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Line 27: == Composition == Swift wrote and produced "Soon You'll Get Better" with Antonoff, who recorded the track with Laura Sisk at [[Electric Lady Studios]] in New York City.<ref name=":4" /> "Soon You'll Get Better" is a [[Country music|country]] [[sentimental ballad|ballad]]<ref name=":9">{{Cite magazine |last=Bruner |first=Raisa |date=August 23, 2019 |title=Let's Discuss the Lyrics to Every Song on Taylor Swift's ''Lover'' |url=https://time.com/5651207/taylor-swift-lover-songs-explained/ |access-date=April 16, 2020 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> with a stripped-down [[acoustic music|acoustic]] production instrumented by sparse, [[Fingerpick|fingerpicked]] [[string instrument|strings]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite magazine |last=Shaffer |first=Claire |date=August 23, 2019 |title=Hear Taylor Swift, Dixie Chicks Team for Heartfelt Song 'Soon You'll Get Better' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-dixie-chicks-soon-youll-get-better-song-listen-875304/ |url-access=limited |access-date=August 23, 2019 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref><ref name=":6" /> such as [[Slide guitar|slide guitars]] and [[banjo]] and [[fiddle]] played by the Dixie Chicks, who also provided [[Vocal harmony|vocal harmonies]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Wilson">{{cite web |last=Wilson |first=Carl |author-link=Carl Wilson (writer) |date=August 23, 2019 |title=Taylor Swift's ''Lover'' Is a More Mature (Mostly) Successor to ''Red'' |url=https://slate.com/culture/2019/08/taylor-swift-lover-album-review.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191121100740/https://slate.com/culture/2019/08/taylor-swift-lover-album-review.html |archive-date=November 21, 2019 |access-date=April 30, 2020 |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Connor |first=Roisin |date=2019-08-23 |title=On ''Lover'', Taylor Swift is an artist excited to be earnest again – review |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/taylor-swift-review-lover-album-tracklist-stream-lyrics-joe-alwyn-london-boy-a9075376.html |url-access=limited |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=[[The Independent]]}}</ref> [[Time (magazine)|''Time'']]'s [[Dana Schwartz]] described the track as a "tilt back to [Swift's] country roots"<ref name=":3">{{Cite magazine |last=Schwartz |first=Dana |author-link=Dana Schwartz |date=August 23, 2019 |title=Review: On ''Lover'', Taylor Swift Lays Down Her Armor |url=https://time.com/5659097/taylor-swift-lover-review/ |access-date=August 23, 2019 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> and ''[[USA Today]]''<nowiki/>'s Meave McDermott said it had a "Nashville feel".<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=McDermott |first=Maeve |date=August 23, 2019 |title=Taylor Swift and Dixie Chicks' new song 'Soon You'll Get Better' is one of Swift's saddest ever |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/08/23/taylor-swift-dixie-chicks-soon-youll-get-better-break-your-heart/2066168001/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726160743/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/08/23/taylor-swift-dixie-chicks-soon-youll-get-better-break-your-heart/2066168001/ |archive-date=July 26, 2020 |access-date=August 23, 2019 |website=[[USA Today]]}}</ref> Swift sings with understated vocals;<ref name=":8" /> Roisin O'Connor of [[The Independent|''The Independent'']] described them as "half-whispers" and said that she sang the song as if she were "on the verge of tears".<ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Connor |first=Roisin |date=2020-07-23 |title=Taylor Swift's 100 album tracks – ranked |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/taylor-swift-lover-best-songs-1989-reputation-red-lyrics-music-videos-a9076476.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203140818/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/taylor-swift-lover-best-songs-1989-reputation-red-lyrics-music-videos-a9076476.html |archive-date=December 3, 2019 |access-date=2023-12-23 |website=[[The Independent]]}}</ref> The lyrics detail Swift's emotions after learning about her mother's cancer diagnosis, starting with a scene where she and her mother are in a doctor's office ("The buttons of my coat were tangled in my hair in doctor's office lighting")<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=Himes |first=Geoffrey |date=October 22, 2019 |title=The Curmudgeon: Taylor Swift and the Path of Bruce Springsteen |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/article/the-curmudgeon-taylor-swift-and-the-path-of-bruce |access-date=2024-02-26 |website=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]}}</ref> before proceeding with Swift's prayers to God ("Holy orange bottles, each night, I pray to you/ Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus too")<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Huff |first=Lauren |date=August 23, 2019 |title=Everything to know about Taylor Swift's emotional collaboration with the Dixie Chicks |url=https://ew.com/music/2019/08/23/taylor-swift-dixie-chicks-soon-youll-get-better/ |access-date=2024-02-27 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> but also expressing her doubts in religion.<ref name="Wilson" /><ref name="Zoladz">{{cite web |last=Zoladz |first=Lindsay |date=August 26, 2019 |title=Taylor Swift Is a ''Lover'' and a Fighter |url=https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/8/26/20833037/taylor-swift-lover-album-review |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108001448/https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/8/26/20833037/taylor-swift-lover-album-review |archive-date=November 8, 2020 |access-date=June 9, 2022 |website=[[The Ringer (website)|The Ringer]]}}</ref> She is in denial of her mother's illness, but she admires how her mother stays positive ("You like the nicer nurses, you make the best of a bad deal").<ref name="Wilson" /> She tells herself of happy endings but realizes they are delusional ("I know delusion when I see it in the mirror [...] This won't go back to normal").<ref name=":8" /> In the [[Bridge (music)|bridge]], Swift details her thought spirals ("I hate to make this all about me/ But who am I supposed to talk to?/ What am I supposed to do/ If there's no you?").<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jenkins |first=Craig |date=2019-08-23 |title=The Old Taylor Is Back on ''Lover'' and the Best She's Been in Years |url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/08/taylor-swift-lover-album-review.html |url-access=limited |access-date=2024-02-26 |website=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]]}}</ref> [[New York (magazine)|''Vulture'']]'s Jewly Height described the vocals as "hushed" and Swift's storytelling perspective was "like a cinematographer—first the focus on a tiny detail [...], then a zoomed-out shot of the settings where the trouble's playing out".<ref name=":6" /> Critics compared the tone of the track to prayers and [[Lullaby|lullabies]].<ref name=":9" />
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