 The song describes fancying someone who is already interested in someone else and, therefore, maintaining the sentiments a secret.To him, Swift acted as though she was happy about his relationship, while crying and lamenting at home.Dave Heaton of PopMatters interpreted the lines "And there she goes, so perfectly / The kind of flawless I wish I could be" to address Swift's ideal of perfection and her attempting to meet it, but not succeeding, a predominant theme on "Fearless".