Taylor Swift stole the show at Saturday Night Live. She performed the song ‘All Too Well’ from her newly re-recorded ‘Red’ (Taylor‘s Version) album. The song originally had five minutes in length, and now it’s stretched to ten. While she was on stage, the short film accompanying the new version of the song was projected in the background, starring Sadie Sink (‘Stranger Things’) and Dylan O‘Brien (’The Maze Runner‘, ’Teen Wolf‘ ... ). The short film was written by the artist herself.
© GettyImages‘All Too Well’ tells the story of her experience after breaking up with actor Jake Gyllenhaal in 2010, when Taylor was 21 and Jake 29. Rumors about the break up suggested that Gyllenhaal was not comfortable with the media attention they began to receive, nor with the age difference between the two.
‘All Too Well’ Lyrics
Verse 1
I walked through the door with you, the air was coldBut something ‘bout it felt like home somehowAnd I left my scarf there at your sister‘s houseAnd you‘ve still got it in your drawer, even nowOh, your sweet disposition and my wide-eyed gazeWe‘re singing in the car, getting lost upstateAutumn leaves falling down like pieces into placeAnd I can picture it after all these days
Pre-Chorus And I know it‘s long gone andThat magic‘s not here no moreAnd I might be okay, but I‘m not fine at allOh, oh, oh
Verse 2
Photo album on the counter, your cheeks were turning redYou used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bedAnd your mother‘s telling stories ’bout you on the tee-ball teamYou tell me ‘bout your past, thinking your future was meAnd you were tossing me the car keys, fuck the patriarchyKey chain on the ground, we were always skipping townAnd I was thinking on the drive down, any time nowHe‘s gonna say it’s love, you never called it what it was‘Til we were dead and gone and buriedCheck the pulse and come back swearing it‘s the sameAfter three months in the graveAnd then you wondered where it went to as I reached for youBut all I felt was shame and you held my lifeless frame
Pre-Chorus And I know it‘s long gone andThat magic‘s not here no moreAnd I might be okay, but I‘m not fine at allOh, oh, oh
Chorus
‘Cause there we are again in the middle of the nightWe‘re dancing ’round the kitchen in the refrigerator lightDown the stairs, I was thereI remember it all too wellAnd there we are again when nobody had to knowYou kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oathSacred prayer, and we‘d swearTo remember it all too well, yeah
Bridge
Well maybe we got lost in translationMaybe I asked for too muchBut maybe this thing was a masterpiece‘Til you tore it all upRunning scared, I was thereI remember it all too wellAnd you call me up againJust to break me like a promiseSo casually cruel in the name of being honestI‘m a crumpled up piece of paper lying here‘Cause I remember it all, all, all
Verse 3
They say all‘s well that ends wellBut I‘m in a new hell every time you double-cross my mindYou said if we had been closer in age maybe it would have been fineAnd that made me want to dieThe idea you had of me, who was she?A never-needy ever lovely jewel whose shine reflects on youNot weeping in a party bathroomSome actress asking me what happened, you, that‘s what happened, youYou who charmed my dad with self-effacing jokesSipping coffee like you‘re on a late night showBut then he watched me watch the front door all night, willing you to comeAnd he said, “It‘s supposed to be fun turning twenty-one”
Chorus
Time won‘t fly, it’s like I‘m paralyzed by itI‘d like to be my old self again, but I’m still trying to find itAfter plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your ownNow you mail back my things and I walk home aloneBut you keep my old scarf from that very first week‘Cause it reminds you of innocence and it smells like meYou can‘t get rid of it‘Cause you remember it all too well, yeah‘Cause there we are again when I loved you soBack before you lost the one real thing you‘ve ever known
Post-Chorus
It was rare, I was thereI remember it all too wellWind in my hair, you were thereYou remember it allDown the stairs, you were thereYou remember it allIt was rare, I was thereI remember it all too well
Verse 4
And I was never good at telling jokes but the punch line goesI‘ll get older but your lovers stay my ageFrom when your Brooklyn broke my skin and bonesI‘m a soldier who’s returning half her weightAnd did the twin flame bruise paint you blue?Just between us, did the love affair maim you too?‘Cause in this city’s barren cold, I still remember the first fall of snowAnd how it glistened as it fell, I remember it all too well
Outro
Just between us, did the love affair maim you all too well?Just between us, do you remember it all too well?Just between us, I remember it (Just between us) all too wellWind in my hair, I was there, I was thereDown the stairs, I was there, I was thereSacred prayer, I was there, I was thereIt was rare, you remember it all too wellWind in my hair, I was there, I was thereDown the stairs, I was there, I was thereSacred prayer, I was there, I was thereIt was rare, you remember itWind in my hair, I was there, I was thereDown the stairs, I was there, I was thereSacred prayer, I was there, I was thereIt was rare, you remember itWind in my hair, I was there, I was thereDown the stairs, I was there, I was thereSacred prayer, I was there, I was thereIt was rare, you remember it
