Suburban Legends

Album: 1989 (Taylor's Version) (2023)
Charted: 10
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  • You had people who called you on unmarked numbers
    In my peripheral vision
    I let it slide like a hose on a slippery plastic summer
    All was quickly forgiven
    You were so magnetic it was almost obnoxious
    Flush with the currency of cool
    I was always turning out my empty pockets
    And when it came to you

    I didn't come here to make friends
    We were born to be suburban legends
    When you hold me, it holds me together
    And you kiss me in a way that's gonna screw me up forever

    I had the fantasy that maybe our mismatched star signs would surprise the whole school
    When I ended up back at our class reunion walking in with you
    You'd be more than a chapter in my old diaries with the pages ripped out
    I am standing in a 1950s gymnasium and I can still see you now

    I didn't come here to make friends
    We were born to be suburban legends
    When you hold me, it holds me together
    And you kiss me in a way that's gonna screw me up forever
    I know that you still remember
    We were born to be national treasures
    When you told me we'd get back together
    And you kissed me in a way that's gonna screw me up forever

    Tick-tock on the clock
    I pace down your block
    I broke my own heart 'cause you were too polite to do it
    Waves crash on the shore
    I dash to the door
    You don't knock anymore
    And my whole life's ruined
    Tick-tock on the clock
    I pace down your block
    I broke my own heart 'cause you were too polite to do it
    Waves crash to the shore
    I dash to the door
    You don't knock anymore
    And I always knew it
    That my life would be ruined Writer/s: Jack Michael Antonoff, Taylor Alison Swift
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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