Taylor Swift — The Tortured Poets Department

i. fortnight (feat. post malone)

· treason — измена

you're the reason and no one here's to blame, but what about your quiet treason?

· fortnight — две недели

and for a fortnight there, we were forever. run into you sometimes, ask about the weather

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ii. the tortured poets department

· typewriter — печатная машинка

you left your typewriter at my apartment

· self-sabotage mode — разрушительное поведение

· spikes — шипы

· to decode — расшифровать, разгадать

you're in self-sabotage mode, throwing spikes down on the road. but i've seen this episode and still loved the show. who else decodes you?

· to declare — признавать, провозглашать 

we declared charlie puth should be a bigger artist

· with dread — в страхе

· to pound — вонзить

but you awaken with dread, pounding nails in your head

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iii. my boy only breaks his favourite toys

· the sickest — жуткий, крутейший

· army doll — военная кукла

· to purchase — покупать, приобретать

· rivulets — ручьи

· to descend — стекать

the sickest army doll, purchased at the mall, rivulets descend my plastic smile

· to fit right — подходить друг-другу, сходиться

· in the dead of night — под покровом ночи

· a matter of time — вопрос времени 

'cause it fit too right. puzzle pieces in the dead of night. i should've known it was a matter of time

· litany — литания, длинный перечень

· to play for keeps — быть серьезно настроенным, идти ва-банк

there was a litany of reasons why we could've played for keeps this time

· sandlot — детская площадка

· to play pretend — притворяться 

he was my best friend down at the sandlot. i felt more when we played pretend

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iv. down bad

· to beam up — возносить 

· sparkling dust — искрящаяся пыль 

did you really beam me up in a cloud of sparkling dust?

· down bad — отчаяться

· to come out — выливаться во что-либо 

· petulance — раздражительность 

now i'm down bad, cryin' at the gym. everything comes out teenage petulance

· heavenstruck — пораженный  

for a moment, i was heavenstruck

· hostile takeover — враждебный захват

· encounter — случайная встреча

· indecent exposure — непристойное разоблачение

i loved your hostile takeovers, encounters closer and closer, all your indecent exposures…

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v. so long, london

· fairy lights — волшебные огни

· to keep calm — сохранять спокойствие

· rift — разлад, трещина

· to drift away — отдаляться, ускользать

· weary bones — усталые кости

· to catch the chill — подхватить простуду

i saw in my mind fairy lights through the mist. i kept calm and carried the weight of the rift. pulled him in tighter each time he was drifting away. my spine split from carrying us up the hill. wet through my clothes, weary bones caught the chill

· to opt in — быть частью чего-либо

· odd man out — белая ворона

i didn't opt in to be your odd man out

· to be pissed off — быть в бешенстве, злиться

i'm pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free

· knuckles — костяшки пальцев

· to hold tight — держаться крепко

· quiet resentment — затаённая обида

my white knuckle dying grip holding tight to your quiet resentment

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vi. but daddy i love him

· to slam the door — захлопнуть дверь

they slammed the door on my whole world, the one thing i wanted

· to come to senses — приходить в чувства, приходить в себя

no, i'm not coming to my senses, i know he's crazy but he's the one i want

· sanctimoniously — лицемерный

· soliloquy — монолог

the most judgmental creeps who say they want what's best for me, sanctimoniously performing soliloquies i'll never see

· to bestow — даровать, одарять

there's a lot of people in town that i bestow upon my fakest smiles

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vii. fresh out the slammer

· to be fresh out the slammer — освободиться из заключения

fresh out the slammer, i know who my first call will be to

· glimpse — проблеск

my friends tried but I wouldn't hear it, watch me daily disappearing, for just one glimpse of his smile

· to screw up — облажаться

ain't no way i’m gonna screw up now that i know what's at stake

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viii. florida!!!

· to reek — вонять, разить

· to drive crazy — сводить с ума

this city reeks of driving myself crazy

· a hell of a drug — адский наркотик

florida, is one hell of a drug

· a hell of a time — уйма времени, не лучшее время

well, me and my ghost, we had a hell of a time.

· to resist — сопротивляться

love loves me like this, i don't want to resist, so take me to florida

· to work one’s life away — вкалывать всю жизнь

so you work your life away just to pay for a time stamp down in destin

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ix. guilty as sin?

· to keep recalling — продолжать вспоминать

· to long for — жаждать, желать

· tryst — встреча, свидание

i keep recalling things we never did, messy top lip kiss, how i long for our tryst

· to be guilty as sin — быть воплощением греха

without ever touching his skin, how can I be guilty as sin?

· longings — желания

· lower case — мелкий шрифт

· vault — сейф

i keep these longings locked in lower case inside a vault

· ablaze — пылатющий

my bedsheets are ablaze, I screamed his name 

· to crucify — распять

they’re gonna crucify me anyway

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x. who’s afraid of a little old me?

· who’s who — лучший из лучших

· to be poised for — быть готовым к чему-либо

the who's who of "who's that?" is poised for the attack

· to pave the path — проложить дорогу

my bare hands paved their paths

· to leap — спрыгивать

· gallows — виселица, эшафот

· to levitate — левитировать, подниматься

so i leap from the gallows and i levitate down your street

· at all costs — любой ценой

at all costs, keep your good name

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xi. i can fix him (no really i can)

· to billow — вздыматься (про дым)

· freight train — грузовой поезд

· revolting — отвратительный, мерзкий

the smoke cloud billows out his mouth like a freight train through a small town. the jokes that he told across the bar were revolting and far too loud

· callous — чёрствый

· pistol — пистолет, револьвер

his hands, so calloused from his pistol softly traces hearts on my face

· halo — нимб

he had a halo of the highest grade

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xii. loml (love/loss of my life)

· to waltz — вальсировать

· rekindled flames — вновь разгоревшееся пламя

· to embroider — вышивать

who's gonna stop us from waltzing back into rekindled flames? if we know the steps anyway, we embroidered the memories

· to feel aglow — светиться изнутри от любви

i felt aglow like this never before and never since

· nick of time — в самый последний момент, как раз вовремя

never quite buried in your suit and tie, in the nick of time

· low-down — подлый, низкий

· stand-up guy — честный парень

you low-down boy, you stand-up guy. holy ghost, you told me i'm the love of your life

· to turn out — оказаться

your impressionist paintings of heaven turned out to be fakes

· valiant roar — храбрый рёв

· bland goodbye — ласковое прощание

oh, what a valiant roar… what a bland goodbye

· engulfed in fire — охваченный огнем

· somber eyes — мрачные глаза

our field of dreams, engulfed in fire. our arson's match your somber eyes

· coward — трус

· to claim — утверждать

the coward claimed he was a lion

· to comb — расчесывать

· braids — косы

i'm combing through the braids of lies

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xiii. i can do it with a broken heart

· to have the time of one’s life — жить своей лучшей жизнью

· to be in one’s glittering prime — быть в самом расцвете сил

· to refract — преломлять свет, подсвечивать

· sequined stars — блестящие звёзды

i can read your mind, she's having the time of her life there in her glittering prime. the lights refract sequined stars off her silhouette every night

· to fake it ‘till you make it — притворяться пока это не станет правдой

they said, baby, gotta fake it 'til you make it and I did. lights, camera, bitch smile, in stilettos for miles

· to shatter — разлететься вдребезги

· to grin — ухмыляться

all the pieces of me shattered as the crowd was chanting, "more". i was grinning like i'm winning, i was hitting my marks 'cause I can do it with a broken heart

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xiv. the smallest man who ever lived

· to gaze starry eyed — смотреть влюбленным взглядом

was any of it true? you gazing at me starry eyed in your jehovah's witness suit. who the fuck was that guy?

· to rust — заржаветь, разъесть

and I don't even want you back, i just want to know if rusting my sparkling summer was the goal?

· to declassify — рассекретить

in fifty years will all this be declassified?

· good riddance — скатертью дорога

and you'll confess why you did it, and i'll say good riddance 'cause it wasn't sexy once it wasn't forbidden

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xv. the alchemy

· call the amateurs — созвать любителей

so when i touch down, call the amateurs and cut 'em from the team, ditch the clowns, get the crown, baby i'm the one to beat

· to be reserved for someone — быть зарезервированным для кого-то

’cause the sign on your heart said it's still reserved for me. honestly, who are we to fight the alchemy?

· to come around — приходить в себя

· to make a comeback — возвращаться

i haven't come around in so long but i'm making a comeback to where i belong ..

· a winning streak — победная серия

we've been on a winning streak 

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xvi. clara bow

· remarkable — поразительно

you look like clara bow in this light. remarkable

· to exaggerate — преувеличивать

i'm not trying to exaggerate but i think i might die if it happened

· to be stained — быть запятнанным

· flesh and blood — плоть и кровь

the crown is stained but you're the real queen. flesh and blood amongst war machines

· to be dazzling — быть блистательной

you're the new god we're worshipping, promise to be ... dazzling

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