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"I talk a lot about how Folklore was the first time I was writing in characters, but actually Speak Now, I was inventing scenarios that definitely weren't happening in my life. I wrote the song Speak Now about like, interrupting a wedding of an ex, and like I was eighteen when I wrote that so, none of my exes were getting married. I'd never interrupted a wedding. It was just a fantasy, you know? And I think that's one of my favorite things about Speak Now, is that it was so… fantasy, it was so fantastical and I think that was the first time that I did start thinking in cinematic, you know, 'this isn't my life, but what if it were?' like watching a movie and trying to write what those characters might be feeling.
I say this because I want to play a song that, when I wrote it, I was writing about all these relationship things that hadn't happened to me yet - like, there's a drawer of my things at your place and things like that. And like, working through fights and not just breaking up. Those are things that I was not partaking in at eighteen or nineteen when I wrote these songs, but - it's been such a privilege, such a treat to go back and re-record them because relating to them now, it's really crazy to go back and listen to these songs that at the time were fantasy but now feel really relatable to me. So this is um, this is called 'Mine'."
May 7, 2023: On night three in Nashville, Tennessee (and with Matty in attendance), Taylor gives a speech before the surprise song 'Mine', describing the song as relatable. (source)
And now I second guess my thoughts every step I take. I'm losing hope in love and I've lost all in faith. Yeah, for a dreamer, I just close my eyes and it's all blank. I have you to thank, yeah. I hope one day someone will take your heart and hold it tight. Make you feel like you're invincible deep inside. And right when you think that you'll try again, they cross a line and steal your shine like you did mine. Go ahead and break my heart, that's fine. So unkind. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Oh, love is blind. Why am I missing you tonight? Was it all a lie? Someone's gonna show you how a heart can be used.
i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.
"'Mine' is about the idea of what a relationship could look like if I really found a real one. Because this guy put his arm around me and it was by the water, and I literally saw the entire relationship flash forward in that moment. It was pretty weird. And so I wrote what it looked like."
2010: Taylor is asked what her song 'Mine' is about. (source)