43 Utterly Brilliant Lyrics by Taylor Swift

Clever lyrics that blow my mind every time I hear them. (Not in any particular order.)

1.     I once was poison ivy, but now I’m your daisy – Don’t Blame Me

2.     I was so ahead of the curve the curve became a sphere – This Is Me Trying

3.     Did all the extra credit then got graded on a curve – Bejeweled

4.     I bury hatches, but keep maps of where I put ‘em – End Game

5.     The skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up – Cowboy Like Me

6.     There's an ache in you put there by the ache in me – ‘Tis the Damn Season

7.     If I can't relate to you anymore, then who am I related to? – Coney Island

8.     Salt streams out my eyes and into my ears – Bigger Than the Whole Sky

9.     And then it fades into the gray of my day-old tea, 'cause it will never be – Gold Rush

10.     November flush and your flannel cure – Champagne Problems

11.     Now you hang from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon – Cowboy like Me

12.     Didn't you calm my fears with a Cheshire cat smile? – Wonderland

13.     Devils roll the dice; angels roll their eyes – Cruel Summer

14.     The whole school is rolling fake dice/You play stupid games; you win stupid prizes – Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince

15.     But with three of us, honey, it’s a side show/And circus ain’t a love story – Getaway Car

16.     But if he's a ghost, then I can be a phantom – …Ready for It?

17.     Sunshine on the street at the parade, but you would rather be in the dark age – You Need to Calm Down

18.     We’re a crooked love in a straight line down – I Wish You Would

19.     I blew things out of proportion, now you’re blue – Afterglow

20.     Bend when you can, snap when you have to – Dear Reader

21.     A friend to all is a friend to none/Chase two girls, lose the one – Cardigan

22.     Your touch brought forth an incandescent glow, tarnished, but so grand – Ivy

23.     Half asleep, takin’ your time in the tangerine, neon light, this is luxury – Slut!

24.     I’ve never seen someone lit from within/Blaring out my periphery – Snow on the Beach

25.     I swear I’m only cryptic and Machiavellian ‘cause I care – Mastermind

26.     They say you bought a bunch of land somewhere; chose the Rose Garden over Madison Square – The Lucky One

27.     Never be so kind, you forget to be clever. Never be so clever you forget to be kind – Marjorie

28.     Never be so polite, you forget your power. Never wield such power, you forget to be polite – Marjorie
29.     You can plan for a change in weather and time, but I never planned on you changing your mind – Last Kiss

30.     Say a solemn prayer/Place a poppy in my hair/There's no morning glory/It was war, it wasn't fair – The Great War

31.     After plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your own, now you mail back my things and I walk home alone – All Too Well

32.     You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath – All Too Well

33.     And I lived in your chess game, but you changed the rules every day – Dear John

34.     But I took your matches before fire could catch me – Dear John

35.     We never painted by the numbers, baby, but we were making it count – The 1

36.     No one sees when you lose when you’re playing Solitaire – Dear Reader

37.     Paper cut stings from our paper-thin plans – Death by a Thousand Cuts

38.     I’ll stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror – Anti-Hero

39.     I woke up just in time/Now I wake up by your side – Dress

40.     I broke my own heart because you were too polite to do it – Suburban Legends

41.     My boy was a montage/A slow-motion, love potion/Jumping off things in the ocean – Midnight Rain

42.     I peered through a window/A deep portal, time travel/All the love we unravel/And the life I gave away – Midnight Rain

43.     Karma is a cat purring in my lap ‘cause it loves me – Karma