If This Was a Movie

If This Was a Movie is the post-breakup "if only." She knows reality won't rewind, yet can't stop scripting it: if this were a film, wouldn't you come back about now?

Every time I hear it I'm a little heartbroken and a little amused. That "I know it's silly but I can't stop" fixation — who hasn't had it? Taylor writes that childish, refuse-to-wake hope as pitiful and adorable.

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