To listen to Taylor Swift inform it, she gave her relationship with 1975 singer Matty Healy her all. Nonetheless short-lived the romance might need in the end turned out, Swift however appears to have devoted quite a few songs off her newest album, The Tortured Poets Division, to Healy, and the monitor “I Can Repair Him (No Actually I Can)” is probably probably the most zealous acknowledgment of her personal self-delusion in doing so.
The music, seemingly directed as a lot at Swift herself as her rakish ex, accommodates clear references to signature qualities of Healy’s: The “smoke cloud billow[ing] out of his mouth” appears a nod at his cigarette behavior; his “revolting jokes,” an acknowledgment of his controversial humor; a ubiquitous “they” “shak[ing] their heads,” a reference to followers criticizing the connection; and “calloused fingers” on a “six-lane” freeway, a possible metaphor for Healy’s six-string guitar abilities. All through the music, Swift works to persuade her viewers and herself that she will be able to “repair” this “harmful man,” revealing the “halo of the very best grade” that solely she will be able to uncover hiding inside him. (This, it bears mentioning, is theoretically the identical man she refers to elsewhere in TPD as a “tattooed golden retriever.”)
Swift isn’t one to typically admit she’s mistaken. However by the top of “I Can Repair Him (No Actually I Can),” she appears to understand the scope of the lie she’s informed herself. “Woah, possibly I can’t,” she sings, reluctantly however definitively, because the monitor stops. Her relationship with Healy in 2023 might need solely lasted just a few weeks, so far as the general public is aware of, nevertheless it’s clear its emotional repercussions went properly past that of an informal fling.
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Learn the total lyrics to “I Can Repair Him (No Actually I Can)” under:
The smoke cloud billows out his mouth
Like a freight practice via a small city
The jokes that he informed throughout the bar
Have been revolting and much too loud
They shake their heads sayin’, “God, assist her”
After I inform ’em he’s my man
However your good Lord doesn’t have to elevate a finger
I can repair him, no, actually, I can
And solely I can
The dopamine races via his mind
On a six-lane Texas freeway
His fingers so calloused from his pistol
Softly traces hearts on my face
And I might see it from a mile away
An ideal case for my sure ability set
He had a halo of the very best gradе
He simply hadn’t met me yеt
They shake their heads sayin’, “God, assist her”
After I inform ’em he’s my man
However your good Lord doesn’t have to elevate a finger
I can repair him, no, actually, I can
And solely I can
Good boy, that’s proper, come shut
I’ll present you Heaven if you happen to’ll be an angel, all mine
Belief me, I can deal with me a harmful man
No actually, I can
They shook their heads sayin’, “God, assist her”
After I informed ’em he’s my man (I informed ’em he’s my man)
However your good Lord didn’t have to elevate a finger
I can repair him, no, actually, I can (No, actually, I can)
Woah, possibly I can’t
