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User: What if Taylor Swift wrote a song called "the fate of Ophelia" with these lyrics?

What if Taylor Swift wrote a song called "the fate of Ophelia" with these lyrics?

Lyrics I heard you calling On the megaphone You wanna see me all alone As legend has it you Are quite the pyro You light the match to watch it blow And if you'd never come for me I might've drowned in the melancholy I swore my loyalty to me, myself and I Right before you lit my sky up All that time I sat alone in my tower You were just honing your powers Now I can see it all (see it all) Late one night You dug me out of my grave and Saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia Keep it one hundred On the land, the sea, the sky Pledge allegiance to your hands Your team, your vibes Don't care where the hell you been 'Cause now you're mine It's 'bout to be the sleepless night You've been dreaming of The fate of Ophelia The eldest daughter of a nobleman Ophelia lived in fantasy But love was a cold bed full of scorpions The venom stole her sanity And if you'd never come for me I might've lingered in purgatory You wrap around me like a chain, a crown, a vine Pulling me into the fire All that time I sat alone in my tower You were just honing your powers Now I can see it all (see it all) Late one night You dug me out of my grave and Saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia Keep it one hundred On the land, the sea, the sky Pledge allegiance to your hands Your team, your vibes Don't care where the hell you been 'Cause now you're mine It's 'bout to be the sleepless night You've been dreaming of The fate of Ophelia 'Tis locked inside my memory And only you possess the key No longer drowning and deceived All because you came for me Locked inside my memory And only you possess the key No longer drowning and deceived All because you came for me All that time I sat alone in my tower You were just honing your powers Now I can see it all (I can see it all) Late one night You dug me out of my grave and Saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia Keep it one hundred On the land, the sea, the sky Pledge allegiance to your hands Your team, your vibes Don't care where the hell you been 'Cause now you're mine It's 'bout to be the sleepless night You've been dreaming of The fate of Ophelia You saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia

Assistant: That would feel like a very Taylor-coded song—especially in her folklore / evermore / Midnights era lane.

That would feel like a very Taylor-coded song—especially in her folklore / evermore / Midnights era lane. If she released “The Fate of Ophelia”, fans would absolutely lose their minds over the literary symbolism and the dark-romance rescue arc.

Here’s how it reads in “Taylor language”:

🌊 Who is Ophelia?

Ophelia is the tragic character from Shakespeare’s Hamlet — a young woman crushed by betrayal, manipulation, and grief, who ultimately drowns.

In pop culture, “Ophelia” has become shorthand for:

• A woman destroyed by love
• A girl abandoned by everyone she trusted
• A romantic who loses herself trying to please others

So “the fate of Ophelia” = emotional ruin, madness, abandonment, drowning in heartbreak.

Taylor loves doomed literary women (see: mad woman, tolerate it, ivy, right where you left me).

🔥 The Story of the Song

This version of “The Fate of Ophelia” tells a dark fairytale rescue story:

Verse 1 — The Villain Era

You light the match to watch it blow

You were just honing your powers

The love interest is dangerous, chaotic, destructive — classic Taylor anti-hero energy. Think: Getaway Car, I Did Something Bad, Don’t Blame Me.

Chorus — The Rescue

You dug me out of my grave

Saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia

This is the core Taylor fantasy:

• She was alone
• She was drowning
• She was forgotten
• And someone chose her anyway

Very “Call It What You Want”, “Invisible String”, “Labyrinth” coded.

Verse 2 — The Literary Twist

The eldest daughter of a nobleman

Ophelia lived in fantasy

But love was a cold bed full of scorpions

The venom stole her sanity

This is peak Swiftie bait:

• Shakespeare reference
• Romantic disillusionment
• Love as poison
• Loss of innocence

She loves framing love as something beautiful but deadly.

Bridge — The Taylor Obsession Motif

Locked inside my memory

And only you possess the key

Taylor’s signature:

• Fate
• Destiny
• Chosen one
• One person who truly sees her

🕯️ The Themes

This song would be about:

• Escaping emotional destruction
• Being saved from becoming a tragic girl
• Choosing survival over self-sacrifice
• Letting someone love you when you expected to drown

It’s basically:

“I was supposed to become a ghost, but you pulled me back into the world.”

🖤 Where It Fits in Her Discography

This would sit perfectly alongside:

• ivy
• willow
• my tears ricochet
• labyrinth
• the lakes
• right where you left me

Fans would say:

“This is Taylor’s Ophelia song. This is her literary era.”

If you want, I can:

• Write it in actual Taylor verse structure
• Rewrite it as if it were on folklore or Midnights
• Or turn it into a full bridge-breakdown-final-chorus moment the way she does live 🎤✨

Because honestly? This already feels like a vault track.