Every time Taylor Swift sang about marriage before Travis Kelce engagement
After singing about it for nearly 20 years, Taylor Swift is finally getting married.
The “Love Story” songstress and her NFL star beau, Travis Kelce, announced their exciting engagement in a joint Instagram post on Tuesday.
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“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” Swift, 35, wrote alongside a sweet snap of Kelce, also 35, down on one knee in a colorful garden.
Another pic showed Swift’s radiant engagement ring, which Page Six reported is an old mine brilliant-cut diamond in a gold bezel setting that her future husband designed himself.
But before there was Taylor and Travis, there was just a girl and her guitar.
In honor of the couple’s happy engagement news, here are all the times Swift sang about marriage in the lyrics of her hit songs.
‘Mary’s Song’
After signing with Big Machine Records in 2005, Swift released her debut album, “Taylor Swift,” on October 24, 2006.
The self-titled record included “Mary’s Song,” a fan favorite song said to be about how the West Reading, Pennsylvania, native’s neighbors fell in love.
“A few years had gone and come around / We were sitting at our favorite spot in town / And you looked at me, got down on one knee,” Swift sang.
“Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle / Our whole town came and our mamas cried / You said I do and I did too,” she added.
‘Fifteen’
Two years later, the now 14-time Grammy winner returned to the subject of marriage for her 2008 album “Fearless.”
“Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday / But I realized some bigger dreams of mine,” Swift sings in “Fifteen.”
‘Love Story’
One of Swift’s first big hits, “Love Story,” marked a new take on William Shakespeare’s infamous “Romeo and Juliet.”
But unlike the original play, this “Fearless” tune had a happy ending for the titular characters.
“He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring / And said, Marry me, Juliet / You’ll never have to be alone / I love you and that’s all I really know / I talked to your dad, go pick out a white dress / It’s a love story, baby, just say, Yes,” Swift wrote.
‘We Were Happy’
“We Were Happy” was not heard until she released “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” in 2021.
“No one could touch the way we laughed in the dark / Talkin’ ’bout your daddy’s farm and you were gonna marry me.”
‘Speak Now’
This title track from Swift’s third album is packed with wedding imagery.
It follows a girl “rudely barging in on a white veil occasion” in an effort to stop a groom from “marrying the wrong girl.”
“I hear the preacher say, Speak now or forever hold your peace / There’s the silence, there’s my last chance,” Swift sings.
“I stand up with shaky hands, all eyes on me / Horrified looks from everyone in the room, but I’m only looking at you.”
‘Foolish One’
Another track that was not heard until “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)” was released in 2023, “Foolish One” sees Swift wanting someone who is already taken.
“‘Cause you got her on your arm and me in the wings / I’ll get your longing glances, but she’ll get your ring.”
‘Timeless’
“In the 1500s, off in a foreign land / And I was forced to marry another man / You still would’ve been mine / We would have been timeless,” the pop superstar sings in this track from “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).”
‘Starlight’
This tune from Swift’s fourth album, “Red,” was said to be inspired by a photo she saw of Robert F. Kennedy and his wife, Ethel Kennedy, as teenagers.
“Ooh-ooh, we could get married / Have ten kids and teach ’em how to dream.”
‘How You Get the Girl’
“I want you for worse or for better,” Swift, echoing wedding vows, sings on “1989.”
‘Paper Rings’
“I like shiny things / But I’d marry you with paper rings,” she sings in this track from her 2019 record, “Lover.”
‘I Think He Knows’
“I think he knows he’d better lock it down / Or I won’t stick around ’cause good ones never wait,” Swift sings during the second verse of this “Lover” track.
‘It’s Nice to Have a Friend’
“Church bells ring, carry me home / Rice on the ground looks like snow,” she wrote, invoking a traditional wedding day.
‘The Last Great American Dynasty’
This song, which marks a track on 2020’s “Folklore,” was said to be inspired by Rebekah and Bill Harkness’ 1947 wedding.
Swift bought the Rhode Island mansion that Rebekah once lived in.
“The wedding was charming, if a little gauche,” she sings.
‘Champagne Problems’
“Sometimes you just don’t know the answer ’til someone’s on their knees and asks you / ‘She would’ve made such a lovely bride, what a shame she’s f–ked in the head,’ they said,” Swift sings in this “Evermore” ballad.
“But you’ll find the real thing instead / She’ll patch up your tapestry that I shred,” she includes.
‘Right Where You Left Me’
“Friends break up, friends get married,” Swift wrote for the beginning of this “Evermore” hidden gem.
‘Lavender Haze’
Swift kicked off 2022’s “Midnights” with this hit.
“All they keep asking me is if I’m gonna be your bride / The only kind of girl they see is a one-night or a wife.”
‘Midnight Rain’
“He was sunshine, I was midnight rain / He wanted it comfortable, I wanted that pain / He wanted a bride, I was making my own name / Chasing that fame, he stayed the same / All of me changed like midnight,” the chorus of “Midnight Rain” goes.
‘High Infidelity’
“Storm coming, good husband / Bad omen / Dragged my feet right down the aisle,” Swift sings during this track’s second verse.
‘You’re Losing Me’
“And I wouldn’t marry me either / A pathological people pleaser / Who only wanted you to see her,” Swift sings in this track that she released in 2023 shortly after splitting from actor Joe Alwyn after six years together.
‘The Tortured Poets Department’
This title track from Swift’s 2024 album is rumored to be about her relationship with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy.
“At dinner, you take my ring off my middle finger / And put it on the one people put wedding rings on / And that’s the closest I’ve come to my heart exploding,” she sings.
‘So Long, London’
“You swore that you loved me, but where were the clues? / I died on the altar waitin’ for the proof,” she sings in this “Tortured Poets Department” track, once again about her split from Alwyn.
‘But Daddy I Love Him’
“No, you can’t come to the wedding / I know he’s crazy, but he’s the one I want,” Swift sings, possibly about Healy before their June 2023 split.
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“If you know it in one glimpse, it’s legendary / You and I go from one kiss to getting married,” Swift sings in this popular “TTPD” track.
“You s–t-talked me under the table / Talkin’ rings and talkin’ cradles,” she adds later.
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“Whether I’m gonna be your wife or / Gonna smash up your bike, I haven’t decided yet,” goes this track, which is once again rumored to be about Swift and Healy’s whirlwind romance.
‘So High School’
“Are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me / It’s just a game, but really / I’m bettin’ on all three for us two,” Swift sings in her first song said to be about Kelce.
‘How Did It End?’
“First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage,” she spins the classic nursery rhyme for this “TTPD” track.
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