Lengthy earlier than “Gown” was launched, Taylor Swift ventured into sultrier lyrics with the Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model) vault monitor “I Can See You.”
Whereas the track’s topic is unclear, the lyrics, her most sexual in nature at that time, recommend it may have been a co-worker. (“We saved all the pieces skilled / However one thing’s modified, it is somethin’ I, I like / They hold watchful eyes on us / So it is best that we transfer quick and hold quiet.”) Throughout that period, Swift did date two folks she labored with: fellow musician John Mayer and Valentine’s Day co-star Taylor Lautner. With the latter, she and Lautner performed highschool college students within the movie, which may presumably clarify the lyrics “you sweep previous me within the hallway.”
The topic would possibly stay unknown, however the lyrics paint a transparent image of how Swift considered sexual and romantic want on the time, when she was ending her teenage years. Within the prologue she wrote for the re-release of Communicate Now, Swift acknowledged that “this time period is so violently aglow with the final gentle of the setting solar of my childhood. I made this album, fully self-written, between the ages of 18 and 20. I’ve spoken about how I really feel like these ages are essentially the most emotionally turbulent ones in an individual’s life. Possibly once I say that, I’m actually simply speaking about myself.
“I believe they may simply be essentially the most idealistic, hopeful years too. At this level of my life, I had launched my second album, Fearless. It grew to become the breakthrough second I’d all the time dreamt of, one which catapulted my profession to new realms of success. It had introduced with it a tidal wave of pressures and pitfalls and rising pains. All of the whereas, I used to be encountering the pressures and pitfalls of regular teenage development. I had cataclysmic crushes and brushes with heartache.”
“I Can See You” explores one “cataclysmic” crush. Right here, learn the lyrics through Genius and take heed to the track under:
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Intro
Uh-uh, uh, uhVerse 1
You sweep previous me within the hallway
And you do not suppose I, I, I can see ya, do ya?
I’ve been watchin’ you for ages
And I spend my time tryin’ to not really feel itPre-Refrain
However what would you do if I went to the touch you now?
What would you do in the event that they by no means discovered us out?
What would you do if we by no means made a sound?Refrain
’Trigger I can see you waitin’ down the corridor from me
And I may see you up towards the wall with me
And what would you do? Child, in the event you solely knew
That I can see you
Put up-Refrain
Uh-uh, uh, uhVerse 2
And we saved all the pieces skilled
However one thing’s modified, it is somethin’ I, I like
They hold watchful eyes on us
So it is best that we transfer quick and hold quiet
You will not imagine half the issues I see inside my head
Wait ’til you see half the issues that haven’t occurred but
Pre-Refrain
However what would you do if I went to the touch you now?
What would you do in the event that they by no means discovered us out?
What would you do if we by no means made a sound?Refrain
’Trigger I can see you waitin’ down the corridor from me
And I may see you up towards the wall with me
And what would you do? Child, in the event you solely knew, oh, oh, oh
That I may see you throw your jacket on the ground
I may see you, make me need you much more
What would you do? Child, in the event you solely knew
That I can see you
Put up-Refrain
Uh-uh, uh, uhBridge
I can see you in your swimsuit and your necktie
Handed me a notice saying, “Meet me tonight”
Then we kissed and you understand I gained’t ever inform, yeah
And I may see you being my habit
You’ll be able to see me as a secret mission
Disguise away and I’ll begin behaving myselfPre-Refrain
Uh-uh, uh, uh
Oh-oh, oh, oh
Refrain
I can see you waitin’ down the corridor from me
And I may see you up towards the wall with me
And what would you do? Child, in the event you solely knew, oh
That I may see you throw your jacket on the ground
I may see you, make me need you much more
What would you do? Child, in the event you solely knew
That I can see you, oh, I can see youOutro
Oh, I see you, I see you, child
I see you
(Uh-uh, uh, uh) I see you, I see you, child
Oh, child
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