'Cause we're young and we're reckless
Taylor here blames being young and immature for her recklessness but from past context we can tell that she is a manipulative gaslighting liar, so this is purely Taylor exploiting this person for her needs and wants.
I can read you like a magazine
While manipulating this person she can read him easily comparing him to a magazine
So it's gonna be foreverOr it's gonna go down in flames
either this guy is going to be with her forever or they end up dying in a fire
Don't say I didn't say, I didn't warn ya
Gaslighting, Manipulating, Lying
But I've got a blank space, babyAnd I'll write your name
She is obsessed with getting into relationships and here she's ready to "play" again, telling this person that she can write their name down to this possible game
We'll take this way too far
Possibly they take it too far and it ends up in injury or some sort of physical pain
'Cause, darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream
Manipulative as she dresses herself as this person's dream person but is actually a nightmare behind it
racing down
continues to push those anxious moments in the poem as we see the players making the right moves
stunned and nailed to the floor in the wrong direction
use of negative words to show how tense the situation is
the way that forwards should
The basketball team are finally doing the right things as he says "the way that forwards should" this also carries on for the rest of the poem
power-forward explodes past them in a fury,
Using strong words to picture his movements for this singular moment and how significant it is
fanning out and filling the lanes in tandem, moving together as brothers passing the ball between them without a dribble
Showing that they are perfectly synced up to the point where it's almost through blood relation that they are synced up flawlessly