Song
Labyrinth
Midnights · 2022 · Track 10
Co-written
Written byTaylor Swift, Jack Antonoff
Produced byTaylor Swift, Jack Antonoff
Mash-ups & Live Pairings
- this is me trying / Labyrinth (Eras Tour, Gelsenkirchen)
- State of Grace / Labyrinth (Eras Tour, Toronto)
Redemption
Incidental
Identity & Self
A catalogue observation marking the Redemption theme in this song. The full reading will follow when Labyrinth is the discussion's seed song.
Personal
Smile
Incidental
Identity & Self
“You would break your back to make me break a smile”
Personal
cyclical dread voiced in vocables
“Uh-oh, I'm fallin' in love Oh no, I'm fallin' in love again”
A community reading links the song's wordless uh-ohs, at the opening and the ends of choruses, to Labyrinth's "Uh-oh, I'm fallin' in love / Oh no, I'm fallin' in love again": the same dread vocable at opposite ends of the cycle. One song braces as it all starts again, the other as it ends again, and in neither does the speaker expect it to go the way she hoped.
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