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Death By A Thousand Cuts

Taylor Swift

DETAILS

Death by a Thousand Cuts is the tenth track on Taylor Swift’s Lover album. The song is about the challenge of getting over a lover, and references a form of torture in ancient China where a prisoner would slowly bleed to death from thousands of small cuts.

Even before the song released to the public, it was a fan favorite in Secret Sessions. One fan wrote, “I read something from a secret sessioner that Taylor had to leave the room when they played track 10 because it was so emotional for her. This is ‘Death by a Thousand Cuts’. I am so curious to hear this track.”

Even though Death by a Thousand Cuts covers relatively dark subject matter, the music itself follows in the vein of the rest of the album: light, catchy, almost whimsical.

SONG INFO

Song: Death By A Thousand Cuts

Album: Lover

Artist: Taylor Swift

Language: English

Release Date: 23 August 2019

LYRICS

My, my, my, my

My, my, my, my

My, my, my, my

My, my, my, my

My, my, my, my

My, my, my, my

My, my, my, my

My, my, my, my

Saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts

Flashbacks waking me up

I get drunk, but it’s not enough

’Cause the morning comes and you’re not my baby

I look through the windows of this love

Even though we boarded them up

Chandelier still flickering here

‘Cause I can’t pretend it’s okay when it’s not

It’s death by a thousand cuts

I dress to kill my time, I take the long way home

I ask the traffic lights if it’ll be alright

They say, “I don’t know”

And what once was ours is no one’s now

I see you everywhere, the only thing we share

Is this small town

You said it was a great love, one for the ages

But if the story’s over, why am I still writing pages?

Saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts

Flashbacks waking me up

I get drunk, but it’s not enough

’Cause the morning comes and you’re not my baby

I look through the windows of this love

Even though we boarded them up

Chandelier still flickering here

’Cause I can’t pretend it’s okay when it’s not

It’s death by a thousand cuts

My heart, my hips, my body, my love

Tryna find a part of me that you didn’t touch

Gave up on me like I was a bad drug

Now I’m searching for signs in a haunted club

Our songs, our films, united, we stand

Our country, guess it was a lawless land

Why are my fears at the touch of your hands?

Paper cut stains from my paper-thin plans

My time, my wine, my spirit, my trust

Tryna find a part of me you didn’t take up

Gave you so much, but it wasn’t enough

But I’ll be alright, it’s just a thousand cuts

I get drunk, but it’s not enough

‘Cause you’re not my baby

I look through the windows of this love

Even though we boarded them up

Chandelier still flickering here

‘Cause I can’t pretend it’s okay when it’s not

No, it’s not

It’s death by a thousand cuts (You didn’t touch)

Tryna find a part of me that you didn’t touch

My body, my love, my trust (It’s death by a thousand cuts)

But it wasn’t enough, it wasn’t enough, no, no

I take the long way home

I ask the traffic lights if it’ll be alright

They say, “I don’t know”

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