Perhaps Taylor Swift and Matty Healy were only meant to be together in Neverland.,Following the release of Taylor’s new album The Tortured Poets Department on April 19, fans pointed out multiple songs seemed to be inspired by her brief romance with The 1975 musician in spring 2023, including “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” “Fresh Out the Slammer,” “The Tortured Poets Department” and “Fortnight.” (Even the music video starring Post Malone appears to feature several Easter Eggs about the frontman).

Some of the new tracks seemingly inspired by Matty also call back to her songs from prior albums, weaving an invisible string throughout both her discography and The 1975’s emotional hits.,Notably, Tortured Poet’s “But Daddy I Love Him” has parallels to her Midnights song “Question…?” Both center on other people judging a relationship she’s long wanted—from “Every single one of your friends was makin’ fun of you” in 2022 to “God save the most judgmental creeps / Who say they want what’s best for me” in 2024.

But of the new album’s Anthology tracks, Taylor’s song “Peter” appears to offer deeper insight into her dynamic with Matty since first sparking romance rumors 10 years ago.”You said you were gonna grow up / Then you were gonna come find me,” Taylor laments, hinting that she thought she’d end up with the song’s love interest later on in life. The 34-year-old later adds, “And you said you’d come and get me, but you were 25 / And the shelf life of those fantasies has expired.

“It’s very easy to be Peter Pan when you do what I do, and of course you’re gonna be Peter Pan,” he further explained to Music Week in 2018. “But you have to grow up, nobody likes an old infant.”Raising even more eyebrows is the fact that it’s not the first time Taylor has compared a boyfriend to Peter Pan. In her 2020 folklore track “Cardigan”—which she’s previously said was inspired by a fictional teenage love triangle—Taylor wrote about a young love: “I knew you / Tried to change the ending / Peter losing Wendy.”

Fans didn’t think too much of it until May 5, 2023, when Taylor offered a not-so-subtle message during her performance of “Cardigan” at the Eras Tour in Nashville.Taylor—who was dating Matty at the time—mouthed the words, “This one is about you. You know who you are. I love you” from the stage.What’s more, Matty had mouthed the same tribute two days before when The 1975 performed “About You” in Manila, as seen in fan footage on social media.

“I know a place / It’s somewhere I go when I need to remember your face / We get married in our heads / Something to do while we try to recall how we met,” the 35-year-old sings in the intro. “Do you think I have forgotten?”Taylor, too, would go on to write about a make believe marriage in her Tortured Poets song “Fresh Out the Slammer,” crooning, “Ain’t no way I’m gonna screw up now that I know what’s at stake / Here, at the park where we used to sit on children’s swings / Wearing imaginary rings.”