{"id":52858,"date":"2022-10-21T09:02:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T08:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/?page_id=52858"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:17:50","slug":"the-great-war","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/midnights\/midnights-songs\/the-great-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great War"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"52858\" class=\"elementor elementor-52858\" data-elementor-settings=\"{&quot;ha_cmc_init_switcher&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5131a13e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"5131a13e\" 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data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44ce5982 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"44ce5982\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cThe Great War\u201d is the fourteenth track on Taylor\u2019s tenth studio album, <a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/midnights\/\"><em>Midnights<\/em><\/a> (2022). It is also the first bonus song on the record\u2019s <em>3am Edition<\/em>. Written and produced by Taylor and Aaron Dessner, it details a devastating conflict within a romantic relationship and how to overcome it.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e68596d elementor-widget elementor-widget-table-of-contents\" data-id=\"e68596d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;headings_by_tags&quot;:[&quot;h3&quot;,&quot;h5&quot;],&quot;exclude_headings_by_selector&quot;:[],&quot;no_headings_message&quot;:&quot;No headings were found on this page.&quot;,&quot;marker_view&quot;:&quot;numbers&quot;,&quot;hierarchical_view&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;min_height&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;min_height_tablet&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;min_height_mobile&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]}}\" data-widget_type=\"table-of-contents.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toc__header\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-toc__header-title\">\n\t\t\t\tTable of Contents\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-toc__e68596d\" class=\"elementor-toc__body\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toc__spinner-container\">\n\t\t\t\t<i class=\"elementor-toc__spinner eicon-animation-spin eicon-loading\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34ec0b0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"34ec0b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Background and Release<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-508e55e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"508e55e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOn August 28, 2022, Taylor announced her tenth studio album, <em>Midnights<\/em>, set for release on October 21, 2022. On October 16, she posted a short video on her social media that presented a schedule of the days leading up to the album release, entitled \u201cMidnight Manifest\u201d. On it, Taylor also teased a \u201cSpecial very chaotic surprise\u201d happening 3 hours after the albums release. This materialized into a digital and streaming only version of the album titled <em>Midnights (3am Edition)<\/em>, containing an additional seven songs that according to Taylor were written but removed to keep the album at 13 songs. One of those songs is \u201cThe Great War.\u201d Taylor said:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-80c7767 elementor-blockquote--align-left elementor-blockquote--skin-border elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"80c7767\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"blockquote.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"elementor-blockquote\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-blockquote__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\u00abI think of <i>Midnights<\/i> as a complete concept album, with those 13 songs forming a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour. However! There were other songs we wrote on our journey to find that magic 13. I\u2019m calling them 3am tracks. Lately I\u2019ve been loving the feeling of sharing more of our creative process with you, like we do with 'From The Vault' tracks. So it\u2019s 3am and I\u2019m giving them to you now.\u00bb\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-q-footer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"elementor-blockquote__author\">Taylor Swift<\/cite>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0d7cc5b elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"0d7cc5b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-9609324988608069\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9609324988608069\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5073846900\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9ef9e5d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"9ef9e5d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Lyrical Theme and Production<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fc2f7f5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fc2f7f5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOne of the stellar Aaron Dessner collaborations tucked away on the <em>Midnights (3am Edition)<\/em>, \u201cThe Great War\u201d goes into the question of how emotional battles happen and how to end them, especially when you realize you\u2019re the one firing the cannons. It\u2019s a dilemma Taylor has written about her whole career, from her teen ballad \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/taylor-swift-album\/taylor-swift-songs\/cold-as-you\/\">Cold As You<\/a>\u201d to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/lover-album\/lover-songs\/afterglow\/\">Afterglow<\/a>.\u201d Aaron told the podcast <em>Broken Record<\/em> in April 2023 that he had started working on certain songs that ended up on <em>Midnights<\/em> in March 2021. His collaboration with Taylor continued afterwards, even as the album started becoming something different than what they had initially thought:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c2ed12d elementor-blockquote--align-left elementor-blockquote--skin-border elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"c2ed12d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"blockquote.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"elementor-blockquote\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-blockquote__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\u00abEventually she obviously made most of <i>Midnights<\/i> with Jack and it became something different, but we made 'Would've, Could've, Should've, 'High Infidelity', 'The Great War' and 'Hits Different' together. And it was great to be a part of that record in that way. It was really special.\u00bb\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-q-footer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"elementor-blockquote__author\">Aaron Dessner<\/cite>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-221ac00 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"221ac00\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe World War One imagery and martial drums are fitting for a song about how easy it is for two hearts to dig themselves into trenches. But \u201cThe Great War\u201d also doubles as a tribute to the type of lover who can help rescue you from your own destructive instincts, the kind you want on your side.\n<br><br>\nIn 2024, Taylor included \u201cThe Great War\u201d as the first track in her <a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/wiki\/brand-deals\/apple-music\/\">Apple Music <\/a>playlist named \u201cAm I Allowed to Cry?\u201d, which she introduced by saying:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e2907e1 elementor-blockquote--align-left elementor-blockquote--skin-border elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"e2907e1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"blockquote.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"elementor-blockquote\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-blockquote__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\u00ab[These are] songs that I've written when I was in the bargaining stage. Times when, you know, you're trying to make deals with yourself or someone that you care about. You're trying to make things better. You're often times feeling really desperate. Because often times we have we have a sort of gut intuition that tells us things are not gonna go the way that we hope. Which makes us more desperate, which makes us bargain more.\u00bb\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-q-footer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"elementor-blockquote__author\">Taylor Swift<\/cite>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-91881fb elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"91881fb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Live Performances<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e5b4e4f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e5b4e4f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cThe Great War\u201d received its first live performance acoustically on guitar on April 14, 2023, in Tampa during one of Taylor\u2019s shows on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/tours\/taylor-swift-the-eras-tour\/\">The Eras Tour<\/a>\u201d (2023-2024). Aaron Dessner was the surprise guest and accompanied her on a second guitar. Taylor introduced him and the song by saying:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-11a4b17 elementor-blockquote--align-left elementor-blockquote--skin-border elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"11a4b17\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"blockquote.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"elementor-blockquote\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-blockquote__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\u00abIn the last couple of years I discovered sort or like the collaborator version of a soulmate. I met a guy named Aaron Dessner and he's so incredibly brilliant. We have made so much music together in the last couple years...it's actually ridiculous how much music we made together. We started with <i>folklore<\/i>, then went onto <i>evermore<\/i>, and he's been so helpful with the re-records we're doing. And we are so lucky tonight, Tampa, Florida, because Aaron Dessner is here! [...] We wanted to perform a song for you that we did together, if that's cool. And you know, this song really took on a new meaning when you guys made enough jokes about how you tried to get tickets for this tour, and it felt like surviving The Great War.\u00bb\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-q-footer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"elementor-blockquote__author\">Taylor Swift<\/cite>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9e29dd9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9e29dd9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOn June 14, 2024, Taylor performed an acoustic mashup of \u201cThe Great War\u201d with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/midnights\/midnights-songs\/you-are-losing-me\/\">You\u2019re Losing Me<\/a>\u201d in Liverpool. In Indianapolis on November 3, 2024, she paired it with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/lover-album\/lover-songs\/death-by-a-thousand-cuts\/\">Death By A Thousand Cuts<\/a>\u201d (2019).\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d9f1ad8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"d9f1ad8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-9609324988608069\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9609324988608069\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5301208462\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f560e3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2f560e3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Critical Reception<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f5272dc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f5272dc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cThe Great War\u201d received acclaim from music critics. Rob Sheffield of <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> ranked it at No. 20 out of all of Taylor\u2019s 229 songs (as of October 2022), praising the use of World War One metaphors and the correlating production.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-da776c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"da776c4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Commercial Performance<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-760d48f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"760d48f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn the United States, songs from <em>Midnights<\/em> occupied the entire Top 10 of the <em>Billboard Hot 100<\/em>; a historic feat. \u201cThe Great War\u201d debuted at No. 26 on the chart. Taylor became the first artist to simultaneously occupy the Top 10 spots of the <em>Hot 100<\/em>; the female artist with the most Top 10 songs (40); and the first act to occupy the entire Top 10 of the <em>Hot 100<\/em>, <em>Streaming Songs<\/em>, and <em>Digital Songs<\/em> charts simultaneously. <em>Midnights<\/em> also became the first album in history to contain ten Top 10 songs.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-244eb13 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"244eb13\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-48e97b4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"48e97b4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Lyrics<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6e7c9f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c6e7c9f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>[Verse 1]<\/strong><br \/>My knuckles were bruised like violets<br \/>Sucker punching walls<br \/>Cursed you as I sleep talked<br \/>Spineless in my tomb of silence<br \/>Tore your banners down<br \/>Took the battle underground<br \/>And maybe it was egos swinging<br \/>Maybe it was her<br \/>Flashes of the battle come back to me in a blur<\/p><p><strong>[Chorus 1]<\/strong><br \/>All that blood shed<br \/>Crimson clover<br \/>Uh-huh, sweet dream was over<br \/>My hand was the one you reached for<br \/>All throughout the Great War<br \/>Always remember, uh-huh<br \/>Tears on the l\u0435tter, I vowed<br \/>Not to cry anymore<br \/>If w\u0435 survived the Great War<\/p><p><strong>[Verse 2]<\/strong><br \/>You drew up some good faith treaties<br \/>I drew curtains closed<br \/>Drank my poison all alone<br \/>You said I have to trust more freely<br \/>But diesel is desire<br \/>You were playing with fire<br \/>And maybe it\u2019s the past that\u2019s talking<br \/>Screaming from a crypt<br \/>Telling me to punish you for things you never did<br \/>So I justified it<\/p><p><strong>[Chorus 2]<\/strong><br \/>All that blood shed<br \/>Crimson clover<br \/>Uh-huh, the bombs were closer<br \/>My hand was the one you reached for<br \/>All throughout the Great War<br \/>Always remember, uh-huh<br \/>The burning embers, I vowed<br \/>Not to fight anymore<br \/>If we survived the Great War<\/p><p><strong>[Post-Chorus]<\/strong><br \/>Uh-huh, uh-huh<\/p><p><strong>[Bridge]<\/strong><br \/>It turned into something bigger<br \/>Somewhere in the haze<br \/>Got a sense I\u2019d been betrayed<br \/>Your finger on my hairpin triggers<br \/>Soldier down on that icy ground<br \/>Looked up at me with honor and truth<br \/>Broken and blue<br \/>So I called off the troops<br \/>That was the night I nearly lost you<br \/>I really thought I\u2019d lost you<\/p><p><strong>[Verse 3]<\/strong><br \/>We can plant a memory garden<br \/>Say a solemn prayer<br \/>Place a poppy in my hair<br \/>There\u2019s no morning glory<br \/>It was war, it wasn\u2019t fair<br \/>And we will never go back to that<\/p><p><strong>[Chorus 3]<\/strong><br \/>Bloodshed<br \/>Crimson clover<br \/>Uh-huh, the worst was over<br \/>My hand was the one you reached for<br \/>All throughout the Great War<br \/>Always remember, uh-huh<br \/>We\u2019re burned for better, I vowed<br \/>I would always be yours<br \/>\u2018Cause we survived the Great War<\/p><p><strong>[Outro]<\/strong><br \/>Uh-huh, uh-huh<br \/>I will always be yours<br \/>\u2018Cause we survived the Great War<br \/>Uh-huh<br \/>I vowed I will always be yours<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-152a1cb elementor-share-buttons--view-icon elementor-share-buttons--skin-framed elementor-share-buttons--color-custom elementor-share-buttons--shape-square elementor-grid-0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-share-buttons\" data-id=\"152a1cb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"share-buttons.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-grid\" role=\"list\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-grid-item\" role=\"listitem\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-share-btn elementor-share-btn_facebook\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"Share on 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider__text elementor-divider__element\">\n\t\t\t\tGeneral Information\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fed76dc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fed76dc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<table><tbody><tr><th>Artist<\/th><td><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/biography\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Album<\/th><td><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/midnights\/\">Midnights<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Released<\/th><td>October 21, 2022<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Recorded<\/th><td>2021<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Studio<\/th><td>Long Pond (Hudson Valley)<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Genre<\/th><td>Indie Pop<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Length<\/th><td>4:00<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Label<\/th><td><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/wiki\/republic-records\/\">Republic Records<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Songwriters<\/th><td>Taylor Swift<br \/>Aaron Dessner<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Producers<\/th><td>Aaron Dessner<br \/>Taylor Swift<\/td><\/tr><tr><th class=\"infobox-header description\" style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\"><h6>MIDNIGHTS CHRONOLOGY<\/h6><\/th><\/tr><tr><td class=\"infobox-full-data\" colspan=\"2\"><table><tbody><tr><td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/midnights\/midnights-songs\/mastermind\/\">Mastermind<\/a><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\"><strong>The Great War<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/midnights\/midnights-songs\/bigger-than-the-whole-sky\/\">Bigger Than The Whole Sky<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ee8b39c elementor-widget-divider--view-line_text elementor-widget-divider--element-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"ee8b39c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider__text elementor-divider__element\">\n\t\t\t\tSong Certification\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6fe5be7 elementor-widget 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It is also the first bonus song on the record\u2019s 3am Edition. Written and produced by Taylor and Aaron Dessner, it details a devastating conflict within a romantic relationship and how to overcome it. Table of Contents Background and Release On August 28, 2022, Taylor announced her tenth studio album, Midnights, set for release on October 21, 2022. On October 16, she posted a short video on her social media that presented a schedule of the days leading up to the album release, entitled \u201cMidnight Manifest\u201d. On it, Taylor also teased a \u201cSpecial very chaotic surprise\u201d happening 3 hours after the albums release. This materialized into a digital and streaming only version of the album titled Midnights (3am Edition), containing an additional seven songs that according to Taylor were written but removed to keep the album at 13 songs. One of those songs is \u201cThe Great War.\u201d Taylor said: \u00abI think of Midnights as a complete concept album, with those 13 songs forming a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour. However! There were other songs we wrote on our journey to find that magic 13. I\u2019m calling them 3am tracks. Lately I\u2019ve been loving the feeling of sharing more of our creative process with you, like we do with \u2018From The Vault\u2019 tracks. So it\u2019s 3am and I\u2019m giving them to you now.\u00bb Taylor Swift Lyrical Theme and Production One of the stellar Aaron Dessner collaborations tucked away on the Midnights (3am Edition), \u201cThe Great War\u201d goes into the question of how emotional battles happen and how to end them, especially when you realize you\u2019re the one firing the cannons. It\u2019s a dilemma Taylor has written about her whole career, from her teen ballad \u201cCold As You\u201d to \u201cAfterglow.\u201d Aaron told the podcast Broken Record in April 2023 that he had started working on certain songs that ended up on Midnights in March 2021. His collaboration with Taylor continued afterwards, even as the album started becoming something different than what they had initially thought: \u00abEventually she obviously made most of Midnights with Jack and it became something different, but we made \u2018Would\u2019ve, Could\u2019ve, Should\u2019ve, \u2018High Infidelity\u2019, \u2018The Great War\u2019 and \u2018Hits Different\u2019 together. And it was great to be a part of that record in that way. It was really special.\u00bb Aaron Dessner The World War One imagery and martial drums are fitting for a song about how easy it is for two hearts to dig themselves into trenches. But \u201cThe Great War\u201d also doubles as a tribute to the type of lover who can help rescue you from your own destructive instincts, the kind you want on your side. In 2024, Taylor included \u201cThe Great War\u201d as the first track in her Apple Music playlist named \u201cAm I Allowed to Cry?\u201d, which she introduced by saying: \u00ab[These are] songs that I\u2019ve written when I was in the bargaining stage. Times when, you know, you\u2019re trying to make deals with yourself or someone that you care about. You\u2019re trying to make things better. You\u2019re often times feeling really desperate. Because often times we have we have a sort of gut intuition that tells us things are not gonna go the way that we hope. Which makes us more desperate, which makes us bargain more.\u00bb Taylor Swift Live Performances \u201cThe Great War\u201d received its first live performance acoustically on guitar on April 14, 2023, in Tampa during one of Taylor\u2019s shows on \u201cThe Eras Tour\u201d (2023-2024). Aaron Dessner was the surprise guest and accompanied her on a second guitar. Taylor introduced him and the song by saying: \u00abIn the last couple of years I discovered sort or like the collaborator version of a soulmate. I met a guy named Aaron Dessner and he\u2019s so incredibly brilliant. We have made so much music together in the last couple years\u2026it\u2019s actually ridiculous how much music we made together. We started with folklore, then went onto evermore, and he\u2019s been so helpful with the re-records we\u2019re doing. And we are so lucky tonight, Tampa, Florida, because Aaron Dessner is here! [\u2026] We wanted to perform a song for you that we did together, if that\u2019s cool. And you know, this song really took on a new meaning when you guys made enough jokes about how you tried to get tickets for this tour, and it felt like surviving The Great War.\u00bb Taylor Swift On June 14, 2024, Taylor performed an acoustic mashup of \u201cThe Great War\u201d with \u201cYou\u2019re Losing Me\u201d in Liverpool. In Indianapolis on November 3, 2024, she paired it with \u201cDeath By A Thousand Cuts\u201d (2019). Critical Reception \u201cThe Great War\u201d received acclaim from music critics. Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone ranked it at No. 20 out of all of Taylor\u2019s 229 songs (as of October 2022), praising the use of World War One metaphors and the correlating production. Commercial Performance In the United States, songs from Midnights occupied the entire Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100; a historic feat. \u201cThe Great War\u201d debuted at No. 26 on the chart. Taylor became the first artist to simultaneously occupy the Top 10 spots of the Hot 100; the female artist with the most Top 10 songs (40); and the first act to occupy the entire Top 10 of the Hot 100, Streaming Songs, and Digital Songs charts simultaneously. Midnights also became the first album in history to contain ten Top 10 songs. Lyrics [Verse 1]My knuckles were bruised like violetsSucker punching wallsCursed you as I sleep talkedSpineless in my tomb of silenceTore your banners downTook the battle undergroundAnd maybe it was egos swingingMaybe it was herFlashes of the battle come back to me in a blur [Chorus 1]All that blood shedCrimson cloverUh-huh, sweet dream was overMy hand was the one you reached forAll throughout the Great WarAlways remember, uh-huhTears on the l\u0435tter, I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52868,"parent":48813,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52858","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Great War | Taylor Swift Switzerland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cThe Great War\u201d is the first bonus track on Taylor Swift\u2019s album Midnights (3am Edition) [2022]. 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