As if 31 tracks and more lyrical burns than an emergency room waiting room on the Fourth of July wasn’t enough to work with, Taylor Swift’s new double album The Tortured Poets Department also features an original poem penned by none other than Stevie Nicks.

Physical copies of the album feature a poem by the Fleetwood Mac icon, which lacks a title apart from “A Poem By Stevie Nicks” and bears a handwritten date (Sept. 13, 8:50 p.m.) and dedication: “For T — and me…”

The poem, aptly for the subject matter of the album, is about heartbreak and the end of a relationship.

It reads:

Sept. 13, 8:50 p.m.

A poem by Stevie Nicks

He was in love with her 
Or at least she thought so 
She was broken hearted 
Maybe he was too 
Neither of them knew. 
She was way too hot to handle 
He was way too high to try 
He couldn’t even see her 
He wouldn’t open his eyes 
She was on her way to the stars 
He didn’t say goodbye

She looked back from her future 
And shed a few tears 
He looked into his past 
And actually felt fear. 
For both of them 
The answers — would never be 
Everclear 
Don’t ask questions now 
Do that later 
She brings joy 
He brings Shakespeare 
It’s almost a tragedy 
Says she 
Don’t endanger me 
Don’t endanger me.

He really can’t answer her 
He’s afraid of her 
He’s hiding from her 
And he knows — that he’s 
hurting her 
She tells the truth 
She writes about it 
She’s an informer 
He’s an x-lover 
There’s nothing there for her 
She’s already gone 
There’s nothing that can stop her

She was just flying 
Thru the clouds 
Where he saw her … 
She was just making her way — 
to the stars — 
When he lost her …

For T and me…

Nicks and Swift are no strangers: They’ve performed together, have vocally been fans of one another, and have been compared to one another—the latest comparison coming from Swift herself on the TTPD track “Clara Bow.”

The song is about that quintessential idea of “making it” and becoming the “It Girl.” (Bow, a silent film star, is considered to have pioneered the archetype.) “You look like Stevie Nicks / In ‘75, the hair and the lips / Crowd goes wild at her fingertips / Half moonshine, a full eclipse” one verse begins, with the final lines invoking Swift’s name, looking into a future where she’s just another icon of the past. “You look like Taylor Swift / In this light / We’re loving it. / You’ve got an edge she never did, / The future’s bright / …Dazzling.”

Nicks has also praised Swift through the years, and in October 2023 thanked her onstage for writing the Midnights track “You’re On Your Own, Kid,” invoking the song as an example of how she felt about bandmate Christine McVie, who died in 2022, and why she couldn’t see Fleetwood Mac touring again without McVie.

“That was Christine and I. We were on our own in that band. We always were. We protected each other,” she said. “Who am I going to look over to on the right and have them not be there behind that Hammond organ? When she died, I figured we really can’t go any further with this. There’s no reason to.”