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Below, find the remix lyrics, including Swift's brand-new verse, as well as Sheeran's original lyrics. Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift attends The 58th GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on Feb. 15, 2016 in Los Angeles. Kevin Mazur/WireImage Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift are together again, this time for a remix of his = (Equals) track “The Joker and the Queen” — and this time around, there’s a whole new verse, courtesy of Swift. Swift takes over the second verse on the remix, replacing Sheeran’s original lyrics with the female perspective of the love song. She, too, goes all in on the analogy of love as a card game, singing, “I’ve been played before if you hadn’t guessed/ So I kept my cards close to my foolproof vest/ But you called my bluff and saw through all my tells/ And then you went all in and we left together.” Below, find the remix lyrics, including Swift’s brand-new verse, as well as Sheeran’s original lyrics. “The Joker and the Queen” (featuring Taylor Swift) remix lyrics (new lyrics in bold) How was I to know? And I know you could fall for a thousand kings I’ve been played before And I know that you think
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See latest videos, charts and news And I know you could fall for a thousand kings Written by: Ed Sheeran, Fred Gibson, Johnny McDaid, Samuel Elliot Roman, Taylor Swift “The Joker and the Queen” original lyrics How was I to know? And I know you could fall for a thousand kings I was upside down And I know you could fall for a thousand kings And I know you could fall for a thousand kings Lyrics licensed & provided by LyricFind Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC Written by: Ed Sheeran, Fred Gibson, Johnny McDaid, Samuel Elliot Roman
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