Taylor Swift's Love Story

My Wife was asking for this song a few months back because she heard on the radio and loved it. I listened to it as only noticed the banjo part in the beginning. After getting it for her, I just forgot all about it until last week when my Nokia 5800 randomly played the song. After I listened to it, it was just Ok, most probably another girly song.

But then, because of the nice banjo part, I listened to it again and again, almost everyday. And then, it clicked somewhere in my head. This is a damn good song! The lyrics are simple but very powerful:


We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes
And the flashback starts
I'm standing there
On a balcony of summer air


See the lights,
See the party, the ball gowns
I see you make your way through the crowd
You say hello
Little did I know

That you were Romeo you were throwing pebbles
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
And I was crying on the staircase
Begging you please don't go, and I said:

Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story baby just say yes

So I sneak out to the garden to see you
We keep quiet cause we're dead if they know
So close your eyes
Escape this town for a little while

Cause you were Romeo I was a scarlet letter
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
But you were everything to me
I was begging you please don't go and I said:

Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story baby just say yes

Romeo save me, they try to tell me how to feel
This love is difficult, but it's real,
Don't be afraid
We'll make it out of this mess
It's a love story baby just say yes, oh,

I got tired of waiting
Wondering if you were ever coming around
My faith in you was fading
When I met you on the outskirts of town I said:

Romeo save me I've been feeling so alone
I keep waiting for you but you never come
Is this in my head, I don't know what to think
He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring

And said:

Marry me Juliet you'll never have to be alone
I love you and that's all I really know
I talked to your dad go pick out a white dress
It's a love story baby just say yes

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Cause we were both young when I first saw you

And I loved the part, "I talked to your dad go pick out a white dress". In just that few words, the meaning were so powerful. The more I listened, the more my Imagination ran wild, creating my own version of the music video and I actually shed some tears when it came to that part.

Wow.