Right Where You Left Me

Album: Evermore (2021)
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  • Friends break up, friends get married
    Strangers get born, strangers get buried
    Trends change, rumors fly through new skies
    But I'm right where you left me
    Matches burn after the other
    Pages turn and stick to each other
    Wages earned and lessons learned
    But I'm right where you left me

    Help, I'm still at the restaurant
    Still sitting in a corner I haunt
    Cross-legged in the dim light
    They say, "What a sad sight", I
    I swear you could hear a hairpin drop
    Right when I felt the moment stop
    Glass shattered on the white cloth
    Everybody moved on, I
    I stayed there
    Dust collected on my pinned-up hair
    They expected me to find somewhere
    Some perspective, but I sat and stared
    Right where you left me

    You left me no
    Oh, you left me no
    You left me no choice but to stay here forever
    You left me
    You left me no
    Oh, you left me no
    You left me no choice but to stay here forever

    Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen?
    Time went on for everybody else, she won't know it
    She's still twenty-three inside her fantasy
    How it was supposed to be
    Did you hear about the girl who lives in delusion?
    Breakups happen every day, you don't have to lose it
    She's still twenty-three inside her fantasy
    And you're sitting in front of me

    At the restaurant
    When I was still the one you want
    Cross-legged in the dim light
    Everything was just right, I
    I could feel the mascara run
    You told me that you met someone
    Glass shattered on the white cloth
    Everybody moved on

    Help, I'm still at the restaurant
    Still sitting in a corner I haunt
    Cross-legged in the dim light
    They say, "What a sad sight", I
    I stayed there
    Dust collected on my pinned-up hair
    I'm sure that you got a wife out there
    Kids and Christmas, but I'm unaware
    'Cause I'm right where
    I cause no harm
    Mind my business, if our love died young
    I can't bear witness and it's been so long
    But if you ever think you got it wrong
    I'm right where you left me

    You left me no
    Oh, you left me no
    You left me no choice but to stay here forever
    You left me
    You left me no
    Oh, you left me no
    You left me no choice but to stay here forever Writer/s: Aaron Dessner, Taylor Swift
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Piper from San Franciscothis is true empowerment of women around the world, taylor proves we will make it through any obstacle, these powerful lyrics include "I like to smell my own stool on the paper before I flush, wave my hands in the air like just don't care and don't blush" wow, have there ever been more powerful words for women in this generation, with all we have come through in 2020 we rise to new heights, hear us roar.
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