Down Bad by Taylor Swift

Artist: Taylor Swift

Genre: Pop

Length: 4:21

Released: 2024

Down Bad, the fourth track on Swift’s eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. Its main character likens love to being abducted by an alien, experiencing the galaxy, only to be left back in her home town, wishing to go back to that feeling. In a iHeartRadio interview, Taylor said: The metaphor in ‘Down Bad’ is that I was comparing sort of the idea of being love bombed. Where someone…rocks your world and dazzles you and then just kind of abandons you….This girl is abducted by ali...

Down Bad lyrics

Did you really beam me up?
In a cloud of sparkling dust
Just to do experiments on
Tell me I was the chosen one
Show me that this world is bigger than us
Then sent me back where I came from
For a moment, I knew cosmic love
Now I'm down bad, crying at the gym
Everything comes out teenage petulance
"What if I can't have him?"
"I might just die, it would make no difference"
Down bad, waking up in blood
Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up
What if I can't have us
I might just not get up
I might stay down bad
What if I can't have him?
Down bad
What if I can't have him?
Did you take all my old clothes?
Just to leave me here naked and alone
In a field in my same old town
That somehow seems so hollow now
They'll say I'm nuts if I talk about the existence of you
For a moment, I was heaven struck
Now I'm down bad, crying at the gym
Everything comes out teenage petulance
"What if I can't have him?"
"I might just die, it would make no difference"
Down bad, waking up in blood
Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up
What if I can't have us?
I might just not get up
I might stay down bad
Like I lost my twin
What if I can't have him?
Down bad
Down bad
Waving at the ship
What if I can't have him?
I loved your hostile takeovers
Encounters closer and closer
All your indecent exposures
How dare you say that it's
I'll build you a fort on some planet
Where they can all understand it
How dare you think it's romantic
Leaving me safe and stranded
'Cause what if I was in love?
What if I can't have us?
'Cause what if I was in love?
Now I'm down bad, crying at the gym
Everything comes out teenage petulance
"What if I can't have him?"
"I might just die, it would make no difference"
Down bad, waking up in blood
Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up
What if I can't have us
I might just not get up
I might stay down bad
Like I lost my twin
What if I can't have him?
Down bad
Down bad
Waving at the ship
What if I can't have him?
Like I lost my twin
What if I can't have him?
Down bad
Waving at the ship
What if I can't have him?

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