I Know Places (Voice Memo) Songtext

von Taylor Swift

So over the years, a lot of people have asked me to sort of describe my song writing
Process from beginning to end.
How long does it take, where do you write, what are the circumstances, do you start
With music, do you start with lyrics,
And my answer is always that it happens differently every time,
And that's why I'm still so in love with song writing.

So what I've done here is shown you three different examples of the beginning stages
Of these songs and how they each started, different ways.
So I'll explain them to you and maybe that will help you understand kind of how I
Put songs together
I sent this voice memo to Ryan Tedder because I'd always wanted to work with him,
And finally we scheduled some studio time.
So I always wanna be prepared.
I wanted to send him the idea that I was working on before we went into the studio
Just in case he wrote back and said "I can't stand that, I wanna work on something
Else, think of something else".

So I just sat down with the piano, put my phone on top of the piano

And just kind of explained to him where I wanted to go with the song,
How I saw the melody sitting in
And we ended up recording the song the next day and it ended up being on the record

Called "I Know Places".
So this was the voice memo I sent to him the night before we ended up finishing the
Song
"Okay so this is kind of this rough idea thing:
Uh-uh-uh-oh, oh-oh-oh-i
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-i
Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-i-i-i

Na na na na waiting at the back door
They're around and the vultures come around
And you know that they, they won't us
Say what they want 'bout, say what they want 'bout us

And you come and sing, and
I would not think about it but I'm not done
Every know that a thing or two about it, thing or two about it, I
Cause they got the cages, they got the boxes

And guns

They are the hunters we are the foxes
And we run
Baby, I know places we won't be found
And they'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down
Cause I, I know places we can hide
I know places, I know places
Uh-uh-uh-i, uh-uh-uh-i, oh-oh-i, uh-uh-uh-i, no places
Or whatever I don't know, but that's basically just like a dark, really dark,
Lyric like bridge thing and it's about like
Everyone is trying to get into and ruin a love or whatever and it's like you just,
Whatever, you know, and the would just go to that major and just be like ooh .
So I hope you like it, it wouldn't be a piano thing