"Speak now or forever hold your peace", the words said by the preachers at the end of wedding ceremonies all over the world, right before the vows. It's a last chance for protest, a moment that makes everyone's heart race, and a moment I've always been strangely fascinated by. So many fantasize about bursting into a church, saying what they'd kept inside for years like in the movies. In real life, it rarely happens.

Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've begun to fear more than that is letting that moment pass without saying anything. I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back regretting the moments we didn't speak up. When we didn't say "I love you". When we should've said "I'm sorry". When we didn't stand up for ourselves or someone who needed help.

These songs are made up of words I didn't say when the moment was right in front of me. These songs are open letters. Each is written with a specific person in mind, telling them what I meant to tell them in person. To the beautiful boy whose heart I broke in December. To my first love who I never thought would be my first heartbreak. To my band. To a mean man I used to be afraid of. To someone who made my world dark for a while. To a girl who stole something of mine. To someone I forgive for what he said in front of the whole world.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones that you use to intentionally hurt someone. What you say might be too much for some people. Maybe it will come out all wrong and you'll stutter and you'll walk away embarrassed, wincing as you play it all back in your head. But I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest. So say it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you'll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying "I could've, but it's too late now".

There is a time for silence. There is a time waiting your turn. But if you know how you feel, and you clearly know what you need to say, you'll know it. I don't think you should wait, I think you should speak now.

Love, Taylor. ("Speak Now" Prologue)

PS: To all the boys who inspired this album, you should've known. 😉 

The album's lead single "Mine" tells the story of a girl whose parents' failed marriage has caused her to take a pessimistic view on love. Over time, however, she falls in love with someone who convinces her to start believing in love again.

Taylor was inspired to write "Mine" after reflecting on one of her unnamed crushes and explained that the song is about her tendency to run from love. The song contains elements of power-pop and its lyrics speak of the ups and downs of a young love.

"This is a situation where a guy that I just barely knew put his arm around me by the water, and I saw the entire relationship flash before my eyes, almost like a weird science-fiction movie. After I wrote the song, things sort of fell apart, as things so often do. And I hadn’t talked to him in a couple months. And the song came out, and that day, I got an e-mail from him. And I was like, ‘Yes!’ Because that one was sort of half-confession and half-prediction or projection of what I saw." -- Taylor Swift

The song was released as the lead single from "Speak Now". Following an unauthorized internet leak, the song was released on August 4, 2010, two weeks earlier than the intended release date.

Critical reception for "Mine" was mostly positive. Taylor was praised for her ability to show a mature perspective on love, although some critics called the song "formulaic" for resonating her earlier works, notably "Love Story".

The song was commercially successful, as well; it became a top ten hit in Australia, Canada and Japan. In the United States, the song entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number three, making Taylor the second female artist in the history of the Hot 100 to debut multiple tracks in the top five during a calendar year after Mariah Carey did so in 1995.

The song's accompanying music video was directed by Roman White. It chronicles the romantic relationship between Taylor and her love interest played by British actor Toby Hemingway which ends with a marriage. The music video was met with great praise from contemporary critics who deemed it as "rather sweet," and "heartwarming." It received the coveted "Video of the Year Award" at the CMT Music Awards 2011.

"Sparks Fly" is a song Taylor wrote about falling for someone, despite knowing that she shouldn't -- but she can't deny the immediate connection.

Taylor wrote the song when she was 16 years old, prior to the release of her debut single "Tim McGraw" in 2006, after playing with her crush Jake Owen in a bar in Portland, Oregon. Following a 2007 live performance of the song, "Sparks Fly" grew in popularity among Taylor's fanbase. While "Speak Now" was under production, she received requests from fans to include the song on the album. As reported by Taste of Country, Taylor said:

"The song ‘Sparks Fly’ is about falling for someone that you maybe shouldn’t fall for, but you can‘t stop yourself because there’s such a connection, there’s such chemistry. This is a song that I wrote a few years ago and had been working on it ever since in the last two years and just honing in on little lyrics and changing them, so it’s really been awesome to see it change over the years." -- Taylor Swift

"Sparks Fly" received generally positive reviews by music critics, who praised it for its upbeat tempo. Others praised Taylor's lyrics of the song and have claimed that the song is a crossover between country and pop.

Following the release of "Speak Now", the song debuted at number 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100, due to strong digital sales. After the song was released as a single, it re-entered the US Billboard Hot 100 at #84. It peaked at number one at the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and was certified Platinum by the RIAA.

"Sparks Fly" was used as the opening song for the "Speak Now World Tour". A music video for the song was released, featuring clips of various performances during the tour.

"Back to December" is considered an orchestral country pop ballad and its lyrics are a remorseful plea for forgiveness for breaking up with a former lover.

According to Taylor, "Back to December" is the first time she ever apologizes to someone in a song. She said "she never felt the need to apologize in a song before. But in the last two years I've experienced a lot, [including] a lot of different kinds of learning lessons. And sometimes you learn a lesson too late and at that point you need to apologize because you were careless." Critics speculate that the song is about Taylor Lautner, Taylor's ex-boyfriend. This was later confirmed by Lautner.

"‘Back To December’ is a song that addresses a first for me, in that I’ve never apologized to someone in a song before. This is about a person who was incredible to me -- just perfect in a relationship, and I was really careless with him. So, this is a song full of words that I would say to him that he deserves to hear." -- Taylor Swift

"Back to December" received positive reviews from critics, who regarded it as one of the highlights of "Speak Now". Critics have praised the song for its lyrics, melody, and vocals.

The song was the second single from the album and enjoyed commercial success, peaking at number six on the United States Billboard Hot 100, and at number seven in Canada. It also peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot Country Songs.

The song's accompanying music video, directed by Yoann Lemoine, laments the aftermath of a break-up between Taylor and her boyfriend.

“Speak Now” transports listeners to Taylor’s daydream where she crashes her ex’s wedding so he won’t be stuck with a girl who doesn’t treat him right.

Taylor wrote the song about interrupting a wedding, after conversing with her friend, whose ex-boyfriend would soon wed to someone else, and having a dream about one of her own ex-boyfriends marrying another girl.

"Speak Now" is rumored to be inspired by Hayley Williams of Paramore, who attended the wedding of her ex-boyfriend and ex-bandmate Josh Farro in April 2010.

"One of my friends, the guy she had been in love with since childhood was marrying this other girl. And my first inclination was to say, ‘Well, are you gonna speak now?’ And then I started thinking about what I would do if I was still in love with someone who was marrying someone who they shouldn’t be marrying. And so I wrote this song about exactly what my game plan would be." -- Taylor Swift

The song opened to critical acclaim for its lyrical detail. "Speak Now" had successful commercial outcomes in Canada and the United States, charting at number eight on both the Canadian Hot 100 and the Billboard Hot 100. Its appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 marked Taylor's sixth top ten debut, which made her the artist with the most top ten debuts in the history of the chart.

"Dear John” is an ode to Taylor’s short-lived relationship with fellow singer-songwriter John Mayer. The two notably collaborated on Mayer’s 2010 song “Half of My Heart,” which was released four months before “Dear John”.

Taylor conveys her feelings of frustration over the way she was treated by John and how she disregarded the warnings from others. Besides the obvious song title, there are multiple references to Mayer directly, including the mention of their almost ten-year age gap. Sonically, Taylor purposefully added guitar slurring to the background instrumentals, a guitar playing technique seen all throughout Mayer’s music.

"The song "Dear John" is sort of like the last email you would ever send to someone that you used to be in a relationship with. Usually people write this venting last email to someone and they say everything that they want to say to that person, and then they usually don't send it. I guess by putting this song on the album I am pushing send." -- Taylor Swift

Mayer, who is well-known for publicly talking about his relationships with various famous women in the press, has whined in an interview with Rolling Stones about Taylor writing the song about him. In an issue of Glamour magazine, Taylor called Mayer “presumptuous” for saying that he was “really humiliated” by the song’s lyrics. She went on to say that she did not want to hear his comments about the song, because of her desire to stay happy.

"I know it wasn’t good, so I don’t want to know. I put a high priority on staying happy, and I know what I can’t handle. It’s not that I’m this egomaniac and I don’t want to hear anything negative, because I do keep myself in check, but I’ve never developed that thick a skin. So I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are." -- Taylor Swift

Besides Mayer’s public statement to Rolling Stone in 2012, he also replied to “Dear John” three years later, in his 2013 song “Paper Doll.” In the song, he directly replies to Taylor’s line, “You paint me a blue sky then go back and turn it to rain” with, “And if those angel wings don’t fly, someone’s going to paint you another sky.”

"Mean" is an anti-bullying anthem Taylor wrote as a response to people who are critical of her.

The song was solely written by Taylor and produced by Nathan Chapman with Taylor's aid. She revealed that the critic was someone who rebuked her performance with Stevie Nicks at the 52nd Grammy Awards. The critic was said to be Bob Lefsetz, who had given a captious review of her performance on his blog.

"There’s constructive criticism, there’s professional criticism, and then there’s just being mean. And there’s a line that you cross when you just start to attack everything about a person." -- Taylor Swift

"Mean" is heavy on fiddle and banjo and "the most country-sounding thing" Taylor has ever done according to Nathan Chapman.

The song garnered critical acclaim for its lyrical detail and country sound. "Mean" had successful commercial outcomes in the United States, charting at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100and number two on the Hot Digital Songs Chart with 163,000 downloads.

Rolling Stone ranked "Mean" at #24 on their list of the "100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time", the highest ranking for a song released in the 21st century.

In 2012, "Mean" won two GRAMMY Awards. One for "Best Country Solo Performance" and the other for "Best Country Song".

"The Story of Us" is about Taylor and her ex sitting next to each other at the 2010 CMT Awards, and refusing to speak to one another, despite the many things they had to say.

The song was written by Taylor and produced by Nathan Chapman. In a 2010 interview with USA Today, Taylor explained:

"The Story of Us is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, “Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me. But I didn’t. But I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up. I went home and I sat there at the kitchen table and I said to my mom, "I felt like I was standing alone in a crowded room.” Then I got up and ran into my bedroom, as she’s seen me do many times. And she probably assumed I had come up with a line in the song. And I had. And that was actually the last song I wrote on the album, and after I finished that one, I knew I was done." -- Taylor Swift

Based on the timeline given, it can be assumed that Taylor wrote this song sometime after July 19th, 2010, the day she wrote “Innocent,” which she thought would be the final song to be featured on the record.

"The Story of Us" was met with generally mixed reviews from critics, some of whom suggested that Swift is strongest when she lets her country roots shine.

Prior to its single release, the song debuted and peaked at number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 70 on the Canadian Hot 100 due to strong digital sales. It re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 98 after its single release.

The music video of the song was directed by Noble Jones which took place in Vanderbilt University. It premiered on May 24, 2011 and was met with mostly positive reception among music critics for its departure from the usual high school setting of Taylor's previous videos. Taylor agreed that the video is different from the rest of her music videos. According to her, "the biggest difference between the new video and all the other ones is that I love to make a happy ending happen, and with this video, it doesn’t happen."

In July 2009 Taylor moved out of her family home into a 1.9 million dollar condo in Nashville, Tennessee. "Never Grow Up" was written about her first night living on her own.

The song was written by Taylor and produced by Nathan Chapman. It switches from a lullaby addressed to a young child to Taylor feeling alone as she spends her first night in her new apartment on her own. The song has an undercurrent of sadness as she reflects on the innocence of childhood.

"‘Never Grow Up’ is a song about the fact that I don’t quite know how I feel about growing up. It’s tricky. Growing up happens without you knowing it. Growing up is such a crazy concept because a lot of times when you were younger you wish you were older. I look out into a crowd every night and I see a lot of girls that are my age and going through exactly the same things as I’m going through. Every once in a while I look down and I see a little girl who is seven or eight, and I wish I could tell her all of this. There she is becoming who she is going to be and forming her thoughts and dreams and opinions. I wrote this song for those little girls."

-- Taylor Swift

During one of her performances on the "1989 World Tour", Taylor dedicated "Never Grow Up" to Leo Thames, the son of one of her dear friends, model Jamie King, after she made Taylor the godmother.

"I wrote it when I was like 18 or 19, but my friend just had a baby and she made me godmother of it and I was holding this little baby the other night, and I was just thinking differently. When you’re holding onto something that’s so innocent and so perfect and has no idea what’s coming for it with the world. The world is going to throw so many things at you as you grow up." -- Taylor Swift

"Never Grow Up" was also used in Lily's Walmart Christmas Commercial 2012.

"Enchanted" finds Taylor singing about meeting a guy she's attracted to without knowing if her instant infatuation is at all reciprocated. It was used as the theme song for Taylor's fragrances "Wonderstruck" and "Wonderstruck Enchanted".

The power ballad was written by Taylor and produced by Nathan Chapman. Taylor wrote the song about a guy she met in New York City. She revealed the story behind the song in an interview:

"I had talked to him on email or something before, but I had never met him. And meeting him, it was this overwhelming feeling of: I really hope that you're not in love with somebody. And the whole entire way home, I remember the glittery New York City buildings passing by, and then just sitting there thinking, am I ever going to talk to this person again? And that pining away for a romance that may never even happen, but all you have is this hope that it could, and the fear that it never will. I started writing that in the hotel room when I got back. Because it just was this positive, wistful feeling of: I hope you understand just how much I loved meeting you. I hope that you know that meeting you was not something that I took lightly, or just in passing. And I think my favorite part of that song is the part where, in the bridge, it goes to sort of a stream of consciousness of 'Please don't be in love with someone else/Please don't have somebody waiting on you.' Because at that moment, that's exactly what my thoughts were. And it feels good to write exactly what your thoughts were in a certain moment." -- Taylor Swift

The guy in question had yet to hear the song at the time of the interview. However, Taylor added that she expects him to recognize that it's about their brief encounter when he does hear it as she threw in a certain word to give him a clue. "Using the word 'wonderstruck' was done on purpose," she explained (referring to the line "I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home"). Because that's a word which that person used one time in an email. And I don't think I've ever heard anybody use that term before, so I purposely wrote it in the song, so he would know."

The song describes Taylor's unrealized crush on Owl City's Adam Young and any lingering doubt about the mystery man's identity were removed when Young responded to the Country star's public serenade on his website. Addressing the singer in a 2011 Valentine's Day missive, he confessed that he too felt sparks fly when they first met. "You are a true princess from a dreamy fairy tale, and above all, I just want you to know," he wrote. "I was enchanted to meet you too." Adam also attached his own version of "Enchanted" featuring a new verse at the end, which was a direct response to Taylor's original lyrics.

"Speak Now" was not the original album title as at one point "Enchanted" was going to be the title track. Executive producer Scott Borchetta told Billboard: "We were at lunch, and she had played me a bunch of the new songs. I looked at her and I'm like, 'Taylor, this record isn't about fairy tales and high school anymore. That's not where you're at. I don't think the record should be called "Enchanted.'"

Not many songs can boast of having a perfume called after them, but this one does. Taylor teamed up with beauty company Elizabeth Arden for a scent called "Wonderstruck", which is named after a line in this tune. "I wrote the lyric, 'I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home,' for the song 'Enchanted' about the first time you meet someone," said the singer. "A fragrance can help shape someone's first impression and memory of you. It's exciting to think that 'Wonderstruck' will play a role in creating some of those memories."

"Better Than Revenge" is one of Taylor's vengeance songs in the tradition of "Picture To Burn," but this time its aimed at a female.

The country rock song was written by Taylor, produced by Nathan Chapman, and is rumored that the song is aimed at the young actress Joe Jonas pursued after dumping Taylor. 

Further evidence proves that this song is about Camilla Belle, if you take into consideration one of the last lines of the song, "Come on, show me how much better you are." The lyric is most likely a reference to the Jonas Brothers' 2009 number "Much Better." That tune was felt by many to be an unkind remark at how superior Belle was in comparison to Swift. ("Now I'm done with superstars/And all the teardrops on her guitar/I'm not bitter/Now I see everything I need/Is the girl in front of me/She's much better.")

In 2014, Taylor told The Guardian:

"I was 18 when I wrote [“Better Than Revenge.”] That’s the age you are when you think someone can actually take your boyfriend. Then you grow up and realize no one can take someone from you if they don’t want to leave." -- Taylor Swift

Nowadays, Taylor is reluctant to perform to song.

"Innocent" is a ballad Taylor penned after rapper Kanye West stormed the stage at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards after Taylor won the award for her "Best Female Video" for her “You Belong With Me”music video.

It took Taylor six months to write the song, which was produced by Nathan Chapman. It talks about learning from your mistakes and growing into a better person, which Kanye sadly did not do. Taylor later performed this song at the 2010 VMAs. Taylor discussed her performance on her website:

"The song 'Innocent' is about something that really intensely affected me emotionally. It took a while to write this one. I was fortunate enough to get a chance to perform this song on the VMAs, and that's the first time that anyone ever heard it. Putting out an album called Speak Now where you're supposed to say what you feel when you know how you feel, I felt that performing that song on that particular award show was appropriate. I hope everybody likes this one." -- Taylor Swift

The song takes a conciliatory tone towards West, painting him as "32, and still growing up now." Taylor told Billboard she only penned the tune after taking several months to reflect on how she really felt.

"It took a while to write that song. That was a huge, intense thing in my life that resonated for a long time. It was brought up to me in grocery stores and everywhere I went, and in a lot of times in my life, when I don't know how I feel about something, I say nothing. And that's what I did until I could come to the conclusion that I came to in order to write 'Innocent.' Even then, I didn't talk about it, and I still don't really." -- Taylor Swift

Given how Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian have treated Taylor over the years, it is highly unlikely she will ever perform this song live.

In “Haunted,” Taylor writes about a past relationship in this song which the memory of will not escape her mind. The boy and the relationship will haunt her for the rest of her life.

"Haunted" is a country rock song with a string section in the beginning. It was produced by Nathan Chapman. Taylor explained the meaning of the song on her website:

"‘Haunted’ is about the moment that you realize the person you’re in love with is drifting and fading fast. And you don’t know what to do, but in that period of time, in that phase of love, where it’s fading out, time moves so slowly. Everything hinges on what that last text message said, and you’re realizing that he’s kind of falling out of love. That’s a really heartbreaking and tragic thing to go through, because the whole time you’re trying to tell yourself it’s not happening. I went through this, and I ended up waking up in the middle of the night writing this song about it." -- Taylor Swift

She also elaborated on the reason for using a string section in the song:

"I wanted the music and the orchestration to reflect the intensity of the emotion the song is about, so we recorded strings with Paul Buckmaster at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles. It was an amazing experience – recording this entire big, live string section that I think in the end really captured the intense, chaotic feeling of confusion I was looking for." -- Taylor Swift

In this emotional ballad, Taylor describes her feelings surrounding her break up with Jonas Brothers member Joe Jonas in 2008. She reflects on their relationship together, and how she never thought it would end.

The secret message for this song is “Forever and Always” which is a callback to a song Taylor penned about her break-up with Joe on her album "Fearless". While “Forever & Always” highlights the angry, confused emotions she felt when he left her, “Last Kiss” highlights the sort of melancholy, nostalgic sadness that follows; the gloomy calm after the storm.  Taylor explained the meaning of this song song on her website:

"The song ‘Last Kiss’ is sort of like a letter to somebody. You say all of these desperate, hopeless feelings that you have after a break-up. Going through a break-up you feel all of these different things. You feel anger, and you feel confusion, and frustration. Then there is the absolute sadness. The sadness of losing this person, losing all the memories, and the hopes you had for the future. There are times when you have this moment of truth where you just admit to yourself that you miss all these things. When I was in one of those moments I wrote this song." -- Taylor Swift

The song has a 27 second intro, which could possibly reflect the 27 second break up phone call she had with Joe Jonas. Another indication that Taylor is addressing Joe Jonas in this song is she sings about remembering how "I ran off the plane that July 9th" into his arms. The singer flew to Dallas on July 9, 2008 to attend a Jonas Brothers show.

“Long Live” is album closer of the standard edition of "Speak Now". In the song, Taylor finds herself looking back at her fondest memories of her career, none of which would be possible without her fanbase and band, who the song is dedicated to.

The song was originally inspired by a moment she had with the band backstage on the final date of the "Fearless Tour" at Gillette Stadium in 2010. Taylor had the melody for the chorus stuck in her head the entire night and wrote "Long Live" soon after. Nathan Chapman produced it. On her website she said:

"Long Live," (in parentheses "We Will Be Remembered"), is the first song where I've ever had parentheses in the title. Besides that, though, this song is about my band, and my producer, and all the people who have helped us build this brick by brick. The fans, the people who I feel that we are all in this together, this song talks about the triumphant moments that we've had in the last two years. We've had times where we just jump up and down, and dance like we don't care how we're dancing, and just scream at the top of our lungs, "How is this happening?" And, I feel very lucky to even have had one of those moments, nonetheless all the ones that I got to have. "Long Live" is about how I feel reflecting on it. This song for me is like looking at a photo album of all the award shows, and all the stadium shows, and all the hands in the air in the crowd. It's sort of the first love song that I've written to my team." -- Taylor Swift

"Long Live" can be seen as a sequel to "Change", which appeared on "Fearless". That song was about Taylor, and all the people who helped her get to where she now, being the underdogs and them finally getting something right and winning. While "Long Live" is celebrating the huge success the underdogs achieved together. The "band of thieves" line is written about when her band Taylor won the award for "Entertainer of the Year" at the 2009 CMA Awards and called her band on stage, even though they were all underdressed.

Rolling Stone included Taylor in its 2012 "Women Who Rock" list, which detailed "50 of the fiercest albums that female rock & rollers have given the world." Speak Now came #45 in the list, whilst the magazine called this track, "the best Bon Jovi song Bon Jovi never wrote."

Taylor included the song as part of the regular setlist of the "Speak Now World Tour", performing it on every tour date as the last song before the encore. "Long Live" was also performed on the respective last dates of her "RED Tour" and "1989 World Tour". On the "reputation Stadium Tour", Taylor performs this song on the piano every night along with a mashup of "New Year's Day".

The secret message for "Long Live" in the CD’s lyric booklet is “For You.” 

"Ours" tells the tale of a love frowned upon by others. Originally a bonus track, it was later made the sixth single from "Speak Now".

The song was solely written by Swift and was aided by Nathan Chapman in producing the song. The song finds Taylor in a relationship of which others do not approve. She reassures her beau that despite the criticism they are getting, she loves him. Taylor told VH1 in 2012:

"I’m excited about telling the beginnings of stories, like the story of this song called ‘Ours,’ where I wrote it about this guy nobody thought I should be with. So I wrote this song specifically just to play it for him, just to show him, ‘I don’t care what anyone says. I don’t care that you have tattoos. I don’t care that you have a gap between your teeth. I love you for who you are.’ And that song ended up actually making it on [Speak Now] and becoming a #1 song." -- Taylor Swift

"Ours" has been met positive reviews from critics praising Taylor's vocals, her songwriting, and her way to set the mood with the song.

The song appeared on the US iTunes Top 100 and debuted at number five on the Hot Digital Songs chart and #13 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The music video for the song was released in December 2011 and is the second video of Taylor's to be directed by Declan Whitebloom (after "Mean"), as well as the second video for which Taylor would do the concept for. The video received praise from music critics.

In “If This Was A Movie,” Taylor daydreams about a lost love coming back to her. It represented a more age-appropriate track for her then innocent "country hero" image.

The fast-paced ballad suggests that the then 21-year-old Taylor had been through a breakup and wishes to reverse it: "I just want it back the way it was before/And I just wanna see you back at my front door," she sings.

Taylor was lyrically coming of age, abandoning the fantasy world of high school and exploring more mature content. A simple recurring guitar riff moves the song along, and its dramatic chorus features simple harmonies providing backup to Taylor's signature twang.

Taylor wrote the song with Martin Johnson, who is lead singer of Boys Like Girls. Previous collaborations between the pair include "You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home " from the soundtrack of "Hannah Montana: The Movie" and the Boys Like Girls single "Two Is Better Than One."

The song is only available on the Deluxe Edition of "Speak Now" and was released as a promotional single in November, 2011.

"If This Was A Movie" received positivie reviews from music critics, with Billboard rating it 4/5 stars.

As of 2018, Taylor has never performed the song live.

“Superman” is a track on the Deluxe Edition of "Speak Now." In the song, Taylor describes a boy who left her and hopes he will eventually come back to her when the time is right.

Despite the sad premise, the melody and words are hopeful. Taylor wrote the track and produced in together with Nathan Chapman. She sang "Superman" for the first time during her solo acoustic segment at her September 24, 2011 concert in Kansas City. Before performing it, she explained:

"This is about, well, a guy, as usual. This was a guy that I was sort of enamored with. This song got its title by something that I just said randomly in conversation. [When] he walked out of the room, I turned to one of my friends and said, 'It's like watching Superman fly away.'" -- Taylor Swift

"Superman" was released as promotional single together with "If This Was A Movie" on  November 8, 2011.