"All's Fair in Love and Poetry" is the eleventh song and second promotional single from Taylor Swift's thirteenth studio album, The 13th. It was released on July 31st 2027, through Republic Records.
Background[]
All's Fair in Love and Poetry is track eleven on Swift's album The 13th. The song is made up of lyrics from her prelude of The Tortured Poets Department, and is the second longest song on the entire album, despite having very little lyrics.
Lyrics[]
[Verse 1]
Here I stand within the barriers
Filled with poets and writers
The clink from the pens filled with ink
The scratch, scratch, scratch on parchment
Filled the room over a dreadful silence
[Chorus]
And so I enter into evidence
My tarnished coat of arms
My muses acquired like bruises
My talismans and charms
The tick, tick, tick, of love bombs
My veins of pitch black ink
[Bridge]
They say fear the shit words that they speak from thy mouths
When they should fear the weapons they hold
The shield and the arrows they wield
Aimed straight for my heart
The thump, thump, thump of heartbeats
My love cold as ice
[Chorus]
And so I enter into evidence
My tarnished coat of arms
My muses acquired like bruises
My talismans and charms
The tick, tick, tick, of love bombs
My veins of pitch black ink
[Outro]
All's fair in love and poetry...
Sincerely,
The Chairman of The Tortured Poets DepartmentLyric Video[]
The thumbnail for the lyric video is a grey file, and exact copy of the one from The Tortured Poets Department album prelude.