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I Hate It Here
Taylor Swift

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[Verse 1]
Quick, quick, tell me something awful
Like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a
finance guy
Tell me all your secrets, all you'll ever be is
My eternal consolation prize
You see, I was a debutante in another life, but
Now I seem to be scared to go outside
If comfort is a construct, I don't believe in good
luck
Now that I know what's what

[Chorus]
I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my
mind
People need a key to get to, the only one is
mine
I read about it in a book when I was a
precocious child
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
I'm there most of the year 'cause I hate it here
I hate it here

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[Verse 2]
My friends used to play a game where
We would pick a decade
We wished we could live in instead of this
I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists
And getting married off for the highest bid
Everyone would look down 'cause it wasn't fun
now
Seems like it was never even fun back then
Nostalgia is a mind's trick
If I'd been there, I'd hate it
It was freezing in the palace

[Chorus]
I hate it here so I will go to lunar valleys in my
mind
When they found a better planet, only the
gentle survived
I dreamed about it in the dark, the night I felt like
I might die
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
I'm there most of the year 'cause I hate it here
I hate it here

[Bridge]
I'm lonely, but I'm good
I'm bitter, but I swear I'm fine
I'll save all my romanticism for my inner life and
I'll get lost on purpose
This place made me feel worthless
Lucid dreams like electricity, the current flies
through me
And in my fantasies, I rise above it
And way up there, I actually love it

[Chorus]
I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my
mind
People need a key to get to, the only one is
mine
I read about it in a book when I was a
precocious child
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
I'm there most of the year 'cause I hate it here
I hate it here

[Outro]
Quick, quick, tell me something awful
Like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a
finance guy

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Genius Annotation 2 contributors

The song captures the complexities of yearning for

something more, whether it’s a different time, place,
or state of mind. It speaks to the human experience
of seeking refuge and understanding within oneself
when the external world feels overwhelming or
unsatisfying.

Sonically and lyrically, this song could also be seen

as a follow-up to Taylor’s song “the lakes” from the
extended version of her 2020 album, folklore. In the
chorus of “the lakes”, Swift states: “Take me to the
lakes where all the poets went to die, I don’t
belong, and my beloved, neither do you. Those
Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry,
I’m setting off, but not without my muse”. Whereas,
in the chorus of “I Hate It Here” she passionately
states: “I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in
my mind. People need a key to get to, the only one
is mine. I read about it in a book when I was a
precocious child. No mid-sized city hopes and
small-town fears, I’m there most of the year ‘cause I
hate it here. I hate it here”

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DEPARTMENT: THE
ANTHOLOGY (2024)
Taylor Swift

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16. Clara Bow

2. The Tortured Poets

Department 17. The Black Dog

3. My Boy Only Breaks His 18. imgonnagetyouback

Favorite Toys
19. The Albatross
4. Down Bad
20. Chloe or Sam or Sophia
5. So Long, London or Marcus

6. But Daddy I Love Him 21. How Did It End?

7. Fresh Out The Slammer 22. So High School

8. Florida!!! 23. I Hate It Here

9. Guilty as Sin? 24. thanK you aIMee

10. Who’s Afraid of Little 25. I Look in People’s

Old Me? Windows

11. I Can Fix Him (No Really I 26. The Prophecy

Can)
27. Cassandra
12. loml
28. Peter
13. I Can Do It With A
Broken Heart 29. The Bolter

14. The Smallest Man Who 30. Robin

Ever Lived
31. The Manuscript
15. The Alchemy

Credits
Produced By Written By
Aaron Dessner & Taylor Swift Aaron Dessner & Taylor Swift

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Iona Allan (Violin), Eloisa- Elisa Bergerson, Amy Swain,
Fleur Thom, Sophie Mather, Matthew Kettle, Nicholas
Marianne Haynes, Agata Bootiman & Morgan Goff
Daraskaite, Anna de Bruin,
Akiko Ishikawa, Nicole Crespo
O’Donoghue, Julian Azkoul,
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