"The Great War" is maybe the track fans have been revisiting the most since news of Swift and Alwyn's breakup broke. Like "Afterglow," it documents an all-out fight between a couple where Swift thought everything was going to fall apart once and for all. She "vowed not to cry anymore" if they made it to the other side of the fight, to plant a "memory garden" to keep its memory alive so they never fight so badly again. The song even references "Lavender Haze," as Swift sings, "Somewhere in the haze, got a sense I'd been betrayed," which makes it clear the track is about Alwyn. Swift vows in the song that she'll stay with her partner "always," but there's a sense of doom about their future (the real Great War, of course, was not the last). Now that they've split, it seems the prediction has come true.