The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

Album: The Tortured Poets Department (2024)
Charted: 14
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  • Was any of it true?
    Gazing at me starry-eyed
    In your Jehovah's Witness suit
    Who the hell was that guy?
    You tried to buy some pills
    From a friend of friends of mine
    They just ghosted you
    Now you know what it feels like

    And I don't even want you back, I just want to know
    If rusting my sparkling summer was the goal
    And I don't miss what we had, but could someone give
    A message to the smallest man who ever lived?

    You hung me on your wall
    Stabbed me with your push pins
    In public, showed me off
    Then sank in stoned oblivion
    'Cause once your queen had come
    You treat her like an also-ran
    You didn't measure up
    In any measure of a man

    And I don't even want you back, I just want to know
    If rusting my sparkling summer was the goal
    And I don't miss what we had, but could someone give
    A message to the smallest man who ever lived?

    Were you sent by someone who wanted me dead?
    Did you sleep with a gun underneath our bed?
    Were you writing a book? Were you a sleeper cell spy?
    In fifty years, will all this be declassified?
    And you'll confess why you did it
    And I'll say, "Good riddance"
    'Cause it wasn't sexy once it wasn't forbidden
    I would've died for your sins
    Instead, I just died inside
    And you deserve prison, but you won't get time
    You'll slide into inboxes and slip through the bars
    You crashed my party and your rental car
    You said normal girls were boring
    But you were gone by the morning
    You kicked out the stage lights
    But you're still performing

    And in plain sight you hid
    But you are what you did
    And I'll forget you, but I'll never forgive
    The smallest man who ever lived Writer/s: Aaron Dessner, Taylor Swift
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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