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Taylor Swift's 'Midnights': The Ultimate Breakdown

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The Best Song in Three A.M

This is the one where it's like she left this one off the album but it's a different kind of songwriting than she was doing on the album. She very explicitly is talking about being 19 and dating someone older um you know i think again we're getting a lot of references a lot of threads between different songs from taylor because this is as she described it sleepless nights across her entire life. The line give me back my girlhood it was mine first is just like just cut me to my core. I've vaped weed with him in a hotel room around this time and he did and it's why i have just a level the depth of the feelings in this song

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