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Cruel Summer Lyrics
by Taylor Swift
"Cruel Summer" is a song by Taylor Swift, part of her 2019 album Lover. This single has started a lot of conversations regarding the song lyrics: source of experience from her personal life that Taylor Swift takes. The song was at a staggering high level of popularity through the series The Summer I Turned Pretty. Swift has also shared her own insights of the track during the Eras Tour and Lover Secret Sessions.
Swift had described "Cruel Summer" as capturing a summer romance: a mix of both intense feelings, secrecy, and an everlasting yearning for something just out of reach. It talks of duality between the want and fear of vulnerability in a relationship that is both thrilling and fraught with emotional peril.
The story in "Cruel Summer" is all about a relationship Swift is deeply in the middle of; all the while, it does very well to outline her struggles to keep it a secret and having battles over her own feelings about love and fear of not being reciprocated. The lyrics beg both pathetically and fervently for love but, at the same time, encapsulate the painful complexities of a potentially dangerous liaison.
The speculation over the song is that it reflects Taylor's relationship with Joe Alwyn, going by the timeline of the song's start and her other past relationships. Lyrically, Swift pines for Alwyn, inarguably, when the going was tough, and while she probably refers to the inescapably written-about feud with Kanye West in 2016, Swift has indeed marked that time as a personal low, accompanied by a "cruel summer." Then there's her decision to finally let the song go and have "Cruel Summer" as a single in 2023, after its TikTok challenge craze; it speaks to the song's longevity, relatability, and a personal yet universal theme of love with all of its vulnerabilities, complications, and human emotions.
Cruel Summer Song Lyrics
Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift
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 in breakable 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 dying (Oh yeah, you're right, I want it)
We 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 in breakable 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 scream, "For whatever it's worth
I love you, ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?"
He looks up, grinning like a devil
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 in breakable 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 scream, "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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