My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys by Taylor Swift

Artist: Taylor Swift

Genre: Pop

Length: 3:23

Released: 2024

“My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys” is a poignant anthem that explores the complexities of love and loss using the motif and metaphor of broken toys. The song explores the emotional chaos of a turbulent relationship, with Swift linking its downfall to her partner’s penchant for dismantling dolls and demolishing sand castles. When speaking on the track Swift said: My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys is a song I wrote alone, and it’s a metaphor of…being somebody’s favorite toy, until the...

My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys lyrics

Oh, here we go again, the voices in his head
Called the rain to end our days of wild
The sickest army doll purchased at the mall
Rivulets descend my plastic smile
But you should've seen him when he first got me
My boy only breaks his favorite toys, toys, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
I'm queen of sand castles he destroys, oh, oh-oh
'Cause it's that too right, puzzle pieces in the dead of night
I should've known it was a matter of time, oh, oh-oh
My boy only breaks his favorite toys, oh, oh-oh-oh
There was a litany of reasons why we could've played for keeps this time
I know I'm just repeating myself
Put me back on my shelf
But first, pull the string and I'll tell you that he runs
Because he loves me (he loves me)
'Cause you should've seen him when he first saw me
My boy only breaks his favorite toys, toys, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
I'm queen of sand castles he destroys, oh, oh-oh
'Cause I knew too much, there was danger in the heat of my touch
He saw forever so he smashed it up, oh, oh-oh
My boy (my boy), only breaks his favorite toys, oh, oh-oh-oh
(Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
Once I fix me (oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
He's gonna miss me (oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
Once I fix me (oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
He's gonna miss me
Just say when I'd play again
He was my best friend down at the sandlot
I felt more when we played pretend than with all the Kens
'Cause he took me out of my box (oh-oh)
Stole my tortured heart (oh-oh)
Left all these broken parts (oh-oh)
Told me I'm better off (oh-oh)
But I'm not (oh-oh)
I'm not
I'm not

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