The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived - Taylor Swift

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[Verse 1]
      
Was any of it 

  
  true?
      
Gazing at   me

 
 starry-eyed
            
In your Jehova

      
h's Witness su

it
      
Who the fuck w

   
as that guy?
           
You tried to b

   
uy some pills
      
From a friend 

   
of friends of 

mine
        
They just ghos

  
ted you
           
Now you know w

    
hat it feels l

    
ike

[Chorus]
            
And I don't ev

        
en want you ba

            
ck, I just wan

          
t to know
           
If rusting my 

       
sparkling summ

              
er was the goa

  
l
            
And I don't mi

       
ss what we had

             
, but could so

           
meone give
          
A message to t

          
he smallest ma

            
n who ever liv

    
ed?

[Verse 2]
            
You hung me on

  
 your wall
         
Stabbed me wit

    
h your push pi

ns
         
In public, sho

    
wed me off
           
Then sank in s

  
toned oblivion
            
'Cause once yo

        
ur queen  had 


come
            
You'd treat he

    
r likе an also


-ran
         
You didn't mea

  
sure up
      
In any measurе

     
 of a man

[Chorus]
            
And I don't ev

            
en want you ba

           
ck, I just wan

          
t to know
            
If rusting my 

          
sparkling summ

             
er was the goa

  
l
            
And I don't mi

           
ss what we had

            
, but could so

            
meone give
            
A message to t

            
he smallest ma


n who ever liv

ed?

[Bridge]
              
Were you sent 

            
by someone who

           
 wanted me dea

d?
              
Did you sleep 

         
with a gun und

            
erneath our be

d?
              
Were you writi

            
ng a book? Wer

              
e you a sleepe

       
r cell spy?
              
In fifty years

         
, will all thi

             
s be declassif


ied?
              
And you'll con

             
fess why you d

             
id it and I'll

              
 say, "Good ri

 
ddance"
              
'Cause it wasn

         
't sexy once i

              
t wasn't forbi


dden
              
I would've die

            
d for your sin

              
s, instead, I 

            
just died insi

de
              
And you deserv

         
e prison, but 

              
you won't get 


time
              
You'll slide i

            
nto inboxes an

              
d slip through

     
 the bars
              
You crashed my

         
 party and you

         
r rental car
              
You said norma

             
l girls were b


oring
              
But you were g

              
one by the mor

 
ning
              
You kicked out

         
 the stage lig

              
hts, but you'r

           
e still perfor

ming

[Outro]
              
And in plain s

         
ight you hid
              
But you are wh

       
at you did
              
And I'll forge

         
t you, but I'l

           
l never forgiv

e
              
The smallest m

         
an who ever li

ved