Track 12 of Taylor’s eleventh album, “The Tortured Poet’s Department”, ‘loml’, characterised in all lower-case, suggests Taylor delving into her past relationships, hence the use of the abbreviated cybertext slang of ‘love of my life’ in the tracks title

However, as narrated by the song, Taylor heartbreakingly subverts and converts the stereotypical ‘love’ remark into one rather of ‘loss’ in the closing lyric . In fact, throughout the entire song, Swift never says the words ‘love of my life’ throughout the whole song, only ever ‘love of your life’. The only time she mentions a phrase which abbreviates to ‘loml’ is ‘loss of my life.

The so called ‘loss of her life’ is, at the point of writing this, left to ambiguity; but it can be inferred to be that of Joe Alwyn, an English actor who she had a relationship for over six years with, ultimately breaking up in 2023. This idea is able to be interpreted further through the lowercase typology taken by the track title, suggesting a somber tone through the lack of lettering emphasis or even exaggeration as found on most of her tracks

An insider for US Weekly also revealed in an issue for March 2018: “Taylor really believes Joe is the one for her,” – “She wants to get engaged to him. She just doesn’t feel as though she has to impress anyone at this point.” This, therefore further symbolises the idea that Joe is the aforementioned ‘loml’, or at least was in the eyes of those closest to her

Alwyn is, also, heavily implied to be the subject of Taylor’s seventh album, “Lover”, through both in-depth analysis (how the tracks line up with Joe and Taylor’s relationship timeline up until that point, as stated by Glamour Magazine in 2019) and title tracks featured on the album itself, such as “London Boy” (Joe himself was raised in London after moving from Royal Tunbridge Wells, in Kent sometime after 1991). However, this has to be only presumed as Taylor herself never goes out and publicly mentions him throughout the process of that album other than through metaphors and subtle references, although it can be insinuated upon .

The instrumental of this song features piano notes repeated throughout the entire song, never changing. The piano sounds very melancholic and further symbolises the idea of Taylor Swift’s and Joe Alwyn’s relationship, since Taylor keeps staying in the relationship despite how she feels in it, and that feeling doesn’t change. Only at the end of this song, when Taylor says the line “You’re the loss of my life” does the piano finally stop, since they finally end the relationship. The pain isn’t repeating anymore, it finally stops.