The Top 100 Best Taylor Swift Songs, Ranked By Upcoming Sounds

They think she did it but they just can’t prove it
They think she did it but they just can’t prove it
She thinks I did it but she just can’t prove it

Here you are now, calling me up, but I don’t know what to say
I’ve been picking up the pieces of the mess you made

Draw the cat eye, sharp enough to kill a man

Well, maybe it’s me
And my blind optimism to blame
Or maybe it’s you and your sick need
To give love then take it away

Put your lips close to mine
As long as they don’t touch
Out of focus, eye to eye
‘Til the gravity’s too much

I’m still on that tightrope
I’m still trying everything to get you laughing at me
I’m still a believer but I don’t know why

If you’ve got a girlfriend, I’m jealous of her
But if you’re single that’s honestly worse
‘Cause you’re so gorgeous it actually hurts

I’m dancin’ on my own
I make the moves up as I go

We’re a crooked love
In a straight line down
Makes you wanna run and hide
Then it makes you turn right back around

They say home is where the heart is
But that’s not where mine lives

Sweet tea in the summer
Cross your heart, won’t tell no other
And though I can’t recall your face
I still got love for you
Your braids like a pattern
Love you to the moon and to Saturn

American stories burning before me
I’m feeling helpless, the damsels are depressed

Salt streams out my eyes and into my ears
Every single thing I touch becomes sick with sadness

Fighting with a true love is boxing with no gloves
Chemistry ’til it blows up, ’til there’s no us
Why’d I have to break what I love so much?
It’s on your face, and I’m to blame, I need to say

We’re happy, free, confused and lonely in the best way

And the saddest fear
Comes creepin’ in
That you never loved me
Or her
Or anyone
Or anything

There’ll be happiness after you
But there was happiness because of you
Both of these things can be true

Uh oh, I’m falling in love
Oh no, I’m falling in love again
Oh, I’m falling in love

It’s a new soundtrack, I could dance to this beat forevermore
The lights are so bright, but they never blind me,

And he can be my jailer, Burton to this Taylor

Sapphire tears on my face
Sadness became my whole sky
But some guy said my aura’s moonstone
Just ’cause he was high

All of this silence and patience, pining in anticipation
My hands are shaking from holding back from you

I’m with you even if it makes me blue
Which takes me back
To the color that we painted your brother’s wall

And baby, for you I would fall from grace
Just to touch your face

But what would you do if I went to touch you now?
What would you do if they never found us out?
What would you do if we never made a sound?

And the cynics were outraged
Screaming, “This is absurd”

A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground
With no one around to tweet it
While I bathe in cliffside pools
With my calamitous love and insurmountable grief

Fifteen years, fifteen million tears
Begging ’til my knees bled
I gave it my all, he gave me nothin’ at all
Then wondered why I left

And I wouldn’t marry me either
A pathological people pleaser

If a man talks shit, then I owe him nothing

I once believed love would be black and white
But it’s golden

I could’ve spent forever with your hands in my pockets
Picture of your face in an invisible locket

I’m still on that tightrope
I’m still trying everything to get you laughing at me
I’m still a believer but I don’t know why
I’ve never been a natural
All I do is try, try, try

And I should’ve been there
In the back of your mind
I shouldn’t be asking myself, “Why?”

And I hope I never lose you, hope it never ends
I’d never walk Cornelia Street again
That’s the kind of heartbreak time could never mend

Will you have me?
Will you love me?
Will you kiss me on the porch
In front of all your stupid friends?

Your kiss, my cheek
I watched you leave
Your smile, my ghost
I fell to my knees
When you’re young, you just run
But you come back to what you need

And I never think of him
Except on midnights like this

And his voice is a familiar sound
Nothing lasts forever
But this is getting good now

You know that my train could take you home
Anywhere else is hollow
Begging for you to take my hand
Wreck my plans
That’s my man

Call my bluff, call you “babe”

Who’ll write books about me, if I ever make it
And wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I’m fakin’
And the heart I know I’m breakin’ is my own
To leave the warmest bed I’ve ever known

Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I can feel you again
But I just miss you, and I just wish you were a better man

And you’ve got a smile
That can light up this whole town

Find out what you want
Be that girl for a month
Wait, the worst is yet to come, oh, no

They say she was seen on occasion
Pacing the rocks, staring out at the midnight sea
And in a feud with her neighbor
She stole his dog and dyed it key lime green
50 years is a long time
Holiday House sat quietly on that beach
Free of women with madness, their men and bad habits
And then it was bought by me

One night he wakes
Strange look on his face
Pauses, then says
You’re my best friend
And you knew what it was
He is in love

You said, “I remember how we felt, sitting by the water
And every time I look at you, it’s like the first time
I fell in love with a careless man’s careful daughter
She is the best thing that’s ever been mine”

The burgundy on my T-shirt when you splashed your wine into me
And how the blood rushed into my cheeks, so scarlet, it was maroon

You’re not my homeland anymore
So what am I defending now?
You were my town
Now I’m in exile, seein’ you out

Now I’m pacin’ on shaky ground
Strike a match, then you blow it out
Oh no, oh no, it’s not fair
‘Cause you kiss me and it stops time
And I’m yours, but you’re not mine
Oh no, oh no, you’re not there

The jokes weren’t funny, I took the money
My friends from home don’t know what to say
I looked around in a blood-soaked gown
And I saw something they can’t take away

Cause baby, I could build a castle
Out of all the bricks they threw at me

You could write a book on
How to ruin someone’s perfect day

I dress to kill my time
I take the long way home
I ask the traffic lights if it’ll be all right
They say, “I don’t know”

So it goes
He can’t keep his wild eyes on the road

So we went on our way
Too in love to think straight
All alone, or so it seemed
But there were strangers watching
And whispers turned to talking
And talking turned to screams

Cause I hate that stupid old pickup truck you never let me drive
You’re a redneck heartbreak who’s really bad at lying

I’d tell you I miss you but I don’t know how
I’ve never heard silence quite this loud

You come around and the armor falls
Pierce the room like a cannonball

Is it cool that I said all that?
Is it chill that you’re in my head?
‘Cause I know that it’s delicate

And that’s why he’s spinning ’round in my head
Comes back to me, burning red

Can I ask you a question?
Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room

I’d go back in time and change it, but I can’t
So if the chain is on your door, I understand

Drop everything now

I persist and resist the temptation to ask you
If one thing had been different
Would everything be different today?

I knew it from the first Old Fashioned, we were cursed
It hit you like a shotgun shot to the heart

Goodbye Mr. “Casually cruel”
Mr. “Everything revolves around you”
I’ve been Miss “Misery” for the last time
And you’re Mr. “Perfectly fine”

I feel the lavender haze creepin’ up on me
Surreal, I’m damned if I do give a damn what people say

Soldier down on that icy ground
Looked up at me with honor and truth
Broken and blue, so I called off the troops
That was the night I nearly lost you

Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter
And my daddy said, “Stay away from Juliet”
But you were everything to me
I was beggin’ you, “Please don’t go, “

I’m holding my breath
Won’t lose you again
Something’s made your eyes go cold

Salt air, and the rust on your door
I never needed anything more
Whispers of “Are you sure?”
“Never have I ever before”

And I can go anywhere I want
Anywhere I want, just not home
And you can aim for my heart, go for blood
But you would still miss me in your bones

Sophistication isn’t what you wear, or who you know
Or pushing people down to get you where you wanna go

I knew you
Leavin’ like a father
Running like water, I
And when you are young, they assume you know nothing
But I knew you’d linger like a tattoo kiss
I knew you’d haunt all of my what-ifs
The smell of smoke would hang around this long

I should not be left to my own devices
They come with prices and vices
I end up in crisis (tale as old as time)

Loose lips sink ships all the damn time
Not this time

While you were out building other worlds, where was I?
Where’s that man who’d throw blankets over my barbed wire?
I made you my temple, my mural, my sky
Now I’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life

Oh, Lord, I think about
Jumping off of very tall somethings
Just to see you come running
And say the one thing I’ve been wanting
But no

‘Cause all of my enemies started out friends
Help me hold onto you

Your Midas touch on the Chevy door
November flush and your flannel cure
“This dorm was once a madhouse”
I made a joke, “Well, it’s made for me”

And you’ll save all your dirtiest jokes for me
And at every table, I’ll save you a seat, lover

Your eyes whispered, “Have we met?”
‘Cross the room your silhouette
Starts to make its way to me
The playful conversation starts
Counter all your quick remarks
Like passing notes in secrecy

I don’t have to pretend I like acid rock
Or that I’d like to be on a mega yacht
With important men who think important thoughts
Guess maybe I am better off
Now that we don’t talk

This scene feels like what I once saw on a screen
I searched aurora borealis green
I’ve never seen someone lit from within

Remember when we couldn’t take the heat?
I walked out, I said, “I’m setting you free”
But the monsters turned out to be just trees
When the sun came up, you were looking at me

Rain came pouring down
When I was drowning, that’s when I could finally breathe
And by morning
Gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally clean

And did the twin flame bruise paint you blue?
Just between us, did the love affair maim you too?
‘Cause in this city’s barren cold
I still remember the first fall of snow
And how it glistened as it fell
I remember it all too well

Don’t call me “kid”
Don’t call me “baby”
Look at this idiotic fool that you made me
You taught me a secret language
I can’t speak with anyone else

So yeah, it’s a fire
It’s a goddamn blaze in the dark
And you started it
You started it
So yeah, it’s a war
It’s the goddamn fight of my life
And you started it
You started it

Got lovestruck, went straight to my head
Got lovesick, all over my bed
Love to think you’ll never forget
Handprints in wet cement

And it’s hard to be at a party when I feel like an open wound
It’s hard to be anywhere these days when all I want is you
You’re a flashback in a film reel on the one screen in my town

If clarity’s in death, then why won’t this die?
Years of tearing down our banners, you and I
Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts
Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first

I’m drunk in the back of the car
And I cried like a baby coming home from the bar
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

I threw it in the bushes and knocked on your door
And we live in peace
But if someone comes at us
This time, I’m ready

You were the one that I loved
Don’t need another metaphor, it’s simple enough
A wrinkle in time like the crease by your eyes
This is why they shouldn’t kill off the main guy

Help, I’m still at the restaurant
Still sitting in a corner I haunt
Cross-legged in the dim light
They say, “What a sad sight”
I, I swear you could hear a hair pin drop
Right when I felt the moment stop
Glass shattered on the white cloth
Everybody moved on
I, I stayed there

What must it be like
To grow up that beautiful?
With your hair falling into place like dominoes
My mind turns your life into folklore