Down Bad

Album: The Tortured Poets Department (2024)
Charted: 4 2
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  • Did you really beam me up
    In a cloud of sparkling dust
    Just to do experiments on?
    Tell me I was the chosen one
    Showed 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, cryin' 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, wakin' up in blood
    Starin' 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 heavenstruck

    Now I'm down bad, cryin' at the gym (cryin' at the gym)
    Everything comes out teenage petulance
    "What it if I can't have him?" (What it if I can't have him?)
    "I might just die, it would make no difference"
    Down bad, wakin' up in blood (wakin' up in blood)
    Starin' at the sky, come back and pick me up
    What it 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 (wavin' 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, cryin' at the gym (cryin' at the gym)
    Everything comes out teenage petulance
    "What if I can't have him?" (Can't have him)
    "I might just die, it would make no difference"
    Down bad, wakin' up in blood (wakin' up in blood)
    Starin' 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 (wavin' at the ship)
    What if I can't have him?

    Like I lost my twin
    What if I can't have him?
    Down bad (wavin' at the ship)
    What if I can't have him? Writer/s: Jack Michael Antonoff, Taylor Swift
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • AnonymousMatty Healy is famously known for his love of forts. Take that as you wish
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