Taylor Swift presents “The Tortured Poets Department” live in Lisbon

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“The Tortured Poets Department” (the song) made its live debut at Taylor Swift’s concert on Saturday night (May 25) in Lisbon, Portugal. The “Tortured Poets” section The album has spent a month at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart since its release, but even with Swift's recent inclusion of several new songs in the main set of the Eras Tour, it will be some time before she gets the chance to perform all 31 tracks live.

“I try to be very creative with this part of the show,” Swift told the audience at the Estádio da Luz on Saturday at the stadium’s end stage, where she will perform the surprise part of the concert, in which she will perform acoustic versions of Tortured poets Songs as she sees fit.

“This is actually the first time I’ve played this live,” she said as she began to strum “The Tortured Poets Department” on guitar.

Her creativity came to the fore when she unexpectedly used pieces of “Now That We Don't Talk,” a vault track by 1989 (Taylor's version)and mixes the song with The “Tortured Poets” section title song.

Swift combined lyrics from two different eras and asked her muse: “Who's going to hold you like I do…now that we're no longer speaking? Who's going to know you like I do…now that we're no longer speaking?”

She played the piano midnight“You’re on your own, boy” with Fearless“Long live,” and ended the medley with “One day we will be remembered.”

Saturday night was Swift’s second show in Lisbon. On Friday (May 24) she sang “Fresh Out the Slammer” by Tortured poets for the first time, plus a surprising mashup of three songs: “Come Back… Be Here” (Red) “The Way I Loved You” and “The Other Side of the Door” (both from the Fearless Epoch).

Watch video clips of Swift's surprise songs from Saturday in Lisbon below.