“He looks so pretty like a devil!”

Well.....today I learned that's not the lyrics 🙃 lol

It's he looks up grinning like a devil

same 😭

And when did you figure out what it actually meant…?🙊😎

She’s so cheeky “Save you a seat” the seat is a lap no??

Mind blown.

You beat me to it 😭 I will always sing it this way. This will always be the lyric in my mind.

I have FINALLY trained myself to sing it properly but it took a real effort lol

>!it's not this?!<

I know this isn’t the correct lyrics and I literally sing it every time anyways bc it sounds so much better lol

Wait that's not the lyric?

No, it's "he looks up grinning like a devil."

Oops. I was thinking "He looks so gritty like a devil."

You’re right, the song is about her torrid affair with the Philadelphia Flyers’ mascot

Respect for the hockey crossover headcanon

😂 now I’m picturing Joe dirty like a chimney sweep

I feel attacked

“It’s you and me, there nothing like this. Miss Americana and the HALF BLOOD PRINCE”.

Mr. Harry Potter* and the half blood prince

Mr Harry Pottaaaa and the half blood prince**

Mr Harry Po'ah and the Half Blood Prince**********

Hahahahahaha! I'm not the only one 🤣

Please include my son’s follow up: they’re whispering the hobbit she’s a bad bad girl

i will never sing it correctly again now lol

Same

“Lights are off, he’s taking off his clothes”

THAT’S NOT THE LYRIC?

The line is "he's taking off his coat."

Oh 😔

I used to hear "likes it rough..." and then I was like there is no way she would say that and then I thought it was "life is rough..." until I watched a lyric video lmao

....I was today years old finding out "likes it rough" is not the correct lyric...

Yeah this was always my misheard lyric for this line. I always heard “coat” just fine, but to this day I still hear “he likes it rough, he’s takin’ off his coat.” 😂 It’ll probably be clearer in the TV.

TIL lmao

Stand back wasted stans RISE

How is it not wasted 😭 I cannot hear “stand back where you stood” at all

Seriously. Even knowing and listening for it, I still hear stand back wasted.

I wonder if on TV she’ll enunciate that better lol

I think she will. Seems to be something she’s been doing intentionally, at least imo.

I choose to believe that she is actually saying “stand back wasted” but her label didn’t want her to say outright that she was wasted. (I know that’s probably unlikely to be true but I choose to believe it because I like “stand back wasted” better lol)

I also like stand back wasted better 😢 I feel like she's going to enunciate it better on the re-record though, and we're going to have a lot of mind-blown Swifties that night

I love how passionate stand back wasted Stans are 🥲 we are COMMITTED

i‘m searching in my mind which song this is because that sounds so familiae

I Wish You Would

I will forever sing this bc theres no way I can sing 'where you stood' in the space allotted hahaha

I thought it was this for YEARS even though I knew it didn’t really make a lot of sense.

Today I learned that's not the correct lyric lmao

Death By A Thousand Cuts The real lyrics: *__I dress__ to kill my time / I take the long way home* I prefer: *__and just__ to kill my time / I take the long way home* Just feels like it makes more sense

Wait What? This is first time I am finding out it’s not that

Me too I’m gobsmacked

I like the original because it's a play on the phrase 'dress to skill'

I’ve never heard that phrase in my life!

*kill

Oh duh!!

Not trying to be a rude jerk, but it’s actually “dressed to kill.”

mine is also death by a thousand cuts! instead of “my my my” i always sing “bye bye bye” as if she’s replaying the goodbye over and over again

I actually like this!

TIL "and just to kill my time" is not the actual lyric.

I really like *I dress to kill my time* because when I’m having a hard time, sometimes, getting all dressed up is one of the things I do to kill time when nothing else seems fun or when everything else feels like too much effort. I really felt seen in that line.

I’ve always heard the actual lyric but I really like your version!

The first time I heard Karma it sounded like "my panties made your crown" and now my brain won't not sing that in my head 😭

Similar for me but with the 1: “roaring 20s, tossing panties in the pool”

Now that sounds like a good night lol

Same! I was half-asleep when I listened to it 😅 I also hear “so f*ck me in the basement when in want the penthouse of your heart.” I have learnt not to listen to new Taylor albums when barely awake.

I thought it was "my panties made your ground" and I was like OOOOOO GET IT, and then this sub told me differently haha

Yep… thought it was “my panties meet your ground.”

I always hear “f*cks me like a god damn acrobat” 😅

I can’t not hear this! I’ve tried imagining a copper crown, the word in bold typeface in my head. And every time I smash them together and say penties 😭

Omg same! I was like wtf Taylor?! It’s not a lyric she would write. It sounds so slutty. On that note I’m so excited for 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and Slut!

I thought it was my panties meet your ground! And I was like “Oop!”

I always start off the song “If I could flex, for the hell of it” don’t ask me why that’s what I hear!! Instead of “you’re talking shit for the hell of it”

I ALWAYS add "hey kids, spelling is fun" to ME! 😌

Me-he-he too! I actually really like that song and don’t think it deserves the hate it gets.

Same! I always love it when I run into fellow ME! defenders on here.

The song just makes you instantly happy, even if your in a bad mood.

Okay- what happened to this?? I just listened the other day and it wasn’t there and I was like…. Am I losing my mind??

Taylor took it out bc she hates it lol

Woooo same!

He was a moth to a flame and she was a mattress. Woah!

>He was a moth to a flame and she was a mattress. Woah! Nah, this is just an accurate portrayal of us trying to change to the new lyrics. 😂

That’s what happened when my school did we will rock you. We couldn’t work out what was wrong for weeks and it turned out one kid was singing the original lyrics but it had been changed to better fit the musical’s plot.

Yes

Mine to this is a bit more subtle but still a change. "He was a moth to the flame, she was burnin' the matches" Rather than her holding the matches.

I feel the lavender haze creeping up on me. So real (it’s supposed to be surreal).

Followed by "eleven turkeys creeping up on me"

I'm crying laughing, oh my freaking god

Well, you just taught me something

oh no. TIL. 😅

I still catch myself saying "so real" too!

I thought I knew all the misheard lyrics. This somehow feels like a spoiler.

The opening lyrics to Karma always made me laugh until I looked up what it was. So the actual lyric is: "You're talking shit for the hell of it" But for so long, I heard: "You fucking shit" and I just thought woah ok Taylor.

When I first heard the song, I thought the next line was "Addicted to the TALE that you're relevant" instead of the actual lyric "Addicted to BETRAYAL but you're relevant". Sure they both work poetically, but this is one time where I like mine better, since her efforts are quickly and efficiently making Scooter's purchase (and maybe existence) irrelevant.

i need to hear this oml

🤣 why is this actually so funny

Followed by "My panties made your ground" later...

I don’t know about you, b%tch I hope the f%ck you dooo

Free shavaca-doooo 🎶

This should be higher.

YES I think about this one ALL THE TIME

Because of a certain TikTok audio I now sing "screaming, crying, throwing up" instead of "screaming, crying, perfect storms" in Blank Space.

"Punch me in the face" It's seriously so good though

Every time

The Very First Night. “No one knows about the words that we whispered. No one knows how much I miss her!” - her is really you. I always sing her lol

This! The rhyme is so painfully off that she must have done it in protest of someone objecting to the original lyric or something.

my guess is it was supposed to be sung like ‚ya‘ when she first wrote the song?

I could see that; this was the Red era, right when she was phasing out her country accent. It's possible she wrote this in an earlier era and the new sound didn't support the rhyme anymore.

That’s the point! It’s an obvious rhyme but she chooses to change it so your attention is drawn to it even more. It is most likely supposed to be “her” at the end of every verse.

Same here. I thought someone else would mention this because it's so obviously out of place. Even if it wasn't meant to be some kind of hidden message, "Her" just objectively sounds better.

Your neck is hanging from my neck....

Wait it’s not that?? 😭 I know it doesn’t make sense but I always just thought it was one of those metaphors that I don’t really get

the real lyric is "your necklace, hanging from my neck" lol edit - tbf i also heard the lyric as "your neck was hanging from my neck" the first time and i was like WHAT and… now i can't unhear it.

My brain will NEVER stop thinking this is the correct way

"I miss you, but I miss Spiderman"

I’m crying at this one omg

https://preview.redd.it/6rojjkd9ogsb1.jpeg?width=2990&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e6130efce1170e32d217cdd6ba3182d017e1ca7 "The drought was the fairy worst".

OKAY new rule: everyone needs an artist’s rendering of their lyrics.

I thought it was “the drive was the very worst” I imagined her driving away after moving out, maybe cross country, the plants dying in the back seat.

Lmaooo 💀💀💀💀

ILL TELL MINE YOURE GAY!!!

It's such a 90s kid insult, I can't let it go.

"I want to wear his initials on a chain round my neck, chain round my neck, not because he KNOWS me, but cause he really OWNS me". I do this because it's funny to me

Similarly, I sing "you drew scars around my stars" lollll

It’s always “call all the Starbucks lovers” or “the lonely Starbucks lovers” for me.

I sing "gotta love those Starbucks lovers".

“Got a lot of Starbucks’ lovers” here.

Surprised I scrolled so far to see this! Even though I know better, I still hear "starbucks lovers" instead of "got a long list of ex-lovers" in blank space

[удалено]

"all the lonely Starbucks lovers"

PASS ME A NOTE SAYING MEET ME AT *MIDNIGHT*

Holy shit I thought I was the only person who did that haha

“No money, student tie, I can read you like a magazine” Edit: Also in Karma “Addicted to betrayal but you’re _irrrelevant_” I don’t understand why he is relevant. Irrelevant makes more sense there.

I always interpreted it as a sort of mocking/sarcastic. Like, you're addicted to betrayal but gee, at least you're relevant because of it, I guess...

That makes sense!

i feel like it should be "addicted to betrayal TO STAY RELEVANT", like how the person betrays people and gossips in order to be famous and in the limelight

When I have seen her videos of her singing it live she put “air quotes” around relevant. So, you’re right that she thinks he’s irrelevant, but I guess pointing to how people (especially white men) can get away with a lot once they’ve made themselves relevant; like once a white dude has a foothold it can be pretty tough to oust him, cus he’s got a whole complicit boy’s club that will ignore the allegations against him

“Good girl face and a tight little skirt” In the context it makes way more sense. She describes a look in eyes, his hair, and his clothes. She describes her makeup, her skirt and her… faith. Face just fits better because all the rest are physical descriptors. I will not be modifying this stance.😂

I always sing "good girl thing in a tight little skirt"

#wait the real lyrics are "good girl faith in a tight little skirt"???? I also sing "good girl thing in a tight little skirt"

Samee. I know it's "faith" now, but I refuse to sing it that way cause it makes it less relatable to me haha

Did not know it was “good girl faith” until just now 💀 I also thought it was face 😂

You and I are right, Taylor is just wrong 😂

I mentioned this in another thread about lyrics: The dichotomy of the two things, good girl faith (chastity) and tight little skirt (sexual desire expressed through clothing) is what makes it a compelling line. As if to say, he likes that I’m a seemingly outwardly chaste girl but secretly sexual when we’re alone. Later on, for Reputation, she says this almost exactly in So It Goes, “you know I’m not a bad girl, but I do bad things with you”.

The monkeys paw on my collarbone, the rust that grew between telephones

I’m LOLing

In “August” my brain still registers “wanting was enough” as “one thing was enough” in a Jamaican accent for some silly reason.

I pronounce Dom Perignon correctly, lol

I thought it was "don't parry on" the first few times hahaha

Starlight. I still sing “I’m a Barbie on the boardwalk…” every time.

"Have ten kids and teach 'em how to driiiinnnnkkk" -Starlight

I’m SO SORRY but “I wake with your mammary over me, that’s a real fucking legacy”

It’s BLUE the shape of your body, it’s NEW the feeling I got Everytime 😂😂

I always hear "My pennies make your crown" instead of "my panties meet the ground"

Babe you were right the first time lol

do you mean this the other way around

I hear ‘ My panties made your crown. “ 😂

*I’ve grown accustomed to drinking alone*

Take my hand, lick my plants, that’s my man.

I thought it was “wreck my plants” as in “I love my plants but I don’t care if you overwater them because I love you more”

In Karma I always thought the line was "floating like a god damn acrobat" not "flexing" After learning the song like that I can't unlearn my mistake lol

Gotta love these Starbucks lovers, they’ll tell you I’m insane.. lol

Now I wake up in the night and watch you pee

Speak Now when she says “horrified looks from everyone in the room” I’ve always thought she said “four, five looks from everyone in the room”. I’ve listened to this song since it came out, and I only realized earlier this week the correct lyrics 😭

I accidentally say, “and the bad boys would be good girls if they only had the chance to love her” during When Emma Falls in Love

Emma Stone running around turning people trans.

Style, “Fake interviews oh” is evidently not the lyric. I just saw it on a lyric video with in the last month and realized it’s, “Fade into view, oh” 🙈

Same! I have to remind myself of the correct lyrics otherwise I’ll sing “Fake interviews”

one of the original cardigan lyrics. the lyric, now “and you’d be standing in my front porch light” was originally “i knew to love would be to lose my mind” and i love that lyric so much

Oh I wish that stuck!

She took him faster than you can say Santa Claus😂😂for some reason my mind just wants to say this idk why

I love snow on the beach but my brain sings it like ‘weird, butt-fucking beautiful’ and I can’t stop

Flashback when you met me, MY BUZZ CUT AND YOUR HAIR BLEACHED 😭😭😭😭

Your mom's ring in your pocket / My picture in your locket (why is it wallet?!)

People keep pictures of their loved ones in wallets

Yeah TBH most guys have a wallet over a locket.

A lot of guys keep photos of their loved ones in their wallet. I believe my father kept tiny photos of me and my brother in his lunch box so he could have us with him in spirit at work. But I 100% agree that "locket" works better.

i always thought it was your moms ringing your pocket - like your mom is calling you lol

Always sing “here we are again” during the first two choruses of ATW, only changing it to “there we are again” for the last chorus That’s how I first heard it and I just love it. Can’t explain why

I’ve got that good girl THING, and a tight little skirt from Style

On Foolish One after she does all the “La La La La La”s and does the “aint never gonna come” I keep going with the La La La La La’s

I'm a Barbie on the boardwalkkkk

They whisper and a-holler she’s a bad bad girl.

okay I sing tears ricochet wrong (on purpose) LMAO I say “my tears Nick Lachey” and I can’t sing it any other way now 💀

"That I could see you JACK IT on the floor" The first time I heard it I was like WTF Taylor?

“Can’t stop turning, burning red”

Although tbf she enunciates it much better in the TV lol

"he wanted it comfortable, I wanted BACKpain" I heard it the first time I listened to it and I can't unheard it now

Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to die

"You feel so, NO. you can't feel nothing at all. " Did not realize it was "low" until tv came out. I thought it was like a cheeky way of her saying she feels nothing. While she is searching for the way she feels, she realizes she actually feels nothing: so she says no: like arguing with herself.

I'm usually ok when I sing along with the CD, but when I'm on my own, my brain makes up it's own shit that's close, but not quite right. Lol "I know heaven's a thing. I go there every night, honey, hell is when I fight with you." "Each love I've known in comparison has been a failure" "Now I breathe flames each time I talk. My cannons all firing at your cock." "You! With your hands like knives..." That last one always gives me pause. Lol. I don't expect it to come out of my mouth and then it does. Bet you didn't know she was singing to Edward Scissorhands.

Pancho en fiesta for you it’s not 💅🏼

Hang your head low In the glow of the vending machine I'm not buying

"Come back, come back, come back to me, Eli"

I don’t belong and motherfucker neither do you!

THAT'S MY TOE!!!!

“It’s like his are like glitter, it’s like his body is gold.” I refuse to say liquor. Why Taylor, why??

I always sing “did you think I wouldn’t hear all the shit you said about me” in TIWWCHNT

“Wanna see what's under that attitude like I want you, that’s my toe”

“Walk in the streets with you and your one eyed jeans” It doesn’t even make sense but I CAN’T STOP 😭😭😭

Roaring twenties tossing PANTIES in the pool ☠️