Ronan (TV)

Grief borne witness rather than experienced first-hand, written from Maya Thompson's blog posts about her son Ronan, who died of cancer aged four. One of Taylor's most devastating grief songs: she inhabits someone else's loss and gives it form. The speaker is the grief-keeper, not the primary griever.

“Race cars on the kitchen floor, plastic dinosaurs”

“Flowers pile up in the worst way, no one knows what to say”

“I remember you dancing before bedtime, then jumping on me, waking me up”

“I remember your bare feet down the hallway”

“Come on baby with me, we're gonna fly away from here”