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Why Fans Think Taylor Swift Wrote 'The Manuscript' About Ex John Mayer


Taylor Swift seemingly drew inspiration from her relationship with ex John Mayer for 'The Tortured Poets Department' track 'The Manuscript'

“In the age of him, she wished she was thirty / And made coffee every morning in a Frеnch press / Afterwards she only atе kids’ cereal / And couldn’t sleep unless it was in her mother’s bed,” she sings. John Mayer and Taylor SwiftDimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for VEVO“The Manuscript” also has a moment of hindsight, with Swift singing, “Lookin’ backwards / Might be the only way to move forward … And at last / She knew what the agony had been for.” Ahead of TTPD ’s release, Swift dropped five curated Apple Music playlists inspired by the stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance.

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