⋆࿐໋˖𓍢ִִ໋ taylor swift - the tortured poets department (anthology) , ♡
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i don't cater to all these vipers dressed in empath's clothing.
nostalgia is a mind's trick.
then we could all just laugh until i cry.
i'm seeing visions, am i bad?
it wasn't a fair fight or a clean kill.
just say when, i'd play again.
oh my god, you should see your faces.
blood's thick, but nothin' like a payroll.
now you know what it feels like.
you're in self-sabotage mode, throwing spikes down on the road.
this town is fake, but you're the real thing.
well, you took me to hell too.
six weeks of breathing clean air, i still miss the smoke.
you deserve prison, but you won't get time.
i touched you for only a fortnight.
honestly, who are we to fight the alchemy?
you say i abandoned the ship, but i was going down with it.
nothing makes me feel more alive.
who the fuck was that guy?
but when i count the scars, there's a moment of truth that there wouldn't be this if there hadn't been you.
even if i die screaming, i hope you hear it.
no one's ever had me, not like you.
yes, i'm haunted, but i'm feeling just fine.
i built a legacy that you can't undo.
fuck it if i can't have us.
i'll tell you something about my good name, it's mine alone to disgrace.
so tell me everything is not about me, but what if it is?
my boy only breaks his favorite toys.
tell me all your secrets.
you know you're good when you can even do it with a broken heart.
what if your eyes looked up and met mine.
i swept in at the rescue.
now i'm down bad, crying at the gym.
i'm so afraid i sealed my fate.
i chose this cyclone with you.
all my mornings are mondays stuck in an endless february.
you were sleeping soundly when they dragged you from your bed.
it wasn't sexy once it wasn't forbidden.
i can't pretend like i understand.
i'm just getting color back into my face.
i'm pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free.
i stopped cpr, after all, it's no use
it was unnecessary, should've let it stay buried.
we both did the best we could do underneath the same moon.
you shit-talked me under the table.
touch me while your bros play grand theft auto.
you said you were gonna grow up then you were gonna come find me.
i'm combing through the braids of lies.
no way i'm gonna screw up, now that i know what's at stake.
you told me i'm the love of your life.
you kicked out the stage lights, but you're still performing.
i am what i am 'cause you trained me.
in fifty years will all this be declassified?
there's a lot of people in town that i bestow upon my fakest smiles.
how dare you think it's romantic, leaving me safe and stranded.
they knew the whole time that i was onto something.
i just learned these people only raise you to cage you.
i dreamed about it in the dark the night i felt like i might die.
all of this to say, i hope you're okay.
i didn't opt in to be your odd man out.
move to florida, buy the car you want.
i'm bitter, but i swear i'm fine.
please, i've been on my knees.
just how low did you think i'd go before i'd self-implode?
who's gonna stop us from waltzing back into rekindled flames if we know the steps anyway?
way up there, i actually love it.
at dinner, you take my ring off my middle finger and put it on the one people put wedding rings on.
what if the way you hold me is actually what's holy?
i should've known it was a matter of time.
they're gonna crucify me anyway.
this happens once every few lifetimes.
i can't forgive the way you made me feel.
does it feel alright to not know me?
you said some things that i can't unabsorb.
i just don't understand how you don't miss me.
i felt more when we played pretend.
the future's bright, dazzling.
i've seen this episode and still loved the show.
please know that i tried to hold onto the days when you were mine.
are you still a mind reader?
i'll save all my romanticism for my inner life and i'll get lost on purpose.
tell me i'm despicable, say it's unforgivable.
still alive, killing time at the cemetery
i read about it in a book when i was a precocious child.
you caged me, and then you called me crazy.
bet they never spared a prayer for my soul.
i stopped trying to make him laugh.
he just hadn't met me yet.
you ain't gotta pray for me.
i won't confess that i waited, but i let the lamp burn.
all your life, did you know you'd be picked like a rose?
i'm tryin' to stifle my sighs.
if you wanted me dead, you should've just said.
i don't think you've changed much.
are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me?
i don't believe in good luck now that i know what's what.
all that time you were throwing punches, i was building something.
i know i'm just repeating myself.
little did you know, your home's really only a town you're just a guest in.
i forget if this was ever fun.
love's never lost when perspective is earned.
you didn't measure up in any measure of a man.
my friends used to play a game where we would pick a decade we wished we could live in instead of this.
if you want to tear my world apart just say you've always wondered.
what we thought was for all time, was momentary.
do that impression you did of your dad again.
you see i was a debutant in another life but now i seem to be scared to go outside.
you just watched it happen.
so if you want to break my cold, cold heart, say you loved me.
what a charming saturday.
they tried to warn him about her.
then say they didn't do it to hurt me, but what if they did?
i was a functioning alcoholic 'till nobody noticed my new aesthetic.
no one asks any questions here.
my friends said it isn't right to be scared.
now i want to sell my house and set fire to all my clothes.
were you making fun of me with some esoteric joke?
old habits die screaming.
i know he's crazy but he's the one i want.
did you sleep with a gun underneath our bed?
fuck you if i can't have us.
we were blind to unforeseen circumstances.
i wish i could un-recall how we almost had it all.
trust me, i can handle me a dangerous man.
you're the loss of my life.
i cry a lot, but i am so productive.
who's afraid of little old me?
i keep recalling things we never did.
i still ponder what it meant.
and who's gonna know you, if not me?
you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.
i'm just mad as hell 'cause i loved this place.
your words are still just ringing in my head.
the story isn't mine anymore.
i'm lonely, but i'm good.
i tried to warn you about them.
fresh out the slammer, i know who my first call will be to.
i look in people's windows.
i will never lose my baby again.
looking backwards might be the only way to move forward.
i choose you and me religiously.
i got cursed like eve got bitten.
i would've died for your sins, instead i just died inside.
well, me and my ghosts, we had a hell of a time.
life was always easier on you than it was on me.
you don't get to tell me about "sad".
i'm not a donor but i'd give you my heart if you needed it.
you don't get to tell me you feel bad.
i was supposed to be sent away, but they forgot to come and get me.
if i'd been there, i'd hate it.
i can do it with a broken heart.
you cinephile in black and white.
were you sent by someone who wanted me dead?
but what about your quiet treason?
i took the miracle move-on drug, the effects were temporary.
i can take the upper hand and touch your body.
i'd rather burn my whole life down than listen to one more second of all this bitching and moaning.
i'll tell you one thing honey, i can tell when somebody still wants me.
this place made me feel worthless.
i keep finding his things in drawers.
did you take all my old clothes?
even if it's handcuffed, i'm leaving here with you.
i'm so obsessed with him, but he avoids me like the plague.
no, i'm not coming to my senses.
we've already done it in my head.
that's the closest i've come to my heart exploding.
no matter what i've done, it wouldn't matter anyway.
everyone knows that my mother is a saintly woman but she used to say she wished that you were dead.
sometimes i wonder if you're gonna screw this up with me.
lights, camera, bitch, smile.
it's hell on earth to be heavenly.
i'm runnin' back home to you.
one bad seed kills the garden.
i've been doing it since he left.
they say what doesn't kill you makes you aware, what happens if it becomes who you are?
i was tame, i was gentle till the circus life made me mean.
the hospital was a drag, worst sleep that i ever had.
we learned the right steps to different dances.
i haven't come around in so long.
god save the most judgmental creeps who say they want what's best for me.
'cause i'm a real tough kid, i can handle my shit.
i'll tell you how i've been there too, and that none of it matters.
once i fix me, he's gonna miss me.
no, you can't come to the wedding.
you swore that you loved me, but where were the clues?
but you should've seen him when he first got me.
i'm sure i can pass this test.
they tried to warn you about me.
come close, i'll show you heaven if you'll be an angel all night.
what if i told you i'm back?
i'm there most of the year 'cause i hate it here.
i may never open up the way i did for you.
you left your typewriter at my apartment.
oh, we must stop meeting like this.
scandal does funny things to pride.
tell me 'bout the first time you saw me.
it's gonna be alright, i did my time.
and for a fortnight there we were forever.
i thought it was just goodbye for now.
i love you, it's ruining my life.
i'm not trying to exaggerate, but i think i might die if it happened.
i might just die, it would make no difference.
i'll forget you, but i'll never forgive.
a greater woman stays cool, but i howl like a wolf at the moon.
a greater woman wouldn't beg.
i died on the altar waiting for the proof.
can we watch our phantoms like watching wild horses?
i don't even want you back, i just want to know.
they'll say i'm nuts if i talk about the existence of you.
were you a sleeper cell spy?
you said i needed a brave man, then proceeded to play him until i believed it too.
someone told me there's no such thing as bad thoughts.
i can fix him, no really i can.
you needed me, but you needed drugs more.
thought of calling ya, but you won't pick up.
who do i have to speak to about if they can redo the prophecy?
you're in terrible danger.
i want to snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made me.
for a moment, i knew cosmic love
you're the new god we're worshipping.
you gotta fake it 'till you make it, and i did.
did you think i had in me?
you said normal girls were "boring".
and who's gonna hold you like me?
even statues crumble if they're made to wait.
you can mark my words that i said it first.
one last souvenir from my trip to your shores
i'm so depressed, i act like it's my birthday every day.
how can i be guilty as sin?
you were gone by the morning.
i'm always drunk on my own tears, isn't that what they all said?
he said he'd love me all his life.
fuck it if i can't have him.
i just learned these people try and save you 'cause they hate you.
tell me all that you'd learned.
growing up precocious sometimes means not growing up at all.
i loved your hostile takeovers.
you and i go from one kiss to getting married.
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