Taylor's "Beautiful Ghosts" Lyrics Will Make You So Emotional, So Get Your Tissues
If you're counting down the days until Cats is released in theaters on Dec. 20, I've got something to hold you over. Taylor Swift dropped her original song for the movie on Nov. 15, and it's a-meow-zing. Taylor Swift's "Beautiful Ghosts" lyrics are so well written and will be playing in your head all day after listening just once.
"Beautiful Ghosts," which Swift wrote with musical composer Andrew Llyod Webber, is a major departure from Swift's normally upbeat pop tunes and passionate love songs. The lyrics are deep, and tell the story of someone who longs for adventure she never got to experience because she was born into nothing.
In the song, Swift sings, "All that I wanted was to be wanted / Too young to wander London streets, alone and haunted / Born into nothing / At least you have something, something to cling to."
Swift drew inspiration from T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, which the hit Broadway musical was based on.
“T.S. Eliot is such a specific type of writer and uses such specific language and imagery, so reading through his work and everything, I just really wanted to reflect that within,” Swift said in a video interview with Webber released by Universal Pictures on Oct. 26.
Swift definitely hit the nail on the head with this track. Every word is dripping with passion and, when you're done listening, you'll find yourself longing for the good old times you never even had.
Listen to the track below and then read the lyrics below, just make sure you have a box of tissues at the ready.
Verse 1
Follow me home if you dare to
I wouldn't know where to lead you
Should I take chances when no one took chances on me?
So I watch from the dark, wait for my life to start
With no beauty in my memory
Chorus
All that I wanted was to be wanted
Too young to wander London streets, alone and haunted
Born into nothing
At least you have something, something to cling to
Visions of dazzling rooms I'll never get let into
And the memories were lost long ago
But at least you have beautiful ghosts
Verse 2
Perilous night, their voices calling
A flicker of light before the dawning
Out here, the wild ones are taming the fear within me
Scared to call them my friends and be broken again
Is this hope just a mystical dream?
Chorus
All that I wanted was to be wanted
Too young to wander London streets, alone and haunted
Born into nothing
At least you have something, something to cling to
Visions of dazzling rooms I'll never get let into
And the memories were lost long ago
But at least you have beautiful ghosts
Bridge
And so maybe my home isn't what I had known
What I thought it would be
But I feel so alive with these phantoms of night
And I know that this life isn't safe, but it's wild and it's free
Chorus
All that I wanted was to be wanted
I'll never wander London streets, alone and haunted
Born into nothing
With them, I have something, something to cling to
I never knew I'd love this world they've let me into
And the memories were lost long ago
So I'll dance with these beautiful ghosts
And the memories were lost long ago
So I'll dance with these beautiful ghosts
