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Taylor Swift

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[Verse 1]
Did you really beam me up?
In a cloud of sparkling dust
Just to do experiments on
Tell me I was the chosen one
Showed me that this world is bigger than us
Then sent me back where I came from

[Pre-Chorus]
For a moment I knew cosmic love

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[Chorus]
Now I'm down bad, crying at the gym
Everything comes out teenage petulance
"Fuck it if I can't have him"
"I might just die, it would make no difference"
Down bad, waking up in blood
Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up
Fuck it if I can't have us
I might just not get up
I might stay down bad
Fuck it if I can't have him
Down bad
Fuck it if I can't have him

[Verse 2]
Did you take all my old clothes?
Just to leave me here naked and alone
In a field in my same old town
That somehow seems so hollow now
They'll say I'm nuts if I talk about
The existence of you

[Pre-Chorus]
For a moment, I was heavenstruck

[Chorus]
Now I'm down bad, crying at the gym
Everything comes out teenage petulance
"Fuck it if I can't have him"
"I might just die, it would make no difference"
Down bad, waking up in blood
Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up
Fuck it if I can't have us
I might just not get up
I might stay down bad (Like I lost my twin)
Fuck it if I can't have him (Down bad)
Down bad (Waving at the ship)
Fuck it if I can't have him

[Bridge]
I loved your hostile take-overs
Encounters closer and closer
All your indecent exposures
How dare you say that it's–
I'll build you a fort on some planet
Where they can all understand it
How dare you think it's romantic
Leaving me safe and stranded?
'Cause fuck it, I was in love
So fuck you if I can't have us
'Cause fuck it, I was in love

[Chorus]
Now I'm down bad, crying at the gym
Everything comes out teenage petulance
"Fuck it if I can't have him"
"I might just die, it would make no difference"
Down bad, waking up in blood
Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up
Fuck it if I can't have us
I might just not get up
I might stay down bad (Like I lost my twin)
Fuck it if I can't have him (Down bad)
Down bad (Waving at the ship)
Fuck it if I can't have him

[Outro]
Like I lost my twin
Fuck it if I can't have him
Down bad (Waving at the ship)
Fuck it if I can't have him

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Down Bad, the fourth track on Swift’s eleventh studio

album, The Tortured Poets Department, and the song
has fans confused.
Some speculate it as Swift being in love with Travis
Kelce, while others argue it as her struggling with her
depression after splitting with Joe Alwyn. Although
many people question Taylor, writing a song about
Travis Kelce, as she had mentioned when she was
giving a speech for her thirteenth Grammy.

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THE TORTURED POETS

DEPARTMENT: THE
ANTHOLOGY (2024)
Taylor Swift

1. Fortnight
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 or
5. So Long, London 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 Old 25. I Look in People’s

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

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Credits
Produced By Written By
Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift Taylor Swift & Jack Antonoff

Mastering Engineer Saxophone

Randy Merrill & Ryan Smith Evan Smith & Zem Audu

Mellotron Assistant Recording Engineer

Mikey Freedom Hart Jack Manning & Jon Sher

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