Guilty As Sin?

Album: The Tortured Poets Department (2024)
Charted: 10
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  • Drownin' in the Blue Nile
    He sent me "Downtown Lights"
    I hadn't heard it in a while
    My boredom's bone-deep
    This cage was once just fine
    Am I allowed to cry?
    I dream of crackin' locks
    Throwin' my life to the wolves or the ocean rocks
    Crashin' into him tonight, he's a paradox
    I'm seeing visions
    Am I bad or mad or wise?

    What if he's written "Mine" on my upper thigh only in my mind?
    One slip and fallin' back into the hedge maze
    Oh, what a way to die
    I keep recalling things we never did
    Messy top-lip kiss, how I long for our trysts
    Without ever touchin' his skin
    How can I be guilty as sin?

    I keep these longings locked
    In lowercase, inside a vault
    Someone told me, "There's no such thing as bad thoughts"
    "Only your actions talk"
    These fatal fantasies
    Giving way to labored breath, takin' all of me
    We've already done it in my head
    If it's make-believe
    Why does it feel like a vow we'll both uphold somehow?

    What if he's written "Mine" on my upper thigh only in my mind?
    One slip and fallin' back into the hedge maze
    Oh, what a way to die
    My bed sheets are ablaze
    I've screamed his name
    Buildin' up like waves crashin' over my grave
    Without ever touchin' his skin
    How can I be guilty as sin?

    What if I roll the stone away?
    They're gonna crucify me anyway
    What if the way you hold me is actually what's holy?
    If long-suffering propriety is what they want from me
    They don't know how you've haunted me so stunningly
    I choose you and me religiously

    What if he's written "Mine" on my upper thigh only in my mind?
    One slip and fallin' back into the hedge maze
    Oh, what a way to die
    I keep recalling things we never did
    Messy top-lip kiss, how I long for our trysts
    Without ever touchin' his skin
    How can I be guilty as sin?

    He sent me "Downtown Lights"
    I hadn't heard it in a while
    Am I allowed to cry? Writer/s: Jack Michael Antonoff, Taylor Swift
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Katiekatie from Portland, OregonOf course our TayTay wrote a song about masterbation that's so damn gorgeous it hurts. WHAT CAN'T SHE DO lol
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