When I first began compiling this list of horny Taylor Swift lyrics three years ago, the very concept of a “horny Taylor Swift lyric” was, to many a less discerning listener, something of an oddity. Sure, we all knew about “Dress,” the infamously steamy track from 2017’s Reputation that somehow shocked the world with the implication that Taylor, a then-27-year-old woman, both has sex and drinks wine (in the bathtub!). But otherwise, Taylor’s music has never really carried the overtly sexual connotation that fellow pop stars like Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter have embraced.

Of course, that all changed at midnight on October 3, 2025, when the superstar’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, dropped a deluge of sexually charged lyrics upon us—including, most notably, the (not particularly subtle) innuendo-laden “Wood,” which is about exactly what you think it is.

While we love to see Taylor fully embracing her horniest era yet, I, the world’s foremost scholar on Taylor Swift Horn, am here to remind you that this is far from the first time the star has dabbled in some sexy songwriting. If you listen closely, the extensive TS discography is a treasure trove of sexual suggestiveness—dating back to much earlier in her career than you may think!

For your edification, I have graciously compiled all of Taylor’s sexiest lyrics—starting, of course, with the latest from The Life of a Showgirl and going all the way back to day one (and yes, I do mean Debut). And for your entertainment, I have also provided my own expert commentary. You’re welcome.

The Life of a Showgirl (2025)

  • “Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes / Don’t care where the hell you've been (Been) ’cause now (Now), you’re mine / It’s ’bout to be the sleepless night you've been dreaming of.” —The Fate of Ophelia As you’ll see throughout this list, pretty much any time Taylor’s talking about hands, things are going to get horny.
  • “I can make deals with the devil because my dick’s bigger.” —Father Figure This one is less literally horny than the many, many penis references ahead (see, “Wood”) in that the dick here is more of a phallic symbol of power. But is it still kind of hot to hear Taylor talking about her dick? Yes.
  • “Stop talking dirty to me / It sounded nasty, but it / Feels like you’re flirting with me / I mind my business, God's my witness that I don't provoke it / It’s kind of making me wet (Oh)” —Actually Romantic I’ll be honest, I never thought I’d hear Taylor say she’s wet. But here we are!
  • “Forgive me, it sounds cocky / He (ah!)-matized me and opened my еyes / Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see / His love was thе key that opened my thighs” —Wood Seeing as this entire song is one big Sabrina Carpenter-esque innuendo, I don’t really think I need to weigh in here.
  • “The curse on me was broken by your magic wand” —Wood Again, no comment.
  • “New Heights (New Heights) of manhood (Manhood) / I ain't gotta knock on wood” —Wood I’m sorry, I can’t. Don’t hate me.
  • “You could be my forever night stand” —Honey This is more romantic-horny than horny-horny, but I’m into it.

The Tortured Poets Department (2024)

  • “What if he’s written ‘mine’ on my upper thigh only in my mind? / One slip and fallin’ back into the hedge maze / Oh, what a way to die / I keep recalling things we never did / Messy top-lip kiss, how I long for our trysts / Without ever touchin’ his skin / How can I be guilty as sin?” —Guilty as Sin This may be controversial, but even in the age of Life of a Showgirl, I maintain that this remains Taylor’s most erotic song of all time.
  • These fatal fantasies / Giving way to labored breath, takin’ all of me / We've already done it in my head —Guilty as Sin I mean, come on.
  • “Brand new, full throttle / Touch me while your bros play Grand Theft Auto” —So High School I say this with love, but pre-“New Heights of manhood,” this was probably my least favorite Taylor Swift lyric of all time and I wish I could go back in time and stop her from writing it. Still, I am a professional first and foremost and I would be remiss to exclude it from this list, so here you go.
  • “I'm watchin’ American Pie with you on a Saturday night / Your friends are around, so be quiet / I’m tryin’ to stifle my sighs” —So High School This is marginally less offensive than “touch me while your bros play Grand Theft Auto,” but I’m afraid I still don’t love it.

Midnights (2022)

  • “I feel the lavender haze creeping up on me.” —Lavender Haze According to Taylor, the “lavender haze” in question is that “all-encompassing love glow.” Is an all-encompassing love glow necessarily the same as an all-encompassing sex glow? Maybe not, but Taylor’s breathy tone (tell me it’s not giving “Dress”) certainly seems to suggest a lavender haze and a post-coital daze have a few things in common.
  • “‘How’d we end up on the floor, anyway?’” you say. Your roommate’s cheap-ass screw-top rosé, that’s how.” —Maroon Sure, maybe they just passed out on the floor, but considering this song is literally the horniest on the entire album, one might assume with some confidence that a little something else probably happened on that floor first.
  • “The mark they saw on my collarbone.”—Maroon ’Twas a hickey! Taylor Swift gets hickeys!
  • “I'm so in love that I might stop breathing. Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling.”—Paris So Taylor was obvs doing a lot of post-coital bedroom ceiling staring on this album.
  • “Privacy sign on the door and on my page and on the whole world.”—Paris Do. Not. Disturb.
  • “Do you really wanna know where I was April 29th? Do I really have to tell you how he brought me back to life?” —High Infidelity We may never know for sure where Taylor was on April 29th, but something clearly happened!

Evermore (2020)

  • “I see me padding across your wooden floors / With my Eagles T-shirt hanging from the door.” —Gold Rush The implication of nudity and fantasizing about spending the night with an unattainable lover. She gets it!
  • “I don’t like anticipating my face in a red flush / I don’t like that anyone would die to feel your touch / Everybody wants you / Everybody wonders what it would be like to love you.” —Gold Rush Flushed faces! Dying to feel someone’s touch! Fantasizing about other people’s fantasies! Peak yearning.

Folklore (2020)

  • “Salt air and the rust on your door / I never needed anything more / Whispers of, ‘Are you sure?’ / ‘Never have I ever before.’” —August Literally no one needs me to explain that “August” is a soul-crushing ode to a very specific brand of desire, i.e., first-time-sex desire.
  • “And I can see us twisted in bedsheets / August sipped away like a bottle of wine.” —August I mean, yeah.
  • “Tell your friends you’re out for a run / You’ll be flushed when you return.” —Illicit Affairs Meanwhile, we all know where that rosy glow actually came from.

Lover (2019)

  • “I think he knows his hands around / A cold glass / Make me wanna know that body / Like it’s mine.” —I Think He Knows You may not like it, but this is what peak Taylor Swift horn looks like. No further questions.
  • “Wanna see what’s under that attitude.” —I Think He Knows What might this man be packing under that attitude? I think we know!
  • “My heart, my hips, my body, my love / Trying to find a part of me that you didn’t touch.” —Death by a Thousand Cuts Hands! Hands everywhere!
  • “What doesn’t kill me makes me want you more / And it’s new, the shape of your body.” —Cruel Summer It may be new, but somehow you get the sense that TS has already gotten to know the shape of this body pretty intimately.
  • “The altar is my hips. Even if it’s a false god.”— False God This entire song is arguably the sexiest on this whole album.

Reputation (2017)

  • “Only bought this dress so you could take it off.” —Dress Pre-The Life of a Showgirl, “Dress” was well-known for being the single steamiest song in the entire Taylor Swift discography and this line remains iconic.
  • “Carve your name into my bedpost / ’Cause I don’t want you like a best friend.” —Dress I would argue that this is actually the horniest “Dress” lyric, and the whole “carve your name into my bedpost” thing also packs some pretty sultry Wuthering Heights vibes, FWIW.
  • “My name is whatever you decide.” —Don’t Blame Me T-Swift was really leaning into the eroticism of possession on this album, and honestly, I’m here for it.
  • “I want to wear his initial / On a chain round my neck.” —Call It What You Want Speaking of the eroticism of possession….
  • “I get so high, oh / Every time you’re, every time you’re lovin’ me / Trip of my life, oh / Every time you’re, every time you’re touchin’ me.” —Don’t Blame Me I mean, enough said.
  • “Long night with your hands up in my hair / Echoes of your footsteps on the stairs / Stay here, honey, I don’t want to share.” —Delicate As we’ll see, pretty much any time anyone’s hands are in anyone’s hair, that’s a sure sign of TS horn.
  • “And you move to me like I’m a Motown beat / And we rule the kingdom inside my room.” —King of My Heart Seems safe to assume that ruling the kingdom inside Taylor Swift’s room probably involves some pretty skilled sexing.
  • “Toyin’ with them older guys / Just playthings for me to use.” —Don’t Blame Me Nothing to see here, just Taylor Swift unapologetically having her way with older men and flaunting it (as she should).
  • “In the middle of the night, in my dreams / You should see the things we do, baby.” —…Ready for It? Hmm, I wonder what things they might be doing.…Can’t begin to imagine!

1989 (2014)

  • “I got that good girl faith and a tight little skirt.” —Style Taylor is hyping up her own girl-next-door-fantasy vibe and I cannot be mad at it.
  • “You’re still all over me / Like a wine-stained dress I can’t wear anymore.” —Clean This line isn’t about sex, per se (it’s about not being able to get over someone after a breakup), but the language is certainly very physical in a way that just feels pretty suggestive.
  • “He’s so bad, but he does it so well.” —Wildest Dreams Ahem, does what so well, Taylor? I think we know!
  • “​​I said, ‘No one has to know what we do’ / His hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my room.” —Wildest Dreams More hair, more hands, now with the implication of nudity!
  • “You’ll see me in hindsight / Tangled up with you all night / Burning it down.” —Wildest Dreams I mean, yes.
  • “You dream of my mouth before it called you a lying traitor / You search in every maiden's bed for somethin' greater” —Is It Over Now? This line is both sexy and cutting in the best way.
  • “Was it over when she laid down on your couch? / Was it over when he unbuttoned my blouse?” —Is It Over Now? Again, both devastating and suggestive!
  • “At least I had the decency / To keep my nights out of sight / Only rumors 'bout my hips and thighs / And my whispered sighs” —Is It Over Now? Literally every line more cutting than the last.
  • “Got love-struck, went straight to my head / Got lovesick all over my bed” —Slut! For a song called “Slut!”, this one is both predictably erotic and unexpectedly romantic.
  • “Half asleep / Takin’ your time in the tangerine / Neon light, this is luxury” —Slut! Taylor’s breaking out the erotic symbolism here, but, interpret this as you will.

Red (2012)

  • “After plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your own.” —All Too Well I mean, “nights when you made me your own”? That’s sex. She’s talking about sex.
  • “We are alone, just you and me / Up in your room and our slates are clean / Just twin fire signs, four blue eyes.” —State of Grace Up in your room, alone. Enough said.
  • “And I’ll do anything you say / If you say it with your hands.” —Treacherous The way this is maybe one of the horniest lyrics ever written and everyone kind of just ignored it?
  • “Put your lips close to mine / As long as they don’t touch.” —Treacherous Taylor Swift invented erotic anticipation, okay?

Speak Now (2010)

  • “Get me with those green eyes, baby / As the lights go down / Give me something that’ll haunt me when you’re not around.” —Sparks Fly Definitive proof that Taylor Swift has always been in tune with her horny side. (Rumor has it she actually wrote “Sparks Fly” even before putting out her iconically wholesome debut album, Taylor Swift.)
  • “And you stood there in front of me / Just close enough to touch / Close enough to hope you couldn’t see / What I was thinking of.” —Sparks Fly Oh, wow, hmm. What could she have possibly been thinking of?
  • “You touch me once and it’s really something / You find I’m even better than you imagined I would be.” —Sparks Fly This is basically Taylor’s “God Is a Woman.”
  • “I run my fingers through your hair / And watch the lights go wild / Just keep on keeping your eyes on me. / It’s just wrong enough to make it feel right.” —Sparks Fly What did I tell you about hands in the hair?
  • “But what would you do if I went to touch you now? / What would you do if they never found us out? / What would you do if we never made a sound?” —I Can See You If ever there was proof that Taylor Swift has been capable of sexy songwriting from the earliest days of her career, that proof came with this shockingly sultry Speak Now Vault Track.
  • “Cause I can see you waitin' down the hall from me / And I could see you up against the wall with me / And what would you do? Baby, if you only knew / That I can see you” —I Can See You See?

Fearless (2008)

  • “Run your hands through your hair / Absentmindedly making me want you.” —Fearless The hands in the hair thing? Yeah, it all started here.
  • “Untouchable, burning brighter than the sun / And when you’re close, I feel like coming undone.” —Untouchable A bonus track on the deluxe edition of Fearless, “Untouchable” isn’t so much horny as it is, like, erotically intimate. To be fair, it’s a cover, so I can’t fully credit Taylor on this one. Still, it’s a very mature song, in a way that definitely makes it feel like a bit of an outlier from the rest of Taylor’s relatively chaste sophomore album—a preview of the sexy songwriting TS was getting ready to explore down the line.
  • “In the middle of the night, we can form this dream / I wanna feel you by my side.” —Untouchable See what I mean? This song is basically one big sex dream.

Taylor Swift (2006)

Okay, so Taylor Swift’s self-titled debut album is obviously not, like, erotic by any stretch of the imagination—with one notable exception, that is:

  • “Just a boy in a Chevy truck / That had a tendency of gettin’ stuck / On back roads at night.” —Tim McGraw Like all great art, this line is open to interpretation. Sure, maybe he’s just a hapless country boy whose truck keeps breaking down, but getting stuck on a back road at night certainly seems like a convenient cover story for hooking up in a guy’s truck. Interpret this how you will, but I think we all know what was really going down in that Chevy.