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Taylor Swift’s ‘The entire Girls You Loved Before’ Lyrics Appear to Address Joe Alwyn’s Romantic Past

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March 17, 2023

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Taylor Swift delivered 4 gifts to fans on the eve of her first show on The Eras tour, dropping 4 recent songs: three Taylor’s Versions of previously released tracks and a never-before-heard one, “The entire Girls You Loved Before,” a vault track from her Lover album.

The title appears to be a riff off of the famous YA book and Netflix film series To All of the Boys I’ve Loved Before; the screen adaptation first got here out in 2018 when Swift was making Lover.

And lyrically, it appears to be Swift’s musing on a romantic partner’s past, seemingly boyfriend Joe Alwyn’s, before her and her thanking her predecessors for making her partner the person he’s now.

Swift’s lyrics, reminiscent of “Every woman that you just knew brought you here / I wanna teach you ways perpetually seems like” and “All of the ladies you’ve got loved before (Ooh) / Made you the one I’ve fallen for / Every dead-end street led you straight to me,” denote how serious she is about him and the way she sees their love as serious, endgame, and fated.

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Many love songs on Lover were actually about Swift’s current boyfriend Alwyn, whom she has dated since fall 2016. The album even sparked fan speculation that they could have secretly gotten married. In fact, within the years since, neither Swift nor Alwyn have even confirmed this and even the opposite rumor they’re secretly engaged. Alwyn told WSJ magazine last April of engagement talk, “If I had a pound for each time I feel I’ve been told I’ve been engaged, then I’d have quite a lot of pound coins. I mean, the reality is, if the reply was yes, I wouldn’t say, and if the reply was no, I wouldn’t say.”

Still, back when Lover was released in August 2019, Alwyn and Swift were about three years into their romance and were seriously dating. One other love song exploring their relationship and the history leading as much as them finding one another doesn’t seem misplaced in any respect—especially one with lyrics that reference other Swift songs about Alwyn.

Here, the lyrics via Genius to absorb and dissect, with some notes on references. You possibly can take heed to the track below:

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All Of The Girls You Loved Before

Watch onYouTube IconYouTube IconWhile you think of all of the late nights
Late fights over the phone
Get up within the mornin’
With someone, but feeling alone

A heart is drawn ’round your name
In someone’s handwriting, not mine
We’re sneakin’ out into town
Holdin’ hands, just killing time
Your past and mine are parallel lines
Stars all aligned, they intertwined
And taught you the way in which you call me “baby”
Treat me like a woman, all that I can say is

It’s value noting that in 2018, E! reported how Swift and Alwyn literally snuck across the U.K. to maintain their privacy while dating (“we’re sneakin’ out into town / holdin’ hands”), and The Sun reported they wore disguises while out. “Unless you are a part of her inner circle, you would not know when she is or is not here,” a source told E!. “[Taylor] barely leaves a trace.” Lyrically, Genius users noted that Swift had similar lines about stars being aligned in Midnights’ “Mastermind” (also believed to be abut Alwyn; “Once upon a time, the planets and the fates / And all the celebs aligned / You and I ended up in the identical room / At the identical time) and their paths and past aligning in folklore’s “Invisible String” (“And is not it just so pretty to think / All along there was some / Invisible string / Tying you to me?”)

Chorus
All of the ladies you’ve got loved before (Ooh)
Made you the one I’ve fallen for
Every dead-end street led you straight to me
Now, you are all I would like, I’m so thankful for
All of the ladies you’ve got loved before
And I like you more

When I feel of all of the makeup
Fake love out in town (Ooh)
Cryin’ in the toilet for some dude
Whose name I cannot remember nowFans on Genius suggested this “dude” was likely Jake Gyllenhaal, as Swift sang about crying in the toilet in two Red songs seemingly about him, “The Moment I Knew” (“And there in the toilet / I try to not collapse / And the sinking feeling starts / As I say hopelessly / “He said he’d be here”) and “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” (“Not weeping in a celebration bathroom / Some actress asking me what happened, you, that is what happened, you.”)

Pre-Chorus
Secret jokes on their lonesome
Nobody’s home, sixteen and wild (Ooh)
We’re breakin’ up, makin’ up
Leave without saying goodbye (Ooh)
Just know that it’s every little thing that made me
Now, I call you “baby,” that is why you are so amazing

All of the ladies you’ve got loved before (Ooh)
Made you the one I’ve fallen for
Every dead-end street led you straight to me
Now, you are all I would like, I’m so thankful for
All of the ladies you’ve got loved before
And I like you more

Bridge
Your mother brought you up loyal and sort
Teenage love taught you there’s good in goodbye
Every woman that you just knew brought you here
I wanna teach you ways perpetually seems like