Who is all too well about

Oh, your sweet disposition and my wide-eyed gaze. The Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, And I can picture it after all these days. Wind in my hair, I was there, I remember it all too well. Photo album on the counter, your cheeks were turning red. We dance around the kitchen in the refrigerator light Down the stairs, I was there, I remember it all too well, yeah.

Running scared, I was there, I remember it all too well. Although Swift's "Red" still carries hints of her country beginnings on certain songs, she primarily shied away from it as she entered her early 20s.

However, despite the massive radio hits, "Red" has an arguably more famous song on it that didn't receive the single treatment. The fan-and-critical-favorite "All Too Well" was the fifth track on the album.

As Swifties know, song five is significant throughout her discography — it's where she places the most meaningful song of the album. The song itself is a heartbreaking journey through a relationship, cut down to five minutes from its original ten. Now, as Swift gears up to release her re-recorded "Red Taylor's Version " and the full-length copy of "All Too Well", let's take a look back at the real meaning behind the song. After Taylor Swift's "All Too Well" began gaining traction from her album "Red," fans suspected that the relationship detailed in the song was one from Swift's own life.

The minute "All Too Well" is the stuff of Swiftian dreams, fantasies even, as fans have spent almost a decade wondering what else Taylor had to say to the boy who was so "casually cruel. It's not a mystery that the track was allegedly written about Jake Gyllenhaal , who Taylor dated from Oct.

When "All Too Well" first dropped in , Jake, his sister Maggie Gyllenhaal , and one of Taylor's scarves became topics of intense public fascination. So we're pretty confident we know who the song is about, but what exactly is "All Too Well" about? Here's a thorough lyrical breakdown of this songwriting masterpiece — just be warned that listening to "All Too Well" on repeat has been known to cause heartbreak by proxy and a desperate yearning for autumn foliage.

Practically speaking, the cold air makes sense for the song's autumn setting, though it also represents the unfamiliar, as the pair transitioned from strangers to lovers. The following line mentions the infamous scarf that Taylor leaves behind while visiting her partner's sister — in this case, Maggie, who unfortunately has no idea what happened to the scarf.

The first verse gives us glimpses into the history of their relationship as Taylor reflects on memories of "getting lost upstate" and "autumn leaves falling. As Taylor sings in " Red ," the title track of the same album and a companion song to "All Too Well," loving that person was like "the colors in autumn, so bright, just before they lose it all. Building up to the chorus, Taylor reveals her feelings as she reflects back on the memories of her relationship, sining that she "might be OK," but she's "not fine at all.

Following the chorus, there's a verse about Taylor visiting her partner's family. She says, "We're singing in the car, getting lost upstate. When we get to the bridge, Taylor's bittersweet tone shifts gears into more unbridled anger — she is the queen of bridges, after all.

Taylor wonders if maybe they "got lost in translation" a potential reference to the Sofia Coppola film, Lost in Translation or maybe she "asked for too much.