Taylor Swift Halloween Lyrics

Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year, and with The Story of You‘s recent release, I thought it would be fun to gather up all of the Halloween-related lyrics from Taylor Swift songs. Though Taylor only references the actual word “Halloween” once in her lyrics, she has quite a few lines that feel fitting for the holiday. Below you’ll find some of the Taylor Swift lyrics that work for this spooky season organized by album. If I missed any, let me know in the comments and I’ll add them to the list! 

Taylor Swift Halloween Lyrics

•  Like shadows in a faded light, oh, we’re invisible.
• Why would you wanna make the very first scar?

Fearless Halloween Lyrics

• I run and run / Past the pumpkin patch / And the tractor rides / Look now, the sky is gold
• But can you feel this magic in the air?
• It’s the age of princesses and pirate ships and the seven dwarfs.

Speak Now Halloween Lyrics

• Can’t breathe whenever you’re gone / Can’t turn back now, I’m haunted.
• It’s getting dark and it’s all too quiet.
• Ghosts from your past gonna jump out at me, lurking in the shadows with their lipgloss smiles.
• You, with your words like knives and swords and weapons that you use against me.
• And the organ starts to play a song that sounds like a death march.
• Wasn’t it beautiful, running wild ’til you fell asleep, before the monsters caught up to you?
• People look at me like I’m a monster.
• And then the cold came, the dark days when fear crept into my mind.
• Give me something that’ll haunt me when you’re not around.

Red Halloween Lyrics

• You’ve got your demons, and darling, they all look like me.
• Check the pulse and come back swearing it’s the same after three months in the grave.
• And it’s about to be Halloween / You could be anything you wanted.
• ‘Til we were dead and gone and buried.
• I heard my own heart beating, sounded like footsteps on my stairs.

1989 Halloween Lyrics

• If you live like that, you live with ghosts.
• This love is alive, back from the dead. 
• See the vultures circling, dark clouds.
• If I’m all dressed up, they might as well be looking at us.
• Did you think we’d be fine? / Still got scars on my back from your knife.
• Magic, madness, heaven, sin.
• But the monsters turned out to be just trees.
• Your smile, my ghost, I fell to my knees.
• And for once you let go of your fears and your ghosts.
• It’ll leave you breathless or with a nasty scar.
• Whispers turned to talking and talking turned to screams.
• Darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.
• Stand there like a ghost shaking from the rain.
• I should have slept with one eye open at night.
• All alone, or so it seemed, but there were strangers watching.
• Didn’t you calm my fears with a Cheshire cat smile?
• I screamed so loud but no one heard a thing.
• We need love, but all we want is danger.
• These beats of a dark heart, use bass lines to replace you.
•  In the dead of night, your eyes so green.

reputation Halloween Lyrics

• Come here, dressed in black now, scratches down your back now.
• But if he’s a ghost then I can be a phantom.
• Honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time.
• I’m sorry, the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now / Why? Oh, ’cause she’s dead!
• They’re burning all the witches, even if you aren’t one.
• Wonder how many girls he had loved and left haunted.
• They got their pitchforks and proof, their receipts and reasons.
• I’ll be the actress staring in your bad dreams.
• See you in the dark / All eyes on you, my magician / All eyes on us / You make everyone disappear, and / Cut me into pieces
• While he was running after us, I was screaming, “Go, go, go!”
• And I bury hatchets, but I keep maps of where I put ’em.

Lover Halloween Lyrics

• I wake in the night. / I pace like a ghost.
• Devils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes.
• He looks up grinning like a devil.
• Echoes of your footsteps on the stairs.
• I’m always waiting for you just to cut to the bone.
• Chandelier still flickering here.
• Now I’m searching for signs in a haunted club.

folklore Halloween Lyrics

• You know I didn’t want to have to haunt you, but what a ghostly scene.
• And I’ve been meaning to tell you I think your house is haunted / Your dad is always mad and that must be why.
• I knew you’d haunt all of my what-ifs.
• Chains around my demons, wool to brave the seasons.
• In my defense, I have none for digging up the grave another time.
• My twisted knife, my sleepless night.
• You wear the same jewels that I gave you as you bury me.
• And women like hunting witches, too, doing your dirtiest work for you.
• You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same.
• And if I’m dead to you, why are you at the wake?

evermore Halloween Lyrics

• Sitting in a corner I haunt.
• What died didn’t stay dead. / You’re alive, you’re alive in my head.
• Wait for the signal and I’ll meet you after dark.
• The autumn chill that wakes me up.
• I’d meet you where the spirit meets the bones.
• Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneaking in / As if you were a mythical thing.
• No body, no crime / I wasn’t letting up until the day he died.
• Now he sits on his throne in his palace of bones.
• And the old widow goes to the stone every day.
• I had some tricks up my sleeve / Takes one to know one.
• Haunted by the look in my eyes that would’ve loved you for a lifetime.

Midnights Halloween Lyrics

• And now that I’m grown, I’m scared of ghosts. / Memories feel like weapons.
• When my depression takes the graveyard shift, all of the people I’ve ghosted stand there in the room.
• I looked around in a blood-soaked gown, and I saw something they can’t take away.
• I guess sometimes we all get some kind of haunted.
• You’ve got no reason to be afraid.
• I don’t dress for women. / I don’t dress for men. / Lately I’ve been dressing for revenge.
• Draw the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man.
• Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby, and I’m a monster on the hill.
• I wake up screaming from dreaming.
• And maybe it’s the past that’s talking, screaming from the crypt.
• Nights are so starry, blood moonlit.
• When you aim at the devil, make sure you don’t miss.

The Tortured Poets Department Halloween Lyrics

• Well, me and my ghosts, we had a hell of a time. / Yes, I’m haunted, but I’m feeling just fine.
• They don’t know how you’ve haunted me so stunningly.
• Locked me up in towers, but I’d visit in your dreams.
• Poison blood from the wound of the pricked hand.
• I was in my tower weaving nightmares.
• …set fire to all my clothes and hire a priest to come and exorcise my demons, even if i die screaming.
• A greater woman stays cool / But I howl like a wolf at the moon / And I look unstable / Gathered with a coven round a sorceress’s table.
• Say it once again with feeling / How the death rattle breathing / Silenced as the soul was leaving / The deflation of our dreaming / Leaving me bereft and reeling / My beloved ghost and me / Sitting in a tree / D-Y-I-N-G
• Old habits die screaming.
• She’s the death you chose. / You’re in terrible danger.
• Still alive, killing time at the cemetery, never quite buried.
• I leap from the gallows and I levitate down your street. / Crash the party like a record scratch as I scream, “Who’s afraid of little old me?”
• I wanna snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made me. / You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.
• All you kids can sneak into my house with all the cobwebs.
• They filled my cell with snakes, I regret to say.
• Devils that you know raise worse hell than a stranger.
• So I did my best to lay to rest / All of the bodies that have ever been on my body / And in my mind, they sink into the swamp.
• When it’s “Burn the bitch,” they’re shrieking. / When the truth comes out, it’s quiet.

The Life of a Showgirl Halloween Lyrics

• Welcome to my underworld / where it gets quite dark.
• Late one night, you dug me out of my grave.
• Love was a cold bed full of scorpions. / The venom stole her sanity. 
• Sleepless in the onyx night.
• I thought my house was haunted. / I used to live with ghosts. 
• I can make deals with the devil…
• The curse on me was broken by your magic wand. 
• Stepped on a crack / And the black cat laughed. 
• Every eldest daughter / was the first lamb to the slaughter / so we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire. 
• But they’d already picked out your grave and hearse. / Beware of masked crusaders. 
• Come with me, when they see us, they’ll run / Something wicked this way comes. 
• But if you can’t be good / then just be better at it. / Everyone’s got bodies in the attic. 
• But I’m immortal now, baby dolls. 

Other Halloween Lyrics

• Perilous night, their voices calling.
• I feel so alive with these phantoms of night.
• I tapped on your window on your darkest night
• All those shadows almost killed your light.
• You’re screaming inside and frozen in time.

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