𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐭
l y r i c s t a r t e r s
✽ long post ahead bc i have no self control !
✽ change pronouns / punctuation as needed .
✽ some lyrics are explicit.
✽ some themes are slightly darker.
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[ track 01 ] the 1
❛ I'm doing good! I'm on some new shit. ❜
❛ I thought I saw you at the bus stop. ❜
❛ I hit the ground running each night. ❜
❛ You know, the greatest films of all time were never made. ❜
❛ If you wanted me, you really should have showed. ❜
❛ If you never bleed, you're never gonna grow. ❜
❛ It's alright now. ❜
❛ We were something, don't you think so? ❜
❛ If my wishes came true, it would have been you. ❜
❛ In my defense — I have none for never leaving well enough alone. ❜
❛ It would have been fun if you would have been the one. ❜
❛ I had this dream you're doing cool shit, having adventures on your own. ❜
❛ We never painted by the numbers, baby. ❜
❛ We were making it count. ❜
❛ You know the greatest loves of all time are over now. ❜
❛ I guess you never know. ❜
❛ It's another day of waking up alone. ❜
❛ If one thing had been different, would everything be different today? ❜
❛ It would have been sweet if it could've been me. ❜
❛ In my defense, I have none for digging up the grave another time. ❜
[ track 02 ] cardigan
❛ When you are young, they assume you know nothing. ❜
❛ Baby, kiss it better. ❜
❛ I was your favorite. ❜
❛ A friend to all is a friend to none. ❜
❛ Chase two girls, lose the one. ❜
❛ To kiss in cars and downtown bars was all we needed. ❜
❛ You drew stars around my scars and now I'm bleeding. ❜
❛ I knew you tried to change the ending. ❜
❛ I knew you'd linger like a tattoo kiss. ❜
❛ I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs. ❜
❛ I knew everything when I was young. ❜
❛ I knew I'd curse you for the longest time. ❜
❛ I knew you'd miss me once the thrill expired, and you'd be standing in my front porch light. ❜
❛ I knew you'd come back to me. ❜
[ track 03 ] the last great american dynasty
❛ How did a middle-class divorcee do it? ❜
❛ The wedding was a charming, if a little gauche. ❜
❛ There's only so far new money goes. ❜
❛ Their parties were tasteful, if a little loud. ❜
❛ It must have been her fault his heart gave out. ❜
❛ There goes the last great American dynasty. ❜
❛ Who knows, if she never showed up, what could have been. ❜
❛ There goes the maddest woman this town has ever seen. ❜
❛ They say she was seen on occasion, pacing the rocks, staring out the sea. ❜
❛ In a feud with her neighbor, she stole his dog and dyed it key lime green. ❜
❛ Fifty years is a long time. ❜
❛ Who knows, if I never showed up, what could've been. ❜
❛ I had a marvelous time ruining everything. ❜
❛ I had a marvelous time. ❜
[ track 04 ] exile
❛ I can see you standing, honey, with his arms around your body. ❜
❛ I think I've seen this film before, and I didn't like the ending. ❜
❛ You're not my homeland anymore. ❜
❛ What am I defending now? ❜
❛ You were my town. Now I'm in exile, seeing you out. ❜
❛ I can see you staring, honey, like he's just your understudy, like you'd get your knuckles bloody for me. ❜
❛ You'd get your knuckles bloody for me. ❜
❛ Those eyes add insult to injury. ❜
❛ I'm not your problem anymore. ❜
❛ Who am I offending now? ❜
❛ You were my crown. Now I'm in exile, seeing you out. ❜
❛ I'm leaving out the side door. ❜
❛ There is no amount of crying I can do for you. ❜
❛ All this time, we always walked a very thin line. ❜
❛ You didn't even hear me out. ❜
❛ You never gave a warning sign. ❜
❛ I gave so many signs. ❜
❛ All this time, I never learned to read your mind. ❜
❛ I couldn't turn things around. ❜
❛ You never turned things around. ❜
❛ You didn't even see the signs. ❜
[ track 05 ] my tears ricochet
❛ If I'm on fire, you'll be made of ashes, too. ❜
❛ Even on my worst day, did I deserve, babe — all the hell you gave me? ❜
❛ I loved you, I swear I loved you, until my dying day. ❜
❛ I didn't have it in myself to go with grace. ❜
❛ You're the hero flying around, saving face. ❜
❛ If I'm dead to you, why were you at the wake? ❜
❛ Look at how my tears ricochet. ❜
❛ We gather stones, never knowing what they'll mean. ❜
❛ You know I didn't want to have to haunt you. ❜
❛ What a ghostly scene. ❜
❛ You used to tell me I was brave. ❜
❛ I can go anywhere I want. Anywhere I want, just not home. ❜
❛ You can aim for my heart — go for blood. ❜
❛ You would still miss me in your bones. ❜
❛ I still talk to you when I'm screaming at the sky. ❜
❛ You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same. ❜
❛ You turned into your worst fears. ❜
❛ You're tossing out blame, drunk on this pain, crossing out the good years. ❜
[ track 06 ] mirrorball
❛ I'll show you every version of yourself tonight. ❜
❛ When I break, it's a million pieces. ❜
❛ Hush. ❜
❛ You'll find me on my tallest tip-toes, spinning in my highest heels, love — shining just for you. ❜
❛ I know they said the end is near. ❜
❛ I can change everything about me to fit in. ❜
❛ You're not like the regulars. ❜
❛ I'm still on that tightrope. ❜
❛ I'm still trying everything to get you laughing at me. ❜
❛ I'm still a believer, but I don't know why. ❜
❛ I've never been a natural. ❜
❛ All I do is try, try, try. ❜
❛ I'm still trying everything to keep you looking at me. ❜
[ track 07 ] seven
❛ Please picture me in the trees. ❜
❛ I hit my peak at seven, feet in the swing over the creek. ❜
❛ I was too scared to jump in, but I was high in the sky. ❜
❛ Are there still beautiful things? ❜
❛ Cross your heart. ❜
❛ Though I can't recall your face, I still got love for you. ❜
❛ Love you to the moon and to Saturn. ❜
❛ The love lasts so long. ❜
❛ I've been meaning to tell you, I think your house is haunted. ❜
❛ Your dad is always mad. ❜
❛ I think you should come live with me. ❜
❛ We can be pirates! ❜
❛ You won't have to cry or hide in the closet. ❜
❛ Our love will be passed on. ❜
❛ I used to scream ferociously any time I wanted. ❜
❛ Pack your dolls and a sweater. ❜
[ track 08 ] august
❛ Salt air and the rust on your door — I never needed anything more. ❜
❛ I can see us lost in the memory. ❜
❛ August slipped away into a moment in time, because it was never mine. ❜
❛ I was see us twisted in bedsheets. ❜
❛ August sipped away like a bottle of wine, because you were never mine. ❜
❛ Will you call me when you're back at school? ❜
❛ I remember thinking I had you. ❜
❛ It was never mine. ❜
❛ You were never mine. ❜
❛ For me, it was enough to live for the hope of it all. ❜
❛ I canceled plans just in case you'd call. ❜
❛ Meet me behind the mall. ❜
❛ So much for summer love and saying "us". ❜
❛ You weren't mine to lose. ❜
❛ Do you remember? ❜
❛ Remember when I pulled up and said "Get in the car."
❛ I was living for the hope of it all. ❜
[ track 09 ] this is me trying
❛ I've been having a hard time adjusting. ❜
❛ I didn't know if you'd care if I came back. ❜
❛ I have a lot of regrets about that. ❜
❛ Maybe I don't quite know what to say. ❜
❛ I'm here in your doorway. ❜
❛ I just wanted you to know this is me trying. ❜
❛ I got wasted like all my potential. ❜
❛ My words shoot to kill when I'm mad. I have a lot of regrets about that. ❜
❛ I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere. ❜
❛ I ended up here, pouring my heart out to a stranger. ❜
❛ I didn't pour the whiskey. ❜
❛ At least I'm trying. ❜
❛ It's hard to be at a party when I feel like an open wound. ❜
❛ It's hard to be anywhere these days when all I want is you. ❜
❛ You're a flashback in a film reel on the one screen in my town. ❜
[ track 10 ] illicit affairs
❛ Make sure nobody sees you leave. ❜
❛ Tell your friends you're out for a run. ❜
❛ You'll be flushed when you return. ❜
❛ Take the road less traveled by. ❜
❛ Tell yourself you can always stop. ❜
❛ What started in beautiful rooms, ends with meeting in parking lots. ❜
❛ That's the thing about illicit affairs — and clandestine meetings and longing stares. ❜
❛ It's born from just one single glance, but it dies and it dies and it dies a million little times. ❜
❛ You leave no trace behind. ❜
❛ Take the words for what they are — a dwindling mercurial high, a drug that only worked the first few hundred times. ❜
❛ They show their truth one single time, but they lie and they lie and they lie. A million little times. ❜
❛ Don't call me "kid". ❜
❛ Don't call me "baby". ❜
❛ Look at this godforsaken mess that you made me. ❜
❛ You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else. ❜
❛ Look at this idiotic fool that you made me. ❜
❛ You taught me a secret language I can't speak with anyone else. ❜
❛ You know damn well, for you, I would ruin myself a million little times. ❜
[ track 11 ] invisible string
❛ I used to think I would meet somebody there. ❜
❛ Teal was the color of your shirt when you were sixteen at the yogurt shop. ❜
❛ Time, curious time. ❜
❛ Were there clues I didn't see? ❜
❛ Isn't it just so pretty to think all along there was some invisible string tying you to me? ❜
❛ You ate at my favorite spot for dinner. ❜
❛ She said I looked like an American singer. ❜
❛ Time, mystical time — cutting me open, then healing me fine. ❜
❛ Something wrapped all of my past mistakes in barbed wire. ❜
❛ One single thread of gold tied me to you. ❜
❛ Gold was the color of the leaves when you around Centennial Park. ❜
❛ Hell was the journey, but it brought me to heaven. ❜
❛ Time, wondrous time, gave me the blues and then purple-pink skies. ❜
❛ It's cool, baby, with me. ❜
[ track 12 ] mad woman
❛ What did you think I'd say to that? ❜
❛ Does a scorpion sting when fighting back? ❜
❛ They strike to kill, and you know I will. ❜
❛ What do you sing on your drive home? ❜
❛ Do you see my face in the neighbors lawn? ❜
❛ Fuck you forever. ❜
❛ Every time you call me crazy, I get more crazy. ❜
❛ When you say I seem angry, I get more angry. ❜
❛ There's nothing like a mad woman. ❜
❛ What a shame she went mad. ❜
❛ No one likes a mad woman. You made her like that. ❜
❛ You'll poke that bear 'till her claws come out and you find something to wrap your noose around. ❜
❛ I breathe flames each time I talk. ❜
❛ They say "Move On," but you know I won't. ❜
❛ Women like hunting witches too, doing your dirtiest work for you. ❜
❛ It's obvious that wanting me dead has really brought you two together. ❜
❛ I'm taking my time. ❜
❛ You took everything from me. ❜
❛ She should be mad, should be scathing like me. ❜
[ track 13 ] epiphany
❛ I think he's bleeding out. ❜
❛ Some things you just can't speak about. ❜
❛ With you, I serve. With you, I fall down. ❜
❛ I think she's crashing out. ❜
❛ Only twenty minutes to sleep.
❛ You dream of some epiphany — just one single glimpse of relief. ❜
[ track 14 ] betty
❛ I won't make assumptions. ❜
❛ I think it's because of me. ❜
❛ One time, I was riding on my skateboard when I passed your house. ❜
❛ It's like I couldn't breathe. ❜
❛ You heard the rumors. ❜
❛ You can't believe a word she says most times. But this time, it was true. ❜
❛ The worst thing that I ever did was what I did to you. ❜
❛ If I just showed up at your party, would you have me? ❜
❛ Would you want me? ❜
❛ Would you tell me to go fuck myself? ❜
❛ In the garden, would you trust me if I told you it was a just a summer thing? ❜
❛ I'm only seventeen. I don't know anything. ❜
❛ I don't know anything, but I know I miss you. ❜
❛ I know where it all went wrong. ❜
❛ I was nowhere to be found. ❜
❛ I hate crowds. You know that. ❜
❛ I saw you dance with him. ❜
❛ I was walking home on broken cobblestones, just thinking of you.
❛ She pulled up like a figment of my worst intentions. ❜
❛ Get in. Let's drive. ❜
❛ I dreamt of you all summer long. ❜
❛ I planned it out for weeks now. ❜
❛ It's finally sinking in. ❜
❛ Right now is the last time. ❜
❛ I can dream about what happens when you can see my face again. ❜
❛ The only thing I wanna do is make it up to you. ❜
❛ Will you have me? ❜
❛ Will you love me? ❜
❛ Will you kiss me on the porch in front of all your stupid friends? ❜
❛ If you kiss me, will it be just like I dreamed it? ❜
❛ I don't know anything. ❜
[ track 15 ] peace
❛ Our coming-of-age has come and gone. ❜
❛ I never had the courage of my convictions, as long as danger is near. ❜
❛ It's just around the corner, darlin. ❜
❛ I could never give you peace. ❜
❛ I'm a fire and I'll keep your brittle heart warm. ❜
❛ All these people think love's for show, but I would die for you in secret. ❜
❛ The devil's in the details, but you got a friend in me. ❜
❛ Would it be enough if I could never give you peace? ❜
❛ Your integrity makes me seem small. ❜
❛ I talk shit with my friends. It's like I'm wasting your honor. ❜
❛ Is it enough? ❜
❛ I'd give you my sunshine, give you my best. ❜
❛ The rain is always gonna come if you're standing with me. ❜
[ track 16 ] hoax
❛ This has broken me down. ❜
❛ This has frozen my ground. ❜
❛ Give me a reason. ❜
❛ Your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in. ❜
❛ Don't want no other shade of blue, but you. ❜
❛ No other sadness in the world would do. ❜
❛ I am ash from your fire. ❜
❛ You know I left a part of me back in New York. ❜
❛ You knew the hero died, so what's the movie for? ❜
❛ You knew it still hurts underneath my scars. ❜
❛ You knew you won, so what's the point of keeping score? ❜
❛ It still hurts underneath my scars. ❜
❛ What you did was just as dark. ❜
❛ Darling, this was just as hard as when they pulled me apart. ❜