Indeed, each of Swift’s first three albums includes a track that starts as an ode to rose-tinted pre-adolescence: “The Best Day” (from 2008 sophomore LP Fearless) begins with a five-year-old Taylor hugging her mother’s legs, while “Never Grow Up” (from 2010’s Speak Now) sees Taylor playing the older sister, living vicariously through a younger charge, wishing them to embrace their inner Peter Pan: “ It could stay this simple.” Even on that same album’s “Innocent,” a patronizing post-VMAs rejoinder to Kanye West, Swift’s most sincere attempt to find empathy with West comes via her taking things all the way back to the beginning: “Wasn’t it easier in your lunchbox days? Always a bigger bed to crawl into…” As is true of many stars who get a little too famous a little too early in their personal development, Swift idealized youth in her songs as a time of both limitless wonder and absolute security: “Take me back to when our world was one block wide,” she sings in her self-titled debut’s “Mary’s Song,” a tale of lifelong romance that starts when its subjects are 7 and 9. In Taylor Swift’s music, few things if any are as sacrosanct as childhood. That’s because the song was inspired by - and in fact cribbed directly from - the “Rockstar Ronan” website, written by blogger Maya Thompson about her four-year-old son Ronan’s ultimately fatal battle with cancer. The only real promotion the singer-songwriter gave it in 2012 was on the televised performance that served as the song’s raison d’être: the 2012 Stand Up to Cancer telethon. 16 after its first week of sale, even fans of Taylor’s would be forgiven for not knowing of its existence. Though “Ronan” was actually a top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, debuting at No.