What Ivy's Lyrics From Taylor Swift Really Mean

The lyrics, as per Genius, detail how the tortured narrator is married but in love with somebody else. "My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand / taking mine but it's been promised to another," Swift intones, before asking, "What would we do if he found us out?" and seemingly answering, "He's gonna burn this house to the ground." "Ivy" is the opening chapter of the doomed love anthology, with the woman in question seemingly incapable of breaking out of her noxious pattern.

She admits sadly, "My house of stone, your ivy grows / And now I'm covered in you / And I'm covered in you." This woman isn't willing to give up her lover either, in spite of the inherent danger, revealing, "I'd live and die for moments that we stole / On begged and borrowed time." The narrator even offers the subject of the song the chance to either "run" or "dare to sit and watch what we'll become / And drink my husband's wine."