Taylor Swift and Stevie Nicks include poems in physical versions of ‘The Tortured Poets Department’

Fans who purchased the physical versions, on CD or vinyl, of the new album by Taylor Swift were surprised with a poem by the singer and another by Stevie Nicks. The Tortured Poets Department arrived on streaming platforms this Friday, the 19th.

The singer’s poem Fleetwood Mac was written on August 13, 2023 and was titled as “For T and Me”. Check free translation:

He was in love with her
Or at least she thought so
She was heartbroken
Maybe he was too
Neither of them knew
She was too hot to handle
He was too high to try
He is afraid of her
He is hiding from her
And he knows he’s hurting her
She tells the truth
She writes about it
She’s an informant
She was just flying through the clouds
When he saw her
She was just making her way towards the stars
When he lost her.

The poem of Swift, in turn, received the title “In summary”. Read free translation:

The pendulum swings
The chaos it brings
Take the caged beast to do
The most curious things
Lovers spend years denying what is doomed to failure
Resentment festering
Galaxies we created
I tried to wish on comets
I tried to reduce the brightness
I tried to orbit his planet
Some stars never align
And in one conversation, I brought down the whole sky
It hasn’t even scratched my surface
None of them did it
All is fair in love and poetry
Sincerely, the Chairman of the Department of Tortured Poets.