidden. In ‘Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus’ she says “you needed me, but you needed drugs more.” This ties in to the song ‘Peter’ and I’ll explain why. Taylor and Matty met in 2014, ten years ago, when he was 25. They met back then and it’s rumored he said he would “clean up his act and then come find her to see where it goes.” So she says he needed her, but he never could clean up his act like he promised, which she also says in ‘Peter’ with lyrics saying “you said you were gonna grow up, you said you were gonna come find me,” and also “you said you’d come and get me, but you were twenty-five, and the shelf life of those fantasies has expired.” the entire song of ‘Guilty as Sin’ seems to be a deep explanation of her disconnect with Joe, and her starting to connect more with Matty again. The song opens with “Drownin’ in the Blue Nile, he sent me Downtown Lights.” Downtown Lights is a song by The Blue Nile which was then sampled in a song by the 1975. She says “My boredom is bone deep, this cage was once just fine,” she’s saying that she was bored in her relationship, stuck in a cage that she used to be fine with, but no longer is. And then Matty sends her this song she hasn’t heard in a while, and she suddenly starts thinking of him while still with joe, which is where the question “without ever touching his skin, how can i be guilty as sin,” comes from!! The lyrics “someone told me there’s no such thing as bad thoughts, only your actions talk.” She’s saying she can’t be guilty for just thinking about someone else, without acting taking action on them. Then In the song ‘loml’ she opens it by saying “Who’s gonna stop us from waltzing back into rekindled flames, if we know the steps anyway,” she seems to be saying that people can try to stop them from going back to each other time and time again, but the steps back to him are already memorized.

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