illicit affairs lyrics

Make sure nobody sees you leave

Hood over your head, keep your eyes down

Tell your friends you're out for a run

You’ll be flushed when you return.

Take the road less traveled by

Tell yourself you can always stop

What started in beautiful rooms

Ends with meetings in parking lots.

And that's the thing about illicit affairs

And clandestine meetings and longing stares

It's born from just one single glance

But it dies and it dies and it dies

A million little times.

Leave the perfume on the shelf

That you picked out just for him

So you leave no trace behind

Like you don’t even exist.

Take the words for what they are

A dwindling, mercurial high

A drug that only worked

The first few hundred times.

And that's the thing about illicit affairs

And clandestine meetings and stolen stares

They show their truth one single time

But they lie and they lie and they lie

A million little times.

And you wanna scream

Don't call me "kid," don't call me "baby"

Look at this godforsaken mess that you made me

You showed me colors you know

I can't see with anyone else

Don't call me "kid," don't call me "baby"

Look at this idiotic fool that you made me

You taught me a secret language

I can't speak with anyone else.

And you know damn well

For you, I would ruin myself

A million little times.

• Artist:Taylor Swift
• Album:folklore (2020)