Invisible String

Album: Folklore (2020)
Charted: 37
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  • Green was the color of the grass
    Where I used to read at Centennial Park
    I used to think I would meet somebody there
    Teal was the color of your shirt
    When you were sixteen at the yogurt shop
    You used to work at to make a little money

    Time, curious time
    Gave me no compasses, gave me no signs
    Were there clues I didn't see?
    And isn't it just so pretty to think
    All along there was some
    Invisible string
    Tying you to me?
    Ooh

    Bad was the blood of the song in the cab
    On your first trip to LA
    You ate at my favorite spot for dinner
    Bold was the waitress on our three year trip
    Getting lunch down by the lakes
    She said I looked like an American singer

    Time, mystical time
    Cuttin' me open, then healin' me fine
    Were there clues I didn't see?
    And isn't it just so pretty to think
    All along there was some
    Invisible string
    Tying you to me?
    Ooh

    A string that pulled me
    Out of all the wrong arms right into that dive bar
    Something wrapped all of my past mistakes in barbed wire
    Chains around my demons, wool to brave the seasons
    One single thread of gold tied me to you

    Cold was the steel of my axe to grind
    For the boys who broke my heart
    Now I send their babies presents
    Gold was the color of the leaves
    When I showed you around Centennial Park
    Hell was the journey but it brought me heaven

    Time, wondrous time
    Gave me the blues and then purple pink skies
    And it's cool, baby, with me
    And isn't it just so pretty to think
    All along there was some
    Invisible string
    Tying you to me?
    Ooh
    Hee
    Ooh

    (Oh, ooh)
    (Oh, ooh) Writer/s: Aaron Brooking Dessner, Taylor A. Swift
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Piper from Portland Orthis is the most uplifting song a woman could ever hear, a song about the invisible tampon string we all dread, imagine you are walking around in boy shorts and without any knowledge a stranger corrects you for having a cotton string hanging from your private area, well that is what happened to me at the mall two weeks before covid locked us down, thank the mother earth I could hide for the past 18 months and no one ever see me at the mall, can you imagine my horror, invisible string my ass, that thing was right out in the open
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