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If you polled 100 Swifties on their favorite Taylor Swift, "All Too Well" would be in the meridian five—if not number one. So now that Taylor Swift's "All As well Well (x Minute Version)" lyrics are here, of course, we did a deep dive into what the new vocal reveals almost Swift and her relationship with the track's rumored inspiration, Jake Gyllenhaal.

Swift commencement released "All Too Well" in 2012 as the fifth track from her quaternary studio album, Red. The vocal—which was co-written with songwriter Liz Rose, who besides co-wrote Swift songs similar "White Horse" and "Teardrops on My Guitars"—was well-reviewed by fans and critics at the fourth dimension for Swift'south raw and emotional lyrics.

In June 2021, Swift announced that she would be releasing a re-recorded version of Red after her former record label, Big Machine Records, sold the ownership of her starting time six albums—including Cherry-red—to Scooter Braun and his visitor, Ithaca Holdings. Swift as well revealed at the fourth dimension that she would be releasing a new, 10-minute version of "All Too Well," which was originally five minutes and 29 seconds long.

Blood-red (Taylor'southward Version)

"Red (Taylor's Version"

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Who is "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" nigh?

In an interview with Adept Morning America in 2012, Swift explained that "All Too Well" was the most difficult vocal to write on Red because it took her a while "to filter through everything she wanted to say." She besides revealed that the song was originally 10 minutes long (hence why she decided to release a x-minute version nine years later on.) "Information technology started out beingness a ten-minute song, which yous can't put on an album," she said.

Swift told Rolling Stone in 2020 that the song wasn't planned and came from a day where she was "feeling terrible" near her "personal life." "It was a day when I was just, like, a broken human, walking into rehearsal simply feeling terrible about what was going on in my personal life," she said. "I but ended upwards playing four chords over and over once again, and the ring started kicking in. People only started playing along with me… I think they could tell I was really going through it."

She continued, "I but started singing and riffing and ad-libbing this vocal that basically was 'All Likewise Well.' It literally just was that song, only it had probably seven extra verses and it included the f-word…My audio guy was similar, 'Hey, I burned a CD of that matter yous were doing in case you want it.' I ended up taking it home and listening to it," she went on. "And I was like, I actually actually similar this, but it definitely is like 10 minutes long and I need to skin it downwards, and so I'm going to telephone call [cowriter and long fourth dimension collaborator] Liz Rose."

Every bit for who "All Also Well" is about, it's well-known among fans that most of Swift'south songs on Red are well-nigh her ex-boyfriend, Jake Gyllenhaal, whom she dated from October 2010 to January 2011. The most damning clue the song is about Gyllenhaal is the lyric where Swift sings, "Walked through the door with you. Information technology was cold, but something 'bout it felt like home somehow and I left my scarf in that location at your sister's business firm. And you yet got it in your drawer even now."

According to reports at the time, Swift spent Thanksgiving 2010 with Gyllenhaal'south family, including his sis, Maggie Gyllenhaal. In an interview on Scout What Happens Live in 2017, Maggie responded to claims she'southward the "sister" in "All Too Well." "I never understood why everybody asked me well-nigh this scarf. What is this?" she said. "I am in the night virtually the scarf. It's totally possible. I don't know. I have been asked this earlier."

Read Taylor Swift's "All Too Well (x Minute Version)" lyrics, via LyricsKpop.net, below.

Taylor Swift "All Also Well (ten Infinitesimal Version)" Lyrics

I walked through the door with you

The air was cold

Just something nigh it felt like home somehow

And I left my scarf there at your sister's house

And y'all've still got it in your drawer, even at present

Oh, your sweetness disposition a nd my broad-eyed gaze

Nosotros're singing in the car, getting lost upstate

Autumn leaves falling downward like pieces into place

And I tin can picture it after all these days

And I know it's long gone and

That magic's not here no more

And I might exist okay but I'm not fine at all

'Crusade there we are again on that little town street

You nigh ran the red 'cause y'all were lookin' over at me

Air current in my hair, I was there

I call up it all too well

Photo anthology on the counter, y our cheeks were turning red

You lot used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bed

And your mother's telling stories 'bout you on the tee-brawl team

You told me 'bout your by thinking your future was me

And you were tossing me the car keys

Fuck the patriarchy

Keychain on the footing

Nosotros were always skipping town

And I was thinking on the drive down

Someday now he'south going to say it's love

You never called it what it was

Till we were gone and dead and cached

Check the pulse and come back swearing

Information technology's the aforementioned

After 3 months in the grave

And so you wondered where it went to

Equally I reached for you lot

But all I felt was shame

And you held my lifeless frame

And I know it's long gone and

In that location was nothing else I could do

And I forget near yous long enough

To forget why I needed to

'Crusade there nosotros are again in the middle of the night

We're dancing 'round the kitchen in the fridge light

Down the stairs, I was there

I remember information technology all too well

And in that location we are again

When nobody had to know

You lot kept me like a secret

But I kept yous like an adjuration

Sacred prayer and we'd swear

To remember information technology all too well

And maybe we got lost in translation

Maybe I asked for as well much

But mayhap this affair was a masterpiece

'Til you tore it all up

Running scared, I was at that place

I remember it all too well

And you call me up again just to suspension me like a promise

So casually vicious in the name of being honest

I'm a crumpled up piece of newspaper lying here

'Crusade I remember it all, all, all

They say "All'southward well that ends well"

Simply I'grand in a new hell everytime

Y'all double cross my listen

You said if we had been closer in age

Maybe information technology would've been fine

That fabricated me want to die

The idea you had of me, who was she?

An ever-needy, ever-lovely jewel whose smooth reflects

At present I'm weeping in a party bathroom

Some actress asking me what happened

You, that's what happened, you…

You who charmed my dad with self-effacing jokes

Sipping coffee like you're on a tardily nighttime show

But when he watched me watch the forepart door all night willing yous to come

And he said information technology's supposed to be fun turning 21

Time won't wing, it's like I'yard paralyzed by it

I'd similar to be my old self again

But I'm nonetheless trying to find it

After plaid shirt days and nights when you lot fabricated me your own

At present you post back my things and I walk home alone

But you keep your old scarf from that very first week

'Cause it reminds you of innocence

And it smells similar me

You lot can't get rid of it

'Crusade you remember it all too well

Cause there nosotros are again when I loved you so

Back earlier yous lost the i real affair you've always known

Information technology was rare, I was there, I recollect it all as well well

And I was never good at telling jokes simply the punchline goes

"I'll get older but your lovers stay my age"

From when you're Brooklyn broke, my pare and bones

I'm a soldier who's returning half her weight

And did the twin flame bruise paint you blue?

Only between us, did the love matter maim you lot likewise?

Cause in this city's baring cold, I still remember the first fall of snowfall

And how it glistened as it roughshod, I remember it all too well

Just betwixt u.s.a., did the love affair maim yous all likewise well?

Just between us, do y'all remember information technology all too well?

Just between us, I remember it all too well

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