What you all may not know is that I've been a huge TS fan since I was eight years old.
I have the Taylor Swift, Fearless, and Speak Now CD's and I used to play them in my bedroom in this huge blue boom box that barely worked. I think we still have that thing.
I also had the poster that came with her Fearless album (you know, the one where it's all mosaic-ey and she's on the balcony in her gorgeous Love Story dress?) hanging up on my wall.
Sometimes I tried to dress like her wearing "Taylor-inspired" outfits.
I also had this little tiny book in which I'd attempt to write songs. Yeah. I'd shove the thing under my bed and lie awake at night until I thought of something that rhymed to write down.
I have this conspiracy that that's where my love for writing poetry came from; sitting on my bedroom floor intensely studying Taylor's lyrics in the CD booklets. They're all so beautiful, from Tim McGraw to Out of the Woods.
Now I know you're all thinking: hey Katelyn, we really want to see those songs you wrote when you were ten!!! Well okay. I found that little book along with three little ditties in there. Please, read these in the most dramatic, fifth grader voice that you possibly can.
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Lucky
Could it be
Yeah, wait and see
And just maybe
I'm a girl
Who got really lucky
Just last night
I laid asleep
Thinking up a storm
About my hopes and dreams
And thought- yeah I thought
Could it be
We're not meant to be
And just maybe
I'm a girl
Who thought she got lucky
Three weeks later
I'm back in bed
Dreamin' about all
The things you said- yeah oh you said
"Could it be
You never did see
When you're with me
You're the girl
Who always gets lucky"
Cuz when luck runs short
And days drag on
You can always count on me
To make you strong
When things...Go...Wrong
Could it be
Yeah, wait and see
And just maybe
I'm a girl
Who got really lucky
You
I wanna see you
I wanna talk to you
I wanna tell the whole world 'bout my love for you
And you can't stop me, no, nobody can
Ya you can't stop me, just take my hand
No, I don't wanna, like, just be friends...
Cinderella
I wanna be your Cinderella
The only girl you sweep off her feet
I wanna be your Cinderella
The only girl dancin' to your beat
When you're all alone
In your bedroom at night
Do you think about me
Starin' into your eyes
Leanin' into that kiss
That's oh-so-forbidden
Yeah I know I'm just dreamin'-
I figured you didn't
I wanna be your Cinderella
The one and only girl you sweep off her feet
I wanna be your Cinderella
The one and only girl dancin' to your beat
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SOOO there you have it folks, Miss Taylor Swift has had a big impact on me and my little self.