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Swiftionary:  Cars/Driving [A. Lyrics in Each Album]

 

I'm trying to analyze other songs, but in order to do that we need to get a consensus of what Taylor is trying to convey with driving, cars, and other vehicle references in her work.  Here is a list (best I could tell, let me know if I missed some) of the references.  And I ran a few stats about the frequency and average, etc...  We'll start to decipher meaning in subsequent posts.

 

‘Taylor Swift’(6 mentions, 5 songs)

  • Mary’s Song (Oh My My My): 2 AM riding in your truck, and all I need is you next to me
  • Our Song: I was riding shotgun with my hair undone in the front seat of his car
  • Picture To Burn: I hate that stupid old pickup truck you never let me drive
  • Teardrops On My Guitar: He’s the song in the car I keep singing, don’t know why I do
  • Teardrops On My Guitar: So I drive home alone, as I turn out the light
  • Tim McGraw: Just a boy in a Chevy truck that had a tendency of getting stuck on back roads at night

 

 

'Fearless’ (12 mentions, 8 songs)

  • The Best Day: And we drive and drive until we’ve found a town far enough away
  • The Best Day: I know I’m laughing on the car ride home with you
  • Breathe: I see your face in my mind as I drive away
  • Bye Bye Baby: I’m driving away and I guess you could say this is the last time I’ll drive this way again
  • Fearless: There’s a glow off the pavement, you walk me to the car
  • Fearless: I wanna stay right here in this passenger’s seat, you put your eyes on me
  • Fearless: We’re driving down the road, I wonder if you know
  • Fearless: So, baby, drive slow, 'til we run out of road
  • Fifteen: And then you’re on your very fist date and he’s got a car
  • The Other Side Of The Door: You carry me from your car up the stairs
  • The Way I Loved You: He opens up my door and I get into his car
  • You Belong With Me: Oh, I remember you driving to my house in the middle of the night

 

 

'Speak Now ’ (4 mentions, 3 songs)

  • Electric Touch: Just an hour ‘til your car’s in the driveway
  • Electric Touch: It’s 8:05 and I see two headlights
  • Never Grow Up: You’re in the car on the way to the movies and you’re mortified your mom is dropping you off
  • Superman: He puts papers in his briefcase and drives away

 

 

'Red’ (17 mentions, 9 songs)

  • All Too Well: We’re singing in the car, getting lost upstate
  • All Too Well (10 Minute Version): And you were tossing me the car keys
  • All Too Well (10 Minute Version): And I was thinking on the drive down, anytime now he’s gonna say it’s love
  • The Lucky One: Now it’s big black cars and Riviera views
  • Begin Again: And we walked down the block to my car and I almost brought him up
  • Come Back… Be Here: Taxi cabs and busy streets that never bring you back to me
  • Girl At Home: Call a cab, lose my number
  • Red: Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street
  • Ronan: Race cars on the kitchen floor, plastic dinosaurs
  • Ronan: I remember the drive home, when the blind hope turned to crying and screaming, “Why?”
  • Run: Give me the keys, I’ll bring the car back around
  • Run: And my so-called friends, they don’t know I’d drive away before I let you go
  • Treacherous: Two headlights shine through the sleepless night and I will get you, I’ll get you alone
  • Treacherous: That nothing safe is worth the drive and I would follow you, follow you home
  • The Very First Night: They weren’t riding in the car when we both fell
  • The Very First Night: I was riding in the car when we both fell
  • The Very First Night: I drive down different roads but they all lead back to you

 

 

'1989’ (9 mentions, 6 songs)

  • All You Had To Do Was Stay: All I know is that you drove us off the road
  • I Wish You Would: It’s 2 AM in your car, windows down, you pass my street, the memories start
  • I Wish You Would: It’s 2 AM in my room, headlights pass the window pane, I think of you
  • I Wish You Would: You say it’s in the past, you drive straight ahead
  • Say Don’t Go: I’m standing on the sidewalk alone, I wait for you to drive by
  • Style: Midnight, you come and pick me up, no headlights
  • Style: Long drive, could end in burning flames or paradise
  • Wildest Dreams: He said, “Let’s get out of this town, drive out of the city, away from the crowds”
  • You Are In Love: Small talk, he drives, coffee at midnight

 

 

'reputation’ (8 mentions, 3 songs)

  • Getaway Car: No, nothing good starts in a getaway car
  • Getaway Car: You were driving the getaway car, we were flying but we’d never get far
  • Getaway Car: We’re riding in a getaway car, there were sirens in the beat of your heart
  • Getaway Car: Think about the place where you first met me, in a getaway car
  • Getaway Car: I’m in a getaway car, I left you in the motel bar
  • Getaway Car: I was riding in a getaway car, I was crying in a getaway car, I was dying in a getaway car, said goodbye in a getaway car
  • King Of My Heart: 'Cause all the boys and their expensive cars, with their Range Rovers and their Jaguars
  • New Year’s Day: You squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi

 

 

'Lover’ (7 mentions, 5 songs)

  • Cornelia Street: “I rent a place on Cornelia Street,” I say casually in the car
  • Cornelia Street: We were in the back seat, drunk on something stronger than the drinks in the bar
  • Cruel Summer: I’m drunk in the back of the car and I cried like a baby coming home from the bar
  • Cruel Summer: So cut the headlights, summer’s a knife
  • I Think He Knows: We could follow the sparks, I’ll drive
  • London Boy: Show me a gray sky, a rainy cab ride
  • Paper Rings: I want to drive away with you

 

 

'folklore’ (8 mentions, 7 songs)

  • The 1: I thought I saw you at the bus stop, I didn’t, though
  • August: Remember when I pulled up and said, “Get in the car
  • Betty: Standing in your cardigan, kissing in my car again
  • Betty: She said, “James, get in, let’s drive
  • Cardigan: To kiss in cars and downtown bars was all we needed
  • Invisible String: Bad was the blood of the song in the cab on your first trip to L.A.
  • Mad Woman: What do you sing on your drive home?
  • This Is Me Trying: Pulled the car off the road to the lookout

 

 

'evermore’ (6 mentions, 5 songs)

  • Champagne Problems: You Midas touch on the Chevy door
  • Cowboy Like Me: You’re a cowboy like me, never wanted love, just a fancy car
  • Marjorie: And I complained the whole way there, the car ride back, and up the stairs
  • No Body, No Crime: And I noticed when I passed his house his truck has got some brand new tires
  • ‘Tis The Damn Season: I parked my car right between the Methodist and the school that used to be ours
  • ‘Tis The Damn Season: Time flies, messy as the mud on your truck tires

 

 

'Midnights’ (5 mentions, 3 songs)

  • Hits Different: Like waiting for a bus that never shows, you just start walking on
  • Hits Different: I slur your name ‘til someone puts me in a car
  • Vigilante Shit: And she looks so pretty driving in your Benz, lately she’s been dressing for revenge
  • Vigilante Shit: And she looks so pretty driving in your Benz
  • You’re On Your Own, Kid: From sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes, I called a taxi to take me there

 

 

'TTPD' (7 mention, 6 songs)

  • The Bolter:  But it always ends up with a Town Car speeding/Out the drive one evening/Ended with the slam of a door/Then he'll call her a whore
  • But Daddy, I Love Him:  Just screeching tires and true love
  • But Daddy, I Love Him:  I'm telling him to floor it through the fences
  • Florida:  And this city reeks of driving myself crazy
  • Imgonnagetyouback:  I'm an Aston Martin/That you steered straight into the ditch
  • The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived:  You crashed my party/ in your rental car
  • So High School:  Get my car door, isn't that sweet? (That sweet)/Then pull me to the backseat

 

 

Other Songs written by Taylor (1 mention/song)

  • I Don’t Wanna Live Forever: Now I’m in a cab, I tell him where your place is

 

BIG THANKS TO:

From <https://taylorswiftandx.tumblr.com/post/177083553710/taylor-swift-and-cars>

 

Total mentions = 90

Total songs = 61

Most referenced = Red 17/9

Least referenced = Speak Now 4/3

Avg mentions per album across catalog = 90/11 = 8.1818