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All 67 songs that Taylor Swift has written by herself

All 67 songs that Taylor Swift has written by herself
Taylor Swift performs during the Eras Tour in London.Kevin Mazur/Getty ImagesTaylor Swift is credited as the sole writer on more than 60 songs across her career.This means she composed the lyrics and melodies alone.These include fan-favorites like "Our Song," "Love Story," "Dear John," "Red," and "The Black Dog."Taylor Swift has been writing songs since she was 10 years old, when she first picked up a guitar.At 15, Swift became the youngest songwriter to ever sign a publishing deal with Sony. In the two decades since, she has built a billion-dollar empire off the strength and popularity of her musical catalog."Everybody has their own sort of niche or specialty thing that they do that, you know, sets them apart from everybody else," Swift said in "Miss Americana," her 2020 Netflix documentary. "My storytelling is what it is for me. I know that without me writing my own songs, I wouldn't be here."Although Swift has frequently worked with noted producers and fellow songwriters to create music collaboratively — as with her latest album, "The Life of a Showgirl," which she co-produced and cowrote entirely with Max Martin and Shellback — Swift is credited as the lead writer on every song she has ever released.Swift is also credited as the sole songwriter on more than 60 tracks across her discography, meaning she composed the lyrics and melodies alone. These are listed below in a loose chronological order."The Outside"Taylor Swift performs at Stagecoach festival in 2008.John Shearer/WireImageAlbum: "Taylor Swift" (2006)Best lyrics:I tried to take the road less traveled byBut nothing seems to work the first few times"Should've Said No"Taylor Swift performs at the 2008 ACM Awards.Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesAlbum: "Taylor Swift" (2006)Best lyrics:I should've been there, in the back of your mindI shouldn't be asking myself whyYou shouldn't be begging for forgiveness at my feetYou should've said noBaby, and you might still have me"Our Song""Our Song" was released as a single in 2007.Taylor Swift/YouTubeAlbum: "Taylor Swift" (2006)Best lyrics:Our song is the slamming screen doorSneaking out late, tapping on your windowWhen we're on the phone and you talk real slow'Cause it's late and your mama don't know"Christmas Must Be Something More"Taylor Swift at the 75th Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony.George Napolitano/FilmMagicEP: "The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection" (2008)Best lyrics:What if ribbons and bows didn't mean a thing?Would the song still survive without five golden rings?"Beautiful Eyes"Rick Diamond/WireImageEP: "Beautiful Eyes" (2008)Best lyrics:I wake up, I'm aliveIn only a little while, I'll cry"I Heart ?"Taylor Swift performs at the 2008 American Music Awards.Vince Bucci/Getty Images for AMAEP: "Beautiful Eyes" (2008)Best lyrics:Wake up and smell the breakupFix my heart, put on my makeupAnother mess I didn't plan"Fifteen"Taylor Swift/YouTubeAlbum: "Fearless" (2008)Best lyrics:Back then, I swore I was gonna marry him somedayBut I realized some bigger dreams of mineAnd Abigail gave everything she hadTo a boy who changed his mindAnd we both cried"Love Story"Taylor Swift/YouTubeAlbum: "Fearless" (2008)Best lyrics:Romeo, save me, they're trying to tell me how to feelThis love is difficult, but it's real"Hey Stephen"Taylor Swift performs during the Fearless Tour at Madison Square Garden on August 27, 2009 in New York City.Jason Kempin/Getty ImagesAlbum: "Fearless" (2008)Best lyrics:Hey Stephen, I could give you 50 reasonsWhy I should be the one you chooseAll those other girls, well, they're beautifulBut would they write a song for you?"You're Not Sorry"Taylor Swift performs during her "Fearless" tour on March 12, 2009 in Sydney, Australia.Don Arnold/WireImageAlbum: "Fearless" (2008)Best lyrics:You're looking so innocent, I might believe you if I didn't knowCould've loved you all my life if you hadn't left me waiting in the coldAnd you've got your share of secretsAnd I'm tired of being last to know"Forever & Always"Taylor Swift performs at Madison Square Garden on August 27, 2009.Theo Wargo/WireImageAlbum: "Fearless" (2008)Best lyrics:Was I out of line?Did I say something way too honest, made you run and hideLike a scared little boy?I looked into your eyesThought I knew you for a minute, now I'm not so sure"The Best Day"Taylor Swift and her mother, Andrea Swift, at the 2007 CMT Music Awards.Kevin Mazur/WireImageAlbum: "Fearless" (2008)Best lyrics:Now I know why all the trees change in the fallI know you were on my side even when I was wrongAnd I love you for giving me your eyesFor staying back and watching me shineAnd I didn't know if you knew, so I'm taking this chance to sayThat I had the best day with you today"Change"Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Erickson Public RelationsAlbum: "Fearless" (2008)Best lyrics:So we've been outnumbered, raided, and now, corneredIt's hard to fight when the fight ain't fairWe're getting stronger now, find things they never foundThey might be bigger but we're faster and never scared"Jump Then Fall"aylor Swift performs during the Fearless Tour at Madison Square Garden on August 27, 2009.Jason Kempin/Getty ImagesAlbum: "Fearless Platinum Edition" (2008)Best lyrics:The bottom's gonna drop out from under our feetI'll catch you, I'll catch youWhen people say things that bring you to your kneesI'll catch youThe time is gonna come when you're so mad you could cryBut I'll hold you through the night until you smile"The Other Side of the Door"Taylor Swift performs during the Fearless Tour at Madison Square Garden on August 27, 2009 in New York City.Jason Kempin/Getty ImagesAlbum: "Fearless Platinum Edition" (2008)Best lyrics:With your face and the beautiful eyesAnd the conversation with the little white liesAnd the faded picture of a beautiful nightYou carried me from your car up the stairsAnd I broke down crying, was she worth this mess?After everything and that little black dressAfter everything, I must confessI need you"Today Was a Fairytale"Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Erickson Public RelationsAlbum: "Valentine's Day (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" (2010), "Fearless (Taylor's Version)" (2021)Best lyrics:Can you feel this magic in the air?It must have been the way you kissed me"Mr. Perfectly Fine"Kevin Winter/Getty Images for TAS Rights ManagementAlbum: "Fearless (Taylor's Version)" (2021)Best lyrics:Because I hear he's got his arm 'round a brand-new girlI've been pickin' up my heart, he's been pickin' up herAnd I never got past what you put me throughBut it's wonderful to see that it never phased you"Mine"Taylor Swift/YouTubeAlbum: "Speak Now" (2010)Best lyrics:You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter"Sparks Fly""Sparks Fly" was released as a single in 2011.Taylor Swift/YouTubeAlbum: "Speak Now" (2010)Best lyrics:Get me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go downGive me something that'll haunt me when you're not around"Back to December""Back to December" was released as a single in 2010.Taylor Swift/YouTubeAlbum: "Speak Now" (2010)Best lyrics:And then the cold came, the dark daysWhen fear crept into my mindYou gave me all your love and all I gave you was goodbye"Speak Now"Dave Hogan/Getty ImagesAlbum: "Speak Now" (2010)Best lyrics:She floats down the aisle like a pageant queenBut I know you wish it was meYou wish it was me, don't you?"Dear John"Taylor Swift performs onstage during the Speak Now World Tour at Madison Square Garden on November 22, 2011.Larry Busacca/Getty ImagesAlbum: "Speak Now" (2010)Best lyrics:You are an expert at "sorry"And keeping lines blurryNever impressed by me acing your testsAll the girls that you've run dry have tired lifeless eyes'Cause you burned them outBut I took your matches before fire could catch meSo don't look nowI'm shining like fireworks over your sad empty town"Mean"Taylor Swift/YouTubeAlbum: "Speak Now" (2010)Best lyrics:I bet you got pushed aroundSomebody made you coldBut the cycle ends right now'Cause you can't lead me down that roadAnd you don't know what you don't know"The Story of Us""The Story of Us" was released as a single in 2011.Taylor Swift/YouTubeAlbum: "Speak Now" (2010)Best lyrics:I'd tell you I miss you, but I don't know howI've never heard silence quite this loud"Never Grow Up"Kevin Mazur/WireImageAlbum: "Speak Now" (2010)Best lyrics:Remember the footsteps, remember the words saidAnd all your little brother's favorite songsI just realized everything I have is, someday, gonna be gone"Enchanted"Larry Busacca/Getty ImagesAlbum: "Speak Now" (2010)Best lyrics:Please don't be in love with someone elsePlease don't have somebody waiting on you"Better than Revenge"Rick Diamond/Getty ImagesAlbum: "Speak Now" (2010)Best lyrics:She looks at life like it's a party and she's on the listShe looks at me like I'm a trend and she's so over itI think her ever-present frown is a little troublingShe thinks I'm psycho 'cause I like to rhyme her name with things"Innocent"Taylor Swift performs "Innocent" at the 2010 VMAs.Kevin Mazur/Contributor/Getty ImagesAlbum: "Speak Now" (2010)Best lyrics:Time turns flames to embersYou'll have new SeptembersEvery one of us has messed up, tooMinds change like the weatherI hope you rememberToday is never too late to be brand new"Haunted"Larry Busacca/Getty ImagesAlbum: "Speak Now" (2010)Best lyrics:Oh, holding my breathWon't see you againSomething keeps me holding onto nothing"Last Kiss"Larry Busacca/Getty ImagesAlbum: "Speak Now" (2010)Best lyrics:So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleepAnd I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breatheAnd I'll keep up with our old friendsJust to ask them how you areHope it's nice where you areAnd I hope the sun shines and it's a beautiful dayAnd something reminds you, you wish you had stayedYou can plan for a change in the weather and timeBut I never planned on you changing your mind"Long Live"Kevin Mazur/WireImageAlbum: "Speak Now" (2010)Best lyrics:And the cynics were outragedScreaming, "This is absurd"'Cause for a moment, a band of thieves in ripped-up jeansGot to rule the world"Ours"Kevin Mazur/Contributor/Getty ImagesAlbum: "Speak Now (Deluxe Edition)" (2010)Best lyrics:Don't you worry your pretty little mindPeople throw rocks at things that shine"Superman"Larry Busacca/Getty ImagesAlbum: "Speak Now (Deluxe Edition)" (2010)Best lyrics:Something in his deep brown eyes has me sayingHe's not all bad like his reputationAnd I can't hear one single word they sayAnd you'll leave, got places to be and I'll be OK"Electric Touch" (featuring Fall Out Boy)Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy and Taylor Swift perform at the 2013 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.Kevin Kane/FilmMagicAlbum: "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" (2023)Best lyrics:I've gotten used to no one calling my phoneI've grown accustomed to sleeping aloneStill, I know that all it takes is to get it rightJust one time, just one time"When Emma Falls in Love"John Shearer/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights ManagementAlbum: "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" (2023)Best lyrics:She's the kind of book that you can't put downLike if Cleopatra grew up in a small town"I Can See You"Taylor Swift/YouTubeAlbum: "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" (2023)Best lyrics:You won't believe half the things I see inside my headWait 'til you see half the things that haven't happened yet"Castles Crumbling" (featuring Hayley Williams)Taylor Swift and Hayley Williams perform in Nashville in 2011.Frederick Breedon IV/WireImageAlbum: "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" (2023)Best lyrics:Power went to my head and I couldn't stopOnes I loved tried to help, so I ran them offAnd here I sit alone behind walls of regretFalling down like promises that I never kept"Foolish One"Taylor Swift performs during the Eras Tour in Las Vegas.Ethan Miller/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights ManagementAlbum: "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" (2023)Best lyrics:'Cause you got her on your arm and me in the wingsI'll get your longing glances, but she'll get your ringAnd you will say you had the best of intentionsAnd maybe I will finally learn my lesson"Timeless"Taylor Swift performs during the Eras Tour in Tampa, Florida.Octavio Jones/TAS23/Getty Images for for TAS Rights ManagementAlbum: "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" (2023)Best lyrics:That's when I came upon a book covered in cobwebsStory of a romance torn apart by fateHundreds of years ago, they fell in love, like we didAnd I'd die for you in the same way, if I first saw your faceIn the 1500s off in a foreign landAnd I was forced to marry another manYou still would've been mine"Eyes Open"Taylor Swift in "Safe & Sound."Taylor Swift/YouTubeAlbum: "The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond" (2012)Best lyrics:So here you are, two steps ahead and staying on guardEvery lesson forms a new scarThey never thought you'd make it this far"State of Grace"Christie Goodwin/TAS/Getty Images for TASAlbum: "Red" (2012)Best lyrics: This is a state of graceThis is the worthwhile fightLove is a ruthless game, unless you play it good and right"Red"Andreas Rentz/Getty Images for TASAlbum: "Red" (2012)Best lyrics:Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end streetFaster than the wind, passionate as sinEnding so suddenly"I Almost Do"Taylor Swift performs during the Red Tour in 2014.Chris McGrath/TAS/Getty Images for TASAlbum: "Red" (2012)Best lyrics:I bet you think I either moved on or hate you'Cause each time you reach out, there's no replyI bet it never, ever occurred to youThat I can't say hello to you and risk another goodbye"Stay Stay Stay"Dave Hogan/TAS/Getty Images for TASAlbum: "Red" (2012)Best lyrics:You took the time to memorize meMy fears, my hopes, and dreamsI just like hanging out with you all the timeAll those times that you didn't leave, it's been occurring to meI'd like to hang out with you for my whole life"Holy Ground"Taylor Swift performs during the Red Tour in Denver.John Leyba/The Denver Post via Getty ImagesAlbum: "Red" (2012)Best lyrics:Took off faster than a green light, goHey, you skip the conversation when you already knowI left a note on the door with a joke we'd madeAnd that was the first day"Sad Beautiful Tragic"Taylor Swift performs during "Red" tour on June 9, 2014 in Singapore.Nicky Loh/TAS/Getty Images for TASAlbum: "Red" (2012)Best lyrics:In dreams, I meet you in warm conversationWe both wake in lonely beds, different citiesAnd time is taking its sweet time erasing youAnd you've got your demons, and darling, they all look like me"The Lucky One"Christopher Polk/TAS/Getty Images for TASAlbum: "Red" (2012)Best lyrics:And they tell you that you're lucky, but you're just so confused'Cause you don't feel pretty, you just feel usedAnd all the young things line up to take your place"Starlight"Dave Hogan/TAS/Getty Images for TASAlbum: "Red" (2012)Best lyrics: I said, "Oh, my, what a marvelous tune"It was the best night, never would forget how we moved"Begin Again""Begin Again" was released as a single in 2012.Taylor Swift/YouTubeAlbum: "Red" (2012)Best lyrics:I've been spending the last eight monthsThinking all love ever does is break and burn and endBut on a Wednesday, in a café, I watched it begin again"The Moment I Knew"Christopher Polk/TAS/Getty Images for TASAlbum: "Red (Deluxe Edition)" (2012)Best lyrics: What do you say when tears are streaming down your face in front of everyone you know?And what do you do when the one who means the most to you is the one who didn't show?"Girl at Home"Kevin Mazur/TAS/WireImageAlbum: "Red (Deluxe Edition)" (2012)Best lyrics: And it would be a fine propositionIf I was a stupid girlBut, honey, I am no one's exceptionThis, I have previously learned"Better Man"John Shearer/Getty Images for TAS Rights ManagementAlbum: "Red (Taylor's Version)" (2021)Best lyrics:But your jealousy, oh I can hear it nowTalking down to me like I'd always be aroundPush my love away like it was some kind of loaded gunOh, you never thought I'd run"Nothing New" (featuring Phoebe Bridgers)Kevin Mazur/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights ManagementAlbum: "Red (Taylor's Version)" (2021)Best lyrics:I know someday I'm gonna meet her, it's a fever dreamThe kind of radiance you only have at 17She'll know the way and then she'll say she got the map from meI'll say I'm happy for her, then I'll cry myself to sleep"This Love"Chen He/Visual China Group via Getty ImagesAlbum: "1989" (2014)Best lyrics:Clear blue waterHigh tide came and brought you inAnd I could go on and on, on and on, and I will"Lover""Lover" was released as a single in 2019.Taylor Swift/YouTubeAlbum: "Lover" (2019)Best lyrics:My heart's been borrowed and yours has been blueAll's well that ends well to end up with you"Cornelia Street"Taylor Swift performs during the "City of Lover" concert on September 9, 2019 in Paris, France.Dave Hogan/ABA/Getty ImagesAlbum: "Lover" (2019)Best lyrics:I get mystified by how this city screams your nameAnd baby, I'm so terrified of if you ever walk awayI'd never walk Cornelia Street again"Daylight"Shanna Madison/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesAlbum: "Lover" (2019)Best lyrics:I can still see it all in my mindAll of you, all of me, intertwinedI once believed love would be black and whiteBut it's goldenAnd I can still see it all in my headBack and forth from New York, sneaking in your bedI once believed love would be burning redBut it's golden"Christmas Tree Farm"Theo Wargo/Getty Images for iHeartMediaAlbum: N/ABest lyrics:Sweet dreams of holly and ribbonMistakes are forgivenAnd everything is icy and blueAnd you would be there too"My Tears Ricochet"Kevin Mazur/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights ManagementAlbum: "Folklore" (2020)Best lyrics:I can go anywhere I wantAnywhere I want, just not homeAnd you can aim for my heart, go for bloodBut you would still miss me in your bonesAnd I still talk to you, when I'm screaming at the skyAnd when you can't sleep at night, you hear my stolen lullabies"No Body, No Crime" (featuring HAIM)John Shearer/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights ManagementAlbum: "Evermore" (2020)Best lyrics:Good thing my daddy made me get a boating license when I was 15And I've cleaned enough houses to know how to cover up a sceneGood thing Este's sister's gonna swear she was with meGood thing his mistress took out a big life insurance policy"Vigilante Shit"Kevin Mazur/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights ManagementAlbum: "Midnights" (2022)Best lyrics:Picture me thick as thieves with your ex-wifeAnd she looks so prettyDriving in your BenzLately, she's been dressing for revenge"Bigger Than the Whole Sky"Beth GarrabrantAlbum: "Midnights (3am Edition)" (2022)Best lyrics:No words appear before me in the aftermathSalt streams out my eyes and into my earsEvery single thing I touch becomes sick with sadness'Cause it's all over now, all out to sea"My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys"Beth GarrabrantAlbum: "The Tortured Poets Department" (2024)Best lyrics:There was a litany of reasons whyWe could've played for keeps this timeI know I'm just repeating myselfPut me back on my shelfBut first, pull the string And I'll tell you that he runs Because he loves me"Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?"Taylor Swift performs during The Eras Tour in Liverpool, England.Gareth Cattermole/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights ManagementAlbum: "The Tortured Poets Department" (2024)Best lyrics:I wanna snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made meYou wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised meSo all you kids can sneak into my house with all the cobwebsI'm always drunk on my own tears, isn't that what they all said?That I'll sue you if you step on my lawnThat I'm fearsome and I'm wretched and I'm wrongPut narcotics into all of my songsAnd that's why you're still singing along"The Black Dog"Beth GarrabrantAlbum: "The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology" (2024)Best lyrics:Six weeks of breathing clean air, I still miss the smokeWere you making fun of me with some esoteric joke?Now I wanna sell my house, and set fire to all my clothesAnd hire a priest to come and exorcise my demonsEven if I die screamingAnd I hope you hear it"Peter"Beth GarrabrantAlbum: "The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology" (2024)Best lyrics: You said you'd come and get me, but you were 25And the shelf life of those fantasies has expiredLost to the 'Lost Boys' chapter of your lifeForgive me, Peter, please know that I triedTo hold on to the days when you were mineBut the woman who sits by the windowHas turned out the light"The Manuscript"Taylor Swift performs during The Eras Tour in London.Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for TAS Rights ManagementAlbum: "The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology" (2024)Best lyrics:Then the actors were hitting their marksAnd the slow dance was alight with the sparksAnd the tears fell in synchronicity with the scoreAnd at last, she knew what the agony had been forRead the original article on Business Insider

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