Taylor Swift - The Manuscript (Official Lyric Video)

[@AmaraFranklin]

I love how this circles back to All Too Well and the short film. She’s closing the door on TTPD and all the painful relationships from the past and giving the songs to us to fit into our own stories. It’s beautiful.

[@f4nnt4stic]

So beautiful, I can't even put it into words 😢

[@elizabethflame2047]

I've noticed it too... So wulnerable...But she said it before, that these stories are now ours 💔❤️‍🩹

[@kirstymckenzie1253]

I wondered if the actors hitting their mark was about ATW the film. But the first verse has to be about John. Then weaves in Jake and then Joe at the end. So beautifully sung.

[@_Rose94]

​@@kirstymckenzie1253Yess!! I think it's about all too well

[@ksenijajemensek6126]

I’ve thought about it too.

[@jugodenaranja4873]

"the story isn't mine anymore" is such a beautiful sentence in this context 🤍 it must actually feel so weird to process trauma through art that is shared into the world

[@mernam9985]

I literally imagined like she's giving us some manuscripts to keep it safe for her and then she leaves..

[@SG-pu3rx]

Why?

[@jugodenaranja4873]

@@SG-pu3rx cause you are going through something hard so you make it into a song and now the whole world knows about it and I suppose it might even stop feeling personal

[@Traderbna]

Sorry

[@torturedreaders_13]

"Looking backwards might be the only way to move forward" What a hauntingly beautiful lyrics..

[@nekoswiftynyannyan]

This is why she wrote Midnights I think, she 'don't know' what's going wrong with her relationship, so she had to 'write what she know'.

[@cactusonline]

"Hay que regresar al pasado, sabiendo que el pasado es lo que más cambia..." Society of the snow (movie)

[@zacharypisano8464]

Heyyy!!! I read that in a fortune cookie once :3

[@blantontn]

This second half of TTPD is like a long-lost older sister of Folklore and Evermore who had been wandering in the forest, came back, and became a chairman of TTPD to share her stories. Manuscript is SO beautiful. It's like the end of a play. Thank you, Taylor

[@dianariverjackson5123]

I love the way you formulate this comment

[@ProtectusCZ]

It's so much better cause the 2nd part is mainly produced by Dessner. The first part is mostly by Antonoff.

[@marisacoleman2386]

I was thinking the exact same thing! I just finished it🥹 and the whole time was piecing together the parallels of folklore

[@ChrisEvans.]

She basically said 'The story of us' isn't 'mine' (hers) anymore and gave us her albums as a collection of fates of her past relationships, she's handed us the manuscript to show our pain isn't as rare as we'd think, we can find comfort in them and fellow folks who are feeling the same. Thank You Taylor.

[@reptvismy13threason]

The best thing about Taylor is that she just doesn't write songs but she writes stories! I love it when songwriters tell a story on the song! Long live, The Tortured Poets Department!

[@layla_missAmericana13]

fr

[@RobloxGirlys_YT]

i love the long live reference

[@darlingdeb7010]

Because she started as a country singer. That's what country artists do.

[@AlphaLimaXray]

@@darlingdeb7010 That's definitely what drew her to the genre. Made perfect sense for her storytelling sensibilities.

[@Saddah123]

The bedt

[@marigoldgreen5006]

That line about only eating kids cereal and sleeping in her mom’s bed after being groomed by a thirty year old makes me cry every time. Just something about that imagery breaks my heart

[@tcconnection]

Jake was 29 and John was 32, hmm (yet both were more immature than young Tay)

[@azahora22]

​@@tcconnectionI get the feeling g it's about multiple relationships though John seems to be the one that still torments her. It's like what all did he do? Reading what Jessica Simpson said about him makes me ill. I'm guessing he played similar mind games with Taylor

[@Man.from.the.90sgeneration]

What a sad story

[@firstname9274]

​@@Man.from.the.90sgenerationyou wouldnt last an hour in the asylum where they raised me 🔥🔥🔥

[@adventurefighter7501]

I don't get why society keeps tightening the respectable age gaps between couples each decade.. Like he was literally just 10 years older than her smh. What do you want and why do you care? Should she date someone at the same exact birth day as her?? It's ALMOST becoming oppressive (social pressure).

[@MinnzPiano]

thank you chairman taylor 😭😭😭 love, fans of the tortured poets department

[@MayTheSwiftie13]

YES THANK YOU TAY

[@tinaloverswift8438]

Thank u for the piano version. I'm so excited

[@melissadavis4981]

Just some modern idiots ❤

[@skyebaye]

Not only is the song beautiful, this is one of the best lyric videos I've seen

[@yourmoonlight26]

i am agree

[@katyjean862]

It's up there with I can do it with a broken heart and long live. Both much more than just a lv

[@sims2lovealot]

This video is art!

[@Kubimaruicedragon]

I love that all of these lyric videos showcase different mediums of writing and their formats.

[@michaeloilar-filmprojects6122]

Interestingly, a double spaced script is used in comedies. Dramas are single spaced. I'm curious if that was intentional with an underlying message, or just because. Being as calcuated and detail oriented as she is, I feel she knows the double space usage in comedic scripts and it was intentional. I've even played it with the sound off and read through as if it was a comedic script. It's an interesting take.

[@zacuzzi]

From "one last souvenir from my trip to your shores" to long story short's "and my waves meet your shore ever and evermore" makes me think of her last reflection into the roller coast of the relationship before concluding that she's leaving the relationship bubble.

[@nerd26373]

The Manuscript is a lingering promise that holds tighter with each passing second. The layers to this track signifies just how much Taylor is willing to lay out everything on the table and say that she's still got the upper-hand in any situation she's placed herself in.

[@tay_leaf]

Your picture does not suit this comment 😭

[@itsgauravbee]

​@@tay_leaf😂

[@_Rose94]

To me, this song describes how and why she wrote All Too Well; hints to the other person being an actor 'you're a professional' and him being older 'then she dated boys her own age', created the music video 'the actors were hitting their marks' and shared the story with the world 'the story isn't mine anymore'.

[@randombiri07]

no The Story Of Us-John Mayer

[@abihafatima1762]

​@@randombiri07 Omg. That's why there is a story of us reference in the fortnight music video!!

[@claricesilva2700]

Maybe. But i'm sure the part of the shore links to long story short..."my waves meet your shore ever and evermore" and here she says "one last souvenir from my trip to your shores". She always compared herself to waves, unpredictable and unstable, and Joe to something firm and constant and here she closes their story with this last phrase. I'm not seeing people talking about that but it's pretty obvious to me.

[@azahora22]

Then there's the line: he said since she was wise beyond her years, everything was above board...hard to tell I'd it's about John Mayer or Jake Gyllenhaal. Idk why I'm feeling John Mayer but that lines really giving me the ick. Some older guy talking her into a relationship she wasn't really comfortable about with false promises.

[@alexavierz1333]

i'm crying so hard,this is definitely the best outro song she had ever wrote.It's so sad but comforted at the same time,it's like you finally make peace with all your tortured and broken past and look forward.🥺

[@briannaspinelli2156]

Oh my goodness, thank you for saying this - I totally agree! I cry every time I play this one - I just adore it. And her.

[@mjgmagic1984]

This is the one. This piano moment captures her vulnerability like I have never heard before.

[@sstitch97]

Yes it really does! 🤍🩶🫶🏻🪽

[@nerdygal6133]

“And at last, she knew what the agony had been for” There’s something about this song, the piano, the reflection, the bittersweet remembering, how much it truly feels like a poem in a journal, all of it has me weeping. TTPD as a whole really struck a cord with something in my soul, in ways I’m still trying to put into words. I’ve been struggling the last several months and this album has exquisitely captured and conveyed all the feelings of anger, grief, melancholy, and detachment I’ve been feeling. Listening to it feels surreal.

[@sstitch97]

Right - oh myword, oh my goodness, same!!! It’s like I myself wrote this comment I feel the same way exactly 🤍🩶🖤✌🏻🫶🏻🎧🪽🗝️💫✨💭✉️🖊️ Much love to you and us all We are here, we made it and now I am finally healing the way I always wanted and knew I needed to. Taylor has helped me along the way in my life, I’ve done work on myself too most of my life. But this album and the anthology too, it’s like each and every single part of my brain activated and woke up and is alive and I’m just myself again. For the first time fully, completely in a way I haven’t been since I was I think 17. Yet also at the same time the girl I was when I was 7yrs old and also 4yrs old. Like we found each other in my own secret garden and it’s like finally coming back home, truly. 🤍🩶🖤 It is profound and I’m still not over it Could say more but won’t here But I was doing the worst And now I’m doing better than I ever was🩶 Off the back of having my best year in 2023 (in terms of personally, mentally, stability, socially, my own growth in many way so far) Yay thank you Taylor Swift, Swifties, myself - now, back then and since and for the future too. It’s magical and remarkable to be at this current place. Never thought I’d feel the way I do and it’s just kind of indescribable really. ✌🏻🖊️🫶🏻🙂✨

[@briannaspinelli2156]

As @sstitch97 wrote, it is as if I wrote this comment - everything you said is exactly how I feel! Thank you for expressing my thoughts and feelings better than I ever could - just like Taylor does!💞

[@nerdygal6133]

@@briannaspinelli2156 this is a huge complement, thank you so much. 🤍

[@hilmaryoceans]

"The Manuscript" has thirteen letters in it. And this is how she chooses to end the album. Insane.

[@trulyichika]

"and the tears fell in synchronicity with the score, and at last she knew what the agony had been for" just...beautiful

[@tribalwildling9926]

It's amazing how she turns her heartbreaks and disappointments into goldmines.

[@sirdidymus9431]

♡♩♩T_T

[@ktarleneKatieBaumgardner]

That whole last part reminds me of the Eras Tour - she's watching her band and dancers perform, she's watching her fans crying, singing, screaming, applauding, and somewhere through that experience she's healing. She found out what all that agony was for.

[@sirdidymus9431]

♡♩♡♩♡♩ >>>>

[@lubdepanj]

keren kali ya kan kak..

[@deohannah]

3:23 The circle storytelling like “we were both young when I first saw you” and “down the block there’s an antique shop and something in my head said ‘stop’ so I walked in”❤❤❤

[@Renn_lab]

6 pages for 6 years with Joe. 7th page is the only thing that left's - manuscript (TTDP album)

[@user-bq6du9xt4q]

Omg-- She is a MASTERMIND

[@Daniella9658]

But she talks about the guy being older than her, it doesn’t fit with him. And it sounds like a really old relationship, I would say it’s about John Mayer or Jake Gyllenhaal.

[@johnlawrencemaniquis9174]

​@@Daniella9658 for me, this is her reflecting to either or both relationships due to the fact that she has to relive these emotions during the re-recordings.

[@SophieHarrison-ut8gi]

​@@Daniella9658as soon as I heard it I thought it was about John...so hauntingly beautiful

[@user-hz3yc9gt5h]

I think it’s about Jake and she’s talking about writing the script for the All Too Well 10 min version. She mentions the actors - maybe meaning Sadie and Dylan..? Because there’s a dance scene in that video.

[@antalinadey7334]

One thing that i understood is the fact that this is a sequence to her past relationships nd especially All Too Well. There's a scene where they're slow dancing in the kitchen (goes with the lyrics in this song). Now, THE MANUSCRIPT has 13 letters. She is 34 rn, 13 years after 'all too well' happened: we heard the line 'it's fun to be turning 21' in all too well and we saw her grown self 13 years later at the end of the short film. 21+13=34, she had to release this song to close the whole ch. 'now the story is not mine anymore' is such a cool way to put an end to this.

[@sirdidymus9431]

♡♩♩T_T

[@darthmelsie]

I didn't know how badly I needed this album until this morning. It feels like every corner of my trauma, from the resolved, unresolved, and still yet to be discovered, has been given the gentlest hug that I could ever want it to receive.

[@jaylety4214]

as someone with broken hearted filled journals, the final bit of this one really stabbed me through the heart

[@marisacoleman2386]

I know it feels like the end of the drawn out trauma someone’s been through, this one really hit

[@olivia.grace.cook.]

Okay, THIS SONG. I can’t stop thinking about the build-up in the bridge! It's like "Dear Reader," in that there's so much allusion layered into each line. Here's my best guess: “And the years passed like scenes of a show The professor said to write what you know Looking backwards might be the only way to move forward.” Taylor has always channeled her life experiences-especially the difficult ones-into songs. We saw this with Midnights in particular: she looks at what happened in her past as a way of understanding the present. As she recovers from her broken heart, the only thing she can think to do to process it all is write what she knows: her experience. “Then the actors were hitting their marks And the slow dance was alight with the sparks And the tears fell in synchronicity with the score.” These lines make me think of The Eras Tour: a performance of kinds in which she reenacts her songs. The “actors” are the dancers on stage, who “hit their marks” (she uses this term in I Can Do It With A Broken Heart). The “slow dance” reminds me of the Lover choreography, but it could stand for any song of hers that is so beautiful it evokes tears from her fans. “And at last She knew what the agony had been for.” Through her experience with The Eras Tour, celebrating her entire career of songwriting, she realizes that all her difficult experiences gave her the music she needed to bring her here, to this moment, to this time in her life. Not only has she made something beautiful out of the agonies she experienced, but those songs also brought all of us fans together. “The only thing that’s left is the manuscript One last souvenir from my trip to your shores Now and then I re-read the manuscript But the story isn’t mine anymore.” The “manuscript” could represent this album (TTPD), but more likely it represents the collective body of songs about her six-year relationship with Joe-the songs, in a way, are all she has left of the relationship now. From this point, she’s accepted the grief and moved on. She still looks back on their time together, but now the story is out in the world. It’s not hers anymore; it’s ours. Thoughts???

[@rileyisreading]

ur actually so smart

[@funwithnayara4811]

That was perfect 🥺

[@kathrynbaker7529]

Brilliant!

[@brittani532]

this makes perfect sense. thank you for putting my muddled blob of thoughts about this song into coherent words.

[@ThisIsGrae]

that's a very beautiful guess, I don't think I'd have thought it in any other way

[@Heidi90066]

Poetically written, the Empress gracefully entangles her woven words into masterpieces for us all to endure. Lucky us.

[@klu5301]

Now I see why Taylor chose this as the main bonus track for the standard edition of the vinyl!

[@user-gg5gz3wn3u]

This album is like if folklore and reputation had a baby

[@getawaycardriver_13]

More like folklore and midnights

[@kellismith1408]

It’s folklores baby 💯 I feel like its 50 rep 50midnights and 💯 folklore

[@22mzhall22]

10000%

[@blipmachine]

This album is around 7.39 times better than Reputation.

[@a.jdeets5527]

I don’t really get Reputation at all

[@josephliken6745]

If I didn't know how much Taylor loves creating music, this would have been a glorious and gorgeous goodbye. "The story isn't mine anymore..."

[@justmejenny7986]

I had that thought as well. That she is going to retire after the end of the Eras tour to have a life.

[@belindaparedes6300]

@@justmejenny7986 I get the feeling its not that she's going to retire forever, but she's going to retire the old portions of her life that caused her pain but helped her get to the point she is at now. I'd perhaps expect her to take a break after the Eras tour, maybe get married and start a family (if that is where her relationship is going) and then have a new vibe when she releases new music. Just my thought/interpretation from all of the songs in TTPD and, especially, "The Manuscript."

[@cassieopea]

@@belindaparedes6300 i think if she was going to do that, she wouldve already. its been clear the reason her and joe broke up was because he wanted to settle down and she didnt.

[@Sweetx0love1229]

The beginning piano chords foreshadow me falling to pieces by the end of the song.

[@salicecanady6522]

For every young girl who is loved -- or groomed, maybe it depends on POV -- by an older man, this song opens the wound, rubs the scars and gives hope that she will get over it.

[@melanielarson349]

After drying my tears on this one, I wondered how many of these songs brought tears to Travis. He feels his emotions so strongly and Taylor expresses her emotions so well. ❤

[@evagrun7869]

Thought the same when listening to The Prophecy😢

[@neontyler6663]

THE PERFECT ENDING 🥺🤍✨

[@sirdidymus9431]

♡♡♩T_T

[@nellucnos8585]

If this was her last album this song could fit as her last song, its like a summary of everything she's been through. I'm crying just listening to it.

[@sirdidymus9431]

♡♩♩T_T

[@planet-ginger-qx2bm]

I can't be the only one who has absolutely balled my eyes out to this song

[@briannaspinelli2156]

You most certainly are NOT, my friend! Had to pull over the first time it played in my car, I was crying so hard.

[@raybernier6851]

I'm 76 and Taylor has been writing the soundtrack of my life since I met her in 2008. But with The Manuscript she has lent legitimacy to the 180 thousand word memoir I wrote in 2014 called The Blue Dress. I'm waiting for the right publisher. Taylor Swift is the right publisher.

[@Jeff_Strix]

Wow, brilliant song for the ending, filled with pure emotions and the strongest one on the album.

[@pamelatimmins1055]

Absolutely beautiful. I feel like Taylor is closing the door on her past experiences and relationships and opening the door to her new reality and love of the man she is now with. I love this album, I love Taylor and all her music, but this new album(s) is her greatest of them all, imo. Her voice is so angelic and moving. I love her with Travis.

[@kathrynbaker7529]

Yes to all you! Beautifully said!

[@barbaraswiftcoleman5089]

That's exactly what I was thinking.

[@niccidodanwela9525]

This new album is AMAZING!

[@U.AreSUS_]

FR

[@aurevoir8396]

I'll never know why people are literally sleeping on this SONG! I mean the strength it takes to move forward, to know that the person we loved is not the same and not in love with us anymore or not in our life anymore even though at a certain point we thought that we would be the endgame! Letting all these things go takes so much strength. She wrote this entire process so painfully yet it sounds so beautiful. I hope she's happy now and everyone else who has gone through this phase in their life.

[@user-fk7ih2tq1t]

Taylor, you are the best writer of this age.

[@raybernier6851]

Best singer songwriter of all time.

[@E.maeshifts]

I literally love how simple artists have been going lately. Eternal Sunshine was so simple but also really beautiful (especially imperfect)

[@user-lh8im2vy8e]

Comparing TTPD to Eternal Sunshine is such a massive insult to Taylor. This album is all about the songwriting--don't even.

[@E.maeshifts]

@@user-lh8im2vy8e you’re funny 😭 I’m not a Taylor “fan” by any means, but I’m not going to sit here and say she’s a bad artist. I didn’t compare the lyricism of the two albums. I said both are simple yet beautiful and if you listened to every song on eternal sunshine and said to yourself “there was nothing beautiful about any of those songs” then you are smoking something strong. Two albums can be beautiful in their own right.

[@eternallyhappy247]

@@user-lh8im2vy8eDon’t start your ridiculous whining ….

[@eternallyhappy247]

@@user-lh8im2vy8eToxic

[@alannahhurley386]

As a fan of them both it's an odd comparison but I understand what you mean. Like the sparse wispy vocals and therapy filled lyrics. What I think is funny is that Halsey did a thing on Eternal Sunshine for her Manic album and guess who she's also dated?!?! Matty Healy that man must have rizz that you can only feel in person cause I don't see it at all

[@freddiemay2742]

This is 100% about all too well and Jake. It fits so well. Especially when she said on the rep tour that we changed the meaning of all too well for her. It’s our story and looking back is when she made the short film and the actors falling into place is Sadie and Dylan. I love this song so much. It feels like a sadder chapter following mastermind for some reason

[@baked_alaska]

Counter-suggestion to the ATW theory: What if The Manuscript is actually a look back at The Story of Us? A manuscript is meant to be the original work that predates a published piece like a book or an essay. As an actor myself, I've rarely heard scripts for plays and films called manuscripts. They are usually referred to as playscripts, which leads me away from the idea that the song refers to the ATW short film. I also feel like the actors hitting their marks line could refer back to the music video for The Story of Us. Plus, there was that little easter egg of Taylor reading a book titled 'Us' in the Fortnight music video. I personally think that this song is the natural ending of Taylor mapping out her emotional journey of healing from the trauma born from her turbulent relationship with John Mayer. She's telling us all that The Story of Us isn't her story anymore and she's ready to close the book.

[@carmencalloway]

this song gets me in the FEELS

[@emailant]

she hits so hard, i feel like crying.. this song reads like poem recital more than a song.. just so effective as an ending..

[@cathowe2208]

This has gotta be about turning her pain into the all too well short film ❤

[@TheCellery]

I was looking for this comment! 100%- it's her finally finishing the last page of that chapter. So simple but so stunning. My favourite I think ❤️

[@zacuzzi]

its definitely about the last stage which is acceptance. no matter if she recalls the bittersweet memory or moments, its just not her from "that earlier timespace" anymore. the freshness of the memory has faded

[@pattisampson3390]

Agreed. I thought exactly the same thing.

[@A_folklore_nerd]

THIS LYRIC VID IS JUST *chefs kiss*

[@trynafindjaja]

IS THIS ABOUT MISS AMERICANA? “..the slow dance was alight with the sparks.. the tears fell in synchronicity with the score..?.??

[@panagiotispappas1001]

The instrumental of this song has me sobbing so bad

[@zminah_]

ME TOO!! SO GUT WRENCHING FOR WHAT 😭😭 got me curve into a ball and cry

[@carolinebrettig4348]

The man - you - script The fantasy of who you think he was going to be.

[@courtneymorgan9621]

Billie?

[@Schattenkind.]

wow.. yes!

[@johnnyintegrity]

Never thought Taylor could ever top ‘Teardrops on my Guitar,’ but she vastly exceeds such here. This album is pure therapy.

[@ANonyMouse627]

I love this song. It's about how she felt directing the music video for "All Too Well"

[@sandigrove6395]

love seeing her journal, Her own words in motion with every single emotion and nothing held back. Love you Taylor Swift!

[@memyselfandi2798]

This whole album is a masterpiece and her ending the album with this song is just perfcet

[@jonasmoreno4234]

perfect outro for the album so TORTURED AND HURT the feeling of you're ready to give them your all but getting hurt in return 😭💔

[@devolinasharma1751]

Re-reading the manuscript might mean re-recording her discography?! And yeah, the ATW reference because it was one of the biggest highlights of this re-recording process, and such an emotional milestone. And like she said in the Eras Tour movie, now she has given out all those stories to her fans for THEIR experiences.

[@nicholasgarrick8855]

Taylor really ate her songwriting wheaties the day she penned this song just absolutely incredible work a memoir's worth of storytelling in just four minutes.

[@vinjan831]

this is so Jake Gyllenhaal coded, like all too well really was a masterpiece. also, in the All Too Well music video, we see the protagonist making a book about her past experience, more metaphorically as the manuscript for Taylor

[@randombiri07]

no John Mayer-The Story Of Us

[@vinjan831]

@@randombiri07 have you read dear john because Taylor hated her too much

[@vinjan831]

@@randombiri07 also, she created two music videos in the Red (Taylor's version) all about jale Gyllenhaal, go watch it: all too well (10 mins version) and I bet you think about me. Jake was an affair she never really got over easily, and possibly a past that hurts her, but she is finally letting go of all her ghosts

[@Taxidermyifyouevencare]

@@Schattenkind. no i don't think it is, it seems to be reflections of her past relationships jumbled together

[@alexischeyenne5240]

One of the most beautiful works of art she's ever released.

[@sirdidymus9431]

♡♩♩T_T

[@firday.8130]

All of this is for her to give traumatized past a fully closure. As you should Taylor! We're so happy for you

[@_mathilde_]

The feelings I'm experiencing now were took on another level by the piano, the voice, the story, well... the song in himself. Taylor Swift makes me FEEL ALIVE !!!

[@tiggywiggy388]

I don't care what anybody says, this is the best song from the album

[@VeroKatey]

This song feels like last chapter of the very long story you got lost in. You lived in it for so long that you feel weird sadness now that it is over.

[@user-db5zz1gw1n]

Omg the blend of White Horse and Cornelia Street melodies ❤❤❤ I’m in heaven!

[@bst_plyr9149]

They say sometimes there is a stage of grief after acceptance. Revenge, so maybe the whole album is foreshadowing that reputation is coming soon since it is her revenge album! 🖤

[@memyselfmartini2328]

At last she knew what the agony was for - "Taylor has found purpose out of her agony and heartbreak in the form of sharing it with the world, and realizing the impact she has on the audience, knowing she is not alone in how she feels." That's just so beautiful.

[@jesacakes7297]

She starts off young, and goes through her life. Then then end... The tears fell with synchronicity with the score..." the Superbowl . When she said she has NEVER been so happy "And at last ahe knew what the agony was for" ...she's calling Travis her endgame. Now she gives her stories to everyone else.

[@claricesilva2700]

"The only thing that's left is the manuscript, one last souvenir of my trip to your shores" "My waves meet your shore ever and evermore"

[@afterglowxo]

“I’m not a donor but I’d give you my heart if you needed it” I LOVE YOU TAYLOR 😭💔

[@dandiposts]

Thank you Taylor for giving us a surprise double album after working so hard touring and the TV re-releases you always keep us on our toes & now this is one of my favorite songs!! ❤🥹🫶

[@ivory753]

The Narrator going First Person Perspective gave me the goosebumps.

[@JoaoVictor-ne1oz]

❤❤❤

[@augustinethetorturedpoet]

This is my favorite lyric video so far. I loved the script she put in it!!! (Predicting a short fan made film lol)

[@sanjanaakter9450]

Did anyone noticed that in the bottom right corner you get pages number and the counts end at 7 pages?? As in they dated for 6 years where there were many stories butnon the 7th year(page) she's concluding the end of it

[@paulaartandmusic4412]

Time heals all. We become wise.

[@sirdidymus9431]

♡♩♡♩ 💪💪

[@tcfmarch17]

This all sounds so familiar...I have tears with every song that I hear...So thought-provoking!

[@GlueBubb1e]

I think this has to be one of fave of hers now. An underrated song from the album ❤

[@zhayengshiu2031]

Thanks Chairman, TTPD! The story is ours Now! ❤❤

[@mareebeauchamp1535]

This song... Taylor, this song makes my tears fall in synchronicity with your score. What an incredible way to end such a beautiful album 🤍 Thank you for your genius

[@rosespeakstruthlikeitis155]

The whole album is taking the era by Storm, Taylor's singing style is smooth and unique

[@thirafiramadhani9048]

Love The Manuscript since the first listen.

[@payton_anna317]

Its giving healing from John Mayer

[@jenniferfeser808]

This has me bawling. I feel like it’s a story about me looking back on me ages 18-22. 💔

[@KUYAFAITH]

1. Taylor Swift - A Dreamer 2. Fearless - The Country-Pop Superstar 3. Speak Now - The Princess 4. Red - A Heartbroken Woman 5. 1989 - The Party Woman 6. reputation - The Heroine 7. Lover - The Lover 8. folklore - A Wise Woman 9. evermore - The Storyteller 10. Midnights - The Brilliant Insomniac 11. The Tortured Poets Department - A Poetess Maker ................

[@kairene161]

UGHH THIS ALBUM IS AMAZING

[@yourmoonlight26]

This is my favourite song, its kinda like All too well but in acceptance version. I am crying remember my past relationship.

[@Reylandson]

Such a perfect closure.

[@ThisIsGrae]

it feels like manuscript has been about her relationships, and now the story isn't hers anymore, she's moving on to new shores.

[@kram21]

This his a great album: her voice has so improved and her musicians are stellar and have created an” atmospheric ambience- sound” kudos to her musicians

[@tlaconte70]

The piano in the beginning is so haunting and beautiful... love this song...

[@LauraRSilveira]

So this is the last stage, the acception. ❤

[@pearljammm4093]

I think this is the closure of All too well ( as well as other past loves).. after she did 10 min version, in an interview she said now the story is not mine anymore but the fans..

[@whitford4206]

Thank you Taylor for this album❤

[@kateluxor2986]

I'm not a true Swiftie by any means but I am what you would call a casual fan. I believe she (Taylor) is an incredible songwriter. Taylor is a poet and lyricist in one. And this album is just so heartbreaking, haunting yet bittersweet and stunningly beautiful. TTPD left me speechless. (Pardon the pun!!!) I listened to "The Anthology" double album on that weekend starting on Saturday, took it slow so I didn't listen to the album all day Saturday. I listened to some of it Sunday and finished it on Monday. I'm re listening to certain songs like "The Black Dog," "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" "Cassandra," "So Long, London," and this one "The Manuscript." There's other songs that I'm re listening too but these seem to strike a cord within me. I'll say one more thing and I'll take my leave: If TTPD doesn't get any Grammy nominations next year, I riot!!!

[@Just_Another_Swiftie13]

The way she made this lyric video like a script 😭

[@jvma3747]

So many Easter eggs to everything with this album- type writer- florida

[@faisalron]

This should be song of the year, beautifully written!

[@briella6242]

BEST SONG ON THE ALBUM

[@_onlinecloud_]

what i needed for the rest of my life was this sound.

[@ashleyspells-hayes5539]

I think this is about All Too Well guy (no name)... then years later, writing the movie for it was therapeutic for her. ❤