Is 'All Too Well' 10 Minutes On Taylor Swift'S 'Red

Taylor Swift"s "All Too Well" from her 2012 album, Red,may be the most popular of her songs that was never released as a single. The tune, which fans especially grasped onto, finds Swift recalling memories of a past relationship that were, at the time, happy memories, but now only bring her pain. The emotion of Swift"s voice pours out in the over five-minute tuy nhiên, and it has been said that the tune was written about her relationship with actor Jake Gyllenhaal. "All Too Well" was the first song Swift wrote for her Redalbum, and she did so with frequent collaborator Liz Rose. Swift says "All Too Well" was one of the hardest songs for her to lớn write, và she also revealed that the tuy vậy was originally ten minutes long.

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"All Too Well" because it took me a really long time lớn filter through everything I wanted to put in the song without it being a 10 minute song, which you can"t put on an album," she once told Good Morning America(quote via Hollywood Life). "I wanted a story that could work in the khung of a tuy vậy & I called my co-writer Liz Rose and said, "Come over, we"ve gotta filter this down," & it took me a really long time lớn get it."


Swift also told Rolling Stone"s 500 Greakiểm tra Albumspodcast that the original, ten-minute version of the song also featured an f-bomb by the singer.

"It included the F-word and basically I remember my sound guy was like, "Hey, I burned a CD of that thing that you were doing in case you want it." And I was like, "Sure,"" she explained.

The inspiration for the song was allegedly Swift"s relationship with Gyllenhaal, but the words simply poured out of the singer -- especially one famous line that came to lớn her during a soundcheck "rant."

"The lyric I"m most proud of is from "All Too Well": "And you call me up again just lớn break me like a promise / so casually cruel in the name of being honest." That was something I came up with while ranting during a soundkiểm tra," Swift told Popdust. I was just playing these chords over & over onstage & my band joined in and I went on a rant. Those were some of the lines I thought of."

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The tuy vậy features vivid và tangible pictures of her memories from the relationship, such as the cold air, the singer"s "wide-eyed gaze," "getting lost upstate," "autumn leaves falling down," driving down a "little town street," khiêu vũ in the refrigerator light (in the middle of the night), & "plaid shirt days." However, one of the strongest visuals in the song is the one of her scarf, which she left at her ex-partner"s sister"s house, & remains there as a sort of artifact of their relationship. Of course, fans surmise that Swift is singing about Gyllenhaal"s sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, in this line.


The song"s original recording features country-leaning elements, but Swift has performed the tuy nhiên many times using piano, which she showcased at the năm trước Grammy Awards.


Although "All Too Well" was never officially released as a single, it charted at No. 17 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart và No. 80 on the Billboard Hot 100. It has also received overwhelming critical acclalặng, with Rolling Stoneranking it as the best tuy nhiên in her catalog và one of the best songs of the 2010s.

"All Too Well" will be getting a revamp very soon, as Swift is re-recording her old albums in an effort to lớn finally own her own masters, which are still legally owned by her old record label, Big Machine. The singer has already released the new version of her sophomore album, Fearless,which she calls Fearless (Taylor"s Version).The new version of Redwill, of course, feature the other songs from the album, including "State of Grace," "Red," "We Are Never Ever Getting Baông xã Together," "The Last Time," "Sad Beautiful Tragic," và more. Taylor Swift fans are already theorizing about whether Swift will release the ten-minute version of the tuy vậy with the new version of Red.

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Swift will also be re-recording her self-titled debut album, Speak Now,1989,và likely,Reputation.

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I walked through the door with youThe air was coldBut something about it felt like home page somehowAnd I, left my scarf there at your sister"s houseAnd you"ve still got it in your drawer even now
Oh, your sweet dispositionAnd my wide-eyed gazeWe"re singing in the oto, getting lost upstateAutumn leaves falling down like pieces into placeAnd I can picture it after all these days
And I know it"s long gone & that magic"s not here no moreAnd I might be okay but I"m not fine at all
"Cause there we are again on that little town streetYou almost ran the red "cause you were lookin" over at meWind in my hair, I was thereI remember it all too well
Phokhổng lồ album on the counterYour 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 told me "bout your past thinking your future was me
And I know it"s long gone & there was nothing else I could doAnd I forget about you long enough to lớn forget why I needed to
"Cause there we are again in the middle of the nightWe"re nhảy đầm "round the kitchen in the refrigerator lightDown the stairs, I was thereI rethành viên it all too well, yeah
And 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 rethành viên it all too well
And you call me up again just to lớn 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, allToo well
Time won"t fly, it"s lượt thích I"m paralyzed by itI"d lượt thích khổng lồ be my old self againBut I"m still trying to lớn find itAfter plaid shirt days và nights when you made me your ownNow you mail baông xã my things và I walk home aloneBut you keep my old scarf from that very first week"Cause it reminds you of innocenceAnd 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 soBaông chồng before you lost the one real thing you"ve ever knownIt was rare, I was there, I rethành viên it all too well
Wind in my hair, you were there, you remember it allDown the stairs, you were there, you rethành viên it allIt was rare, I was there, I rethành viên it all too well