Cold as you is a really sweet song with alot of emotion involved, and you can see from the words that alot of people can relate to this song. In this song, taylor falls in love with a boy who shows no emotion towards her, shuts her out of his life, ignores her, etc, while she trys to make him love her.
First verse - He has a way of making her feel like she can understand him, but he lets her down. He avoids her/ shits her out, so she doesn't know how to feel and is confused a to what she is supposed to feel, so she starts a fight, so she can at least feel anger, but he doesn't care because she never really meant anything to him.
Chorus - "oh, what a shame, what a rainy ending given to a perfect day." when she first fell for him, everything was perfect. Towards the end of her liking him, though, things got rough.
"just walk away; no use defending words that you will never say." she just wants him to get out of her life, because there's no point in her waiting for him to say things that he's not gonna say, such as 'I love you' or 'I'm sorry.'
"now that I'm sitting here; thinking it through, I've never been anywhere cold as you" she's thinking about the relationship; realizing that he was really cold towards her.
Verse two- "you put up walls and paint them all a shade of grey, and I stood there, loving you, and wished them all away" grey is a gloomy colour. If you tie in the walls rewards their relationship, he could be labeling it as "gloomy," "not going to happen," or "not going to work out". She's trying to change his mind and 'wish away' the gray walls of their relationship.
"and you come away with a great little story, or a ness of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you" he's twisted the story around, making her seem like the person to blame for him having to hurt her.
Verse three - "you never did give a damn thing, honey, but I cried, cried for you" he never cared about her, but she loved him so much that she cried over him"
"and I know you wouldn't Have told nobody if I died for you" she knows that he is so cold, so heartless, that if she does for him, and he knew it, he would play it off so that people would think he wasnt the reason why she would have been dead.
Taylor Swift - Cold As You Lyrics Meaning
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