September 21, 2020 | Four Years Ago

It’s been torture not marching alongside our fellow poets! To celebrate National Poetry Day, we’re publishing an abridged version of our Chairman’s manuscript: THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT | TS The Eras Tour Setlist chapter. Whether you’re missing tour or preparing to crash our party this fall, this is required streaming for all Department members. 🥁🤍

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Taylor Swift - The straightest woman who ever lived 😂

If not lady kisser, why do lady kisser things?

Karlie Elizabeth BETTY Kloss!

Taylor Alison JAMES Swift!

Please, I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative. It’s ruining my life 😭

I can’t listen to ‘random’ music anymore without you two koincidencing (yes – I just decided that it’s a verb).

I've had some tricks up my sleeve Takes one to know one You're a cowboy like me

Ed Sheeran - Friends

We're not No we're not friends Nor have we ever been We just try to keep those secrets in a lie And if they find out, will it all go wrong? And heaven knows no one wants it to

So I could take the back road But your eyes will lead me straight back home And if you know me like I know you You should love me, you should know

Friends just sleep in another bed And friends don't treat me like you do Well, I know that there's a limit to everything But my friends won't love me like you No, my friends won't love me like you

We're not friends We could be anything If we try to keep those secrets safe No one will find out If it all went wrong They'll never know what we've been through

So I could take the back road But your eyes'll lead me straight back home And if you know me like I know you You should love me, you should know

That friends just sleep in another bed And friends don't treat me like you do And I know that there's a limit to everything But my friends won't love me like you No, my friends won't love me like you

But then again, if we're not friends Someone else might love you too And then again, if we're not friends There'd be nothing I could do

And that's why friends should sleep in other beds And friends shouldn't kiss me like you do And I know that there's a limit to everything But my friends won't love me like you No, my friends won't love me like you Oh, my friends will never love me like you

Not Taylor calling the folklore cabin a vacation spot… 🙈😂

Cowboy like me - again 🤠

breaking in to the closet

“this is every girls dream”

👆?!

every girls dream?

IN THE VOGUE CLOSET

like

VOGUE VOGUE

karlie you sure?! 😂

———

——— although i think that your ‘man’

wouldn’t mind

if you’d bring a few shirts back home

(pictures from gaylor reddit x)

and you know what they say abt gal pals

sharing clothes

well.. that you are just the best of best friends. roommates. but definitely not more than that. normal girls being normal.

what they actually meant was: lovers, soulmates, girlfriends.

but hey let’s not speculate - gay 😤 - iew - whatever 🫠✌️.

..with this song

and just a couple more albums after that

but who’s counting?

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a game

end team

ME! baby kaylor 😂 feels like light years ago

i kinda forgot about this @milelarissa-blog

The beginning of the end

before I realised that this sinkhole meant

never knowing peace again 🫠🫠🫠

I’m only halfway through your blog (binge reading hahahaha) but wanted to take a break to send you positive vibes! Loving it. This is actually one of the saddest stories ever but the way you walk us through it (I’m laughing while crying or vice versa half of the time) gives them the sunshine they deserve.

I feel like a freak saying this about two people I’ve never met but I think that we’ve seen enough of them over the years (being a public figure, what a joy) to know that these two deserve the world..

And I figured, if haters gonna hate, lovers gonna love. So hell yeah KAYLOR <3 - still processing the narrative btw (especially the kids part is not quite entering my brain - but hey if it’s true, I’m all for it). 

And I get you Taylor, I would also write a thousand songs about Karlie - what a muse. 

My girlfriend oor sometimes boyfriend

Call of what you want

I call her tay tay 🩷

Everything about her is TEA!

@taylorswift @taylornation

The Story/Secret of Us

So I believe I may have just solved a major piece of the puzzle and finally figured out WHY the tortured poets have been sending us these anonymous messages to help us solve it. I think this entire rabbit hole is a gift to us true fans which is why we got all of those cryptic present 🎁 anon messages. Alllll of these songs are dedicated to us (except for So High School and I will explain why I think this in more detail later). THIS is The Story or Secret of Us. The "secret" is this rabbit hole of connections and this secret language or code of symbols and metaphors we've all learned how to speak (sunshine/daylight/gold/yellow = Karlie/being out of the closet/queer love/happiness, 3 = Speak Now, orange = karma, etc). The "us" is the tortured poets and us true fans who share this secret language.

Another important part of understanding this puzzle is that some of these songs are time sensitive 🕰️ and like a prophecy (The Prophecy) waiting to be fulfilled. So after a certain point, some songs can no longer be applied bc that "scene" in the movie has already passed (If This Was A Movie). They want us to essentially play our part in the story they've written. Right now we are playing the part of Paul Revere or Cassandra warning swifties of what's coming (likely on Sept 28). And we're also acting as Taylor's wings/angels catching her when she falls off her pedestal (see this post). They want us to think of these moments when we listen to these songs bc they want them to be personally relatable bc that's part of our gift. I think this is what Taylor meant when she said

"Let me tell you my secret little dream for this evening. These are songs that I have written about my life or things I've felt at one point in time, whether I was a teenager, in my 20s, or a couple yrs ago. But after tonight when you hear these songs out and about in the world, my dream is that you're gonna think about tonight and the memories we made here together" (x)

and what present anon meant when they said

"Reach those lanterns a little bit higher. For you shall receive a metaphor so dire" (x).

"Then the actors (us true fans and the tortured poets) were hitting their marks and the slow dance was alight with the sparks and the tears fell in synchronicity with the score" // "It's a normal thing to fall in love with movie stars when the lights are low and red at all their favorite bars. And the story you want is the story you get. Are you special or was this all scripted in his head?...Don't worry, I know I'll see you again. Uh-huh, you'll make me cry when it comes to an end. You were all that we hoped (The Prophecy), but I can't recommend getting close, I should've known, but I'll see you again" (x). The tortured poets have invited us to "dance" with them by being a part of this movie. If we accept this invitation, then we essentially become the muse of these songs.

I think Gracie playing In Between as a surprise song on 9/19 was an easter egg for Lizzy’s song Pushing It Down and Praying that was released 9/20. I think the mv for this song is the visual representation of the 🫚 message about the audience member (us true fans) becoming a part of the magic show and also the teenage love triangle in folklore. In this story, we are playing the character Wendy/Betty while the tortured poets play the character Peter/James. Swifties or the fans who don’t see this metaphorical story are Augusta/Augustine, the girl that James cheats on Betty with in august. So even though the teenage love triangle is technically fictional, there are seeds of truth in it. This is what Taylor was trying to explain during the eras tour betty speeches when she said she created these fictional characters and she was acting as the narrator of their story (x). Role Model, who stars in the Pushing It Down and Praying mv, is also the opening act for Gracie's TSOU tour which is another connection.

And to add even more evidence to this theory, the teenage love triangle also makes an appearance in Gracie’s discography. Gracie has a song called Augusta on TIWIFL which just so happens to be the name of one of the characters in the love triangle. It is also the name of a town in Maine which is where Gracie’s family is from. There are 3 songs in total on TIWIFL that are named after towns in Maine—Camden, Augusta, and Rockland. If you put the first letters of these songs together, they spell out “CAR.” “Standing in your CARdigan, kissing in my CAR again,” “And when I felt like I was an old CARdigan under someone’s bed, you put me on and said I was your favorite," 2:46 in betty ("She said 'James, get in, let's drive'") corresponding with 2:46 in august ("Remember when I pulled up and said get in the CAR").

Genius

Gracie Abrams – Augusta

“Augusta” is the 10th track of Gracie Abrams' project This Is What It Feels Like. On an interview with NME, Abrams said that the state of M

Genius

Gracie Abrams – Camden

In “Camden,” Gracie struggles with intrusive thoughts that are continuously haunting her. She reveals multiple insecurities she feels regard

august, betty, cardigan (the 3 sides or perspectives of the love triangle) are “ABC” bc the alphabet or capital letters are one of the major keys to solving this puzzle. As I mentioned in this post, I think Audrey has been helping to plant easter eggs. She posted Capital Letters by Hailee Steinfeld on her insta 3 times which is quite interesting and she also included this song in her Summa playlist.

What makes this even more suspicious is that she specifically chose timestamps in the songs (1:11 and 1:23) that have these lyrics ⬇️ and she posted the 1:11 timestamp TWICE which indicates that she really wanted to emphasize it. "God I'm jumping in the deep end, it's more fun to swim in. Heard the risk is drowning but I'm gonna take it."

Another thing that I think ties in with all of this is the Stephen Colbert interview. In this post below, I explain why I think the pizza on the mood board represents PR/bearding/showmanship/magic. I also explain how the letters that spell out Stephen's name are a huge clue and are related to the Peter Pan metaphor that is a through line in both Gracie's and Taylor's music. This is another example of "capital letters" or the alphabet being the key to solving the puzzle.

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So several gaylors have been talking abt the Stephen Colbert interview Taylor did on April 13, 2021 and I believe I may have figured out how

Going back to what I said in the first paragraph, this entire rabbit hole of cross-referenceable songs is dedicated to us except for the "pizza" So High School which is the one song she dedicated to 🏈 This is why Taylor's mood board had one slice of pizza while every other picture was of Stephen.

This is a color coded map

A flickering light

I got lost in the dark

(more than a few times 😩)

still

not sure where the exit is

how much deeper

down below

this basement

mom, i want to get out.

please!? I used to be the (sad) emo kid

not casual about music at all

sorry taylor - they really plotted hard to not make you end up

here

I think I’m going to make a bingo card

grinning like I’m winning?

Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind (oh)

They count me out time and time again

Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind (oh)

But I come back stronger than a 90's trend

the heartbreak prince

it’s you and me that's my whole world

i didn't choose this town i dream of getting out

voted most likely to run away there’s escape in escaping

we could share a lifeline..

or just be —

little did i know..

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just a normal conversation with friend(s) before I tripped

ending up

even deeper

down below

high above

“I present to you: Dr. Taylor Alison Swift being hot as everrrr✨”

From my TikTok archive - @taylorsapphicswift

11/19/22