This is Each Time Taylor Swift Referenced Marriage in Her Music Lyrics

After practically twenty years of releasing love songs, Taylor Swift resides out her fairytale.

On Tuesday, Aug. 26, the “Merciless Summer time” singer and Travis Kelce, each 35, introduced their engagement in a joint put up on Instagram, which featured images of the couple in a floral-filled backyard.

“Your English instructor and your fitness center instructor are getting married 🧨,” Swift wrote within the caption. The singer additionally paired the put up together with her The Tortured Poets Division track “So Excessive College” — which she wrote about Kelce.

Swift’s love story with Kelce started in July 2023 when he attended her Eras Tour present and later revealed that he really tried — and failed — to fulfill Swift. Months later, they sparked relationship rumors when she made a shock look at his Kansas Metropolis Chiefs recreation in September 2023.

Nevertheless, lengthy earlier than Kelce got here into the image, Swift had been dreaming up good — and never so good — romances in her songs.

Beneath is a breakdown of all the instances Swift references marriage in her track lyrics. (And an honorary point out for the “I Wager You Suppose About Me Taylor’s Model)” music video, which takes place at a marriage.)

“Mary’s Music (Oh My My My)” (2006)

In the future, Swift will look again on the time she walked down the aisle, my my my!

On “Mary’s Music (Oh My My My),” which was featured on her debut album, Swift tells the story of a married couple — who met as youngsters — from begin to end.

“A couple of years had gone and are available round/We have been sitting at our favourite spot on the town/And also you checked out me, received down on one knee,” she sings. “Take me again to the time after we walked down the aisle/Our entire city got here and our mamas cried/You mentioned I do and I did too.”

“Take me residence the place we met so a few years earlier than/We’ll rock our infants on that very entrance porch/In any case this time, you and I,” she sings. “I will be eighty-seven; you may be eighty-nine/I will nonetheless have a look at you want the celebrities that shine/Within the sky, oh my my my.”

“Love Story” (2008)

It is a love story child she mentioned… sure!

In “Love Story,” which was featured on Fearless, Swift compares her like to Romeo & Juliet. Much like the Shakespearean play, Swift sings a couple of troubled romance — and this one ends with a wedding proposal. The track has turned a fan-favorite within the years that adopted.

“He knelt to the bottom and pulled out a hoop/And mentioned, ‘Marry me, Juliet/You will by no means should be alone/I really like you and that is all I actually know,” she sings. “I talked to your dad, go pick a white gown/It is a love story, child, simply say, ‘Sure.'”

“Fifteen” (2008)

Additionally featured on Fearless, Swift particulars the expertise of teenage heartbreak that she and her finest good friend Abigail went by way of on “Fifteen.”

“Again then I swore I used to be gonna marry him sometime/However I spotted some larger desires of mine,” she sings. “And Abigail gave the whole lot she had/To a boy who modified his thoughts/And we each cried.”

“Converse Now” (2010)

Swift just isn’t the sort of woman to rudely barge in on a white veil event. However, on “Converse Now,” she made an exception.

The 2010 monitor, which was featured on the album of the identical identify, Swift pleads together with her ex-boyfriend to stroll out on his marriage ceremony. “You want it was me, do not you?”

“Do not say sure, run away now/I will meet you while you’re out/Of the church, on the again door,” she sings within the refrain. “Do not wait or say a single vow/You have to hear me out/They usually mentioned, ‘Spеak Now.'”

“Starlight” (2012)

Ever because the singer-songwriter received engaged, followers have been “dancing, dancing… like we’re fabricated from starlight!”

On “Starlight,” which was featured on Purple, Swift sings concerning the teenage summer time romance of Ethel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.

“Ooh-ooh, he is speaking loopy/Ooh-ooh, dancing with me,” she sings. “Ooh-ooh, we might get married/Have ten youngsters and educate ’em easy methods to dream.”

“Lover” (2019)

Swift takes Kelce — or a “magnetic drive of a person” — to be her “Lover.”

The singer launched the romantic monitor, which was featured on the album of the identical identify, in 2019. Within the lyrics, Swift romanticizes the little issues in a relationship.

“Can I am going the place you go?/Can we at all times be this shut eternally and ever?” she sings. “And ah, take me out, and take me residence (eternally and ever)/You are my, my, my, my/Lover.”

“Girls and gents, will you please stand?/With each guitar string scar on my hand/I take this magnetic drive of a person to be my lover,” she provides. “My coronary heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue/All’s nicely that ends nicely to finish up with you/Swear to be overdramatic and true to my lover.”

“Paper Rings” (2019)

On “Paper Rings,” Swift would not take care of materialism — and she or he’d marry her man with a paper ring!

“I like shiny issues, however I would marry you with paper rings/Uh-huh, that is proper,” she sings. “Darling, you are the one I need, and/I hate accidents, besides after we went from mates to this/Uh-huh, that is proper/Darling, you are the one I need/In paper rings, in image frames, in soiled desires/Oh, you are the one I need.”

“Paper Rings” was featured on 2019’s Lover.

“Champagne Issues” (2020)

When writing about love and marriage, Swift hasn’t at all times taken the comfortable route — and that exhibits on her evermore monitor “Champagne Issues” a couple of rejected marriage proposal.

“Your mother’s ring in your pocket/My image in your pockets/Your coronary heart was glass, I dropped it/Champagne issues,” Swift sings.

Later within the track, she sings, “generally you simply do not know the reply.”

“‘Til somebody’s on their knees and asks you/’She would’ve made such a beautiful bride’/’What a disgrace she’s f—ed within the head,’ they mentioned/However you may discover the actual factor as a substitute/She’ll patch up your tapestry that I shred,” she provides.

“Invisible String” (2020)

On “Invisible String,” Swift sings concerning the historic philosophical idea that there’s an unbreakable connection between two folks which can be destined for each other.

“And is not it simply so fairly to suppose/All alongside there was some/Invisible string/Tying you to me?, she sings on the folklore monitor.

“A string that pulled me/Out of all of the fallacious arms proper into that dive bar/One thing wrapped all of my previous errors in barbed wire,” she sings. “Chains round my demons, wool to courageous the seasons/One single thread of gold tied me to you.”

“Lavender Haze” (2022)

On “Lavender Haze,” Swift exhibits distaste for society’s marriage expectations on girls.

“All they maintain asking me is that if I’m gonna be your bride/The one sort of woman they see is a one night time or a spouse,” she sings.

“Lavender Haze” was featured on Midnights.

“Midnight Rain” (2022)

Additionally a Midnights monitor, Swift’s stance on marriage stays on “Midnight Rain” because the particular person she’s with needs extra.

“He was sunshine, I used to be midnight rain/He wished it comfy, I wished that ache/He wished a bride, I used to be making my very own identify,” she sings. “Chasing that fame, he stayed the identical/All of me modified like midnight.”

“Excessive Infidelity” (2022)

On “Excessive Infidelity,” which was additionally on Midnights, Swift references marriage yet one more time.

“Storm coming, good husband/Unhealthy omen/Dragged my toes proper down the aisle,” she sings.

“You are Dropping Me” (2022)

On “You are Dropping Me,” Swift sings concerning the downfall of a relationship.

“I am one of the best factor at this get together/(You are losin’ me)/And I would not marry me both,” she sings. “A pathological folks pleaser/Who solely wished you to see her/And I am fadin’, thinkin.'”

“You are Dropping Me” was featured on Midnights (From the Vault).

“However Daddy, I Love Him” (2024)

“However Daddy, I Love Him,” which is on The Tortured Poets Division, exhibits Swift rebelling in opposition to these round her and going after the love that she needs.

“Now I am dancin’ in my gown within the solar and/Even my daddy simply loves him/I am his girl,” she sings, earlier than telling her haters they don’t seem to be invited to their nuptials.

“And, oh my God, you must see your faces/Time, would not it give some perspective?/And, no, you possibly can’t come to the marriage/I do know it is loopy, however he is the one I need,” she sings.

“So Excessive College” (2024)

Swift and Kelce’s romance is “So Excessive College.”

The candy track, which was featured on The Tortured Poets Division, begs questions concerning the future together with her love.

“And in a blink of a crinkling eye/I am sinking, our fingers entwined,” she sings. “Cheeks pink within the twinkling lights/Inform me ’bout the primary time you noticed me.”

“Are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me? (Kill me)/It is only a recreation, however actually (actually)/I am bettin’ on all three for us two (all three),” she provides.

“Loml” (2024)

Additionally a track on The Tortured Poets Division, Swift displays on the lack of an amazing love on “Loml.”

“If you recognize it in a single glimpse, it is legendary/You and I am going from one kiss to getting married,” she sings.

“You s—-talked me beneath the desk/Talkin’ rings and talkin’ cradles/I want I might un-recall/How we nearly had all of it,” she sings.

“The Tortured Poets Division” (2024)

The title monitor of Swift’s eleventh studio album explores a posh relationship with a “tortured” and inventive particular person.

“At dinner you are taking my ring off my center finger/And put it on the one folks put marriage ceremony rings on,” she sings.

“Contemporary Out the Slammer” (2024)

On “Contemporary Out the Slammer,” Swift wrote about feeling trapped in a relationship — and equates it to serving time in jail.

“To the home the place you continue to wait up and that porch mild gleams (Gleams)/To the one who says I am the woman of his American desires/And it doesn’t matter what I’ve accomplished, it would not matter anyway,” she sings.
“Ain’t no approach I am gonna screw up now that I do know what’s at stake right here/On the park the place we used to sit down on youngsters’s swings/Carrying imaginary rings.”

She provides, “But it surely’s gonna be alright, I did my time.”

“Imgonnagetyouback” (2024)

On “Imgonnagetyouback,” Swift is torn with the choice of getting again along with an ex.

“Whether or not I’m gonna be your spouse or/Gonna smash up your bike, I haven’t determined but,” she sings.

“Imgonnagetyouback” was featured on The Tortured Poets Division.