Taylor wrote this song for a boy who was died of cancer and his name was Ronan Thompson. He died on May 9, 2011, three days before he was to turn 4.
Taylor Swift learned about Ronan from a blog that his mother, Maya Thompson, began shortly after the diagnosis to keep family and friends informed. Ms. Thompson called the blog Rockstar Ronan, but she did not mince words about his illness, and her heartbreak was painfully evident in every update.
“A few weeks into it, I remember writing that I had a feeling this blog was going to get dark and ugly and scary, because it’s a horrific thing to go through,” she said in an interview. “I wasn’t willing to sugarcoat any of this. I think a big part of why nothing gets done with childhood cancer is that everybody wants to wrap it in a cute little bow with cute little bald kids. But it’s so sad. The statistics are so awful.”
In November, Ms. Thompson received a call from a publicist for Ms. Swift, inviting her to meet the singer at a concert in Phoenix. “She told me how she had been reading our blog for over a year, and her parents had been reading it and they were all devastated and touched by it,” Ms. Thompson said. “I remember crying and she was crying.”
Just a week before the cancer telethon, Ms. Thompson got a call from Ms. Swift, who said she had written a song about Ronan and wanted to give Ms. Thompson a writing credit, since it was based on her blog. Proceeds would go to cancer charities, and she wanted to show Ronan’s photo behind her as she sang.
This is the only lived show of this song by Taylor. She said that she wouldn't sing this song lived anymore. She was almost cry in this show.
