My mashup of "Karma" by Taylor Swift x "Don't You (Forget About Me)" by Simple Minds

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© Taylor Swift / Republic / EMI 
© Simple Minds / Virgin Records Ltd

Taylor Swift "Karma" x Simple Minds "Don't You (Forget About Me)" Mashup

Two-Faced

LYRICS:

This wet grass
Belongs to someone else
A colony of creatures 
Who don’t think so much 

My home is never still
It’s polished stone 
Down an endless hallway 
Dark against the heat

Never saw your house
Never felt a part of mine 
It was the works 
Machinery
Behind a swinging door
Gone still
Without a matriarch 
To send people through
And through  

This roving us 
Is our own soft extension 
Of her country-sized invitation
Soft as the short highs
In your room  
In a time 
When too much sweet
Was just playing 
And the playing kept on 
Even when
The tide was high
And sighing
Between our scheming

And the music
We set ourselves to 
Late morning
That morning 
Seemed all to rage 
The instruments inflamed 
By so many years
Of not playing
And not minding
Until suddenly 
Rain crashed down  
And they realized they did

But that’s just an interpretation 
Just as loving you’s
An interpretation of you 
I should have sung with them 
A long time ago
The heat is intolerable 
In its persistence 
At the same high 
For these decades

Worse than an acceleration 
But I won’t lose control 
As long as I see myself  
As a silent witness  
Too young to think 
What to listen to
Or how to listen out

The little round gold mirror
Asked me to be rounder 
And more gold 
When I greet her now 
I’m still looking past the face 
For some other face 
I’m not finding
There’s no one after all 
Guaranteed to meet me
Anywhere
But me 

You catch the words 
Of that menace sometimes
The muddy end of a sentence
But you don’t know her 
You know me 
So come on 
I keep saying
It’s you and I

We’re not the problem 
It’s the unclasping
Of every hand
I’ve ever held 
It’s that I wouldn’t know 
A place to land
If I saw one
If I saw one

This roving us 
Is our own soft extension 
Of her country-sized invitation
Soft as the short highs
In your room  
In a time 
When too much sweet
Was just playing 
And the playing kept on 
Even when
The tide was high
And sighing
Between our scheming

And the music
We set ourselves to 
Late morning
That morning 
Seemed all to rage 
The instruments inflamed 
By so many years
Of not playing
And not minding
Until suddenly 
Rain crashed down  
And they realized
They realized they did

Gold

See You

LYRICS:

Everyone wants to feel speed 
The sudden leaving behind  
Of what’s so clearly
On the way

Run the field  
Near where he was born 
That’s where I breathe
I promise that I’m standing by
All his color changes there  

I don’t want to hear the world 
The rinsing that it does 
There is a loose rope of years  
Between him and me 
And the truth comes and goes 
I’m just no good at it

Be his woman
But he’ll fall down 
All the places I’ve been 
Try and try to catch a lip
All the way down 
And hurt to understand
Where there is

So I stop
Telling him things 
And I stop telling myself
The telling is not a game
Run the field  
Near where he was born 
That’s where I breathe 
And I promise that I’m standing by
All his color changes there 

Time moves so fast
I can’t see the choice I made
Was even made
Just a fate celebrated
And I can’t see the face in the trees
Where you once carried me

The universe in the grass
Heard it too
And danced along with us
Or was it just an endless startling
The quiet day sleepers
Were knocked off their feet
So it was with me

Under the moon the cooling embers
Blinked on and off like the stars
And you lost me
And found me
In your head
Your own chattering party
Wrapped in a pattern
The light could still get through

Weren’t you always going
But you let me know where to
Which way, you said
I’ll help you lose your way, you said
One more go round
High on your horse
But not brandishing anything
Just breathing
Just wondering
If you’d ever see what I did

All the painted ponies dancing
Aren’t they a remembrance too
Of something leaving
Or something long gone

In the midnight dim
I always think I see
Something hiding
But it’s just your shadow
Still dancing
Whatever your affliction
Might have been
I’ll carry it now for you
Forever

I don’t want to hear your words
The tiny indentations they make
In the level world
I’m trying to build
The fog blurs the city
It blurs the path too

Forget me
But you’ve forgotten everything
Sometimes alive
Sometimes seen
The earth still walks with you

To the spots you liked to camouflage
So quick when it came
To finding someplace new
Only the climbers
Felt so sure of the stone
And they wanted our silence too

In the wrong shoes
At the wrong time
The wrong coat
The wrong vibe

You say
See how I was meant
To make you feel safe
Well didn’t I
Didn’t I
See the pains I made
To show you
You can trust more people
Than just who you love
And trust who you love more
Well didn’t I
Didn’t I
Didn't I

It’s brighter here
Time moves so fast
I can’t see the choice I made
Was even made
Just a fate celebrated
And I can’t see the face in the trees
Where you once carried me

The universe in the grass
Heard it too
And danced along with us
Or was it just an endless startling
The quiet day sleepers
Were knocked off their feet
So it was with me

Under the moon the cooling embers
Blinked on and off like stars
And you lost me
And found me
In your head
Your own chattering party
Wrapped in a pattern
The light could still get through

Weren’t you always going
But you let me know where to
Which way, you said
I’ll help you lose your way, you said
One more go round
High on your horse
But not brandishing anything

Just breathing
Just wondering
If you’d ever see what I did
All the painted ponies dancing
Aren’t they a remembrance too
Of something leaving
Or something long gone

In the midnight dim
I always think I see
Something hiding
But it’s just your shadow
Still dancing
And whatever your affliction
Might have been
I’ll carry it now for you
Forever

Elsie Winter

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