Taylor Swift: If This Was A Movie Meaning

Song Released: 2010

If This Was A Movie Lyrics

Last night I heard my own heart beating
Sounded like footsteps on my stairs
Six months gone and I'm still reaching
Even though I know you're not there
I was playing back a thousand memories baby
Thinkin bout everything we've been...

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   anonymous

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   Jun 27th 2011 !⃝

   It's about how she compares reality and fantasy- if it was a fantasy, they would be living happily ever after, but she finds out that sometimes it doesn't work out that way. Also, she's forgiving him for whatever he did and made them split. Taylor is saying that she regrets breaking up with him.
2. anonymous

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   Sep 8th 2017 !⃝

   Almost all of us know that songs of Taylor swift were always about her past relationships. With the boys who broke her heart, from where the relationship started to how it ended, sadly.
   
   In this song,'if this was a movie' it's like she was hoping for a better ending. For a happy ending. Coz if this was a movie it could've been like that.. like this.. more than this.. more than that, etc.
3. anonymous

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   Aug 3rd 2014 !⃝

   I think its about joe jonas. I know it was written way after they broke up but it fits their relationship.
   Shes relating to a fairytale how if he was the prince and she was a princess that hed have come back already and theyd be happy. But then she realizes its not a movie. Hes NOT coming back.
   I honestly dont care what you think it means. I luv it!!
4. anonymous

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   Apr 4th 2014 !⃝

   It's so clear that the meaning of this song is about wanting someone back that meant so much to you and she would definitely take him back if he said he's sorry. And she wants the relationship to be the way it was before. I think it's about Joe Jonas because from all of her exes, Joe was the one she always wrote a song about how she misses him and wants him to come back to her. And she also wrote Last Kiss on the same album so it's obviously about him.
5. Iulia

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   Dec 22nd 2013 !⃝

   I think this song is about Joe because of the particularity of her wish to have him back, like Last Kiss. Most of her sad songs show how she misses the relationship, how she once felt but with Joe it is different, she misses HIM. She wants HIM back and still waits for his return even though it's been months.
   "Come back to me like you would if you just said you're sorry" sorry for leaving her for Camille Belle.
6. anonymous

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   Mar 7th 2013 !⃝

   (This song kind of fits in with The Moment I knew)
   I think she is sad, of course, because, he left her. He left her there. Alone. She goes through all the fights and all the memories and thinks that he was never hers. She wants him back, but he left her, like I said. And if it was a movie he would still be there and he would come back to be with her again and it would be a fairy tale.
7. anonymous

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   Jul 9th 2012 !⃝

   This song is about someone that Taylor loved. She still loves him and wants him, but knows he's gone (6 months gone and I'm still reaching, even though I know you're not there). Lately, she been going back to when she had him (I was playin' back a thousand memories baby, thinking 'bout everything we've been through. Maybe I've been going back too much lately, to when time stood still, and I had you). In the chorus, she's asking him to come back to her like he would if this was a movie. He could come back if he said he's sorry, and they could work out the problem. Then she says that if this was a movie, he'd already be there with her. The second verse is about how she knows this stuff happens, but she still remembers how it was. Now she flashes back to when he told her nothing would change, and then goes into the chorus again. The bridge is just repeating that she wants him back until the part "And I'll say come back, come back, come back to me like you would before you said it's not that easy." She recognizes that it isn't just as easy as coming back (for him, anyway). So, she tells him again that she misses him and wants him to return, but ultimately, she realizes that life isn't a movie, and he isn't coming back.
8. anonymous

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   Jun 16th 2012 !⃝

   Well, I don't think it was Joe Jonas because she wrote the song in 2009 I think and she says 6 months gone in the song, so it would've been too late for the song to be about Joe.
9. anonymous

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   Nov 16th 2011 !⃝

   im guessing joe jonas i know its old but i think it is becuase in the song she is like "you can come back to me if you just say your sorry."
10. anonymous

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    Jun 9th 2011 !⃝

    I think that she was thinking about an old relationship,that she wanted back.That this would be the part in the movie where he would magically show up at her door and they would live happily ever after.Shes realizing that it doesn't always happen that way.
11. anonymous

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    May 8th 2011 !⃝

    This means that Taylor is forgiving him for what he did. That it would be alright if he just said sorry. She's relating it to a movie. If it was a movie... he would already be there.

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