Castles Crumbling - Tumblr Posts

It's hilarious when people are like "taylor swift's songs are engineered to be as generically relatable as possible" because then you actually listen to the songs in question and she's just like

"I am a SELF-DESTRUCTIVE MONSTER who ruins everything I touch, I MANIPULATED everyone into liking me, my potential has been WASTED due to circumstances of MY OWN CREATION, I go back to an EMPTY HOUSE because everyone in my life has moved on, I am a BLEEDING OPEN WOUND, all my kindness is really just NARCISSISM IN DISGUISE, I will BREAK MYSELF FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT, I STARVED MYSELF in order to be saved by an idealised romance, I can go ANYWHERE except for THE PLACE I CALLED HOME, I will SPIRAL UNCONTROLLABLY if left to my own devices, I AM THE INSTRUMENT OF MY OWN DESTRUCTION, THIS WAS INEVITABLE"

(spoilers for TWK & QoN)

Castles Crumbling (Feat. Hayley Williams) (Taylor's version) (From the Vault) is Jude Duarte when being exiled from faerie at the end of The Wicked King and the beginning of Queen of Nothing.

I can’t stop thinking about the lyric parallels and the manifestation caused by castle’s crumbling, mean and long live.

On one hand we have “someday I’ll be long enough so you can’t hit me”… we all know how that turned out to be so drastically true!

Then there’s “if god forbid fate should step in…” and “… please tell ‘em my name” to “ask me why so many fade but I’m still here”

She manifested and worked tf hard for these. But the on other side of the scale you also have “I feel like my castle’s crumbling down and I watch all my bridges burn to the ground”… the anxiety of this happening led her straight to “my castle crumbled over night” and “bridges burned I never learned”.

Okay I’ve made myself too sad over these 😭🥺💔

I just made the gut-wrenching connection between the "you don't want to know me, I will just let you down" in Castles Crumbling and the "You wouldn't take my word for it if you knew who was talking" in Dear Reader...

Once, I was the great hope for a dynasty

Crowds would hang on my words, and they trusted me

Their faith was strong, but I pushed it too far

I held that grudge 'til it tore me apart

Power went to my head, and I couldn't stop

Ones I loved tried to help, so I ran them off

And here I sit alone, behind walls of regret

Falling down like promises that I never kept

And I feel like my castle's crumbling down

And I watch all my bridges burn to the ground

And you don't want to know me

I will just let you down

You don't wanna know me now

And I feel like my castle's crumbling down⁣ And I watch all my bridges burn to the ground⁣ And you don't want to know me⁣ I will just let you down⁣

Once, I was the great hope for a dynasty Crowds would hang on my words, and they trusted me