Dear John Lyrics » Taylor Swift : The Dear John Lyrics / Dear John Song Lyrics by Taylor Swift is from The Album Speak Now (2010). The Dear John Song is Sung by Taylor Swift. The Dear John Song Music is Produced by Nathan Chapman & Taylor Swift. The Dear John Song Lyrics is Written by Taylor Swift. The Dear John Song is Released on Oct. 25, 2010. The Dear John Song is Presented by Big Machine Records.
Dear John Song Details :
| Song | Dear John |
| Singer | Taylor Swift |
| Music | Nathan Chapman & Taylor Swift |
| Lyrics | Taylor Swift |
| Release Date | Oct. 25, 2010 |
| Label | Big Machine Records |
| Album | Speak Now (2010) |
Dear John Lyrics » Taylor Swift
[Verse 1]
Long were the nights when
My days once revolved around you
Counting my footsteps
Praying 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
Then go back and turn it to rain
And I lived in your chess game
But you changed the rules everyday
Wondering which version of you I might get on the phone tonight
Well, I stopped pickin’ up and this song is to let you know why
[Chorus]
Dear John, I see it all now that you’re gone
Don’t you think I was too young to be messed with?
The girl in the dress cried the whole way home
I should’ve known
[Verse 2]
Well, maybe it’s me
And my blind optimism to blame
Or maybe it’s you and your sick need
To give love and take it away
And you’ll add my name to your long list of traitors
Who don’t understand
And I look back in regret how I ignored when they said
“Run as fast as you can”
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About Taylor Swift’s Dear John from Speak Now (2010)
“Dear John” is a reflection on Taylor’s short-lived relationship with fellow singer-songwriter
John Mayer
. Taylor conveys her feelings of frustration over the way she was treated by John and how she disregarded the warnings from others.
Besides the obvious song title, there are multiple references to Mayer directly, including the mention of their over ten-year age gap. Sonically, Taylor purposefully added guitar slurring to the background instrumentals, a guitar playing technique seen all throughout Mayer’s music.
The two notably collaborated on Mayer’s 2010 song
“Half of My Heart,”
which was released 4 months before “Dear John”.
Besides John’s
public statement to
Rolling Stone
in 2012
, Mayer also replied to “Dear John” three years later, in his 2013 song
“Paper Doll.”
In the song, John directly replies to Taylor’s line, “you paint me a blue sky then go back and turn it to rain” with, “and if those angel wings don’t fly, someone’s going to paint you another sky.”
Notably, “Dear John” was the third song to contribute to Taylor’s streak of having
“emotional vulnerable”
ballads as the 5th track of an album.
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FAQs About Dear John
What has Swift said about the song?
Swift shared on her
website
:
The song ‘Dear John’ is sort of like the last email you would ever send to someone that you used to be in a relationship with. Usually people write this venting last email to someone and they say everything that they want to say to that person, and then they usually don’t send it. I guess by putting this song on the album I am pushing send.
What did Taylor Swift say about “Dear John”?
In an issue of
Glamour
magazine
, Taylor called John Mayer “presumptuous” for saying that he was “really humiliated” by the song’s lyrics. She went on to say that she did not want to hear his comments about the song, because of her desire to stay happy.
I know it wasn’t good, so I don’t want to know. I put a high priority on staying happy, and I know what I can’t handle. It’s not that I’m this egomaniac and I don’t want to hear anything negative, because I do keep myself in check, but I’ve never developed that thick a skin. So I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.
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