"Change" lyrics

And it's a sad picture

The final blow hits you

Somebody else gets what you wanted again

And you know it's all the same

Another time and place

Repeating history and you're getting sick of it



But I believe in whatever you do

And I'll do anything to see it through



Because these things will change

Can you feel it now?

These walls that they put up to hold us back will fall down

This revolution, the time will come

For us to finally win

And we'll sing hallelujah, we'll sing hallelujah



So we've been outnumbered

Raided and now cornered

It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair

We're getting stronger now

Find things they never found

They might be bigger

But we're faster and never scared



You can walk away, say we don't need this

But there's something in your eyes says we can beat this



'Cause these things will change

Can you feel it now?

These walls that they put up to hold us back will fall down

This revolution, the time will come

For us to finally win

And we'll sing hallelujah, we'll sing hallelujah



Tonight we'll stand, get off our knees

Fight for what we've worked for all these years

And the battle was long, it's the fight of our lives

But we'll stand up champions tonight



It was the night things changed

Can you see it now?

These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down

This revolution, throw your hands up

'Cause we never gave in

And we'll sing hallelujah, we sang hallelujah

Hallelujah







Thanks to ~DW~ for adding these lyrics.

Thanks to Rebecca for correcting these lyrics.



Writer(s): Taylor Alison Swift



Taylor Swift co-produced this song alongside Nathan Chapman.

The beginning of this track was written after Taylor Swift had asked herself how she and her record label could achieve success. She explained, "There was this moment where I sat there and was like, 'When are we going to get a fighting chance? We're the smallest record label in Nashville, but we want this really bad.'" She finished the track after she won the Horizon Award at the 2007 Country Music Association Awards and saw Scott Borchetta, the president of Big Machine Records, crying. She said, "It was absolutely the most amazing night of my life, getting to see the emotion of all the people who worked so hard for me."

Taylor Swift commented on the story of this song, "I wrote the song 'Change' as an underdog story. It's kind of crazy to think that the Olympics chose this as one of the songs to play during the Olympic Games."

All proceeds from this track were donated to the United States Olympic team. The song was one of the themes for the 2008 Summer Olympics and was included on the AT&T Team USA Soundtrack, released on the 7th of August 2008.

The single debuted and peaked at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Taylor Swift's first song to reach the top ten on the US chart.

The music video for "Change" features Taylor Swift performing with a band in a ballroom. An alternate version of the video features footage of the United States Olympic team at the 2008 Summer Olympics.