Queer Friendship (baby-dyke) [Queer Lyrical Easter Eggs- Pride 4]

 Hey Stephen:

Hey Stephen, which I think is about her having gay-dar about a male school friend…

Hey Stephen, I know looks can be deceiving

[sometimes gay people are straight-passing]

But I know I saw a light in you

[the "light" being queerness]

...And I didn't say half the things I wanted to

[maybe she wanted to come out, maybe she wanted to question him]

Of all the girls tossing rocks at your window/I'll be the one waiting there even when it's cold

[girls are hitting on this boy, but his queer buddy will be his friend though crushes, breakups, coming out–through it all]

Hey Stephen, boy, you might have me believing/I don't always have to be alone

[She is stigmatized for liking girls, but she just found a gay friend who understands what she's going through]

Note the pronoun and tone change: 

You = Another subject in the song.  Kinda like an earlier version of ...Ready for it where the verses are to a guy but the chorus is for the female love interest.  Is this YOU a female love interest of Taylor's?  

 

'Cause I can't help it if you look like an angel 

Can't help it if I wanna kiss you in the rain, so

Come feel this magic I've been feeling since I met you

Can't help it if there's no one else

Mmm, I can't help myself

[being fruity is not a choice]

 

Hey Stephen, I've been holding back this feeling

[she's on the DL about her sexuality]

So I've got some things to say to you (ha)

[Taylor finally found someone who has this in common with her]

I've seen it all, so I thought

But I never seen nobody shine the way you do

[shine is her way of saying he pings her gay-dar]

The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name

[she can tell he's queer by the way he walks and talks]

It's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change

[she says there's beauty in his homosexuality-don't change/repress it]

Hey Stephen, why are people always leaving?

[They are alone and ostracized in conservative TN for being different]

I think you and I should stay the same

[Taylor tells Stephen it's other people with the problem, not them for being homos]

 

Another change from Stephen to YOU:

They're dimming the street lights

You're perfect for me

Why aren't you here tonight?

I'm waiting alone now

So come on and come out

[COME OUT??!]

And pull me near

And shine, shine, shine

[Come out and shine x3, Like when you live openly you shine extra gay, ping exponentially?]

 

Hey Stephen, I could give you 50 reasons

Why I should be the one you choose

All those other girls, well, they're beautiful

[She says this dismissively because female beauty is not what Stephen, a gay boy, is looking for]

But would they write a song for you? (Ha-ha)

[Stephen should choose to hang out with Taylor because she knows, doesn't have romantic expectations, and she's funny]