All this is still a tunnel vision of what could be. And she just feels the love flowing through her. She wanders into a daydream where she is at his house, at dinner parties with him, and at a getaway in a coastal town. She calls him beautiful, and his hair perfect. In the first verse of the song, Taylor Swift dives further into her feelings about this guy.

All this is a more poetic way of saying that ‘love is blind.’ Verse 1 A ‘rose blush’ vision is where you see through a rose-colored glass, which instantly makes everything look way better because of the rose overcoat, but at the same time, is something far from reality. He is the gold mine and all the girls want to claim their treasure.Ī “double vision in rose blush” could refer to how Taylor’s vision is blurred as she gets more and more intoxicated in love with him. This is the ‘gold rush’ Taylor talks about. All the girls want him, and Taylor is not happy about that. But these feelings are mutual for everyone else as well. Taylor’s face in a “red flush” refers to her blushing at the presence of this guy.

Major gold rushes took place in the 19th Century in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, and the United States. In history, the ‘gold rush’ was a sentiment given to a new discovery of gold, which was and still is, one of the most precious metals on Earth. The term ‘gold rush’ refers to the feeling of ecstasy when in love.

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