Big Red Machine - Renegade Lyrics

Big Red Machine Lyrics

"Renegade"
(feat. Taylor Swift)

I tapped on your window on your darkest night
The shape of you
Was jagged and weak
There was nowhere for me to stay
But I stayed anyway
And if I would've known
How many pieces you had crumbled into
I might have let them lay

Are you really gonna talk about timing in times like these?
And let all your damage, damage me
And carry your baggage up my street
And make me your future history

It's time, you've come a long way
Open the blinds, let me see your face
You wouldn't be the first renegade
To need somebody

Is it insensitive for me to say
Get your shit together
So I can love you?
Is it really your anxiety
That stops you from giving me everything
Or do you just not want to?

I tapped on your window on your darkest night
The shape of you
Was jagged and weak
There was nowhere for me to stay
But I stayed anyway
You fire off missiles cause you hate yourself
But do you know you're demolishing me?
And then you squeeze my hand as I'm about to leave

Are you really gonna talk about timing in times like these?
Let all your damage, damage me
And carry your baggage up my street
And make me your future history

It's time, you've come a long way
Open the blinds, let me see your face
You wouldn't be the first renegade
To need somebody

Is it insensitive for me to say
Get your shit together
So I can love you?
Is it really your anxiety
That stops you from giving me everything
Or do you just not want to?

And if I would've known
How sharp the pieces were
You'd crumbled into
I might've let them lay

Are you really gonna talk about timing in times like these?
And let all your damage, damage me
And carry your baggage up my street
And make me your future history

It's time, you've come a long way
Open the blinds, let me see your face
You wouldn't be the first renegade
To need somebody

To need somebody
I need somebody
To need somebody
To need somebody

(Are you really gonna talk about timing in times like these?)
Is it insensitive for me to say
(And let all your damage, damage me)
Get your shit together
(And carry your baggage up my street)
So I can love you?
(And make me your future history)
Is it really your anxiety
(It's time, you've come a long way)
That stops you from giving me everything
(Open the blinds, let me see your face
You wouldn't be the first renegade
To need somebody)
Or do you just not want to?

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Writer(s): Aaron Brooking Dessner, Taylor Alison Swift, Matthew Donald Berninger

"Renegade" was co-written by Aaron Dessner and Taylor Swift who is featured on the track and provides the lead vocal. They previously worked together on her "Folklore" and "Evermore" albums. Dessner explained, "While we were making 'Folklore' and 'Evermore' last year, Taylor and I sometimes talked about experimenting and writing songs together some day for Big Red Machine. Making music with your friends just to make it — that's how Big Red Machine started and has grown — and that's how 'Renegade' came about, too. This song was something we wrote after we finished 'Evermore' and it dawned on us that this was a Big Red Machine song. Taylor's words hit me so hard when I heard her first voice memo and still do, every time."

This song, released on the 2nd of July, 2021, is the first of two collaborations between Big Red Machine and Taylor Swift on the group's second album, "How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?". "Renegade" was recorded in Los Angeles the same week that Swift and Aaron Dessner won 2021 Grammy for "Album of the Year" for her "Folklore".

"I can't believe I get to work with Aaron Dessner," said Taylor Swift in an Instagram post. "When Aaron came into my life, I was ushered into his world of free-flowing creativity where you don't overthink, you just make music. His generosity of spirit and humility bleeds into every part of his life, and that's why so many artists have jumped at the chance to be a part of his collaborative project, Big Red Machine."

album: "How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?" (2021)

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