Suburban Legends (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)

English translation

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 a 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.