Song
Breathe (TV)
Fearless (Taylor's Version) · 2021 · Track 7
Co-written
Written byTaylor Swift, Colbie Caillat
Produced byChristopher Rowe, Taylor Swift
Feat.Colbie Caillat
Hidden message
I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry
Encoded in the album’s liner notes.
Road
Incidental
Cars & Travel
“Every little bump in the road I tried to serve”
The road as the relationship itself, with the bumps as the difficulties the speaker has tried to absorb. The verb 'serve' is the analytical hinge, the speaker reads herself as the one doing maintenance on a route someone else is travelling, and the line registers the labour without quite naming what she got in return.
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