Songs About Joe Alwyn on Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' Explored

Taylor Swift released her highly anticipated The Tortured Poets Department recently, and fans couldn't help but unpack all of her metaphors and lyrics to determine which were for whom.

Swift is known to write her own personal mythology in her songs, which makes unfurling her songs an interesting avenue to get to know her.

Among the biggest things that Swifties are waiting to do is decipher which songs are dedicated to her ex-boyfriend, Joe Alwyn.

Taylor Swift Songs About Joe Alwyn on 'The Tortured Poets Department'

Perhaps the most notable song about Alwyn on the album is "So Long, London." Avid Swifties know that the Kent native has been referred to in Swift's songs as either "London" or "London Boy."

The track is seemingly a callback on Swift's Lover song "London Boy" which talks about an American woman's infatuation for a "London boy" -- which has been widely inferred as Alwyn in Swift's case.

On "So Long, London," Swift lyrically mourned as she bid goodbye to "London" in a heartbreaking recollection of their last moments together.

"I left all I knew you left me at the house by the Heath, I stopped CPR, after all it's no use, The spirit was gone, we would never come to," Swift sang. "For so long, London, Stitches undone, Two graves, one gun, I'll find someone."

In "loml," Swift finally confronts the engagement rumors that have since plagued her relationship with Alwyn. In the song, she seemed to reveal that they never got past thinking of their possible future together.

"I felt a glow like this, never before and never since. If you know it in one glimpse it's legendary. You and I go from one kiss to getting married. Still alive, killing time at the cemetery. Never quite buried," she sang in one of the verses.

While everyone thought that Swift had shown a brave face when she was selling out arenas and stadiums on The Eras Tour, she recounts a depressing story in "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart."

The heartwrenching lyrics proved that Swift had actually shown up while mending her broken heart.

"Lights, camera bitch smile / even when you want to die," Swift sang. "All the pieces of me shattered as the crowd was chanting, 'More!'"

On the title track of The Tortured Poets Department, Swift grazed again on the engagement and marriage rumors, gaslighting herself into thinking that no one else is better suited for them but themselves.

"At dinner you take my ring off my middle finger and put it on the one people put wedding rings on / And it's the closest I've come to my heart exploding," Swift crooned.

Stream Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department below.

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Taylor Swift, Joe Alwyn