Anti-Hero
Taylor Swift, Midnights, 2022
Writers: Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff
Producers: Jack Antonoff, Taylor Swift
Label: Republic
Hop to Another SongI have this thing where I get older but just never wiser –
midnights become my afternoons.
When my depression works the graveyard shift
all of the people,
I’ve ghosted stand there in the room.
I should not be left to my own devices
they come with prices and vices
I end up in crisis (tale as old as time).
I wake up screaming from dreaming,
one day I’ll watch as you’re leaving
cuz you got tired of my scheming
(for the last time).
It’s me… hi… I’m the problem, it’s me,
at tea… time… everybody agrees.
I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror – it
must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero.
Sometimes I feel like everybody is a perfect baby
and I’m a monster on the hill.
Too big to hang out, slowly lurching t’ward your favorite city –
pierced through the heart but never killed.
Did you hear my covert narcissism
I disguise as altruism like some kind of congressman? (tale as old as time)
I wake up screaming from dreaming,
one day I’ll watch as you’re leaving
and life will lose all its meaning.
(for the last time)
It’s me… hi… I’m the problem, it’s me, (I’m the problem, it’s me)
at tea… time… everybody agrees.
I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror – it
must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero.
I have this dream my daughter-in-law wants me for the money –
she thinks I left them in the will.
The family gathers ’round and reads it and then someone screams out,
“she’s laughing up at us somewhere.”
It’s me… hi… I’m the problem, it’s me.
It’s me… hi… I’m the problem, it’s me.
It’s me… hi… everybody agrees, everybody agrees.
It’s me… hi… (hi), I’m the problem, it’s me.
(I’m the problem, it’s me)
At tea… (tea) time… (time), everybody agrees. (everybody agrees)
I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror – it
must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero.