Truer Words Were Never Spoken by Taylor Swift
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Truer Words Were Never Spoken by Taylor Swift David MacGregor Swifties Gulliver's Travels I go back to December All the time As a scholar Ya gotta search For quotes You know The one big one That will wind up On the cover Of the Rolling Stone Or the frontispiece Of your best-selling Scholarly book Like Marcuse's Repressive Tolerance Likes on Substack Welcome to New York Or My arms Sweetheart Finally Around You Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise Of Social Theory Everybody here was someone else before And you can want who you want Like Paradise Lost Heaven Can Wait McCabe and Mrs Miller So I search through My rolodex Swift, Taylor OK kinda liked New York New York song Alexander Hamilton Back to December Tearful hits Lookin' for that big quote So I might get this wrong But in 2009 She is about to get an award That is snatched away from her Cuz some other singer Shoulda got it Which is true But later she is talking about it In a hesitant way (Believe me I know this is all staged (Otherwise how to explain (This poem?) I can't remember why But I was teaching Back to December And my students Were looking at me Knowingly Another prof Captured by Taylor Swift But my heart Already Belonged to another Holy cow My daughter Rachael And I Listened to her songs Lovingly On the way To hockey practice Eight days a week So she is trying to explain Her point She is saying Well I write songs Before I know what they are Even the words Are emerging mystery But when the song is finished I finally know How I feel As they say these days, "Exactly" Taylor Swift Welcome to New York