23 Relatable Quotes From The Lyrics of Taylor Swift’s New Album Red

The title track of the album is an ode to all those who have had a disastrous heartbreak. Taylor masterfully crafts a story about her relationship in different shades, from the initial euphoria of blooming romance to the loneliness after their separation.

Red is often the colour associated with love. In the title track, she uses red as a colour that symbolises her passionate love. It withers away and rises into a crescendo of magical moments until finally breaking down into a sad and grievous ending.

If you’ve felt the exhaustion that accompanies a heartbreaking end, this one’s for you. The memories of your time together will stay with you for a long while all too well. You’ll feel weak and troubled, but don’t forget that it will eventually pass. You’ll be back to your past self. So just hold on.

Sometimes, it’s the ones who you love who hurt you the most. Under the guise of being honest, they’ll say words that will cut through your heart like a sharp knife. It hurts more because you cherish them the most.

Love is the biggest tragedy of life. We fall in love hard and eventually stay till it hurts. Pain is an inseparable part of love. It hurts you, bites you and makes you bleed red. But despite all of that, isn’t love worth it all? Isn’t the pain insignificant compared to the overwhelming ecstasy that love brings?

Falling in love is rarely a choice. Our hearts have their own minds. Love walks into our hearts in the most unexpected moments; in the back of a coffee shop, “in a getaway car” or in a cafe as you’re enjoying a cup of coffee. And once it happens, it captivates our hearts and takes us to heights we’ve never known before.

Love doesn’t have to work out everytime. Our hearts are built by pain and grief. The more it breaks, the harder it gets. Have no fear of love because it’s only the foolish who run away from it. Love passionately because what is life if it’s devoid of love.

The thing about relationships is that the memories haunt you long after it’s ended. The time you’ve spent, the laughter, the joy, the kisses, all of it will keep coming back in flashes. But you have to make up your mind to move on.

When you’ve loved someone so deeply, it takes a lot to move on. Even after you’ve ended it, it takes all your effort and strength to make up your mind to not call them. If it’s done with, you shouldn’t go down the same lane. Remember, it’s time for you to move and begin again.

Swift here talks of the pain of the loss of an unreciprocated love. It’s natural to feel broken and weak after someone you loved moves away. All the dreams that you built from scratch come crashing down in pieces as your mind keeps replaying your memories of them.

Nothing that is worth having comes easy. It’s important to know that all the good things in life require effort from your side. Love cannot grow without you putting in all you have. Go in with all you have and love her with all the passion you have.

It’s difficult to go back to your old self when you are hurt and broken. Time seems like an infinite rabbit-hole that goes on spiralling down and takes you with it, never changing or moving forward. The pain grows stronger everyday and keeps slicing deeper into your heart.

Sometimes, what we are searching for so hard is always by our side. We are so occupied by that which is not ours that we lose sight of what we already have. And when we look back at it, we have already lost it and all that’s left is a shadow of what was ours and pain to fill its place.

This song is an ode to all those free souls who are consumed by the ecstasy of youth. Being young brings a certain joy, confusion, sadness, pain and loneliness. It’s the blend of these emotions that makes the core of what youth is all about.

Words surely have a lot of power within them. But when they are too late, they lose all the substance that they carry and are just empty noises. There’s nothing that you can do to save a relationship that has lived past its prime. Once it’s too late, there’s nothing much you can do about it.

Sometimes, it’s the little things in a relationship that matter the most. It shows that you actually care about them. The subtle cues and the tiny signs of care and affection are what keep the relationship moving forward.

The curious thing about love is that you rarely have any say in it. It just happens to you in the most unexpected ways. And all you can do is to completely surrender yourself to it and drown into the depths of all that it has to offer.

Taylor Swift’s Red ends on an optimistic note with the song “Begin Again”. She finally lets go of her past and finds new love. It gives the listener hope that what’s past is past and there’s always something new to look forward to.

Love is like the sun that showers in daylight into our lives. It brings with it the light of joy and hope. Love doesn’t have to be a stark red. What matters is that it changes you into a better version of yourself even as you are struggling with your own self.

Love is truly a dangerous game to play. You either bask in it’s grace and glory or you come out broken and in pieces. It’s important that you know how to play it since it’s a double-edged sword. Give it your all but make sure you do not break yourself apart in the process.

Sometimes, the ones we love the most are the ones who are ashamed of being with us the most. They keep us hidden and in secret while we stay with them as though they’re all that we have; sacred and pure.

Sometimes, it’s the ones that we love who hurt us the most. Even as we love them with all that we have, they break us apart. But maybe the problem is with us since we ask for too much. Love, even if short-lived, is beautiful and full of grace and joy. Cherish it while you can.

No matter how ugly your fights are, it’s important that you talk it out. If you are going to leave your fights unresolved, it’ll eventually grow and become worse. Communication is important in any relationship.