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.
Won't you walk with me on the wild side
With my head in the air
Full of some child's pride
And I'm up too far, I'm up too high
I cannot come down, I cannot meet your eye
And oh my lover
If I come knocking at your door
Please turn away now if I
Come asking for more
Oh my lover, you never call my bluff
Gave what you have now
But it was never enough
Now your mind is reaching for that door
As you pick your rings up off the floor
You never even questioned what
That door was for
You gave me what you had and
You could give no more
And oh my lover, why you leaving so soon?
This place is a prison, oh a lifetime or two
Oh my lover, when will you return?
I'll be back, some evening in a fever
A pearl
And why’d you let me walk on that wild side
With my head in the air
Full of some child's pride?
Let the sun come up, let the sun rise
As it rips the curtain of your eye
And oh my lover, is it always the same?
With your pointing your finger the
Way that I came
Oh my lover, you never call my bluff
Gave what you have now
But it was never enough never enough
And oh the places you'll go
And oh the things that you'll do
Oh just to have and to hold
But now you must move
And oh the places you'll go
And oh the things that you'll do
And oh the hand that you hold
Does not belong to you
With my head in the air
Full of some child's pride
And I'm up too far, I'm up too high
I cannot come down, I cannot meet your eye
And oh my lover
If I come knocking at your door
Please turn away now if I
Come asking for more
Oh my lover, you never call my bluff
Gave what you have now
But it was never enough
Now your mind is reaching for that door
As you pick your rings up off the floor
You never even questioned what
That door was for
You gave me what you had and
You could give no more
And oh my lover, why you leaving so soon?
This place is a prison, oh a lifetime or two
Oh my lover, when will you return?
I'll be back, some evening in a fever
A pearl
And why’d you let me walk on that wild side
With my head in the air
Full of some child's pride?
Let the sun come up, let the sun rise
As it rips the curtain of your eye
And oh my lover, is it always the same?
With your pointing your finger the
Way that I came
Oh my lover, you never call my bluff
Gave what you have now
But it was never enough never enough
And oh the places you'll go
And oh the things that you'll do
Oh just to have and to hold
But now you must move
And oh the places you'll go
And oh the things that you'll do
And oh the hand that you hold
Does not belong to you
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