Song
Don't You (TV)
Fearless (Taylor's Version) · 2021 · Track 22
Co-written
Written byTaylor Swift, Tommy Lee James
Produced byTaylor Swift, Jack Antonoff
Also known as: DTY
Mash-ups & Live Pairings
- loml / Don't You (TV) (Eras Tour, Munich)
Smile
Incidental
Identity & Self
“But don't you, don't you smile at me and ask me how I've been”
She pleads against the disarming smile, knowing his easy warmth will undo her resolve.
Lore & Lyrics
watching, inverted
“I didn't mean to stare”
“I can see you starin', honey Like he's just your understudy” — exile
The same gesture from the opposite chair: exile's speaker watches him watching her; Don't You inverts who is caught staring. The cleanest inversion in a set of four the same comment offers, two of which are omitted below on the commenter's own hedging or on thinness.
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