It’s been a tough week (sick cat week, workweek, sleep week), but it doesn’t matter because today Taylor Swift’s album “Red (Taylor’s Version)” released, along with the long-awaited ten-minute version of the objectively best Swift song of all time: “All Too Well”.
I listened to the track first thing this morning, right after my alarm, lying in dark in my bed. I cried. Because it’s “All Too Well”. Because ten fucking minutes of it. It’s . . . so good.
I did eventually listen to the rest of the album, including the other songs from the vault, but also a ten-minute version of All Too Well.
This evening, the short film of the song premiered (with Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien, *gush*):
New lyrics from this version that absolutely slap when she sings them:
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
Then later:
And I was never good at telling jokes, but the punchline 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
I could go on.
The original version of this song was an instant favorite of mine when it was released in the fall of my junior year and it’s remained so ever since. It got me through a lot of feelings after my separation and divorce. I remember often walking a lap outside of my office and listening to this song.
Anyway, I needed a heavy feelings song today. Thanks, Taylor,
With Love,
Natalie