The Tortured Poets Department
Composer: Taylor-Swift
Artist: Taylor-Swift
Year: 2024
Album: The Tortured Poets Department
Key (original): C
Key (transposed): CC#DD#EFF#GG#AA#B
Capo: No Capo
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You left your typerwriter at my apartment
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Straight from the tourtured poets department
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I think some things I never say
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Like, “Who uses typerwriters anyway?”
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But you’re in self-sabotage
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mode
Throwing spikes down on the
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road
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episode and still love the show
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decodes
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like
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not
I laughed in your face and said,
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“You’re not Dylan Thomas.
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I’m not Patti Smith.
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This ain’t the Chelsea
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Hotel. We’re modern idiots.”
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like
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Nobody
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No-xxxxing-body
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Nobody
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You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate
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We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist
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I scratch your head, you fall asleep
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Like a tattooed golden retriever
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But you awakened with
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dread, pounding nails in your
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head
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one where you come undone
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chose this
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cyclone with you
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And who’s gonna hold you
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like
-Who’s gonna hold you? Who’s gonna hold you?-
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not me? -Who’s gonna know you?-
I laughed in your face and said,
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“You’re not Dylan Thomas.
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I’m not Patti Smith.
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This ain’t the Chelsea
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Hotel. We’re modern idiots.”
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like
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Sometimes I wonder if you’re gonna screw this up with me
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But you told Lucy you’d kill yourself if I ever leave
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And I had said that to Jack about you, so I felt seen
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Everyone we know understands why it’s meant to be
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‘Cause we’re
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crazy
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me, who else is gonna
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know
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dinner you take my ring off my
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middle finger, and
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one people put
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wedding rings on
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closest I’ve come to
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my heart exploding
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…Me
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Thomas. I’m not Patti Smith.
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This ain’t the Chelsea
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Hotel. We’re two idiots.
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hold
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typerwriter at my apartment
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Straight from the tourtured
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poets
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decodes you?
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