Taylor/Kanye

I'm not sure who Taylor/Kanye are singing about but thay are each talking about an individual and not really the world at large.

With Taylor she sings to a 32 somehting person telling them to keep bekieving. Taylor never refers to herself but sings of that person the entire time. Taylor refers to how the world perceives how a 32 year old should act and play a role in the world. How the individual doesn't matter as much as the public at whole. Even after saying this she wants them to believe that they still are an individual. someone unique and beautiful as much so as when they were young and people took time out to pay attention to them, "Wasn't it beautiful when you bleieved in everything? And everybody beilieved in you?...". She implies that she well always be that person who take the time to flatter and pet them.

On the flip side Kanye si telling their audience to run away.Kanye takes the time to point out options available. He also speands time pointing out his own flaws, "Never was much of a romantic. I could never take the intimacy. And I know it did damage...". He care somewhat for the person he is singing to as that he longer wants to hurt them but refuses to take the initiative. Instead he wants them to leave him, to blame him. Kanye doesn't even hint that he will change he simply wants it all to stop.

both Taylor and Kanye point out that it is the person they are singing to hurting themselves. That the world is cruel but it is the individual who is allowing it to be cruel to them not so much the other way around.

It's a bleak output on the world but is it in someway true? "It can't hurt you unless you let it." There are things that may bother one person more than another but if it weren't for human need to protect, as much as it is in our nature to harm, the world would have fallen apart long ago. We all know the world spins, scientific fact, but a person's "own littled world" spins too. It's the only way to explain why time flies when having fun or when the world stops spinning when something devastating happens. But the world "keeps spinning". No matter how dark the times the sun always comes around again. It's that hope that knowing of the sun that guides us. That gets the 32 year old out of bed to try and the beaten down to have faith in those who need it even if they don't appreciate it.