Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, Swift relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 2004 to pursue a career in country music. She broke into the country music scene with her eponymous self-titled debut studio album, Taylor Swift in 2006, which included the singles "Teardrops on My Guitar" and "Our Song". Swift also released the holiday album, Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, later titled as The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection in October 2007.
Swift rose to mainstream prominence with her sophomore studio album, Fearless (2008), a country pop record with crossover appeal. Aided by the top-five singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Swift's third studio album, Speak Now (2010), blended country pop with elements of rock and featured the top-ten singles "Mine" and "Back to December".
Drawing inspiration from various pop, rock, and electronic genres, Swift's fourth studio album Red (2012) saw her transcending her country roots. She completely moved to pop with her synth-pop fifth studio album, 1989 (2014), and expanded the electropop sound on her next two studio albums, reputation (2017) and Lover (2019), which respectively embraced urban and retro styles. The four albums spawned a string of international top-five singles, including "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", "I Knew You Were Trouble", "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", "Bad Blood", "Look What You Made Me Do", "ME! (feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco)", "You Need to Calm Down", and "Lover".
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Swift experimented with folk and alternative rock on her eighth and ninth studio albums, folklore and evermore (both 2020), whose lead singles "cardigan" and "willow" topped charts around the world. She also released the critically acclaimed documentaries Miss Americana and Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions that year. Swift's tenth studio album, Midnights (2022), marked her triumphant return to pop after two folk albums. The album set the record for biggest first day and first week ever on Spotify, spawned the hits Anti-Hero and Lavender Haze, and sold over 1.5 million copies in its first week becoming not only the biggest debut of the decade but also Swift's biggest debut ever. She would make history by becoming the first artist to occupy the entire top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 with tracks from Midnights. Following Midnights, Taylor Swift announced her upcoming eleventh studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department” (2024) which is set to be released on April 19, 2024. She announced this record at 66th Annual Grammy Award Show accepting the award for Best Pop Vocal Album for her previous album, Midnights (2022) in honour of receiving her 13th Grammy.
Additionally, Swift began re-recording her back catalog in November 2020 as a result of a publicized dispute with talent manager Scooter Braun and her former label Big Machine, regarding the acquisition of the masters of her back catalog. In April 2021, Swift released a re-recorded issue of her 2008 album Fearless, titled Fearless (Taylor's Version). It debuted at number one in the US. Swift continued releasing re-recorded versions of her back catalog in November, 2021 with the release of Red (Taylor's Version), a 30 track re-issue of her 2012 critical smash. The album debuted at #1 in the US, spawned the #1 hit All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault), and broke the record at the time for biggest first day for a female album on Spotify. Red (Taylor's Version) was a critical and commercial hit, and proved that Swift's ambitious plan to re-record her first 6 albums was well worth it.
Along with the release of Red (Taylor's Version) came All Too Well: The Short Film (2021), Swift's filmmaking debut. The 15 minute romantic drama was based on the lyrical content from Swift's 2012 fan favorite "All Too Well" starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien. It had a limited theatrical release in major cities, and Swift held special screenings of the film throughout 2022 at various film festivals. In December, 2022 Taylor announced that she would be making her feature directorial debut with Oscar-winning studio Searchlight Pictures.
Following the release of Midnights, Swift would embark on her first tour in five years, The Eras Tour.
Swift has released several songs for film soundtracks. She co-wrote two songs for the Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack— "You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home" and "Crazier", and contributed two songs to the Valentine's Day soundtrack, including the single "Today Was a Fairytale", which was her first number one on the Canadian Hot 100, and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. She also contributed two original songs to The Hunger Games soundtrack album: "Safe & Sound - from The Hunger Games Soundtrack", co-written and recorded with The Civil Wars and T-Bone Burnett, and "Eyes Open". "Safe & Sound" won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. In 2013, Swift recorded "Sweeter than Fiction", a song she wrote and produced with Jack Antonoff for the One Chance film soundtrack, which received a Best Original Song nomination at the 71st Golden Globe Awards. Swift and English singer Zayn Malik, mononymously known as Zayn, released a single together, "I Don't Wanna Live Forever", for the soundtrack of the film Fifty Shades Darker (2017). She also recorded an original song called "Beautiful Ghosts", which she wrote with Andrew Lloyd Webber for the Cats's soundtrack (2019). In 2020, Swift's documentary Miss Americana featured the song "Only the Young" which was written after the 2018 United States elections. In 2022, she released an original song titled "Carolina" for Where The Crawdads Sing (2022) inspired by the novel written by Delia Owens.
With sales of over 200 million records worldwide, Swift is a best-selling music artist. Her accolades include 14 Grammy Awards, including four Album of the Year wins, which makes
Swift the artist with the most awards for that category in history, two Brit Awards (including a Global Icon award), an Emmy Award, 28 [https://guinnessworldrecords.com/]Guinness World Records, 32 American Music Awards (the most wins by an artist), and 23 Billboard Music Awards (the most wins by a woman). She ranked eighth on Billboard's Greatest of All Time Artists Chart (2019) and was listed on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time (2015). Swift has been included in various power rankings, such as Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world (2010, 2015 and 2019) and Forbes Celebrity 100 (placing first in 2016 and 2019). She was named Woman of the Decade (2010s) by Billboard, Artist of the Decade (2010s) by the American Music Awards, and Person of the Year (2023) by Time Magazine.
Run
Taylor Swift Lyrics
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I hope you're on it
If there's a train moving fast down the tracks
I hope you caught it
'Cause I swear out there ain't where
You outta be
So catch a ride or catch a cab
Don't you know that I miss you bad
But don't you walk to me
Baby run
Cut a path across the blue sky
Straight in a straight line
You can't get here fast enough
Find a truck and fire it up
Lean on the gas and off the clutch
Leave Dallas in the dust
I need you in a rush
So baby run
So baby run
Oh if you aint got a suitcase
Get a box
Or an old brown paper sack
Pack it light or pack it heavy
Take a truck, take a Chevy
Baby just come back
There's a short cut to the highway out of town
Why don't ya take it
Don't let that speed limit slow ya down
Go on and break it
Baby break it
And run
Cut a path across the blue sky
Straight in a straight line
You can't get here fast enough
Find a truck and fire it up
Lean on the gas and off the clutch
Leave Dallas in the dust
I need you in a rush
So baby run
Run to me
Baby run
Run to me
So baby run
Run
Oh baby run
The lyrics to Taylor Swift's song Run appear to be a plea to a loved one to come back to her, no matter the mode of transportation - whether it be a plane, bus, train, or truck. The urgency in her voice and the message is evident in the chorus, where she encourages the person to cut a path across the sky, find a truck, and leave Dallas in the dust to come back to her as soon as possible. The song seems to be written from the perspective of someone who has been separated from their significant other for some time and just wants them to come back.
The verses of the song suggest that the person was not where they should be, and the singer misses them "bad." They urge the person to not walk but instead catch a ride or catch a cab and use any means possible to come back to them. The song also gives practical advice on how to get back with optional suitcases, boxes, or paper sacks for luggage. The chorus repeats the message that the singer needs the person in a rush and that they should run back to her right away.
Overall, Taylor uses metaphors and symbols to show the intensity of her love and the fervour with which she wants her lover to come back to her. The song 'Run' speaks to the experience of losing someone important and the feeling of desperate desire to be reunited with them.
Line by Line Meaning
There's a plane or a bus leaving from Dallas
If you're not here, I hope you're leaving Dallas on a plane or bus.
I hope you're on it
I really want you to be on that plane or bus.
If there's a train moving fast down the tracks
If there's a train you can catch, I hope you caught it.
I hope you caught it
It would be great if you're on that train too.
'Cause I swear out there ain't where
You outta be
I don't think you should be out there, wherever you might be.
So catch a ride or catch a cab
Find a way to get here quickly.
Don't you know that I miss you bad
I'm really missing you and want you to come back.
But don't you walk to me
Walking to me is too slow; find another way to get here.
Baby run
Hurry up and come back to me.
Cut a path across the blue sky
Travel as fast as you can, like cutting across the sky.
Straight in a straight line
Don't stop or turn, come straight to me.
You can't get here fast enough
I need you here urgently and you can't come fast enough.
Find a truck and fire it up
Get a truck and hurry up here as fast as you can.
Lean on the gas and off the clutch
Drive fast and don't slow down.
Leave Dallas in the dust
Leave Dallas behind quickly and don't look back.
I need you in a rush
It's urgent that you come back to me quickly.
There's a shortcut to the highway out of town
Take the quickest route out of there and come back to me.
Why don't you take it
Don't waste any time, just take the shortcut.
Don't let that speed limit slow ya down
Don't worry about the speed limit and drive as fast as you can.
Go on and break it
Break the speed limit if you have to, just get here quickly.
Baby run
Hurry up and come back to me.
Run to me
Come back to me as fast as you can.
Oh baby run
Hurry up and come back to me quickly.
Contributed by Elijah V. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@ariadnenetzel2981
When listening to this song it reminded me of "Photograph" in many aspects.
Photograph sounds a lot like two people saying their goodbyes because one of them's leaving, while in Run, it sounds like these two same people have found each other some time later, but are doomed to part once again, but their real wish is to stay together, so the whole song is about them daydreaming about running away together if they could.
Some interesting parallels are the following:
"Oh, you can fit me inside the necklace you got when you were sixteen" // "There's a chain 'round your throat, piece of paper where I wrote '
I'll wait for you'" (also 'wait for me to come home' fits here with the 'I'll wait for you').
"So you can keep me inside the pocket of your ripped jeans" // "And the note from the locket, you keep it in your pocket
since I gave it to you"
I don't know if that makes sense to anyone else, but I think it's a beautiful theory and I wanted to share it to see If anybody else feels the same way about these two songs!
@andante4904
Ed harmonizes really well with anyone but there’s just something different when he do it with Taylor. Their voices fit so well together. It’s amazing
@russelcastro3811
I swear they're amazing together. I hope they'd create more collaborations in the future.
@qiqisongs
They didnt harmonize well 10 years ago . Now they do. It takes experimentation and experience.
@wernercedillo8797
Similar face shapes with similar morphology harmonize very well and blend :) My old HS teacher taught us that and we had guy-girl twins who sang
@Simelation
They both sound amazing!
@chrissywilbrink7780
I SOOOO AGREE HEAVEN
@dhenielsammariveles8201
Imagine this song being locked on the vault for like 9 years... But now she released this innocent song. Luv u both Taylor and Ed
@markjosephnasayao4209
2013 - Everything has Changed
2018 - End Game
2021 - Run
2022 - The Joker and the Queen
@isolemnlyswearthatimuptono5016
I can't believe everything has changed was so long ago!
@bubblestarvlogs
I love Ed & Taylor collabs!!!!