Sweet Nothing

Album

Midnights

Label

Republic Records

Genre

Bedroom pop

Duration

8:00

Composer(s)

Jack Michael Antonoff;Taylor Alison Swift

Entered Chart

Nov 5, 2022

Peak Date

Nov 5, 2022

Released

October 21, 2022

Recorded

Studio Rough Customer (Brooklyn) Electric Lady (New York)

B-Side

N/A

“Sweet Nothing,” the twelfth track on Midnights, is a slow, soft track about Taylor’s simple gratitude for and love of the life that she has built with boyfriend Joe Alwyn. The outside world seems chaotic, deceitful, and hopeless; as one of the world’s biggest celebrities) Taylor finds unbearable scrutiny and expectations placed on her shoulders. However, she finds peace in her romantic relationship because her partner asks “sweet nothing” of her. The song is written by Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn under the alias, William Bowery. This is not the first time that Alwyn/Bowery has been featured as a writer on one of Swift’s tracks. Bowery has writing credits on folklore’s track 5, “exile”, and “betty”, and evermore’s “champagne problems”, “coney island”, and the title track “evermore”.

[Verse 1]
I spy with my little tired eye
Tiny as a firefly
A pebble that we picked up last July
Down deep inside your pocket
We almost forgot it
Does it ever miss Wicklow sometimes?
Ooh, ooh

[Chorus]
They said the end is comin'
Everyone's up to somethin'
I find myself runnin' home to your sweet nothings
Outside, they're push and shovin'
You're in the kitchen hummin'
All that you ever wanted from me was sweet nothin'

[Verse 2]
On the way home
I wrote a poem
You say, "What a mind"
This happens all the time
Ooh, ooh

[Chorus]
'Cause they said the end is comin'
Everyone's up to somethin'
I find myself runnin' home to your sweet nothings
Outside, they're push and shovin'
You're in the kitchen hummin'
All that you ever wanted from me was nothin'

[Bridge]
Industry disruptors and soul deconstructors
And smooth-talking hucksters out glad-handing each other
And the voices that implore, "You should be doing more"
To you, I can admit that I'm just too soft for all of it
Ooh

[Chorus]
They said the end is comin'
Everyone's up to somethin'
I find myself runnin' home to your sweet nothings
Outside, they're push and shovin'
You're in the kitchen hummin'
All that you ever wanted from me was sweet nothin'
They said the end is comin' (They said the end is comin')
Everyone's up to somethin' (Everyone's up to somethin')
I find myself runnin' home to your sweet nothings
Outside, they're push and shovin' (Outside, they're push and shovin')
You're in the kitchen hummin' (You're in the kitchen hummin')
All that you ever wanted from me was sweet nothin'