Song
The Great War
Midnights · 2022 · Track 14
Quill · Sole author
Written byTaylor Swift, Aaron Dessner
Produced byTaylor Swift, Aaron Dessner
Also known as: TGW
Mash-ups & Live Pairings
- The Great War — Liverpool, Night 2, Death by a Thousand Cuts / The Great War — Indianapolis, Night 3
Motifs & symbols
Crypt
Structural
Death & Mortality
“And maybe it's the past that's talking, screaming from the crypt”
The past erupts from its burial place — the crypt as both literal gothic image and metaphor for repressed history that refuses silence. The scream from the crypt is the return of the repressed, the relationship's unresolved aftermath breaking through the sealed stone.
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