Merenungi Cinta yang Karam dalam You're Losing Me dari Taylor Swift

Atau seperti pada lirik "and all I did was bleed as I tried to be the bravest soldier/ Fighting in only your army", yang tampak merujuk pada The Great War dalam Midnights (2022), "soldier down on that icy ground", soal konflik besar dalam hubungan.

Selain itu juga lirik "frontlines, don't you ignore me" bagai merujuk pada kisah pasangan yang diabaikan seperti dalam lagu tolerate it di album evermore (2020), "I made you my temple, my mural, my sky / now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life".

"And I wouldn't marry me either, a pathological people pleaser," lantun Swift.

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Namun yang menarik pada bagian bridge ini adalah Swift tidak menghubungkannya dengan bait atau verse lain, melainkan langsung berujung outro atau penutup. Biasanya, Swift akan memberikan verse ketiga setelah bridge di mana lirik akan berulang ataupun berganti yang mengubah jalan cerita lagu.

Hal ini bagai pernyataan Swift bahwa memang kisah cinta ini tak lagi ada jalan ceritanya dan berakhir dengan kalimat penutup yang tegas sekaligus meremukkan perasaan: "stop, you're losing me/ I can't find a pulse, my heart won't start anymore".

Akhir bridge itu bagai sebuah pernyataan bahwasanya sebuah keputusan tetap harus diambil untuk hubungan yang sudah tak lagi bergairah dan di ambang kematian. 

Emosi yang memuncak dan lebih menguras perasaan dalam bridge ini juga didukung dengan melodi serta aransemen musik dari Jack Antonoff yang memang sudah paham betul bagaimana menguatkan cerita dari lirik yang ditulis Taylor Swift.

Terlepas dari kisah Taylor Swift dan Joe Alwyn yang kini sudah menjadi masa lalu, lagu You're Losing Me (From The Vault) lagi-lagi menunjukkan kelihaian Swift sebagai seorang penutur atas hidupnya sendiri. (Christopher Polk/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Image)

Setelah lebih banyak kalem dan pakai denyut Swift di bagian awal dan tengah, Antonoff mendramatisasi permainan musik saat mulai masuk bridge dan membiarkan emosi Swift berbicara dengan sendirinya.

Dengan komposisi ini, You're Losing Me (From The Vault) bahkan terasa sama menyedihkannya dengan All Too Well (10 Minute Version), meski tanpa ada emosi amarah dan hanya berisi kekecewaan juga harapan yang buntu.

Terlepas dari kisah Taylor Swift dan Joe Alwyn yang kini sudah menjadi masa lalu, lagu ini lagi-lagi menunjukkan kelihaian Swift sebagai seorang penutur atas hidupnya sendiri, yang secara ajaib mampu beresonansi dengan pendengarnya.

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Lirik You're Losing Me (From The Vault) dari Taylor Swift:

You say, "I don't understand"
And I say, "I know you don't"
We thought a cure would come through
In time, now, I fear it won't
Remember lookin' at this room
We loved it 'cause of the light
Now, I just sit in the dark and wonder if it's time

Do I throw out everything we built or keep it?
I'm getting tired even for a phoenix
Always risin' from the ashes
Mendin' all her gashes
You might just have dealt the final blow

Stop, you're losing me
Stop, you're losing me
Stop, you're losing me
I can't find a pulse
My heart won't start anymore for you
'Cause you're losing me

Every mornin', I glared at you with storms in my eyes
How can you say that you love someone you can't tell is dyin'?
I sent you signals and bit my nails down to the quick
My face was gray, but you wouldn't admit that we were sick

And the air is thick with loss and indecision
I know my pain is such an imposition
Now, you're running down the hallway
And you know what they all say
"You don't know what you got until it's gone"

Stop, you're losing me
Stop, you're losing me
Stop, you're losing me
I can't find a pulse
My heart won't start anymore for you
'Cause you're losing me
'Cause you're losing me
Stop (Stop), 'cause you're losing me

My heart won't start anymore
(Stop, 'cause you're losing me)
My heart won't start anymore
(Stop, 'cause you're losing me)

How long could we be a sad song
'Til we were too far gone to bring back to life?
I gave you all my best me's, my endless empathy
And all I did was bleed as I tried to be the bravest soldier
Fighting in only your army
Frontlines, don't you ignore me
I'm the best thing at this party
(You're losing me)
And I wouldn't marry me either
A pathological people pleaser
Who only wanted you to see her
And I'm fading, thinkin'
"Do something, babe, say something"
(Say something)
"Lose something, babe, risk something"
(You're losing me)
"Choose something, babe, I got nothing"
(I got nothing)
"To believe, unless you're choosing me"

You're losing me
Stop (Stop, stop), you're losing me
Stop (Stop, stop), you're losing me
I can't find a pulse, my heart won't start anymore