A música my tears ricochet de Taylor Swift, que faz parte do álbum folklore, fala sobre traição e luto após o fim de um relacionamento. Swift descreve como o amor transformado em amargura pode perseguir a pessoa que deixou, simbolizado aqui pela imagem dos fantasmas e do luto. Ela escreveu essa música sozinha e mencionou que é uma das que ela escreveu primeiro para o álbum, considerando-a como a que inicia narrativamente todo o projeto de folklor ... Ver mais [+] e.
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Introdução:
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We gather here, we line up
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Weeping in a sunlit room
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And if I'm on fire, you'll be made of ashes too
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Even on my worst day, did I deserve babe
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All the hell you gave me
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'Cause I loved you
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I swear I loved you 'til my dying day
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I didn't have it in myself to go with grace
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And you're the hero flying around saving face
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And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake
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Cursing my name, wishing I stayed
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Look at how my tears ricochet
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We gather stones, never knowing what they'll mean
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Some to throw, some to make a diamond ring
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You know I didn't want to have to haunt you
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But what a ghostly scene
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You wear the same jewels that I gave you as you bury me
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I didn't have it in myself to go with grace
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'Cause when I'd fight, you used to tell me I was brave
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And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake
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Cursing my name, wishing I stayed
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Look at how my tears ricochet
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And I can go anywhere I want
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Anywhere I want, just not home
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And you can aim for my heart, go for blood
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But you would still miss me in your bones
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And I still talk to you (When I'm screaming at the sky)
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And when you can't sleep at night (You hear my stolen lullabies)
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I didn't have it in myself to go with grace
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And so the battleships will sink beneath the waves
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You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same