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I'm so glad you made time to see me.
How's life, tell me how's your family?
I haven't seen them in a while.
You've been good, busier then ever.
We small talk, work and the weather
Your guard is up and I know why.
Because the last time you saw me
Is still burned in the back of your mind.
You gave me roses and I left them there to die.
So this is me swallowing my pride,
Standing in front of you saying I'm sorry for that night.
And I go back to December all the time.
It turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you,
Wishing I'd realized what I had when you were mine.
I'd go back to December, turn around and make it all right.
I go back to December all the time.
These days I haven't been sleeping
Staying up playing back myself leaving,
When your birthday passed and I didn't call.
And I think about summer, all the beautiful times
I watched you laughing from the passenger side
And realized I'd loved you in the fall.
And then the cold came, the dark days when fear crept into my mind.
You gave me all your love and all I gave you was goodbye.
So this is me swallowing my pride,
Standing in front of you saying I'm sorry for that night.
And I go back to December all the time.
It turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you,
Wishing I'd realized what I had when you were mine.
I'd go back to December turn around and change my own mind.
I go back to December all the time
I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile, so good to me, so right,
And how you held me in your arms that September night,
The first time you ever saw me cry.
Maybe this is wishful thinking,
Probably mindless dreaming
But if we loved again I swear I'd love you right.
I'd go back in time and change it but I can't
So if the chain is on your door, I understand.
But this is me swallowing my pride,
Standing in front of you saying I'm sorry for that night,
And I go back to December.
It turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you,
Wishing I'd realized what I had when you were mine.
I'd go back to December turn around and make it all right.
I'd go back to December turn around and change my own mind.
I go back to December all the time all the time
How's life, tell me how's your family?
I haven't seen them in a while.
You've been good, busier then ever.
We small talk, work and the weather
Your guard is up and I know why.
Because the last time you saw me
Is still burned in the back of your mind.
You gave me roses and I left them there to die.
So this is me swallowing my pride,
Standing in front of you saying I'm sorry for that night.
And I go back to December all the time.
It turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you,
Wishing I'd realized what I had when you were mine.
I'd go back to December, turn around and make it all right.
I go back to December all the time.
These days I haven't been sleeping
Staying up playing back myself leaving,
When your birthday passed and I didn't call.
And I think about summer, all the beautiful times
I watched you laughing from the passenger side
And realized I'd loved you in the fall.
And then the cold came, the dark days when fear crept into my mind.
You gave me all your love and all I gave you was goodbye.
So this is me swallowing my pride,
Standing in front of you saying I'm sorry for that night.
And I go back to December all the time.
It turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you,
Wishing I'd realized what I had when you were mine.
I'd go back to December turn around and change my own mind.
I go back to December all the time
I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile, so good to me, so right,
And how you held me in your arms that September night,
The first time you ever saw me cry.
Maybe this is wishful thinking,
Probably mindless dreaming
But if we loved again I swear I'd love you right.
I'd go back in time and change it but I can't
So if the chain is on your door, I understand.
But this is me swallowing my pride,
Standing in front of you saying I'm sorry for that night,
And I go back to December.
It turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you,
Wishing I'd realized what I had when you were mine.
I'd go back to December turn around and make it all right.
I'd go back to December turn around and change my own mind.
I go back to December all the time all the time
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"Back to December" as written by Taylor Swift
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Taylor admitted to E! News the song is dedicated to an actual person to whom she had done wrong: "It addresses a first for me in that I've never apologized in song. The person I wrote this song about deserves this. This is about a person who was incredible to me, just perfect to me in a relationship, and I was really careless with him."
Many of Taylor's fans believe that the song is referring to American actor Taylor Lautner, whom she dated briefly at the end of 2009. However, even though the singer is happy to pour out personal details in song, she is remaining silent on just who is the recipient of her apologies. "It's such an interesting little quirk," Taylor told USA Today. "It's like, 'Obviously, you're writing songs about your life and you're almost admitting to these things.' But when it actually comes time to talk about them in an interview, I get pretty shy and coy about it."
The song's music video was directed by Yoann Lemoine, who was also the man behind the lens for Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream." The chilly clip finds Swift contemplating the best way to apologize to a former lover, played by male model, Guntars Asmanis, for breaking his heart. Footages of the school and baseball stadium were filmed in MacArthur Park, New York, while scenes with Swift were shot in an old country mansion outside of Nashville.
Lemoine told MTV News that he wanted the video to be simple yet metaphorical: "I wanted to work on the coldness of feelings in a very visual way, playing with the snow, the distance and sadness. [Taylor] really liked it. The winter theme was very interesting to me — the snow, the ice. I even wanted the guy to go swim in frozen lakes at some point. It was not possible, but I wanted to translate how you feel sometime when your heart is broken. The snow in the apartment is supposed to show how connected she is to him. He is outside, in the cold, but somehow she is connected to him."
As for Asmanis, both Swift and he agreed that he was the perfect fit for the part. "I wanted a boy that was fragile and beautiful. I didn't want to go for a hunk or a perfect cheesy boy that would have killed the sincerity of the video," Lemoine said. "I just imagined a face that would enhance the fragility of the video. We did cast a couple of boys and both Taylor and I loved Guntars."
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'I'm so glad you made time to see me' Taylor is saying that she is happy that this significant other took time out of there life to actually come and see her instead of just texting like our modern world. 'How's life, tell me how's your family/I haven't seen them in a while' explains how she has wanted to see how he and his life are doing since they broke up or seperated. She is saying how she had parted ways with people she had seen so often seen that she wonders how they are. 'You've been good, busier than ever/ small talk work and the weather' describes how this meeting is somewhat awkward from not seeing each other for such a long time. These two individuals are just bringing up some topics that they use to waste time and later depart. 'Your guard is up and I know why' shows that the male figure in this piece is being sheltered and not saying everything to the girl because he is afraid that she will just walk all over him and not want to have her in his life again because of past experiences. 'Because the last time you saw me/ is stilled burned in the back of my head' Both of these individuals remember there last meeting but not for a good reason. 'You gave me roses and I left them there to die" this last part before the chorus explains that he most likely poured his heart out to her and she took no consideration into him and just left them not caring about this male. This is just the first part of my interperetation, more is sure to come.
ask someone to take me "back",and once they let me go and walked away-then it's done. Moving on. ;) Great p.o.v.
(warning - total sob story, don't read if not interested lol)
Some of the best times me and my ex boyfriend spent together were in december, I can still remember that first december we shared when our love was blossoming and becoming something beautiful. Months flew by and challenges arose but we stuck by each other despite them and despite everyone telling us to just give up. A year later, I ended up getting pregnant and we were both completely thrilled and ready to be a happy family! But in the end, it only drove us apart from each other after only 6 weeks. We fought and I eventually moved out of the apartment. We still had feelings for each other but I felt it was best we broke up or atleast take a break. Well that break turned into a few months, and now here I am 6 months pregnant - without him. I understand exactly what the first couple of lines are like, the awkward reuniting conversation. We began speaking to each other after all that time, and we were both afraid of letting each other in because we were used to the thoughts of moving on and becoming numb. But talking again, only realized how our feelings still were infused in our souls. He wants to be together again, I feel so dumb for even ending things but it needed to be done. I want to be with him, the baby even misses him. which hurts even more. but I wonder if it'd work out.
"Maybe this is wishful thinking, probably mindless dreaming, but if we loved again, I swear I'd love you right." Damn.
One time i had this boyfriend and he liked me alot and then he asked me out but i didn't really like him like that. but i still said yes. so we were going out for like a day and the weekend and then that monday afternoon i broke up with him because i was uncomfortable being with him because i didn't really like him. so a month later i realized that i could have had a really good boyfriend and that i fell in love with him because of how he changed over the time,he said he would go back with me but then i guess he changed his mind because he didn't want to go through the same thing again, but a couple weeks ago after not speaking to him for like 3 or 4 months we finally got back to speaking to each other and he know i like him alot and he said he still has feelings for me but he just wont take me back.
So all together this would happen to be one of the most beautiful love songs and as you see i can totally relate. <3 <3
She says "you gave me roses, and i left them there to die" most likely she is meaning T-Lautner really loved her and showed her his love but she didn't return it.
The chorus is just her saying that she regrets her decisions she made when she was with Taylor. She realized that she was unfair to him and she now sees that he really did love her and she wishes she could go back to help their relationship but its too late. She broke up with him in December so thats why she talks about going back and changing her own mind about her decision.
"i watched you laughing from the passenger side" we saw them mostly together in his car after they went out. so in my opinion think T-Swift has to see all those pictures of them publicly and see them smiling together because its everywhere and she cant get away from it.
"i miss your tan skin, your sweet smile" if this wasn't obviously enough for you. There is no proof, but Taylor Lautner is known for his tan skin and his amazing white smile...its just well known.
a lot of people didn't put this together but im a huge Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner fan so i did haha "how you held me in your arms that september night, the first time you ever saw me cry."
now...Kanye west came up onstage and interrupted Taylor Swift in september during the VMAs. as we all saw, Mr. Lautner was up onstage with her. reports said (even before this song came out) that when they all went backstage Taylor started to cry and everyone tried to help her stop but Taylor Lautner came, took her aside and held her while she cried. perfect fit, right?
Anyways, i just love this song so much. I like most of taylor swifts songs but i just think this one is a breath of fresh air. Shes sings it with emotion and you can tell that it is a very personal song for her.