Love her or hate her, there’s no denying Taylor Swift is a prolific songwriter. If you’ve payed close attention, you might have noticed that much of her discography deals in recurring themes of secrecy, insecurity, pining— remarkable, given that her romantic life is nearly as prolific as her professional one. These recurring themes, coupled with her string of incredibly close, hand-holding, premiere-attending, sleepover-ing friendships* with green-eyed blond women, have led many to speculate about the singer’s sexuality.

Whether you’re a Kaylor truther like me or just a casual fan of reading homoerotic subtext into pop culture, please enjoy this compilation of the gayest songs in Swift’s oeuvre.

15. You Belong with Me

The music video for this song threw me for a loop, but I invite everyone to observe the complete lack of male pronouns in this song. The singer is pining over her close friend, who is dating a girl who doesn’t really get them. There’s nothing stopping us from reading this as a closeted teen crushing on her openly gay best friend. This song just SOUNDS like closeted teen angst. Look at other accidental queer anthems** like “Teenage Dirtbag” for comparison.

Gayest lyric:

She wears shorts skirts, I wear t-shirts; she’s cheer captain and I’m on the bleachers, dreaming ‘bout the day when you wake up and find that what you’re looking for has been here the whole time.

14. Enchanted

This is a song about an insecure girl developing an intense crush on someone she probably can’t have.

Gayest lyric:

The lingering question kept me up, 2AM, “Who do you love?” I wonder ’til I’m wide awake. And now I’m pacing back and forth, wishing you were at my door. I’d open up and you would say, “Hey, it was enchanting to meet you.”

13. Gorgeous

And yet another song about an insecure girl developing an intense crush on someone she probably can’t have. I’m sensing a pattern, here.

Gayest lyric:

You should think about the consequence of you touching my hand in a darkened room. And if you’ve got a girlfriend, I’m jealous of her. But if you’re single, that’s honestly worse. ’Cause you’re so gorgeous, it actually hurts.

12. How You Get the Girl

At first listen, this sounds like Taylor is giving advice to her male paramour du jour on how to effectively woo her. But then you take a look at the lyrics, notice the blinding absence of any male pronouns, take a pause, and realize what this is: Taylor is reflecting on a particularly complicated romantic relationship with another woman. I don’t make the rules.

Gayest lyric:

Stand there like a ghost, shaking come the rain. She’ll open up the door and say, “Are you insane?” Say, It’s been a long six months. And you were too afraid to tell her what you want.

11. Breathe

This song is almost canonically confirmed to be about Emily Poe — a former bandmate of Taylor’s who unexpectedly quit (or was let go… the details are foggy there). Poe and Swift shared a very intense friendship — so intense that many of Swift’s early myspace blog posts talked about “Emily and me” as an inseparable unit. When Emily left the band, Swift released this video and wrote these lyrics:

And we know it’s never simple, never easy, never a clean break, no one here to save me. You’re the only thing I know like the back of my hand, and I can’t breathe without you, but I have to.

Very hetero.

10. New Romantics

“New Romantics” is both a footnote to and the thesis statement of 1989. It was released as a bonus track, but many fans consider it one of her greatest songs. I consider it her anthem. “Baby, I could build a castle out of all the bricks you threw at me.”

Gayest lyric:

We need love, but all we want is danger. We team up, then switch sides like a record changer. The rumors are terrible and cruel, but honey, most of them are true.

9. 22

Never mind that the original lyrics for this song include: “Sometimes it hits me/ we’re moving quickly/ toward something hazy/ a future I can’t see.” Whether you’re happy, free, confused, lonely, or all of the above, “22” is both an anthem for going out with your girlfriends and an anthem for going out with your new girlfriend.

Gayest lyric:

Everything will be alright if you keep me next to you. You don’t know about me, but I bet you want to. Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we’re 22.

8. Welcome to New York

This is a song about an insecure girl falling in love with a city where you can want who you want.

Gayest lyric:

When we first dropped our bags on apartment floors, took our broken hearts, put them in a drawer. Everybody here was someone else before, and you can want who you want: boys and boys and girls and girls.

7. Ours

This is another situation where you have to take the music video completely out of the equation. In the video for “Ours,” Taylor must navigate the mundanity of office life while pining over her love — a very dashing Zach Gilford — who is off doing War somewhere. But take a look at the lyrics, and you’ll be like, “Uh, why is everyone hating on Taylor for dating this handsome, upstanding military man?”

Gayest lyric:

Seems like there’s always someone who disapproves. They’ll judge it like they know about me and you. And the verdict comes from those with nothing else to do. The jury’s out, and my choice is you.

6. Mine

Not a single! male pronoun! in sight! This is a song about a careless man’s careful daughter going off to college and falling in love with a small town waitress. That’s it. That’s the song.

Gayest lyric:

Do you remember, we were sittin’ there by the water? You put your arm around me for the first time. You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter. You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.

5. Treacherous

This is a song about an insecure girl falling in love with someone she probably shouldn’t have. An important variation on a recurring theme.

Gayest lyric:

And I’ll do anything you say, if you say it with your hands. And I’d be smart to walk away, but you’re quicksand.

4. I Know Places

This is a song about a secret, fragile relationship that must be hidden from the prying gaze of the public at all costs. Which of her relationships does that apply to, again? Swift has managed to get through nearly the entirety of her most recent era without being snapped by the paparazzi, so she certainly does know places.

Gayest lyric:

You stand with your hand on my waistline. It’s a scene and we’re out here in plain sight. I can hear them whisper as we pass by. It’s a bad sign.

3. Dress

“I don’t want you like a best friend.” Oh, come on. This song is “Treacherous” on Adderall. This song is Gay.

Gayest lyric:

Inescapable — I’m not even gonna try. And if I get burned, at least we were electrified. I’m spilling wine in the bathtub. You kiss my face, and we’re both drunk. Everyone thinks that they know us, but they know nothing.

2. Wonderland

This song is about Dianna Agron.

Gayest lyric:

So we went on our way, too in love to think straight, all alone or so it seemed. But there was strangers watching, and whispers turned to talking, and talking turned to screams.

1. Dancing with Our Hands Tied

I’m tempted to paste the lyrics in their entirety here, but I’ll spare you. All I will say is that there is no heterosexual explanation for this song. Many have speculated that the song is a reference to an incident in which Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss were supposedly caught on camera making out at a 1975 concert. At any rate,

Gayest lyrics:

I loved you in spite of deep fears that the world would divide us. So, baby can we dance through an avalanche? I’d kiss you as the lights went out. Swaying as the room burned down. I’d hold you as the water rushes in, if I could dance with you again. Darling, you had turned my bed into a sacred oasis. People started talking, putting us through our paces. I knew there was no one in the world who could take it. I had a bad feeling. But we were dancing. Dancing with our hands tied.

*- do yourself a favor and google “glass closet”

**- you’ll notice that Taylor Swift has two songs on this list — so it’s not just me