Intellectual: The entire experience has been intellectually disorienting as well: “I get so confused and frustrated / Forget what I’m trying to say.” Spiritual: Even Swift’s faith is challenged: “I’ve got no one to believe in.” Occupational: The verbal abuse has even distracted Swift from her work: “Why do you have to put down my dreams / So you’re the only thing on my mind?” the type of person who could continually endure abuse, but still he didn’t let up. So now she has shown him, the hard way, that she was in fact serious about that.Physical: In addition to the violent imagery outlined above, Swift repeatedly states that this relationship has made her “sick and tired,” says that he “push around” and reveals that she needs to “run for cover when around.”Įmotional: Compounding the physical imagery, Swift alludes to multiple instances of verbal abuse: “Yes I remember what you said last night,” “Why do you have to make me feel small?” and “You tell me that you want me, and cut me down.” So the song concludes with the songstress finally cutting the addressee off. She warned him beforehand that she wasn’t “bulletproof”, i.e. So in the bridge, the vocalist sort of comes to the conclusion that dude is rather suffering from low self-esteem – for lack of a better way of describing it. That is to say that he is one of those types of people who feels better about himself by putting others down. Moreover, he is trying to minimize the singer’s self-confidence so that she can rather focus more on him. So it can be said that he’s intimidated by an independent woman, which is a further manifestation of his own internal issues. And the latter is definitely being more pronounced. Meanwhile she is not doing anything to provoke him in between. So that’s what has Taylor baffled. It’s as if dude is loving one moment and hateful the next. Moreover, this is an adult that we’re talking about here. And when one person does something to intentionally hurt another, on top of such attempts usually proving successful, they are generally cognizant of what they are doing. This guy may not necessarily know the magnitude of how much his negativity is affecting Taylor, but he does know that it is affecting her nonetheless. Her pain is still visible, even if she doesn’t display it in full. And that’s what brings us to the titular request, “tell me why”. Moreover his ways are quite inexplicably, as there appears to be no practical reason for him to behave towards her in such a manner. But secondly, she is in fact feeling him. Or another way of looking at it is that if any other dude were behaving this way, she would just cut him off. But considering that she ‘needs’ this particular person “like a heartbreak”, she has found herself in a truly unfavorable situation, being emotionally dependent on someone who is abusive. In fact that is more of less what the chorus centers on, such inconsistencies in his character. The verses, though focusing on his a-sholish tendencies, do not paint a complete picture. Dude can be cool sometimes also. For instance, just as the vocalist internalizes his mistreatment, she also takes it to heart when he says that he loves her.īut ultimately, what’s bothering her is twofold. Yes, first and foremost would be his afore-alluded “temper” and “mean streak”. In fact as to be expected they are compelling her to unlike him, which is apparently something he is too caught up in his ways to realize until it is too late. Or stated otherwise she is not overly familiar with the addressee, nor is he with her. For instance, he may be under the impression that the toxic things he does and says may not really affect her. But to the contrary, they do. In other words, she knows that it may work out, or it may not. From the beginning, the singer herself comes off as someone who is not overly confident in this union.
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