Taylor Swift

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things • Reputation (2017) • 21 translations

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This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things lyrics

It was so nice throwing big parties

Jump to the pool from the balcony

Everyone swimming in a champagne sea

And there are no rules when you show up here

Bass beat rattling the chandelier

Feeling so Gatsby for that whole year

So why'd you have to rain on my parade?

I'm shaking my head

I'm locking the gates

This is why we can't have nice things, darling

Because you break them

I had to take them away

This is why we can't have nice things, honey

Did you think I wouldn't hear all the things you said about me?

This is why we can't have nice things

It was so nice being friends again

There I was, giving you a second chance

But then you stabbed my back while shaking my hand

And therein lies the issue

Friends don't try to trick you

Get you on the phone and mind-twist you

And so I took an axe to a mended fence

But I'm not the only friend you've lost lately

If only you weren't so shady

This is why we can't have nice things, darling

Because you break them

I had to take them away

This is why we can't have nice things, honey

Did you think I wouldn't hear all the things you said about me?

This is why we can't have

Here's a toast to my real friends

They don't care about that he-said-she-said

And here's to my baby

He ain't reading what they call me lately

And here's to my momma

Had to listen to all this drama

And here's to you

‘Cause forgiveness is a nice thing to do

Haha, I can't even say it with a straight face

This is why we can't have nice things, darling (darling)

Because you break them

I had to take them away

This is why we can't have nice things, honey

Did you think I wouldn't hear all the things you said about me?

This is why we can't have nice things, darling

(And here's to my real friends)

Because you break them

I had to take them away

(And here's to my baby)

This is why we can't have nice things, darling

(He didn't care about that he-said-she-said)

Did you think I wouldn't hear all the things you said about me?

This is why we can't have nice things

Gatsby:
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. It tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire who holds extravagant parties. Taylor herself is known for having parties in her Rhode Island mansion. The most famous party is her annual Fourth of July celebration, which is frequented by the likes of Ed Sheeran.
Here's a toast to my real friends:
Taylor has several friends who have stayed by her side throughout her fallout with Kanye West, including Ed Sheeran, Selena Gomez, and Abigail Anderson-Lucier, who she met during her freshman year of high school. She wrote some of her friends' names on a shirt she wore in the “Look What You Made Me Do” music video, which was a recreation of a shirt she wore in her 2009 “You Belong With Me” video.
And here's to my baby:
Joe Alwyn, Taylor’s boyfriend as of the song’s release, has supported her through some of the hardest times of her career, including the aftermath of the revival of her feud with Kanye West.

It was revealed in “Call It What You Want” that Taylor encouraged Joe to leave her, worried that he wouldn’t want to deal with the media attention he would inevitably get while dating her. However, he chose to stay.
And here's to you ‘Cause forgiveness is a ...:
Taylor had previously forgiven Kanye for the whole 2009 VMA incident (both publicly and musically, in her 2011 song “Innocent”), they became friends and Taylor even presented him with his Video Vanguard Award at the VMA’s six years later. However, since forgiveness is a nice thing, Taylor had to take it away because – as stated in the chorus – Kanye breaks nice things and that’s why he can’t have them.

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Writer(s): Taylor Swift, Jack Michael Antonoff
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Comments

leahs04

Sun, 12/11/2017 - 14:56

In the second verse it needs to say "Jump into the pool from the balcony"

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This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things • Reputation (2017) • 21 translations

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things lyrics