Taylor Swift: Innocent Meaning

Song Released: 2010

Innocent Lyrics

Guess you really did it this time
Left yourself in your war path
Lost your balance on a tightrope
Lost your mind trying to get it back
Wasn't it easier in your lunchbox days
Always a bigger bed to crawl into
Wasn't it beautiful when you...

1. anonymous

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   Jul 18th 2011 !⃝

   Maybe it is about kanye but as soon as I heard this song I immediately though of jake gyhlinhale...
2. anonymous

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   Jul 5th 2011 !⃝

   I don't know. It could be about someone who she isn't and wasn't romantically interested in, other than Kanye and John Mayer. It makes me think of my biological mom. Like, I guess it could be about one of those people.
3. anonymous

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   Jun 22nd 2011 !⃝

   I honestly think it could be about Kanye but ya know it may not be. That's a question for Taylor herself..
4. anonymous

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   Jun 17th 2011 !⃝

   "Did some things you can't speak of
   But at night you live it all again
   You wouldn't be shattered on the floor now
   If only you had seen what you know now then
   Wasn't it easier in your firefly catching days
   When everything out of reach someone bigger brought down to you
   Wasn't it beautiful running wild till you fell asleep
   Before the monsters caught up to you"
   
   Everyone does something in their younger years they'll regret forever,
   At night things from the past come back to haunt you, night is an easyer time to think about things,
   If when you were younger, you had the same amount of knowledge now, you wouldnt be where you are right now
   Life was easyer when you were a kid and had no worries
   Though life can still be easy now, people can and will help you of you really need it
   life was easyer as a kid,
   But now 'monsters' as in people., paparazzi, the stress of being on tour...cath up with you

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5. Diara Rain

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   Jun 5th 2011 !⃝

   i would say this song is not about kanye or john. Is about how people are. Like makin mistake n people judging them tellin them they're bad person n taylor she's tellin us that is ok to make mistakes because u cant stop it so what u did is not wat u really are inside that's wat she meant who u r is not where u've been . You 're still innocent. I'm sure is not definetly about kenye or john. Is 4 anyone who felt that way.
6. anonymous

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   May 22nd 2011 !⃝

   DEFINITELY JOHN MAYER!

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7. anonymous

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   May 7th 2011 !⃝

   This song is about Kanye West. She is sort of forgiving him for his mistakes in the VMAs. I don't get why she would forgive him, I never would.
8. anonymous

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   Apr 2nd 2011 !⃝

   I really think it's about John Mayer. It fits with his age, and with who he is and does.
9. anonymous

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   Mar 20th 2011 !⃝

   i dont think its about kanye; being why would she care about him as a child? i think this is about someone she was close to getting raped as a child, or someting...

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10. anonymous

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    Feb 22nd 2011 !⃝

    This is an awesome song because anyone can interpret it in their own way. I intuitively thought about war when I listened to it for the first time and imo it also fits into that topic perfectly. When I hear the lyrics I think of all these young, good-hearted soldiers whose look on life gets dramatically changed by what they experience.
    
    "Did some things you can't speak of
    But at night you live it all again"
    "who you are is not where you've been
    You're still an innocent"
    "Today is never too late to Be brand new"
    
    For me this is a bright message of hope for everyone who experienced hardship in their life and wished the days of childhood back when everything was simple and peaceful.
    I think this would make a great anti-war song like "Come Home" by One Republic.
11. anonymous

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    Feb 21st 2011 !⃝

    This song is about someone who made a big mistake, and is being ridiculed for it. She's telling them that even though they made mistakes, are still a good person.
12. anonymous

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    Feb 5th 2011 !⃝

    Evryone knows this song is about Kanye and what happend last year but to me this song is about when your younger there is so much hope and your so innocent but when you get older you make mistakes and you remembering them. Even if you really screwed up you can still fix them and you are still innocent
13. anonymous

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    Jan 10th 2011 !⃝

    This song IS about kanye! Every piece fits! At the 2010 VMAs before she performed a clip of 2009s incident was played proving that this song was in fact written for kanye and is addressing kanye.
14. anonymous

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    Jan 3rd 2011 !⃝

    The reason this waas preformed at the vmas is because it was a sign of fogiveness. Sye says who u r is not what u did and ur string of lights is still bright to me.
15. anonymous

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    Dec 31st 2010 !⃝

    I don't believe this song is about Kanye West. Sure, some pieces my fit, but I do not believe she would sing this song at the 2010 VMA's if the incident occurred just one year before; that would be practically rubbing it in his face, which is something she wouldn't do. Listening to her album, her song "Mean" is more appropriate for the famous moment.

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