the lakes - original version by Taylor Swift

Artist: Taylor Swift

Genre: Pop

Length: 3:47

Released: 2021

Taylor Swift released this song on 24 July 2021, to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the folklore album. She said through her social media: It’s been 1 year since we escaped the real world together and imagined ourselves someplace simpler. With tall trees & salt air. Where you can wear lace nightgowns that make you look like a Victorian ghost & no one will side eye you cause no one is around “the lakes (original version)” is lyrically identical to the version of “the lakes” that made t...

the lakes - original version lyrics

Is it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me?
I'm not cut out for all these cynical clones
These hunters with cellphones
Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die
I don't belong
And my beloved, neither do you
Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
I'm settin' off, but not without my muse
What should be over burrowed under my skin
In heart-stoppin' waves of hurt
I've come too far to watch some name-droppin' sleaze
Tell me what are my words worth
Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die
I don't belong
And my beloved, neither do you
Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
I'm settin' off, but not without my muse
I want auroras and sad prose
I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet
'Cause I haven't moved in years
And I want you right here
A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground
With no one around to tweet it
While I bathe in cliffside pools
With my calamitous love
And insurmountable grief
Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die
I don't belong
And my beloved, neither do you
Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
I'm settin' off, but not without my muse
Not without you
Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die
I don't belong
And my beloved, neither do you
Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect to cry
I'm settin' off, but not without my muse
No, not without you

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