Taylor Swift: Love Story Meaning

Song Released: 2008

Love Story Lyrics

We were both young when I first saw you.
I close my eyes and the flashback starts:
I'm standing there on a balcony in winter air.


See the lights, see the party, the ball gowns.
See you make your way through the crowd
and say...

1. anonymous

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   Jan 7th 2012 !⃝

   actually i think the beginning bit is when she sees a boy she has a crush on and shes saying their love is like romeo and juliets where they cant see each other because of their parents but taylor has clearly made their ending different and instead of dying they get married with the parents permission so shes saying their love isnt completely like romeo and juliets their love will continue and never die.
2. anonymous

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   Dec 30th 2011 !⃝

   I heard in an interveiw that it's about a boy she liked. He was a creep and hr dad wouldn't let her date him.
3. anonymous

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   Nov 15th 2011 !⃝

   I think love story is just about t swift falling in love with this man but t swift's dad doesn't let her be with romeo. Just like William Shakespeare's ( i think thts how u spell it!) script " Romeo and Juliet" . Please don't give me bad comments. =D
   
   - Manny
4. anonymous

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   Sep 17th 2011 !⃝

   This song is about Taylor, who was in love with someone but her parents didn't agree with her loving him. She immediatly thought of Romeo and Juliet, and the lyrics: 'That you were Romeo, You were throwing pebbles' but she didn't know yet where to put it in the song.
5. anonymous

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   Jun 17th 2011 !⃝

   As said in an interview, the song was purly fantasy, also said before, her favorite play is Romeo and Juliet, She's not a fan of sad endings and broken hearts, (Yet it seems thats all she expiereiences)She wanted to write a happy song to make listeners believe fairytales can happen...but not always in the version of Romeo and Juliet
6. Lucky24

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   Jun 12th 2011 !⃝

   What this song is about is a comparison to Romeo & Juliet. Society doesn't want them to be together. The figurative meaning to this song is comparing their love to the love of Romeo and Juliet: in real life, people are trying to keep the apart when they really want to be together.
7. anonymous

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   May 25th 2011 !⃝

   Romeo and Juliet isn't a story of forbidden love! It's about two dumbass teenagers who get married a day after they meet, then because they think there parents will get mad at them they go to way too much trouble to hide it, then kill themselves.
   But if Taylor Swift goes through the same thing Romeo and Juliet did, she would be dead...
8. anonymous

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   May 17th 2011 !⃝

   It's the non tragic version of romeo and juliet.
9. anonymous

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   Feb 26th 2011 !⃝

   Scarlet letter doesn't necessarily refer to taylor being pregnant. If you read the book, thats great, but I think a scarlet letter refers to her being an outsider, such as someone who was an unwed mother. Although many people accuse taylor of being wrong about the way romeo and juliet went down, she wanted to put her own twist on things and give the two the happy ending she deserved. Taylor obviously knows what she is talking about. Everyone else just needs to find it in their hearts and go with it.
   
   Peace. Love. Taylor Swift.
10. anonymous

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    Feb 21st 2011 !⃝

    The song is a referral to a love similar to "Romeo & Juliet." Two people (who & her boyfriend) are in love, but their love is forbidden. (People are telling them that it's not going to work out; Parent's don't approve; etc) They find a way to make it work anyways.
11. anonymous

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    Feb 14th 2011 !⃝

    Well obviously you guys are missing the whole literary point of this song.
    Swift has made two literary allsion in her song 'Love Story'. The first one is pretty evident - Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' which compares herself and her lover in the song to the 'R&J' exemplifying how forbidden and socially unexceptable their love is.
    The second literary allusion is to Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' (if any of you had bothered to extend you knowledge and read). Swift compares herself to Hester Prynne in Hawthorne's 'Scarlet letter' who was excluded from society for being an adulterer, suggesting that the persona was 'off limits', desirable but forbidden by her social enclave, expecially her dad.
12. anonymous

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    Dec 28th 2010 !⃝

    In an interview she said that she loved Romeo and Juliet and wished that it turned into a happy ending and did so with the song.
13. anonymous

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    Dec 15th 2010 !⃝

    It's like Romeo and Juliet.

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
14. anonymous

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    Sep 9th 2010 !⃝

    This is about a love story where the dad does not let them see each other .

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
15. Skittelgal810

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    May 27th 2010 !⃝

    The song is about how she loved someone but they just couldnt find a way to get together, to meet. But I think it also means that their love got to a strong point but then died like Romeo and Juiliet.

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