The Academy of Advanced Studies
Oct 1, 2026 · 53 min · 13 segments
Enrollment is officially open. 🎓 For our inaugural session, we're taking on “right where you left me” — and apparently none of us are capable of simply listening to a song and moving on with our…
Who's our narrator? That's always the most important if we're gonna figure out who the song's about.
Is it Taylor? Is it somebody else?
She, she is the one singing it.
[laughs]
But she goes from first person to third person, like-
Yes
... jumps, jumps ship on us at some part-
[laughs]
... and you don't know what's happening.
So we think it's a first-person narrative situation-
Right
... about Taylor-
Yeah
... for starters.
The first three lines, she goes through, "Friends break up, friends get married.
Strangers get born, strangers get buried.
People are, like, being born, people are dying.
The world is moving on.
Yeah.
It, it's an emotionally devastating song.
[laughs]
[laughs]
It's real...
Who's our narrator? That's always the most important if we're gonna figure out who the song's about.
Is it Taylor? Is it somebody else?
She, she is the one singing it.
[laughs]
But she goes from first person to third person, like-
Yes
... jumps, jumps ship on us at some part-
[laughs]
... and you don't know what's happening.
So we think it's a first-person narrative situation-
Right
... about Taylor-
Yeah
... for starters.
The first three lines, she goes through, "Friends break up, friends get married.
Strangers get born, strangers get buried.
People are, like, being born, people are dying.
The world is moving on.
Yeah.
It, it's an emotionally devastating song.
[laughs]
[laughs]
It's real...
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