Three Years After Expressing Her Resentment At Life Away From The Spotlight In “Bejeweled,” Taylor Swift Has Shared Her Wish For The World To Leave Her And Travis Kelce Alone

If you didn’t know, Ophelia is a famous character from the William Shakespeare play Hamlet who descends into madness after being cruelly rejected by the titular character. Her ultimate fate is that she drowns in a brook, with it left ambiguous whether this was suicide or accidental. 

And Taylor really reiterates how much she truly believes that Travis “saved” her, saying elsewhere in the song that she is now “no longer drowning and deceived / All because you came for me.”

“You were dancing through the lightning strikes / Oh, so sleepless in the onyx night / But now the sky is opalite,” she goes on. “Never met no one like you before / You had to make your own sunshine.”

The star explicitly says that all of her bad experiences had left her “superstitious,” not to mention suspicious of any prospective new suitor, admitting that she had her “fingers crossed” until Travis reached for her hand. 

In a similar vein to “Opalite,” Taylor references how she and Travis “make [their] own luck” rather than depending on things to unfold naturally, and her newfound confidence in her love life is drummed home with the line: “Girls, I don't need to catch the bouquet / To know a hard rock is on the way.”

“The curse on me was broken by your magic wand,” she later adds, even referencing Travis’s podcast with the lyric: “New Heights of manhood.”

But through all of the sexual references on this album, Taylor also reveals that she is now longing for a quiet, happily ever after with Travis. 

Taylor also shares how she hopes she has finally found her “best friend” who she thinks “is hot,” quipping: “I thought I had it right once, twice, but I did not.” 

She goes on to admit of Travis’s interest: “You caught me off my guard,” before reiterating her hope that they’re now in it for the long run.

“When you say ‘honey’ you give it different meaning 'cause you mean it when you talk,” she sings. “Honey, I'm home, we can play house / We can bed down, pick me up, who's the baddest in the land? What's the plan? / You could be my forever-night stand.”

“When anyone called me late night / He was screwing around with my mind / Asking, ‘What are you wearing?’ Too high / To remember in the morning,” she sings. “And when anyone called me ‘Lovely’ / They were finding ways not to praise me / But you say it like you're in awe of me / And you stay until the morning.”