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Taylor Swift
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The closing track on reputation uses a New Year’s party as a metaphor to discuss holding on to people and memories from both good and bad times. Taylor recognizes that when the ‘parties’ in her life are over and the ‘new year’ begins, such memories are all she will have left to hold on to and learn...
[Verse 1]
There's glitter on the floor after the party
Girls carryin’ their shoes down in the lobby
Candle wax and Polaroids on the hardwood floor
You and me from the night before, but
[Chorus]
Don't read the last page
But I stay when you're lost and I’m scared and you're turnin' away
I want your midnights
But I'll be cleanin' up bottles with you on New Year's Day
[Verse 2]
You squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi
I can tell that it's gonna be a long road
I'll be there if you’re the toast of the town, babe
Or if you strike out and you’re crawlin' home
[Chorus]
Don’t read the last page
But I stay when it's hard or it's wrong or we're makin’ mistakes
I want your midnights
But I'll be cleanin' up bottles with you on New Year's Day
[Refrain]
Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you
Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you
Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you
And I will hold on to you
[Bridge]
Please, don't ever become a stranger
Whose laugh I could recognize anywhere
Please, don't ever become a stranger
Whose laugh I could recognize anywhere
[Verse 3]
There's glitter on the floor after the party
Girls carryin' their shoes down in the lobby
Candle wax and Polaroids on the hardwood floor
You and me forevermore
[Chorus]
Don't read the last page
But I stay when it's hard or it's wrong or we're makin' mistakes
I want your midnights
But I'll be cleanin' up bottles with you on New Year's Day
[Refrain]
Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you
Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you
Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you
And I will hold on to you (Hold on)
[Outro]
Please, don't ever become a stranger
(To the memories, they will hold on to you)
Whose laugh I could recognize anywhere
(Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you)
Please, don't ever become a stranger
(Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you)
Whose laugh I could recognize anywhere
(And I will hold on to you)
New Year’s Day was written by Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift.
New Year’s Day was produced by Taylor Swift & Jack Antonoff.
Taylor Swift released New Year’s Day on Fri Nov 10 2017.
We threw a big New Years Party in London this year and I was thinking about how everybody talks and things about who you’ll kiss at midnight, it’s this big romantic idea, like, “Who you’re gonna kiss at midnight? Ring in the New Year.” And I think that’s very romantic, but I think there’s something...
Taylor debuted a live performance of the song on November 13, 2017 on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. The song choice was an extra special one after the recent events in Jimmy’s personal life. On November 4th, his mother, Gloria, passed away, and the next week’s shows were cancelled. After retur...
Jack told Entertainment Weekly:
It was the quickest [song to record]. If you listen to the piano on that record, you can hear me moving around. You hear things clicking. Those are the ‘scratch takes’ — we did that very quickly. It came out in that sort of goofy Hollywood version of how music is wri...