Taylor Swift is celebrating the start of her Eras tour by treating us to four new songs – including a touching track fans are convinced is about Joe Alwyn.
The 33-year-old star dropped the quartet of tracks at midnight (when else?) on Thursday night, including three Taylor’s Version songs alongside the brand new release.
As well as re-recordings of Eyes Open and Safe & Sound, which both featured on The Hunger Games soundtrack in 2012, she has also released a fresh version of If This Was A Movie from the deluxe edition of Speak Now.
The biggest surprise of the four is All of the Girls You Loved Before, which has never seen the light of day and is an outtake from the sessions for 2019’s Lovers album.
It appears to give some insight into her and Joe’s near seven-year relationship, as she belts out in the chorus: ‘Every dead-end street led you straight to me / Now, you’re all I need, I’m so thankful for / All of the girls you’ve loved before / And I love you more.’
In the final verse, she sings: ‘Every woman that you knew brought you here / I wanna teach you how forever feels like.’
Early in the track, she sings about the love and heartbreak her partner shared before they met, referencing ‘late nights, late fights over the phone’, and how he would ‘wake up in the morning with someone, but feeling alone’.
She croons: ‘A heart is drawn ’round your name / In someone’s handwriting, not mine.’
She moves onto the present, describing how the ‘stars all aligned, they intertwined’ to make their love impossible, adding: ‘Your past and mine are parallel lines.’
In the first chorus, she references how their past made their romance possible, singing: ‘All of the girls you’ve loved before / Made you the one I’ve fallen for / Every dead-end street led you straight to me /Now, you’re all I need, I’m so thankful for / All of the girls you’ve loved before / And I love you more’.
The second verse sees her reflecting on her own past heartaches including ‘crying in the bathroom for some dude whose name I cannot remember now’.
She adds in a pre chorus: ‘We’re breaking up, making up / Leave without saying goodbye / Just know that it’s everything that made me / Now, I call you “baby,” that’s why you’re so amazing.’
In the bridge, she praises the qualities her beau has learned from her mother and his past, while looking to the future.
She belts out: ‘Your mother brought you up loyal and kind / Teenage love taught you there’s good in goodbye / Every woman that you knew brought you here / I wanna teach you how forever feels like.’
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