Pandagaul.com – Back to December adalah lagu yang ditulis dan direkam oleh penyanyi-penulis lagu Amerika Taylor Swift untuk album studio ketiganya, Speak Now (2010). Sebelum rilis album, lagu ini dirilis untuk diunduh pada 12 Oktober 2010, melalui iTunes Store sebagai single promosi.
Back to December adalah instrumen string balada orkestra; liriknya adalah permohonan maaf untuk perpisahan karena putus dengan mantan kekasih. Dalam ulasan kontemporer, kritikus musik memuji “Back to December” untuk produksi dan liriknya, dengan beberapa memilihnya sebagai sorotan album.
Lirik Back to December Oleh Taylor Swift Tentang Penyesalan
I’m so glad you made time to see me
How’s life? Tell me how’s your family?
I haven’t seen them in a while
You’ve been good, busier than ever
We small-talk, work and the weather
Your guard is up and I know why
Because the last time you saw me is still burned in the back of your mind
You gave me roses and I left them there to die
So this is me swallowing my pride
Standing in front of you, saying, “I’m sorry for that night,”
And I go back to December all the time
It turns out freedom ain’t nothing but missing you
Wishing I’d realized what I had when you were mine
I’d go back to December, turn around and make it all right
I go back to December all the time
These days I haven’t been sleeping
Staying up, playing back myself leaving
When your birthday passed and I didn’t call
And I think about summer, all the beautiful times
I watched you laughing from the passenger side
And realized I loved you in the fall
And then the cold came, the dark days when fear crept into my mind
You gave me all your love and all I gave you was “Goodbye”
So this is me swallowing my pride
Standing in front of you, saying, “I’m sorry for that night.”
And I go back to December all the time
It turns out freedom ain’t nothing but missing you
Wishing I’d realized what I had when you were mine
I’d go back to December, turn around and change my own mind
I go back to December all the time
I miss your tanned skin, your sweet smile
So good to me, so right
And how you held me in your arms that September night:
The first time you ever saw me cry
Maybe this is wishful thinking
Probably mindless dreaming
But if we loved again, I swear I’d love you right
I’d go back in time and change it but I can’t
So if the chain is on your door I understand
But this is me swallowing my pride
Standing in front of you, saying, “I’m sorry for that night.”
And I go back to December
It turns out freedom ain’t nothing but missing you
Wishing I’d realized what I had when you were mine
I’d go back to December, turn around and make it all right
I’d go back to December, turn around and change my own mind
I go back to December all the time
All the time
