just a summer thing

I walked through the door with you / The air was cold

Pictures on the fireplace / You showed me around

Well I left my scarf there, at your sister’s house

On the banister / I remember, even now

[...]

There we are again when you blew the candle out

Took this blazing love, steered it right into the ground 

Running scared, I was there, I remember it all too well

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You’ll mail back my things in a box with no note

Except for my scarf, from that very first week

Yeah, you keep it in your drawer, ‘cause it smells like me

It was the one real thing you’ve ever felt and you remember it all too well

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There we are again, you’re crying on the phone

“You say my name for the first time, baby, and I fall in love in an empty bar” --> “You’re the kind of reckless that should send me running, but I kind of know that I won’t get far” 

“So reach out open handed, and lead me out to that floor” --> “My mind forgets to remind me you’re a bad idea”

“I don’t need more paper lanterns, take me down, baby, bring on the movie score” --> “You touch me once and it’s really something, you find I’m even better than you imagined I would be” 

“’Cause my heart is beating fast and you are beautiful” --> “I’m on my guard for the rest of the world but with you, I know it’s no good”

“Keep your beautiful eyes on me, gonna strike this match tonight” --> “Keep on keeping your eyes on me, it’s just wrong enough to make it feel right”

“Voices sing, I should’ve known” --> “Realise, I should’ve known” --> “Stupid girl, I should’ve known”

“I was never exactly what you wanted, now I know” --> “I had so many dreams about you and me, happy endings, now I know!”

“Just a boy in a pickup truck, that had a funny way of getting stuck” --> “Just a boy in a Chevy truck, which had a tendency of getting stuck” 

“The one you said you always liked best” --> “Think of my head on your chest” 

“Been back a couple times since then, I didn’t look you up” --> “I’m back for the first time since then, I’m standing on your street”

“Been proving my case for a long time” -->  “For every lie I tell him, he tells me three” --> “For every lie I tell them, they tell me three”

“So I had a little fun, a little fun, fun, lying” --> “This is how the world works, now all he thinks about is me”

iHeart reputation release party: "We threw a big New Year's Eve party in London this year, and I was thinking about how everybody talks and thinks about who you kiss at midnight. Like it's this big romantic idea of like, 'Who are you gonna kiss at midnight, like ring in the New Year.' And I think that is very romantic. 

“But I think there's something even more romantic about who's gonna deal with you on New Year's Day. Who's willing to give you Advil and clean up the house. I think that states more of a permanence. So I was thinking about that, and I wrote this song called 'New Year's Day.'

iHeart reputation release party: "The way I feel the album is, as far as a storyline, is I feel like it starts with just getting out any kind of rebellion, or anger, or angst, or whatever. And then, like, falling in love, and realizing that you kind of settle into what your priorities are, and your life changes, but you welcome it because it's something that matters to you.