Show Notes
Eras:
- Red Era
- Color: Red
- Years: 2012-2014
- Experimental
- First “pop” album
- Getting more secure
- “Somehow all fit together in the end”
- “Red (Taylor’s Version) is the second re-recorded album the album is the re-recording of Swift’s fourth studio album, Red (2012).The 30-track Red (Taylor’s Version) includes re-recorded versions of 20 songs from the deluxe edition of Red; the 2012 charity single “Ronan“; the 10-minute-long, unabridged version of “All Too Well“; Swift’s own recordings of “Better Man” (2016) and “Babe” (2018); and six previously unreleased “From the Vault” tracks. Gary Lightbody and Ed Sheeran returned to provide guest vocals, with Phoebe Bridgers and Chris Stapleton as new additions.
- Red Verses- what’s a line on debut that describes your understanding of God?
- @Megan
- Personal
- Red
- Losing him was blue, like I’d never known/Missing him was dark gray, all alone/Forgetting him was like trying to know/Somebody you never met/But loving him was red/Loving him was red
- State of Grace
- I never saw you coming and I’ll never be the same
- Red
- Personal
- @Paige
- Personal
- Forever Winter
- I’d say I love you even at your darkest | And please don’t go
- He says he doesn’t believe anything much he hears these days | I say, “Believe in one thing, I won’t go away”
- Forever Winter
- Personal
- @Megan
- The Stories
Previously on the Eras of…
- Trouble: Eve and the serpent Genesis 3:1-7
- Nothing new – too much to drink – Noah Gen 9:19
- @Megan
- Holy Ground- Moses, Exodus 3:2-6
- There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.” 5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father,[a] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
- Treacherous- journey to the promise land
- Never Ever Getting Back together- Moses/Israelites to Pharaoh
- Holy Ground- Moses, Exodus 3:2-6
- I Bet You Think About Me- anytime Moses left the group
- 22- the book of Numbers- I don’t know why, but can we make it fit?
- @Paige
- Everything has changed – crossing to the promised land, Jericho’s walls
- Come back be here… spies checking out the promised land?
- The moment I knew – elders can’t go to promised land
- Better man – Israelite longing for Egypt deut 3:23-26
- Run – Moses after he kills the guy
- Stay stay stay (groceries) – manna and water in the desert
- Girl at home – rules for how we relate to one another in Leviticus, deut 22:22
- Last time, begin again – judges cycle
- Never getting back together – Sampson
- Vault Tracks
- Red Verses- Is there a verse that describes God in their debut era?
- @Megan
- Era
- Treacherous
- I can’t decide if it’s a choice/Getting swept away/I hear the sound of my own voice/Asking you to stay/And all we are is skin and bone/Trained to get along/Forever going with the flow/But you’re friction/This slope is treacherous/This path is reckless/This slope is treacherous
- Treacherous
- Era
- @Paige
- Era
- Message in a Bottle:
- ‘Cause you could be the one that I love
- I could be the one that you dream of
- Message in a bottle is all I can do
- Standin’ here, hopin’ it gets to you
- Message in a Bottle:
- Era
- @Megan
- Did we miss a God/faith reference in season 1?
- What would God’s/Chapter/verse/book/OT person track 5 story be?
- Taylor’s track five meaning: On every Taylor Swift album, track five has a very specific meaning. The fifth track is always the most emotional, tear-jerking and vulnerable song on the album. It always follows a sad, heart-wrenching story about Taylor’s past, usually about one of her relationships or her emotions and anxieties in life. (https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/11/26/track-5-meaning/)
- All Too Well
- Taylor’s track five meaning: On every Taylor Swift album, track five has a very specific meaning. The fifth track is always the most emotional, tear-jerking and vulnerable song on the album. It always follows a sad, heart-wrenching story about Taylor’s past, usually about one of her relationships or her emotions and anxieties in life. (https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/11/26/track-5-meaning/)
- What’s Next?
- 1989 TV
- Sunday Question
- Red Story
- Track Five Story
- Red Verse
- What story did we miss?
- Thank you!
- Swift Psalm
- Lyrics-All Too Well (10 Minute Version)
- Psalm 119 (the longest psalm)
And I can picture it after all these days
And I know it’s long gone and
That magic’s not here no more
And I might be okay, but I’m not fine at all
- (Psalm 119:5-8)
How I wish my ways were strong
when it comes to keeping your statutes!
6 Then I wouldn’t be ashamed
when I examine all your commandments.
7 I will give thanks to you with a heart that does right
as I learn your righteous rules.
8 I will keep your statutes.
Please don’t leave me all alone!
And I was thinking on the drive down, any time now
He’s gonna say it’s love, you never called it what it was
‘Til we were dead and gone and buried
Check the pulse and come back swearing it’s the same
After three months in the grave
And then you wondered where it went to as I reached for you
But all I felt was shame and you held my lifeless frame
- (Psalm 119:25-28)
My life is stuck in the dirt.
Now make me live again according to your promise!
26 I confessed my ways and you answered me.
Now teach me your statutes!
27 Help me understand what your precepts are about
so I can contemplate your wondrous works!
28 My spirit sags because of grief.
Now raise me up according to your promise!
‘Cause there we are again in the middle of the night
We’re dancing ’round the kitchen in the refrigerator light
Down the stairs, I was there I remember it all too well
And there we are again when nobody had to know
You kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath
Sacred prayer, and we’d swear
To remember it all too well, yeah
- (Psalm 119:52-56)
52 When I remember your ancient rules,
I’m comforted, Lord.
53 But I’m seized with anger because of the wicked—
because of those who abandon your Instruction.
54 Your statutes have been my songs of praise
wherever I lived as an immigrant.
55 Lord, I remember your name at nighttime,
and I keep your Instruction.
56 This has been my practice
because I guard your precepts.
And you call me up again
Just to break me like a promise
So casually cruel in the name of being honest
I’m a crumpled up piece of paper lying here
‘Cause I remember it all, all, all
They say all’s well that ends well
But I’m in a new hell every time you double-cross my mind
You said if we had been closer in age maybe it would have been fine
And that made me want to die
The idea you had of me, who was she?
- (Psalm 119:81-88)
My whole being yearns for your saving help!
I wait for your promise.
82 My eyes are worn out looking for your word.
“When will you comfort me?” I ask,
83 because I’ve become like a bottle dried up by smoke,
though I haven’t forgotten your statutes.
84 How much more time does your servant have?
When will you bring my oppressors to justice?
85 The arrogant have dug pits for me—
those people who act against your Instruction.
86 All your commandments are true,
but people harass me for no reason.
Help me!
87 They’ve almost wiped me off the face of the earth!
Meanwhile, I haven’t abandoned your precepts!
88 Make me live again according to your faithful love
so I can keep the law you’ve given!
Time won’t fly, it’s like I’m paralyzed by it
I’d like to be my old self again, but I’m still trying to find it
- (Psalm 119:105-107)
Your word is a lamp before my feet
and a light for my journey.
106 I have sworn, and I fully mean it:
I will keep your righteous rules.
107 I have been suffering so much—
Lord, make me live again according to your promise.
Just between us, did the love affair maim you too?
Cause in this city’s barren cold, I still remember the first fall of snow
And how it glistened as it fell, I remember it all too well
- (Psalm 119:148-152)
My eyes encounter each hour of the night
as I think about your word.
149 Listen to my voice, according to your faithful love.
Lord, make me live again, according to your justice.
The people who love to plot wicked schemes are nearby,
but they are so far from your Instruction!
151 But you, Lord, are nearby too,
and all your commandments are true.
152 Long ago I learned from your laws
that you had established them forever.
Wind in my hair, I was there, I was there
Down the stairs, I was there, I was there
Sacred prayer, I was there, I was there
It was rare, you remember it all too well
- (Psalm 119:174-176)
Lord, I long for your saving help!
Your Instruction is my joy!
175 Let me live again so I can praise you!
Let your rules help me!
176 I’ve wandered off like a sheep, lost.
Find your servant
because I haven’t forgotten
your commandments!