Here, Taylor Swift uses a Bonnie and Clyde-esqe image of two criminals attempting to flee cops in a getaway car to illustrate a doomed relationship. I'm in a getaway car I left you in a motel bar Put the money in a bag and I stole the keys That was the last time you ever saw me The metaphors pile up as Taylor sings about driving the getaway car away from a lover in order to escape their relationship.

Vehicles in Taylor Swift songs often have an enormous amount a huge significance. Later on in Reputation, for instance, on the track "King of My Heart," she throws some shade at her exes with the line "all the boys with their expensive cars". Also, in the video for the album's lead single "Look What You Made Me Do," we see the songstress crash a sports car.

There are several clues that the subject of the song is Tom Hiddleston, with whom Taylor hooked up with immediately after breaking up with Calvin Harris. The couple went public about their romance with a seaside make-out session on June 15, 2016. The ties were black, the lies were white Taylor met and danced with Hiddleston at the 2016, black-tie Met Gala when she was still dating Harris. I wanted to leave him I needed a reason It could be Taylor is referencing her desire to end her long-term relationship with Harris. The songstress needed an excuse as she was having a hard time shedding him on her own.