Taylor Swift - The Manuscript (Official Lyric Video)

Watch the official lyric video for “The Manuscript” by Taylor Swift, from ’THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY’’

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[AmaraFranklin]

I love how this circles back to All Too Well and the short film. She’s closing the door on TTPD and all the painful relationships from the past and giving the songs to us to fit into our own stories. It’s beautiful.

[jugodenaranja]

"the story isn't mine anymore" is such a beautiful sentence in this context 🤍 it must actually feel so weird to process trauma through art that is shared into the world

[marigoldgreen]

That line about only eating kids cereal and sleeping in her mom’s bed after being groomed by a thirty year old makes me cry every time. Just something about that imagery breaks my heart

[yukits]

"Looking backwards might be the only way to move forward"
What a hauntingly beautiful lyrics..

[blantontn]

This second half of TTPD is like a long-lost older sister of Folklore and Evermore who had been wandering in the forest, came back, and became a chairman of TTPD to share her stories. Manuscript is SO beautiful. It's like the end of a play. Thank you, Taylor

[Gyllecsai]

She basically said 'The story of us' isn't 'mine' (hers) anymore and gave us her albums as a collection of fates of her past relationships, she's handed us the manuscript to show our pain isn't as rare as we'd think, we can find comfort in them and fellow folks who are feeling the same.

Thank You Taylor.

[reptvismythreason]

The best thing about Taylor is that she just doesn't write songs but she writes stories! I love it when songwriters tell a story on the song! Long live, The Tortured Poets Department!

[zacuzzi]

From "one last souvenir from my trip to your shores" to long story short's "and my waves meet your shore ever and evermore" makes me think of her last reflection into the roller coast of the relationship before concluding that she's leaving the relationship bubble.

[mjgmagic]

This is the one. This piano moment captures her vulnerability like I have never heard before.

[skyebaye]

Not only is the song beautiful, this is one of the best lyric videos I've seen

[alexavierz]

i'm crying so hard, this is definitely the best outro song she had ever wrote.It's so sad but comforted at the same time, it's like you finally make peace with all your tortured and broken past and look forward.🥺

[ktarleneKatieBaumgardner]

That whole last part reminds me of the Eras Tour - she's watching her band and dancers perform, she's watching her fans crying, singing, screaming, applauding, and somewhere through that experience she's healing. She found out what all that agony was for.

[_Rose]

To me, this song describes how and why she wrote All Too Well; hints to the other person being an actor 'you're a professional' and him being older 'then she dated boys her own age', created the music video 'the actors were hitting their marks' and shared the story with the world 'the story isn't mine anymore'.

[trulyichika]

"and the tears fell in synchronicity with the score, and at last she knew what the agony had been for" just...beautiful

[ahmedhamdani]

“Now and then I re read the manuscript but the story isn’t mine anymore. “ 😭😢 so powerful lyric and iconic

[sophiaisabelle]

The Manuscript is a lingering promise that holds tighter with each passing second. The layers to this track signifies just how much Taylor is willing to lay out everything on the table and say that she's still got the upper-hand in any situation she's placed herself in.

[nerdygal]

“And at last, she knew what the agony had been for”

There’s something about this song, the piano, the reflection, the bittersweet remembering, how much it truly feels like a poem in a journal, all of it has me weeping. TTPD + The Anthology really struck a cord with something deep in my soul, in ways I’m still trying to put into words. I’ve been struggling the last several months and this album has exquisitely captured and conveyed all the feelings of anger, grief, melancholy, and detachment I’ve been feeling. Listening to it feels surreal.

[MinnzPiano]

thank you chairman taylor 😭😭😭
love, fans of the tortured poets department

[darthmelsie]

I didn't know how badly I needed this album until this morning. It feels like every corner of my trauma, from the resolved, unresolved, and still yet to be discovered, has been given the gentlest hug that I could ever want it to receive.

[mardzipanpan]

"The Manuscript" has thirteen letters in it. And this is how she chooses to end the album. Insane.