Song
epiphany
Folklore · 2020 · Track 13
Quill · Co-written
Written byTaylor Swift, Aaron Dessner
Produced byAaron Dessner
Mash-ups & Live Pairings
- mirrorball / epiphany (Eras Tour, Singapore)
Grief
Emotional states
Grief on a collective and historical scale, the song moves between a grandfather's experience at Guadalcanal and frontline medical workers during COVID. Grief as something structural and ongoing rather than personal: the poem asks how much loss a person can absorb before they break.
Community comment
Hands
Incidental
Identity & Self
“Hold your hand through plastic now”
Personal