
Anti-Hero
Anti-Hero
(Jack Antonoff, Taylor Swift)
I 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 cause you got tired of
my scheming — (For
the last time)
It’s me
Hi
I’m the problem, it’s me
At teatime
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 sexy baby
And I’m a monster on the hill
Too big to hang out
Slowly lurching toward 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?
(A 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 teatime
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 kills 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 from hell”
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 teatime (Teatime)
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