Nothing New

Album: Red (Taylor's Version) (2021)
Charted: 43
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  • They tell you while you're young
    "Girls, go out and have your fun"
    Then they hunt and slay the ones
    Who actually do it
    Criticize the way you fly
    When you're soarin' through the sky
    Shoot you down and then they sigh
    And say, "She looks like she's been through it"

    Lord, what will become of me
    Once I lost my novelty?

    I've had too much to drink tonight
    And I know it's sad, but this is what I think about
    And I wake up in the middle of the night
    It's like I can feel time moving
    How can a person know everything at eighteen
    But nothin' at twenty-two?
    And will you still want me when I'm nothin' new?

    How long will it be cute
    All this cryin' in my room?
    When you can't blame it on my youth
    And roll your eyes with affection
    And my cheeks are growin' tired
    From turnin' red and fakin' smiles
    Are we only biding time
    'Til I lose your attention?

    And someone else lights up the room
    People love an ingénue

    I've had (I've had) too much to drink tonight
    How did I go from growin' up to breakin' down
    And I wake up (wake up) in the middle of the night
    It's like I can feel time moving
    How can a person know everything at eighteen
    But nothing at twenty-two?
    And will you still want me when I'm nothin' new?

    I know someday I'm gonna meet her, it's a fever dream
    The kind of radiance you only have at seventeen
    She'll know the way and then she'll say she got the map from me
    I'll say I'm happy for her, then I'll cry myself to sleep
    Oh, whoa (oh)
    Oh, whoa (oh)

    I've had (I've had) too much to drink tonight
    But I wonder if they'll miss me once they drive me out
    I wake up (wake up) in the middle of the night
    And I can feel time moving
    How can a person know everything at eighteen
    But nothing at twenty-two?
    And will you still want me?
    Will you still want me?
    Will you still want me when I'm nothin' new? Writer/s: Taylor Alison Swift
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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