Taylor Swift - Mastermind
Time: 2:23
And I swear
I'm only cryptic and Machiavellian 'cause I care
So I told you none of it was accidental?

mysterious; of an obscure nature
Heard in 61 songs (71M+ combined views) — most famously in "Mastermind" by Taylor Swift.
Updated August 4, 2026
Time: 2:23
And I swear
I'm only cryptic and Machiavellian 'cause I care
So I told you none of it was accidental?

Time: 1:06
♪
I know I'm cryptic and I'm weird, that shit comes off as indifferent
I don't wanna die so young

Time: 3:23
Give me more than exotic butters
Some cryptic lines will be fine
Keep your innards, and I'll keep mine

Time: 2:03
♪
Do one thing and say something cryptic
But the styles always clash

Time: 1:28
Watch as flowers decay
On the cryptic life that died
The wisdom of the wizards

Time: 1:22
Kings of death calling
Frigid breath falling in the cryptic den
Curse the dark with a longing heart and song

Time: 0:29
The germination
Unveiling a cryptic door
There it was revealed

Time: 3:16
Spit drips from the jaw of the witless witness
Cryptic colloquialisms shift your mid rift
Dog-paddle through a bog of shadows and smog

Time: 2:36
By the poop or by the kick
He's sickly cryptic
Spitting the code

Time: 2:33
I've seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use the man
Cryptic writing on the wall, the beginning of the end
I've seen myself use the needle, seen the needle in my hand

Time: 0:50
Not artistic, unrealistic, chauvinistic, not those things
Go the distance, so prolific, posts are cryptic, move swiftly
Unsubmissive, the king of mischief

Time: 2:40
A shelf forgotten with its memories
Diaries left with cryptic entries
And you don't need to bother

Time: 1:51
But it's time to let the rhetoric go up in flames
Assault with your cryptic words
Uncensored ramblings to a braindead herd

Time: 0:59
Basquiat mixed with Monet when that herron in me
Self-critic that's speaking in cryptic, defying the laws of physics
Let me be specific, sadistic, Mr. Pessimistic

Time: 0:56
Lotta hotel rooms that you checked in (yeah)
Lot of cryptic shit second guessing
Lotta "I was gonna tell you, but didn't want to hurt you, babe"

Time: 0:28
I'm feeling older than my 35 years
One more cryptic message
Thinking that I might end it

Time: 2:24
You came upon me like a hypnic jerk when I was just about settled
And when it counts you recoil with a cryptic word and leave a love belittled
Oh, what a cold and common old way to go

Time: 2:13
Demons
All these words with cryptic meanings
Separate seasons

Time: 1:23
Endless, deathless
A cryptic inner fear
What's left, the wretched

Time: 2:38
Oh, we don't need any diamonds or gold
Watch the mystic and cryptic unfold
As we fly high
![Adam Lambert - Nirvana [Bonus Track]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/eNIcX-iHQxQ/maxresdefault.jpg)
Time: 0:31
Sheddin' bands form of linguistic
Subliminal exit lurk in cryptic
Black google search it won't find shit

Time: 1:09
That gets me, gets me, gets me high
You think I'm cryptic, a touch sadistic
But baby, that's how you made me

Time: 3:44
Something's moving but it's out of sight
Cryptic symbols in an indian cave
A hitchhiker take you to your grave

Time: 1:36
As if I'm not already blazed enough
She hits me with the cryptic stuff
That's her style, to jerk me around

Time: 1:46
On ring roads, nose to bumper crawl commuters in their cages
Cryptic signals flash across from pilots in the fast lane
Double-locked and belted in

Time: 0:24
Oh, I, I missed it, I missed the red flags
The signs, so cryptic, too much to unpack
It's fine, I fixed it, I only look back sometimes

Time: 1:37
In a hotel chamber
On a cryptic note
'Cause where there's fire

Time: 3:47
Eschatological unpleasantness
Always forever cryptic
Exercisers of twisted grief

Time: 0:11
Cast down all memories from a past and future world
The cynic icons and the cryptic writings
As a picturesque creation in force and spirit
![Dimmu Borgir - The Maelstrom Mephisto [Remixed & Remastered]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0k7ggeZhDxM/maxresdefault.jpg)
Time: 0:55
The lonely deceased
Cryptic, sewn-mouthed their secrets
Shameful their silence

Time: 0:00
Gazing at the horizon, lost in a cryptic majesty
Gazing at the horizon, so long

Time: 0:24
Blew away with the wind
On a cryptic journey
Onto the other side.

Time: 0:17
♪
Cryptic messages, face card ain't good at all
They don't like him 'round the hood at all, he ain't understood at all

Time: 3:36
♪
Trapped in dimensions of cryptic grey space
Phantoms of dying worlds

Time: 0:30
Splash of red we've seen before
Cryptic message on the ground
Stare straight up before looking down

Time: 0:44
Once again these bitter herbs
The perfect compliment to all your cryptic words
I nod but don't know what to say

Time: 2:38
The sounds you hear aren't coming out right
You think it might be mystic, you think I might be cryptic
The crystal in your china case is breaking in a million tiny pieces

Time: 2:03
And a sign on the wall saying, "Hope Allowed"
All the cryptic symbols carved on bone
A far cry from a tattooed rose

Time: 2:18
voices cry now echo carries
angels dance with the cryptic fairies
gates of afterlife open swiftly

Time: 0:13
Live this, every night grinding we like wiz kids
Sickness, all in my line and it's quite cryptic
Rap patterns that battered 'em like hammers

Time: 0:31
But I've been losing my mind
The cryptic thoughts of a criminal
All from a girl that's not mine

Time: 1:56
Trapped within this nightmare
Exiled into the cryptic realms
♪

Time: 0:43
I'd tell you what I want
But I keep it kind of cryptic
I'm a zoetrope cyber on the tip of a trip

Time: 1:13
You little cold sore I spray the cloroseptic
Relentless aura cryptic black hoody discus
Ellsworth Bump and the Dutch man back to business

Time: 1:47
♪
Am I being too cryptic? Am I being too obscure?
Am I being too cryptic? Am I being too obscure?

Time: 1:03
Heartbreak is hard, but loving is tougher
When cryptic people mirror each other
I don't care what they say, I don't care what they do

Time: 1:20
Realising there's no truth will set you free
As in the cryptic work of JMB
♪

Time: 0:38
Witch-doctor with the herbal remedy;
Cryptic a simile,
More cheese more sleaze;

Time: 0:29
Imagine me throwing a fit
I can't because you're being cryptic
And I can't really work like

Time: 3:31
Find the witches, dine the wicked, tryin' to get it in
If rhymin' is this kinda cryptic slime to dismiss, I'm acidic
Bismillah, in a minute wallah you'll be in darkened days

Time: 2:13
Take from this deluge of memes
The cryptic, dark Bible quotes
Guns and dead fetuses

Time: 2:14
I take out the trash and all its letters
I put a cryptic message on the door
Before I go

Time: 0:45
I woke up this morning with the Copa on my mind
Those days of cryptic signals, I was sad to leave behind
A scarf tied to a shutter, no one else would look to find

Time: 0:36
The street that I walk welcomes my feet
With cryptic graffiti greetings to read
The smile on my mouth, it came dirt cheap

Time: 0:37
I drink with heathens and our, our finest blasphemies
(As we break the cryptic morning, as we broke the cryptic morning)
In wine there's truth, but in silence there's surrender

Time: 0:15
A weekend in Utah won't fix what's wrong with us
The gray sky was vast and real cryptic above me
I wanted you

Time: 2:54
I was honest when I told you
We're as cryptic as the moon

Time: 1:34
Silhouette and shadows
Ancient scenes and cryptic dreams
Silhouette and shadows

Time: 0:42
In the middle of the night
Paranoid by cryptic dreams
That left me so uptight

Time: 1:36
It's not your fault, it's not your fault
Cryptic message written in the dark
All that haunts me is surely closure

Time: 0:26
In the middle of the night
Do the cryptic voices ever sleep?
Had a mind of your own, gave it all away
