Taylor Swift released «You’re Losing Me (From the Vault)» on May 26 as part of ‘Midnights (The Late Night Edition).’ Here’s what the breakup song’s lyrics mean.
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The new track from Midnights (The Late Night Edition) may shed light on Swift’s recent split.
Like clockwork, Midnights (The Late Night Edition) brought Taylor Swift’s first breakup song since her split from longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn. A “from the vault” track, “You’re Losing Me” might be the closest Swifties will get to a relationship post-mortem from the singer. Swift famously writes about her exes without explicitly confirming their identities, and, true to form, she hasn’t said anything about a connection between “You’re Losing Me” and Alwyn. Fans, on the other hand, certainly have thoughts about the heartbreaking lyrics that mourn a slowly-dying love.
Swift announced the song in a social media message that also unveiled her “Karma” remix featuring Ice Spice and new version of “Snow on the Beach” with more Lana Del Rey. After sharing details about the two remixes, she spilled the rest: “But wait there’s more… for those of you going to the East Rutherford shows — we will have a new special edition CD available ONLY on site starting at 12:30pm ET on Friday!” she wrote. “This CD will have a never before heard Midnights vault track called ‘You’re Losing Me’!”
The singer’s plans to only sell the CD at MetLife Stadium came as a disappointment to many fans, and they begged her to make it available to stream. Before another solution arrived — a chance to purchase a digital copy of Midnights (The Late Night Edition) from the Taylor Swift store before 8 p.m. ET on May 27 — Swifties were there for one another. Those who managed to get their hands on the CD helped the rest of the fandom out by sharing the lyrics online.
It became clear that the song was about a relationship going from critically wounded to fatally damaged.
