Taylor Swift - Speak Now Songbook Quotes

“Bring on all the pretenders!”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift - Speak Now Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

“Back To December is a song that addresses a first for me. In that I've never apologized in a song before. Whether it be good or bad or an apology. The person I wrote this song about deserves this. This is about a person who was incredible to me- just perfect in a relationship- and I was very careless with him. So, this is a song full of words that I would say to him that he deserves to hear.


I’ve never felt the need to apologize in a song before, but in the last two years I’ve experienced a lot, a lot of different kinds of learning lessons And sometimes you learn a lesson too late and at that point you need to apologize because you were careless. ['Back To December'] is about a person who was incredible to me, just perfect to me in a relationship, and I was really careless with him

I’ve written songs about things like burning my ex boyfriends pictures… I’ve written songs about the times that I’ve been hurt by love. But then one day I woke up and realized that I had hurt somebody… And so I wrote this song to tell him I’m sorry”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift - Speak Now Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

“It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you've been. You're still an innocent. It's okay life is a tough crowd, 32 is still growing up now.”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift - Speak Now Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

“Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles
Same old tired, lonely place”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift - Speak Now Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

“I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift - Speak Now Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

“And for once a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift - Speak Now Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

“Say it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you'll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying 'I could've, but it's too late now.”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift - Speak Now Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

“Promise me this, that you'll stand by me forever. But if God forbid Fate should step in and force us into a goodbye. If you have children someday, when they point to the pictures please tell them my name. Tell them how the crowd went wild, tell them how I hope they shine.”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift - Speak Now Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

“Please don't be in love with someone else. Please don't have somebody waiting on you.”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift - Speak Now Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar