When Taylor Swift released her 1989 album, it was her first foray completely into pop music, and it was, by all accounts, a huge success. 1989 sold 10.1 million copies worldwide as of the end of 2017, and it helped Taylor win her second Grammy Award for Album of the Year. That made Taylor the first female artist to win the award twice as a lead solo artist. She won it also in 2010 for her Fearless album, and Taylor explains how she wanted the song to feel the way the lyrics sound. Out of the Woods is one of my favorite songs on this album because one of the goals I set out to accomplish when I wanted to make this album is I wanted to make sure that these songs sounded exactly the way that the emotions felt when I felt them. This song is about the fragility and breakable nature of some relationships. This was a relationship where I was kind of living day to day wondering where it was going, if it was going to go anywhere, if it was going to end the next day. It was a relationship where you kind of never feel like you're standing on solid ground. And that kind of a feeling brings on excitement, but also extreme anxiety and kind of a frantic feeling of wondering, endless questions. And this song sounds exactly like that frantic feeling of anxiety and questioning, but it stresses that even if a relationship is breakable and fragile and full of anxiety, it doesn't mean that it isn't worthwhile, exciting, beautiful, and all the things that we look for. That's Taylor explaining this next song off her 1989 album, It's Out of the Woods, on Big Machine Radio.