Yours Truly

we have our wedding and honey moon planned. Isn’t that just the darnedest thing?

Cause for a moment a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world

I think most can conquer that at least one of Taylor Swift’s songs was written for them. Am i right?

She has this strange way of making you believe that you’re not alone; that you’re not the only one.

I always try to figure out the story of her songs. “Long live” just didn’t make any sense to me. I thought maybe it was about her experience as a singer and her fame and journey, that’s the idea i settled with at least.

When it came down to voting on our class song i knew that long live couldn’t be anymore of the perfect song. It was utterly perfect. But it still didn’t hit me yet. It played on our senior slide show which was a pleasant surprise, yet not satisfying.

I don’t know if it was the graduation card that my mother got me that made me break down into tears or the check that was inside. “I searched high and low for her to sing that to you” At that moment, it became clear. Taylor Swift wrote “Long Live” as my farewell to high school, my journey. I listen to that song and i have to close my eyes to fight back the tears. It’s overwhelming and could not be a more perfect song. She wrote it for me, she wrote it for us. we did it.

read it- do you agree?

I said remember this moment, in the back of my mind
The time we stood with our shaking hands
The crowds in the stands went wild
We were the Kings and the Queens
And they read off our names
The night you danced like you knew our lives
Would never be the same
You held your head like a hero
On a history book page
It was the end of a decade
But the start of an age

Long live the walls we crashed through
All the kingdom lights shined just for me and you
I was screaming long live all the magic we made
And bring on all the pretenders
One day, we will be remembered

I said remember this feeling
I passed the pictures around
Of all the years that we stood there
On the side-lines wishing for right now
We are the Kings and the Queens
You traded your baseball cap for a crown
When they gave us our trophies
And we held them up for our town
And the cynics were outraged
Screaming “this is absurd”
Cause for a moment a band of thieves
In ripped up jeans got to rule the world

Long live the walls we crashed through
All the kingdom lights shined just for me and you
I was screaming long live all the magic we made
And bring on all the pretenders
I’m not afraid
Long live all the mountains we moved
I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you
I was screaming long live that look on your face
And bring on all the pretenders
One day, we will be remembered

Hold on to spinning around
Confetti falls to the ground
May these memories break our fall

Will you take a moment, promise me this
That you’ll stand by me forever
But if God forbid fate should step in
And force us into a goodbye
If you have children some day
When they point to the pictures
Please tell them my name
Tell them how the crowds went wild
Tell them how I hope they shine

Long live the walls we crashed through
I had the time of my life, with you
Long, long live the walls we crashed through
All the kingdom lights shined just for me and you
I was screaming long live all the magic we made
And bring on all the pretenders
I’m not afraid
Singing, long live all the mountains we moved
I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you
And long, long live that look on your face
And bring on all the pretenders
One day, we will be remembered.