People just started playing along with me… I think they could tell I was really going through it.” Swift told Rolling Stone in 2020 that the song wasn’t planned and came from a day where she was “feeling terrible” about her “personal life.” “It was a day when I was just, like, a broken human, walking into rehearsal just feeling terrible about what was going on in my personal life,” she said. “I just ended up playing four chords over and over again, and the band started kicking in. In an interview with Good Morning America in 2012, Swift explained that “All Too Well” was the most difficult song to write on Red because it took her a while “to filter through everything she wanted to say.” She also revealed that the song was originally 10 minutes long (hence why she decided to release a 10-minute version nine years later.) “It started out being a 10-minute song, which you can’t put on an album,” she said. Red (Taylor’s Version)īuy Now Who is “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” about? Swift also revealed at the time that she would be releasing a new, 10-minute version of “All Too Well,” which was originally five minutes and 29 seconds long. 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 first six albums-including Red-to Scooter Braun and his company, Ithaca Holdings. The song-which was co-written with songwriter Liz Rose, who also co-wrote Swift songs like “White Horse” and “Teardrops on My Guitars”-was well-reviewed by fans and critics at the time for Swift’s raw and emotional lyrics. Swift first released “All Too Well” in 2012 as the fifth track from her fourth studio album, Red. So now that Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” lyrics are here, of course, we did a deep dive into what the new song reveals about Swift and her relationship with the track’s rumored inspiration, Jake Gyllenhaal. If you polled 100 Swifties on their favorite Taylor Swift, “All Too Well” would be in the top five-if not number one.