this is me trying
Taylor Swift * Track #9 On folklore
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- #2
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- #3the last great american dynasty
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- #4exile
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- #5my tears ricochet
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- #6mirrorball
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- #7seven
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- #8august
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- #9this is me trying
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- #10illicit affairs
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- #11invisible string
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- #12mad woman
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- #13epiphany
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- #14betty
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- #15peace
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- #16hoax
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this is me trying by Taylor Swift
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Much like Swift’s August 2019 track “Afterglow,” “this is me trying” sees her accepting fault for relationship issues and making an effort to repair them. Fear, alcohol, and a sense of failure and isolation complicate the healing process, but she takes the first step by having the humility to admit...
this is me trying Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I've been having a hard time adjusting
I had the shiniest wheels, now they're rusting
I didn't know if you'd care if I came back
I have a lot of regrets about that
Pulled the car off the road to the lookout
Could've followed my fears all the way down
And maybe I don't quite know what to say
But I'm here in your doorway
[Chorus]
I just wanted you to know that this is me trying
I just wanted you to know that this is me trying
[Verse 2]
They told me all of my cages were mental
So I got wasted like all my potential
And my words shoot to kill when I'm mad
I have a lot of regrets about that
I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere
Fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here
Pouring out my heart to a stranger
But I didn't pour the whiskey
[Chorus]
I just wanted you to know that this is me trying
I just wanted you to know that this is me trying
[Post-Chorus]
At least I'm trying
[Bridge]
And it's hard to be at a party when I feel like an open wound
It's hard to be anywhere these days when all I want is you
You're a flashback in a film reel on the one screen in my town
[Chorus]
And I just wanted you to know that this is me trying
(And maybe I don't quite know what to say)
I just wanted you to know that this is me trying
[Outro]
At least I'm trying
this is me trying Q&A
Who wrote this is me trying's ?
this is me trying was written by Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift.
Who produced this is me trying's ?
this is me trying was produced by Joe Alwyn & Taylor Swift & Jack Antonoff.
When did Taylor Swift release this is me trying?
Taylor Swift released this is me trying on Fri Jul 24 2020.
How did this song perform on the Billboard charts?
“this is me trying” debuted at #39 on the Billboard Hot 100 during the chart week of August 8, 2020.
What have critics said about the song?
By the time we get to This Is Me Trying, with an almost frantic slam poetry conclusion, we’re back in the gentle groove.
–Emma Kelly for Metro
Swift seems off her metaphor game in the ungainly “Cardigan,” but she’s utterly on point in this mournful orchestral-pop dirge: “You’re a flashback in a fi...
What did Taylor Swift say about "this is me trying"?
Aaron Dessner, who collaborated on the production of folklore, said this is me trying “… relates to the entire album. Maybe I’m reading into it too much from my own perspective, but [I think of] the whole album as an exercise and working through these stories, whether personal or old through someone...
What else had the artists said about this song?
On a conversation with Jack Antonoff for folklore: the long pond studio sessions, they said this:
Taylor:
I’d been thinking about addiction and I’d been thinking about people who, if they’re either suffering through mental ilness, addiction or they have an everyday struggle. No one pats them on th...