Song
closure
Evermore · 2020 · Track 14
Co-written
Written byTaylor Swift, Aaron Dessner
Produced byAaron Dessner, BJ Burton, James McAlister
Mash-ups & Live Pairings
- closure / A Perfectly Good Heart (Eras Tour, Zürich)
Wounds
Incidental
Blood & Violence
“It cut deep to know ya, right to the bone”
Knowing someone is written as an injury, and the depth is given in bone. The line concedes that the relationship reached her while refusing to treat that reach as a good thing.
Lore & Lyrics
Alcohol
Incidental
Food & Drink
“I'm fine with my spite and my tears and my beers and my candles”
Beers listed inside the speaker's inventory of self-soothing materials, alongside spite, tears, candles. The drink takes its place among the rituals of a coping that does not need anything from the addressee, and the list's compounding ("and...and...and...") makes the beer one of several adequate substitutes for what the relationship would have provided.
Lore & Lyrics