Speak Now

“Speak Now” is inspired by a friend, who watched as a longtime love married someone else. I wrote that song about the moment in a wedding where you speak now or forever hold your peace. I remember saying to her, are you going to speak now? I started to think about it on the way home: what it would be like to be in love and know they’re marrying someone else. That night I had a dream about one of my ex-boyfriends getting married. The next morning I wrote the song.