Ok so, a couple of notes on this song as well as personal thoughts that I found kinda interesting: I read on Twitter that some people think the changes in the chorus about where she goes in her mind refer to her previous albums and kinda connect the the lyrics directly before: the "Secret gardens" refer to folklore and evermore, which she mentioned on tour she saw as albums where she pictured herself running away to a forest and constructing a new life and new stories before writing them down. While the "lunar valleys" may refer to Midnights, with the speculation being that she "ran away to memories of her past" as a way to attempt to escape to the present, but she admits that nostalgia is just a mind's trick, and in the end, she likes to romanticise the happy memories and, thus: "only the gentle (memories) survive". The second, personal thing, is that the way she describes this song really connects with me and my own experience with Maladaptive Daydreaming, which is a dissociative pattern that the brain develops as a response to severe trauma. The way it works (in my understanding) is that the brain is unable to properly process the trauma and instead it creates another, incredibly detailed, world inside the imagination, called a Paracosm, where the consciousness can retreat to whenever reality becomes too much to handle. Note that the reason it is called maladaptive is because this response eventually becomes the default response to trauma and it becomes unhealthy, for me it feels like being yanked outside of my body without my consent and getting lost someplace else while I loose control over my body and what happens to me, yet being in there, I feel much safer and in control than attempting to even face what is happening in reality. IDK if anything I said made sense, but I hope it helps to have another perspective on this incredibly wonderful and well-written song!
@MinervaLavender2371
2 ай бұрын
I, too, started doing this in my mind as a small child. There are things I love about this world we're living in, but for the most part, I hate it Here and I always have. I think it comes down to, as you said, never feeling like you had a place where you fit in, or to take it a step further, never having a place where you felt safe. I know why I feel this way, but it really surprised me that Taylor felt that way too...although when I think about her life without all the bells and whistles, I absolutely understand. As always, I loved your reaction and your earnest interpretation of the lyrics.
@booluther
2 ай бұрын
The book referenced is Secret Garden 😊
@lizamurphy5844
2 ай бұрын
Never have lyrics hit me harder.... I hate where Im living do Im always in my "secret garden in my mind" 😢
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