Song
Ours
Speak Now · 2010 · Track 15
Sole author
Written byTaylor Swift
Produced byNathan Chapman, Taylor Swift
Mash-ups & Live Pairings
- This Love / Ours (Eras Tour, Dublin)
- Ours / the last great american dynasty (Eras Tour, Toronto)
the world against the couple, built on a pronoun engine
“People throw rocks at things that shine, and life makes love look hard”
“I forget how the West was won, I forget if this was ever fun” — But Daddy I Love Him
Picked up by community readers as a continuation of the verse's I/you patterning into an earlier song built on the same engine. Ours runs much the same pronoun architecture and much the same sentiment - the whole world lined up on one side and the couple on the other - so the host reading of the verse's anaphora reaches back across the catalogue to a song that had already made that opposition its frame.
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