Lover
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Lover Lyrics
We could leave the Christmas lights up 'til January
And this is our place, we make the rules
And there's a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you, dear
Have I known you twenty seconds or twenty years?
[Chorus]
Can I go where you go?
Can we always be this close?
Forever and ever, ah
Take me out and take me home
You're my, my, my, my lover
[Verse 2]
We could let our friends crash in the living room
This is our place, we make the call
And I'm highly suspicious that everyone who sees you wants you
I've loved you three summers now, honey, but I want 'em all
[Chorus]
Can I go where you go?
Can we always be this close?
Forever and ever, ah
Take me out and take me home (Forever and ever)
You're my, my, my, my lover
Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand?
With every guitar string scar on my hand
I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover
My heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue
All's well that ends well to end up with you
Swear to be overdramatic and true to my lover
And you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for me
And at every table, I'll save you a seat, lover
[Chorus]
Can I go where you go?
Can we always be this close?
Forever and ever, ah
Take me out and take me home (Forever and ever)
You're my, my, my, my
Oh, you're my, my, my, my
Darling, you're my, my, my, my lover
About
The title track of Lover was first unveiled in Swift’s September 2019 Vogue cover story, along with a pair of lyrics from its bridge. The interviewer described the song as a “romantic, haunting, waltzy, singer-songwritery nugget.” Swift announced the song’s release date during an acceptance speech at the 2019 Teen Choice Awards. Three days later, the song appeared on iTunes, revealing that it’s the third track on the album.
The song is a romantic track dedicated to Swift’s partner of three years, Joe Alwyn. It takes a wedding-like perspective on their relationship and shares information about their romance. A Twitter user who attended one of the secret sessions alleged that “‘Lover’ is Taylor’s favorite [original] song of all time,” having asked her directly during a Q&A.
On the day of its release, “Lover” reached number #1 on the US iTunes charts, making it her 35th song to do so. With this milestone, she extends her record as the female with the most #1 singles in iTunes' history.
The music video for the song was released on August 22, 2019, immediately following Swift’s Lover’s Lounge on YouTube. It features Swift and her love interest in a house inside a snow globe, illustrating the ups and downs of a relationship in progress. During Swift’s livestream, she further revealed that the concept for the music video originated from a lyric in her 1989 song, “You Are In Love”:
And so it goes
You two are dancing in a snow globe, ‘round and 'round
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
Swift told Vogue:
This has one of my favorite bridges. I love a bridge, and I was really able to go to Bridge City.
I’m really, really proud of this song, because it’s always been very hard for me to write love songs that weren’t about love, and like, pining, love and secrecy, love and fear. If I wasn’t writing ‘Love Story,’ which wasn’t even about my own life; like really, it was about movies I had seen, and Romeo and Juliet, and sort of a fragment of it was my own life. But, I haven’t really been able to write a pure ‘Oh my god I love you’ love song, and this is the one that I’m the most proud of. So this song is like that. And basically, I wanted it to sort of exist in a timeless era, where you wouldn’t be able to guess if it was being played at a wedding reception in 1980 or 1970 or now. So, there were no instruments that we used that were new instruments since things that were invented post 70s. And so, I kind of wrote the bridge as if they were vows. You know how when people write their vows and they sort of, like, customize them; I kind of wanted to do that in the bridge of this song.
— Via the iHeartRadio Lover Album Release Party and Secret Session
In an exclusive interview Swift did with The New York Times, she revealed her inspiration for the song and the process of how she was able to finish writing the whole song in just a day.
[I got the inspiration when] I was in bed. I was in Nashville, I got out of bed — I think it was really late at night — and like stumbled over to the piano. […] I’ve been thinking for years, “God, it would just be so great to have like a song that people in love would want to dance to — like slow dance to.” In my head I had like just the last two people on the dance floor at 3 AM, swaying.
Taylor also shared an original voice memo sent to songwriter-producer Jack Antonoff.
Hey, so I have this idea that’s like… obviously I don’t know the verse [or] whatever yet but I have a pretty cool, really simple beautiful chorus idea called “Lover.”
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- 11.London Boy
- 13.False God
- 15.Afterglow
- 16.ME!
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