Taylor Swift: Cruel Summer Meaning

Song Released: 2019

Cruel Summer Lyrics

Fever dream high in the quiet of the night
You know that I caught it
Bad, bad boy
Shiny toy with a price
You know that I bought it
Killing me slow, out the window
I'm always waiting for you to be waiting below
Devils roll the dice, angels...

1. anonymous

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   Jan 4th 2020 !⃝

   This song is about a romance that is sort of killing her because she wants to be with someone else.
   
   Fever dream high in the quiet of the night
   You know that I caught it
   Bad, bad boys
   Shiny toy with a price
   You know that I bought it
   (The line "Bad, bad boys" refers to being in love with two guys at once.)
   
   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
   (Basically she's always waiting for this guy but he never comes. And there is so much bad going on in her life that what wasn't bad made her want this guy more.)
   
   And it's new, the shape of your body
   It's blue, the feeling I've got and it's
   Ooh ooh ooh whoa oh
   It's a cruel summer
   It's cool, that's what I tell him
   No rules, unbreakable heaven
   But ooh ooh ooh whoa oh
   It's a cruel summer with you
   (This is basically her saying what she wishes she could say to her boyfriend, but she just can't.)
   
   Hang your head low in the glow of the vending machine
   I'm not dying
   You say that we'll just screw it up in these trying times
   We're not trying
   So cut the headlights
   Summer's a knife
   I'm always waiting for you just to come to the moon
   Devils roll the dice
   Angels roll their eyes
   And if I bleed you'll be the last to know
   (She's talking about a date with her boyfriend, whom she is no longer in love with.)
   
   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
   And i screamed for whatever it's worth
   "I love you," ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?
   He looks up grinning at the devil
   (She is drunk and is pretty much saying everything to her boyfriend. Then she talks about another time when she screamed to her boyfriend that she loved him in front of her crush. She knew her crush liked her back, so her saying she loves another guy might be the worst thing her crush would have ever heard.)
   
   Thank you for reading this and I really hope this made the song more clear for you.

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