Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
This is wrong but
I can't help but feel like
There ain't nothing more right babe
Misty morning comes again and I can't
Help but wish I could see your face
And I knew from the first note played
I'd be breaking all my rules to see you
You smile that beautiful smile
And all the girls in the front row scream your name
So dim that spotlight, tell me things like
I can't take my eyes off of you
I'm no one special, just another wide-eyed girl
Who's desperately in love with you
Give me a photograph to hang on my wall
Superstar
Good morning loneliness
Comes around when I'm not dreaming about you
When my world wakes up today you'll be in another town
And I knew when I saw your face I'd be
Counting down the ways to see you
And you smile that beautiful smile
And all the girls in the front row scream your name
So dim that spotlight, tell me things like
I can't take my eyes off of you
I'm no one special, just another wide-eyed girl
Who's desperately in love with you
Give me a photograph to hang on my wall
Superstar
You played in bars, you play guitar
And I'm invisible and everyone knows who you are
And you'll never see, you sing me to sleep
Every night from the radio
So dim that spotlight, tell me things like
I can't take my eyes off of you
I'm no one special, just another wide-eyed girl
Who's desperately in love with you
Give me a photograph to hang on my wall
Superstar
Sweet, sweet superstar
Superstar
I can't help but feel like
There ain't nothing more right babe
Misty morning comes again and I can't
Help but wish I could see your face
And I knew from the first note played
I'd be breaking all my rules to see you
You smile that beautiful smile
And all the girls in the front row scream your name
So dim that spotlight, tell me things like
I can't take my eyes off of you
I'm no one special, just another wide-eyed girl
Who's desperately in love with you
Give me a photograph to hang on my wall
Superstar
Good morning loneliness
Comes around when I'm not dreaming about you
When my world wakes up today you'll be in another town
And I knew when I saw your face I'd be
Counting down the ways to see you
And you smile that beautiful smile
And all the girls in the front row scream your name
So dim that spotlight, tell me things like
I can't take my eyes off of you
I'm no one special, just another wide-eyed girl
Who's desperately in love with you
Give me a photograph to hang on my wall
Superstar
You played in bars, you play guitar
And I'm invisible and everyone knows who you are
And you'll never see, you sing me to sleep
Every night from the radio
So dim that spotlight, tell me things like
I can't take my eyes off of you
I'm no one special, just another wide-eyed girl
Who's desperately in love with you
Give me a photograph to hang on my wall
Superstar
Sweet, sweet superstar
Superstar
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SuperStar Lyrics as written by Taylor Alison Swift Liz Rose
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Anthem Entertainment
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i can totally relate to this song.<3 cuz i got a huge celeb crush(: it's my fav song from her deluxe version "fearless"!
To me, the meaning of this could be a few different things. Obviously it could just be about a famous person that you are in love with, but it could also be a crush. Someone you idolize and put up on that pedestal, so this could have two meanings. Again, just someone you can't have, but still long to.
It should be "Good morning loneliness comes around when I'm not dreaming. . ."
I like to think about this in the other way. The boy doesn't have to be everyone elses' Superstar, but maybe just to her.
This song is so sad and sweet and lonely, and she sings it beautifully.
So, this is going to be far fetched. but what if it is about joe jonas. how do we know it was written when she was 14/15? some of the other songs like come in with the rain and untouchable we know were written when she was younger because she had already peformed them live but we never heard superstar before this rerelease. so lets say this is her post breakup song about joe jonas. the reason i think this is because it sounds like she has had a relationship with the person who the song is about, by saying 'this is wrong by i cant help but feel like there aint nothing more right babe' doesnt seem like somehting you say about a stranger. and i think its post break up because of lines like 'id be breaking all my rules to see you'. and its sarcastic, at points like ' give me a photograph to hang on my wall, superstar" i think she is making fun of his ego, and saying im no one special you are this superstar, when really she is a superstar, bigger than him... i dont know, just my thoughts.
she didn't write the song untouchable. The band Luna Halo wrote it, she just covered it. and in her album when they say she wrote they just mean she changed the melody a bit.
I think it's about a famous person she had a crush on. Just a beautifully, sad song. It actually reminds me of something from 70's or something. So deep and heartbreaking.
I relate to this song in a different way. For a year, I had a really big crush on a soccer player at school who was gorgeous and popular and had a lot of girls who liked him, and I always felt like he would never notice me or care if he did, because I was just like the rest of the random chicks who crushed on him. This song is basically exactly what I felt for him. "I'm no one special, just another wide eyed girl...". If only I'd heard it then to help me get through it, LOL.
I don't think that this is necessarily literally about a celebrity. I think it's about a guy who's popular or older than her.
"I'm no one special, just a wide-eyed girl who's desperately in love with you."
She's daydreaming about him from afar, because she knows her chances with him are slim. She puts on a pedestal, like a celebrity. Like a crazed fan, she's wild about him, but has to accept that he'll probably never feel the same way.
"So dim that spotlight, tell me things like, 'I can't take my eyes off of you.'"
She wants to know what he's really like underneath it all. Even though all the girls are after him for his looks/athletic ability/whatever, she really wants him to "dim the spotlight" so she can know the real guy underneath his act.
okay this may be far fetched but this song is something secretive that probably no one knows the subject/influence is... but i'm thinking (remember this is far fetched) that it MIGHT be john mayer. i know i know it's crazy but when i read the lyrics and also the hidden message that said, "I'll never tell." it reminded me of when they first met and also when they did a couple of songs together. the fact that this one is saying how popular the guy is compared to her and how he plays in bars and smiles his perfect smile just makes me feel like MAYBE they had a secret relationship....
The song is about Martin from Boys Like Girls.
The song is about Martin from Boys Like Girls.
I agree with you, I totally think it's about John Mayer. Especially since she repeatedly hints that she has loved John from the beginning. John is a lot older then her. She could have had a crush on him at 14/15 and wrote this. In Superstar she says "loved you from the very first day" and in Dear John the secret message is "loved you from the very first day". And,in superman she has a lyric that says "'cause I loved you from the very first day". Also, in this song, she says "and I knew from the first note played, I'd be breaking all my rules to see you" and "and I knew when I saw your face I'd be<br /> counting down the ways to see you" in Dear John she talks about how everyone warned her against him. In Superman, she talks about him being away and her not wanting him to fall in love with someone else. <br /> <br /> It fits.
This song is about day dreaming about a superstar. its from your point of view whatever superstar you dream about being with
i definitely agree its not about Joe..i would say it was written when she was younger and less known..going by the fact that in the song hes more well known than her..and well nowadays there isnt a great deal more people more well known than Taylor Swift...so i agree with Roseanne13..its about her younger self having a crush on a massive celeb..x
I think this is deffinatly about the breakup with Joe Jonas or right before the breakup when things were heading downhill. To me, there's clues in the song about Joe. It talks about the morning and morning lonliness a few times and I've heard in a past interview from Taylor that when she got up in the morning she'd try for their relationship being over to not be all she thought about. Also, the 'breaking all my rules to see you' seems obvious it's about him and not about wishing she could be with a superstar. Just an idea, but as the album says she'll never tell so we'll never know for sure! It's such an amazing sad with such a sad element to it.
it's not about Joe because Joe doesn't play in a bar. and I think it's someone that was famous when she was still not found yet. I read over the lyrics again and it is definitely that one singer she crushed on when she was younger.