Out Of The Woods

The second single from Taylor Swift's 1989 album, the song was written and produced by the singer with fun.'s Jack Antonoff. "One of the goals I set out to accomplish when I wanted to make this album is I wanted to make sure that these songs sounded exactly the way that the emotions felt when I felt them," said Swift in a video. "This song is about the fragility and kind of breakable nature of some relationships. This was a relationship where it was kind of living day-to-day, wondering where it was going, if it was gonna go anywhere, if it was gonna end the next day. It was a relationship where you never feel like you're standing on solid ground." "And that kind of a feeling brings on excitement, but also extreme anxiety, and kind of a frantic feeling of wondering," she continued. "Endless questions. And this song sounds exactly like that frantic feeling of anxiety and questioning, but it stresses that, even if a relationship is breakable and fragile and full of anxiety, it doesn't mean that it isn't worthwhile, exciting, beautiful and all the things that we look for."

Fans have speculated the song could be about Swift's brief fling with One Direction's Harry Styles. She told Rolling Stone it's the tale of a relationship where, "every day was a struggle. Forget making plans for life – we were just trying to make it to next week."

Swift recounts in the lyric an unreported incident when she and her then-boyfriend went to the ER after getting into a snowmobile accident Remember when you hit the brakes too soon Twenty stitches in a hospital room Swift told Rolling Stone that her ex lost control of the snowmobile and wrecked it so badly that she saw her life flash before her eyes. Both of them had to go to the hospital, although Swift wasn't as hurt as her boyfriend.