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ACT
4
READING DURATION
5 Mins
Written by
Taylor Swift
(Tilted Page) Official Enchanted (Lyric Video)
lyrics
VISUAL ARTIFACTS
(Above) Still Digital Installation by Pongpond Karnsubwedchkij
The Fairytale Path
The Enchanted scene draws from the tour's stage design, which used large trees to create an enchanted forest setting. We built on that toward something with a stronger fairytale quality a forest that feels like it has a castle waiting at the end of the path.
This scene also serves as foreshadowing for the album's journey. Right now the forest is beautiful and full of possibility. But the path ahead is uncertain, and Haunted will soon bring the viewer into a very different kind of forest.
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This night is sparkling, don't you let it go,
I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home
"Wonderstruck" is the word Taylor chose for a feeling bigger than excitement—something
like awe mixed with joy. This line catches that exact moment.
DEEP ANALYSIS
One Night Enchanted by Everything That Might Never Come
"The whole entire way home, I remember the glittery New York City buildings passing by, and then just sitting there thinking, am I ever going to talk to this person again? And that pining away for a romance that may never even happen, but all you have is this hope that it could, and the fear that it never will."
- Taylor Swift, Yahoo! Music, 2010
But in that night, everything is still suspended in the air. Excitement and fear. Hope and uncertainty. Mixed together in a way that feels alive. Taylor wrote Enchanted in a single night after returning to her hotel, which gives the song a raw and immediate quality that longer-written songs sometimes don't have.
Enchanted captures a feeling that's rare and specific—the window between meeting someone for the first time and everything that might follow. A night when you don't know anything yet, but feel everything all at once. It's a feeling with a short lifespan. With time, things either become clearer or fade.
(Above) Still Digital Installation by Pongpond Karnsubwedchkij
(Right) Photo by Christie Goodwin
the NARRATIVE
LYRICS
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