Our lyrics breakdown of Taylor Swift's 'The Manuscript,' the closing song and bonus track of 'The Tortured Poets Department,' that seems to reference her relationship with John Mayer.
In the Taylor Swift canon, the closing track of an album is often a moment of catharis and closure. (See:, that role belongs to “The Manuscript,” a gentle piano ballad that appears to hash out another past relationship — but read between the lines, and it serves as a thesis of her entire career.an anthology, a term that in the literary world means a “collection of poems or other pieces of writing” — and the 31-song behemoth is certainly quite the assemblage.
On its second verse, she sings that during the “age of him,” she wished “she was thirty,” and that after their break-up, she returned to dating “boys who were her own age.” Subsequent lines like, “She thought about how he said since she was so wise beyond her years/ Everything had been above board/ She wasn't sure,” appear to mirror the same regretful tune she now has of the relationship of “But “The Manuscript” ultimately isn’t really about Mayer.
The next few lines complete this moment of omniscient looking-back: Swift watches actors “hitting their marks” — a metaphor for her tours — as “tears fell in synchronicity with the score” — a likely allusion to her fans’ emotional response to her songs. “And at last,” she sings, “She knew what the agony had been for.”albums of her career — and it is.
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