Taylor Swift's 'Soon You'll Get Better' Lyrics Reveal the Struggle of Watching Her Parents Battle Cancer
Throughout her career, Taylor Swift has been open about her close relationship with her mom, first releasing a song about her on her album Fearless titled "The Best Day." Now, on her latest album Lover, Swift opens up about watching her parents, and especially her mom, battle cancer in the song "Soon You'll Get Better" featuring the Dixie Chicks.
She hinted at the song's themes recently for her ELLE cover, saying that she's had to handle serious illness in her family since both of her parents have had cancer and her mom is fighting it again.
Then during her YouTube Live on Thursday, she revealed it was the hardest song to write. She said, "There’s a song called 'Soon You’ll Get Better' that was really, really hard to write. and it was a family decision to even put on the album, and I think songs like that that are really hard for you to write emotionally, maybe they’re hard to write and hard to sing because they’re really true. We as a family decided to put this on the album. It’s something I’m so proud of. I can’t sing it. It’s hard to emotionally deal with that song. You’ll understand what I mean in a couple of hours."
The song reveals the small details of Swift's experience ("The buttons of my coat were tangled in my hair / In doctor's office lighting, I didn't tell you I was scared") and how she's been coping ("Holy orange bottles, each night I pray to you / Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus too").
Read all the lyrics, below.
Verse 1
The buttons of my coat were tangled in my hair
In doctor's office lighting, I didn't tell you I was scared
That was the first time we were there
Holy orange bottles, each night I pray to you
Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus too
Chorus
And I say to you
Ooh-ah
Soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah
Soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah
You'll get better soon
'Cause you have to
Verse 2
I know delusion when I see it in the mirror
You like the nicer nurses, you make the best of a bad deal
I just pretend it isn't real
I'll paint the kitchen neon, I'll brighten up the sky
I know I'll never get it, there's not a day that I won't try
Chorus
And I say to you
Ooh-ah
Soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah
Soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah
You'll get better soon
'Cause you have to
Bridge
And I hate to make this all about me
But who am I supposed to talk to?
What am I supposed to do
If there's no you?
Verse 3
This won't go back to normal, if it ever was
And I keep saying it because
'Cause I have to
Chorus
Ooh-ah
You'll get better
Ooh-ah
Soon you'll get better
Ooh
You'll get better soon
Ooh-ah
Soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah
Soon you'll get better
Ooh-ah
You'll get better soon
'Cause you have to
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