State of Grace
- State of Grace / You're On Your Own, Kid (Eras Tour, Dublin)
- State of Grace / Labyrinth (Eras Tour, Toronto)
“This is a state of grace, this is the worthwhile fight”
“We are alone, just you and me, up in your room and our slates are clean”
“I'm walking fast through the traffic lights, busy streets and busy lives”
“Just twin fire signs, four blue eyes”
“I'm walking fast through the traffic lights, busy streets and busy lives”
twin flames
“twin fire signs”
“twin flame” — All Too Well
Angela sets the twin flame of All Too Well beside the twin fire signs of State of Grace, the same astrological image of two people burning at the same frequency carried from one Red-era reading into the other.
mosaic / constitutive fragility
“we learn to live with the pain, mosaic broken hearts”
“And when I break, it's in a million pieces” — mirrorball
Reading by @coryharbour57 on the mirrorball YouTube episode places the Red-era mosaic image as an earlier instance of the same constitutive-fragility conceit: State of Grace names the broken-pieces condition as something that can be assembled into a liveable whole (mosaic), while mirrorball names it as the condition of existence for a reflective object. The break is not a failure but the method. The two songs read as the same broken-self image rotated across a decade of writing.