Taylor Swift: Dear John Meaning
Song Released: 2010
Dear John Lyrics
When my days once revolved around you
Counting my footsteps,
Prayin’ the floor won’t fall through, again
And my mother accused me of losing my mind
But I swore I was fine
You paint me a blue sky and go back
And turn...
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Not sure if anybody's said this but when she's talking about living in his chess game, she is saying that he is controlling and he made her do things that might not be in her best interests. When he changes the rules, he acts differently and expects her to react and change to fit his new set of rules.
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How she fell in love with John Mayer and he broke her heart and she regretted going out with him....
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Someone went out with Taylor Swift, but didn't love her and used her and she couldn't see that because she loved him so much. When people told her that he was a bad idea, she knew they were right, but tried to tell herself they were wrong because she was so in love. Then the guy broke up with her and suddenly the truth was right in front of her and she noticed what a jerk he was to her.
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its about a guy who played her til the end.
it makes me sad thinking what tay went through. u have my prayers, tay! -
first of all its not just about any girl who falls in love with a boy, and then she realizes they weren't right for each other. Taylor wrote this song about John Mayer, because after they worked on a song together she dated him. He hurt her, he did something bad to her. Physically and emotionally. "don't you think i was too young to be messed with" she was 19 at the time she dated him and he messed with her
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"I'll look back in regret
How I ignored when they said,
"Run as fast as you can!""
This is her looking back anthem. Reliving the pain and heartache she went through. This is such a beautifully crafted song. Even someone who's never been through heartbreak can identify with all the emotions surrounding this song. It's about being young and in love, maybe too young and too much for your own good. -
The message that she is trying to get across in this song is that love was blind, so she couldn't see what was really going on. He wasn't who she though he was. The boy she saw was sweet, innocent, and would never hurt her, but other people saw who he really was. Because she loved him so much, she wouldn't listen to the people telling her who he really was, and it took her getting hurt by him to see who he really was.
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It's about falling in love with a boy who wasn't all she thought he was. Everybody but her saw that he never really loved her, and was just using her, but she was too in love and in denial to believe them.
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In my opinion it's about a girl who fell in love with this guy who was very emotionally unstable and his mood would change, as in 'wondering which version of you I would get on the phone tonight.'
Everyone told her she was being foolish by sticking around, even 'my mother accused me of losing my mind' but she doesn't listen to them.
Eventually she got sick of the way he played her around, giving her love and affection and then taking it away just as quick and left the relationship asking if he knew that she was 'too young to be messed with' by him. -
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Does anyone else think that a certain guitar(?) riff/musical undertone in this song sounds a lot like it came from John Mayer's song "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room"?
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I think that she went out with a guy, he used her and didn't love her but she loved him so much she didn't see that part of him until he broke up with her. It all fell into place for her then, and she realizes that he was a jerk. She then writes John a letter basically telling him what a jerk he was and that he should be ashamed of himself for doing that to her.
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She slept with that fool and regretted it.
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About her and John Mayer when they did a song together!
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