Starlight
RED (2012) | RED (Taylor's Version) [2021]
Background and Lyrical Theme
«'Starlight' is a song I wrote after seeing a picture of Ethel and Bobby Kennedy when they were seventeen. I saw this picture about a year and a half ago, and I didn’t know anything about what they were doing or what was going on in the picture, but I just thought, ‘They look like they’re having the best night.’ And so I wrote this song about what the night might’ve been like. I ended up meeting Ethel and going and playing it for her, and she just loved it. It was such a fun moment when she was just in love with the song and so happy about it. It’s just this adorable picture that to me, it brought forth all these potentials for how that night could’ve been.»
Taylor by Taylor Swift: Made of Starlight
Lyrics
[Intro]
I said, “Oh my, what a marvelous tune”
It was the best night, never would forget how we moved
The whole place was dressed to the nines
And we were dancing, dancing
Like we’re made of starlight (Like we’re made of starlight)
[Verse 1]
I met Bobby on the boardwalk, summer of ’45
Picked me up late one night out the window,
We were 17 and crazy, running wild, wild
Can’t remember what song it was playing when we walked in
The night we snuck into a yacht club party
Pretending to be a duchess and a prince
[Chorus]
And I said, “Oh my, what a marvelous tune”
It was the best night, never would forget how we moved
The whole place was dressed to the nines
And we were dancing, dancing
Like we’re made of starlight, starlight
Like we’re made of starlight, starlight
[Verse 2]
He said, “Look at you worrying so much about things you can’t change.
You’ll spend your whole life singing the blues if you keep thinking that way”
He was trying to skip rocks on the ocean, saying to me,
“Don’t you see the starlight, starlight?
Don’t you dream impossible things?”
[Chorus]
Like, “Oh my, what a marvelous tune”
It was the best night, never would forget how we moved
The whole place was dressed to the nines
And we were dancing, dancing
Like we’re made of starlight, starlight
Like we’re made of starlight, starlight
[Bridge]
Ooh, ooh, he’s talking crazy
Ooh, ooh, dancing with me
Ooh, ooh, we could get married
Have ten kids and teach ’em how to dream
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
Oh, my, what a marvelous tune
It was the best night, never would forget how we moved
The whole place was dressed to the nines
And we were dancing, dancing
Like we’re made of starlight, starlight
Like we’re made of starlight, starlight
[Breakdown]
Like we’re made of starlight, starlight
Like we dream impossible dreams
Like starlight, starlight
Like we dream impossible dreams
[Outro]
Don’t you see the starlight, starlight?
Don’t you dream impossible things?
Albums | RED RED (Taylor’s Version) | |||
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Released | October 22, 2012 | |||
Re-Released | November 12, 2021 | |||
Studio | Blackbird (Nashville) | |||
Genre | Pop Rock | |||
Length | 3:40 | |||
Labels | Big Machine Records Republic Records | |||
Songwriter | Taylor Swift | |||
Producers | Nathan Chapman (original) Dan Huff (original) Christopher Rowe Paul Mirkovich Taylor Swift | |||
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