Taylor Swift turns 34 today (December 13), and in honor of the hit songstress’ big day, we compiled our favorite lyrics by the queen of breakup songs.

• 20. Death By A Thousand Cuts

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  "Saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts / Flashbacks waking me up / I get drunk, but it's not enough / 'Cause the morning comes and you're not my baby."

• 19. the 1

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  "I guess you never know, never know / And if you wanted me, you really should've showed / And if you never bleed, you're never gonna grow."

• 18. Closure

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  "Don't treat me like / Some situation that needs to be handled / I'm fine with my spite / And my tears, and my beers and my candles."
• 17. Blank Space

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  "So it's gonna be forever / Or it's gonna go down in flames / You can tell me when it's over / If the high was worth the pain."

• 16. All You Had To Do Was Stay

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  "The more I think about it now the less I know / All I know is that you drove us off the road."

• 15. I Knew You Were Trouble

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  "No apologies, he'll never see you cry / Pretends he doesn't know that he's the reason why / You're drowning, you're drowning, you're drowning."
• 14. I Wish You Would

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  "I wish you would come back / Wish I'd never hung up the phone like I did / I wish you knew that / I'd never forget you as long as I'd live."

• 13. All Too Well

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  "And you call me up again just to break me like a promise / So casually cruel in the name of being honest."

• 12. Red

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  "Losing him was blue, like I'd never known / Missing him was dark gray, all alone / Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met / But loving him was red."
• 11. this is me trying

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  "And it's hard to be at a party / When I feel like an open wound / It's hard to be anywhere these days / When all I want is you."

• 10. The Story Of Us

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  "I used to know my place was a spot next to you / Now I'm searching the room for an empty seat / 'Cause lately I don't even know what page you're on."

• 9. Holy Ground

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  "And I guess we fell apart in the usual way / And the story's got dust on every page / But sometimes I wonder how you think about it now / And I see your face in every crowd."
• 8. august

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  "And I can see us twisted in bedsheets / August sipped away like a bottle of wine / 'Cause you were never mine."

• 7. Forever & Always

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  "And I stare at the phone, he still hasn't called / And then you feel so low you can't feel nothing at all / And you flashback to when he said, 'Forever and always.'"

• 6. my tears ricochet

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  "Didn't have it in myself to go with grace / And you're the hero flying around, saving face / And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?"
• 5. Picture To Burn

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  "So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time / As far as I'm concerned, you're just another picture to burn."

• 4. exile

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  "I think I've seen this film before / And I didn't like the ending / You're not my homeland anymore / So what am I defendin' now?"

• 3. I Forgot That You Existed

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  "Your name on my lips, tongue tied / Free rent, livin' in my mind / But then something happened one magical night / I forgot that you existed."
• 2. You’re Not Sorry

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  "You got your share of secrets, and I'm tired of being last to know."

• 1. White Horse

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  "I was a dreamer before you went and let me down."

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