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All 62 songs that Taylor Swift has written by herself

Callie Ahlgrim   

All 62 songs that Taylor Swift has written by herself
Taylor Swift performs during the Eras Tour in East Rutherford, New Jersey.Kevin Mazur/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management
  • Taylor Swift has been writing songs since she was a teenager.
  • More than 60 tracks credit Swift as the sole writer, which means she composed the lyrics and melody alone.

"The Outside"

"The Outside"
"The Outside" is the sixth track on "Taylor Swift."      John Shearer/WireImage

Best lyrics: "I tried to take the road less traveled by / But nothing seems to work the first few times."

"Should've Said No"

"Should
Taylor Swift performs at the 2008 ACM Awards.      Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Best lyrics: "I should've been there, in the back of your mind / I shouldn't be asking myself why / You shouldn't be begging for forgiveness at my feet / You should've said no / Baby, and you might still have me."

"Our Song"

"Our Song"
"Our Song" was released as a single in 2007.      Taylor Swift/YouTube

Best lyrics: "Our song is the slamming screen door / Sneaking out late, tapping on your window / When we're on the phone and you talk real slow / 'Cause it's late and your mama don't know."

"Christmas Must Be Something More"

"Christmas Must Be Something More"
"Christmas Must Be Something More" is the fifth track on "The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection."      George Napolitano/FilmMagic

Best lyrics: "What if ribbons and bows didn't mean a thing? / Would the song still survive without five golden rings?"

"Beautiful Eyes"

"Beautiful Eyes"
"Beautiful Eyes" is the first track on Swift's "Beautiful Eyes" EP.      Big Machine Records

Best lyrics: "I wake up, I'm alive / In only a little while, I'll cry."

"I Heart ?"

"I Heart ?"
"I Heart ?" is the sixth track on "Beautiful Eyes."      Vince Bucci/Getty Images for AMA

Best lyrics: "Wake up and smell the breakup / Fix my heart, put on my makeup / Another mess I didn't plan."

"Fifteen"

"Fifteen"
"Fifteen" was released as a single in 2009.      Taylor Swift/YouTube

Best lyrics: "Back then, I swore I was gonna marry him someday / But I realized some bigger dreams of mine / And Abigail gave everything she had / To a boy who changed his mind / And we both cried."

"Love Story"

"Love Story"
"Love Story" was released as a single in 2008.      Taylor Swift/YouTube

Best lyrics: "Romeo, save me, they're trying to tell me how to feel / This love is difficult, but it's real."

"Hey Stephen"

"Hey Stephen"
"Hey Stephen" is the fourth track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."      Jason Kempin/Getty Images

Best lyrics: "Hey Stephen, I could give you 50 reasons / Why I should be the one you choose / All those other girls, well, they're beautiful / But would they write a song for you?"

"You're Not Sorry"

"You
"You're Not Sorry" is the ninth track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."      Don Arnold/WireImage

Best lyrics: "You had me crawling for you, honey, and it never would've gone away, no / You used to shine so bright, but I watched all of it fade."

"Forever & Always"

"Forever & Always"
"Forever & Always" is the 11th track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."      Theo Wargo/WireImage

Best lyrics: "Was I out of line? / Did I say something way too honest, made you run and hide / Like a scared little boy? / I looked into your eyes / Thought I knew you for a minute, now I'm not so sure."

"The Best Day"

"The Best Day"
"The Best Day" is the 12th track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."      Kevin Mazur/WireImage

Best lyrics: "And now I know why all the trees change in the fall / I know you were on my side even when I was wrong / And I love you for giving me your eyes / For staying back and watching me shine."

"Change"

"Change"
"Change" is the 13th track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."      Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Erickson Public Relations

Best lyrics: "We're getting stronger now, find things they never found / They might be bigger but we're faster and never scared."

"Jump Then Fall"

"Jump Then Fall"
"Jump Then Fall" is the 14th track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."      Jason Kempin/Getty Images

Best lyrics: "The bottom's gonna drop out from under our feet / I'll catch you, I'll catch you / When people say things that bring you to your knees / I'll catch you / The time is gonna come when you're so mad you could cry / But I'll hold you through the night until you smile."

"The Other Side of the Door"

"The Other Side of the Door"
"The Other Side of the Door" is the 19th track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."      Jason Kempin/Getty Images

Best lyrics: "With your face and the beautiful eyes / And the conversation with the little white lies / And the faded picture of a beautiful night / You carried me from your car up the stairs / And I broke down crying, was she worth this mess? / After everything and that little black dress / After everything, I must confess / I need you."

"Today Was a Fairytale"

"Today Was a Fairytale"
"Today Was a Fairytale" is the 20th track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."      Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Erickson Public Relations

Best lyrics: "Can you feel this magic in the air? / It must have been the way you kissed me."

"Mr. Perfectly Fine"

"Mr. Perfectly Fine"
"Mr. Perfectly Fine" is the 22nd track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."      Kevin Winter/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Best lyrics: "So dignified in your well-pressed suit / So strategized, all the eyes on you / Sashay your way to your seat / It's the best seat, in the best room."

"Mine"

"Mine"
"Mine" was released as a single in 2010.      Taylor Swift/YouTube

Best lyrics: "You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter."

"Sparks Fly"

"Sparks Fly"
"Sparks Fly" was released as a single in 2011.      Taylor Swift/YouTube

Best lyrics: "Get me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down / Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around."

"Back to December"

"Back to December"
"Back to December" was released as a single in 2010.      Taylor Swift/YouTube

Best lyrics: "And then the cold came, the dark days / When fear crept into my mind / You gave me all your love and all I gave you was goodbye."

"Speak Now"

"Speak Now"
"Speak Now" is the fourth track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      Dave Hogan/Getty Images

Best lyrics: "She floats down the aisle like a pageant queen / But I know you wish it was me / You wish it was me, don't you?"

"Dear John"

"Dear John"
"Dear John" is the fifth track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      Larry Busacca/Getty Images

Best lyrics: "All the girls that you've run dry have tired lifeless eyes / 'Cause you burned them out / But I took your matches before fire could catch me / So don't look now / I'm shining like fireworks over your sad empty town."

"Mean"

"Mean"
"Mean" was released as a single in 2011.      Taylor Swift/YouTube

Best lyrics: "I bet you got pushed around / Somebody made you cold / But the cycle ends right now / 'Cause you can't lead me down that road / And you don't know what you don't know."

"The Story of Us"

"The Story of Us"
"The Story of Us" was released as a single in 2011.      Taylor Swift/YouTube

Best lyrics: "I'd tell you I miss you, but I don't know how / I've never heard silence quite this loud."

"Never Grow Up"

"Never Grow Up"
"Never Grow Up" is the eighth track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      Kevin Mazur/WireImage

Best lyrics: "Remember the footsteps, remember the words said / And all your little brother's favorite songs / I just realized everything I have is, someday, gonna be gone."

"Enchanted"

"Enchanted"
"Enchanted" is the ninth track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      Larry Busacca/Getty Images

Best lyrics: "Please don't be in love with someone else / Please don't have somebody waiting on you."

"Better than Revenge"

"Better than Revenge"
"Better than Revenge" is the 10th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      Rick Diamond/Getty Images

Best lyrics: "She looks at life like it's a party and she's on the list / She looks at me like I'm a trend and she's so over it / I think her ever-present frown is a little troubling / She thinks I'm psycho 'cause I like to rhyme her name with things."

"Innocent"

"Innocent"
"Innocent" is the 11th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      Kevin Mazur/Contributor/Getty Images

Best lyrics: "Time turns flames to embers / You'll have new Septembers / Every one of us has messed up too / Minds change like the weather / I hope you remember / Today is never too late to be brand new."

"Haunted"

"Haunted"
"Haunted" is the 12th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      Larry Busacca/Getty Images

Best lyrics: "Oh, holding my breath / Won't see you again / Something keeps me holding onto nothing."

"Last Kiss"

"Last Kiss"
"Last Kiss" is the 13th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      Larry Busacca/Getty Images

Best lyrics: "So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep / And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe / And I'll keep up with our old friends / Just to ask them how you are."

"Long Live"

"Long Live"
"Long Live" is the 14th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      Kevin Mazur/WireImage

Best lyrics: "And the cynics were outraged / Screaming, 'This is absurd' / 'Cause for a moment, a band of thieves in ripped-up jeans / Got to rule the world."

"Ours"

"Ours"
"Ours" is the 15th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      Kevin Mazur/Contributor/Getty Images

Best lyrics: "Don't you worry your pretty little mind / People throw rocks at things that shine."

"Superman"

"Superman"
"Superman" is the 16th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      Larry Busacca/Getty Images

Best lyrics: "Something in his deep brown eyes has me saying / He's not all bad like his reputation / And I can't hear one single word they say / And you'll leave, got places to be and I'll be OK."

"Electric Touch" (featuring Fall Out Boy)

"Electric Touch" (featuring Fall Out Boy)
"Electric Touch" is the 17th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      Kevin Kane/FilmMagic

Best lyrics: "I've gotten used to no one calling my phone / I've grown accustomed to sleeping alone / Still, I know that all it takes is to get it right / Just one time, just one time."

"When Emma Falls in Love"

"When Emma Falls in Love"
"When Emma Falls in Love" is the 18th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      John Shearer/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Best lyrics: "She's the kind of book that you can't put down / Like if Cleopatra grew up in a small town."

"I Can See You"

"I Can See You"
"I Can See You" is the 19th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      Scott Legato/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Best lyrics: "They keep watchful eyes on us / So it's best that we move fast and keep quiet / You won't believe half the things I see inside my head / Wait 'til you see half the things that haven't happened yet."

"Castles Crumbling" (featuring Hayley Williams)

"Castles Crumbling" (featuring Hayley Williams)
"Castles Crumbling" is the 20th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      Frederick Breedon IV/WireImage

Best lyrics: "Power went to my head and I couldn't stop / Ones I loved tried to help, so I ran them off / And here I sit alone behind walls of regret / Falling down like promises that I never kept."

"Foolish One"

"Foolish One"
"Foolish One" is the 21st track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      Ethan Miller/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Best lyrics: "'Cause you got her on your arm and me in the wings / I'll get your longing glances, but she'll get your ring / And you will say you had the best of intentions / And maybe I will finally learn my lesson."

"Timeless"

"Timeless"
"Timeless" is the 22nd track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."      Octavio Jones/TAS23/Getty Images for for TAS Rights Management

Best lyrics: "That's when I came upon a book covered in cobwebs / Story of a romance torn apart by fate / Hundreds of years ago, they fell in love, like we did / And I'd die for you in the same way, if I first saw your face /In the 1500s off in a foreign land / And I was forced to marry another man / You still would've been mine."

"Eyes Open"

"Eyes Open"
"Eyes Open" was included on the soundtrack "The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond."      Taylor Swift/YouTube

Best lyrics: "So here you are, two steps ahead and staying on guard / Every lesson forms a new scar / They never thought you'd make it this far."

"State of Grace"

"State of Grace"
"State of Grace" is the first track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."      Christie Goodwin/TAS/Getty Images for TAS

Best lyrics: "Love is a ruthless game, unless you play it good and right."

"Red"

"Red"
"Red" is the second track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."      Andreas Rentz/Getty Images for TAS

Best lyrics: "Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street / Faster than the wind, passionate as sin / Ending so suddenly."

"I Almost Do"

"I Almost Do"
"I Almost Do" is the seventh track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."      Chris McGrath/TAS/Getty Images for TAS

Best lyrics: "I bet it never, ever occurred to you / That I can't say hello to you and risk another goodbye."

"Stay Stay Stay"

"Stay Stay Stay"
"Stay Stay Stay" is the ninth track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."      Dave Hogan/TAS/Getty Images for TAS

Best lyrics: "All those times that you didn't leave, it's been occurring to me / I'd like to hang out with you for my whole life."

"Holy Ground"

"Holy Ground"
"Holy Ground" is the 11th track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."      John Leyba/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Best lyrics: "Took off faster than a green light, go / Hey, you skip the conversation when you already know / I left a note on the door with a joke we'd made / And that was the first day."

"Sad Beautiful Tragic"

"Sad Beautiful Tragic"
"Sad Beautiful Tragic" is the 12th track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."      Nicky Loh/TAS/Getty Images for TAS

Best lyrics: "And time is taking its sweet time erasing you / And you've got your demons, and darling, they all look like me."

"The Lucky One"

"The Lucky One"
"The Lucky One" is the 13th track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."      Christopher Polk/TAS/Getty Images for TAS

Best lyrics: "And they tell you that you're lucky, but you're just so confused / 'Cause you don't feel pretty, you just feel used / And all the young things line up to take your place."

"Starlight"

"Starlight"
"Starlight" is the 15th track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."      Dave Hogan/TAS/Getty Images for TAS

Best lyrics: "I said, 'Oh, my, what a marvelous tune' / It was the best night, never would forget how we moved."

"Begin Again"

"Begin Again"
"Begin Again" was released as a single in 2012.      Taylor Swift/YouTube

Best lyrics: "I've been spending the last eight months / Thinking all love ever does is break and burn and end / But on a Wednesday, in a café, I watched it begin again."

"The Moment I Knew"

"The Moment I Knew"
"The Moment I Knew" is the 17th track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."      Christopher Polk/TAS/Getty Images for TAS

Best lyrics: "What do you say when tears are streaming down your face in front of everyone you know? / And what do you do when the one who means the most to you is the one who didn't show?"

"Girl at Home"

"Girl at Home"
"Girl at Home" is the 19th track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."      Kevin Mazur/TAS/WireImage

Best lyrics: "Call a cab, lose my number / You're about to lose your girl."

"Better Man"

"Better Man"
"Better Man" is the 22nd track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."      John Shearer/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Best lyrics: "I hold onto this pride because, these days, it's all I have / And I gave to you my best and we both know you can't say that."

"Nothing New" (featuring Phoebe Bridgers)

"Nothing New" (featuring Phoebe Bridgers)
"Nothing New" is the 23rd track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."      Kevin Mazur/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Best lyrics: "I know someday I'm gonna meet her, it's a fever dream / The kind of radiance you only have at 17 / She'll know the way and then she'll say she got the map from me / I'll say I'm happy for her, then I'll cry myself to sleep."

"This Love"

"This Love"
"This Love" is the 11th track on "1989."      Liu Xingzhe/Visual China Group via Getty Images

Best lyrics: "Clear blue water / High tide came and brought you in / And I could go on and on, on and on, and I will."

"Lover"

"Lover"
"Lover" was released as a single in 2019.      Taylor Swift/YouTube

Best lyrics: "My heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue / All's well that ends well to end up with you / Swear to be overdramatic and true to my lover."

"Cornelia Street"

"Cornelia Street"
"Cornelia Street" is the ninth track on "Lover."      Dave Hogan/ABA/Getty Images

Best lyrics: "I get mystified by how this city screams your name / And baby, I'm so terrified of if you ever walk away / I'd never walk Cornelia Street again."

"Daylight"

"Daylight"
"Daylight" is the 18th track on "Lover."      Shanna Madison/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images

Best lyrics: "And I can still see it all in my head / Back and forth from New York sneaking in your bed / I once believed love would be burning red / But it's golden."

"Christmas Tree Farm"

"Christmas Tree Farm"
"Christmas Tree Farm" was released as a single in 2019.      Theo Wargo/Getty Images for iHeartMedia

Best lyrics: "Sweet dreams of holly and ribbon / Mistakes are forgiven / And everything is icy and blue / And you would be there too."

"My Tears Ricochet"

"My Tears Ricochet"
"My Tears Ricochet" is the fifth track on "Folklore."      Kevin Mazur/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Best lyrics: "And I can go anywhere I want / Anywhere I want, just not home / And you can aim for my heart, go for blood / But you would still miss me in your bones / And I still talk to you, when I'm screaming at the sky / And when you can't sleep at night, you hear my stolen lullabies."

"No Body, No Crime" (featuring HAIM)

"No Body, No Crime" (featuring HAIM)
"No Body, No Crime" is the sixth track on "Evermore."      John Shearer/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Best lyrics: "Good thing Este's sister's gonna swear she was with me / Good thing his mistress took out a big life insurance policy."

"Vigilante Shit"

"Vigilante Shit"
"Vigilante Shit" is the eighth track on "Midnights."      Kevin Mazur/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Best lyrics: "Picture me thick as thieves with your ex-wife / And she looks so pretty."

"Bigger Than the Whole Sky"

"Bigger Than the Whole Sky"
"Bigger Than the Whole Sky" is the 15th track on "Midnights (3am Edition)."      Beth Garrabrant

Best lyrics: "I've got a lot to pine about / I've got a lot to live without / I'm never gonna meet / What could've been, would've been / What should've been you."

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