What is the meaning behind “Want is the cigarette smoke on a jacket You wore to the wrong part of town”?
- by imrk
- March 04, 2023
The wrong part of town could be a reference to the “dive bar on the East Side, where you at?” mentioned in Reputation’s Delicate . Back then, the singer may have just wanted the muse of Delicate, but now their love is no longer a want – it’s a need. She then goes on to list a few more things that they aren’t: not want, not desire, nor passion or lust. No, by Lover in 2019 their connection is a need as much as breathing. The East Side is in New York, which is also a part of Taylor’s love scenery in False God, Glitch, Cornelia Street, Daylight, and Hoax.