Taylor Swift - All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Live on Saturday Night Live)
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- Ladies and gentlemen, Taylor Swift.
(audience cheering and clapping)
(gentle music)
♪ I walked through the door with you ♪
♪ The air was cold ♪
♪ But something 'bout it
felt like home somehow ♪
♪ And I left my scarf there
at your sister's house ♪
♪ And you've still got it
in your drawer, even now ♪
(gentle upbeat music)
♪ Oh, your sweet disposition
and my wide-eyed gaze ♪
♪ We're singing in the
car, getting lost upstate ♪
♪ Autumn leaves falling down
like pieces into place ♪
♪ And I can picture it
after all these days ♪
♪ And I know it's long gone ♪
♪ And that magic's not here no more ♪
♪ And I might be okay,
but I'm not fine at all ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ 'Cause there we are again
on that little town street ♪
♪ You almost ran the red 'cause
you were lookin' over at me ♪
♪ Wind in my hair, I was there ♪
♪ I remember it all too well ♪
♪ Photo album on the counter ♪
♪ Your cheeks were turning red ♪
♪ You used to be a
little kid with glasses ♪
♪ In a twin-sized bed ♪
♪ And your mother's
telling stories 'bout you ♪
♪ On the tee-ball team ♪
♪ You told me 'bout your past,
thinking your future was me ♪
♪ And you were tossing me the car keys ♪
♪ Fuck the patriarchy ♪
♪ Key chain on the ground ♪
♪ We were always skipping town ♪
♪ And I was thinking on the
drive down, any time now ♪
♪ He's gonna say it's love ♪
♪ You never called it what it was ♪
♪ 'Til we were dead and gone and buried ♪
♪ Check the pulse and come
back swearing it's the same ♪
♪ After three months in the grave ♪
♪ And then you wondered where it went to ♪
♪ As I reached for you ♪
♪ But all I felt was shame and
you held my lifeless frame ♪
♪ And I know it's long gone ♪
♪ And there was nothing else I could do ♪
♪ And I forget about you long enough ♪
♪ To forget why I needed to ♪
♪ 'Cause there we are again
in the middle of the night ♪
♪ We're dancing 'round the kitchen
in the refrigerator light ♪
♪ Down the stairs, I was there ♪
♪ I remember it all too well ♪
♪ And there we are again
when nobody had to know ♪
♪ You kept me like a secret,
but I kept you like an oath ♪
♪ Sacred prayer and we'd swear ♪
♪ To remember it all too well, yeah ♪
(gentle upbeat music)
♪ Well, maybe we got lost in translation ♪
♪ Maybe I asked for too much ♪
♪ But maybe this thing was a masterpiece ♪
♪ 'Til you tore it all up ♪
♪ Running scared, I was there ♪
♪ I remember it all too well ♪
♪ And you call me up again just
to break me like a promise ♪
♪ So casually cruel in
the name of being honest ♪
♪ I'm a crumpled up piece
of paper lying here ♪
♪ 'Cause I remember it all, all, all ♪
♪ 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-needy, ever-lovely jewel ♪
♪ Whose shine reflects on you ♪
♪ Not weeping in a party bathroom ♪
♪ Some actress asking
me what happened, you ♪
♪ That's what happened, you ♪
♪ You who charmed my dad
with self-effacing jokes ♪
♪ Sipping coffee like you're
on a late-night show ♪
♪ But then he watched me watch
the front door all night ♪
♪ Willing you to come ♪
♪ And he said ♪
♪ It's supposed to be
fun turning twenty-one ♪
(audience cheering)
(gentle music)
♪ 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 ♪
♪ After plaid shirt days ♪
♪ And nights when you made me your own ♪
♪ Now you mail back my things
and I walk home alone ♪
♪ But you keep my old scarf
from that very first week ♪
♪ 'Cause it reminds you of
innocence and it smells like me ♪
♪ You can't get rid of it ♪
♪ 'Cause you remember
it all too well, yeah ♪
♪ 'Cause there we are
again when I loved you so ♪
♪ Back before you lost the one
real thing you've ever known ♪
♪ It was rare, I was there ♪
♪ I remember it all too well ♪
♪ Wind in my hair, you were there ♪
♪ You remember it all ♪
♪ Down the stairs, you were there ♪
♪ You remember it all ♪
♪ It was rare, I was there ♪
♪ I remember it all too well ♪
♪ And I was never good at telling jokes ♪
♪ But the punch line goes ♪
♪ I'll get older, but
your lovers stay my age ♪
♪ From when your Brooklyn
broke my skin and bones ♪
♪ I'm a soldier who's
returning half her weight ♪
♪ And 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 snow ♪
♪ And how it glistened as it fell ♪
♪ I remember it all too well ♪
♪ 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 all too well ♪
♪ Wind in my hair, I
was there, I was there ♪
♪ Down the stairs, I
was there, I was there ♪
♪ Sacred prayer, I was
there, I was there ♪
♪ It was rare, you remember it ♪
♪ Wind in my hair, I
was there, I was there ♪
♪ Down the stairs, I
was there, I was there ♪
♪ Sacred prayer, I was
there, I was there ♪
♪ It was rare, you remember it ♪
♪ Wind in my hair, I
was there, I was there ♪
♪ Down the stairs, I
was there, I was there ♪
♪ Sacred prayer, I was
there, I was there ♪
♪ It was rare, you remember it ♪
(audience cheering and clapping)