A Perfectly Good Heart
Bonus Track | Taylor Swift (2006)
Table of Contents
Background and Lyrical Theme
«It's a song that I recorded when I was fourteen. I thought it would be really important to put this on the album because, you know, it's just really innocent. It's about getting your heart broken for the first time and not understanding why somebody would wanna do that. It's before the mind games come in to play, before your second or third relationship, where you don't know anything but trusting people. And this song is about getting that trust betrayed.»
Taylor Swift
Live Performances
She didn’t perform the song again for 16 years until she played it acoustically on guitar in Zurich on July 10, 2024, during one of her shows on “The Eras Tour” (2023-2024). She played it as part of a mashup with “closure” (2020).
Lyrics
[Chorus]
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart
Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart now
Why would you wanna make the very first scar
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart
[Verse 1]
Maybe I should’ve seen the sign, should’ve read the writing on the wall
And realized by the distance in your eyes that I would be the one to fall
No matter what you say, I still can’t believe
That you would walk away
It don’t make sense to me but
[Chorus]
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart
Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart now
Why would you wanna make the very first scar
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart
[Bridge]
It’s not unbroken anymore
How do I get it back the way it was before
[Chorus Variation]
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart
Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart now
Why would you wanna make the very first scar
Why would you wanna break, would you wanna break a
[Final Chorus]
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart
Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart now
Why would you wanna make the very first scar
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart
Artist | Taylor Swift | |||
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Album | Taylor Swift | |||
Released | October 24, 2006 | |||
Written | 2003 | |||
Studios | Abtrax Recording (Nashville) The Engine Room (Nashville) | |||
Genre | Country Pop | |||
Length | 3:40 | |||
Label | Big Machine Records | |||
Songwriters | Taylor Swift Brett James Troy Verges | |||
Producers | Nathan Chapman Robert Ellis Orrall Scott Borchetta (exec.) | |||
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