Innocent

Album: Speak Now (2010)
Charted: 27
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  • I guess you really did it this time
    Left yourself in your war path
    Lost your balance on a tightrope
    Lost your mind trying to get it back

    Wasn't it easier in your lunchbox days?
    Always a bigger bed to crawl into
    Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything
    And everybody believed in you?

    It's alright, just wait and see
    Your string of lights are still bright to me, oh
    Who you are is not where you've been
    You're still an innocent
    Still an innocent

    Did some things you can't speak of
    But at night, you live it all again
    You wouldn't be shattered on the floor now
    If only you had seen what you know now then

    Wasn't it easier in your firefly-catching days?
    When everything out of reach
    Someone bigger brought down to you
    Wasn't it beautiful running wild 'til you fell asleep
    Before the monsters caught up to you?

    It's alright, just wait and see
    Your string of lights are still bright to me, oh
    Who you are is not where you've been
    You're still an innocent
    It's okay, and life is a tough crowd
    Thirty-two and still growing up now
    Who you are is not what you did
    You're still an innocent

    Time turns flames to embers
    You'll have new Septembers
    Every one of us has messed up too, ooh
    Minds change like the weather
    I hope you remember
    Today is never too late to be brand new, oh

    It's alright, just wait and see
    Your string of lights are still bright to me, oh
    Who you are is not where you've been
    You're still an innocent
    It's okay, and life is a tough crowd
    Thirty-two and still growing up now
    Who you are is not what you did
    You're still an innocent
    You're still an innocent

    Lost your balance on a tightrope, oh
    It's never too late to get it back Writer/s: Taylor Swift
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Jamison from Newport Beach, CaLove this song. It's great because Taylor Swift is forgiving when Kanye did what he did he dosen't deserve to be forgived.
  • Sara from Union City, TnThis is a beautiful song! My favorite line "Wasn't is easier in your firefly catchin days?" So true.
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