Gracie Abrams Lyrics “Us” With Taylor Swift Meaning Explained

June 20, 2024, 5:26 p.m.

By Sam Prance

What are the lyrics to “Us” by Gracie Abrams and Taylor Swift about? Here’s what they said about the song.

Gracie Abrams and Taylor Swift’s first-ever collaboration, “Us,” is finally here. But what are their “Us” lyrics actually about?

As soon as Gracie Abrams announced the tracklist for her second studio album “The secret of us”, fans started to lose it because of track 5: “Us (featuring Taylor Swift)”. Taylor is notoriously selective when it comes to choosing her features, but Gracie struck up a friendship with Taylor by supporting her on the Eras tour and they secretly ended up in the studio together.

On X/Twitter when the tracklist was announced, Gracie tweeted: “All I can say right now is one of the most fun times I’ve ever had in my life was writing this song together. Hands down I’m currently smiling and sweating thinking about it and I’ll never get over the shock of seeing this one on the tracklist. .

Unsurprisingly, “Us” immediately became a fan favorite. Here’s what Gracie said about the meaning of the term.

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In “Us,” Gracie and Taylor sing about a past relationship that burned bright and fast. Thinking, Gracie sings: And if the story is clear, someone always ends up in ruins / And what seemed like destiny becomes ‘What was I doing’?. Taylor later adds: And if history is clear, flames always end in ashes / It must seem like destiny, give it ten months and you’ll be past it.

In the chorus, they both sing: I felt it, you held it / Do you miss us? We? / I wonder if you regret the secret of us, us / We, us, us, us, us, us. There’s also a catchy Swiftian middle eight that says: The curse of a miracle, the curse of an oracle / You are incomparable, damn you / What happened to you? (You?) / We, us, me, me, us.

Gracie said Billboard that she wrote “Us” with Taylor after they played each other new music and listened to Aaron Dessner instrumentals together. She said: “Something caught our attention both very loudly and very quickly. So we ran to the piano and started writing this song…I used to fantasize about this sort of thing when I was a child.”

Also speaking to Billboard, Aaron added: “Taylor is brilliant at synthesizing a whole story. [That song] I just brought everything [about Gracie’s album] developed in a beautiful way.

Write and release a song about a failed epic romance with the queen of writing songs about failed epic romances? Pretty legendary if you ask me.

Gracie Abrams – ‘Us (feat. Taylor Swift)’ Lyrics

CUT 1: Gracie Abrams
I know you know
It was like a joke
I’m sure you don’t know we’re talking
I know your ghost
I see her through the smoke
She will perform her show
And you will watch

PRE-CHORO: Gracie Abrams
And if the story is clear, someone always ends up in ruins
And what seemed like destiny becomes “What the hell was I doing?”
Babylon lovers, hanging their lives on a vine (Ooh)
Do you miss mine?

CHOIR: Gracie Abrams and Taylor Swift
Do you miss us? We?
I felt it, you held it
Do you miss us? We?
I wonder if you regret our secret, we
We, we, us, us, us, we

COUPLE 2: Gracie Abrams and Taylor Swift
I know you know
It felt like something old
It felt like something sacred
As if souls bleed, then
It was like what I knew
You are twenty-nine years old
So how can you be cold when I open my heart?

PRE-CHORUS: Taylor Swift and Gracie Abrams
And if the story is clear, the flames always end in ashes
It must feel like destiny, give it ten months and you’ll be past it (You’ll be past it)
Babylon Lovers Suspended, Missed Calls Online
I gave you mine

CHOIR: Gracie Abrams and Taylor Swift
I felt it, you held it
Do you miss us? We?
I wonder if you regret our secret, we
We, we, us, us, us, we

BRIDGE: Gracie Abrams and Taylor Swift
That night you spoke
False prophets and profits
They make the margins
Poetry sonnets (Oh)
You’ve never read about it
Too bad, I could have learned something
Robert Blythe on my nightstand
Gifts from you, how ironic
The curse of a miracle, the curse of an oracle
You are incomparable, damn you
What happened to you? (You?)
We, we, me, me, we

CHOIR: Gracie Abrams and Taylor Swift
We, we, we
I felt it, you held it (Ooh-ooh)
Do you miss us? We?
I wonder if you miss our secret, we (Ooh-ooh)
Mistaken for strangers, no way in
Us, us (Ooh-ooh)
The pain of the rain of hunger
Us, us (Ooh-ooh)
The outline, finally, sometimes

OUTRO: Gracie Abrams and Taylor Swift
Do you miss us? We? (We, us, us)
The best kind, well, sometimes
Do you miss us?

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