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“marjorie” is track 13 off of Taylor Swift’s ninth album evermore, and is a tribute to her late grandmother Marjorie Finlay. Appropriately, “epiphany” (the 13th track on evermore’s sister album, folklore), was in part about her grandfather, Dean.
Marjorie, who passed in 2003, was an opera singer an...
[Verse 1]
Never be so kind
You forget to be clever
Never be so clever
You forget to be kind
[Pre-Chorus]
And if I didn't know better
I'd think you were talking to me now
If I didn't know better
I'd think you were still around
[Chorus]
What died didn't stay dead
What died didn't stay dead
You're alive, you're alive in my head
What died didn't stay dead
What died didn't stay dead
You're alive, so alive
[Verse 2]
Never be so politе
You forget your power
Nevеr wield such power
You forget to be polite
[Pre-Chorus]
And if I didn't know better
I'd think you were listening to me now
If I didn't know better
I'd think you were still around
[Chorus]
What died didn't stay dead
What died didn't stay dead
You're alive, you're alive in my head
What died didn't stay dead
What died didn't stay dead
You're alive, so alive
[Bridge]
The autumn chill that wakes me up
You loved the amber skies so much
Long limbs and frozen swims
You'd always go past where our feet could touch
And I complained the whole way there
The car ride back and up the stairs
I should've asked you questions
I should've asked you how to be
Asked you to write it down for me
Should've kept every grocery store receipt
'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me
Watched as you signed your name Marjorie
All your closets of backlogged dreams
And how you left them all to me
[Chorus]
What died didn't stay dead
What died didn't stay dead
You're alive, you're alive in my head
What died didn't stay dead
What died didn't stay dead
You're alive, so alive
[Outro]
And if I didn't know better
I'd think you were singing to me now
If I didn't know better
I'd think you were still around
I know better
But I still feel you all around
I know better
But you're still around
marjorie was written by Taylor Swift & Aaron Dessner.
marjorie was produced by Aaron Dessner.
Taylor Swift released marjorie on Fri Dec 11 2020.
🔎 | ‘epiphany’ is the 13th track on #folklore where Taylor pays tribute to her grandfather — while ‘marjorie’ is also the 13th track on her new album #evermore which is the name of her grandmother 💕 pic.twitter.com/jJ0xzhyy9q— Taylor Swift News (@TSwiftNZ) December 10, 2020
This song debuted #75 on Billboard’s Hot 100, being the fourteenth-highest charting song off the album.
Dessner told Rolling Stone:
That’s a track that actually existed for a while, and you can hear elements of it behind the song ‘peace.’ This weird drone that you hear on ‘peace,’ if you pay attention to the bridge of ‘marjorie,’ you’ll hear a little bit of that in the distance. Some of what you hear...
On an interview with Apple Music, Swift explains:
The experience writing that song was really surreal, because I was kind of a wreck at times writing it, and I’d sort of breakdown sometimes. It was really hard to actually even sing it in the vocal booth without sounding like I had sort of a break [...