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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life:

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<aside> 🌈 Queer History:

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<aside> ➕ See also: Making the First Move/First/You Started It “Once Upon A Time”

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Debut (October 24, 2006)

Fearless (November 11, 2008)

Speak Now (October 25, 2010)

• Mine: You saw me start to believe for the first time
• Speak Now: And the organ starts to play a song that sounds like a death march
• Enchanted:
  • Across the room your silhouette starts to make its way to me
  • The playful conversation starts, counter all your quick remarks
• Better Than Revenge: The story starts when it was hot and it was summer and…
• Haunted: Something’s gone terribly wrong, won’t finish what you started
• Long Live: It was the end of a decade, but the start of an age

Red (October 22, 2012)

• Begin Again - I watched it begin again
• Come Back… Be Here: The delicate beginning rush, the feeling you can know so much without knowing anything at all
• Better Man: I’m hanging on every careless word hoping it might turn sweet again like it was in the beginning

1989 (October 27, 2014)

• I Wish You Would: Windows down, you pass my street, the memories start
• Wildest Dreams: I can see the end as it begins, my one condition is…