TAYLOR SWIFT / RED (TAYLOR’S VERSION) EXPLICIT
These lyrics are from Taylor Swift’s 2021 re-recording of her 2012 fourth album, Red. These lyrics may be modified to better fit roleplay purposes. Please note: every track from the new album has been included, however All Too Well lyrics are divided up between the standard version, containing the original lyrics and the ten minute version which only shows the new lyrics. Additionally acoustic and remixes of pre-existing tracks are not included unless new lyrics are featured.
Please note: Due to the nature of the song Ronan being a highly personal song for the family and about a real child — it felt inappropriate to use lyrics from the song for roleplay memes, and thus has been omitted.
- All we know is touch and go
- We fall in love ‘til it hurts or bleeds or fades in time
- I never saw you coming
- I’ll never be the same
- You come around and the armour falls
- You pierce the room like a cannonball
- Don’t let go
- You were never a saint and I’ve loved in shades of wrong
- We learn to live with the pain
- This love is brave and wild
- This is a state of grace
- This is a worthwhile fight
- Love is a ruthless game
- Love is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right
- You’re my Achilles heel
- This is the golden age of something good and right and real
- Loving you is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street
- Loving you is like trying to change your mind once you’re already flying through the free fall
- Losing you was blue like I’ve never known
- Missing you was dark grey, all alone
- Forgetting you was like trying to know somebody you’ve never met
- Loving you was red
- Touching you was like realizing all you ever wanted was right there in front of you
- Memorizing you was as easy as knowing all the words to your old favourite song
- Fighting with you is like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there’s no right answer
- I wish I never found out love could be that strong
- Remembering comes in flashbacks and echoes
- It’s time now
- I’ve gotta let go
- Moving on from you is impossible when I still see it all in my head, burning red
- You’re spinning around my head
- Put your lips close to mine, as long as they don’t touch
- I’ll do anything you say, if you say it with your hands
- I’d be smart to walk away, but you’re quicksand
- I’d be smart to walk away
- This slope is treacherous
- This path is reckless
- This slope is treacherous and I like it
- I can’t decide if it’s a choice, getting swept away
- All we are is skin and bone trained to get alone
- I’m forever going with the flow, but you’re friction
- I will get you alone
- Your name has echoed through my mind
- Nothing safe is worth the drive
- I’ll follow you home
- This hope is treacherous
- This daydream is reckless
- You found me
- I guess you didn’t care
- I guess you didn’t care, and I guess I liked that
- I guess I liked that
- When I fell hard, you took a step back without me
- He’s long gone when he’s next to me
- I realise the blame is on me
- I knew you were trouble when you walked in
- Shame on me
- You flew me to places I’d never been
- Now I’m lying on the cold hard ground
- You’ll never see my cry
- He pretends he doesn’t know that he’s the reason why I’m drowning
- You pretend you don’t know that you’re the reason why I’m drowning
- I heard you’ve moved on
- A new notch in your belt, that’s all I’ll ever be
- He was long gone when he met
- I realise the joke is on me
- The saddest fear comes creeping in
- The saddest fear comes creeping in, that you never loved me, or her, or anyone or anything
- You never loved me
- You never loved me, or her, or anyone, or anything
- Something about it felt like home, somehow
- I left my scarf at your sister’s place
- We were singing in the car, getting lost upstate
- I can picture it after all these days
- I know it’s long gone
- I know that magic’s not here
- I might be okay, but I’m not fine at all
- You almost ran the red
- You almost ran the red while you were looking at me
- I was there
- I remember it all too well
- You used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bed
- Your mother’s telling stories 'bout you on the tee-ball team
- You told me about your past, thinking your future’s with me
- I know it’s long gone and there was nothing else I could do
- There was nothing else I could do
- I forget about you long enough to forget why I needed to
- Maybe we got lost in translation
- Maybe I asked for too much
- This thing was a masterpiece before you tore it all up
- You call me up again just to break me like a promise
- You’re so casually cruel in the name of being honest
- Time won’t fly, it’s like I’m paralyzed by it
- I’d like to be my old self again, but I’m still trying to find it
- It was rare
- It feels like a perfect night
- It feels like a perfect night to dress up like hipsters and make fun of our exes
- It feels like a perfect night for breakfast at midnight
- We’re happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time
- It’s miserable and magical
- I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling twenty-two
- You don’t know about me
- You don’t know about me, but I bet you want to
- Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing
- It feels like one of those nights
- This place is too crowded
- Who’s Taylor Swift anyway?
- It feels like one of those nights where we ditch the whole scene
- We’ll end up dreaming instead of sleeping
- We’re happy, free, confused, and lonely in the best way
- You look like bad news
- You look like bad news, I gotta have you
- I gotta have you
- I bet this time of night you’re still up
- I bet you’re tired after a long hard week
- I bet sometimes you wonder about me
- I just want to tell you it takes everything in me not to call you
- It takes everything in me not to call you
- I wish I could run to you
- I wish I could run to you, I hope you know that every time I don’t, I almost do
- I hope you know that every time I don’t, I almost do
- I bet it never, ever, occurred to you that I can’t say hello to you and risk another goodbye
- Each time you reach out, there’s no reply
- We made quite a mess, babe
- It’s probably better off this way
- I confess that in my dreams you’re touching my face
WE ARE NEVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER
- I remember when we broke up - the first time
- I remember when we broke up
- This is it, I’ve had enough
- We hadn’t seen each other in a month after you said you needed space
- What?
- I miss you and I swear I’m gonna change - trust me
- Remember how that lasted for a day?
- I hate you
- I love you
- We called it off again last night
- We are never, ever, getting back together
- I used to think that we were forever
- I used to say never say never
- Never say never
- So he calls me up and he’s like “I still love you” and I’m like, “this is exhausting, okay we are never getting back together, like ever”
- I still love you
- This is exhausting
- I’m pretty sure we almost broke up last night
- I was expecting some dramatic turn away
- We should talk about it
- I read you should never leave a fight unresolved
- Okay, let’s talk
- Stay, stay, stay
- I’ve been loving you for some time
- You think it’s funny when I’m mad
- I think it’s best if we both stay
- I only dated self indulgent takers who took all their problems out on me
- I love you because you’ve given me no choice but to
- You took the time to memorize me, my fears and hopes and dreams
- I feel like hanging out with you all the time
- It’s been occurring to me I’d like to hang out with you, for my whole life
- I’ll be loving you for quite some time
- No one else is gonna love me when I get mad
THE LAST TIME (FT. GARY LIGHTBODY OF SNOW PATROL)
- I’m not sure how I got there
- All roads, they led me here
- I’m not sure how I got there, all roads, they led me here
- I’m breaking
- This is the last time I’m asking you this
- Put my name at the top of your list
- This is the last time I’m asking you why you break my heart in the blink of an eye
- This is this last time I’m asking you this: put my name at the top of your list
- I was there to watch you leave
- All the times I let you in, just for you to go again
- You disappear, when you come back everything is better
- I’m aching
- Run fast
- Nowhere to hide
- This is the last time you tell me you got it wrong
- This is the last time I say it’s been you all alone
- It’s been you all along
- This is the last time I’ll let you in my door
- This this is last time, I won’t hurt you anymore
- I won’t hurt you anymore
- This is the last time I’m asking you
- I was reminiscing just the other day while having coffee
- Lord, it took me away
- You fit in my poems like a perfect rhyme
- I left a note on the door
- Darling, it was good
- Right where we stood was holy ground
- I need you
- For the first time, I have something to lose
- I guess we fell apart in the usual way
- I wonder how you think about it now
- I see your face in every crowd
- Tonight, I’m gonna dance for all that we’ve been through
- I don’t wanna dance if I’m not dancing with you
- I’m gonna dance like you were in this room
- Words, how little they mean, when you’re a little too late
- Good girls, hopeful they’ll be and long they will wait
- We had a beautiful magic love affair
- What a sad, beautiful, tragic love affair
- We both wake in lonely beds, different cities
- Time is taking its sweet time erasing you
- You’ve got your demons and darling, they all look like me
- Kiss me, try to fix it, could you just try to listen?
- Could you just try to listen?
- For the life of us we can’t get back
- In the angel’s city, chasing fortune and fame
- The camera flashes make it look like a dream
- You had it figured out since you were in school
- Everybody loves pretty, everybody loves cool
- Everybody loves pretty
- Everybody loves cool
- They’ll tell you now, you’re the lucky one
- Can you tell me now if you’re the lucky one?
- Your lover in the foyer doesn’t even know you
- Your secrets ended up splashed on the news front page
- They tell me that I’m lucky, but I’m so confused
- They tell me that I’m lucky, but I’m so confused - because I don’t feel pretty, I just feel used
- I don’t feel pretty, I just feel used
- I wonder if I’ll make it out alive
- They still tell the legend of how you disappeared
- Take the money and your dignity and get the hell out
- They say you bought a bunch of land somewhere
- It took some time, but I understand it now
- I think you got it right
- Let me tell you now, you’re the lucky one
EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED (FT. ED SHEERAN)
- You good to go?
- All I knew this morning when I woke is I know something now I didn’t before
- All I’ve seen since 18 hours ago is green eyes and freckles and your smile in the back of my mind
- I just wanna know you better
- Your eyes look like coming home
- You’ll be mine and I’ll be yours
- All I know since yesterday is everything has changed
- Everything has changed
- I feel in my stomach is butterflies
- Come back and tell me why I’m feeling like I’ve missed you all this time
- I’m feeling like I’ve missed you all this time
- Meet me there tonight and let me know that it’s not all in my mind
- Meet me there tonight
- Let me know that it’s not all in my mind
- Dust off your highest hopes
- Oh my, what a marvelous tune
- It was the best night
- The whole place is dressed to the nines
- I met Bobby by the boardwalk
- We were seventeen, crazy and running wild
- Can’t remember what song it was playing when we walked in, the night we snuck into a yacht club party
- We were dancing like we were made of starlight
- Look at you, worrying so much about things you can’t change. You’ll spend your whole life singing the blues if you keep thinking that way
- Look at you worrying so much about things you can’t change.
- You’ll spend your whole life singing the blues if you keep thinking that way
- Don’t you see the starlight?
- Don’t you dream impossible things?
- He’s talking crazy
- We could get married, have ten kids and teach them how to dream
- We could get married
- He didn’t like it when I wore high heels, but I do
- He didn’t like it when I wore high heels
- You always said you didn’t get this song, but I do
- You always said you didn’t get this song
- I was expecting that you’d be late
- You don’t know how nice that is
- You throw your head back laughing like a little kid
- I think it’s strange that you think I’m funny 'cause he never did
- I’ve been spending the last eight months thinking all love ever does is break and burn and end
- You’re coming off a little shy
- I’ve never met one girl who had as many James Taylor records as I do
- For the first time, what’s past is past
- On a Wednesday in a café, I watched it begin again
- You should have been there
- You should have burst through the door with that ‘baby, I’m here’ smile
- I would have been so happy
- People were asking me how I’ve been as I combed back through my memory about how you said you’d be here
- You said you’d be here
- It was like slow motion, standing there in my party dress in red lipstick with no one to impress
- There was one thing missing
- That was the moment I knew
- I just wanna be alone
- Your close friends always seem to know when there’s something really wrong
- I’m trying not to fall apart
- He said he’d be here
- What do you say when tears are streaming down your face in front of everyone you know?
- What do you do when the one who means the most to you is the one who didn’t show?
- I’m sorry I didn’t make it
- I’m sorry too
- How strange that I don’t know you at all
- Don’t get attached
- In my mind, I play it back, spinning faster than the plane that took you
- I don’t wanna miss you like this
- Come back, be here
- I guess you’re in New York today
- I don’t wanna need you this way
- If I had known what I know now I never would’ve played so nonchalant
- I can’t help but wish you took me with you
- I guess you’re in London today
- This is falling in love in the cruelest way
- This is falling for you when you are worlds away
- I’m in New York, be here —- but you’re in London, and I break down cause it’s not fair that you’re not around
- Cause it’s not fair that you’re not around
- Don’t look at me, you got a girl at home and everybody knows that
- Don’t look at me, you got someone at home
- I don’t even know her
- I don’t even know her but I feel a responsibility to do what’s upstanding and right
- I feel a responsibility to do what’s upstanding and right
- It’s kind of like a code
- You’ve been getting closer and closer and crossing so many lines
- Honey, I am no one’s exception
- It would be a fine proposition if I was a stupid girl
- It would be a fine proposition if I was stupid
- I see you turned off your phone now that you’ve got me alone
- I just want to make sure you understand perfectly that you’re the kind of man who makes me sad
- I just want to make sure you understand perfectly
- You’re the kind of man who makes me sad
- While she waits up, you chase down the newest thing and take for granted what you have
- Call a cab, lose my number
- You’re about to lose your girl
- Let’s consider this lesson learned
- It would be a fine proposition if I hadn’t once been just like her
- I’m probably better off on my own
- I see the permanent damage you did to me
- I just wish I could forget when it was magic
- I’m probably better off on my own than loving a man who didn’t know what he had
- The bravest thing I ever did was run
- Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I can feel you again
- But I just miss you
- We had to say goodbye
- I just wish you were a better man
- I’m probably better off all alone than needing a man who could change his mind at any given minute
- It was always on your terms
- I waited on every careless word and hoped it might turn sweet again
- Your jealousy, I can hear it now!
- You’re talking down to me like I’ll always be around
- You push my love away like it was some kind of loaded gun
- I never thought you’d run
- I hold onto this pride because these days it’s all I have
- I gave to you my best and we both know you can’t say that
- I wonder what we would’ve become if you were a better man
- We might still be in love if you were a better man
- You would’ve been the one if you were a better man
- They tell you while you’re young “Girls, go out and have your fun“ then they hunt and slay the ones who actually do it
- People criticize the way you fly when you’re soaring through the sky and shoot you down and then they sigh and say, “She looks like she’s been through it”
- She looks like she’s been through it
- You look like you’ve been through it
- Lord what will become of me once I’ve lost my novelty
- Lord what will become of me
- I’ve had too much to drink tonight
- I know it’s sad but this is what I think about
- It’s like I can feel time moving
- I’m getting older and less sure of what you like about me anyway
- How can a person know everything at 18 and nothing at 22
- Will you still want me when I’m nothing new?
- How long will it be cute?
- How long will it be cute? All this crying in my room when you can’t blame it on my youth and roll your eyes with affection and my cheeks are growing tired from turning red and faking smiles
- You can’t blame it on my youth
- My cheeks are tired from turning red and faking smiles
- Are we only biding time till I lose your attention?
- People love an ingénue
- I know someday I’m gonna meet her
- It’s a fever dream, the kind of radiance you only have at seventeen
- She’ll know the way and then she’ll say she got the map from me
- I’ll say I’m happy for her then I’ll cry myself to sleep
- You broke the sweetest promise that you never should have made
- You said “no one else”, so how could you do this?
- You really blew this
- We aren’t getting through this one.
- This is the last time you’ll get to hear me call you babe
- Your face doesn’t look so innocent
- Your secret has a consequence and that’s on you
- I break down every time you call
- I keep picturing her lips on your neck
- I can’t un-see it
- I hate that because of you, I can’t love you
- What about your promises?
- I know that you like me and it’s kinda frightening standing here waiting
- I became hypnotized by freckles and bright eyes
- Now you’re so far away and I’m down feeling like a face in the crowd
- I’m reaching for you, terrified.
- You could be the one that I love
- I could be the one that you dream of
- Sending a message in a bottle is all I can do standing here, hoping it gets to you
- You could be the one that I keep, and I can be the reason you can’t sleep at night
- You could be the one that I keep
- I can be the reason you can’t sleep at night
- These days I’m restless
- Workdays are endless
- Look how you made me but time moves faster, replaying your laughter
- How is it in London?
- Where are you while I’m wondering if I’ll ever see you again?
- You could be the one that I love and now I’m standing here, hoping it gets to you
- You could be the one that I love
I BET YOU THINK ABOUT ME (FEAT. CHRIS STAPLETON)
- I’ll bet you’re just fine
- The girl in your bed has a fine pedigree
- I’ll bet your friends tell you she’s better than me
- I tried to fit in with your upper-crust circles
- they let me sit in back when we were in love
- They sit around talking about the meaning of life and the book that just saved them that I hadn’t heard of
- Now that we’re done and it’s over, I bet you couldn’t believe it when you realized I’m harder to forget than I was to leave
- I’m harder to forget than I was to leave
- I bet you think about me
- You grew up in a silver-spoon gated community, I was raised on a farm, no, it wasn’t a mansion
- You grew up in a silver-spoon gated community
- I was raised on a farm
- You know what they say, you can’t help who you fall for and you and I fell like an early spring snow
- You can’t help who you fall for
- You said we’re too different
- You laughed at my dreams, rolled your eyes at my jokes
- Do you have all the space that you need?
- I don’t have to be your shrink to know that you’ll never be happy
- Why did you let her go?
- Does it make you feel sad?
- Does it make you feel sad that the love that you’re looking for is the love that you had?
- Now you’re out in the world, searching for your soul. Scared not to be hip, scared to get old
- You’re chasing make-believe status
- You’re chasing make-believe status, when last time you felt free was when none of that shit mattered 'cause you were with me
- I bet you think about me when you’re out at your cool indie music concerts every week
- I bet you think about me in your house with your organic shoes and your million-dollar couch
- I bet you think about me when you say “Oh my god, she’s insane, she wrote a song about me”
- Oh my god, she’s insane, she wrote a song about me
- Oh my god, she’s insane
- She wrote a song about me
- He says he doesn’t believe anything much he hears these days
- Why fall in love, just so you can watch it go away?
- He spends most of his nights wishing it was how it used to be
- It’s not just a phase I’m in
- All this time I didn’t know you were breaking down
- I didn’t know you were breaking down
- I’d fall to pieces on the floor if you weren’t around
- I’ll be summer sun for you forever, but forever winter if you go
- I’ll be summer sun for you forever
- I’ll be forever winter if you go
- He seems fine most of the time, forcing smiles and never minds
- His laugh is symphony
- When the lights go out it’s hard to breathe
- I pull at every thread trying to solve the puzzles in his head
- I live my life scared to death he’ll decide to leave instead
- I live my life scared to death you’ll decide to leave instead
- You’re up at 5am, wasted
- If I was standing there in your apartment I’d take that bomb in your head and disarm it
- I’d take that bomb in your head
- I’d say I love you even at your darkest
- Please don’t go
- Believe in one thing, I won’t go away
- Give me the keys, I’ll bring the car back around
- We shouldn’t be in this town
- My so-called friends, they don’t know I’d drive away before I let you go
- So give me a reason and don’t say no
- There’s a chain 'round your throat, piece of paper where I wrote “I’ll wait for you”
- I’ll wait for you
- We can go where our eyes can take us
- We can go where no one else is
- Darling, let’s run
- You laugh like a child
- Sing like no one cares
- I could see this view a hundred times
- There’s a heart on your sleeve and I’ll take it when I leave and hold it for you
- I’ll take it when I leave
- There’s been this hole in my heart
- This thing was a shot in the dark
- Say you’ll never let 'em tear us apart
- I’ll hold onto you while we run
- I wish I could fly and pick you up and we’d go back in time
- I miss you
- I miss you like it was the very first night
- So it goes, every weekend the same party
- I never go alone, so I don’t seem broken hearted
- My friends all say they know everything I’m going through
- I drive down different roads but they all lead back to you
- They don’t know about the night in the hotel
- They don’t know how much I miss you
- We never saw it coming
- We weren’t trying to fall in love
- We weren’t trying to fall in love but we did like children running
- Back then we didn’t know we were built to fall apart
- We broke the status quo and we broke each other’s hearts
- Don’t forget about the night out in L.A
- No one knows about the words that we whisper
- No one knows how much I miss you
- Take me away
- Take me away to you
- I wish that we could go back in time
- I wish that we could go back in time and I’d say to you I miss like you it was the first time
- I miss like you it was the first time
ALL TOO WELL (10 MINUTE VERSION)
- Fuck the patriarchy
- I was thinking on the drive down, any time now you’re gonna say it’s love and, you never called it what it was till we were dead and gone and buried
- You never called it what it was till we were dead and gone and buried
- All I felt was shame and you held my lifeless frame
- All I felt was shame
- You kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath
- We’d swear to remember it all too well
- They say all’s well that ends well but I’m in a new hell every time you double cross my mind
- You said if we had been closer in age maybe it would have been fine and that made me want to die
- The idea you had of me who was she, a never needing ever lovely jewel whose shine reflects on you
- It’s supposed to be fun turning twenty-one
- I was never good at telling jokes but the punch line goes I’ll get older but your lovers stay my age
- You’ll get older but your lovers stay my age
- I was never good at telling jokes
- I’m a soldier who’s returning half her weight
- Did the twin flame bruise paint you blue?
- Just between us did the love affair maim you too?
- This city’s barren cold I still remember the first fall of snow and how it glistened as it fell
- It was all over the place
- It was a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end
- Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild and tortured by memories past
- I love you guys
