I feel like this song is an alternate ending to the tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Taylor is just taking the sad elements out of the story and making them happy. She's sortof fixing the story by writing out what would have happened if the two hadn't committed suicide. There are a lot of lines in the first part of the song that seem like they're pretty specific to the story.
"We were both young when I first saw you"---Romeo and Juliet were both teenagers when they met and fell in love
"I'm standing there On a balcony in summer air"---The balcony scene
"See the lights, see the party, the ballgowns"---The two met at a costume ball hosted by the Capulets
"See you make your way through the crowd And say hello"---Romeo pursued Juliet at the ball after seeing how beautiful she was
"And my daddy said, Stay away from Juliet,"---The Capulets and the Montagues had an ancient feud which forbade them from loving each other. Juliet's father disapproved of Juliet's love for Romeo and arranged a marriage for her with another man.
"So I sneak out to the garden to see you We keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew"---could be talking about the balcony scene again when Juliet sneaks out to talk to Romeo and warns him to be quiet because if her family were to find out they would kill Romeo.
"They're trying to tell me how to feel This love is difficult, but it's real"---Juliet's family told her that she couldn't love a Montague because of the feud. This made their love difficult because it was forbidden.
"So close your eyes Escape this town for a little while"---pretend that they're not in Verona and in that situation so that they could be in love and get married.
I think when she uses the term "scarlet letter" she doesn't actually mean she's an adulterer. I think she's just saying that she is and embarrassment to her family. Juliet was cut off from her family midway through the play when she refused her father's 'generosity' by not accepting the marriage he had arranged for her.
I feel like this song is an alternate ending to the tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Taylor is just taking the sad elements out of the story and making them happy. She's sortof fixing the story by writing out what would have happened if the two hadn't committed suicide. There are a lot of lines in the first part of the song that seem like they're pretty specific to the story.
"We were both young when I first saw you"---Romeo and Juliet were both teenagers when they met and fell in love
"I'm standing there On a balcony in summer air"---The balcony scene
"See the lights, see the party, the ballgowns"---The two met at a costume ball hosted by the Capulets
"See you make your way through the crowd And say hello"---Romeo pursued Juliet at the ball after seeing how beautiful she was
"And my daddy said, Stay away from Juliet,"---The Capulets and the Montagues had an ancient feud which forbade them from loving each other. Juliet's father disapproved of Juliet's love for Romeo and arranged a marriage for her with another man.
"So I sneak out to the garden to see you We keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew"---could be talking about the balcony scene again when Juliet sneaks out to talk to Romeo and warns him to be quiet because if her family were to find out they would kill Romeo.
"They're trying to tell me how to feel This love is difficult, but it's real"---Juliet's family told her that she couldn't love a Montague because of the feud. This made their love difficult because it was forbidden.
"So close your eyes Escape this town for a little while"---pretend that they're not in Verona and in that situation so that they could be in love and get married.
I think when she uses the term "scarlet letter" she doesn't actually mean she's an adulterer. I think she's just saying that she is and embarrassment to her family. Juliet was cut off from her family midway through the play when she refused her father's 'generosity' by not accepting the marriage he had arranged for her.
@freezehourcast OH MY GOSH. YOU POSTED THIS IN 2008 and this year or last year SHE SAID SHE WROTE THIS AS AN ALTERNATE ENDING TO ROMEO AND JULIET.
@freezehourcast OH MY GOSH. YOU POSTED THIS IN 2008 and this year or last year SHE SAID SHE WROTE THIS AS AN ALTERNATE ENDING TO ROMEO AND JULIET.