Taylor Swift’s ‘Speak Now’ Lyrics

‘Speak Now’ Lyrics

In what may be a fitting stance against rapper Kanye West, Taylor Swift addressed the rapper at the Video Music Awards this week, by delivering a song that she had written. The song, called ‘Innocent’ from her new album ‘Speak Now’, addresses an incident at the previous years awards ceremony.

At the 2009 VMAs, Swift was pitted against Beyonce Knowles for the award in the Best Female Video category.

As Swift was delivering her acceptance speech, West took the microphone from the country crooner’s hands and said that although he was happy for Swift, that the rapper thought Beyonce had a better video.

The stunned Swift, however, remained poised.

I 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 lunch box days?
Always a bigger bed to crawl into
Wasn’t it beautiful when you believed in everything
And everybody believed in you?

It’s all right, just wait and see
Your streaming lights are still bright to me oh
Who you are is not what you’ve been
You’re still an innocent
You’re still an innocent

There’s some things you can’t speak of
But tonight you’ll leave it all again
You wouldn’t be shattered on the floor now
If only you would sing only what you know …

Wasn’t it easy you’re in your firefly-catching days
And 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?

It’s all right, just wait and see
Your streaming lights are still bright to me oh
Who you are is not who you’ve been
You’re still an innocent
It’s OK, life is a tough crowd
32 and still growing up now
Who you are is not what you did
You’re still an innocent

Time turns flames to ambers
You’ll have new Septembers
Every one of us has messed up too
Mind change like the weather
I hope you remember today is never too late
To be brave (ohh)

It’s all right, just wait and see
Your streaming lights are bright to me oh
Who you are is not where you’ve been
You’re still an innocent
It’s OK, life is a tough crowd
32 and still growing up now
Who you are is not what you did
You’re still an innocent
Lost your balance on a tightrope
It’s never too late to get it back
When they said ‘Speak now’