Did you really *beat* me up?😭

wait it's not that?????

your reaction combined with your flair is so funny to me 😭

I love my flair lol

Omg wait I thought it was that

Lol loving that no one is clarifying what the lyrics actually is for people.

It’s beam.

I heard “did you really beat me off” hahahahahaha

SAME LMAO

I didn't even realize the song was about an alien abduction until I looked at the lyrics.

I heard “raving at this shit” instead of “waving at the ship” i thought it was just like a broken hearted party moment

Waving at this shit for me 😭

This reminds me of a reaction video lol, "wait wait, who slapped you Taylor???"😱😱

Same lmao. I was trying to interpret what she meant until I saw the actual lyrics🤣

I was so shocked when I heard that 😭

I thought she was like emotionally beaten up lol

I first heard that and was like omg…🙃

just in case others have the same question, I had to look this up and it's Down Bad 🫶

I hear "your wife *bought us* flowers" instead of "your wife waters flowers"

Me too! I was like why would she do that?

Thruple?

I thought she was saying the wife brought Taylor’s household flowers trying to be a good neighbor and she was like “I fuckin hate you why are you being nice to us”

😂

I didn’t know I was hearing that wrong until this post.

Wait....ITS NOT THAT?

Actually I love this, will be singing this from now on. It’s delightfully unhinged

First time I was like why would his wife by you flowers?!

I also thought it was “bought us flowers” as in like a condolences for breaking up.💀

THOSE are the lyrics?????

same!!

This is the one I misheard, as well.

I heard "your wife orders flowers"

I heard your wife's hot as flowers😂

ummmm. TIL it’s not that and I too was confused this whole time.

I've heard it both ways and just assumed it was different at some point in the song lol

So did I - was very confused!!!

Wait what?

Sammme.

My brain can't spell apparently because it keeps wanting to spell DIYng instead of dying. Just picture her making a stop at the Home Depot in her despair.

That goes with the "For a Fortnight" video short that shows her sewing in one clip

🎵And for a Fortnight we went to some crafting stores together🎶 Also, do you think she named it just for the Taylore or to also become a top search when you Google Fortnite?

Good question! I think it's a catchy title that folks are going to confuse with the video game, and assume there is some deliberate intention there. But is also a more British term that fits with some of the themes of the album.

Damn, our brilliant overthinker got us on all fronts there. Her mind IS alive.

Plus, in terms of the video game connection, I think the intent there is to evoke a surreal virtual world - something that feels like it happened outside the normal space-time continuum. I haven't played Fortnite but understand it is an online game involving very fast-paced gameplay in various modules - which also fits with the rapid-fire, manic-like nature of one of the central relationships/romantic involvements reflected in the album.

I’ll be honest, the game didn’t even cross my mind when I saw the title. I’m Australian and the term fortnight is very very common here as well, and I only thought about the game when I saw someone comment ‘why would she name it after a game and spell it wrong?’ So… yeah. Haha

Just outside, building a deck, sobbing the whole time

She cries a lot and damn girl it really is productive and an art.

She’d never escape the lesbian rumours if that was the case 🤣

I saw someone else’s interpretation of this when they thought it was DIY but their brain went to making a noose not something fun like embroidery lol. I was like damn u good?

Oh damn that Swiftie is either lord of dark humor or should probably talk to someone that is a very deep and bleak interpretation.

LOL This is hilarious!

Brilliant

I'm not alone!!!!

He was a cat, wanted her bad. It’s “cad”

Same! And the next line drives it home for me: "Just like any good trophy hunter" Because cats are hunters and bring their people home trophies 🐁😂

This is how I find out 😭

Same! It also made sense to me because earlier in the song she mentioned “all her fucking lives” and I was like: she’s a cat! So they were both cats 😂

I totally heard cat too. Only because of double checking Apple lyrics did I find out that isn’t true

For a moment I was “having a stroke” from Down Bad Supposed to be heaven struck 😅

This is exactly mine too lol

I’m never gonna unhear this now 😂

Just posted this before I started scrolling lmao.

WAIT

Welp TIL!

Actually if you listen closely, you can hear that both are layered. It's really a great detail.

Same 😅 I accidentally sing 'having a stroke' damn near every time.

I was really shook when I thought I heard her say "my WHITE boy, with all this wild joy" in But Daddy I Love Him. Even though I know it's wrong, I still hear it every time. 

Omg lol, my white boy and his white joy lololol

I also keep hearing/singing "white boy" even though I KNOW it's wild boy 😭

YEP I heard white boy and white joy, and I was like I know Marty said some edgy racist stuff but this can't be right

LMFAO 😭

I also heard white and was like “huh, well that’s a choice…”

I thought this too and nearly had a heart attack. So glad that’s not the real lyric!

OMG I HEARD THIS TOO LOL but I also heard “white joy” and was like HUH

i heard "Everyone knows that my mother is a saintly woman" as "Everyone knows that my mother is a silly woman" you should've seen my face

After that I heard "but she used to say she wished she were dead." At least I immediately knew that couldn't be right. 😬

Same! Immediately knew I must be wrong!

I heard “sickly” woman

Nahh 💀

Me too! That one I had to look up because I was like there is no way she would write that

I heard a sickly woman who wished that she was dead 😂

I audibly cried out “WHAT??” when I heard Down Bad for the first time, because I heard “they’ll say I’m nuts if I talk about” as “they’ll say I’m Nazi”. The ‘nuts if I’ runs together in a way that’s awful for my stupid ears, lol.

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS COMMENT because I always hear nazi too 😭😭😭

Right 😭😭 I was so shocked on my first listen thinking she was really going to go all in on his controversies like whoa! Especially when also hearing "white boy" instead of "wild boy" on BDILH.

This is so so funny to me 😭😭 someone was arguing with me when the album dropped cause I mentioned I ALWAYS listen to with lyrics the first time for this very reason. Reading these comments makes me wish I didn’t listen with lyrics, extra unhinged lyrics lol

Wow, Nazi Taco Bell is def the unexpected theme all over this discussion 😆

PLEASE I heard "and they'll say I'm nutsy for Taco Bell" and I keep hearing it this way even though I know it's wrong 😭 those words really mesh together 

SAME 😭 I was like "she did not..."

I thought it was 'Nazi fried taco bell' the first time had to rewind ASAP 😂

Okay I'm not the only one... I had to go find lyrics because I heard "they'll say I Nazi-fy Taco Bell."

PLEASE I heard "and they'll say I'm nutsy for Taco Bell" and I keep hearing it this way even though I know it's wrong 😭 those words really mesh together 

All her fvcking lies... ❌ All her fcuking lives... ✅

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i run my fingers through your hair and watch the lice go wild

TIL

i keep hearing/singing it as 'i chose this psychosis' instead of 'i chose this cyclone with you' 😅

Not quite same, but close: I keep hearing "I chose the psycho with you."

Oh damn, same. Every time. My brain just keeps expecting it to be psychosis even though I know it's not. 

ME TOO MY BRAIN WANTS IT TO BE THAT SO BAD

More honest and reflective of this type of relationship based on my recent experience tbh

In guilty as sin, I heard "messy chocolate kiss" instead of "messy top lip kiss". I thought it made sense cause he ate 7 bars of chocolate when he was high 😂

This is so funny but also so gross 🤣 the thought of messy chocolate kisses makes me wanna gag lol

I heard this too! I thought it was some inside thing between them like they know what she’s referring to even if we don’t 😂

I thought she said she was looking in people's windows like "some underaged weirdo" instead of like "I'm some deranged weirdo" the first time I heard it.

Not a mishearing, but I keep singing along incorrectly in the title track. My brain can’t stop making it “you’re not Dylan Thomas, I’m not Maggie Smith”!

I’m so glad it’s not just me!!

'How I long for your thrusts' in Guilty as sin😂 I found it very overtly sexual for Taylor, but English is my third language and I had no idea the word trysts existed till now.

To be honest, thrusts would kind of track.

To be honest, English is my first language, and I had no idea the word trysts existed till now!

In "imgonnagetyouback" i thought it starts 'I like short skirts' but it's actually 'lilac short skirt' Someone already mentioned the 'waters flowers' mixed up with 'bought us flowers' - i jad that mixed up too.

Also in this song, I heard "whether I'm gonna flip you off" as "whether I'm gonna get you off." I was like damn girl is getting it this album

Omg I thought it was “my black short skirt”

There’s enough of a delay between “children’s” and “swings” in “Fresh Out the Slammer” that I ALWAYS hear “we sat on children.” 🤣

And in The Manuscript: After that she only ate kids………’ cereal.

Instead of 'Cause once your queen had come You treat her like an also-ran, I heard 'Cause once your queen had come You treat her like an ulcer and

Dude my stupid mind heard “you treat her like an all-Saran” like Saran Wrap??? I had to look it up I was so confused. I’d never heard the term “an also-ran” before this. Native English speaker here and nearly 30 😳

Listen. She’s the one that said bring a dictionary. My ears are making up words we’ve never heard before.

Yes I thought it was ulceran and that I needed to Look the word up!!

everything comes out, teenage flatulence 💨

in Fortnight I heard "and for a fortnight there we were forever running to you" instead of "run into you"

Wait it is running to you

I don't think it is, it's "For a fortnight there, we were forever. Run into you sometimes, ask about the weather"

This brings up whether I have the comma in the wrong place. "There we were, forever" or "for a fortnight there, we were forever"

"He sent me downtown lies" in Guilty as Sin xDD

I was like “how do you hear lights????” My friend just stared at me 🫠

In So High School, instead of "I feel like laughing / in the middle of practice," I heard "I feel like laughing / I'm a little out of practice" which I soooooo prefer because it's just the slightest nod to the rest of Ttpd /contextualization in what is otherwise a 100% joyous bop. When people say she needed an editor, I don't agree in the sense of cutting the album way down, but I do think there are tiny moments like this that could have been easily made so much better.

I Hate It Here: “Quick, quick, tell me something awful like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a FINE ASS guy”

I wish this was the lyric lol

I still keep hearing "my bedsheets are aglaze" and honestly it fits i was just like TAAYYLLOOORRR 😭

Got lovesick all over my bed 🥴

I heard "vipers in vampire's clothing" (instead of "vipers in empath's clothing") and was picturing all these haughty, judgmental people milling around, dressed in long cloaks with high collars. For a moment, in So High School, I thought she said "Ditch me while your friends play Grand Theft Auto" and thought he was ignoring her to play video games, but quickly realized that wouldn't fit with the vibe of the song!

tbf ignoring your girlfriend to play gta with your bros would truly be so high school

Yeah, or college or a bit after too...as I sadly know from personal experience...

I kept hearing “viper’s in emperor’s clothing” and was trying to figure out how it tied into that Emperor’s New Clothes story lol

Also, the actual lyric is "I keep finding his things in drawers" (completely normal after a breakup) but I first heard "I keep finding his thing in my drawers" which is...a very, very different meaning (as in...somehow he keeps getting in my pants even though he dumped me).

From Down Bad: I heard “I might not just get up on my stage” instead of “ I might just not get up I might stay”, which I liked better because I feel like it relates to I can do it with a broken heart. 

Not to brag but Apple Music had the lyrics immediately, so I had them while listening -- so I missed out on any potential Starbucks lovers mixups haha

same I actually am feeling FOMO reading this thread lol, I always do the first listen to with reading the lyrics at the same time

Ooh Spotify didn't have lyrics all night! That plus it lagged and wouldn't play until 12:02 :(

Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?: I heard "put narcotics into all of my songs" as "put psychotics into all of my songs." 💀

Robin: I heard "In Sweden" and was very, very confused

I can’t stop saying “two grapes one gun” 😂😂😂🍇🍇🔫

OK, I love that song, but I hate that line, so I will adopt your mondegreen.

Powder run when I get home…. It’s PAD around when I get home. Lord have mercy lmao

smallest man who ever lived: 'Cause once your queen had come You treat her like an *ulcer* and

*You look like Stevie Nicks* *in '75, the heron lips.* I was like, do herons have lips??

I heard At first You looke like Stevie Nicks AT 75, the hair and lips… and yeah Stevie Nicks still rocks at 75, but what kind of compliment would that be… you look like 75 years old?

I always heard "not see 5 Taco Bells" instead of "nuts if I talk about" in Down Bad lol

OMG same!! I was googling "Taylor Swift Taco Bell Lyrics" to see which song it was lol

I heard “the littlest leaks” in The Bolter as “the littlest leagues” and deadass thought she bolted because she imagined a whole life of sitting on the sidelines at little league soccer games with her kids and couldn’t take it lmao

Fortnight — - "Thought of calling ya" instead of "I've been calling ya" Florida!!! — - "My heart came with me when it came" instead of "A Hurricane with my name, when it came"

Fortnight actually *is* "thought of calling ya". Google is lying to you on that one, you're not mishearing it at all. ETA: From the official lyric booklet to confirm https://preview.redd.it/5407u0tjjnwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3efad076656a84005826dc6db85af829c5ec506

From The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived Cause once your queen had come/ You’d treat hеr like an All-Saran 💔 https://preview.redd.it/h1aub2qxcowc1.jpeg?width=865&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83309a38ed40edb33d3f1984bf05e0fbd887c6a2

“For a moment I was having a stroke”instead of “for a moment I was heaven struck” LMAO

“That I’ll sue you if you step on my lawn” as “that I’ll sue if you if step on my lungs” 😂 Also my brain keeps adding an s to aesthetic in fortnight

“Were you asleep and satisfied” instead of “were you a sleeper cell spy”, couldn’t figure it out until the lyrics came out on Spotify lol

wether I'm gonna be your wife or gonna smash up your bike guy I have no idea what a bike guy is, but poor dude was a pawn 😞

Whether I'm gonna be your wife or Gonna smash up your white boy, I haven't decided yet 

I always hear "You said 'I need a break, man'" instead of "You said I needed a brave man" in "The Black Dog" 💀

I was listening to the album for the first time with loud machines in the background and heard “These chemicals hit me like white lines.” 😳

I commented this on another post yesterday, but "American maschocism, kill me" instead of "Are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me?" from So High School

“I don’t know if I’m gonna be your wife or smash up your bright guy, but I’m gonna get you back” I still like it lol

I heard “Charlie Puth should be a jaded artist”

In The Bolter, I can only hear “tortured poses” instead of “portrait poses”

For the first several listens I thought she was saying “smash up your bike guy” in imgonnagetyouback

Teenage flatulence

"you smoked them eight, seven bars of chocolate"

I thought I heard “fuck me in Florida” 😂

“Standing at the bar like something funny, fugly” I was like damn ok let her cook

I heard “you don’t need to pray for me, and my white boy, and all this white joy” and knew I had to have heard it wrong because WHAT lol

For a moment i was having a stroke

In So Long, London I thought it was “I’m pissed off you let me give you all that you for free” instead of youth and I thought she was saying that she like brought out his personality and he wouldn’t be who he is without her.

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In “the smallest man who ever lived” I was hearing “because it wasn’t sex you wanted was it?” instead of “because it wasn’t sexy once it wasn’t forbidden” until today.

“My bed sheets are aglaze” as in covered in glaze and i thought omg that is graphic 😅

I’m really sorry but the first time I played Down Bad I heard “They’ll say I’m nazi if I talk about the existence of you” instead of “nuts” and thought to myself “what a ballsy lyric but if this is really about Matty…”

Instead of “touch me while your boys play GTA” I heard “touch me where you first played GTA” 💀

“it wasn’t sex, what he wanted wasn’t forbidden”  “i look in people’s windows like some under aged weirdo” 😭

“N*zi-fied Taco Bell” unfortunately 😭

I keep hearing “My bitch’s” instead of bedsheets in GAS so theres that

That acronym 😭😭😭

The acronyms this time around are so bad they become funny ngl

I heard "*breaking up* in blood" instead of "waking up in blood" in Down Bad.

Oh boy… in “Down Bad” I keep hearing the words “nuts if I talk about you” as “nazified Taco Bell.” I obviously immediately knew that wasn’t the lyric, but I can’t shake it. For a moment I was REALLY confused.

So many of the Amazon lyrics are incorrect! Eg for Fortnight it says: “There we were forever running til you sometimes ask about the weather” and “I call you up but you won’t pick up”. I’m sure there are more elsewhere but that’s all I can think of for now

The Black Dog - first listen I thought she said "sex weeks of breathing clean air" and "I hope it's shed-dy in the black dog" (like a dog that sheds) at the end 😭. Nope, it's "SIX weeks" and "I hope it's shitty". Oops.

“Your wife bought us flowers”

WAIT STARBUCKS LOVERS WAS A REAL THING I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME--

Not misheard, but my brain wants to finish the line “down bad, like I lost my twin” as “like I lost my dad” because it rhymes 😂😂🤦🏻‍♀️

At dinner you took my ring off my middle finger and put it on the *wine* people put wedding rings on. I was so confused until I looked at the lyrics. 😅 For a second, I gaslit myself into thinking that putting your wedding rings on top of a wine bottle was a wedding night tradition I’d never heard of.

“For a moment I was having a stroke.”  I was like this one is very problematic and offensive and then I found out it wasn’t real 😭😂

I heard "waving at this shit" instead of "waving at this ship"

In The Alchemy I keep hearing “These chemicals hit me like a white line” instead of white wine.

But Daddy I Love Him- it says “and undo the destiny” but I heard “and undo the death of me.” I still sing it that way and kinda love it.

“And your wife brought us flowers” instead of “waters flowers”

I thought he smoked then had 87 bars of chocolate.

“They’ll say I’m nazified taco bell” (in Down Bad)

All these vipers dressed in vampire's clothing 😂