Lyrics Actually Romantic - Track by Track - Taylor Swift

"Actually Romantic" is a song about
Realizing that someone else has kind of had
A one-sided adversarial relationship with you
That you didn't know about
And all of a sudden they start, like, doing too much
And they start letting you know that actually you've been
Living in their head rent-free and you had no idea
And it's presenting itself as them

Sort of resenting you or having a problem with you
But, um, taking that and um, you just accepting it as love
And you accepting it as attention and affection
And how flattering that somebody
Has made you such a big part of their reality
When you didn't even think about this
It's actually pretty romantic
If you, if you really, really think about it