She wrote this song about her grandfather, who was a war veteran and never talked about what he lived in the war to anybody in the family. “Some things you cannot speak about”. She imagined how awful was for him to not discuss it ever. Then in the second verse she compares that to what doctors and nurses are living through with the pandemic and the trauma that a lot of them are going through as well.
Yes, but the other layer is the horrific early time of the COVID pandemic, when healthcare workers were helplessly watching people die no matter what they did. Drawing those parallels was so timely and apt in 2020, and I believe will stand the test of time when we have some distance and the lens of history.
It's from the perspective of a soldier/a doctor. She is equating the experience of a soldier and a doctor, both of them in their own battlefield (in the doctor's case, the hospital, where he has to see people die and breathe in and out), and how both of them see horrors that they can't properly communicate to their loved ones once they are back from war/the hospital. The message of the song is how both of them hope for an epiphany, some kind of revelation to make them make sense of the horrors they have seen, which is also a callout at how senseless both war and the current covid situation are, and how both of them could be avoided if someone made sense of these situations
The music sounds like a heartbeat, specially towards the end when the vocals are gone. My nephew is a nursing student and has been working at a nursing home and doing clinicals at the hospital where they have Covid patients and I can’t listen to this song without crying. I so appreciate the shoutout to those who’ve been to war and those in the medicinal professional who see so much that we could never handle (and that school couldn’t have necessarily prepared them for) and for not giving up when they’re needed the most.
Her grandfather (the picture is on the wall in the Cardigan mv) was a medic on Guadalcanal in WWII(major casualties). Her mother is in her second bout of breast cancer treatment and now has an inoperable (so far) brain tumor on top of it. People are dying alone in hospitals, of the current virus PLUS all the other crap out there. Swift used to routinely visit Children's Cancer hospitals, to cheer up the children. Isolation got her depressed. For me, the music is A LOT like the music in church hymns. YMMV
I’m straight up bingeing all of your Taylor content right now & this song is one of my favorites 🥺 It’s so haunting. It deals with the pandemic in a subtle way. Our nurses and doctors were dealt the same cards as soldiers. Nothing can prepare you for death. For a crisis. You can be taught over and over again but to actually be face to face with it is entirely different. I love this song
the first verse talks about a soldier (her grandfather) at war, he crawls up the beach and is breathing in and out. the second verse is about a doctor during covid, holding hands through plastic, watching others die. both of these people from each verse are exhausted from the terror and death that they’ve seen. but as the soldier lies there on the beach, and as the doctor finally gets a rest, they get 20 minutes to sleep, just a small glimpse of relief from all of the pain and suffering, and they have to make sense of everything that they’ve seen. like one tiny second to take it all in and let it all go.
It sHOULD bother you. She draws on the pain of people who are in service at times when humanity is in crisis. Our education and power do not save us from the cruelties of life. "Something med school did not cover" relates how her idea of her grandfather who fought in a war could never be prepared for the pain and violence they witness with all the death they encounter as a soldier or a modern frontliner.
My sister is nurse and this song always struck me but it was made more poignant when she was then hospitalized with COVID19. It's ironic but I feel like this song sits on my chest when I listen to it.
Hey man! This is definitely imo about covid in those early months. I'm a nurse and I'll tell you, it was very much a wartime feel (at least on the east coast) with the stacks on stacks of people coming in, the deaths, the uncertainty, lack of knowledge and lack of supplies. Not that I'm equating the two, wartime is definitely worse, but it was VERY intense and I think that's her comparison. I remember listening to this song, thinking to myself "how tf does she know how to describe it?!," & listened to the song 4 times in a row while having one of the most cathartic cries of my life lol.
I think she purposely keeps the font very small so we can really concentrate on it... like we have to really make out the words... u know wat I'm saying..???¿
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She wrote this song about her grandfather, who was a war veteran and never talked about what he lived in the war to anybody in the family. “Some things you cannot speak about”. She imagined how awful was for him to not discuss it ever. Then in the second verse she compares that to what doctors and nurses are living through with the pandemic and the trauma that a lot of them are going through as well.
Yes, but the other layer is the horrific early time of the COVID pandemic, when healthcare workers were helplessly watching people die no matter what they did. Drawing those parallels was so timely and apt in 2020, and I believe will stand the test of time when we have some distance and the lens of history.
I think the 1st verse is about the world war time which her grandfather fought and 2nd verse is about the current covid situation.
It's from the perspective of a soldier/a doctor. She is equating the experience of a soldier and a doctor, both of them in their own battlefield (in the doctor's case, the hospital, where he has to see people die and breathe in and out), and how both of them see horrors that they can't properly communicate to their loved ones once they are back from war/the hospital. The message of the song is how both of them hope for an epiphany, some kind of revelation to make them make sense of the horrors they have seen, which is also a callout at how senseless both war and the current covid situation are, and how both of them could be avoided if someone made sense of these situations
The music sounds like a heartbeat, specially towards the end when the vocals are gone. My nephew is a nursing student and has been working at a nursing home and doing clinicals at the hospital where they have Covid patients and I can’t listen to this song without crying. I so appreciate the shoutout to those who’ve been to war and those in the medicinal professional who see so much that we could never handle (and that school couldn’t have necessarily prepared them for) and for not giving up when they’re needed the most.
It also sounds like a heart monitor in a hospital ward.
Thank you for saying this. It’s been brutal for us throughout this. Even as students.
Imagine this song performed by a choir in a cathedral..... It's got that feel about it....
She should do it! 😯
She is comparing doctors and nurses in the Covid pandemic to soldiers on the battlefield. the beeping noise is the sound a ventilator makes.
Her grandfather (the picture is on the wall in the Cardigan mv) was a medic on Guadalcanal in WWII(major casualties). Her mother is in her second bout of breast cancer treatment and now has an inoperable (so far) brain tumor on top of it. People are dying alone in hospitals, of the current virus PLUS all the other crap out there. Swift used to routinely visit Children's Cancer hospitals, to cheer up the children. Isolation got her depressed. For me, the music is A LOT like the music in church hymns. YMMV
I’m straight up bingeing all of your Taylor content right now & this song is one of my favorites 🥺 It’s so haunting. It deals with the pandemic in a subtle way. Our nurses and doctors were dealt the same cards as soldiers. Nothing can prepare you for death. For a crisis. You can be taught over and over again but to actually be face to face with it is entirely different. I love this song
the first verse talks about a soldier (her grandfather) at war, he crawls up the beach and is breathing in and out. the second verse is about a doctor during covid, holding hands through plastic, watching others die. both of these people from each verse are exhausted from the terror and death that they’ve seen. but as the soldier lies there on the beach, and as the doctor finally gets a rest, they get 20 minutes to sleep, just a small glimpse of relief from all of the pain and suffering, and they have to make sense of everything that they’ve seen. like one tiny second to take it all in and let it all go.
It sHOULD bother you.
She draws on the pain of people who are in service at times when humanity is in crisis.
Our education and power do not save us from the cruelties of life. "Something med school did not cover" relates how her idea of her grandfather who fought in a war could never be prepared for the pain and violence they witness with all the death they encounter as a soldier or a modern frontliner.
My sister is nurse and this song always struck me but it was made more poignant when she was then hospitalized with COVID19. It's ironic but I feel like this song sits on my chest when I listen to it.
Hey man! This is definitely imo about covid in those early months. I'm a nurse and I'll tell you, it was very much a wartime feel (at least on the east coast) with the stacks on stacks of people coming in, the deaths, the uncertainty, lack of knowledge and lack of supplies. Not that I'm equating the two, wartime is definitely worse, but it was VERY intense and I think that's her comparison. I remember listening to this song, thinking to myself "how tf does she know how to describe it?!," & listened to the song 4 times in a row while having one of the most cathartic cries of my life lol.
This is definitely one of the saddest on the album I feel but one of the most beautiful and haunting
She is comparing Healthcare workers experience with Covid to anwar zone which is pretty accurate. I’m an RN.
I love this song so much. Reminds me of my late puppy.
So sad this is so underrated..
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I think she purposely keeps the font very small so we can really concentrate on it... like we have to really make out the words... u know wat I'm saying..???¿
Amazing song!
The spelling of epiphany is wrong in the title of the video dude 😶
Typographical error
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I thought it was epiphany? 😆
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