Taylor Swift - The Archer Lyrics

Taylor Swift Lyrics

"The Archer"

Combat
I'm ready for combat
I say I don't want that
But what if I do?

'Cause cruelty
Wins in the movies
I've got a hundred thrown-out speeches
I almost said to you

Easy they come
Easy they go
I jump from the train
I ride off alone
I never grew up
It's getting so old
Help me hold on to you

I've been the archer
I've been the prey
Who could ever leave me darling...
But who could stay?

Dark side
I search for your dark side
But what if I'm alright
Right, right, right here?

And I cut off
My nose just to spite my face
Then I hate my reflection
For years and years

I wake in the night
I pace like a ghost
The room is on fire
Invisible smoke
And all of my heroes
Die all alone
Help me hold on to you

I've been the archer
I've been the prey
Screaming, "Who could ever leave me darling...
But who could stay?"

(I see right through me, I see right through me)

'Cause they see right through me
They see right through me
They see right through
Can you see right through me?
They see right through
They see right through me
I see right through me
I see right through me

All the king's horses
All the king's men
Couldn't put me together again
'Cause all of my enemies
Started out friends
Help me hold on to you

I've been the archer
I've been the prey
Who could ever leave me darling...
But who could stay?

(I see right through me, I see right through me)

Who could stay?
Who could stay?
Who could stay?
You could stay
You could stay

Combat
I'm ready for combat

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Writer(s): Taylor Swift, Jack Michael Antonoff

'The Archer' is the first promotional single for her album 'Lover' (2019). The song was released on the 23rd of July 2019.

There is no music video for this song because Taylor Swift didn't plan it to be a single. She said the song was meant to show another side of the album, unlike the first two singles having been released earlier: 'Me!' and 'You Need to Calm Down'.

'The Archer' is the fifth track off of the album. Taylor Swift explained during a live stream, "Instinctively I was putting a very vulnerable, personal, honest, emotional song as track five." She also added, "This is a glimpse into another side of the album I wanted to show you."

This track samples the nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty' with the lines "All the king's horses, all the king's men".

album: "Lover" (2019)

I Forgot That You Existed

Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince

Paper Rings

Cornelia Street

Death By A Thousand Cuts

London Boy

Soon You'll Get Better

False God

You Need To Calm Down

Afterglow

ME!

It's Nice To Have A Friend

Daylight

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