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I remember your bare feet down the hallway
I remember your little laugh
Race cars on the kitchen floor, plastic dinosaurs
I love you to the moon and back.
I remember your blue eyes
Looking into mine like we had our own secret club
I remember you dancing before bedtime
Then umping on me, waking me up.
I can still feel you holding my hand, little man
And even the moment I knew you fought it hard like an army guy
Remember I leaned in and whispered to you:
"Come on baby with me we're gonna fly away from here
You were my best four years."
I remember the drive home when the blind hope
Turned to screaming and crying "why?"
Flowers pile up in the worst way, no one knows what to say
About a beautiful boy who died.
And it's about to be Halloween
You could be anything you wanted if you were still here
I remember the last day when I kissed your face
And whispered in your ear:
"Come on baby with me we're gonna fly away from here
Out of this curtained room and this hospital gray will just disappear
Come on baby we're gonna fly away from here
You were my best four years."
What if I'm standing in your closet trying to talk to you?
What if I kept the hand-me-downs you won't grow into?
And what if I really thought some miracle would see us through?
What if the miracle was even getting one moment with you?
Come on baby with me we're gonna fly away from here
Come on baby with me we're gonna fly away from here
You were my best four years
I remember your bare feet down the hallway
I love you to the moon and back.
I remember your little laugh
Race cars on the kitchen floor, plastic dinosaurs
I love you to the moon and back.
Looking into mine like we had our own secret club
I remember you dancing before bedtime
Then umping on me, waking me up.
And even the moment I knew you fought it hard like an army guy
Remember I leaned in and whispered to you:
"Come on baby with me we're gonna fly away from here
You were my best four years."
Turned to screaming and crying "why?"
Flowers pile up in the worst way, no one knows what to say
About a beautiful boy who died.
You could be anything you wanted if you were still here
I remember the last day when I kissed your face
And whispered in your ear:
Out of this curtained room and this hospital gray will just disappear
Come on baby we're gonna fly away from here
You were my best four years."
What if I kept the hand-me-downs you won't grow into?
And what if I really thought some miracle would see us through?
What if the miracle was even getting one moment with you?
Come on baby with me we're gonna fly away from here
You were my best four years
I love you to the moon and back.
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This tear-jerking song was inspired by a little boy, Ronan, who died in 2011 of neuroblastoma, which is the most common form of cancer in infancy. Taylor wrote the song after reading the blog of Ronan's mother, Maya Thompson, who is credited as a co-writer. Maya began writing in August 2010 when little Ronan was diagnosed and she continued penning her heartrending entries during the nine months that Ronan fought the illness before passing away in May 2011, just three days before he would have turned four. Maya worked through her grief by continuing the blog, writing heartbreaking letters to her late son, whilst also raising money and awareness for childhood cancer causes. Swift debuted the tune on September 7, 2012 during the Stand Up to Cancer telethon. It was made available on iTunes immediately afterwards, with all proceeds going to cancer-related charities.
Taylor's lyrics are taken completely from Maya's blog entries. The pair met in October 2011, when the singing star invited Maya to her concert at Jobing.com Arena. The grieving mother wrote about her reaction when Taylor told her that she'd penned the song. "My calmness soon turned to complete and utter frozen shock when these words came out of her mouth. 'I wrote a song for Ronan,'" she said "'The tears started pouring down my cheeks as soon as I heard her say those words. But her words didn't stop there. Not only did she write a song for you, but she wanted to know if it would be alright to perform it on the nationally televised show."
Maya didn't get to hear Taylor's song until she performed it on the telethon. In her blog, she wrote, "It was pretty emotional," adding that hearing her own words set to music was "kind of like reliving it again, but it's something I'll probably always relive."
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Taylor had tears in her eyes when she sang this on the Stand Up to Cancer show. The fact that she gave writers credit to Maya, Ronon's mom, was profound.
Taylor is amazing how she can create the pay on words and the where she derives her inspiration from. Four years and For years is an example. She also used blog entries from Maya for this song, which is an amazing idea.
Keep up the great work Taylor