Taylor Swift Tells Herself ‘I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)’ In Another Nod To Matty Healy
To hear Taylor Swift tell it, she gave her relationship with 1975 singer Matty Healy her all. However short-lived the romance might have ultimately turned out, Swift nevertheless seems to have dedicated numerous songs off her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, to Healy, and the track “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” is perhaps the most zealous acknowledgment of her own self-delusion in doing so.
The song, seemingly directed as much at Swift herself as her rakish ex, contains clear references to signature qualities of Healy’s: The “smoke cloud billow[ing] out of his mouth” seems a nod at his cigarette habit; his “revolting jokes,” an acknowledgment of his controversial humor; a ubiquitous “they” “shak[ing] their heads,” a reference to fans criticizing the relationship; and “calloused hands” on a “six-lane” highway, a potential metaphor for Healy’s six-string guitar skills. Throughout the song, Swift works to convince her audience and herself that she can “fix” this “dangerous man,” revealing the “halo of the highest grade” that only she can uncover hiding within him. (This, it bears mentioning, is theoretically the same man she refers to elsewhere in TPD as a “tattooed golden retriever.”)
Swift isn’t one to often admit she’s wrong. But by the end of “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can),” she seems to realize the scope of the lie she’s told herself. “Woah, maybe I can’t,” she sings, reluctantly but definitively, as the track stops. Her relationship with Healy in 2023 might have only lasted a few weeks, as far as the public knows, but it’s clear its emotional repercussions went well beyond that of a casual fling.
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“Gazing at me, starry-eyed / In your Jehovah’s Witness suit,” seems like quite the hint.
Read the full lyrics to “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” below:
The smoke cloud billows out his mouth
Like a freight train through a small town
The jokes that he told across the bar
Were revolting and far too loud
They shake their heads sayin’, “God, help her”
When I tell ’em he’s my man
But your good Lord doesn’t need to lift a finger
I can fix him, no, really, I can
And only I can
The dopamine races through his brain
On a six-lane Texas highway
His hands so calloused from his pistol
Softly traces hearts on my face
And I could see it from a mile away
A perfect case for my certain skill set
He had a halo of the highest gradе
He just hadn’t met me yеt
They shake their heads sayin’, “God, help her”
When I tell ’em he’s my man
But your good Lord doesn’t need to lift a finger
I can fix him, no, really, I can
And only I can
Good boy, that’s right, come close
I’ll show you Heaven if you’ll be an angel, all mine
Trust me, I can handle me a dangerous man
No really, I can
They shook their heads sayin’, “God, help her”
When I told ’em he’s my man (I told ’em he’s my man)
But your good Lord didn’t need to lift a finger
I can fix him, no, really, I can (No, really, I can)
Woah, maybe I can’t
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