Taylor Swift has launched a brand new Vault track titled “You are Dropping Me,” and followers are questioning if the lyrics provide a window into her relationship and up to date breakup with ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn. The track was the second of two new releases this Friday, together with “Hits Totally different” and new variations of two of the album’s authentic songs: “Karma” that includes Ice Spice and “Snow on the Seashore” that includes prolonged Lana Del Rey vocals.
In “You are Dropping Me,” Swift sings that she’s like a “phoenix that all the time rises from the ashes and mends all her wounds,” which positively appears like a post-breakup dialog.
Swift and Alwyn cut up earlier this yr, simply earlier than the beginning of Swift’s Eras Tour live performance sequence. She has since entered a relationship with musician Matt Healy, who has been to a few of her exhibits and even carried out on stage.
However the brand new songs communicate of a tough resolution to say goodbye to… somebody.
You say “I do not perceive” and I say “I do know you do not perceive”
We thought a treatment would are available in time, now I am afraid not
Keep in mind whenever you checked out this room, we cherished it due to the sunshine
Now I simply sit in the dead of night questioning if it is time
In April, after information of Alwyn’s breakup got here out, a supply advised me Folks, “The variations of their personalities have additionally change into tougher to disregard after years collectively. They’ve grown aside.”
Ultimately, it appears they did not “perceive” one another effectively sufficient to proceed their bond. Nonetheless, they had been collectively for six years and within the pre-chorus, Swift sings about how she has to decide about letting go of every thing she’s “constructed.”
[Pre-Chorus]
Do I throw away every thing we have constructed or hold it?
I am getting drained, even for a phoenix
All the time rise from the ashes
Mend all her wounds
You will have simply landed the ending blow
That is what the supply mentioned Folks that at different occasions Swift and Alwyn had tough spots that they patched up, so the lyrics might consult with the suspense of whether or not or not one thing is de facto over.
“They’ve had tough occasions earlier than and all the time labored it out, so pals thought they’d take a while aside [now] however ultimately getting again collectively,” the supply defined. “Lastly [they] did not match.”
[Chorus]
Cease, you are dropping me
Cease, you are dropping me
Cease, you are dropping me
I can not discover a heartbeat
My coronary heart will not begin once more for you
Since you lose me[Verse 2]
Each morning I checked out you with storms in my eyes
How are you going to say you like somebody you do not know is dying?
I despatched you alerts and bit my nails to the bone
My face was grey, however you would not admit we had been sick
One other supply advised ET that they had been too completely different to work, however that it was onerous to finish it due to the time they spent collectively.
“It was extra of Taylor’s resolution to interrupt up, however they each realized they weren’t fairly proper for one another,” the supply mentioned. “They’d been collectively for thus lengthy and spent a lot time collectively, however their personalities had been simply too completely different. Joe is extra introverted, shy and quiet.
[Pre-Chorus]
And the air is thick with loss and indecision
I do know my ache is such a burden
Now you run down the hallway
And you realize what all of them say
“You do not know what you might have till it is gone”
Later within the bridge, Swift sings “she’s the “neatest thing at this social gathering” and one in every of their final performances collectively was at a Grammy’s after social gathering.
[Bridge]
How lengthy can we be a tragic track
‘Til we had been too far gone to come back again to life?
I gave you all my greatest self, my infinite empathy
And all I did was bleed making an attempt to be the bravest soldier
Struggle alone in your military, entrance traces, do not ignore me
I am the very best at this social gathering (You are dropping me)
However one of many largest clues about Alwyn was the road after it:
And would not marry me both
In a 2022 interview for WSJ. JournalAlwyn made a uncommon remark concerning the questions surrounding his relationship with Swift – and their rumored engagement.
“If I obtained a pound for each time I feel I have been advised I am engaged, I might have loads of pound cash,” he mentioned. “I imply, the reality is, if the reply was sure, I would not say it, and if the reply was no, I would not say it.”
Round their breakup, sources advised Folks that Swift and Alwyn “talked about marriage just some months in the past.”
Clearly it went a unique manner.
A pathological crowd pleaser
Who simply needed you to see her
And I fade, considering
“Do one thing, child, say one thing” (Say one thing)
“Lose one thing, child, threat one thing” (You are dropping me)
“Select one thing, child, I obtained nothing” (I obtained nothing)
“Consider Except You Select Me”
The final verse by which Swift sings “Select one thing, child, I’ve nothing/to consider, until you select me” might consult with Alwyn’s perceived insecurity with the extent of fame Swift struggled with.
“Ultimately they each realized they weren’t on the identical web page anymore,” a supply advised the Each day mail. “It has been onerous for Joe to make it in Hollywood and not likely change into main materials whereas courting some of the well-known ladies on the planet for the previous six years. It was simpler in the course of the pandemic when it was simply the 2 of them, however when issues returned to regular, Taylor Swift emerged the celebrity, and their variations had been much more obvious. They actually tried and tried every thing they might, however in the long run they could not save the connection.
[Outro]
You lose me
Cease (Cease, cease), you are dropping me
Cease (Cease, cease), you are dropping me
I can not discover a heartbeat, my coronary heart will not begin
Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and extra. Her first e book, The lonely hunter, shall be launched in February 2022 by Dial Press.
