This song is Swift's response to the negative reputation the media has given her.
"I can make the bad guys good for a weekend" - the bad guys are the paparazzi to Swift, but are good to the "player" since association with Swift immediately gives publicity. Any publicity is good publicity and Swift knows this.
"You can tell me when it's over" - the tabloids rumor relationships are over before the couple announces it officially.
With this song Swift is portraying the way she is portrayed by the media.
It is a sarcastic jab at how she views herself and how her "ex-lovers" only wanted to be with her to increase their fame.
I applaud the brilliance in writing about how you always write about relationships.
It is expected so Swift is giving the media what they want and profiting off the attention.
Dim
You find out words are the same when you shout
I'm forced out
I'm someone childlike
My first time
Wonder when you'd come
So the mermaid's run
For now the magic's gone
Falling under the water where i don't belong
Beaneth the mud and mead
There lurks like a dark seed
A memory long gone
A world so chained up
A world so chained up
Could look so down
Live like London
Walls are on your life
Hell's coves don't come, come
And over is over is over is over is o
Someone, yeah
Daylight's all, daylight's all
Just tell me if you've ever had
To find out
Words are the same when you shout
A small town
For the rest of your life
My first time
Wonder when you'd come
So the mermaid's run
For now the magic's gone
So the mermaid's run
And now the magic's gone
Oh heaven looks so sad
But give us all the time we need
I see no reason to believe
There ain't no sunflower that you won't see
There's only love sounds
Only love beats on
Alone and alone and alone
So we'll hold this
Alone and alone and alone
So we'll hold this
Alone and alone and alone
You find out words are the same when you shout
I'm forced out
I'm someone childlike
My first time
Wonder when you'd come
So the mermaid's run
For now the magic's gone
Falling under the water where i don't belong
Beaneth the mud and mead
There lurks like a dark seed
A memory long gone
A world so chained up
A world so chained up
Could look so down
Live like London
Walls are on your life
Hell's coves don't come, come
And over is over is over is over is o
Someone, yeah
Daylight's all, daylight's all
Just tell me if you've ever had
To find out
Words are the same when you shout
A small town
For the rest of your life
My first time
Wonder when you'd come
So the mermaid's run
For now the magic's gone
So the mermaid's run
And now the magic's gone
Oh heaven looks so sad
But give us all the time we need
I see no reason to believe
There ain't no sunflower that you won't see
There's only love sounds
Only love beats on
Alone and alone and alone
So we'll hold this
Alone and alone and alone
So we'll hold this
Alone and alone and alone
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