You can read the lyrics below, via Genius, with references to Swift's life annotated and listen to the song here too: Her new track "long story short" continues giving details about her feelings about that process. Like, would it be enough if I could never fully achieve the normalcy that we both crave?" That’s what that song 'Peace' is taking about. Whether that’s deciding where to live, who to hang out with, when to not take a picture-the idea of privacy feels so strange to try to explain, but it’s really just trying to find bits of normalcy. She responded, "Oh, absolutely." Then she gave detail on how Alwyn has changed her, saying, "But I think that in knowing him and being in the relationship I am in now, I have definitely made decisions that have made my life feel more like a real life and less like just a storyline to be commented on in tabloids. McCartney asked Swift, "So how does that go? Does your partner sympathize with that and understand?" I can’t control if there’s going to be a fake weird headline about us in the news tomorrow." I, oftentimes, in my anxieties, can control how I am as a person and how normal I act and rationalize things, but I cannot control if there are 20 photographers outside in the bushes and what they do and if they follow our car and if they interrupt our lives. "I know you have done a really excellent job of this in your personal life: carving out a human life within a public life, and how scary that can be when you do fall in love and you meet someone, especially if you’ve met someone who has a very grounded, normal way of living. That song "is actually more rooted in my personal life," she said. Swift was discussing her song "Peace" from folklore. The song comes after Swift spoke with Paul McCartney earlier this year for Time magazine about how dating Alwyn changed her priorities. As she put it lyrically, "No more keepin' score/Now I just keep you warm (Keep you warm)/No more tug of war/Now I just know there's more (Know there's more)/No more keepin' score/Now I just keep you warm (Keep you warm)/And my waves meet your shore/Ever and evermore." Her focus is their relationship outside of work. In the bridge, she makes it clear she isn't interested in any of her past celebrity feuds anymore, the way she was when she was younger. In just the post-chorus alone, Swift captures just how their relationship has reshaped who she is ("Now I'm all about you/I'm all about you, ah"). It alludes to her highly-publicized roller coaster summer 2016 fling relationship with Tom Hiddleston ("Clung to the nearest lips/Long story short, it was the wrong guy") right before Alwyn and Swift started dating, then details how Swift has changed since making more of her life private while quietly dating Alwyn over the past four years. The song "long story short" sums up Swift's own four-year journey getting to where she is now after Kim Kardashian's Snapchat takedown "canceled" her in 2016 (see lyric: "And I fell from the pedestal"). But while almost all of evermore's songs are more fiction than fact, telling the stories of characters she created, she did include one track that seems to be explicitly about her own life and relationship with Alwyn. Like folklore, Taylor Swift's new album evermore continues her work creating songs that are a blend of fact and fiction.
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