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Taylor Swift - Shake It Off

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Taylor Swift - Shake It Off Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: 1989
Released: 2014

Shake It Off Lyrics

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I stay up too late, got nothing in my brain
That's what people say mmm, that's what people say mm
I go on too many dates, but I can't make 'em stay
At least that's what people say mmm, that's what people say mmm

But I keep cruising, can't stop, won't stop moving
It's like I got this music in my body and it's gonna be alright

'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play
And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
I shake it off, I shake it off
Heartbreakers gonna break, break, break, break, break
And the fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake
Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
I shake it off, I shake it off

I'll never miss a beat, I'm lightning on my feet
And that's what they don't see mmm, that's what they don't see mmm
I'm dancing on my own (dancing on my own), I'll make the moves up as I go (moves up as I go)
And that's what they don't know mmm, that's what they don't know mmm

But I keep cruising, can't stop, won't stop grooving
It's like I got this music in my body saying it's gonna be alright

'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play
And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
I shake it off, I shake it off
Heartbreakers gonna break, break, break, break, break
And the fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake
Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
I shake it off, I shake it off

I, I shake it off, I shake it off
I, I shake it off, I shake it off
I, I shake it off, I shake it off
I, I shake it off, I shake it off

Hey, hey, hey, just think while you've been getting down and out about the liars and dirty, dirty cheats in the world you could have been getting down to this sick beat

My ex-man brought his new girlfriend
She's like "oh my God", but I'm just gonna shake it
And to the fella over there with the hella good hair
Won't you come on over, baby, we can shake, shake, shake

'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play
And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
I shake it off, I shake it off
Heartbreakers gonna break, break, break, break, break
And the fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake
Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
I shake it off, I shake it off

I, I shake it off, I shake it off
I, I shake it off, I shake it off
I, I shake it off, I shake it off
I, I shake it off, I shake it off
I shake it off, I shake it off
I, I shake it off, I shake it off
I, I shake it off, I shake it off
I, I shake it off, I shake it off

Writer/s: SCHUSTER, KARL JOHAN / SWIFT, TAYLOR / MARTIN, MAX
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Taylor Swift - Out Of The Woods

Taylor Swift - Out Of The Woods Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: 1989
Released: 2014

Out Of The Woods Lyrics

Looking at it now, it all seems so simple
We were lying on your couch, I remember
You took a Polaroid of us
Then discovered (then discovered)
The rest of the world was black and white
But we were in screaming color
And I remember thinking

Are we Out Of The Woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
In the clear yet, good.
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
In the clear yet, good.
Are we out of the woods?

Looking at it now, last December
We were built to fall apart, then fall back together
Your necklace hanging from my neck,
The night we couldn't quite forget
When we decided (We decided)
To move the furniture so we could dance
Baby, like we stood a chance
Two paper airplanes flying, flying, flying
And I remember thinking

Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
In the clear yet, good
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
In the clear yet, good

Are we out of the woods?

Remember when you hit the brakes too soon
Twenty stitches in a hospital room
When you started crying
Baby, I did too
But when the sun came up
I was looking at you
Remember when we couldn't take the heat
I walked out, I said, I'm setting you free
But the monsters turned out to be just trees
When the sun came up
You were looking at me

You were looking at me
Oh!
You were looking at me.
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods? (I remember)
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet? (Oh, I remember)

Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
In the clear yet, good
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
In the clear yet, good
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
In the clear yet, good
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
In the clear yet, good

Writer/s: SWIFT, TAYLOR / ANTONOFF, JACK
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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The second single from Taylor Swift's 1989 album, the song was written and produced by the singer with fun.'s Jack Antonoff. "One of the goals I set out to accomplish when I wanted to make this album is I wanted to make sure that these songs sounded exactly the way that the emotions felt when I felt them," said Swift in a video. "This song is about the fragility and kind of breakable nature of some relationships. This was a relationship where it was kind of living day-to-day, wondering where it was going, if it was gonna go anywhere, if it was gonna end the next day. It was a relationship where you never feel like you're standing on solid ground."

"And that kind of a feeling brings on excitement, but also extreme anxiety, and kind of a frantic feeling of wondering," she continued. "Endless questions. And this song sounds exactly like that frantic feeling of anxiety and questioning, but it stresses that, even if a relationship is breakable and fragile and full of anxiety, it doesn't mean that it isn't worthwhile, exciting, beautiful and all the things that we look for."

Fans have speculated the song could be about Swift's brief fling with One Direction's Harry Styles. She told Rolling Stone it's the tale of a relationship where, "every day was a struggle. Forget making plans for life – we were just trying to make it to next week."

Swift recounts in the lyric an unreported incident when she and her then-boyfriend went to the ER after getting into a snowmobile accident

Remember when you hit the brakes too soon
Twenty stitches in a hospital room

Swift told Rolling Stone that her ex lost control of the snowmobile and wrecked it so badly that she saw her life flash before her eyes. Both of them had to go to the hospital, although Swift wasn't as hurt as her boyfriend.

Swift built up a lot of anticipation for this song by talking about it at media appearances (including Good Morning America) and using her Instagram and Twitter accounts to tease it. The campaign paid off when the song shot to #1 on the iTunes chart soon after it was released at midnight on Monday, October 13, 2014.

Speaking to Billboard magazine about the track, Jack Antonoff said: "There's a frantic feeling in the song. What's interesting about 'Out Of The Woods' is that it doesn't really let up. It starts with a pretty big anthemic vocal sample that's me, and then there's a drum sample that kicks in that's kind of huge, and then you don't really know how you're going to get any bigger but then the chorus hits and it just explodes even larger. And then the bridge hits, and it gets even more huge."

The song has a strong '80s feel, which according to Antonoff, was influenced by the work of one of the decade's most popular filmmakers: "We were talking about John Hughes movies, and a lot of the music that inspired [them], and just this general culture of sound in that time period that was really larger-than-life in an anthemic, positive way," he said. "These songs could be at the end of films that were really, really beautiful and said a lot."

A further lyrical clue that Harry Styles is the subject of this song lies in the lines:

Your necklace hanging round my neck
The night we couldn't quite forge
When we decided
To move the furniture so we could dance
Two paper airplanes flying, flying

While the duo were rumored to be together, Taylor and Harry were both seen wearing identical silver necklaces each with a paper plane shaped symbol.

This was the first time that Swift wrote a song to an existing track. "I came up with that melody, the verse and chorus, in about 30 minutes and sent it back to him," Swift told USA Today. "Both of us were just freaking out."

Regarding the instrumentation, Antonoff mixed 1980s and contemporary elements, especially when it came to the synthesizers. "I used a Yamaha DX7 a lot on that song, which is so uniquely '80s, but then countered it with a super-distorted Minimoog Voyager in the chorus," he told USA Today. "That sounds extremely modern to me. It's that back-and-forth."

According to Taylor Swift, the main snare is "a combo of white noise" that Jack Antonoff got "from blowing out the EMI board, clapping his hands, and, no joke, dropping his gear bag. He mic-d that up on the floor."

When Swift introduced a stripped-down version of the song during a performance at the Grammy Museum, she discussed the uneasy relationship it was based on, saying, "The number one feeling I felt in the whole relationship was anxiety, because it felt very fragile, it felt very tentative. And it always felt like, 'OK, what's the next road block? What's the next thing that's going to deter this? How long do we have before this turns into just an awful mess and we break up? Is it a month? Is it three days?'"

"I think a lot of relationships can be very solid and that's kind of what you hope for, for it to be solid and healthy but that's not always what you get," Swift continued. "And it doesn't mean that it's not special and extraordinary just to have a relationship that's fragile and somehow meaningful in that fragility."

The visually stunning music video for "Out of the Woods" showcases Swift surviving harsh and demanding circumstances in nature. The director, Joseph Kahn, took to Twitter after the release of the video to praise Swift's commitment to the project. He wrote a series of tweets saying, "Taylor was so dedicated to making this video. I was wrapped in snow gear. She was in a dress. She suffered for her art." He continued, "Taylor chose to stay in the mud for hours to keep the shoot moving. No in and out. Just gangstered it. She is bad ass."

Shot on location in New Zealand, the video was filmed in November 2015, when Swift was in the Auckland area as part of her 1989 World Tour. The shoot was not without controversy, as Swift and her team were accused by local conservationists of flouting filming regulations on Bethells Beach .

The scenic clip finds Swift experiencing several adventures. It starts with her being chased by a pack of wolves before leaping off a cliff to escape and we also see her crawling through mud in the middle of a lightning storm, braving a snowy mountain in her blue dress and dealing with some clingy vines.

The video concludes with the empowering line, "She lost him. But she found herself. And somehow that was everything," which originally was part of the secret messages in the lyric-booklet of Swift's 1989 record.

Kahn said: "The entire video is Taylor suffering through an emotional landscape. It's a metaphor, being done practically on location."

Swift opened the Grammy Awards in 2016 with a performance of this song.

Taylor Swift - Welcome to New York

Taylor Swift - Welcome to New York Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: 1989
Released: 2014

Welcome to New York Lyrics

Walkin' through a crowd, the village is a glow
Kaleidoscope of a loud, heart beats under coats
Everybody here wanted somethin' more
Searchin' for a sound we hadn't heard before
And it said

Welcome to New York
It's been waitin' for you
Welcome to New York, welcome to New York
Welcome to New York
It's been waitin' for you
Welcome to New York, welcome to New York

It's a new soundtrack I could dance to this beat, beat forevermore
The lights are so bright but they never blind me, me
Welcome to New York
It's been waitin' for you
Welcome to New York, welcome to New York

When we first dropped our bags on apartment floors
Took our broken hearts and put them in a drawer
Everybody here was someone else before
And you can want who you want
Boys and boys and girls and girls

Welcome to New York
It's been waitin' for you
Welcome to New York, welcome to New York
Welcome to New York
It's been waitin' for you
Welcome to New York, welcome to New York

It's a new soundtrack I could dance to this beat, beat forevermore
The lights are so bright but they never blind me, me
Welcome to New York (New York!)
It's been waitin' for you
Welcome to New York, welcome to New York

Like any great love, it keeps you guessing
Like any real love, it's ever-changing
Like any true love, it drives you crazy
But you know you wouldn't change anything, anything, anything

Welcome to New York
It's been waitin' for you
Welcome to New York, welcome to New York
Welcome to New York
It's been waitin' for you
Welcome to New York, welcome to New York

It's a new soundtrack I could dance to this beat
The lights are so bright but they never blind me
Welcome to New York
New soundtrack
It's been waitin' for you
Welcome to New York
The lights are so bright but they never blind me
Welcome to New York
So bright, they never blind me
Welcome to New York
Welcome to New York

Writer/s: SWIFT, TAYLOR / TEDDER, RYAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This is the first track on 1989, an album that finds Swift tossing away the Nashville elements of her previous three records in favor of a new city and new pop sound. "I wanted to start the album with this song because New York has been an important landscape and location for the story of my life in the past couple of years," Swift explained.

The song finds Swift singing the praises of the Big Apple. "I dreamt about moving to New York, I obsessed about moving to New York and then I did it," she said. "The inspiration I found in that city is kind of hard to describe and hard to compare it to any other force of inspiration I've ever experienced in my life. It's like an electric city."

The synth-laden track reflects the electric city. "I approached moving there with such wide eyed optimism and sort of saw it as a place of endless potential and possibilities," Swift explained, "and you can kind of hear that reflected in this music and this first song especially."

Swift wrote the song with Ryan Tedder. The OneRepublic frontman also produced the track with Noel Zancanella, who has penned hits for Ellie Goulding, Demi Lovato and Maroon 5.

Taylor Swift donated her portion of proceeds from the song's single release to New York City public schools.

Taylor Swift - Blank Space

Taylor Swift - Blank Space Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: 1989
Released: 2014

Blank Space Lyrics

Nice to meet you, where you been?
I could show you incredible things
Magic, madness, heaven sin
Saw you there and I thought
Oh my God, look at that face
You look like my next mistake
Love’s a game, want to play?
New money, suit and tie
I can read you like a magazine
Ain't it funny, rumors fly
And I know you heard about me
So hey, let's be friends
I'm dying to see how this one ends
Grab your passport and my hand
I can make the bad guys good for a weekend

So it's gonna be forever
Or it's gonna go down in flames
You can tell me when it's over
If the high was worth the pain
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
'Cause you know I love the players
And you love the game

'Cause we're young and we're reckless
We'll take this way too far
It'll leave you breathless
Or with a nasty scar
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
But I've got a Blank Space baby
And I'll write your name

Cherry lips, crystal skies
I could show you incredible things
Stolen kisses, pretty lies
You're the king baby I'm your Queen
Find out what you want
Be that girl for a month
Wait the worst is yet to come, oh no
Screaming, crying, perfect storm
I can make all the tables turn
Rose gardens filled with thorns
Keep you second guessing like
"Oh my God, who is she?"
I get drunk on jealousy
But you'll come back each time you leave
'Cause darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream

So it's gonna be forever
Or it's gonna go down in flames
You can tell me when it's over
If the high was worth the pain
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
'Cause you know I love the players
And you love the game

'Cause we're young and we're reckless
We'll take this way too far
It'll leave you breathless
Or with a nasty scar
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane (Insane)
But I've got a blank space baby
And I'll write your name

Boys only want love if it's torture
Don't say I didn't say I didn't warn ya
Boys only want love if it's torture
Don't say I didn't say I didn't warn ya

So it's gonna be forever
Or it's gonna go down in flames
You can tell me when it's over
If the high was worth the pain
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
'Cause you know I love the players
And you love the game

'Cause we're young and we're reckless
We'll take this way too far
It'll leave you breathless
Or with a nasty scar
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
But I've got a blank space baby
And I'll write your name

Writer/s: SHELLBACK, JOHAN / SWIFT, TAYLOR / MARTIN, MAX
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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This song finds Swift, who penned the track with producers Max Martin and Shellback, sending up her image as a heartbreaker who writes all of her songs about former boyfriends. She warns us that she's "got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane" plus she has, "a blank space baby, and I'll write your name."

At the Secret Sessions listening parties that Swift held to preview 1989, she said her intention with this track was to run wild with the way the media portrays how she conducts her romantic life.

Swift explained the "boys only want love if it's torture" lyric to UK newspaper The Sun: "I was thinking about this," she said. "Boys only want love if it's torture and a constant chase. Men want love if it's real, right, healthy and consistent."

If you're one of the many who thought Swift was singing "the lonely Starbucks lovers" (or, more sensically, "star-crossed lovers") in the song's chorus, you're not alone. The real line, however, is, "Got a long list of ex-lovers."

Swift found this amusing. She called it, "A delightful misunderstanding about this song that was written about misunderstandings."

The song's music video was directed by Joseph Kahn (Eminem's "Without Me," Katy Perry's "Waking Up In Vegas") and filmed in September 2014 in Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York. The clip depicts Swift as an unhinged lovelorn woman who lives alone in a giant mansion with her cat, Olivia Benson. It co-stars male model Sean O'Pry as the singer's generically good-looking love interest. The male model also appeared in Madonna's steamy visual for "Girl Gone Wild."

With the title cleverly wrapped up in the song's punchline, "but I’ve got a blank space baby… and I'll write your name," you're not likely to forget the song's name, even though it only shows up three times.

Taylor explained the background to the cut in a chat with NME. "Every few years the media finds something they unanimously agree is annoying about me," she said. "2012-2013 they thought I was dating too much, because I dated two people in a year and a half: 'Oh, a serial dater. She only writes songs to get emotional revenge on guys. She's a man-hater, don't let her near your boyfriend.' It was kind of excessive and at first it was hurtful, but then I found a little bit of comedy in it.

This character is so interesting though. If you read these gossip sites, they describe how I am so opposite my actual life: I'm clingy and I'm awful and I throw fits and there's drama. An emotionally fragile, unpredictable mess. I painted a whole picture of this character: she lives in a mansion with marble floors, she wears Dolce & Gabbana around the house, and she wears animal print unironically. So I created this whole character and I had fun doing it.

Half the people got the joke, half the people thought I was really owning the fact that I'm a psychopath. Either one's fine. It was #1 for eight or nine weeks, so I have no complaints."

Taylor teamed up with American Express to create an interactive app to go along with the video. "We created this 360 degree experience for fans... You essentially get to play around this storyland and explore the mansion [in the video]," she revealed on Good Morning America. "There are all of these hidden little clues. If you click on doorways you go into the next room. If you go to a clock, you can unlock little messages and clues. You can see us acting out these scenes depending on what room you're in or what part of the song."

"It's really fun to actually have fans that care about videos, story lines and lyrics," she added. "And the fact that they're so engaged makes me want to create cool little things for them like this."

The chorus makes up just over half of the entire song, and Swift makes sure you're paying attention. By dropping out most of the backing music at the end of each verse, the chorus is intensified.

Swift performed this song to open the 2014 American Music Awards. In the very elaborate production, Swift wore an evening gown and a headset microphone as she made her way thought a variety of sets populated by a bevy of dancers portraying the men she was dismissing. At one point, she even handles a flaming rose in a bit of symbolism.

Swift was honored with the Dick Clark Award For Excellence at the ceremony.

One of the most memorable sounds in the song does not come from a musical instrument, but from a pen. Right before Swift sings "I'll write your name" at the end of the chorus, a single pen click promises she's ready to make good on the threat.

In October, 2014, Swift filed to trademark the first two lines of this song, "Nice to meet you. Where you been?" and "Could show you incredible things." This was done in response to a company that applied to trademark lines from her song "Shake It Off." These trademarks give the owners the rights to use the phrases on merchandise, stationary, and various other items.

This song was made up of lines Swift collected over the years; says she put it together "like a crossword puzzle," placing the lines where they fit. With lots of lyrical ideas to choose from, she picked the best of the bunch, like "darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream."

Some of the video's interior scenes were shot at Winfield Mansion, which was built in 1916 at Glen Cove on New York's Long Island by the family who started the global chain of Woolworth's retail stores. The property was wrecked by a mysterious fire in early February 2015, an event spookily foreshadowed by Swift singing on this song about love going down in flames.

The song dethroned Swift's previous single, "Shake It Off," from the top of the Hot 100. This meant the songstress became the first ever female in the chart's history to succeed herself at #1.

The video's director Joseph Kahn told Mashable.com that Swift specifically asked for co-star Sean O'Pry by name. "She had a vision," he explained. "She's highly aware of one particular thing that's happening right now - the idea that if you date her and you break up with her, she's going to write a song about you. She's aware of this. She's not an idiot."

"Taylor wanted to make a video addressing this concept of, if she has so many boys breaking up with her maybe the problem isn't the boy, maybe the problem is her," he continued. "Taylor wanted to make a video addressing this concept of, if she has so many boys breaking up with her maybe the problem isn't the boy, maybe the problem is her."

Swift didn't completely yank out her country roots with this blend of pop, electropop and hip-hop. Longtime listeners will note she added her faithful acoustic guitar to the mix.

Michigan post-hardcore band I Prevail charted in the Hot 100 with a punk version of the song. Their interpretation utilizes two vocalists and explosive guitars. Vocalist Brian Burkheiser also tweaked the lyrics including changing Swift's turning "bad guys good for a weekend" to making "good girls bad for a weekend."

This won for Best Female Video at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, defeating Beyoncé's "7/11." The last time Swift defeated Bey at the VMAs, Kanye West objected, rushing the stage to explain that the "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" clip deserved the award over Swift's "You Belong With Me." This time, Kanye (accompanied by his wife, Kim Kardashian), stayed put - MTV cameras made sure to capture his reaction. Later in the show, Swift presented West with the Video Vanguard Award, poking fun at their initial encounter.

Swift had the video's director Joseph Kahn speak in accepting the award; Kahn explained that directors typically didn't get to give acceptance speeches because they would spend all their time thanking crew members, which he then proceeded to do.

Taylor Swift took home the Best Lyrics honors at the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards for this song. "This is amazing because writing lyrics is my favorite part of my job, and with this song in particular, seeing how people have captioned their Instagram picture with, 'Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a day dream' was fantastic," Swift said, as she accepted the trophy.

Taylor Swift - Clean

Taylor Swift - Clean Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: 1989
Released: 2014

Clean Lyrics

The drought was the very worst, ah ah
When the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst
It was months, and months of back and forth, ah ah
You're still all over me like a wine-stained dress I can't wear anymore
Hung my head, as I lost the war, and the sky turned black like a perfect storm

Rain came pouring down when I was drowning
That's when I could finally breathe
And by morning, gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally Clean

There was nothing left to do, ah ah
When the butterflies turned to dust, they covered my whole room
So I punched a hole in the roof, ah ah
Let the flood carry away all my pictures of you
The water filled my lungs, I screamed so loud but no one heard a thing

Rain came pouring down when I was drowning
That's when I could finally breathe
And by morning, gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally clean
I think I am finally clean, ah
Said, I think I am finally clean, ah

Ten months sober, I must admit
Just because you're clean don't mean you don't miss it
Ten months older I won't give in
Now that I'm clean I'm never gonna risk it

The drought was the very worst, ah ah
When the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst

Rain came pouring down when I was drowning
That's when I could finally breathe
And by morning, gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally clean
Rain came pouring down when I was drowning
That's when I could finally breathe
And by morning, gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally clean
Finally clean, think I'm finally clean, ah ah
Think I'm finally clean

Writer/s: SWIFT, TAYLOR / HEAP, IMOGEN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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This chilling electronic tune finds Swift collaborating with one of her heroes, the British folktronica singer-songwriter Imogen Heap. She told The Sun: "We did a one take vocal and it was just so inspiring to see a woman do all the technical things in the studio that you usually see men do."

Imogen Heap is probably best known for her 2005 song "Hide And Seek," which was later sampled in Jason Derülo's #1 hit "Whatcha Say." Her 2009 album, Ellipse, earned Heap two Grammy nominations, winning Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, in recognition of her own technical work on the record.

The lyrics are heavy on metaphors of drowning and addiction until Swift finds she is "finally clean" and ready to move on. She told The Sun: "It's about comparing getting over a relationship to sobriety; it has a lot of different references between addiction and moving on from a relationship."

Taylor expanded on the song's meaning to Pop Crush : "The song 'Clean' is one that I wrote about sort of coming out of a relationship, or trying to move on from some struggle that you had in your life, and feeling kind of tarnished by it," she said. "And it kind of talks about how if you really allow yourself to feel pain, I think maybe it's easier to get past it. For most people that I've known who've fought through struggle, a lot them who have really just faced the pain head on have come out OK a lot faster than the ones who just pretended to be in denial of it."

The song is so kind of haunting because [of] Imogen's background on the song," Taylor added, "she's singing on it. So, it's so exciting [for me]."

Speaking with Elle magazine, Swift said the song is specifically about the moment she realized she was totally over a break-up. "'Clean' I wrote as I was walking out of Liberty in London. Someone I used to date - it hit me that I'd been in the same city as him for two weeks and I hadn't thought about it. When it did hit me, it was like, Oh, I hope he's doing well. And nothing else, "she said. "And you know how it is when you're going through heartbreak. A heartbroken person is unlike any other person. Their time moves at a completely different pace than ours. It's this mental, physical, emotional ache and feeling so conflicted. Nothing distracts you from it."

"Then time passes, and the more you live your life and create new habits, you get used to not having a text message every morning saying, 'Hello, beautiful. Good morning,' Swift continued. "You get used to not calling someone at night to tell them how your day was. You replace these old habits with new habits, like texting your friends in a group chat all day and planning fun dinner parties and going out on adventures with your girlfriends, and then all of a sudden one day you're in London and you realize you've been in the same place as your ex for two weeks and you're fine. And you hope he's fine. The first thought that came to my mind was, I'm finally clean."

According to Swift, the music incorporates a couple of unusual instruments played by Imogen Heap: a mbira, which is a thumb piano and "these things called boomwhackers, which are for the percussion."

Taylor Swift - I Wish You Would

Psychedelic Pop, Neo-Psychedelia,
Taylor Swift - I Wish You Would Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: 1989
Released: 2014

I Wish You Would Lyrics

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This song finds Taylor regretting the way she broke up with an ex-lover. A part of her wishes he would run back to her and, maybe, they will get back together. It sends a completely different message to the commitment-phobic beau in "All You Had to Do Was Stay."

Taylor told Rolling Stone the song is about an ex who bought a house two blocks from hers (whom she implies was Harry Styles). Her liner notes message for this song state: "He Drove Past Her Street Each Night."

Taylor starts the song with her ex driving past her house.

It's 2 am, in your car
Windows down, past my street the memories start

The implication is that Taylor's former boyfriend has been up all night thinking.

The singer frequently uses 2 a.m. in her songs, having also given the time a shout out in "Breathe," "The Way I Loved You," "Mary's Song (Oh My My My)," and "Enchanted."

The song is one of three 1989 tracks written and produced by Taylor with fun.'s Jack Antonoff (the others are "Out Of The Woods" and "You R In Love.")

This originally sampled a snare from Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy," which came about from Swift and Antonoff bonding over the '80s pop group. "The moment when we shifted from friendship into working together was when we were talking about the snare drum on Fine Young Cannibals' 'She Drives Me Crazy,'" Antonoff told Rolling Stone. "Taylor brought it up first, and I was like, 'Holy s--t, you're not going to believe this: I just sampled that snare in a track.' I played her one second of it on my iPhone, and she was like, 'Send me that track.' That became a song called 'I Wish You Would.'"

There are three bonus tracks on the deluxe edition of 1989 that are actually voice memos recorded to Taylor's phone that were later turned into songs (This song, "I Know Places" and "Blank Space"). We hear her explain: "This is a song I did with Jack Antonoff, and Jack is one of my friends and so were hanging out and he pulled out his phone and goes 'I made this amazing track the other day. It's so cool, I love these guitar sounds.' And he played it for me and immediately I could hear this finished song in my head, and I just said 'Please, please let me have that. Let me play with is, send it to me.'"

"And so he sent it to me and I was on tour and this was me playing the track on my laptop recording me singing the vocal into my phone and it ended up being a song called 'I Wish You Would,' because Jack wrote back and said 'I love that.' So this is another way of writing, it's writing to track."

Taylor Swift - You Are In Love

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Album: 1989
Released: 2014

You Are In Love Lyrics

One look, dark room
Meant just for you
Time moved too fast
You play it back
Buttons on a coat
Lighthearted joke
No proof, not much
But you saw enough
Small talk, he drives
Coffee at midnight
The light reflects
The chain on your neck
He says look up
And your shoulders brush
No proof, one touch
You felt enough

You can hear it in the silence, silence
You can feel it on the way home, way home
You can see it with the lights out, lights out
You Are In Love, true love
You are in love

Morning, his place
Burn toast, Sunday
You keep his shirt
He keeps his word
And for once you let go
Of your fears and your ghosts
One step, not much
But it said enough
You kiss on sidewalks
You fight and you talk
One night he wakes
Strange look on his face
Pauses, then says
You're my best friend
And you knew what it was
He is in love

You can hear it in the silence, silence
You can feel it on the way home, way home
You can see it with the lights out, lights out
You are in love, true love

And so it goes
You two are dancing in a snow globe round and round
And he keeps the picture of you in his office downtown
And you understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars
And why I've spent my whole life trying to put it into words

'Cause you can hear it in the silence
You can feel it on the way home
You can see it with the lights out
You are in love, true love
You're in love

You can hear it in the silence, silence
You can feel it on the way home, way home
You can see it with the lights out, lights out
You are in love, true love
You're in love

You can hear it in the silence, silence
You can feel it on the way home, way home
You can see it with the lights out, lights out
You are in love, true love
You're in love

Writer/s: SWIFT, TAYLOR / ANTONOFF, JACK
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Taylor wrote this song with Jack Antonoff using the relationship that the fun. guitarist and his girlfriend Lena Dunham have as her inspiration. "You guys are like the benchmark of actual, real true love," she commented to him during a MTV interview.

Lena Dunham dubbed this her "someday wedding song." Apparently the Girls creator didn't know the tune was inspired by her when she said that.

Asked by Elle magazine about the song's lyric "You're my best friend," Swift replied: "I've never had that, so I wrote that song about things that Lena [Dunham] has told me about her and Jack [Antonoff]. That's just basically stuff she's told me. And I think that that kind of relationship - God, it sounds like it would just be so beautiful - would also be hard. It would also be mundane at times."

Taylor Swift - All You Had To Do Was Stay

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Album: 1989
Released: 2014

All You Had To Do Was Stay Lyrics

(Hey hey hey)
(Hey hey hey)
(Hey hey hey)
(Hey hey hey)
People like you always want back the love they gave away
And people like me wanna believe you when you say you've changed
The more I think about it now the less I know
All I know is that you drove us off the road

Stay, hey, All You Had To Do Was Stay
Had me in the palm of your hand
Then, why'd you had to go and lock me out when I let you in
Stay, hey, now you say you want it
Back now that it's just too late
Well could've been easy
All you had to do was stay

All you had to do was stay
All you had to do was stay
All you had to do was stay
All you had to do was stay

Here you are now, calling me up, but I don't know what to say
I've been picking up the pieces of the mess you made
People like you always want back the love they pushed aside
But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye

Stay, hey, all you had to do was stay
Had me in the palm of your hand
Then, why'd you had to go and lock me out when I let you in
Stay, hey, now you say you want it
Back now that it's just too late
Well could've been easy
All you had to do was stay

All you had to do was stay
All you had to do was stay
All you had to do was stay (Stay, stay, stay)

Let me remind you this was what you wanted (Oh oh oh)
You ended it
You were all I wanted (Oh oh oh)
But not like this
Not like this
Not like this
Oh, all you had to do was stay

Hey, all you had to do was stay
Had me in the palm of your hand
Then, why'd you had to go and lock me out when I let you in
Stay, hey, now you say you want it
Back now that it's just too late
Well could've been easy
All you had to do was stay

Hey, all you had to do was stay
Had me in the palm of your hand
Then, why'd you had to go and lock me out when I let you in
Stay, hey, now you say you want it
Back now that it's just too late
Well could've been easy (All you had to do was stay)
All you had to do was stay

All you had to do was stay (Oh)
All you had to do was stay
All you had to do was stay
All you had to do was stay (Ooh)

Writer/s: SWIFT, TAYLOR / MARTIN, MAX
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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This end-of-relationship lament about a commitment-phobic lover is one of several songs on 1989 that are thought to be inspired by a certain One-Direction ex (for those of you that have been vacationing on a remote desert island over the last couple of years that's Harry Styles we're talking about). Her liner note message is: "They Paid The Price."

This is one of nine tracks on 1989 that Max Martin contributed towards, He also served as executive producer of the album. The Swedish hitmaker had co-penned three tracks on 2012's Red, but he played a much bigger role this time around. "I used to talk about Max Martin like he was this sorcerer who lived in a castle on a hill," Taylor told Rolling Stone. "And then one time Scott [Borchetta, the head of her label] said to me, 'You know... you can work with him if you want to.' I was like, What?!"

The use of Max Martin, the man behind the hit tunes from such pop stars as Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears and Katy Perry, was significant in Taylor shedding every last country gene she had for 1989. Asked by Billboard magazine why she went pop, the former country princess replied: "I think what made me decide to do that was that, looking back on my last album, Red, when people would ask me, 'What's your favorite song?' I would always say, without hesitation, 'I Knew You Were Trouble.' So when I went in the studio to start this album, I wanted to make sure that this album was different than anything I'd done before, and I was naturally gravitating toward those pop sensibilities and expanding that way."

"But it wasn't until about a year in that I admitted to myself and my team that this is a pop album," Taylor continued. "We can't call it country; that would be the most disingenuous thing we can do, and out of respect for a [genre] and a music town that I adore, I have to be honest. I think being upfront with people that you care about is the most honest way of going about your life and your decisions."

The song was in part inspired by a dream Taylor had about an ex. "I was having this dream, that was actually one of those embarrassing dreams, where you're mortified in the dream, you're like humiliated," she told Time. "In the dream, my ex had come to the door to beg for me to talk to him or whatever, and I opened up the door and I went to go say, 'Hi,' or 'What are you doing here?' or something - something normal - but all that came out was this high-pitched singing that said, 'Stay!' It was almost operatic."

"So I wrote this song, and I used that sound in the song. Weird, right?" Taylor continued. "I woke up from the dream, saying the weird part into my phone, figuring I had to include it in something because it was just too strange not to. In pop, it's fun to play around with little weird noises like that."

Taylor Swift - I Know Places

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Album: 1989
Released: 2014

I Know Places Lyrics

I I I I, I I I I
I I I I, I I I I
I I I I, I I I I, I I

You stand with a hand on my waist line (I I I I, I I I I)
Good to see that we're out in blank side (I I I I, I I I I)
I can hear them whisper as we pass by (I I I I, I I I I)
It's a bad sign, bad sign (I I)
Something happens when everybody finds out (I I I I, I I I I)
See the vulture circling in dark cloud (I I I I, I I I I)
Love's a fragile little flame, it could burn out (I I I I, I I I I)
It could burn out (I I)
'Cause they got the cages, they got the boxes (I I I I, I I I I)
And guns, they are the hunters, we are the foxes (I I I I, I I I I)
And we run

Baby I Know Places we won't be found and they'll be
Chasing their tails tryin' to track us down
'Cause I, I know places we can hide, I know places
I know places

Lights flash on the run for the fences (I I I I, I I I I)
Let them say what they want, we won't hear it (I I I I, I I I I)
Lose sleep, swing ship, all the damn time, not this time (I I I I, I I I I, I I)
Just grab my hand and don't ever drop it (I I I I, I I I I)
My love, they are the hunters, we are the foxes (I I I I, I I I I, I I)
And we run

Baby I know places we won't be found and they'll be
Chasing their tails tryin' to track us down
'Cause I, I know places we can hide, I know places
They are the hunters, we are the foxes
And we run
Just grab my hand and don't ever drop it
My love

Baby I know places we won't be found and they'll be
Chasing their tails tryin' to track us down
'Cause I, I know places we can hide, I know places

(I) They take their shots, we're bulletproof
I know places
(I) And you know for me it's always you
I know places
(I) In the dead of night, you act so great
I know places
(I) And I know for you it's always me
I know places

(I I I I, I I I I)
(I I I I, I I I I)

Writer/s: SWIFT, TAYLOR / TEDDER, RYAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This song finds Taylor describing the difficulties in carrying on a relationship when the paparazzi ("the vultures") start follow them around. However, in her next relationship, the songstress states that she intends to spend romantic time with her man outside of the view of the photographers as she knows "places we won't be found." Taylor's liner note message for this song is "And Everyone Was Watching."

Taylor wrote the song with Ryan Tedder. The One Republic frontman is the guy behind such pop hits as "Apologize" "Bleeding Love," "Halo" and "Counting Stars." Swift's partnership with Tedder, (they also worked together on "Welcome to New York") was significant in her musical departure on 1989 from the country pop styles of her earlier work. However, according to an interview with UK newspaper The Sun she faced an uphill battle making the switch to pop music. "The decision came directly from me. I had to plead my case with everyone and certain people at the record label. I had to really campaign and get everyone on my side," she said.

"I had to convince my Nashville record label president it was right for me," Taylor continued. "I presented the album to him and he said, 'It's great, it's the best thing you've ever done but can you put two country songs on it?'"

Taylor refused and her persistence paid off, with the all-pop 1989 producing huge sales.

There are three bonus tracks on the deluxe edition of 1989 that are actually voice memos recorded to Taylor's phone that were later turned into songs. (This cut, "I Wish You Would" and "Blank Space").

Taylor explained: "I sent this voice memo to Ryan Tedder because I'd always wanted to work with him, and finally we scheduled some studio time. So I always wanna be prepared. I wanted to send him the idea that I was working on before we went into the studio just in case he wrote back and said 'I can't stand that, I wanna work on something else, think of something else.'"

"So I just sat down with the piano, put my phone on top of the piano and just kind of explained to him where I wanted to go with the song, how I saw the melody sitting in and we ended up recording the song the next day and it ended up being on the record called 'I Know Places'. So this was the voice memo I sent to him the night before we ended up finishing the song."

Taylor Swift detailed her writing process for this song during an interview with Grammy Pro . "I had this idea of like, you know, when you're in love - along the lines of 'Out Of The Woods' - it's very precious, it's fragile," she said. "As soon as the world gets ahold of it, whether it's your friends or people around town hear about it … it's kind of like the first thing people want to do when they hear that people are in love is just kind of try to ruin it, if they're not the greatest human beings."

"I kind of was in a place where I was like, 'No one is gonna sign up for this. There are just too many cameras pointed at me. There are too many ridiculous elaborations on my life. It's just not ever gonna work,'" Swift continued. "But I decided to write a love song, just kind of like, 'What would I say if I met someone really awesome and they were like, hey, I'm worried about all this attention you get?' So I wrote this song called 'I Know Places' about, like, 'Hey, I know places we can hide. We could outrun them.'"

"I'm so happy that it sounds like the urgency that it sings about," she concluded.

Taylor Swift - New Romantics

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Album: 1989
Released: 2014

New Romantics Lyrics

We're all bored
We're all so tired of everything
We wait for
Trains that just aren't coming
We show off
Our different scarlet letters
Trust me, mine is better

We're so young
But we're on the road to ruin
We play dumb
But we know exactly what we're doing
We cry tears
Of mascara in the bathroom
Honey, life is just a classroom

'Cause, baby, I could build a castle
Out of all the bricks they threw at me
And every day is like a battle
But every night with us is like a dream

Baby, we're the New Romantics
Come on, come along with me
Heart break is the national anthem
We sing it proudly
We are too busy dancing
So get knocked off our feet
Baby, we're the new romantics
The best people in life are free

We're all here
the lights and boys are blinding
We hang back
It's all in the timing
It's poker
He can't see it in my face
But I'm about to play my Ace

We need love
But all we want is danger
We team up
Then switch sides like a record changer
The rumors
Are terrible and cruel
But, honey most of them are true

'Cause, baby, I could build a castle
Out of all the bricks they threw at me
And every day is like a battle
But every night with us is like a dream

Baby, we're the new romantics
Come on, come along with me
Heart break is the national anthem
We sing it proudly
We are too busy dancing
To get knocked off our feet
Baby, we're the new romantics
The best people in life are free

So come on, come along with me
The best people in life are free

Please take my hand and
Please take me dancing and
Please leave me stranded, it's so romantic (it's so romantic)

'Cause, baby, I could build a castle
Out of all the bricks they threw at me
And every day is like a battle
But every night with us is like a dream

'Cause, baby, I could build a castle
Out of all the bricks they threw at me
And every day is like a battle
But every night with us is like a dream

Baby, we're the new romantics
Come on, come along with me
Heart break is the national anthem
We sing it proudly
We are too busy dancing
To get knocked off our feet
Baby, we're the new romantics
The best people in life are free

Writer/s: SWIFT, TAYLOR / MARTIN, MAX / SHELLBACK, JOHAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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1989 marks Taylor adopting a more mature mindset and approach towards love as she moves from the fairy tale romanticism of her first four albums to a more carefree outlook on matters of the heart. "We are too busy dancing to get knocked off our feet," she sings here: "Baby we're the new romantics. The best people in life are free."

Taylor explained her attitude towards dating and relationships during an interview with Cosmopolitan. "People will say, let me set you up with someone, and I'm just sitting there saying, 'That's not what I'm doing. I'm not lonely; I'm not looking,'" she said. "They just don't get it. I've learnt that just because someone is cute and wants to date you, that's not a reason to sacrifice your independence and allow everyone to say whatever they want about you. I'm not doing that anymore."

"It'd take someone really special for me to undergo the circumstances I have to go through to experience a date," Taylor added. "I don't know how I would ever have another person in my world trying to have a relationship with me, or a family.

New Romanticism was a pop culture movement in the United Kingdom during the early '80s in which both men and women wore make-up and dressed in flamboyant clothes. Boy George, the androgynous frontman of Culture Club was typical of the genre. This song's sound resembles the new wave music that the New Romantic acts performed.

Taylor told Rolling Stone that she set out to make "blatant Pop music" for 1989 that was heavily influenced by the '80s. "It was a very experimental time in Pop music," Taylor said of the decade. "People realized songs didn't have to be this standard drums-guitar-bass-whatever. We can make a song with synths and a drum pad. We can do group vocals the entire song. We can do so many different things. And I think what you saw happening with music was also happening in our culture, where people were just wearing whatever crazy colors they wanted to, because why not? There just seemed to be this energy about endless opportunities, endless possibilities, endless ways you could live your life. And so with this record, I thought, 'There are no rules to this. I don't need to use the same musicians I've used, or the same band, or the same producers, or the same formula. I can make whatever record I want.'"

The final song on the deluxe edition of 1989, this carries on Taylor's habit of ending an album on a high note. Closing tracks "Our Song," "Change," "Long Live" and "Begin Again" are all positive tunes.