▲ 4 r/TaylorSwift
What if “You’re on your own kid” used an impersonal or generic “you” instead of the personal “I”?
Just a thought exercise. What if it went “Summer went away, still the yearning stays, YOU play it cool with the best of them, YOU wait patiently….” and so on…The first time when I heard the song, I thought she was saying it (YOYOL) TO the person she was talking about, instead of herself lol! Would an impersonal “you” work better than the personal “I” here for coherence? No hate, YOYOK is in my top 5 of all time.
u/morticia_is_might — 4 days ago