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The song was in part inspired by a dream Taylor had about an ex. apocalypse lyrics "I was having this dream, that was actually one of those embarrassing dreams, where you're mortified in the dream, you're like humiliated," she told Time "In the dream, my ex had come to the door to beg for me to talk to him or whatever, and I opened up the door and I went to go