I was in Nashville one day, slowly moving the last bits of junk out of my garage so I could move to Dallas. When we wrote the song, I hadn’t heard from her in awhile.And it included the f-word, and I remember my sound guy was like ‘Hey, I burned a CD of that thing you were doing, in case you want it.’ And I was like ‘Sure!’įebruary 2011: All Too Well is reworked. And it started with ‘I walked through the door with you, the air was cold’ – like it literally just was that song, but it had probably seven extra verses. And I just started singing and riffing and sort of ad-libbing this song that basically was All Too Well. I think they could tell I was really going through it. And I walked in and I remember we had just hired David Cook… I think it was his first day meeting me, and I think I ended up just playing four chords over and over again and the band started kicking in, like Amos Heller on bass, and people started playing along with me. “The first song that was written was All Too Well, and it was a day when I was just like a broken human walking into rehearsal just feeling terrible about what was going on in my personal life.I was going through a really hard time then, and my band joined in playing, and one of the first things that I came up with, just, like, spat out, was ‘And you call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of being honest.’ Those were some of the lines I thought of. I was just playing these chords over and over onstage and my band joined in and I went on a rant. The lyric I’m most proud of on the album is from ‘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.’ That was something I came up with while ranting during a soundcheck.Late December 2010: All Too Well is born during a Speak Now Tour rehearsal. That’s when you know you really need to get out.” When you feel pain that is so far past dysfunctional, that leaves you with so many emotions that you can’t filter them down to simple emotions to write about. “There’s a kind of bad that gets so overpowering you can’t even write about it.June 16, 2010: The Story Of Us is the last song Taylor writes before having a writer’s block that ended 6 months later. Watch the video version of this timeline on my YouTube channel! Please, credit me if you take info from this timeline, thanks! I’m pretty proud of myself, I guessed every song except for The Very First Night. Edit: now that the Vault has been unlocked, I’ll edit this post to add the missing titles and delete the predictions.
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