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Spooky Taylor Swift lyrics from 'reputation' can be used for Halloween Instagram captions.
116 Haunting Taylor Swift Lyrics That’ll Keep You Up Through All Your *Midnights*

The old Taylor can’t come to the phone — she’s getting spooky.

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If Red (Taylor’s Version) didn’t prove that Taylor Swift is the reigning queen of festive fall anthems, the dark and haunting themes in Midnights definitely serve as the nails in the coffin. While the fall time is already a season that reminds so many fans of Swift’s cozy, reflective songs like “All Too Well” and “The Best Day,” there are plenty of killer lines from albums like Reputation and Midnights that are sure to call up all your ghosts in the dead of night. Whether she’s casting lyrical spells and praying on your karma, or viciously standing strong in her “Vigilante Sh*t,” our “Miss Americana,” definitely has a dark side that paints an eerie vibe for Halloween. Instead of using your typical pumpkin pun or favorite Halloween movie quote to caption your fall snaps, go the Swiftie route by using one of these 113 spooky Taylor Swift lyrics for your Halloween pics.

Any of these haunting Taylor Swift lyrics will work for your autumn adventures, whether that’s facing a haunted house, carving Taylor Swift-inspired jack-o-lanterns, or dressing up as a zombie a la “Look What You Made Me Do.” This Halloween, you may be drawing your “cat eye, sharp enough to kill a man” and paying homage to your favorite “Anti-Hero.” Even a Halloween movie night at home with some chai cookies would be how Swift herself would want to celebrate the season, so you might as well plan a night in for yourself and caption your snaps with a Taylor Swift lyric to match. Beware of working the “graveyard shift,” though, because that’s when the ghosts come out. Here are 113 of Taylor Swift’s spookiest lyrics to soundtrack your autumn Instagrams.

Taylor Swift Halloween Lyrics From Taylor Swift
  • “I'm just sitting here planning my revenge.” — “Picture to Burn”
  • “Why would you wanna make the very first scar?” — “A Perfectly Good Heart”
  • “Like shadows in a faded light, oh, we’re invisible.” — “Invisible”
Taylor Swift Halloween Lyrics From Fearless
  • “Standing by and waiting at your backdoor.” — “You Belong With Me”
  • “I run and run past the pumpkin patch and the tractor rides.” — “The Best Day”
  • “And I’m dying to know, is it killing you like it’s killing me, yeah.” — “The Story Of Us”
Taylor Swift Halloween Lyrics From Speak Now
  • “Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around.” — “Sparks Fly”
  • “Time for a little revenge.” — “Better Than Revenge”
  • “There is nothing I do better than revenge.” — “Better Than Revenge”
  • “Something's gone terribly wrong.” — “Haunted”
  • “It's getting dark and it's all too quiet.” — “Haunted”
  • “Can't turn back now, I'm haunted.” — “Haunted”
  • “I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep.” — “Last Kiss”
  • “Ghosts from your past gonna jump out at me, lurking in the shadows with their lip gloss smiles.” — “Ours”
  • “Something's made your eyes go cold.” — “Haunted”
  • “Wasn’t it beautiful, running wild 'til you fell asleep, before the monsters caught up to you?” — “Innocent”
  • “And then the cold came, the dark days when fear crept into my mind.” — “Back to December”
Taylor Swift Halloween Lyrics From Red
  • “And the saddest fear comes creepin' in.” — “I Knew You Were Trouble”
  • “And it's about to be Halloween.” — “Ronan”
  • “I'll follow you, follow you home.” — “Treacherous”
  • “‘Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in.” — “I Knew You Were Trouble”
Taylor Swift Halloween Lyrics From 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
  • “Magic, madness, heaven, sin.” — “Blank Space”
  • “Wait, the worst is yet to come.” — “Blank Space”
  • “Screaming, crying, perfect storms, I can make all the tables turn.” — “Blank Space”
  • “Darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.” — “Blank Space”
  • “Now we've got bad blood.” — “Bad Blood”
  • “You made a really deep cut.” — “Bad Blood”
  • “Still got scars in my back from your knives.” — “Bad Blood”
  • “Band-aids don't fix bullet holes.” — “Bad Blood”
  • “If you live like that, you live with ghosts.” — “Bad Blood”
  • “If you love like that, blood runs cold.” — “Bad Blood”
  • “Stand there like a ghost, shaking from the rain.” — “How You Get the Girl”
  • “See the vultures circling, dark clouds.” — “I Know Places”
  • “I know places we can hide.” — “I Know Places”
  • “They take their shots, but we're bulletproof.” — “I Know Places”
  • “I should have slept with one eye open at night.” — “Wonderland”
  • “All alone, or so it seemed, but there were strangers watching.” — “Wonderland”
  • “Talking turned to screams.” — “Wonderland”
  • “Didn't you calm my fears with a Cheshire cat smile?” — “Wonderland”
  • “I reached for you, but you were gone.” — “Wonderland”
  • “And in the end, in Wonderland, we both went mad.” — “Wonderland”
  • “Your smile, my ghost, I fell to my knees.” — “This Love”
  • “And for once you let go of your fears and your ghosts.” — “You Are In Love”
  • “I screamed so loud but no one heard a thing.” — “Clean”
  • “But the monsters turned out to be just trees.” — “Out of the Woods”
  • “Why’d you whisper in the dark? Just to leave me in the night?” — “Say Don’t Go”
  • “Your silence has me screamin', screamin'.” — “Say Don’t Go”
  • “I'm standin' on the sidewalk alone.” — “Say Don’t Go”
Taylor Swift Halloween Lyrics From Reputation
  • “They say I did something bad, then why's it feel so good?” — “I Did Something Bad”
  • “They’re burning all the witches, even if you aren't one. So light me up.” — “I Did Something Bad”
  • “Honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time.” — “Look What You Made Me Do”
  • “I got a list of names, and yours is in red, underlined.” — “Look What You Made Me Do”
  • “I’ll be the actress starring in your bad dreams.” — “Look What You Made Me Do”
  • “I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead!” — “Look What You Made Me Do”
  • “But if he’s a ghost, then I can be a phantom.” — “...Ready For It?”
  • “Well he was running after us, I was screaming, ‘Go, go, go!’” — “Getaway Car”
  • “Knew he was a killer first time that I saw him.” — “...Ready For It?”
Taylor Swift Halloween Lyrics From Lover
  • “Killing me slow, out the window.” — “Cruel Summer”
  • “Devils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes.” — “Cruel Summer”
  • “What doesn’t kill me makes me want you more.” — “Cruel Summer”
  • “I'm always waiting for you just to cut to the bone.” — “Cruel Summer”
  • “Dark side, I search for your dark side.” — “The Archer”
  • “I wake in the night, I pace like a ghost.” — “The Archer”
  • “Now I wake up in the night and watch you breathe.” — “Paper Rings”
  • “Not the things that haunt me in the middle of the night.” — “Daylight”
Taylor Swift Halloween Lyrics From Folklore
  • “If I'm on fire, you'll be made of ashes too.” — “My Tears Ricochet”
  • “If I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?” — “My Tears Ricochet”
  • “You know I didn't want to have to haunt you, but what a ghostly scene.” — “My Tears Ricochet”
  • “You wear the same jewels that I gave you as you bury me.” — “My Tears Ricochet”
  • “You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same.” — “My Tears Ricochet”
  • “Hush, I know they said the end is near.” — “Mirrorball”
  • “I've been meaning to tell you, I think your house is haunted.” — “Seven”
  • “Could've followed my fears all the way down.” — “This Is Me Trying”
  • “My words shoot to kill when I'm mad.” — “This Is Me Trying”
  • “Cold was the steel of my axe to grind.” — “Invisible String”
  • “No other sadness in the world would do.” — “Hoax”
  • “I am ash from your fire.” — “Hoax”
  • “You knew it still hurts underneath my scars.” — “Hoax”
  • “And women like hunting witches, too.” — “Mad Woman”
  • “You drew stars around my scars, but now I’m bleeding.” — “Cardigan”
Taylor Swift Halloween Lyrics From Evermore
  • “I don't like that falling feels like flying 'til the bone crush.” — “Gold Rush”
  • “No body, no crime.” — “No Body, No Crime”
  • “I’ve cleaned enough houses to know how to cover up a scene.” — “No Body, No Crime”
  • “I wasn’t lettin' up until the day he died.” — “No Body, No Crime”
  • “Now he sits on his throne in his palace of bones.” — “It’s Time To Go”
  • “Past the blood and bruise, past the curses and cries.” — “Happiness”

Taylor Swift Halloween Lyrics From Midnights

  • “When my depression works the graveyard shift, all of the peopleI've ghosted stand there in the room.” – “Anti-Hero”
  • “I'm only cryptic and Machiavellian 'cause I care.” – “Mastermind”
  • “I wanna brainwash you into loving me forever.” – “Paris”
  • “And I'm not even sorry, nights are so starry, blood moonlit.” – “Glitch”
  • “All of me changed like midnight.” – “Midnight Rain.”
  • “Got swept away in the grey.” – “Question...?”
  • “You did some bad things, but I'm the worst of them.” – “Vigilante Shi*t”
  • “They say looks can kill and I might try.” – “Vigilante Sh*t”
  • “I don't start shit, but I can tell you how it ends.” – “Vigilante Sh*t”
  • “Lately I've been dressin' for revenge.” – “Vigilante Sh*t”
  • “Draw the cat eye, sharp enough to kill a man.” – Vigilante Sh*t
  • “And I don't dress for villains or for innocents. On my vigilante sh*t again.” – Vigilante Sh*t
  • “'Cause karma is the thunder, rattling your ground” – “Karma”
  • “What if I told you I'm a mastermind?” – “Mastermind”
  • “And now that I'm grown, I'm scared of ghosts, memories feel like weapons.” – “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve”
  • “If clarity's in death, then why won't this die?” – “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve”
  • “Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts.” – “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve”
  • “Dear reader, if it feels like a trap, you're already in one.” – “Dear Reader”
Other Taylor Swift Halloween Lyrics
  • “I remember you said don't leave me here alone, but all that's dead and gone and passed tonight.” — “Safe & Sound”
  • “Just close your eyes, the sun is going down.” — “Safe & Sound”
  • “Don't you dare look out your window, darling, everything's on fire.” — “Safe & Sound”
  • “Follow me home if you dare to.” — “Beautiful Ghosts”
  • “Too young to wander London streets alone and haunted.” — “Beautiful Ghosts”
  • “At least you have beautiful ghosts.” — “Beautiful Ghosts”
  • “Perilous night, their voices calling.” — “Beautiful Ghosts”
  • “I feel so alive with these phantoms of night.” — “Beautiful Ghosts”
  • “I'll dance with these beautiful ghosts.” — “Beautiful Ghosts”
  • “You’re screaming inside and frozen in time.” — “Only The Young”
  • “Keep your aim locked, the night goes dark.” — “Eyes Open”
  • “Keep your eyes open.” — “Eyes Open”

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