it's time to go by taylor swift
imagined as a music video: a thread

We open on a dim-lighted restaurant, zooming in on a middle-aged woman who sits alone at her table. The scene is reminiscent of the picture painted by right where you left me. The woman signals the waiter, and he comes back with the tab.

The next scene a young woman is in an argument with her partner because he has been glancing at another woman the entire evening. She doesn’t look like she believes his excuse.

The next scene a woman is lying awake in bed and she flashes back to – new scene – a bride (the same woman) walks in on her best friend snogging with the groom. – back to the woman in bed – she sighs and looks beaten (sad and exhausted).

Lyrics "That old familiar body ache
The snaps from the same little breaks in your soul
You know when it's time to go."

We see the woman from the restaurant scene again. She is packing her bags in the bedroom and emptying out the closet.

A middle-aged man stands in the corner at a party at work. He looks sad as everyone congratulates a twenty something year old man. Someone on the right pops a bottle. The camera pans back to the middle-aged man who takes a piece of pie with the young guy’s face on it.

The camera pans towards framed pictures of a family with two children spread over the house. The couple seems to be the middle-aged woman and the middle-aged man from earlier. As the camera moves from picture to picture, the family starts looking more sad.

Lyrics: That old familiar body ache
The snaps from the same little breaks in your soul
You know when it's time to go.

The middle-aged woman packs framed pictures of the kids into her suitcase and carries it downstairs.

Lyrics: Sometimes giving up is the strong thing
Sometimes to run is the brave thing

Next scene we are introduced to a fifteen-year-old who is running a race.

Lyrics: Sometimes walking out is the one thing
That will find you the right thing

The middle-aged woman leaves her keys at the door and walks out the house, confident that this is the right decision.

Lyrics: Sometimes giving up is the strong thing
Sometimes to run is the brave thing

The young girl is training in the evening, she has her earphones in and is crying.

Lyrics: Sometimes walking out is the one thing
That will find you the right thing

The young woman from the earlier argument walks out as her ex-boyfriend is left perplexed, asking for her to please stay.

Lyrics: Fifteen years, fifteen million tears
Begging 'til my knees bled

The fifteen-year-old girl is shown walking up the stairs of the house we saw the middle-aged woman leave, but the pictures and decor show time has passed.

Lyrics: I gave it my all, he gave me nothing at all
Then wondered why I left

Flashback to the young girl giving her middle-aged father something she crafted to her getting a simple happy birthday text.

Lyrics: Now he sits on his throne in his palace of bones
Praying to his greed

The middle-aged man is shown going on expensive holidays with his new wife.

Lyrics: He's got my past frozen behind glass
But I've got me

We see the young girl walk out with her luggage, leaving a closet full of her trophies and pictures of her winning track races. She smiles as she walks outside, where the sun shines.

Lyrics: That old familiar body ache
The snaps from the same little breaks in my soul
I know when it's time to go

The young girl moves in with her mum and they unpack her baggage together.

Lyrics: Sometimes giving up is the strong thing
Sometimes to run is the brave thing

The young girl is shown running a new race, with her mum now clearly cheering her on in the sidelines.

Lyrics: Sometimes walking out is the one thing
That will find you the right thing

Compilation of the other women in the video: the young woman walking out on her partner, a woman closing a photobook of her ex-partner and throwing it away.

Lyrics: Sometimes giving up is the strong thing
Sometimes to run is the brave thing

Compilation continues with the young girl shown taking the train, the middle-aged woman shown getting the keys to a new apartment.

Lyrics: Sometimes walking out is the one thing
That will find you the right thing

The young girl is gaining speed and gaining on the girl in front of her.

Lyrics: That will find you the right thing
And you know in your soul

The young girl crosses the finish line and wins, the mum and the crowd cheer.

Lyrics: You know in your soul
When it's time to go

We see someone remove a number in their phone.

Lyrics: You know, you know, you know, you know
When it's time to go

The trophy ceremony starts and the young girl receives a trophy with the number 1 on it.

Lyrics: So then you go
Then you go
You just go

Mother and daughter walk away with the trophy in one hand, holding hands with the other.

~ end of thread ~