Taylor Swift – Dear Reader

Performed by
Taylor Swift
Release Year
2022
Album
Midnights

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Taylor Swift – Dear Reader
Key: C Major BPM: ♩ = 108 Time: 4/4
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   Dear reader, if it feels like a trap, you’re already in one
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   Dear reader, get out your map, pick somewhere and just run
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   Dear reader, burn all the files, desert all your past lives
|F                 |Am                 |G                    |G    |
   And if you don’t recognize yourself, that means you did it right

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   Never take advice from someone who’s falling apart
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   Never take advice from someone who’s falling apart

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   Dear reader, bend when you can, snap when you have to
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   Dear reader, you don’t have to answer, just ‘cause they asked you
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   Dear reader, the greatest of luxuries is your secrets
|F                      |Am               |G                  |G   |
   Dear reader, when you aim at the devil, make sure you don’t miss

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   Never take advice from someone who’s falling apart
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   Never take advice from someone who’s falling apart

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So I wander through these nights, I prefer hiding in plain sight
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My fourth drink in my hand, these desperate prayers of a cursed man
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Spilling out to you for free, but darling, darling, please
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You wouldn’t take my word for it, if you knew who was

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talking, if you knew where I was walking, to a house, not a home, all alone
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Cause nobody’s there, where I pace in my pen and my friends found friends who
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 care, no one sees when you lose when you’re playing

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solitaire, you should find another guiding light, guiding light, but I shine so bright
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   You should find another guiding light, guiding light, but I shine so bright

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