So I’ve said for a while that Taylor Swift regularly deliberately writes her lyrics to accommodate multiple readings. My theory for this one, off 2019’s Lover, is that past the obvious sick-loved-one reading, there’s a reading where Taylor Swift is singing it to America

And I hate to make this all about me

But who am I supposed to talk to?

What am I supposed to do

If there’s no you?

This won’t go back to normal, if it ever was

It’s been years of hoping, and I keep saying it because

‘Cause I have to