Mary’s Song

Parallels between Longus' Daphnis and Chloe (Ancient Text) and (Contemporary Song) by Taylor Swift

ltc-admin, 2015-03-13 12:47
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The song is about a boy and girl who grow up and play together. When they are teenagers they realize that they love each other. “Well, I was sixteen when suddenly I wasn’t that little girl you used to see.” “I dared you to kiss me and ran when you tried” reminds me of Daphnis and Chloe’s first kiss. Like Daphnis and Chloe, the song has a lot of pastoral elements such as them looking at the stars, being by the creek beds, and being in the tree house.

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She said, ‘I was seven and you were nine I looked at you like the stars that shined In the sky, the pretty lights’ ‘And our daddies used to joke about the two of us Growing up and falling in love And our mommas smiled and rolled their eyes’ And said, ‘Oh, my, my, my’ Take me back to the house in the backyard tree Said you would beat me up, you were bigger than me You never did, you never did Take me back when our world was one block wide I dared you to kiss me and ran when you tried Just two kids, you and I, oh, my, my, my, my Well, I was sixteen when suddenly I wasn’t that little girl you used to see But your eyes still shined like pretty lights And our daddies used to joke about the two of us They never believed we’d really fall in love And our mommas smiled and rolled their eyes And said, ‘Oh, my, my, my’ Take me back to the creek beds we turned up Two A.M, riding in your truck And all I need is you next to me Take me back to the time we had our very first fight Slamming our doors instead of kissing goodnight You stayed outside ’til the morning light, oh, my, my, my, my A few years had gone and come around We were sitting at our favorite spot in town Then you looked at me, got down on one knee Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle Our whole town came and our mommas cried You said, ‘I do’ and I did too Take me home when we met so many years before Where we rock our babies on the very front porch After all this time, you and I When I’ll be 87 you’ll be 89 I’ll still look at you like the stars that shine In the sky, oh, my, my, my

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Mary’s Song