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Tell Me Why

Fearless·2008

Artifact Information

Tell Me Why

Eras

Fearless

Albums

Fearless

Released

2008

Musical style

Country rock

Mood

Restless

All Versions

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Hot 100 Peak

Did not chart

Themes

FrustrationSelf-respect

Curator's Note

Interpretation

Tell Me Why is the album's most driving track. It grants no excuses, demanding an answer: why do you keep letting me down? That refusal to shrink herself, that right to interrogate, is a hardness rare for early Taylor.

It proves she wasn't only candy-love songs — angry, she could write a rock edge you want to bang the table to.

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Full lyrics are not reproduced here to respect copyright.

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