Taylor Swift: City of Lover Concert (Short 2020)
City of Lover was a one-off concert by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was held at the Olympia theater in Paris, France, on September 9, 2019, slightly over two weeks after the release of Swift's seventh studio album Lover (2019). The concert was reserved for fans who had won tickets through online contests or album purchases. The set list consisted of 16 songs, with eight from Lover and eight from Swift's other albums. City of Lover ran for one hour, and was the only concert that Swift held to promote Lover, after the planned sixth concert tour Lover Fest was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 15, 2020, a television special titled Taylor Swift: City of Lover, filmed at the concert, was broadcast on ABC in the United States. Compared to the original concert, the TV special only included the eight Lover tracks and ran for 42 minutes, including commercials.
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05:00 >> Merci, thank you so much.
05:04 Wow, I think we're gonna have some fun tonight, I really do.
05:09 >> [APPLAUSE]
05:13 >> So, like I said before,
05:15 I had an album called Lover that just came out.
05:19 >> [APPLAUSE]
05:23 >> And honestly,
05:24 it's been one of the most wonderful experiences of my entire life.
05:27 Thank you so much for caring about this album, for listening to it.
05:31 >> [APPLAUSE]
05:34 >> And for wanting to be here, so
05:36 that we could have, in my mind I look at this as like a party,
05:39 like a release party.
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05:45 >> And on this album,
05:46 I've always found love to be a really fascinating thing to write about.
05:51 But with this album, I just decided to really just go into every aspect of love
05:57 that I find fascinating right now.
06:00 With my songwriting, I've always wanted to take a moment,
06:04 a snapshot of a feeling, and explore that feeling.
06:08 And one of the songs on the album that I love and
06:13 feel like really sort of encapsulates the complexity of falling in love is
06:19 the feeling of fear that goes along with finding something really good in your life.
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06:30 >> I think that if any of us have ever
06:34 been let down before, or we've ever felt like maybe we can't trust a good feeling,
06:41 that's what I wrote this next song about.
06:44 It's called The Archer.
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06:52 >> Combat, I'm ready for combat.
06:58 I say I don't want that, what if I do?
07:03 [MUSIC]
07:07 Cuz cruelty wins in the movies.
07:14 I've got a hundred thrown out speeches I almost said to you.
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07:22 Easy they come, easy they go.
07:25 I jump from the train, I ride off alone.
07:29 I never grew up, it's getting so old.
07:33 Help me hold on to you.
07:36 I've been the archer, I've been the prey.
07:44 Who could ever leave me, darling?
07:47 Who could stay?
07:52 Dark side, I search for your dark side.
07:59 What if I'm alright right here?
08:07 I cut off my nose just to spite my face.
08:14 And I hate my reflection for years and years.
08:23 I wake in the night, I pace like a ghost.
08:27 The womb is on fire, invisible smoke.
08:31 And all of my heroes die all alone.
08:35 Help me hold on to you.
08:38 I've been the archer, I've been the prey.
08:45 Screaming who could ever leave me, darling?
08:49 But who could stay?
08:54 Cuz they see right through me, they see right through me.
08:58 They see right through, can you see right through me?
09:02 They see right through, they see right through me.
09:06 I see right through me, I see right through me.
09:10 All the king's horses, all the king's men.
09:13 Couldn't put me together again.
09:17 Cuz all of my enemies started out friends.
09:21 Help me hold on to you.
09:24 I've been the archer, I've been the prey.
09:32 Who could ever leave me, darling?
09:35 Who could stay?
09:39 Who could stay?
09:43 Who could stay?
09:47 Who could stay?
09:51 Who could stay?
09:55 You could stay.
09:57 [cheering]
09:59 [music playing]
10:03 Combat.
10:06 We're ready for combat.
10:08 [cheering]
10:16 [cheering]
10:19 So a lot of these songs on this album that just came out,
10:41 I have never played live before.
10:44 [cheering]
10:47 And you know, I was thinking about it.
10:52 I was thinking about what would be--
10:54 [cheering]
10:57 Just ignore that.
10:58 That's nothing.
10:59 There's nothing there.
11:01 I was thinking about how it would be--
11:03 how I'd really like to play some of these songs
11:06 for the very first time.
11:07 And I was thinking maybe--
11:08 [cheering]
11:10 Maybe the best way to do it would be just playing the songs
11:15 acoustic the way that I wrote them.
11:17 [cheering]
11:19 Is that all right?
11:22 So--
11:23 [cheering]
11:26 With this album, you know, everything on it
11:32 is something that I wrote with one instrument starting out.
11:35 Like, either I would write it on guitar
11:37 or I would write it on piano.
11:39 And so I figured, like, why not try out singing some songs
11:44 for the very first time live here tonight at La Lampia?
11:48 [cheering]
11:50 [music - "the best way"]
11:53 Saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts.
12:04 Flashbacks picking me up.
12:06 I get drunk, but it's not enough 'cause the morning comes
12:10 and you're not my baby.
12:11 I look through the windows of this love,
12:15 even though we boarded them up.
12:17 Chandeliers still flicker in here 'cause I can't pretend.
12:21 It's OK when it's not.
12:23 [cheering]
12:26 It's death by a thousand cuts.
12:28 [cheering]
12:33 I'd just kill my time.
12:36 I'd take the long way home.
12:38 I'd ask the traffic lights if it'll be all right.
12:41 They'd say, I don't know.
12:44 And what once was ours is no one's now.
12:49 I see you everywhere.
12:50 The only thing we share is this small town.
12:54 You said it was a great love, one for the ages.
12:59 The story's over.
13:01 Why am I still writing pages?
13:03 'Cause saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts.
13:07 Flashbacks picking me up.
13:09 I get drunk, but it's not enough 'cause the morning comes
13:13 and you're not my baby.
13:14 I look through the windows of this love,
13:18 even though we boarded them up.
13:20 Chandeliers still flicker in here 'cause I can't pretend.
13:24 It's OK when it's not.
13:26 [cheering]
13:28 It's death by a thousand cuts.
13:30 My heart, my hips, my body, my love,
13:38 trying to find a part of me that you didn't touch.
13:40 Gave up on me like I was a bad drug.
13:43 Now I'm searching for signs in a haunted glove.
13:45 Our songs, our films, united we stand.
13:48 Our country, guess it was a lawless land.
13:51 Quiet my fears with the touch of your hand.
13:53 Paper cut stings from a paper thin glance.
13:56 My time, my wine, my spirit, my trust.
13:59 Trying to find a part of me you didn't take up.
14:01 Gave you too much, but it wasn't enough.
14:04 But I'll be all right, it's just a thousand cuts.
14:08 [cheering]
14:12 I get drunk, but it's not enough 'cause you're not my baby.
14:17 I look through the windows of this love,
14:20 even though we boarded them up.
14:22 Chandeliers still flicker in here 'cause I can't pretend.
14:26 It's OK when it's not.
14:29 No, it's not.
14:31 It's death by a thousand cuts.
14:33 Part of me that you didn't touch.
14:39 My body, my love, my trust.
14:44 But it wasn't enough.
14:46 It wasn't enough, no, no.
14:49 [cheering]
14:52 Take a moment, ask the traffic lights if it'll be all right.
14:57 They say I don't know.
15:00 [cheering]
15:03 Oh, my god, that's so fun singing these new ones.
15:14 Well, there's-- wow.
15:15 OK, so is it OK if I keep playing new songs?
15:19 [cheering]
15:22 Cool, I just had to check.
15:24 There's another song-- there's a song that I wrote on this album
15:28 that--
15:29 [music playing]
15:34 There's a song that I wrote on this album alone.
15:37 And I think I wrote this song actually, like,
15:41 while I was in the bathtub.
15:43 So-- but I-- anyway, just for context.
15:48 But a lot of the time, I'll write songs about, like, nostalgia
15:53 and a lot of memories.
15:54 I like to go back over memories.
15:56 It's almost like, you know, I use songs almost like photographs
16:00 so that I can go back and remember a time
16:02 and remember exactly what it was like to experience it.
16:07 And this is definitely one of those nostalgic ones.
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16:17 (SINGING) We were in the backseat,
16:24 drunk on something stronger than the drinks in the bar.
16:28 I went to a place on Cornelia Street.
16:35 I sit casually in the car.
16:38 There were a fresh page on the desk,
16:45 filling in the blanks as we go.
16:48 As if the streetlights pointed and an arrowhead
16:56 leading us home.
17:01 And I hope I never lose you, hope it never ends.
17:06 I'd never walk Cornelia Street again.
17:11 That's the kind of heartbreak time could never mend.
17:15 I'd never walk Cornelia Street again.
17:20 And baby, I get mystified by how this city screams your name.
17:30 And baby, I'm so terrified if you ever walk away.
17:38 I'd never walk Cornelia Street again.
17:43 I'd never walk Cornelia Street again.
17:47 Windows flung right open, autumn air.
17:54 Jacket 'round my shoulders is yours.
17:57 We bless the rains on Cornelia Street,
18:01 memorize the crates in the floor.
18:03 Back when we were card sharks playing games,
18:11 I thought you were leading me on.
18:14 I packed my bags, left Cornelia Street
18:20 before you even knew I was gone.
18:24 But then you called, showed your hand.
18:27 I turned around before I hit the tunnel,
18:30 sat on the roof, you and I.
18:34 I hope I never lose you, hope it never ends.
18:39 I'd never walk Cornelia Street again.
18:44 That's the kind of heartbreak time could never mend.
18:49 That's the kind of heartbreak time could never mend.
18:54 I'd never walk Cornelia Street again.
18:59 And baby, I get mystified by how this city screams your name.
19:09 And baby, I'm so terrified if you ever walk away.
19:17 I'd never walk Cornelia Street again.
19:22 I'd never walk Cornelia Street again.
19:25 You hold my hand on the street, walk me back to that apartment.
19:37 Years ago, we were just inside.
19:41 Barefoot in the kitchen, sacred new beginnings
19:46 that became my religion.
19:49 Listen, I hope I never lose you.
19:56 I'd never walk Cornelia Street again.
20:00 Oh, never again.
20:11 'Cause baby, I get mystified by how this city screams your name.
20:21 And baby, I'm so terrified if you ever walk away.
20:29 I'd never walk Cornelia Street again.
20:34 I'd never walk Cornelia Street again.
20:38 I don't want to lose you.
20:43 I don't want to lose you.
20:47 Now we're in two place on Cornelia Street.
20:55 I sit casually in the car.
20:59 [cheering]
21:03 [cheering]
21:06 Baby, trust in me, oh.
21:14 I can play you a song.
21:16 I can just light you up.
21:19 Santa play on your door.
21:21 Sittin' in front of the sun tonight, yeah.
21:25 Wondering if I can't play with the fires in my hand.
21:29 [cheering]
21:32 [chanting]
21:35 I would be complex, but I'm cool.
21:45 They say I played the field before I found someone to commit to.
21:49 And that would be OK for me to do.
21:54 Every conquest I had made would make me more of a boss to you.
22:00 I'd be a fearless leader.
22:02 I'd be an alpha type.
22:05 When everyone believes you, what's that like?
22:09 I'm so sick of running as fast as I can.
22:14 Wondering if I'd get that quick or if I was a man.
22:18 And I'm so sick of them coming at me again.
22:22 'Cause if I was a man, then I'd be the man.
22:27 I'd be the man.
22:29 [cheering]
22:31 I'd be the man.
22:33 They say I hustled, put in the work.
22:41 They wouldn't shake their heads and question how much of this I deserve.
22:46 What I was wearing, if I was rude, could I be separated from my good ideas and power moves?
22:56 And they would toast to me, oh, if I played this play.
23:01 I'd be just like Leo in Central Bay.
23:05 I'm so sick of running as fast as I can.
23:10 Wondering if I'd get there quick or if I was a man.
23:14 And I'm so sick of them coming at me again.
23:19 'Cause if I was a man, then I'd be the man.
23:23 I'd be the man.
23:25 [cheering]
23:28 I'd be the man, yeah.
23:32 What's it like to brag about raking in dollars and getting pictures and models?
23:37 And it's all good if you're bad.
23:40 It's OK if you're mad.
23:42 If I was out flashing the dollars, I'd be a bitch, not a baller.
23:47 They paint me out to be bad, so it's OK that I'm mad.
23:53 [cheering]
23:56 [cheering]
24:23 I'm so sick of running as fast as I can.
24:28 Wondering if I'd get there quick or if I was a man.
24:32 You know that I'm so sick of them coming at me again.
24:37 'Cause if I was a man, then I'd be the man.
24:41 I'd be the man, yeah.
24:46 Yeah, I'd be the man, yeah.
24:50 Well, I'd be the man.
24:55 I'd be the man.
24:57 [cheering]
25:03 If I was a man, then I'd be the man.
25:10 [cheering]
25:13 [cheering]
25:16 [music playing]
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25:30 [music playing]
25:33 (upbeat music)
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26:05 (audience cheering)
26:12 (audience cheering)
26:15 (soft music)
26:23 ♪ My love was as cruel as the sentence I lived in ♪
26:39 ♪ Everything looked worse in the light ♪
26:44 ♪ There are so many lines that I've crossed unforgiving ♪
26:49 ♪ I'll tell you the truth but never goodbye ♪
26:55 ♪ I don't wanna look at anything else now that I saw you ♪
27:02 ♪ I don't wanna think of anything else ♪
27:05 ♪ Now that I thought of you ♪
27:09 ♪ Been sleeping so long in a 20 year dark night ♪
27:14 ♪ But now I see daylight ♪
27:18 ♪ I only see daylight ♪
27:21 ♪ Luck of the draw only draws the unlucky ♪
27:26 ♪ So I became the butt of the joke ♪
27:33 ♪ You did the good and I trusted the wicked ♪
27:38 ♪ Clear in the air I breathed in the smoke ♪
27:45 ♪ Maybe you ran with the wolves and refused to settle down ♪
27:49 ♪ Maybe I've stormed out of every single room in this town ♪
27:52 ♪ Threw out our cloaks and our daggers ♪
27:54 ♪ Because it's morning now ♪
27:56 ♪ It's brighter now ♪
27:58 ♪ Now I don't wanna look at anything else ♪
28:01 ♪ Now that I saw you ♪
28:05 ♪ I don't wanna think of anything else ♪
28:07 ♪ Now that I thought of you ♪
28:11 ♪ Been sleeping so long in a 20 year dark night ♪
28:16 ♪ But now I see daylight ♪
28:19 ♪ I only see daylight ♪
28:23 ♪ I only see daylight, daylight, daylight, daylight ♪
28:29 ♪ I only see daylight, daylight, daylight, daylight ♪
28:34 ♪ And I can still see it all in my mind ♪
28:40 ♪ All of you, all of me intertwined ♪
28:43 ♪ I once believed love would be black and white ♪
28:47 ♪ But it's golden ♪
28:50 ♪ And I can still see it all in my head ♪
28:53 ♪ Back and forth from New York, sneaking in your bed ♪
28:56 ♪ I once believed love would be burning red ♪
29:00 ♪ But it's golden ♪
29:03 ♪ But it's golden like daylight ♪
29:07 ♪ Like daylight ♪
29:11 ♪ Like daylight ♪
29:14 ♪ Like daylight ♪
29:18 ♪ I don't wanna look at anything else ♪
29:20 ♪ Now that I saw you ♪
29:23 ♪ I can never look away ♪
29:24 I don't wanna think of anything else now that I thought of you.
29:29 I've been sleeping so long in a 20 year dark night, but now I see daylight.
29:39 I only see daylight.
29:42 I only see daylight, daylight, daylight, daylight.
29:48 I only see daylight, daylight, daylight, daylight.
29:55 I only see daylight, daylight, daylight, daylight.
30:01 I only see daylight, daylight, daylight, daylight.
30:08 You gotta step into the daylight and let it go.
30:14 Just let it go.
30:17 Let it go.
30:19 Thank you.
30:43 [cheering]
30:46 So like we've been talking about all night, this album is about all different types of love.
31:07 All the different facets of love.
31:12 Love is so many things.
31:14 Love is chaos, love is madness, love is joy.
31:18 Love is, in my opinion, equality.
31:23 [cheering]
31:26 And anyone who disagrees with that, in my opinion, needs to calm down.
31:33 [cheering]
31:37 [music playing]
31:40 [cheering]
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32:21 [music playing]
32:24 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
32:28 You think you're going down.
32:31 You're being too loud.
32:34 And it's like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
32:40 Can't you just stop?
32:42 Can you just not step on the gallows?
32:45 You think you're going down.
32:47 [CHEERING]
32:51 [MUSIC - LILI RAY, "LIGHT"]
32:55 You are somebody that we don't know.
33:00 But you're coming at my friends like a missile.
33:02 Why are you mad?
33:05 Well, you could be mad.
33:07 You could be mad.
33:09 Sunshine on the street at the parade.
33:11 But you would rather be in the dark ages making that sign.
33:16 Must have taken all night.
33:19 You just need to take several seats and then try to restore the peace and control
33:23 your urges to scream about all the people you hate.
33:28 The shade never made anybody less gay.
33:31 So, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
33:36 You think you're going down.
33:39 You're being too loud.
33:41 And I'm just like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
33:47 Can you just stop?
33:50 Can you just not step on this gallows?
33:53 You think you're going down.
33:55 [CHEERING]
33:59 And we see you over there on the internet, comparing all the girls who are killing it.
34:05 But we figured you out.
34:07 We all know now.
34:09 We all got crowns.
34:10 You need to calm down.
34:11 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
34:15 You need to calm down.
34:18 You're being too loud.
34:20 You're being too loud.
34:21 And I'm just like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
34:27 You need to just stop.
34:30 Can you just not step on the gallows?
34:33 You think you're going down.
34:35 [CHEERING]
34:39 [MUSIC - LILI RAY, "STOP"]
34:42 You need to just stop.
34:52 Can you just not step on the gallows?
34:55 You think you're going down.
34:57 [CHEERING]
35:01 [MUSIC - LILI RAY, "STOP"]
35:05 [CHEERING]
35:08 So I think if I had to pick a song that is probably
35:19 my favorite, one that I've written at this particular moment in time,
35:24 I would have to say that it's the next song that I'm about to play.
35:27 I wrote this one--
35:29 I wrote this one alone.
35:30 In the middle of the night, I got this idea.
35:33 And I was just like--
35:35 I just went to the piano, sort of stumbled over the piano, sat down.
35:40 And this song just happened so quickly.
35:42 And it's moments like that in songwriting
35:45 that keep it my favorite thing to do in the world,
35:49 because it keeps it magical, and it keeps it mysterious.
35:52 I just love those moments.
35:53 And then seeing this song go out into the world
35:56 and watching people sway to it and fall in love to it--
36:01 [CHEERING]
36:04 This one's called "Lover."
36:05 [CHEERING]
36:09 [MUSIC - LILI RAY, "LOVER"]
36:24 We could leave the Christmas lights up till January.
36:31 This is our place.
36:32 We make the rules.
36:36 And there's a dazzling haze, mysterious way about you, dear.
36:41 Haven't known you 20 seconds in 20 years.
36:50 Can I go where you go?
36:57 Can we always be this close forever and ever?
37:04 And take me out, take me home.
37:11 You're my, my, my, my lover.
37:19 [CHEERING]
37:23 We could let our friends crash in a living room.
37:33 This is our place.
37:35 We make the call.
37:39 And I'm highly suspicious that everyone who sees you wants you.
37:46 I've loved you three summers now, honey, but I want more.
37:53 Can I go where you go?
38:00 Can we always be this close forever and ever?
38:07 And take me out, take me home.
38:13 Forever and ever, you're my, my, my, my lover.
38:22 Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand?
38:25 With every guitar string scar on my hand,
38:29 I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover.
38:36 My heart's been borrowed and yours has been blew.
38:39 All's well that ends well to end up with you.
38:43 Swear to be overdramatic and true to my lover.
38:50 And you'll say all your dirtiest jokes for me.
38:56 At every table, I'll save you a seat, lover.
39:04 Can I go where you go?
39:11 Can we always be this close forever and ever?
39:19 And take me out, take me home.
39:23 Forever and ever, you're my, my, my, my.
39:31 Oh, you're my, my, my, my.
39:38 Darling, you're my, my, my, my lover.
39:46 So guys, this has been the most fun possible.
39:58 I love you so much.
40:00 Thank you.
40:01 Thank you so much if you traveled to be here.
40:03 Thank you so much if you just walked down the street
40:05 to be here.
40:07 We've had the most amazing time with you this evening.
40:10 [cheering]
40:25 [music - "we'd still worship"]
40:29 (SINGING) With religions in your lips, even if it's a false god.
40:36 We'd still worship.
40:37 We might just get away with it.
40:41 The altar is my hips, even if it's a false god.
40:48 We'd still worship this love.
40:51 We'd still worship this love.
40:54 We'd still worship this love.
40:57 We'd still worship this love, even if it's a false god.
41:05 Bye.
41:07 [typing]
41:10 [ding]
41:11 (keyboard clicking)