Monday, October 22nd, 2012
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Taylor Swift's Analogies, In Order Of Incomprehensibility

23. You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard.

22. The moon like a spotlight on the lake.

21. Today was a fairytale.

20. I need you like a heartbeat.

19. Spinning like a girl in a brand-new dress.

18. You're just another picture to burn.

17. You call me up again just to break me like a promise.

16. Untouchable, like a distant diamond sky.

15. Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place.

14. I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here.

13. He leaves you out like a penny in the rain.

12. I'm shining like fireworks over your sad empty town.

11. Loving him was red.

10. You held your head like a hero on a history book page.

9. Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer.

8. We were dancing like we're made of starlight.

7. You come around and the armor falls, pierce the room like a cannonball.

6. You were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter.

5. His love is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street.

4. He's the song, in the car, I keep singing, don't know why I do.

3. The way you move is like a full on rainstorm, and I'm a house of cards.

2. Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met.

1. Cory's eyes are like a jungle, he smiles, it's like the radio.




Julie Beck is a writer, editor and Taylor Swift aficionado living in Chicago.

28 Comments / Post A Comment

SkinnyNerd (#224,784)

11. Loving him was red.
This is poetry people.

riotnrrd (#840)

@SkinnyNerd BAD poetry.

Rad poetry.

SkinnyNerd (#224,784)

@Clarence Rosario mad poetry

SkinnyNerd (#224,784)

@riotnrrd Sarcasm always winds up on a dead end on the internet.

riotnrrd (#840)

@SkinnyNerd Oh no, I got it. I was just agreeing. Sarcazm 4 eva.

anonymass (#13,682)

@SkinnyNerd

So much depends
On red loving him

Emily Morris (#14,069)
nonvolleyball (#9,329)

@Emily Morris @Emily Morris I really enjoy the conviction that underlies a statement like "Emotions have colours."

Emily Morris (#14,069)

@nonvolleyball She's synesthetic, she just wants to appeal to ALL of her fans

Bittersweet (#765)

@Emily Morris At first glance I thought you said "synthetic," which, yes.

bluebears (#5,902)

19. Spinning like a girl in a brand-new dress.

Well of course.

werewolfbarmitzvah (#16,402)

Style-wise, though, she is KILLIN' IT these days! I can't listen to her songs without some degree of suffering, but lordy does she look flawless with the bangs and the red lipstick.

hockeymom (#143)

Her album is on constant, non-stop rotation in the household.
Day and night, all I hear is "Trouble, trouble, trouble."

Losing my damn mind.

Kevin Knox (#4,475)

@hockeymom I feel like this comment should have been written on the torn off top flap of a Trix carton. In broken orange crayon.

hockeymom (#143)

@Kevin Knox I'm Noriega and the 12 yr old is PsyOps.

practical cat (#238,881)

@hockeymom "Oh oh trouble trouble trouble / oh oh trouble trouble trouble" is the most brilliant of poetry. It's pretty much a heroic couplet, amiright?

mayonegg (#76,907)

I am wondering how I have not found Julie Beck in the limited sea of Chicago Taylor Swift aficionados.

Brad Nelson (#2,115)

incomprehensible? some of these are even cliches!

Edith Zimmerman (#5,210)

It's exHAUSTing how much I <3 TS.

lolijayne (#238,005)

Taylor Swift didn't write Untouchable.

City_Dater (#2,500)

Good lord. she's the Jewel of her generation.

practical cat (#238,881)

Some of these make the most perfect sense. But yeah, I'll give you pretty much all of the ones from her first album. Like, who is going around leaving out pennies in the rain? HOW are eyes like a jungle? (Are they green or something? Wild?)

all the bacon (#238,882)

Call me when you need someone to write one of these on R. Kelly. Seriously, do it.

Maxie@twitter (#238,886)

@all the bacon can you write that and just email that to me? because that sounds fucking fantastic.

Poubelle (#214,283)

I need you like a heartbeat.
I dunno, I need my heartbeat pretty bad to, like, pump blood and keep me alive and stuff.

BentonReid (#238,893)

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