Dancing with our Hands Tied- Avalanche of Chemistry [Part K]

Logistical Info:

Remember we’re looking at words in the lyrics of Question… to try to decipher who and what and when.

We’ve almost gone through the entire song, pulling lyrics containing the same words to get a sort of consensus or feeling about Taylor’s intention.

Now that we’re toward the end of Question… lyrics, we need to address the central part of the song: Kiss in a crowded room. And the kiss really brings to mind Dancing with our Hands Tied and maybe Kissgate.

We will analyze Dancing with our Hands Tied to see if it parallels Question….

Except this particular line within Dancing with our Hands Tied got a bit long because I really don’t know for sure and there was no solid direction to take the analysis. I will go into it in detail in this post so the guesses don’t overwhelm the analysis of the song as a whole.

And I’ll spell out my conclusions from this post in the full analysis of Dancing with our Hands Tied. But that post was getting very long and I was afraid nobody would read it. So to make things even more confusing each line in DWOHT is going to be its OWN post. But then I’ll do a main DWOHT post with just links to each different post. It’s a whole big thing.

Then we’ll get back to the end of Question…

Was that explanation as confusing as trying to guess who Taylor’s songs are about?

Oh, through an avalanche?

An avalanche is a sudden onslaught/deluge of an overwhelming amount of snow sliding down a mountain.  Once the motion stops, the snow settles like concrete, suffocating anything underneath. An avalanche is extremely destructive, often leveling an entire slab of ecosystem and leaving no survivors.  

The use of “avalanche” to describe dancing with a woman in public demonstrates the authenticity of Taylor’s alarm.  She wants to be regarded as the ‘good girl’ and remain a famous pop-star.  She is distressed that her sexuality will leave an empty slab, leveling her career and suffocating her and everyone around her.  Taylor can’t let herself go rogue, and come out of the closet for fear of losing everything.  

She dances around it, and tells white lies to protect herself from this abominable outcome.  But as will be the case throughout her love life, the deceit along with overthinking and assumptions crush every relationship.  The avalanche didn’t raze her career, it pulverized Taylor’s sapphic relationships instead (Question… [Part 4]).

And say, say that we got it

This lover came into Taylor’s life and offered emotional and physical love, gaining Taylor’s trust.  There was mutual devotion for every part of the other–in private.  All Taylor’s sadness was rectified and regaled to the background by the intense romance these two shared.  The stars around scars in Cardigan symbolize positivity, warmth, and love.  The scars are still there, but those positive feelings were able to supersede the pain (Question…  [Part 15]).  It’s not just Taylor and her lover that notice their compatibility.  Their love is palpable, noticeable by most.  Their friends, the media, and YouTube viewers can see their undeniable chemistry.

But as time goes on, the predicaments outnumber the happy times.  The crescent moon in Ivy shows the passage of time through the changing phases of the moon.  Though there are accumulating detriments to this sapphic relationship, neither woman is ready to break-up. Taylor still loves her girlfriend despite all the “fights and flaws.”  And in Peace, Karlie doubles down on her love and level of commitment.  Karlie says she will warm Taylor’s heart to cast off Taylor’s waves of depression.  The love Karlie feels for Taylor is not for show, and even though Kaylor has many, many dilemmas, Karlie would sit in the trenches with Taylor, give her a child and she would even die for Taylor.  But time has passed and the affair has to adapt.   The moon phases and seasons passing in that song shows the end of this romance is imminent (Question…  [Part 15]).