This is the last time. How did it end? Play it again. It’s all over now. It’s been a long time coming. We pretended it could last forever. But nothing lasts forever. Everything has changed. Things will never be the same. This happens once every few lifetimes. This thing was a masterpiece. It was legendary, it was momentary. It was the end of a decade, but the start of an age. Hold on to the memories. It’s time to go. 

There’s no shortage of lyrics in the storied discography of Taylor Swift to sum up this current moment — the despair and gratitude and joy and grief of saying a final farewell to a record-breaking, history-making concert tour of a lifetime. The Eras Tour may have ended Sunday night in Vancouver, but Swift in the process, built a legacy that you can’t undo. 

“We have toured the entire world and it’s been the most exciting and electrifying thing I’ve ever done in my whole life,” Swift told the crowd, later adding: “This tour has been an adventure of a lifetime.”

The evening was scattered with small goodbyes throughout, from Swift’s vow to play “one last show for you and make it count” before singing “Lover,” to dancer Kam Saunders shouting “For the last time, no!” during “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” to waving goodbye for her “Midnight Rain” pose and taking moments to express gratitude for the Swifties took a single lyric about friendship bracelets and transformed it into a movement. 

“You guys have made this into something completely unrecognizable,” Swift said before “All Too Well (10 Minute Version).” “Making friends and bringing joy to each other: I think that’s the lasting legacy of this tour. The fact that you have created such a space of joy and togetherness and love, I couldn’t be more proud of you.” 

“A Place in This World,” a song that Swift wrote when she was 13 (of course) about feeling alone and searching for a calling, began her last-ever guitar mashup. If only that girl with a guitar knew what was lying ahead. She paired it with 1989‘s “New Romantics,” an anthem to finding your people and your passions, and a fitting testament to just how far she’s come. 

“We’ve had so long to prepare for the end of this tour, so I was trying to think about what songs really encapsulate how I feel about tonight,” Swift said. “So I decided to go back to the beginning.”

If viewers weren’t already crying, the piano mashup surely got them. “Long Live,” “New Year’s Day” and “The Manuscript” offered a career-spanning ode to holding onto memories, cherishing the magic made and reveling in the fact that so many of Swift’s most painful moments have transformed into solace and comfort for millions of fans around the world.  

“It was the end of an era, but the start of an age,” Swift sang.