10 illicit affairs

Written by Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff

Make sure nobody sees you leave Hood over your head

Keep your eyes down

Tell your friends youre out for a run Youll be flushed when you return Take the road less traveled by

Tell yourself you can always stop What started in beautiful rooms Ends with meetings in parking lots

And thats the thing about illicit affairs And clandestine meetings

And longing stares

Its born from just one single glance But it dies and it dies and it dies

a million little times

Leave the perfume on the shelf That you picked out just for him So you leave no trace behind Like you dont even exist

Take the words for what they are A dwindling mercurial high A ** that only worked

The first few hundred times

And thats the thing about illicit affairs And clandestine meetings

And stolen stares

They show their truth one single time But they lie and they lie and they lie

a million little times

And you wanna scream Dont call me kid

Dont call me baby

Look at this godforsaken mess that you made me

You showed me colors you know I cant see with anyone else Dont call me kid

Dont call me baby

Look at this idiotic fool that you made me

You taught me a secret language I cant speak with anyone else And you know damn well

For you I would ruin myself

a million little times

illicit affairs

Written by Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff

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Produced by Jack Antonoff and Taylor Swift

Recorded by Laura Sisk at the Kitty Committee Studio (Los Angeles CA)and Jack Antonoff at Rough Customer Studio (Brooklyn NY)

Mixed by Serban Ghenea at Mixstar Studios (Virginia Beach VA)Engineered by John Hanes

Mastered by Randy Merrill at Sterling Sound (New York NY)

Live Drums Percussion Programming Electric Guitars Keyboards Bass Background Vocals by Jack Antonoff at Rough Customer Studio (Brooklyn NY)

Accordion Saxophones Electric Guitar Keyboards Background Vocals by Evan Smith at Pleasure Hill Recording (Portland ME)

Pedal Steel by Mikey Freedom Hart at Hook and Fade (Brooklyn NY)