We decided together that we wanted our relationship to be private."
She added, “Even though it was really horrible, I was happy.
But I wasn’t happy in the way I was trained to be happy.
It was happiness without anyone else’s input.
We were just happy.”
Unfortunately, the relationship wasn’t built to last.
They continued, “The differences in their personalities have also become harder to ignore after years together.
They’ve grown apart.”
Throughout their lengthy relationship, the couple stayed true to their word and kept things firmly private.
Every time an interviewer brought up the relationship, they stealthily evaded the question.
In the opener “…Ready For It?”
The closer, “New Year’s Day,” is also a sweet love song for him.
So, of course, the album is packed with odes to her relationship with Joe Alwyn.
The track “invisible string” parallels Swift and Alwyn’s lives before they met.
‘Cause sometimes, I just go into a rabbit hole of thinking of how things happen.
“Peace” is another track that tackles Swift’s struggles surrounding the relationship.
So this song was basically like, ‘Is it enough?
Is the stuff that I can control enough to block out the things I can’t."
The lyrics, “No more keeping score, now I just keep you warm.
We’ve always bonded over sad songs.
He started that one and came up with a lot of the structure of it.”
So, this song is about the active ignoring of that stuff to protect the real stuff."
