Down Bad

Song Meaning of Down Bad by Taylor Swift

According to Swift, she compared "the idea of being love bombed, where someone rocks your world and dazzles you and then just kind of abandons you as an alien abduction where you were abducted by aliens" when writing the song.

Swift refers to her love interest as "my twin" in the song's lyrics, describing the brief feeling she has as "cosmic love" and yearning to be taken by aliens.

Lyrics of Down Bad by Taylor Swift

Did you really beam me up?

In a cloud of sparkling dust

Just to do experiments on

Tell me I was the chosen one

Show me that this world is bigger than us

Then sent me back where I came from

For a moment, I knew cosmic love

Now I'm down bad, crying at the gym

Everything comes out teenage petulance

"Fuck it if I can't have him"

"I might just die, it would make no difference"

Down bad, waking up in blood

Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up

Fuck it if I can't have us

I might just not get up

I might stay down bad

Fuck it if I can't have him

Down bad

Fuck it if I can't have him

Did you take all my old clothes?

Just to leave me here naked and alone

In a field in my same old town

That somehow seems so hollow now

They'll say I'm nuts if I talk about the existence of you

For a moment, I was heaven struck

Now I'm down bad, crying at the gym (Crying at the gym)

Everything comes out teenage petulance

"Fuck it if I can't have him" (Fuck it if I can't have him)

"I might just die, it would make no difference"

Down bad, waking up in blood (Waking up in blood)

Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up

Fuck it if I can't have us

I might just not get up

I might stay down bad

Like I lost my twin

Fuck it if I can't have him (Down bad)

Down bad

Waving at the ship

Fuck it if I can't have him

I loved your hostile takeovers

Encounters closer and closer

All your indecent exposures

How dare you say that it's-

I'll build you a fort on some planet

Where they can all understand it

How dare you think it's romantic

Leaving me safe and stranded

'Cause fuck it, I was in love

So fuck you if I can't have us

'Cause fuck it, I was in love

Now I'm down bad, crying at the gym (Crying at the gym)

Everything comes out teenage petulance

"Fuck it if I can't have him" (Can't have him)

"I might just die, it would make no difference"

Down bad, waking up in blood (Waking up in blood)

Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up

Fuck it if I can't have us

I might just not get up

I might stay down bad

Like I lost my twin

Fuck it if I can't have him (Down bad)

Down bad

Waving at the ship

Fuck it if I can't have him

Like I lost my twin

Fuck it if I can't have him

Down bad

Waving at the ship

Fuck it if I can't have him