Showing posts with label Come Back...Be Here. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Come Back...Be Here. Show all posts

Monday, November 26, 2012

Come Back, Be Here

Today's Taylor Swift song is the meaning of "Come Back, Be Here" from her deluxe Target Red album.

Taylor tells Yahoo Music "There's a song I wrote with Dan Wilson called 'Come Back... Be Here,' which I wrote about falling for someone and then they have to go away for work.  They're traveling, you're traveling, and you're thinking about them, but you're wondering how it's gonna work when there's so much distance between you."

Who is it about?  Who lives far away from Taylor?

Walgreen's Meet and Greet

I thought about this long and hard. I thought it could be Jake Gyllenhaal because they had to travel during their romance and he was in London while they were dating, but I don't think he had to travel very soon in their relationship and Taylor lived in New York at the time.  Why would she say "You're in New York today" twice in the song?

This song is about Eddie Redmayne!  

Eddie Redmayne
Taylor met him when she was being considered for a role in Les Miserables in October 2011.  (BTW, I am very sad that she is not in that movie.  It is one of my favorite musicals, I know all the words and I am so excited for the movie production and I thought Taylor would have been perfect for the role of Eponine.  But either she turned it down because of her album, or they chose someone else.  I have a feeling she turned it down because of the album) But she had to say goodbye after they met.  "You said it in a simple way 4am, the second day/How strange that I don’t know you at all/I stumble through the long goodbye/One last kiss then you catch your flight/Right when I was just about to fall." She had to say goodbye to him just as she was falling for him.  Eddie also lives in London, "I guess you are in London today". It also mentions him being in New York and her being in New York with "taxi cabs and busy streets".  They were both traveling during this time.  She was finishing her Speak Now tour and he was promoting "My Week With Marilyn". Eddie was in New York for the premiere of "My Week With Marilyn" and Taylor was in New York Madison Square Gardens for her tour, but not at the same time.

There was just no time for them to get to know one another.  Too bad they were never in the same city and given a chance to date.

Click here for the lyrics to the song, "Come Back, Be Here".
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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Come Back...Be Here Lyrics

Come Back...Be Here Lyrics (Red Album)

Written by Taylor Swift, Dan Wilson

You said it in a simple way
4am, the second day
How strange that I don't
know you at all
Stumbled through the long goodbye
One last kiss, then catch your flight
Right when I was just about to fall
I told myself don't get attached
But in my mind I play it back
Spinning faster than the
plane that took you

This is when the feeling sinks in
I don't want to miss you like this
Come back...be here
Come back...be here
I guess you're in New York today
And I don't want to need you this way.
Come back... be here
Come back...be here

The delicate beginning rush
The feeling you can know so much
Without knowing anything at all
Now that I can't put this down
If I had known what I know now
I never would've played so nonchalant
Taxi cabs and busy streets
That never bring you back to me
I can't help but wish you took me with you.

This is when the feeling sinks in
I don't want to miss you like this
Come back...be here
Come back...be here
I guess you're in London today
And I don't want to need you this way.
Come back... be here
Come back...be here

This is falling in love in the cruelest way
This is falling for you when you are worlds away...
In New York... Be here.
But you're in..London and I break down
Cause it's not fair that you're not around.

This is when the feeling sinks in
I don't want to miss you like this
Come back...be here
Come back...be here
I guess you're in New York today
And I don't want to need you this way.
Come back... be here
Come back...be here
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