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5 days ago · During my writing sessions, I need two things: a quiet place and background music. I love to write with melodies inside my mind. As a collector of words, songs’ lyrics have a special place in my heart because they are another form of poetry. Here are some poetic excerpts from ten popular songs that could be in a poetry collection.
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- "Hope is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman to Have - but I Have It" / Lana Del Rey. Lana Del Rey's poetic pop has graced radios around the world since 2012.
- "Red" / Taylor Swift. Composed almost entirely from simile, "Red" by Taylor Swift is a love song built on figurative language. Swift compares aspects of a relationship to colors: loss as blue, longing as grey, and love as red, so the listener experiences the emotions in greater depth.
- "What About Us" / P!nk. P!nk has been writing poetic music since the 90s. In her current albums, many of her songs focus on relationships, but the single "What About Us" takes a more global view.
- "Sugar, We're Goin Down" / Fall Out Boy. Pop-punk classic "Sugar, We're Goin Down" mixes word play with punk themes in a breakup banger. Lines like "Drop a heart, break a name" and "A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it" remix common sayings into new meanings with lyrical flow.
- “You call me up again just to break me like a promise / So casually cruel in the name of being honest” – All Too Well (Red) Arguably overquoted but extremely powerful nevertheless.
- “I guess it's true that love was all you wanted / 'Cause you're giving it away like it's extra change / Hoping it will end up in his pocket / But he leaves you out like a penny in the rain” –Tied Together With A Smile (Taylor Swift)
- “So I’ll go sit on the floor wearing your clothes / All that I know is I don’t know how to be something you miss” – Last Kiss (Speak Now) This cuts deep.
- “Take the words for what they are / A dwindling, mercurial high / A drug that only worked / The first few hundred times” – illicit affairs (folklore)
- My Tears Ricochet, Folklore (2020) There’s absolutely no way we can narrow down our favourite passages in the lyrical masterpiece that is Taylor Swift’s My Tears Ricochet.
- The Best Day (Taylor’s Version), Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (2021) It takes someone with a stone-cold heart to be unmoved by this touching tribute from Swift, written as a love letter of sorts to her mother.
- Champagne Problems, Evermore (2021) Soft melancholia pervades Swift’s Evermore and Folklore eras, culminating in wistful tracks that lend weight to her masterful storytelling.
- Death By A Thousand Cuts, Lover (2019) At first glance, Lover may look like an explosion of pretty pastels, but beneath the colours and charm lie an authenticity that is intrinsically Swift.
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May 22, 2019 · Mitski – “Nobody”. Writers: Mitski, Patrick Hyland. Indie rocker Mitski joins our list with her hit song “Nobody,” from her 2018 album, Be the Cowboy. The lyrics are beautiful and deep, albeit saddening. Her statement about change not being the solution for someone to want her strikes a chord with many.
