Guilty as Sin?

“You've haunted me so stunningly”

Hauntedness as aesthetic experience — being haunted stunningly reframes the gothic as something breathtaking rather than tormenting. The adverb transfigures horror into beauty, characteristic of TTPD's gothic romanticism. The haunting is welcomed, even admired.

Intrusive thoughts as pre-emptive confession — the speaker is already guilty of thoughts she has not acted on: desire as involuntary intrusion that the mind commits before the body has done anything. One of Taylor's most explicit treatments of the experience of unwanted but consuming interior thoughts.

Explores infidelity of the mind — lustful, sinful thoughts about someone who is not her partner, framed in heavy religious imagery.