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Cruel Summer

Taylor Swift

DETAILS

“Cruel Summer,” Swift’s most infectious song since that run of singles from 1989 and the second track on Lover, sets the tone for the new album’s warmer, more inviting vibes. And most crucially for Taylor, it tells a more humanizing version of that ill-fated period three years ago. Over a burbling Jack Antonoff production, Taylor sings of falling in love with current boyfriend Joe Alwyn while her public life was in shambles: “Devils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes / What doesn’t kill me makes me want you more.” Cowritten by St. Vincent, “Cruel Summer” is a more effective rebuke of Taylor’s personal drama than any snake emoji or “edgy” turn she’s tried in the recent past. (It also doesn’t hurt that it shares a title with Kanye’s 2012 GOOD Music compilation.) She’s back, and those dark days appear to be over.

SONG INFO

Song: Cruel Summer

Album: Lover

Artist: Taylor Swift

Language: English

Release Date: 23 August 2019

LYRICS

(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

Fever dream high in the quiet of the night

You know that I caught it (Oh yeah, you're right, I want it)

Bad, bad boy, shiny toy with a price

You know that I bought it (Oh yeah, you're right, I want it)

Killing me slow, out the window

I'm always waiting for you to be waiting below

Devils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes

What doesn't kill me makes me want you more

And it's new, the shape of your body

It's blue, the feeling I've got

And it's ooh, whoa oh

It's a cruel summer

It's cool, that's what I tell 'em

No rules, unbreakable heaven

But ooh, whoa oh

It's a cruel summer

With you

Hang your head low in the glow of the vending machine

I'm not buying (Oh yeah, you're right, I want it)

You say that we'll just screw it up in these trying times

We're not trying (Oh yeah, you're right, I want it)

So cut the headlights, summer's a knife

I'm always waiting for you just to cut to the bone

Devils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes

And if I bleed, you'll be the last to know

Oh, it's new, the shape of your body

It's blue, the feeling I've got

And it's ooh, whoa oh

It's a cruel summer

It's cool, that's what I tell 'em

No rules, unbreakable heaven

But ooh, whoa oh

It's a cruel summer

With you

I'm drunk in the back of the car

And I cried like a baby coming home from the bar (Oh)

Said I'm fine, but it wasn't true

I don't wanna keep secrets just to keep you

And I snuck in through the garden gate

Every night that summer just to seal my fate (Oh)

And I screamed for whatever it's worth

"I love you," ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?

He looks so pretty like a devil

And it's new, the shape of your body

It's blue, the feeling I've got

And it's ooh, whoa oh

It's a cruel summer

It's cool, that's what I tell 'em

No rules, unbreakable heaven

But ooh, whoa oh

It's a cruel summer

With you

I'm drunk in the back of the car

And I cried like a baby coming home from the bar (Oh)

Said I'm fine, but it wasn't true

I don't wanna keep secrets just to keep you

And I snuck in through the garden gate

Every night that summer just to seal my fate (Oh)

And I screamed for whatever it's worth

"I love you," ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?

(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

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