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Nice to meet you, where you been? I could show you incredible things Magic, madness, heaven, sin Saw you there and I thought "Oh, my God, look at that face You look like my next mistake Love's a game, wanna play?" Ay New money, suit and tie I can read you like a magazine Ain't it funny? Rumors fly And I know you heard about me So hey, let's be friends I'm dying to see how this one ends Grab your passport and my hand I can make the bad guys good for a weekend So it's gonna be forever Or it's gonna go down in flames You can tell me when it's over, mm If the high was worth the pain Got a long list of ex-lovers They'll tell you I'm insane 'Cause you know I love the players And you love the game 'Cause we're young, and we're reckless We'll take this way too far It'll leave you breathless, mm Or with a nasty scar Got a long list of ex-lovers They'll tell you I'm insane But I've got a blank space, baby And I'll write your name Cherry lips, crystal skies I could show you incredible things Stolen kisses, pretty lies You're the King, baby, I'm your Queen Find out what you want Be that girl for a month Wait, the worst is yet to come, oh, no Screaming, crying, perfect storms I can make all the tables turn Rose garden filled with thorns Keep you second guessing like "Oh, my God, who is she?" I get drunk on jealousy But you'll come back each time you leave 'Cause, darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream So it's gonna be forever Or it's gonna go down in flames You can tell me when it's over, mm If the high was worth the pain Got a long list of ex-lovers They'll tell you I'm insane 'Cause you know I love the players And you love the game 'Cause we're young, and we're reckless (oh) We'll take this way too far It'll leave you breathless, mm (oh) Or with a nasty scar Got a long list of ex-lovers They'll tell you I'm insane (insane) But I've got a blank space, baby And I'll write your name Boys only want love if it's torture Don't say I didn't, say I didn't warn ya Boys only want love if it's torture Don't say I didn't, say I didn't warn ya So it's gonna be forever Or it's gonna go down in flames You can tell me when it's over (over) If the high was worth the pain Got a long list of ex-lovers They'll tell you I'm insane (I'm insane) 'Cause you know I love the players And you love the game 'Cause we're young, and we're reckless We'll take this way too far (ooh) It'll leave you breathless, mm Or with a nasty scar (leave a nasty scar) Got a long list of ex-lovers They'll tell you I'm insane But I've got a blank space, baby And I'll write your name Songwriters: Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Johan Shellback.
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About "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift
"Blank Space" is a character study in which the character is a caricature of Taylor Swift built by the press, played by Swift with total commitment. By 2014 the tabloid line on her was that she was a serial dater who turned boyfriends into songs. Rather than deny it, she wrote the villain from the inside and made her charming.
The joke is structural. The verses run a seduction — the narrator promises magic and madness, a love-struck Romeo, a fairytale — and each chorus reveals the same routine is about to start again, with the same ending, filed under a name added to a long list. The phrase "blank space" is the crucial image: the name is interchangeable, and the space exists before the man does.
What makes it more than a joke is how much of the narrator's psychology gets in. She describes her own instability plainly, admits the relationship will get screaming-and-crying-and-perfect-storms ugly, and frames the whole thing as something she is doing to herself as much as to him. The famous line about a long list of ex-lovers telling you she's insane is immediately followed by an invitation anyway.
Musically it is deliberately sparse — a stark, clicking, near-hip-hop production with almost no guitar, a pointed break from the country-adjacent arrangements of her earlier records. The restraint leaves the vocal and the writing exposed, which is the point of a song whose entire effect depends on the listener catching the irony.
"Blank Space" is a english song by Taylor Swift, and this page includes the official music video above so you can listen while you read along. The lyrics open with “Nice to meet you, where you been?”. You can read the complete, 83-line lyrics (across 2 sections) in full on this page — free, with no sign-up.
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