Taylor Swift’s breakup song to Joe Alwyn – NBC4 Washington

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London bridge was falling down, and Taylor Swift felt each minute.

“The Tortured Poets Division” is right here and, very similar to followers anticipated, a part of the brand new album is devoted to Swift’s break up from Joe Alwyn in spring 2023. In actual fact, the 34-year-old has penned a heartbreaking tribute to the top of their six years collectively in “So Lengthy, London,” a poignant half two to Taylor’s 2019 Lover monitor “London Boy.”

Along with the songs’ titles, Swift has drawn a transparent parallel between the 2 tracks by inserting every because the fifth track on their respective albums. However whereas “London Boy” tells the uplifting story of a burgeoning romance — and the place Midnights’ “You are Shedding Me” covers the start of the top — “So Lengthy, London” brings the journey residence by chronicling the connection’s painful demise.

Within the transferring monitor, not solely does Swift say goodbye to England’s capital — Alwyn’s hometown and the place the 2 spent a lot time throughout their six years collectively — however she additionally describes attempting to maintain the connection collectively whilst she may see it coming aside.

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“I noticed in my thoughts fairy lights via the mist / I saved calm and carried the burden of the rift,” she sings within the first refrain, alluding to nonetheless seeing hope of their relationship regardless of the rising distance. “Pulled him in tighter every time he was drifting away / My backbone break up from carrying us up the hill.”

However as her “weary bones caught the nippiness,” she started to surrender her efforts: “I finished attempting to make him giggle, stopped attempting to drill the secure.”

And whereas “London Boy” describes a joyous jaunt via London, a type of getting-to-know the town, “So Lengthy, London” as a substitute exhibits Swift’s emotions of rising isolation — particularly in a metropolis that’s not her personal.

“I did not choose in to be your odd man out,” she sings. “I based the membership she’s heard nice issues about / I left all I knew, you left me on the home by the Heath.”

The Grammy winner goes on to chronicle the connection’s “demise,” of a form, in an echo of “You are Shedding Me.”

The place she sings “I am unable to discover a pulse / My coronary heart will not begin anymore” on “Midnights,” now she sings, “I stoppеd CPR, in any case, it is no use / The spirit was gonе, we’d by no means come to.”

The singer additionally seems to allude to the time she spent with Alwyn — six years from when she was 27 to 33 — all through the track.

“And I am pissed off you let me provide you with all that youth free of charge,” she sings in verse two, later including within the bridge, “You swore that you simply cherished me however the place had been the clues? / I died on the altar ready for the proof.”

And whereas she sang in “You are Shedding Me” that her face had gone grey, she once more alludes to paint on TTPD with, “You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days / And I am simply getting coloration again into my face.”

However regardless of her efforts to “go down with the ship” — or as she places it, “My white-knuckle dying grip holding tight to your quiet resentment”—”So Lengthy, London” involves an in depth with the acknowledgement that the pair weren’t proper for one another.

“So lengthy, London / Had a great run,” she sings, “A second of heat solar / However I am not the one.”

And although she describes the top of the connection with a dramatic, “Two graves, one gun,” Swift — who has since moved on with boyfriend Travis Kelce — additionally guarantees, “You may discover somebody.”

The couple was seen on the music competition in Indio, California, dancing and kissing as they supported Ice Spice in addition to Jack Antonoff’s band, Bleachers.