The title track of Taylor Swift’s album evermore starts slow and shaky, but with the voice of Bon Iver, the song picks up speed and changes tone. While some things end, we can still hope the person, opportunity, or whatever it was will come back, and we can always wait for it. Swift sings, “I close my eyes but she’s still there/ I let her steal into my melancholy heart/… Waiting by an open door/ I’ll fool myself, she’ll walk right in/ And be with me for evermore”. Swift here knows that even if she is gone, she can still wait for her again, no matter the pain it will cause. What may have been may be painful, but Swift is “Waiting here for evermore.” Perhaps the most powerful and moving song on the album, ‘evermore’ is a tribute to perseverance and love that knows no time or boundary as people wait “evermore” for their loved ones in the great beyond or in the here and now even if we know they are never coming back. This is a song of hope that we can all be reunited again in one place or another.
The title track of Taylor Swift’s album evermore starts slow and shaky, but with the voice of Bon Iver, the song picks up speed and changes tone. While some things end, we can still hope the person, opportunity, or whatever it was will come back, and we can always wait for it. Swift sings, “I close my eyes but she’s still there/ I let her steal into my melancholy heart/… Waiting by an open door/ I’ll fool myself, she’ll walk right in/ And be with me for evermore”. Swift here knows that even if she is gone, she can still wait for her again, no matter the pain it will cause. What may have been may be painful, but Swift is “Waiting here for evermore.” Perhaps the most powerful and moving song on the album, ‘evermore’ is a tribute to perseverance and love that knows no time or boundary as people wait “evermore” for their loved ones in the great beyond or in the here and now even if we know they are never coming back. This is a song of hope that we can all be reunited again in one place or another.