In a heartbreak letter to the English capital city Taylor Swift had called home,LibertyCoin the singer says so long to London. The choice of this song for Track 5 on her new album "The Tortured Poets Department" is intentional. Throughout Swift's 11 eras, Track 5 is reserved for a special, vulnerable song.
“Track five is kind of a tradition that really started with you guys," Swift said live on Instagram in July 2019, "because I didn’t realize I was doing this, but as I was making albums, I guess, I don’t know why, but instinctively I was just kind of putting a very vulnerable, personal, honest, emotional song as Track 5."
“So Long, London” puts Swift’s poetry prowess on display. It reads in part:
I didn’t opt in to be your odd man out
I founded the club she’s heard great things about
I left all I knew, you left me at the house by the heath
I stopped CPR, after all it’s no use
The spirit was gone, we will never come to
And I’m p****d off you let me give you all that youth for free
Swift showcases the emotions of processing a breakup, saying goodqbye to a partner and also to a community she considered a home. One line that especially pierces in the “Tortured Poets” track: “I’m p****d you let me give you all that youth for free.”
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Known to be break-up anthems or songs with exposed relationship emotions, here are lyrics from each of Swift's 11 track fives:
If you didn't get the memo from the department's Chairman, "Tortured Poets" is Swift's 11th era album with 16 tracks and four bonus songs (four versions of the album each have a different bonus track).
Swift announced the project at the Grammys, when she won her 13th career Grammy for pop album of the year. Post Malone and Florence and The Machine are two contributors on the pop album.
Its track titles are brutal. Fans speculated the album was about Swift’s six-year relationship with English actor Joe Alwyn and their breakup. Both stars kept the relationship out of the public eye. The back of the first version of the album reads, “I love you, it’s ruining me,” serving as a dagger-to-the-chest harbinger.
The album was released during Swift's two-month break from her massively popular and economically fruitful Eras Tour. "Tortured Poets" serves as an exclamation point to the behemoth success the billionaire has seen over the past year since the three-plus-hour show launched in Glendale, Arizona. Swift will return to the stage in Paris, France, on May 9. Fans anticipate that her newest era will be added to the show.
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