2006: When you were in the midst of a fifth grade breakup, your 10-year-old self would immediately turn to Taylor Swift. When you're nearing your 20s and still confide in her relatable lyrics, you realize that she definitely makes your life seem like one of her songs. If you're going through a hard loss right now from your Calvin Harris (yes, I am still salty about that one), here's a ranking of her best songs to help you through.
25. I Knew You Were Trouble
Key lyrics: "When I fell hard, you took a step back without me."
24. Picture to Burn
Key lyrics: "I realize you love yourself more than you could ever love me."
23. Cold As You
Key lyrics: "When you take, you take the very best of me."
22. Wildest Dreams
Key lyrics: "Someday when you leave me, I bet these memories follow you around."
21. Should've Said No
Key lyrics: "Do you honestly expect me to believe we could ever be the same?"
20. Sad, Beautiful, Tragic
Key lyrics: "And time is taking its sweet time erasing you. And you've got your demons, and, darling, they all look like me."
19. I Wish You Would
Key lyrics: "You always knew how to push my buttons. You give me everything and nothing. This mad, mad love makes you come running to stand back where you stood."
18. If This Was a Movie
Key lyrics: "I just want it back the way it was before. And I just wanna see you back at my front door."
17. All You Had to Do Was Stay
Key lyrics: "Let me remind you, this was what you wanted, you ended it. You were all I wanted...but not like this."
16. Teardrops on My Guitar
Key lyrics: "As I turn out the light, I'll put his picture down and maybe get some sleep tonight."
15. Red
Key lyrics: "Moving on from him is impossible when I still see it all in my head in burning red."
14. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Key lyrics: "...you come around again and say "I miss you and I swear I'm gonna change, trust me." Remember how that lasted for a day?"
13. Back to December
Key lyrics: "Maybe this is wishful thinking, probably mindless dreaming, but if we loved again, I swear I'd love you right. I'd go back in time and change it, but I can't."
12. White Horse
Key lyrics: "I was a dreamer before you went and let me down."
11. The Story of Us
Key lyrics: "I'd tell you I miss you, but I don't know how. I've never heard silence quite this loud."
10. Dear John
Key lyrics: "I took your matches before could catch me. So don't look now, I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town."
9. Forever and Always
Key lyrics: "Was I out of line? Did I say something way too honest? Made you run and hide, like a scared little boy?"
8. Come Back, Be Here
Key lyrics: "If I had known what I know now, I never would have played so nonchalant."
7. You're Not Sorry
Key lyrics: "You used to shine, but I watched all of it fade."
6. I Almost Do
Key lyrics: "I wish I could run to you, and I hope you know that every time I don't, I almost do."
5. The Way I Loved You
Key lyrics: "You were wild and crazy, just so frustrating, intoxicating, complicated--got away by some mistake..."
4. Last Kiss
Key lyrics: "I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe."
3. Clean
Key lyrics: "10 months sober. I must admit, just because you're clean don't mean you don't miss it."
2. Haunted
Key lyrics: "Something keeps me holding onto nothing."
1. All Too Well
Key lyrics: "I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it."
