Ranked: Taylor Swift’s Track 5:  With Taylor’s 12th studio album – The Life of a Showgirl – released on October 03, 2025, I decided it’s time to update my ranking of her track five songs! Feel free to comment below and let me know your own rankings! 12. Cold As You (Self-Titled) The first of them all… while Cold As You is not a bad song (it’s Taylor’s favorite from her debut), it’s just not as good as the others. It’s still a heartfelt message, though, falling for someone who mistreated you no matter how much you tried to love them. Ah, life. Best Lyrics: You put up walls and paint them all a shade of gray // And I stood there loving you and wished them all away. 11. White Horse (Fearless) Romeo save me, I’ve been feelin’ so alone… Just kidding. White Horse is the complete opposite of Love Story, also found on Fearless. White Horse is about wanting the fairy tale but realizing it’ll never be. Taylor is growing up and moving on. Best Lyrics: This is a big world, that was a small town // There in my rear view mirror disappearing now.  10. All You Have To Do Was Stay (1989) Definitely one of Taylor’s more upbeat-sounding tracks, five songs, but it’s still about a relationship that’s ending because her lover can’t seem to make up his mind. I hate to say it’s a fun song, but it’s definitely fun to sing! Best Lyrics: This was what you wanted / You ended it / You were all I wanted 09. Eldest Daughter (The Life of a sHOWGIRL) The Life of a Showgirl is a really fun pop album that I’ve enjoyed listening to and getting to know better. It’s lovely to hear Taylor’s happiness in this record, and, as usual, Eldest Daughter clearly holds great significance for her. I do enjoy the entire song, but I think it’s the bridge that really makes it what it is. It’s just the rest of the song hadn’t quite gripped me in the same way. Best Lyrics: We lie back // A beautiful, beautiful time lapse // Ferris wheels, kisses and lilacs // And things I said were dumb // ‘Cause I thought that I’d never find that beautiful, beautiful life that // Shimmers that innocent light back // Like when we were young 08. Delicate (Reputation) This was the album where we began to get small windows into Taylor’s new relationship. After the Kimye drama and being “canceled”, she withdrew from the spotlight and found love. But of course, there’s a lot of insecurity there, and Taylor’s not really sure if she can say what’s on her mind without scaring off her new love. She’s no longer on the pop pedestal, so if this guy wants her, he’s got to want her and not what she could do for him – fame and exposure. It’s a vulnerable song and has one of my favorite TS videos. Best Lyrics: This ain’t for the best // My reputation’s never been worse, so you must like me for me 07. The Archer (Lover) The Archer is not the first song Taylor has written about her anxiety in a new relationship (Out of the Woods, Delicate), but it may be her best yet. She acknowledges her own faults, the things she’s done in the past to lose friends and push them away, while asking her lover what it will take to hold onto him. The genius of The Archer is that it feels like there should be a beat drop… you can sense it coming, but it never does… instead, the song ends… and Taylor said that’s what anxiety feels like for her… always waiting for relief and never getting it. Best Lyrics: I’ve been the archer, I’ve been the prey // Screaming, who could ever leave me, darling? // But who could stay? 06. Dear John (Speak Now) Hey John Mayer, why do you gotta be such a jerk? Also, you were 32. You shouldn’t be dating a 19-year-old.  Best Lyrics: But I took your matches before fire could catch me // So don’t look now //I’m shining like fireworks over your sad empty town 05. My Tears Richocet While Taylor has never said it outright, it’s wildly believed that this song is about Taylor’s relationship with Scott Borchetta and how he sold her masters to Scooter Braun after Taylor left Big Machine for Republic. Borchetta was a father figure to Swift from the beginning and had a close relationship with her family, which made the betrayal feel personal. Swift uses the imagery of someone showing up to the funeral of a person they had tormented for years. She also mentions the “stolen lullabies” which allude to her masters. This feels like a highly personal song for Swift, and she reveals it’s the first one she wrote (alone) for folklore. Best Lyrics: And I still talk to you (When I’m screaming at the sky) // And when you can’t sleep at night (You hear my stolen lullabies) 04. So Long London (The Tortured Poets Department) It’s always difficult when a long-term relationship ends, whether it is amicable or not. Sometimes, what looks perfect on the surface is anything but, and I think Taylor beautifully portrays the difficulties of her relationship with Joe Alwyn in this song. So many people can relate to trying desperately to save a relationship that may have run its course, but eventually, one must accept when it’s over, especially if the other person isn’t willing to put in the same kind of effort you are. So Long, London isn’t full of bitterness or resentment… just a melancholy that comes with separating from the person you once thought was The One. Best Lyrics: You swore that you loved me, but where were the clues? I died on the altar waiting for the proof. You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days. 03. tolerate it (evermore) Whether in a romantic relationship or not, haven’t we all had that one person in our lives who we loved, gave everything to, and got