Losing him was blue like I'd never known
Missing him was dark grey all alone
Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met
But loving him was red
Oh red
Burning red

from Taylor Swift – Red on Rap Genius

Meaning

Taylor Swift spoke of the song on Good Morning America by stating “I wrote this song about the fact that some things in life are just hard to forget… because the emotions that are involved with them can be so intense—and to me, intense emotion is [the color] red.”

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