Taylor Swift’s new song ‘Wood’ about Travis Kelce’s ‘manhood’ features her raciest lyrics yet — but she says it started in an ‘innocent place’

Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl explores many themes, from the pitfalls of fame to dealing with a frenemy — but one track off the orange-coded new work may be her most risque song yet. Titled “Wood,” the song is all about Swift’s romance with a man whom she loves and adores — and, um, not just for his mind.

The upbeat pop tune starts off with Swift singing about all the ways she’s wished for love in the past — on falling stars, picking daisies until they’re “bare naked” and, of course, by knocking on wood. She even references a lover she took back, until she “stepped on a crack” and a “black cat laughed” — a nod to superstitions about bad luck. But with her current paramour, they’re forever “dancing in the dark,” where it’s “all good.” As Swift sings in the chorus, she no longer has to “knock on wood.”

Romantic, right? The sexy part comes next. “Forgive me, it sounds cocky / He (ah!)matized me / And opened my eyes / Redwood tree / It ain’t hard to see / His love was the key / That opened my thighs,” Swift sings on the track.

And it gets raunchier, with “Girls, I don’t need to catch the bouquet / To know a hard rock is on the way / And baby, l admit I’ve been a little superstitious / The curse on me was broken by your magic wand.”

In case there was any doubt as to who this song was about, Swift then goes on to declare that her lover is reaching “New heights of manhood” — which we can safely assume is a nod to her now fiancé, Travis Kelce. Kelce and his brother Jason cohost a podcast called “New Heights,” where Swift announced her new album on Aug. 12.

Swift spoke about the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, telling the host that she brought the track into the studio with producers Max Martin and Shellback in hopes that they could create a “timeless” sounding song.

“I had this idea about having to ‘knock on wood,’ and all these superstitions,” she recalled. “And it really started out in a really innocent place. You know, it started out — I don’t know what happened, man. I got in there, and we started vibing, and I don’t know how we got here but…I love the song so much.”

Swift also spoke about her mom Andrea Swift’s reaction to the eyebrow-raising track in an Oct. 6 episode of SiriusXM’s Morning Mash Up. “She thinks that the song is about superstitions, which it absolutely is,” the singer explained. “That’s the joy of the double entendre. You can read that song for people, and it just goes right over their heads.”

Kelce, for his part, has been enormously supportive of the album on the New Heights podcast. In addition to helping Swift reveal the new album, he gushed over Showgirl in an Aug. 27 episode, which came one day after the couple announced their engagement via an Aug. 26 Instagram post that was captioned “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”

“I keep listening to this album,” the Kansas City Chiefs player told his brother, joking that he knew he was “poking the bear” with Swifties eager to hear the new songs. “I know she mentioned that it’s gonna be a lot more pop beats, but it’s just still so poetic in her melodies and her references and stuff.”

While “Wood” may reference the New Heights podcast, Kelce said his favorite song — at least of that moment — was actually “Opalite.”