Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Marc Scibilia
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Taylor Swift
Songwriter
Jack Antonoff
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Marc Scibilia
Producer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I have this thing where I get older, but just never wiser
Midnights become my afternoons
When my depression works the graveyard shift
All of the people I've ghosted stand there in the room
[PreChorus]
I should not be left to my own devices
They come with prices and vices
I end up in crises
I wake up screaming from dreaming
One day I'll watch as you're leaving
'Cause you got tired of my scheming
[Chorus]
It's me
Hi
I'm the problem, it's me
At teatime
Everybody agrees
I'll stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror
It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero
[Verse 2]
Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby
And I'm a monster on the hill
Too big to hang out, slowly lurching toward your favorite city
Pierced through the heart but never killed
[PreChorus]
Did you hear my covert narcissism
I disguise as altruism?
Like some kind of congressman
I wake up screaming from dreaming
One day, I'll watch as you're leaving
And life will lose all its meaning
[Chorus]
It's me
Hi
I'm the problem, it's me
At teatime
Everybody agrees
I'll stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror
It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
[Verse 3]
I have this dream my daughter-in-law kills me for the money
She thinks I left them in the will
The family gathers 'round and reads it and then someone screams out
"She's laughing up at us from hell!"
[Chorus]
It's me
Hi
I'm the problem, it's me
It's me
Hi
Everybody agrees
[Chorus]
It's me
Hi
I'm the problem, it's me
At teatime
Everybody agrees
I'll stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror
It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero
It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
Written by: Jack Antonoff, Taylor Swift