TAYLOR SWIFT / RED (TAYLORโS VERSION) EXPLICIT
These lyrics are from Taylor Swiftโs 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 โ it felt inappropriate to use lyrics from the song for roleplay memes, and thus has been omitted.
All we know is touch and goย
We fall in love โtil it hurts or bleeds or fades in time
You come around and the armour falls
You pierce the room like a cannonball
You were never a saint and Iโve loved in shades of wrongย
We learn to live with the pain
This love is brave and wild
This is a worthwhile fight
Love is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right
Youโre 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 youโre already flying through the freefall
Losing you was blue like Iโve never known
Missing you was dark grey, all alone
Forgetting you was like trying to know somebody youโve never met
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 thereโs no right answer
I wish I never found out love could be that strong
Remembering comes in flashbacks and echoes
Moving on from you is impossible when I still see it all in my head, burning red
Youโre spinning around my head
Put your lips close to mine, as long as they donโt touch
Iโll do anything you say, if you say it with your hands
Iโd be smart to walk away, but youโre quicksand
Iโd be smart to walk away
This slope is treacherous
This slope is treacherous and I like it
I canโt decide if itโs a choice, getting swept away
All we are is skin and bone trained to get alone
Iโm forever going with the flow, but youโre friction
Your name has echoed through my mind
Nothing safe is worth the drive
This daydream is reckless
I guess you didnโt care
I guess you didnโt care, and I guess I liked that
When I fell hard, you took a step back without me
Heโs long gone when heโs next to me
I realise the blame is on me
I knew you were trouble when you walked in
You flew me to places Iโd never been
Now Iโm lying on the cold hard ground
Youโll never see my cry
He pretends he doesnโt know that heโs the reason why Iโm drowning
You pretend you donโt know that youโre the reason why Iโm drowning
I heard youโve moved on
A new notch in your belt, thatโs all Iโll 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, or her, or anyone, or anything
Something about it felt like home, somehow
I left my scarf at your sisterโs place
We were singing in the car, getting lost upstate
I can picture it after all these days
I know that magicโs not here
I might be okay, but Iโm not fine at all
You almost ran the red while you were looking at me
I remember it all too well
You used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bedย
Your motherโs telling stories โbout you on the tee-ball teamย
You told me about your past, thinking your futureโs with me
I know itโs long gone and there was nothing else I could doย
There was nothing else I could doย
I forget about you long enough to forget why I needed toย
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
Youโre so casually cruel in the name of being honest
Time wonโt fly, itโs like Iโm paralyzed by it
Iโd like to be my old self again, but Iโm still trying to find it
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
Weโre happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time
Itโs miserable and magical
I donโt know about you, but Iโm feeling twenty-two
You donโt know about me
You donโt 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
Whoโs Taylor Swift anyway?
It feels like one of those nights where we ditch the whole scene
Weโll end up dreaming instead of sleeping
Weโre happy, free, confused, and lonely in the best wayย
You look like bad news, I gotta have you
I bet this time of night youโre still up
I bet youโre 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 youย
I wish I could run to you
I wish I could run to you, I hope you know that every time I donโt, I almost do
I hope you know that every time I donโt, I almost do
I bet it never, ever, occurred to you that I canโt say hello to you and risk another goodbyeย
Each time you reach out, thereโs no replyย
We made quite a mess, babe
Itโs probably better off this way
I confess that in my dreams youโre 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, Iโve had enough
We hadnโt seen each other in a month after you said you needed space
I miss you and I swear Iโm gonna change - trust me
Remember how that lasted for a day?
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
So he calls me up and heโs like โI still love youโ and Iโm like, โthis is exhausting, okay we are never getting back together, like everโ
Iโm pretty sure we almost broke up last night
I was expecting some dramatic turn away
I read you should never leave a fight unresolvedย
Iโve been loving you for some time
You think itโs funny when Iโm mad
I think itโs best if we both stay
I only dated self indulgent takers who took all their problems out on me
I love you because youโve 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
Itโs been occurring to me Iโd like to hang out with you, for my whole life
Iโll 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)
Iโm not sure how I got thereย
All roads, they led me here
Iโm not sure how I got there, all roads, they led me here
This is the last time Iโm asking you this
Put my name at the top of your list
This is the last time Iโm asking you why you break my heart in the blink of an eye
This is this last time Iโm 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
This is the last time you tell me you got it wrong
This is the last time I say itโs been you all alone
Itโs been you all along
This is the last time Iโll let you in my door
This this is last time, I wonโt hurt you anymore
I wonโt hurt you anymore
This is the last time Iโm asking you
I was reminiscing just the other day while having coffee
You fit in my poems like a perfect rhymeย
I left a note on the door
Right where we stood was holy ground
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 nowย
I see your face in every crowdย
Tonight, Iโm gonna dance for all that weโve been throughย
I donโt wanna dance if Iโm not dancing with youย
Iโm gonna dance like you were in this room
Words, how little they mean, when youโre a little too late
Good girls, hopeful theyโll be and long they will waitย
We had a beautiful magic love affair
What a sad, beautiful, tragic love affairย
We both wake in lonely beds, different citiesย
Time is taking its sweet time erasing youย
Youโve got your demons and darling, they all look like me
Kiss me, try to fix it, could you just try to listen?ย
Could you just try to listen?ย
For the life of us we canโt get back
In the angelโs city, chasing fortune and fame
The camera flashes make it look like a dreamย
You had it figured out since you were in schoolย
Everybody loves pretty, everybody loves cool
Theyโll tell you now, youโre the lucky one
Can you tell me now if youโre the lucky one?
Your lover in the foyer doesnโt even know youย
Your secrets ended up splashed on the news front page
They tell me that Iโm lucky, but Iโm so confusedย
They tell me that Iโm lucky, but Iโm so confused - because I donโt feel pretty, I just feel used
I donโt feel pretty, I just feel used
I wonder if Iโll 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
Let me tell you now, youโre the lucky one
EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED (FT. ED SHEERAN)
All I knew this morning when I woke is I know something now I didnโt beforeย
All Iโve 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
Youโll be mine and Iโll be yoursย
All I know since yesterday is everything has changed
I feel in my stomach is butterfliesย
Come back and tell me why Iโm feeling like Iโve missed you all this timeย
Iโm feeling like Iโve missed you all this timeย
Meet me there tonight and let me know that itโs not all in my mindย
Let me know that itโs not all in my mindย
Dust off your highest hopesย
Oh my, what a marvelous tune
The whole place is dressed to the nines
I met Bobby by the boardwalk
We were seventeen, crazy and running wild
Canโt 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 canโt change. Youโll spend your whole life singing the blues if you keep thinking that way
Look at you worrying so much about things you canโt change.
Youโll spend your whole life singing the blues if you keep thinking that way
Donโt you see the starlight?
Donโt you dream impossible things?
We could get married, have ten kids and teach them how to dream
He didnโt like it when I wore high heels, but I do
He didnโt like it when I wore high heels
You always said you didnโt get this song, but I do
You always said you didnโt get this song
I was expecting that youโd be late
You donโt know how nice that is
You throw your head back laughing like a little kid
I think itโs strange that you think Iโm funny 'cause he never didย
Iโve been spending the last eight months thinking all love ever does is break and burn and endย
Youโre coming off a little shy
Iโve never met one girl who had as many James Taylor records as I do
For the first time, whatโs past is pastย
On a Wednesday in a cafรฉ, I watched it begin againย
You should have been there
You should have burst through the door with that โbaby, Iโm hereโ smile
I would have been so happy
People were asking me how Iโve been as I combed back through my memory about how you said youโd be here
You said youโd be hereย
It was like slow motion, standing there in my party dress in red lipstick with no one to impressย
There was one thing missing
That was the moment I knew
Your close friends always seem to know when thereโs something really wrong
Iโm trying not to fall apart
What do you say when tears are streaming down your face in front of everyone you know?ย
What do you do when the one who means the most to you is the one who didnโt show?ย
Iโm sorry I didnโt make it
How strange that I donโt know you at all
In my mind, I play it back, spinning faster than the plane that took youย
I donโt wanna miss you like thisย
I guess youโre in New York today
I donโt wanna need you this wayย
If I had known what I know now I never wouldโve played so nonchalantย
I canโt help but wish you took me with youย
I guess youโre in London todayย
This is falling in love in the cruelest way
This is falling for you when you are worlds away
Iโm in New York, be here โ- but youโre in London, and I break downย cause itโs not fair that youโre not aroundย
Cause itโs not fair that youโre not around
Donโt look at me, you got a girl at home and everybody knows that
Donโt look at me, you got someone at homeย
I donโt even know herย ย
I donโt even know her but I feel a responsibility to do whatโs upstanding and right
I feel a responsibility to do whatโs upstanding and rightย
Itโs kind of like a code
Youโve been getting closer and closer and crossing so many linesย
Honey, I am no oneโs exceptionย
It would be a fine proposition if I was a stupid girlย
It would be a fine proposition if I was stupidย
I see you turned off your phone now that youโve got me aloneย
I just want to make sure you understand perfectly that youโre the kind of man who makes me sadย
I just want to make sure you understand perfectly
Youโre the kind of man who makes me sadย
While she waits up, you chase down the newest thing and take for granted what you haveย
Call a cab, lose my number
Youโre about to lose your girl
Letโs consider this lesson learnedย
It would be a fine proposition if I hadnโt once been just like her
Iโm probably better off on my ownย
I see the permanent damage you did to me
I just wish I could forget when it was magicย
Iโm probably better off on my own than loving a man who didnโt know what he had
The bravest thing I ever did was runย
Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I can feel you againย
I just wish you were a better manย
Iโm probably better off all alone than needing a man who could change his mind at any given minuteย
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!
Youโre talking down to me like Iโll always be aroundย
You push my love away like it was some kind of loaded gunย
I never thought youโd run
I hold onto this pride because these days itโs all I haveย
I gave to you my best and we both know you canโt say thatย
I wonder what we wouldโve become if you were a better manย
We might still be in love if you were a better manย
You wouldโve been the one if you were a better man
They tell you while youโre young โGirls, go out and have your funโ then they hunt andโ
slayโ
the ones who actuallyโ
do it
People criticize the way you fly whenโ
youโre soaring through the sky and shoot you down and then they sigh and say, โShe looks like sheโs been through itโ
She looks like sheโs been through itย
You look like youโve been through it
Lord what will become of me once Iโve lost my noveltyย
Lord what will become of me
Iโve had too much to drink tonightย
I know itโs sad but this is what I think about
Itโs like I can feel time moving
Iโm getting older and less sure of what you like about me anywayย
How can aโ
personโ
know everything atโ
18 and nothing at 22ย
Will you still want me when Iโm nothing new?
How long will it be cute?
How long will it be cute? All this crying in my room when you canโt blame it on my youth and roll your eyes with affection and my cheeks are growing tired from turning red and faking smiles
You canโt 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?
I know someday Iโm gonna meet her
Itโs a fever dream, the kind of radiance you only have at seventeen
Sheโll know the way and then sheโll say she got the map from me
Iโll say Iโm happy for her then Iโll cry myself to sleep
You broke the sweetest promise that you never should have made
You said โno one elseโ, so how could you do this?
We arenโt getting through this one.
This is the last time youโll get to hear me call you babe
Your face doesnโt look so innocent
Your secret has a consequence and thatโs on you
I break down every time you call
I keep picturing her lips on your neck
I hate that because of you, I canโt love you
What about your promises?
I know that you like me and itโs kinda frightening standing here waiting
I became hypnotized by freckles and bright eyes
Now youโre so far away and Iโm down feeling like a face in the crowd
Iโm 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 canโt sleep at night
You could be the one that I keepย
I can be the reason you canโt sleep at night
These days Iโm restless
Look how you made me but time moves faster, replaying your laughter
Where are you while Iโm wondering if Iโll ever see you again?
You could be the one that I love and now Iโm standing here, hoping it gets to you
You could be the one that I love
I BET YOU THINK ABOUT ME (FEAT. CHRIS STAPLETON)
Iโll bet youโre just fine
The girl in your bed has a fine pedigreeย
Iโll bet your friends tell you sheโs better than meย
I tried to fit in with your upper-crust circlesย
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 hadnโt heard ofย
Now that weโre done and itโs over, I bet you couldnโt believe it when you realized Iโm harder to forget than I was to leave
Iโm harder to forget than I was to leave
I bet you think about meย
You grew up in a silver-spoon gated community, I was raised on a farm, no, it wasnโt a mansion
You grew up in a silver-spoon gated community
You know what they say, you canโt help who you fall for and you and I fell like an early spring snow
You canโt help who you fall for
You said weโre too different
You laughed at my dreams, rolled your eyes at my jokesย
Do you have all the space that you need?
I donโt have to be your shrink to know that youโll never be happyย
Does it make you feel sad?
Does it make you feel sad that the love that youโre looking for is the love that you had?ย
Now youโre out in the world, searching for your soul. Scared not to be hip, scared to get old
Youโre chasing make-believe status
Youโre 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 youโre 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 โOh my god, sheโs insane, she wrote a song about meโ
Oh my god, sheโs insane, she wrote a song about me
Oh my god, sheโs insaneย
She wrote a song about me
He says he doesnโt believe anything much he hears these daysย
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
Itโs not just a phase Iโm in
All this time I didnโt know you were breaking down
I didnโt know you were breaking down
Iโd fall to pieces on the floor if you werenโt around
Iโll be summer sun for you forever, but forever winter if you go
Iโll be summer sun for you forever
Iโll be forever winter if you go
He seems fine most of the time, forcing smiles and never minds
When the lights go out itโs hard to breathe
I pull at every thread trying to solve the puzzles in his head
I live my life scared to death heโll decide to leave instead
I live my life scared to death youโll decide to leave insteadย
Youโre up at 5am, wasted
If I was standing there in your apartment Iโd take that bomb in your head and disarm it
Iโd take that bomb in your head
Iโd say I love you even at your darkest
Believe in one thing, I wonโt go away
Give me the keys, Iโll bring the car back around
We shouldnโt be in this town
My so-called friends, they donโt know Iโd drive away before I let you go
So give me a reason and donโt say no
Thereโs a chain 'round your throat, piece of paper where I wrote โIโll wait for youโ
We can go where our eyes can take us
We can go where no one else is
I could see this view a hundred times
Thereโs a heart on your sleeve and Iโll take it when I leave and hold it for you
Iโll take it when I leave
Thereโs been this hole in my heart
This thing was a shot in the dark
Say youโll never let 'em tear us apart
Iโll hold onto you while we run
I wish I could fly and pick you up and weโd go back in time
I miss you like it was the very first night
So it goes, every weekend the same party
I never go alone, so I donโt seem broken hearted
My friends all say they know everything Iโm going through
I drive down different roads but they all lead back to you
They donโt know about the night in the hotel
They donโt know how much I miss youย
We werenโt ย trying to fall in love
We werenโtย trying to fall in love but we did like children running
Back then we didnโt know we were built to fall apart
We broke the status quo and we broke each otherโs hearts
Donโt 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
I wish that we could go back in time
I wish that we could go back in time and Iโd say to you I miss like you it was the first timeย
I miss like you it was the first time
ALL TOO WELL (10 MINUTE VERSION)
I was thinking on the drive down, any time now youโre gonna say itโs 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 frameย
You kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath
Weโd swear to remember it all too well
They say allโs well that ends well but Iโm 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
Itโs supposed to be fun turning twenty-oneย
I was never good at telling jokes but the punch line goes Iโll get older but your lovers stay my age
ย Youโll get older but your lovers stay my age
I was never good at telling jokes
Iโm a soldier whoโs returning half her weight
Did the twin flame bruise paint you blue?
Just between us did the love affair maim you too?
This cityโs 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
