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Taylor Swift’s Writing Career – An Early Start

There’s no denying that Taylor Swift is a great songwriter!  She’s been doing it for a really long time too.  In fact, Taylor Swift’s writing career got an early start….

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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – SEPTEMBER 20: NSAI Songwriter-Artist of the Decade honoree, Taylor Swift performs onstage during NSAI 2022 Nashville Songwriter Awards at Ryman Auditorium on September 20, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Terry Wyatt/Getty Images)

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There's no denying that Taylor Swift is a great songwriter!  She's been doing it for a really long time too.  In fact, Taylor Swift's writing career got an early start. And she even won a national poetry contest.

According to CapitalFM, a Swiftie posted on Twitter, showing a poem Taylor wrote back in 4th grade.  Taylor was around 9 or 10 at the time! The poem is called, "A Monster In My Closet'.  You can see it in the Tweet below!

Before long, fans started pointing out the similarities in her past writing and her current writing style. One person even tweeted saying: "Forget dr seuss i'm reading this to my future children."

One person even joked, "Patiently waiting for this vault track."

Wouldn't that be something?! Taylor Swift's writing career has continued to bring many great songs to the world... and we're always waiting for more!

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Taylor Swift’s 20 Best Breakup Lines

Taylor Swift turns 34 today (December 13), and in honor of the hit songstress' big day, we compiled our favorite lyrics by the queen of breakup songs.

20. Death By A Thousand Cuts

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"Saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts / Flashbacks waking me up / I get drunk, but it's not enough / 'Cause the morning comes and you're not my baby."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


19. the 1

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"I guess you never know, never know / And if you wanted me, you really should've showed / And if you never bleed, you're never gonna grow."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


18. Closure

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"Don't treat me like / Some situation that needs to be handled / I'm fine with my spite / And my tears, and my beers and my candles."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


17. Blank Space

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"So it's gonna be forever / Or it's gonna go down in flames / You can tell me when it's over / If the high was worth the pain."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


16. All You Had To Do Was Stay

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"The more I think about it now the less I know / All I know is that you drove us off the road."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


15. I Knew You Were Trouble

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"No apologies, he'll never see you cry / Pretends he doesn't know that he's the reason why / You're drowning, you're drowning, you're drowning."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


14. I Wish You Would

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"I wish you would come back / Wish I'd never hung up the phone like I did / I wish you knew that / I'd never forget you as long as I'd live."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


13. All Too Well

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"And you call me up again just to break me like a promise / So casually cruel in the name of being honest."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


12. Red

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"Losing him was blue, like I'd never known / Missing him was dark gray, all alone / Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met / But loving him was red."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


11. this is me trying

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"And it's hard to be at a party / When I feel like an open wound / It's hard to be anywhere these days / When all I want is you."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


10. The Story Of Us

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"I used to know my place was a spot next to you / Now I'm searching the room for an empty seat / 'Cause lately I don't even know what page you're on."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


9. Holy Ground

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"And I guess we fell apart in the usual way / And the story's got dust on every page / But sometimes I wonder how you think about it now / And I see your face in every crowd."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


8. august

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"And I can see us twisted in bedsheets / August sipped away like a bottle of wine / 'Cause you were never mine."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


7. Forever & Always

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"And I stare at the phone, he still hasn't called / And then you feel so low you can't feel nothing at all / And you flashback to when he said, 'Forever and always.'"

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


6. my tears ricochet

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"Didn't have it in myself to go with grace / And you're the hero flying around, saving face / And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?"

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


5. Picture To Burn

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"So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time / As far as I'm concerned, you're just another picture to burn."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


4. exile

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"I think I've seen this film before / And I didn't like the ending / You're not my homeland anymore / So what am I defendin' now?"

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


3. I Forgot That You Existed

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"Your name on my lips, tongue tied / Free rent, livin' in my mind / But then something happened one magical night / I forgot that you existed."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


2. You're Not Sorry

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"You got your share of secrets, and I'm tired of being last to know."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines


1. White Horse

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"I was a dreamer before you went and let me down."

Taylor Swift's 20 Best Breakup Lines

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