"Timeless" is the twenty second track from American singer and songwriter Taylor Swift's third re-recorded album, Speak Now (Taylor's Version), released on July 7, 2023, through Republic Records.
Background[]
The song was first discovered on 2009 when the song was registered. The lyric video features pictures of her grandparents Marjorie Finlay and Robert Finlay.
In the second verse and following chorus, Taylor references Romeo and Juliet, which Taylor had previously drawn from for her song "Love Story".
Lyrics[]
[Verse 1]
Down the block, there's an antique shop and
Something in my head said, "Stop" so I walked in
On the counter was a cardboard box
And the sign said, "Photos, twenty-five cents each"
Black and white, saw a thirties bride
And school lovers laughing on the porch of their first house
The kinda love that you only find once in a lifetime
The kind you don't put down
And that's when I called you and it's so hard to explain, but
In those photos, I saw us instead
And, somehow, I know that you and I would've found each other
In another life, you still would've turned my head, evеn if we'd met
[Chorus]
On a crowded street in 1944
And you wеre headed off to fight in the war
You still would've been mine
We would have been timeless
I would've read your love letters every single night
And prayed to God you'd be coming home all right
And you would've been fine
We would have been timeless
'Cause I believe that we were supposed to find this
So, even in a different life, you still would've been mine
We would've been timeless
[Verse 2]
I had to smile when it caught my eye
There was one of a teenage couple in the driveway
Holding hands on the way to a dance
And the date on the back said 1958
Which brought me back to the first time I saw you
Time stood still like something in this old shop
I thought about it as I started lookin' 'round
At these precious things that time forgot
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
[Chorus]
In the fifteen hundreds off in a foreign land
And I was forced to marry another man
You still would've been mine
We would have been timeless
I would have read your love letters every single night
And run away and left it all behind
You still would've been mine
We would've been timeless
'Cause I believe that we were supposed to find this
So, even in a different life, you still would've been mine
We would've been timeless
[Bridge]
Time breaks down your mind and body
Don't you let it touch your soul
It was like an age old classic
The first time that you saw me
The story started when you said, "Hello"
[Chorus]
In a crowded room a few short years ago
And sometimes, there's no proof, you just know
You're always gonna be mine
We're gonna be...
I'm gonna love you when our hair is turning grey
We'll have a cardboard box of photos of the life we made
And you'll say, "Oh, my, we really were timeless"
[Post-Chorus]
We're gonna be timeless, timeless
You still would've been mine
We would've been
Even if we'd met on a crowded street in 1944
You still would've been mine
We would've been
[Outro]
Down the block, there's an antique shop
And something in my head said, "Stop" so I walked in
Live performances[]
“Timeless” was performed live as a surprise song twice at The Eras Tour: once on July 14th, 2023, in Denver, Colorado, and once on October 18th, 2024, in Miami, Florida, mashed-up with “Tim McGraw”.
References[]
| Speak Now | ||
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| "Mine" • "Sparks Fly" • "Back To December" • "Speak Now" • "Dear John" • "Mean" • "The Story Of Us" • "Never Grow Up" • "Enchanted" • "Better Than Revenge" • "Innocent" • "Haunted" • "Last Kiss" • "Long Live" | ||
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