The Winds of Fate

“When you blew in with the winds of fate”

Community readers hear Taylor's "winds of fate" as a nod to Ella Wheeler Wilcox's short poem of the same name, in which the same gale that drives one ship east drives another west: it is the set of the sail, not the wind, that decides the course. The image sharpens the song's question of whether the muse blew in by destiny or by something the speaker could not see.