Taylor Swift could also be shedding extra mild on her cut up from Joe Alwyn earlier this yr.
In a newly launched vault observe known as “You are Shedding Me,” Swift, 33, sings about feeling sick as a relationship crumbles in entrance of her eyes.
Likening herself to a “phoenix at all times rising from the ashes, mending all her gashes,” she questions whether or not to remain and attempt to mend the connection or surrender on it.
After the refrain, she sings “my ache is such an imposition” as she continues to allude to a failing relationship.

Within the wake of the discharge — off of Midnights (Til Daybreak Version) — followers scrambled to attract that means from the melancholy lyrics, significantly in mild of Swift’s cut up from the actor, 32, after greater than six years of courting. An insider beforehand instructed PEOPLE that the breakup resulted from “variations of their personalities” that led them to understand they “weren’t the proper match.”
Many followers in contrast the somber lyrics to these of a few of Swift’s most romantic songs, the place she’d sing about being in love — and she or he was, on the time, with Alwyn.
One lyric specifically from the track’s bridge stood out to followers. The query of whether or not Swift and Alwyn had wed over the course of their relationship had been a serious supply of hypothesis, and within the bridge, Swift sings, “I am the very best factor at this get together (You are shedding me) / And I would not marry me both.”
After admitting she would not marry herself within the track, Swift goes on to explain herself as “a pathological individuals pleaser” as she remembers begging her companion to “‘Do one thing, babe, say one thing,'” as their relationship flounders.
Although many followers are speculating in regards to the root of “You are Shedding Me,” Swift has moved on within the months since her cut up from Alwyn.
She’s been linked to fellow musician Matty Healy of The 1975 in latest weeks, and the pair had been most lately noticed sharing a kiss throughout an evening out in New York Metropolis on Wednesday.
Healy, 34, has additionally been in attendance at a number of of Swift’s latest stops on The Eras Tour and has been supporting her from the gang. He is even taken the stage himself a number of occasions to carry out alongside Phoebe Bridgers, his shut pal and one among Swift’s opening acts.
Regardless of her latest relationship modifications, the singer-songwriter instructed the viewers eventually week’s Foxborough, Massachusetts present that she’s “by no means been this glad.”
She additionally launched newer variations of two of the album’s authentic songs, “Karma” and “Snow on the Seashore.” In “Karma,” rapper Ice Spice joined Swift, whereas on “Snow on the Seashore” she expanded Lana Del Rey’s function, which appeared on the unique model of the album. “You requested for it, we listened: Lana and I went again into the studio particularly to document extra Lana on ‘Snow on the Seashore,'” Swift wrote on Instagram as she introduced the brand new launch.