Image: Taylor Swift, Bejewelled video clip, YouTube
Lesson 4: Don’t forget your sparkle just because someone else doesn’t honour it We don’t need all the things we think we do because our own strength will get us through, so just enjoy the ride. This is the realisation that yes, we’re all on our own, but we’re born with the tools to face anything life throws at us, and really we are enough. You’re on your own kid, you always have been.” You’re on your own kid, yeah, you can face this. So, make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it. Then the lesson comes, “Everything you lose is a step you take. At the end of the bridge she rants that after all of that, she “looked around in a blood-soaked gown, and I saw something they can't take away”. She critiques the notion that just ‘getting the man, job, or ‘perfect body’ would be enough.
I hosted parties and starved my body, like I'd be saved by a perfect kiss.” She explains in one line, “I gave my blood, sweat and tears for this.
It opens with all the things she grasped for in life that she thought would ‘fix’ her, from boys, to popularity, to having the ‘perfect body’. Have you ever sat on your own at a panoramic view and felt small? Realised that while you might have friends and family, ultimately it’s you that sits at the driver’s wheel of your own life? That’s the topic of You’re On Your Own Kid, the ‘Track 5’ on the album, historically the most vulnerable one on a TS record.
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