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You take a deep breath
And you walk through the doors
It's the morning of your very first day
You say hi to your friends you ain't seen in awhile
Try and stay out of everybody's way
It's your freshman year
And you're gonna be here for the next four years
In this town
Hoping one of those senior boys
Will wink at you and say 'you know I haven't seen you around before
[Chorus]
'Cause when you're fifteen,
Somebody tells you they love you
You're gonna believe them
And when you're fifteen
Feeling like there's nothing to figure out
Count to ten
Take it in
This is life before you know who you're gonna be
At fifteen
You sit in class next to a red-head named Abigail
And soon enough you're best friends
Laughing at the other girls
Who they think they're so cool
We'll be out of here as soon as we can
And then you're on your very first date
And he's got a car
And you're feeling like flying
And you're mama's waiting up
And you're thinking he's the one
And you're dancing around the room when the night ends
When the night ends
[Chorus]
And your first kiss makes your head spin around
But in your life you'll do things
Greater than dating the boy on the football team
But I didn't know it at fifteen
When all you wanted
Was to be wanted
Wish you could go back
And tell yourself what you know now
Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday
But I realized some bigger dreams of mine
And Abigail gave everything she had
To a boy who changed his mind
And we both cried
[Chorus]
Don't forget to look before you fall
I've found time can heal most anything
And you just might find who you're supposed to be
I didn't know who I was supposed to be
At fifteen
La la la la la
Your very first day
Take a deep breath girl
And take a deep breath as you walk through the doors
And you walk through the doors
It's the morning of your very first day
You say hi to your friends you ain't seen in awhile
Try and stay out of everybody's way
It's your freshman year
And you're gonna be here for the next four years
In this town
Hoping one of those senior boys
Will wink at you and say 'you know I haven't seen you around before
[Chorus]
'Cause when you're fifteen,
Somebody tells you they love you
You're gonna believe them
And when you're fifteen
Feeling like there's nothing to figure out
Count to ten
Take it in
This is life before you know who you're gonna be
At fifteen
You sit in class next to a red-head named Abigail
And soon enough you're best friends
Laughing at the other girls
Who they think they're so cool
We'll be out of here as soon as we can
And then you're on your very first date
And he's got a car
And you're feeling like flying
And you're mama's waiting up
And you're thinking he's the one
And you're dancing around the room when the night ends
When the night ends
[Chorus]
And your first kiss makes your head spin around
But in your life you'll do things
Greater than dating the boy on the football team
But I didn't know it at fifteen
When all you wanted
Was to be wanted
Wish you could go back
And tell yourself what you know now
Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday
But I realized some bigger dreams of mine
And Abigail gave everything she had
To a boy who changed his mind
And we both cried
[Chorus]
Don't forget to look before you fall
I've found time can heal most anything
And you just might find who you're supposed to be
I didn't know who I was supposed to be
At fifteen
La la la la la
Your very first day
Take a deep breath girl
And take a deep breath as you walk through the doors
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Swift admitted to CMT Radio that she cried when she recorded this song. She explained: "I'm not likely to cry over something I've gone through, even if it's the worst breakup ever. Maybe I haven't had that breakup yet. Maybe there will be a breakup where I'll just cry every time I think of it. (laughs) But the things that make me cry are when the people I love have gone through pain and I've seen it. "Fifteen" talks about how my best friend, Abigail, got her heart broken when we were in ninth grade and singing about that absolutely gets me every time."
Swift told That's Country that she, "started everything with the line 'Abigail gave everything she had to a boy who changed his mind' and wrote everything else from that point, almost backwards."
Taylor swift performed this with Miley Cyrus at the 2009 Grammy awards. Cyrus was 16 at the time.
This almost-appropriately titled single was Swift's sixteenth entry on the Hot Country songs chart.
Abigail appears in the song's music video, in which the two friends go through various situations of teen life.
This was the 13th Top 40 hit on the Hot 100 from Fearless (including the set's "Platinum Edition" re-release) extending Swift's record for most such entries from one album. Prior to this, no act had achieved more seven Top 40 hits from one album.
Billboard magazine asked Taylor when she finds time to pen songs. She replied: "I actually am best writing on the road. I only have time to write the songs that hit me the hardest. Those are songs like 'Fifteen' - that's one I wrote on the road. It hits me and I needed to write it so I found time to write it, whether it's 15 minutes between meet-and-greets or at 4 a.m. If they haunt me throughout my meet-and-greets and interviews, and all I'm playing in my head is this song, then I know I've got something."
The song's music video was directed by You Belong With Me director, Roman White. He told MTV News that for the clip he wanted to capture the essence of the song without getting too literal. "Well, I think I really wanted this video to kind of be an evolution for Taylor," White said. "I mean, obviously it's a high school song, but the last thing I wanted to do was shoot it in a high school. So I wanted to try something different, and I actually said to her, 'I don't think we should shoot in a high school.' And I don't think she wanted to either.
I kind of came up with this idea like, let's take the literal meaning of this song and watch it evolve in front of us ... almost as a memory in your head," he added. "And create this world, so you walk in on this desolate desert and you start to sing about all these great memories you have ... of everything you love [blooming] around you, and so we literally grew this garden around her.
But also we added these surreal elements that came from the memory," he said. "It's kind of this cross between this surreal garden and this memory [and] she's at the heart of this memory."
Just about everything on the video, bar Swift herself, was created on a computer. "The rain was all digitally created. All the trees, all the flowers, everything was created by mouse, everything was created by computers," White explained. "The trees, the leaves, the rain, everything, the clouds. We had prop pieces of the desks and stuff, so even things we had actual props of we re-created in 3-D [on the computer]."
Its all the feeling of a teenage girl, especially when they are going through a break-up.
You think the guy is the best. The one you want to be with forever, no matter what. You think he loves you, when you are with him you cant feel any better. He's your first love, he gave you your first kiss, and now you can't believe that he's changed his mind. Taylor says how her friend "gave all she had to a boy who changed his mind" this could mean had sex, or just gave him her heart, trust, valued him, loved him, more than anything.
the song reminds you that when you are fifteen or a teenager of any age for that matter, when you are in a relationship, or one has just ended. Don't worry, it may hurt. It may be horrible (i know first hand that it is) but its not the end of the world. Put your life in perspection, and remember, you can move on.
You're a freshman, all you care about is who you're dating and who you're friends are. you don't have big problems or decisions to make. Taylor says "this is life before you know who you're gonna be" because at just fifteen you have no idea who you're gonna grow up to be, these are the years where it will mold you into who you will be.
Also, I could really relate to "back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday but I realized some bigger dreams of mine" because I honestly thought, like alot, I would have stayed with that guy forever, through whatever, but we didn't. and the breakup made me see that I was stupid to rush in and I have a whole life ahead of me to do better things. :)
I love this song!
Basically how when you break up with someone when you're young it feels like it's the end of the world and you'll never get over them but really time heals all and you WILL find someone else and you will be able to move on!
We can all relate!
That's not what I came here to say though. In "and Abigail gave everything she had to a boy who changed his mind, and we both cried" I think that Taylor says that she is crying, not just because of Abigail's sadness, but of the sadness she has caused. She changed her mind just like the boy did to Abigail. And seeing what that can do to someone has made Taylor see how rejection affects someone and feel regret for her own actions.
Probably Wrong, but its what I hear.
Very meaningful song though in general!