hoax
folklore (2020)
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Background and Composition
«The word ‘hoax’ is another one that I love. I love that is has an ‘x’ and the way it looks and sounds. I think with this song being the last one on the album it kind of embodied all the things that this album was thematically: confessions, incorporating nature, emotional volatility and ambiguity at the same time, love that isn’t just easy. And it’s the most symbolic and poetic thing, listing all these things that this person is to you. That line, ‘You know it still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart’ – anyone in my life knows what I’m singing about there but everybody has that situation in their life where you let someone in and they get to know you and they know exactly what buttons to push to hurt you the most. That thing where the scars healed over but there’s still phantom pain. I think the part that sounds like love to me is, ‘Don’t want no other shade of blue but you. No other sadness in the world would do.’ To me that sounds like what love really is. Who would you be sad with? And who would you deal with when they were sad? And like, gray skies every day for months, would you still stay?»
Taylor Swift
Production
Live Performances
Commercial Performance
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
My only one
My smoking gun
My eclipsed sun
This has broken me down
My twisted knife
My sleepless night
My winless fight
This has frozen my ground
[Chorus]
Stood on the cliffside
Screaming, “Give me a reason”
Your faithless love’s the only hoax
I believe in
Don’t want no other shade of blue
But you
No other sadness in the world would do
[Verse 2]
My best laid plan
Your sleight of hand
My barren land
I am ash from your fire
[Chorus]
Stood on the cliffside
Screaming, “Give me a reason”
Your faithless love’s the only hoax
I believe in
Don’t want no other shade of blue
But you
No other sadness in the world would do
[Bridge]
You know I left a part of me back in New York
You knew the hero died so what’s the movie for?
You knew it still hurts underneath my scars
From when they pulled me apart
You knew the password so I let you in the door
You knew you won so what’s the point of keeping score?
You knew it still hurts underneath my scars
From when they pulled me apart
But what you did was just as dark (Ah, ah, ah)
Darling, this was just as hard
As when they pulled me apart
[Verse 3]
My only one
My kingdom come undone
My broken drum
You have beaten my heart
[Outro]
Don’t want no other shade of blue
But you
No other sadness in the world would do
Artist | Taylor Swift | |||
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Album | folklore | |||
Released | July 24, 2020 | |||
Recorded | May–July 2020 | |||
Studios | Kitty Committee (Los Angeles) Long Pond (Hudson Valley) | |||
Genre | Indie Folk | |||
Length | 3:40 | |||
Label | Republic Records | |||
Songwriters | Taylor Swift Aaron Dessner | |||
Producer | Aaron Dessner | |||
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