Taylor Swift
ivy lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2020
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 4:21
How's one to know
I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones
In a faith-forgotten land?
In from the snow
Your touch brought forth an incandescent glow
Tarnished, but so grand
And the old widow goes to the stone every day
But I don't, I just sit here and wait
Grieving for the living
Oh, goddamn
My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand
Taking mine, but it's been promised to another
Oh, I can't
Stop you putting roots in my dreamland
My house of stone, your ivy grows
And now I'm covered in you
I wish to know
The fatal flaw that makes you long to be
Magnificently cursed
He's in the room
Your opal eyes are all I wish to see
He wants what's only yours
Oh, goddamn
My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand
Taking mine, but it's been promised to another
Oh, I can't
Stop you putting roots in my dreamland
My house of stone, your ivy grows
And now I'm covered
Clover blooms in the fields
Spring breaks loose, the time is near
What would he do if he found us out?
Crescent moon, coast is clear
Spring breaks loose, but so does fear
He's gonna burn this house to the ground
How's one to know
I'd live and die for moments that we stole
On begged and borrowed time?
So tell me to run
Or dare to sit and watch what we'll become
And drink my husband's wine
Oh, goddamn
My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand
Taking mine, but it's been promised to another
Oh, I can't
Stop you putting roots in my dreamland
My house of stone, your ivy grows
And now I'm covered in you
And I'm covered in you
So, yeah, it's a fire
It's a goddamn blaze in the dark
And you started it
You started it
So, yeah, it's a war
It's the goddamn fight of my life
And you started it
You started it
Oh, I can't
Stop you putting roots in my dreamland
My house of stone, your ivy grows
And now I'm covered in you
In you
Ooh
Now I'm covered in you
In you
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Key vocabulary
- i'd
- I would (I’d)B2
- spirit
- mind or moodB1
- bones
- hard body structuresA2
- faith-forgotten
- having lost belief
- brought
- carried to hereA1
- incandescent
- glowing brightly
- glow
- soft shining light
- tarnished
- damaged shine
- grand
- very large; impressiveB2
- widow
- woman whose husband diedC1
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About this song
Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter who works in country and pop, known for albums and songwriting that blend autobiographical details with wide-ranging pop production and narrative storytelling. She is recognized for her major crossover from Nashville country to mainstream pop, including landmark releases like Red and 1989, and for the global Eras Tour.