When she says "believe me I could do it" it sounds so painful, to me with that phrase she's trying to convince herself that she can leave, more than trying to convince him, but deep down she knows she won't leave.

i broke up with my boyfriend bc i heard this song and started realizing i deserve better thank u miss taylor swift

"Gain the weight of you then lose it" the meaning of those lyrics are so deep. "Gain" like it's a win, but in the other hand, it's a weight, a love heavy to carry. Evermore is sooo well-crafted, and this song is lyrically a masterpiece. One of my favorites with cowboy like me or ivy

What's painful about this song is that the characters tolerate each other differently. One tolerates the efforts, and one tolerates their one-sided relationship.

Normal people: I made you my priority and you're just making me an option Taylor: "I made you my temple, my mural, my sky. Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life"

This song sounds like a cycle of a woman's mind, she starts out feeling sad, because her love is only tolerated. She knows all too well that if she leaves, their relationship will be in ruins, but if she stays, she will be in ruins. Then she gets brave enough to say, 'I'm leaving, goodbye.' But ultimately at the end of the day, she can't do it. She goes back to sitting and watching him, hoping one day, he will realize how much she loves him. She does not want to give up just yet.

This is one of the best songs in her entire discography, honestly. It has her classic storytelling chops that make you visualize everything she's singing about perfectly, and yet it also has such a unique sound.

i think the most heartbreaking lyrics in this song is “if it’s all in my head tell me now, tell me i’ve got it wrong somehow” because she prefers to losing her mind than being right. she doesn’t want to blame him so she blames herself.

“I know my love should be celebrated, but you tolerate it” DAMN THAT IS DEEP

Us not over folklore yet. Taylor Swift: Here's evermore. tolerate it

Its March 2024, let's see how many legends are listening to this incredible song💖

I just can’t stop thinking about that repeat lyric at the end. The first lyric “I sit and watch you reading with your head low” you can just picture that. Then she goes on to describe all the things that have been tolerated by him and her confronting it. Then it brings you back to “I sit and watch you” realising she was just thinking about her hurt and imagining the confrontation. Ive never seen story telling quite like it. This song is a masterpiece

"Now I'm begging for footnotes on the story of your life." 🥺 If that doesn't make you feel even the smallest bit of sadness I-

As someone who hasn’t ever been in a relationship, it pains me to relate to this song.

I take "use my best colours for your portrait" as she makes him out to be the best she can to others the way we lie to our friends so they don't hate the person we've convinced ourselves that we love.

folklore and evermore albums have really made me appreciate taylor's songwriting so much more. i truly became a fan because of these albums. I wouldn't be mad if she made another one with these vibes/lyrics.

The saddest thing about this song has to be the last phrase. Because we realize that all these things the narrator is saying,all these thoughts,all these stuff she's saying she could do,she didn't...She just sat there looking at the other person. That is heartbreaking to me,cause in the end,she couldn't do it and she stayed in this horrible relationship. This song shows pretty real life relationships. It's incredibly sad but...really touching.

This song is for all the housewives of artists, poets, musicians, geniuses... wives that will never be remembered in history, that contributed to their husband success by sacrificing their life for them in exchange of nothing..."now I am begging for footnotes in the story of your life"

This song is painful. I was married 13 years to my high school sweetheart and I remember listening to this song the first time and it was the "theme" song to my life. Begging for attention, time, acknowledgment. Being so excited to see and spend time with him and head over heels in love after all those years regardless of how he treated me and knowing it wasnt the same for him. That he was tolerating me. I felt like I was planning and looking forward to our future while everything he planned was just him. From what he did in his free time to future plans. 13 years down the drain. He cheated, moved out, married the woman he cheated on me with, moved 12 hours away, and sees our 13 year old son a few times a year. Even though I am happier now than I have ever been, this song brings up so many emotions and bad memories. I will never let another person make me feel that way again.

Evermore and folkore don't get the appreciation they deserve. They are her best albums. End of the story.

“Take this dagger in me and remove it”- you just did that to me, Taylor. This song is pure and utter genius.

'I made you my temple, my mural, my sky. Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life' When you make someone your whole world but to them you are almost non-existent. May no one experience such tragedy😔

Maturing is realizing that some friendships can feel like this song. You give all but end up walking behind them trying to fit in and listening to their conversations

The fact that the song begins and ends with the words "I sit and watch you" shows how the narrator is contemplating the relationship, while actually breaking free is painfully real.

She really had the AUDACITY to bless us twice in the same year. We really don’t deserve this Taylor.

ILLICIT AFFAIRS AND TOLERATE IT IS A WHOLE DAMN STORY

This song has made me realise that you should NEVER settle for anything less in love. You give all because you love someone in the way that you should expect everything from someone who claims that they love you.

The lyrics go on as a loop, that's very phenomenal from her to do. Sometimes you recognize that your love is being taken for granted or you are treated like shit in the relationship, but you can't break free and end it because you have nowhere else to go to. She is just so aware of her situation but at the end, she chooses to stay.

Taylor swift is not singing a song, she is singing poetry...PERIODT!!

how did taylor swift come up with “you assume i’m fine but what would you do if I break free and leave us in ruins? took this dagger in my and removed it? gain the weight of you then lose it? believe me I could do it” like WHO WRITES THAT

As an adopted child who has lost her birth parents by abandonment and adoptive parents due to their abusive problems, this really hit me. Always felt like I took too much space and time. No matter how beautiful portrait I drew of them to others it didn't matter. I gained the weight of them and lost it. I feel unwanted and just tolerated in so many ways. 💔

Underrated. I loved this song for years. Just left a 4 year relationship with the man I wanted as a soulmate but he was on a path I couldn't follow. So I'm alone sobbing listening to this song now with a whole new meaning

Why is nobody talking about the bridge in this song? Gives me chills every time. 🥺

"Took this dagger in me and removed it, gain the weight of you, then lose it." I'm speechless. These are some of the most beautiful lyrics I have ever heard.

“I know my love should be celebrated, but you tolerate it.” Hits hard ❤

"if it's all in my head tell me now" She's begging him to gaslight her, he doesn't even care enough to gaslight her.

I think this is one of the best songs she’s ever written...I’ve been a fan since Tim McGraw, and I am SO moved.

HOLY TRINITY OF THE ALBUM: CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS, TOLERATE IT, AND HAPPINESS

While this song may be fictional, I think it hits very different now that "You're Losing Me" has come out. I feel like this song has become even sadder now.

Those who say this women isn’t a true artist need to listen to her songs. Not just the ones on the radio, but these songs. The lyrics hit so hard all of lyrics do.

the way she starts the song with ''i sit and watch u'' and ends it with ''i sit and watch u'' shows how this song represents the thoughts of the narrator and what she wished she could do

This song sounds like what hurt feels like. No one translates an emotion into a song better than Taylor Swift

This is how being with someone with a dismissive avoidant attachment will lead you to feeling; in the beginning they’re crazy about you but a year later you feel tolerated even after you’ve made every effort and loved them, they resent you for your needs. You overexert yourself emotionally, carry all of the emotional weight of conflict management, give them your best, and they just sit there stonewalling. Played this song while taking a bath at his home knowing we would be broken up soon. There’s something hauntingly beautiful about that; the person in the next room over and they have not the slightest grasp of the pain they’re inflicting with their walls up. 💔

I cannot afford to listen to this song that much because it perfectly describes the relationship of my parents and I just sit and watch them but I admit that its genius lyricism and captivating storytelling made it deserving to be placed up there the pedestal of Taylor’s repertoire.

Taylor's ability to write such a melancholic song while she's totally in love with someone is really appreciating. Like she gets inspired and writes masterpieces. Amazing queen.

This song feels like the inner thoughts of a woman who subtly wants to end her unhealthy relationship with a guy who treats her like shit, but she kinda knows that she's too weak to actually break up with him. That's why the last phrase is "I sit and watch you" because no matter how much she wants to end it, she can never bring herself to actually do it, so she just ends up tolerating it. edit: I know that the song is pretty clear with its lyrics that it is the guy tolerating the girl, I was just kinda playing with my words 😅 like maybe, they're both tolerating each other. The guy tolerates her love, while the girl tolerates the guy who is tolerating her love. And to all the people in the comment section saying that they're going through this exact same situation, I hope you all find the courage and strength to leave and free yourselves from these toxic and unhealthy relationships. I know its hard and it takes time, but I know you will all get there soon. And to the people who've gone through this situation, I hope you all heal from these toxic relationships. One day, you will all find someone who will not anymore tolerate your love, but someone who is wholeheartedly willing to celebrate your love. ❤️

This song became therapy for me. I stayed in a relationship for way too long..... not that it was horribly bad, but more that it had become nothing. I finally had the courage to move on, and found in that time, I do have something to offer someone. That my love and time could be cherished by someone. It took me a long time to be able to sing that bridge without breaking down into tears because it hit so hard that I had done exactly what she sang.....I broke free and left us in ruins, took the dagger in me and removed, had gained the weight of him then lost it, I DID THAT. In return, I have gained a love, acceptance, someone who does cherish me and who will listen when we're having a conversation. I related so much to this woman in this song and would encourage anyone, who is feeling the way this woman is in their own relationship, to get up and move on. It will be difficult but the reward is amazing.

The heart of a poet of distinction who uses her singing voice to deliver messages of profound significance.

This reminds me of an emotionally abusive relationship where you're meant to feel grateful that the other person lets you exist with them.

I know this song is about a woman and her husband...but I feel like it applies to everyone who loves, who loves so deeply and greatly, who love with everything they have, who give everything they have to those who they love yet watch as they receive nothing in return. It’s about the battle in our minds, the battle of wether or not we’re making it up and it’s all inside our heads or if it really is real. But we still continue to give our all, not because we’re to stubborn to belive that it’s real but because we hope one day that one person will come and celebrate our love....

Literally I have never seen a musical artist this creative and dedicated to their craft. She is truly the music industry and deserves every bit of her success.

It’s not Taylor Swift that deserves a Grammy, it’s a grammy that deserves Taylor Swift .

This may be one the the best songs Taylor has ever written... and that’s saying something as she’s a prolific songwriter as it is. This song is so beautifully haunting. The lyrics in the bridge are just incredible

I just bought Evermore last week. I am blown away by this song. It is GORGEOUS and SAD and everything else. Just WOW!

How devastating, yet how precisely and beautifully Taylor captures this emotion, the complete heartache all the way around. Something that should be too painful to say aloud and not break apart; she sails into and directs us to every teardrop.

Nobody should ever have to endure a relationship where they are tolerated.

Unpopular opinion: this is the best song in the album

I just really can’t understand how there’s someone on this earth talented enough to write these lyrics. This is her best song by far. 🤯

This is the opposite of “Sweet Nothing”. A true revolution of her maturity, and type of love. 🥺❤️

can taylor publish a poetry collection please

Normal People: "I want you to remember me." Taylor Swift: "Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life."

This hurts me most from a friendship perspective. Giving everything and just being tolerated instead of loved back. One of Taylor’s best in my opinion ❤

Never have I ever been in a situation described in a song, but it conveys the feeling and the emotional damage so perfectly that I'm sitting here and crying. That's what I call genius songwriting.

bold of her to assume i'm mentally stable enough to listen to this

Invisible String: "Something wrapped all of my past mistakes in barbed wire." Tolerate It: "Where's that man who'd throw blankets over my barbed wire?"

The fact that the melodies of "watch you tolerate it" and "at least im trying" from TIMT keeps me awake

this song hits different when you relate it to your relationship with your dad

After 5 years I finally broke free and left us in ruins. I removed the dagger and I lost the weight of him. Thank you Taylor.

Track 5 squad Taylor Swift - Cold As You Fearless - White Horse Speak Now - Dear John Red - All Too Well 1989 - All You Had To Do Was Stay reputation - Delicate Lover - The Archer folklore - my tears ricochet evermore - tolerate it

the way that she repeats "it" throughout the lyrics is so smart. noticing now just how demeaning/demoralising that word can be. it's what we use when your grasping at straws for words to describe bad juju that you know is happening, but "it" is all you have energy and mindspace for.

From her point of view, she adored him. She wooed him, worshipped him, and catered to him. Why was it not enough for him? Maybe because he enjoyed the attention, but cannot offer her the same with the same passion, understanding, and admiration. He just "doesn't have it in him to give" even though she wished he sees what she believes is there. Too bad she put him up on the pedestal and he turned out not to be THAT MAN she deserves. Pretty faces and fine bodies, are not always life-partner material. Who will be there when you are weak and fallen? The one who you know will be there, when things are at its worst and leans in to hold you up, that is that guy.

"I once believed love was burning red but it's golden" "you showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else." "use my best color for your portrait"

"now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life" THIS IS POETRY

The very last part always leaves me with chills. This song, like all the others is beautiful in every way.

This is my song. When I need a cry, when I feel hurt, when I feel ok. My 24/7 song, I absolutely adore it sm.

Congrats for being chosen as THE TRACK 5 in Taylor Swift’s discography

taylor miss girl i have a test tomorrow and i won’t be able to think

when people ask why i am so passionate about her music, it's the first time i've felt seen. I can relate to the music, the melodies, the bridges. I feel less alone. Her music has helped heal me.

My father is a successful person in music. He tolerates everything my mother does. She does everything just to please him. She neglected everyone... even herself. just to beg him for footnotes in the story of his life. But now I’m glad she took this dagger in her and removed it, and recognized her worth. she doesn’t just sit and watch him. So yea this song hits so deep.

The tone of her voice when she says “tolerate it”, I-

“Gain the weight of you and then lose it, believe me, I could do it.” There is a power in letting go.

i will never understand how people can hate on evermore so much its one of the best albums taylor has written ever and it cuts so much deeper than folklore. i will forever protect evermore with my whole heart

This has to be my favourite song on evermore!

No one: Taylor: hey guys, I'm gonna release two albums this year!

at the end, when she sings "I sit and watch you" and you realize she tolerates being tolerated while she wishes to be celebrated.

This is my comfort song.I feel safe and understood whenever I listen to it

*_“now i’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life”_*_ This line right here holds tremendous emotional damage 😭_

This song hurts to relate specially if you were in a relationship with a person who was falling out of love with you.

The writing is exquisite . Taylor’s songwriting is at its peak right now . I want her to write a novel I reckon the prose would be so lyrical and stunning .

"Gain the weight of you and then lose it Believe me, I could do it" I love this lyric!

rip tolerate it, you will not be forgotten (even if taylor cut you from the setlist) March 17, 2023 - May 9, 2024🙏🏼😔

💬 | “When I was reading Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and I was thinking, ‘Wow, her husband just tolerates her. She’s doing all these things and she’s trying so hard and she’s trying to impress him. He’s just tolerating her the whole time.’” - Taylor on writing.

loving someone with your whole heart while they just tolerate you is a whole different kind of hurt

Anyone who accuses Taylor of writing simple immature pop stuff for the masses (ahem Rick Beato) really needs to listen to this, and the whole album. Really think this song is worthy of anything alongside Joni Mitchell or James Taylor. Powerful lyrics, and a really interesting time signature. Also reminds me a little of Where I Stood by Missy Higgins.

the way she is still able to bring out that heartbreaking angst through her lyrics is astronomical!

for someone who hasnt listened to this song yet, here's a summary: listen to this when you cry...to cry more

I STRESSED BECAUSE I CANT LISTEN TO ALL OF THE SONGS SHES RELEASING AT ONCE, don’t worry I’ll make it work.

One of her best songs hands down.

this song really speaks about my mental illness i do think any person who sits beside me just tolerate me.. tolerate everything i say..i have anxiety and it hard to say whatever i feel . I have lost myself once..thinking no one even wants to see me... i know the feeling when people lose their interest in you.but this woman taylor she saved me from her music. i really am grateful to have her in my life.

Future Literature classes will be Taylor's music and I bet