Taylor Swift’s First Draft of ‘My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys’ Has a Heartbreaking Lyric Left Out of Final Version

Taylor Swift continues to let people into her creative process.

The 14-time Grammy winner, 34, announced on her Instagram Stories on Saturday, Aug. 3, that she is selling “First Draft Phone Memo” versions of some songs from Department for tortured poets for a limited time.

Swifties have already noted that the line from an early version of “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys” is even more heartbreaking than the words that made it into the final version of the song, which was released on April 19.

In the closing version of the album, Swift sings, “Just tell me when, I’d play again / He was my best friend down on the sand.”

But as heard on the version of the phone track, which has a slower tempo and is played acoustically on a piano, Swift originally didn’t mention the sandlot, opting instead to sing, “He was my best friend and that was the worst part.”

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When explaining the song’s meaning when her track-by-track explanation premiered on iHeartRadio in April, Swift said the song is a story told from the perspective of a child’s toy.

Swift, who wrote or co-wrote every song on TTPD, has an independent credit for this song, which she said is about “being someone’s favorite toy until they break you and then they don’t want to play with you anymore — so many of us are in relationships where we’re so valued by the person in the beginning, and then suddenly they break us or devalue us in their mind.”

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“We still stick to ‘No no, no. You should have seen them when they first saw me. Will get back to it. He’ll get back to it.’ “, she added then. “So it’s really like a song about denial. How could you live in this world where there’s still hope for a toxic broken relationship.”

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“First Draft Phone Memo” versions of “Cassandra,” “The Black Dog” and “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” they’re also available for a limited time on Swift’s site.

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