Speak Now

When Taylor Swift first came out in the music industry, I wasn’t right away amused with her music. Compared to other musicians, I find her not included in my top lists. Until she released her latest album, “Speak Now” I know this is way too late to write for an album review but I just really had to. Why? Because I’ve seen myself in this album, I’ve heard myself saying the same lyrics, some are even hard to put into words but then came a song from this album, and it totally speaks for what happened. She has her way of telling stories that makes it exceptional for our hearing.  I made a review on some of the songs there, mostly I can totally relate:

1.   1.   Mine – From what I catch on Tay’s point of view, Mine is a song about having to choose between running away from love and taking a risk on it. “I was a flight risk, with a fear of falling.” Everyone has their inhibitions and their own ways of avoidance even when love is already in your face. But you can’t really tell what’s waiting for you if you wouldn’t give it a try, right?

2.   2.   Sparks Fly – “My mind forgets to remind me, you’re a bad idea” I think this song pertains to falling for the person you aren’t supposed to fall for. We can’t really choose who we’re gonna fall in love into, and most of the time, the more we try to stay away from that person, the more we find ourselves being attached. “I’m on my guard for the rest of the world but with you, I know it’s no good.”

3.   3.   Speak Now – The first time I heard this on the radio, I thought she just tells in the lyrics about professing your love to someone, but when I started listening, Speak Now tells us to confess our love regardless of time and space. Because in love there is no late and early, only the TRUTH. Even if it takes a wedding ceremony crowd as an audience for your speech.

4.   4.   Back To December – We always have that scenario when we took certain things for granted. Be it in life, opportunities or love. I particularly can’t deny that I once came to a point in my life that I overlooked things and persons. Realizing what their worth only when they are already out of my life. Unfortunately, you can’t always have them back the way you want them to. “I’d go back in time and change it, but I can’t.”

5.   5.   The Story Of Us – Of all the songs in this album, this is the one that is most played in my iPod. Maybe because this is the song which I can mostly relate to. We always have that person that we can’t take away the ‘awkwardness’ away from them whenever we see them. You’re dying to talk to them but don’t know if they feel the same way so you just sat there across them looking like a total weirdo, pretending to answer an imaginary phone call. “This is looking like a contest of who can act like they care LESS.”

6.   6.   Last Kiss – I have been through a really rough break up recently. During that time this song has spoken perfectly for me for the time I was so sad to even talk about what I was feeling. That feeling of having some of his belongings left in your keeping and all you do is to stare at them, cry and even wish for them to talk back at you. Even the littlest object reminds you of a certain incident of you together. Your nightmare of having the person you have never pictured of to be apart from you comes to life right at your face. A line there that caught me most is, “So I’ll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep, And I feel you’ll forget me like I used to feel you breathe.” Social networks now play a vital role in our generation. Un-friending a person is the best way to move on for some persons. I admit that I did the same in one of my exes, and still check on his profile just to know what he’s up to from time to time even if it’s torture on my part. You can’t just ‘program’ your brain to start ‘not to care’ instantly. It would take a VERRYYY long process.