The anatomy of a Taylor Swift song!
, she explained that her Christmas lights weren't supposed to stay lit only until January in the original lyrics.for "Lover" involved meticulously reviewing her lyrics, making sure each one says exactly what she wants it to say. "Were there lines that changed in that process?" Coscarelli asked. “I had toyed with the idea of ‘We could leave the Christmas lights up ‘til April,’” Taylor responded.
So why make the jump to January? Taylor added she wanted "Lover" to be about quiet, normal moments that make a relationship special—so she changed the month to something simpler. "It’s not about that being a crazy thing,” she said. “It’s about how mundane it is. It’s about like 'We could put a rug over there. We could do wallpaper or paint.
She added that the rest of "Lover" touches on similarly universal, simple moments and feelings. "I wanted the chorus to be these really simple, existential questions that we ask ourselves when we're in love. 'Can I go where you go' is such a heavy thing to ask somebody. 'Can we always be this close' has so much fear in it," Taylor said.The 30-year-old also recently released "Christmas Tree Farm," an upbeat ode to the farm where she grew up.
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