Everything Taylor Swift Says About Joe Alwyn in “All of the Girls You Loved Before”
Taylor Swift dropped "All Of The Girls You Loved Before," her much-awaited, previously-unreleased song from her Lovers album, last night, and fans are already spiraling over the lyrics.
Assuming the song was inspired by her longtime boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, Swift in the track seems to praise the women Alwyn loved before her, saying they helped make him who he is today.
"All of the girls you loved before / Made you the one I've fallen for / Every dead-end street led you straight to me / Now you're all I need, I'm so thankful for / All of the girls you loved before / But I love you more," she sings.
In the pre-chorus, Swift also makes a reference to another song she wrote about Alwyn, "Mastermind." She sing in the pre-chorus: "Once upon a time, the planets and the fates /And all the stars aligned / You and I ended up in the same room / At the same time."
She makes another reference to her love by citing something she said in Reputation's "King of My Heart," which is also about the actor. In that track, Swift sings, "The way you call me "baby" / Treat me like a lady." And in "All Of The Girls You Loved Before," she calls back to the lyric, singing, "We met a few weeks ago / Now you try on callin' me "baby" like tryin' on clothes."
In the final bridge, Swift honors Alwyn's mother, whom she says brought him up right, as well as the other women in his life. She ends by promising to love him forever.
"Your mother brought you up loyal and kind / Teenage love taught you there's good in goodbye / Every woman that you knew brought you here / I wanna teach you how forever feels like," she sings.
Swift began dating Alwyn in fall 2016, and has since dedicated plenty of songs to him, including many in her Lover album, which itself is a tribute to him.
Taylor Swift - 'All Of The Girls You Loved Before' lyrics
VERSE 1
When you think of all the late nights
Lame fights over the phone
Wake up in the mornin' with someone
But feelin' alone
REFRAIN
A heart is drawn around your name
In someone's handwriting, not mine
We're sneakin' out into town
Holdin' hands, just killin' time
PRE-CHORUS
Your past and mine are parallel lines
Stars all aligned and they intertwined
And taught you
The way you call me "baby"
Treat me like a lady
All that I can say is
CHORUS
All of the girls you loved before (Ooh)
Made you the one I've fallen for
Every dead-end street led you straight to me
Now you're all I need, I'm so thankful for
All of the girls you loved before
But I love you more
VERSE 2
When I think of all the makeup
Fake love out on the town (Ooh)
Cryin' in the bathroom for some dude
Whose name I cannot remember now
REFRAIN
Secret jokes all alone
No one's home, sixteen and wild (Ooh)
We're breakin' up, makin' up
Leave without sayin' goodbye (Ooh)
PRE-CHORUS
And just know that
It's everything that made me
Now I call you "baby"
That's why you're so amazing
CHORUS
All of the girls you loved before (Ooh)
Made you the one I've fallen for
Every dead-end street led you straight to me
Now you're all I need, I'm so thankful for
All of the girls you loved before
But I love you more
(I love you more)
BRIDGE
Your mother brought you up loyal and kind
Teenage love taught you there's good in goodbye
Every woman that you knew brought you here
I wanna teach you how forever feels like
CHORUS
The girls you loved before (Ooh)
Made you the one I've fallen for
Every dead-end street (Dead-end street) led you straight to me (Straight to me)
Now you're all I need (All I need), I'm so thankful for
All of the girls you loved before
But I love you more
OUTRO
(I love you more)
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