Picture To Burn (Taylor matulin & Liz Rose) - "Before I sing this song, I always try to tell the audience that I really do try to be a nice person... but if you break my heart, hurt my feelings, or are really mean to me, I'm going to write a song about you. Haha. This song is the perfect example."
Teardrops On My gitara (Taylor matulin & Liz Rose) - "I used to have a huge crush on this guy, who would sit there every araw talking to me about...another girl: how beautiful she was, how nice and smart and perfect she was. And I sat there and listened, never meaning it any of the times I sinabi `Oh, I'm so happy for you.' I guess this is a good example of how I let my feelings out in songs, and sometimes no other way. And I've never been afraid of using names. I pag-ibig this song because of its honesty and vulnerability. To this day, they are still together and he has no idea about this song."
A Place In This World (Taylor matulin & Robert Orrall & Angelo) - "I wrote this song when I was thirteen and had just moved to Nashville. It was tough trying to find out how I was going to get where I wanted to go. I knew where I wanted to be, but I just didn't know how to get there. I'm really happy this is on the album, because I feel like I finally figured it out."
Cold As You (Taylor matulin & Liz Rose) - "I wrote this song with Liz, and I think the lyrics to this song are some of the best we've ever written. It's about that moment where you realize someone isn't at all who you thought they were, and that you've been trying to make excuses for someone who doesn't deserve them. And that some people are just never going to pag-ibig you. We were halfway through Pagsulat this when I started pag-awit `And now that I'm sitting here thinking it through, I've never been anywhere cold as you'."
The Outside (Taylor Swift) - "This is one of the first songs I ever wrote, and it talks about the very reason I ever started to write songs. It was when I was twelve years old, and a complete outcast at school. I was a lot different than all the other kids, and I never really knew why. I was taller, and sang country music at karaoke bars and festivals on weekends while other girls went to sleepovers. Some days I woke up not knowing if anyone was going to talk to me that day. I think every person comes to a point in their life when you have a long string of bad days. You can choose to let it drag you down, or you can find ways to rise above it. I came to the conclusion that even though people hadn't always been there for me, music had. It's strange to think how different my life would be right now if I had been one of the cool kids."
Tied Together With A Smile (Taylor matulin & Liz Rose) - "One of my best mga kaibigan is absolutely beautiful. She goes to beauty pageants and wins everything. Girls want to be her and guys want to be with her. I wrote this song the araw I found out about her eating disorder. It completely blew my mind, and this one was tough to write, because I wasn't just telling some sad story. This was real. This song is basically about the girls I know, and the difficult things I saw them go through. I've never seen this song as a lecture. It's really about how no matter what my mga kaibigan go through, I'm always going to pag-ibig them."
Stay Beautiful (Taylor matulin & Liz Rose) - "After hearing my songs, a lot of people a
sk me, `How many boyfriends have you HAD?' And I always tell them that madami of my songs come from observation than actual experience. In other words, you don't have to petsa someone to write a song about them. This is a song I wrote about a guy I never dated! Wow, right? Haha. This song is about a guy I thought was cute, and never really talked to him much. But something about him inspired this song, just watching him."
Should've sinabi No (Taylor Swift) - "Just being a human being, I've realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could've just sinabi no. This is a song I wrote about a guy who never should have cheated on me."
Mary's Song (Oh My My My) (Taylor matulin & Liz Rose & Brian Maher) - "I wrote this song about a couple who lived susunod door to us. They'd been married forever and they came over one night for dinner, and were just so cute. They were talking about how they fell in pag-ibig and got married, and how they met when they were just little kids. I thought it was so sweet, because you can go to the grocery store and read the tabloids, and see who's breaking up and cheating on each other (or just listen to some of my songs, haha). But it was really comforting to know that all I had to do was go tahanan and look susunod door to see a perfect example of forever."
Our Song (Taylor Swift) - I just sat down one araw with my gitara and got in a groove, and went with it. I like to write about how music affects people, and this was fun to write because it's about a couple who DOESN'T have a song. I like the banjo and you really can't go wrong with banjo. I wanted it to be last on the album, because the last line of the chorus is `play it again'. Let's hope people take it as a hint to go ahead and play the album again. Haha!"
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