Taylor Swift, Wood | Midnight Heat

In the 90^th edition of Midnight Heat (2025), we explore the naughty, sexy vibes behind “Wood” by Grammy-winning pop singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. 

Ah, bring on Midnight Heat! Wait – it is not usually hot at midnight! Well, it is steaming hot 🥵 at midnight when it comes to this naughty, innuendo-laden, and sex-laden column featuring songs intended for nighttime. These risqué, unapologetic records often raise eyebrows and temperature alike. In the 90^th edition of Midnight Heat (2025), we explore the naughty, sexy vibes behind “Wood” by Taylor Swift.

😳 😳 😳 D-d-damn, Taylor Swift.  Those lyrics, which hail from the post-chorus of “Wood”, are filled with sexual innuendo – an understatement. “Wood” is the risqué ninth track from the Grammy-winning pop star’s polarizing 12^th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl.  In the four excerpted lines, Swift seems to reference her fiancé’s (Kansas City Chiefs tight end, Travis Kelce) penis 🍆, four times… Cocky, ah-matized (aka dickmatized), Redwood tree, and the key that opened my thighs. I’m not sure why she censored the word dick by saying ah-matized as earlier on TLOAS, she references the D in the chorus of the catchy but surprising “Father Figure” (“I’ll be your father figure, I drink that brown liquor / I can make deals with the devil because my dick’s bigger”). Anyway, did any of us expect to hear this from TS? She penned and produced “Wood” with Swedish hitmakers Max Martin (b. 1971) and Shellback (Karl Johan Schuster, b.1985).

The post-chorus is striking, given how sexual it is.  Taylor Swift, who is beautiful, hasn’t been associated with sexual lyrics or songs.  “Wood” isn’t all sexual, either.  In the first verse, Swift references things related to superstition, including the penny, stepping on a crack, and the black cat.  In the pre-chorus and chorus, Swift mentions wood in a superstitious context, singing such lines as, “A bad sign is all good, I ain’t gotta knock on wood.” In the chorus, she memorably sings:

“(Ah) All of that bitchin’, wishing on a falling star

Never did me any good, I ain’t got to knock on wood

(Ah) It’s you and me forever dancing in the dark

All over me, it’s understood, I ain’t got to knock on wood.”

While the excerpted lyrics show that “Wood” has more substance than manhood size, Swift doesn’t refrain from other instances where the D is key.  “The curse on me was broken by your magic wand,” Swift sings in the pre-chorus.  Magic wand, eh? Double entendre! How about those “New Heights of manhood?” Yes, New Heights is a podcast by the Kelce brothers, but the length is inescapable.  “Wood” is something else.  It clearly has Swift enticed… The lyrics are most ear-catching, but, overall, this brief pop record is groovy, memorable, and tuneful.

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