<aside> 💡 Analysis -

</aside>

<aside> 👂 Social Media Analysis Relating To This Theme:

</aside>

<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life:

</aside>

<aside> 🌈 Queer History:

</aside>

<aside> ➕ See also: Crime/Bandits/Robbers/Illicit/Illegal/Rebel/Forbidden Car (Kar)/Drive/Rearview

</aside>

Debut (October 24, 2006)

• Mary’s Song (Oh My My My): I dared you to kiss me and ran when you tried

Fearless (November 11, 2008)

• Love Story -
  • escape this town for a little while
  • I’ll be waiting, all that’s left to do is run
• Tell Me Why: Makes me run for cover when you’re around
• Forever And Always: Made you run and hide like a scared little boy
• Fifteen: Laughing at the other girls who think they're so cool We'll be out of here as soon as we can
• The Best Day:
  • I hear your laugh and look up smiling at you, I run and run
  • I grew up in a pretty house and I had space to run
• White Horse - This is a big world, that was a small town There in my rearview mirror disappearing now And it's too late for you and your white horse

Speak Now (October 25, 2010)

• Mine:
  • I was a flight risk with a fear of falling
  • I ran out crying and you followed me out into the street
  • “Lately I’ve had this bad habit of running away from love. Kind of getting to the place where it’s about to commit, and then you just, like, run in the opposite direction. ‘Mine’ is about the idea that I could find someone who would be the exception to that, someone who would be so sturdy and so much of a sure thing that I wouldn’t run from it. Sometimes I look back on a lot of examples that I’ve seen of love, long term, and a lot of times it doesn’t work out. There are goodbyes and people get really hurt, so I tend to be a little ‘run-awayish.’ But I’m never past hoping that at some point that could change. This song is the first single because it has this…there was this moment between Nathan [Chapman] and I, my producer, when I brought this song in and when we made this demo in one day in his basement and we just kinda looked at each other and we were like, ‘This is it. This is the one.’” - Taylor’s website during Speak Now era
• Sparks Fly:
  • You’re the kind of reckless that should send me running
  • Don’t say, “Yes,” run away now
  • And you say, “Let’s run away now”
• Dear John:
  • And I’ll look back in regret how I ignored when they said, “Run as fast as you can”
  • All the girls that you’ve run dry have tired lifeless eyes
• Innocent: Wasn’t it beautiful running wild 'til you fell asleep?
• Last Kiss: I do recall now the smell of the rain fresh off the pavement, I ran off the plane

Red (October 22, 2012)

• All Too Well:
  • You almost ran the red 'cause you were looking over at me
  • Running scared, I was there, I remember it all too well
• I Almost Do: And I wish I could run to you and I hope you know that every time I don’t I almost do