出自美国创作歌手Taylor Swift发行的第八张录音室专辑《Folklore》(民间故事)。
专辑定于Swift上一张录音室专辑《恋人》的十一个月后发行,灵感源于2019冠状病毒病疫情大爆发期间,Swift响应居家隔离时,构思并创作制作完成,由Swift、杰克•安东诺夫及亚伦•戴斯纳担任专辑制作人。《民间故事》仅于发行前一日才被Swift透过社群媒体公布。与Swift以前发行的主流流行乐专辑不同,《民间故事》是由钢琴和吉他铺成的独立民谣、另类摇滚、电子民谣和室内流行专辑。歌词方面,专辑的歌曲结合了生动的讲故事及第三人称叙事。
Illicit Affairs歌词:
Make sure nobody sees you leave
Hood over your head
Keep your eyes down
Tell your friends you're out for a run
You'll 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 that's the thing about illicit affairs
And clandestine meetings
And longing stares
It's 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 don't even exist
Take the words for what they
Are A dwindling mercurial high
A d**g that only worked
The first few hundred times
And that's 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
Don't call me kid
Don't call me baby
Look at this godforsaken mess that you made me
You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else
Don't call me kid
Don't call me baby
Look at this idiotic fool that you made me
You taught me a secret language I can't speak with anyone else
And you know d**n well
For you I would ruin myself
A million little times