Especially for famous people like Taylor Swift, always on the spotlight, always surrounded by magazines and journalists talking about her, unveiling her private life, attacking her. Maintaining a love relationship is not always easy. I love you, ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard?” I don’t wanna keep secrets just to keep youĮvery night that summer just to seal my fate (Oh) This is expressed by the singer through metaphors like knives, fever dreams and enigmatic statements, like in the verse below: What doesn’t kill me makes me want you moreĪnd on the other side, every nice things has a double face and could hurt you later. I’m always waiting for you to be waiting belowĭevils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes For example, on one side, Taylor Swift talks explicitely about how much she wants her man: Therefore, the verse have often two faces, or two possible interpretations. In the song, the singer alternates feelings that attract her to the man she loves with doubts and negative sensations about how things can easily go wrong in love.
It deals with the idea of being in a relationship where there’s some element of desperation and pain in it, where you’re yearning for something that you don’t quite have yet, it’s just right there, and you just can’t reach it. This song is one that I wrote about the feeling of a summer romance, and how often times a summer romance can be layered with all these feelings of pining away and sometimes even secrecy.
In one of the recordings of Lover Secret Sessions, released when the album was out, Taylor Swift described the birth of the song in this way: Cruel Summer: the lyrics and their meaning
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