Taylor Swift reminded fans on Tuesday (August 18) that the deluxe editions of Folklore Feature the bonus song, “The Lakes”, now on streaming.
The pastoral, sparse track written and produced by Swift and Jack Antonoff is filled with witty lyrics delivered on acoustic guitar and elegant strings.
“Is it romantic how all my elegies seduce me? / I’m not exterminated for all these cynical clones These hunters with phones,” Swift sings in the first verse before diving into the raging chorus. “Take me to the lakes, where all the poets die / I do not hear and, my dear, you too / Those Windermere peaks seem like a perfect place to cry / I set off, but not without my muse,” sings they, with yet another lyrical allusion to England, this time to Windemere, the nation’s largest natural lake.
The song, which appears on the eight different Deluxe versions of the album, also contains one of Swift’s signature lyrics daggers, aimed at unnamed people trying to get their goat. “What should be buried under my skin / In heartbreaking waves of pain / I have come too far to see some appointing sleaze / Tell me what my words are worth.”
The fresh reveal comes just a day after Swift released a behind-the-scenes video version of “Cardigan” that hides all the Easter eggs hidden in the single from the album that peaked at no. 1 on the Billboard 200 for three weeks.
Listen to “The Lakes” below.
