But Who CAN Change ‘The Prophecy’?

Asking for a friend…

Unrequited love is painful, I don’t think that needs to be debated. It’s something all of us have likely experienced. The feeling of loving someone is intense and powerful. It’s a twisting of the soul to ensure it bends in one specific direction only for the hoped for and passionately anticipated return to never come. The longing remains, a fire that cannot be put out.

But on the other hand, a lack of love can hurt just as much if not more so. Instead of your soul contorted with one specific direction in mind, it twists and turns aimlessly. Each bend and crease still hurts, but now, the actions don’t have a clear direction or a clear salve to ease the pain. It might seem like there is, right? It might seem like having love or being in a relationship is the answer, but it’s a deceptively simple answer. Because if love were that easy to come by, you wouldn’t be in that situation in the first place.

This phenomenon is at the core of Taylor Swift’s song “The Prophecy” on her newest album The Tortured Poets Department. “The Prophecy” is a plea turned into a song. And in that plea, Swift is asking that what seems to be her fate be rewritten, which is an awkward way of wording it, I know, but that’s the most accurate way to capture the emotion. See, Swift can’t prove she’s destined to be alone. Destinies are fickle…