ttpd parallels

 

ttpd parallels <3

my boy only breaks his favorite toys: "puzzle pieces in the dead of the night" --> the jar of puzzle pieces at the spotify library

"that with all the kens" --> hits different: "i'd used to switch out these kens i'd just ghoooost"

clara bow: "beauty is a beast that roars down on all fours" --> the spotify library had a beauty and the beast rose in it

guilty as sin?: "my bedsheets are ablaze" --> wildest dreams visual at the eras tour

the alchemy: "where's the trophy? he just comes runnin over to me" --> TRAVISSSSS

the smallest man who ever lived: "and i'll forget you, but i'll never forgive" --> bad blood: "you forgive, you forget, but u never let it go!"

loml: "a calm man sells a fool a get-love-quick scheme" --> the poem "why she dissapeared" from rep: "charmers, dandies and get-love-quick schemes"

fortnight: "i was supposed to be sent away but they forgot to come and get me" --> hits different: "or have they come to take me away?"

guilty as sin?: "drowning in the blue nile" --> apparently the blue nile is a band that ratty healy loves and its his fave band of all time.

so long, london: "and i'm just getting color back into my face" --> hits different: "my face was gray but u wouldn't admit that we were sick"

down bad: "how dare u think its romantic leaving me safe and stranded" --> new romantics: "please leave me stranded its so romaaantic"

down bad: "i'll build u a fort on some planet" --> call it what u want: "making forts under covers"

so long, london: "i stopped trying to make him laugh" --> mirrorball: "trying everything to keep u laughing at me"

florida!!! ft flornece and the machine: "the hurricane with my name when it came, i got drunk and i dared it to wash me away" --> reference to the hurricane florence that happened six years ago

the tortured poets department: "ur not dylan thomas, i'm not patti smith. this aint the chelsea hotel, we're modern idiots" --> (not my words right here): The Chelsea Hotel is a luxury hotel in Manhattan, New York Both Dylan Thomas and Patti Smith were frequents of the hotel. Dylan Thomas, a renowned poet known entered a coma during his stay at the building. Twelve years after his death, Patti Smith, “punk poet laureate”, would reside at the same hotel. Taylor is being self-deprecating in saying that she and her lover are “not” Dylan Thomas or Patti Smith. They are not the greatest modern poets of all time. Their romance, unlike the Chelsea Hotel, is not legendary. Through this verse, Taylor refines her relationship as childish, no more than two individuals being “modern idiots”.