Track listing
13. The Life of a Showgirl (Original Songwriting Voice Memo / Act 1)
14. The Life of a Showgirl (Original Songwriting Voice Memo / Act 2)
15. The Fate of Ophelia (Original Songwriting Voice Memo)
16. Father Figure (Original Songwriting Voice Memo)
17. Honey (Original Songwriting Voice Memo)
18. CANCELLED! (Original Songwriting Voice Memo)
19. Eldest Daughter (Original Songwriting Voice Memo)
The Life of a Showgirl (Original Songwriting Voice Memo / Act 1)
The Life of a Showgirl (Original Songwriting Voice Memo / Act 1)
[Chorus: Taylor Swift]
And you’re never ever gonna
Babe, come a little closer, babe
[?] you don’t know the life of a showgirl, babe
And you’re never, ever gonna
[Spoken: Taylor Swift & Max Martin]
How do you, how do you?
It’s literally just written down
I was just- That- I- I look like I’m texting but I’m always just looking at
Oh, okay
[Chorus: Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Taylor Swift & Max Martin, Shellback]
And then I say, “Come a little closer to me”
[?] you don’t know the life of a showgirl, babe
That’s good
And you’re never gonna
And- and you’re never, ever gonna
Hey
Come a little closer I say
Whispеr in the dark ’cause you don’t know the lifе of a showgirl, babe (Yeah)
And you’re never, ever gonna
You don’t know the life of a showgirl, babe
Showgirl, babe (Yeah)
And you’re never, ever gonna
Haha
Na-na-na, the life of a showgirl, babe (Yeah)
And you’re never, ever gonna stay
I say
[?] you don’t know the life of a showgirl, babe
And you’re never, ever gonna
Hey, look into the mirror and say
[?] ’cause you don’t know the life of a showgirl, babe
And you’re never, ever gonna
Haha, [?]
[?]
Haha, oh we’re doing it again
[?]
[Spoken: Taylor Swift]
Oh, gorgeous
[Verse: Taylor Swift & Max Martin]
She made her first mili’
By being pretty and witty
Got the keys to this city and then they all said she didn’t do it legitly
You’re young so you don’t know
That the keys are the price and in that hole, they push you in it
Push the dirt up over your skin and bones
But all you gotta [?]
I [?] na-na-na, na-na, na-na-na-na-na ([?])
[Spoken: Max Martin]
Did you have- do you have a pick- pickup?
Or the [?]
[Chorus: Taylor Swift & Shellback]
Babe, I look into the mirror and say
Little baby doll, you don’t know the life of a showgirl, babe
And you’re never, ever gonna
Hey (Wow)
You brought me to the mirror and say (Wow)
[?] ’cause you don’t know the life of a showgirl, babe
And you’re never gonna wanna
[Spoken: Max Martin, Taylor Swift & Shellback]
Is the title “Showgirl, Babe?”
“The Life of a Showgirl”
“The Life of a Showgirl”
“The Life of a Showgirl”
Yeah, wow
And maybe that’s the album title too
Yeah
Wow
“The Life of a Showgirl”, yeah
“The Life of a Showgirl”
The Life of a Showgirl (Original Songwriting Voice Memo / Act 2)
The Life of a Showgirl (Original Songwriting Voice Memo / Act 2)
[Spoken: Taylor Swift & Max Martin]
I’m recording, I’m recording
If you, if you, um
It could be an answering thing
Like, uh, we played before
[Chorus: Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift & Max Martin]
You don’t know the life of a showgirl, babe
And you’re never gonna wanna
[Bridge: Taylor Swift & Max Martin]
[?]
Do something like
I took her pearls of wisdom, hung them from my neck
I paid my dues with every bruise, I knew what to expect
Nowadays you can skate inside the ice inside my veins
They ripped me off like false lashes and threw me away
And all thе headshots on the walls
Of the dancе hall are of the bitches
Who wish I’d hurry up and die
But honey, I’m immortal now
I couldn’t if I tried
[Spoken: Taylor Swift, Shellback & Max Martin]
Something, I don’t know, you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
May-may-maybe, okay, sorry
It should be fluent
Li-li-like
I love what you did though
I have it
The Fate of Ophelia (Original Songwriting Voice Memo)
The Fate of Ophelia (Original Songwriting Voice Memo)
Hold tight, oh my, oh my
Da-da-da-da-da-da
Da-da, alright
With nothing on your hand, oh my
Devine
Da-da-da-da-da-da
Just to feel your love
The fate of Ophelia
The fate of Ophelia
Is there anyway you can get the, like
I like the, on the second half
You’re singing
I could do whatever the melody was
I was just, I’m just, um
Yeah but I kind of like the
I was wielding my power
It is sad that you died
I feel you love
Oh-oh-oh
And then what’s?
Dun-da-da-da-dun (In my grave)
Dun-dun-da-da-da-da-dun
Is that what you’re talking about?
No-no-no, so you sing something with the grave
You dug me out of my grave
You saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia
Yeah, so in the first half you’re doing
Da-pa-da-de-da-da-towеr
A-ba-da-de-da-da-power
Do you like that?
I lovе
Yeah, I think maybe if we could keep that would be great
Your original thing
So blo- tha- so- this is- so let’s- so this is how we do it
Yeah
Let’s start from the beginning
Hey, uh, also
So I spent years in my tower
I was just honing my powers
But I could feel it all
Mm, you dug me out of my grave and then-then you stole from the fate of Ophelia
You solutions for everything don’t you?
Yeah
Hm
Do you have three words, you can sing before the-
This is not the words this is just simple
‘Cause in the night
Yes, yes
‘Cause in the night
Yeah
‘Cause-’cause by-
‘Cause in the night
You dug me out of my grave and then-then you solved from the fate of Ophelia
Yeah, but also before that, uh
‘Cause that’s in the second half, right?
Yeah, so it’ll go into the chorus
So going into the chorus it’s the three words the same way
Yes, yes, yeah
And then
They sent me, um
And that was
It could be too as well, but just, I mean
Do-do-do-do
So I spent years in my tower
Was just honing my powers
I could feel it all
Dun-dun-dun-da
You dug me out of my grave and then-then
Heart from the fate of Ophelia
Hm
The grave there
You dug me out of my grave and then
I get saved from the fate of Opheli-
So there’s like a break with grave and-
Yeah
You sav-
You dug me out of my grave and
Saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia
Oh-haha
Father Figure (Original Songwriting Voice Memo)
Father Figure (Original Songwriting Voice Memo)
Wanna hear my two lines of the first—for the second verse? I’m really, really happy about them
Sorry, just a melody thing, sorry, sorry, so I don’t forget
Ending the little tail, like, for one, mm-mm-mm
Stuck in the cold
Pulled up to you in the Jag’, turned your rags
Down into gold
Yeah
Pulled up to you in the Jag’, turned your rags into gold
The winding road leads to the Chateau
The Chateau
You remind me
Okay
Two, three, four
The winding—
Do you wanna go from the first of the first verse?
One, two, three, four
When I found you, you were lost, wayward, stuck in the cold
Pulled up to you in the Jag’, turned your rags into gold
The winding road leads to the Chateau
You remind me of a younger me
I saw potential
I’ll be your father figure
I’ll drink that brown liquor
I can make deals with the devil
Because my dick’s bigger
This love is pure profit
Just step into my office
Don’t cry, I know what you need
Leave it with me
I protect the family
Leave it with me
Almost like you want, almost like
Leave it with me, just drums and vocals in the hook
Yeah
I protect the family
Leave it with me
I protect the family
Can I read you these first two lines of the second verse? I’m so excited about it
Two, three, oh, read
I wanna sing it
Two, three, four
I pay the check before it kisses the mahogany grain
I said “They all wanna see you rise, they don’t want you to reign”
Said “They all want you to rise, they don’t want you to reign”
They want you to rise, they don’t want you to stay
Well, I can teach you all the nam-na, the tricks of the trade
I taught you all the tricks of the trade
Uh, yeah, yeah, the trade’s right there
Ah
Teach you all the tricks of the trade
And I, and I showed you all the tricks of the trade
And I, then I showed you all the tricks of the trade
It’s all leading to a battle
Yeah, yeah
Between, like, Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker
Yeah
Uh
Darth Vader and the Emperor, haha
Mm
Great
Uh, I showed you, uh
Great, great, great
Honey (Original Songwriting Voice Memo)
Honey (Original Songwriting Voice Memo)
Yeah
One, two, three, four
Oh-oh-oh
You can call me anything you want, anything you want, you want
Ooh-ooh-ooh
You can call me anytime you want if you mean ir when you talk
Yeah
When you talk, or like, yeah
Yeah, yeah, love
When you talk
I’m gonna record to remember those notes, maybe those notes, or not exactly, but they are, but play through the chorus, one, two, three, four
Honey
He was standing in the bathroom, white tee
He was saying that skirt didn’t fit me and I cried the whole way home
If anyone called me “honеy”
He was standing at the bathroom, white tee
You wеre saying that skirt don’t fit me and I cried the whole way home
But you
Ooh-ooh-ooh
You can call me anything you want, anything you want, you want
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Oh, wait, wait, wait
But doesn’t it go then into
You love my face
Redefine all of those blues
When you say “Honey”
Post tune, bla-bla-bla
You can call me anything you want, anything you want, you want
That’s what I think it is
‘Cause we go into that
You touch my face
Jazzy
Redefine all of those blues
It’s last in this key
But then we go back to the chorus chords
La-da-na-na
You can call me anything you want, anything you want, you want
Na-na-na
You can call me anytime at all, as long as you mean it when you talk
So we don’t have that in the bridge?
Touch my face
That’s the pre
Right there
Face, redefine all of those blues
When you say “Honey”
The bridge
Ah-ah-ah
You can call me anything you want, anything you want, you want
It’s in the chorus, but it’s like that
I think it’s like, it’s like
A pre-chorus going into this, like, explosive pop post-hook of just, ’cause, I just, I think that’s what it is
No, no, no, I’m saying
When you say “Honey”
So, you’re saying, ’cause you’re still, so, so, so
Just to try to find my
Okay, here
Um
So you’re saying that the
So that’s a part
And then the you, is that like a—
That’s like a pre-chorus
That’s like your verse
The way I’m looking at it, in terms of just structurewise
The first thing we hear is
If anyone called me sweetheart
Right?
Then you go into
But you touch my face
Redefine all of those blues
When you say
Then the track gets bigger
Honey
And it’s romantic
It sounds romantic
You can tell me anything you want, anything you want, you want
Right
You can call me anytime at all, ’cause you mean it when you talk
That’s how it goes
It could be, I don’t know
And then what happens after that, like, the hook?
If anyone called me late night
It was in a different manner
My mind
He was saying
It could be just one of those—
I think we have to record the chorus to get it
It’s a little confusing in my head
But I love that thing
Yeah
It’s just like, where do we—
‘Cause I was in love with the verse idea
But let’s record with instruments
Yeah
CANCELLED! (Original Songwriting Voice Memo)
CANCELLED! (Original Songwriting Voice Memo)
Best in the da-na-na-na
Yeah, just so we get the front now, we were skipping one round, sorta thing
I know, I know, yeah
It’s a good thing I like my friends cancelled
I like ’em cloaked in Gucci and in scandal
Like my whiskey sour
La-lan turn by the hour
And la-ta-ta in wonderworld
They did something sour
Down-druh sour
Never got so dark, but you, now you know who your friends are
That’s where it starts over, right?
So what are we saying?
I kinda wanna do—
No
Welcome to my underworld
Yes, it gets quite dark
At least you know who your real friеnds are
And—
That’s the final thing in it, right?
Can I—Yeah
Okay, yеah, I love that
Alright
So, just we know, what happens after “Like my whiskey sour?”
And dun-dun-dowda flowers
Welcome to my underworld
Yes, it does get dark
Now
No, do the whole thing
Okay
Good thing I like my whiskey sour
My lost and thorny flowers
Welcome to my underworld
With the best bad scars
Fun-da-ferra and da-fenta-far
Who your friends are
It’s the one with matching scars
I think we need to fix the chords there in the end
To make it, (Yeah) to figure out
Well, we like the “Like my whiskey sour and da-da-da,” I like that
Welcome to my…
What are you playing?
So, like my whiskey sour
Da-da-da-ah
Welcome to my…
I do love that chord to go to eventually to resolve it
Let’s do it
Welcome to my…
Uh, from the uh—
Where are we?
So the first chord of the chorus.
Welcome to my… Underworld
What was that? What was the cancelled? I like my
I actually think we need to go back to that first chord of the entire song with the underworld.
Said good thing I like my friends canceled.
I like them cloaked in Gucci and in scandal.
Now you’re turning sour
Like bark and thorny flowers
Welcome to my underworld
We’re the fancy side
It’s so funny, ’cause it gets quite dark
Your friends are
Like
Welcome to my underworld
Da-da-da, dark
Na-na-na, you know
It’s a da-da cause it gets quite
Who your friends are
You know what I mean?
Welcome to my underworld
Yes, it gets quite dark
But at least you know who your friends are
Yeah, yeah but is that
Are you saying that’s the end of the hook?
Kind of, like, it’s like
Welcome to my underworld
Yes, it gets quite dark
The water’s not fun
It’s got tons of, loads of sharks
Like, welcome to my underworld
Like, you know what I mean?
Like, we’ll figure out what to do there, but at least you know who your friends are.
They’re the ones with matching scars.
Eldest Daughter (Original Songwriting Voice Memo)
Eldest Daughter (Original Songwriting Voice Memo)
I’ll tell you something
I would come running, never gonna let you drown, never gonna let you drown.
We were singing the melody over different chords
I think we need to listen to our original idea and like play it for Max and just kind of like see where he takes it, because I think we’re, like, I think… Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah
The original idea was like…
Never gonna let you down, never gonna let you down
Do you just want to keep the same chorus?
Mhmm
You and me gotta stand [?]
But what if we do it one time?
Because that sounded, whatever I was on to…
Yeah, like…
Never gonna let you down, never gonna let you down, never gonna let you down.
Never gonna let you down, never gonna let you down, never gonna let you down.
Never gonna let you down, never gonna let you down.
So sick