How You Get the Girl

How You Get the Girl
General
Release Date	October 27, 2014
Length	4:07 minutes
Writer(s)	Taylor Swift Max Martin Shellback
Producer(s)	Max Martin Shellback
Album	1989
Label	Big Machine Records
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How You Get the Girl is the tenth track of Taylor's fifth album 1989. It was released on October 27, 2014.

Meaning and Background

The song How You Get the Girl is a song that I wrote about how you get the girl back if you ruined the relationship somehow and she won’t talk to you anymore. Like, if you broke up with her and then you kind of left her on her own for six months and then you’d realize you miss her; all the steps you’d have to do to work your way back in her life because she’s probably pretty mad at you. So it’s kind of a tutorial; if you follow the directions in the song, chances are that it will work out. Or you may get a restraining order.

- Taylor about How You Get the Girl

It's written for a guy who has broken up with his girlfriend, then wants her back after six months, but it's not going to be as simple as sending a text like, 'Sup? Miss you.' That won't work, you need to do all the things I say."

- Taylor about How You Get the Girl

Trivia

• A snippet of the song was featured in a Diet Coke advertisement before it was officially released.

Lyrics

[Intro] Oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Oh-oh, oh-oh [Verse 1] Stand there like a ghost Shaking from the rain, rain. She'll open up the door and say, "Are you insane?" Say it's been a long six months And you were too afraid to tell her what you want, want. [Pre-chorus] And that's how it works. That's how you get the girl. And then you say [Chorus] I want you for worse or for better I would wait forever and ever Broke your heart, I'll put it back together. I would wait forever and ever And that's how it works That's how you get the girl, girl (oh-oh, oh) And that's how it works That's how you get the girl, girl [Verse 2] Remind her how it used to be, yeah, yeah With pictures in frames of kisses on cheeks, cheeks Tell her how you must have lost your mind, ooh-ooh When you left her all alone And never told her why, why [Pre-chorus] And that's how it works. That's how you lost the girl And now you say [Chorus] I want you for worse or for better I would wait forever and ever (ever and ever) Broke your heart, I'll put it back together I would wait forever and ever And that's how it works That's how you get the girl, girl (oh-oh, oh-oh) And that's how it works That's how you get the girl, girl Yeah, yeah [Bridge] And you know Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh That I don't want you to go, oh, oh [Breakdown] Remind me how it used to be Pictures in frames of kisses on cheeks And say you want me, yeah-yeah And then you say [Chorus] 'Cause I want you for worse or for better (worse or for better) I would wait forever and ever (ever and ever) Broke your heart, I'll put it back together I would wait forever and ever (I want you forever and ever) And that's how it works That's how you get the girl, girl (this is how it works) And that's how it works That's how you get the girl, girl (get the girl) (That's how it works) And that's how it works That's how you get the girl, girl (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh) And that's how it works That's how you get the girl, girl (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh) [Outro] That's how it works. That's how you got the girl.

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