anonymous March 4th, 2006 07:31PM  
The first post is the biggest misconception about this song. Probably the most misunderstood Jack Johnson song, Taylor, is about a girl who works hard selling tickets to her dance performances. She is NOT a hooker. She just finds that life is over rated, so she walks around and thinks about it.
Peter Patrick, a middle-aged, married man falls for the girl Taylor, even though he doesn't really realize it. He meets Taylor late some nights and on one of those nights his wife, Sunny, won't let I'm back into his own house because she knows where he's been. With another woman. So now, Peter and Taylor are stuck together.
P.S. The 2,000 miles is a reference to Hawaii.
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anonymous March 1st, 2007 09:26PM  
# 2 is totally right

anonymous March 21st, 2007 07:41PM  
I don't think it's her dance performances...."you're gonna have to pay here if you wanna park here." Parking lot in the city? That's what I thought, anyways.....

litlmsbrowneyes July 2nd, 2007 11:49PM  
This always seemed like Taylor was a girl who worked in one of those booths that you have to pay to park there, like at big concert halls and things, in the city. and she has a passion for dancing but it's a secret that no one else knows.
peter Patrick is having an affair, but I didn't catch that it was with Taylor. He thinks he's going to heaven because he goes to church to be forgiven of his sins from the day before ["now that Saturday's gone"] but he doesn't totally get it and he's sort of stuck in the world it seems. both he and Taylor wander and pretend they're in a different place.

anonymous August 11th, 2007 10:06AM  
I always thought she was a hooker, "mommy's little dancer is quite a little secret, working on the streets now, never gonna keep it"

But I like #2's version much better. Except, what does verse three have to do with any of this? I don't think that #2 quite has the ending right...

taylorbabyy December 18th, 2007 11:00PM  
I think the most over looked thing is the whole thing with Sunny's silhouette. I don't think that sunny is a person but is instead symbolic for heaven. Heaven won't let him in because he has been with Taylor. The break lights are on means that his journey to heaven is being stopped because of his visits with Taylor. singing on Sunday is an obvious reference to church. He thinks that going to church will alow him to get to heaven even though he is with taylor. Last thing is that Hawaii is 2000 miles from the mainland u.s, so he is probably referring to Hawaii as where she is imagining herself.

anonymous May 15th, 2008 03:26PM  
I always thought that the song was about a prostitute. "Gonna have to pay her if you want to park here" makes it seem like she's in a parking booth. But "giving what you got to give to get a dollar bill" makes me think that she is a prostitute. I don't know about it though...

anonymous June 28th, 2008 01:37AM  
Come on people read BETWEEN the lines...look beyond the lyrics...and where does it say anywhere that Taylor and Peter Patrick where together or even met...I think that they are two separate stories...its a song about regret, longing to move on with your life, missed opportunity, carrying a burden and keeping it for a long time that you can't move on...if you take the lyrics as it is and not look beyond the obvious maybe you will understand it better...I can kind of relate to this sing a lot...BUT EVERYONES ENTITLED TO THEIR OWN OPINION...

anonymous January 21st, 2009 07:57PM  
Taylor is definitely a prostitute. "Working the night shift...." as in she's street walking, which is done at night... "Kids you're going to have to pay if you're going to park here" You're going to have to pay her if you want to get in her pants... "Never complains.." She just shuts up and does it. "Poor Taylor..." Everyone says that because she's a prostitute. I think it means though that she wishes she wouldn't have to be one, that she could be a dance like she always wanted to, so she just prostitutes pretending that she's off somewhere else dancing. I also think Peter Patrick has done something wrong, I'm not quite sure, but he doesn't want to admit it, like the part where "he sings every Sunday" to like pretend Saturday didn't happen? something like that, and now he's just wandering around trying to pretend he never did what he did. MAYBE he slept with Taylor...?

bluesky February 20th, 2009 10:18PM  
Taylor "was" a good girl, she no longer is. She is doing things that happen late at night. She's not living the life that she knows she should, and she's been warned (wishin that she would have listened to the words they said), but she's trapped and just tries to take herself away- mentally.

Peter and Taylor are connected. He's done something that he knows he shouldn't have. "Sunny" is the ability to live a happy/peaceful/rewarding life. He thinks that religion is the answer because that's what he's been taught to believe but does it just because. He of course sends himself away mentally as well.

The last verse shows that they are having sex, more than likely of the call girl/prostitute/trick variety. Peter doesn't care for Taylor because he is on his way to a better life, but he isn't (his brake lights are on.) That's my take.

anonymous March 24th, 2009 08:39PM  
Poor Taylor is a hooker but she didn't start out that way. First she was just selling tickets at a parking booth. They say she "was" a good girl as in she used to be but not anymore because now she works the streets. She regrets this because she wishes she listened to the words they said but now it's too late and she is stuck. When she is with a man she just lies there and dreams she is somewhere else (Hawaii works). Peter returns home after a night out probably doing dirty things and his wife has locked him out (maybe literally, maybe figuratively) He was probably with Taylor but it isn't really clear. At any rate, he is lost and sometimes he thinks that he is still going to heaven but we know he really isn't. The last verse picks up with Taylor again but now she is older and she is still turning tricks. She used to be a limber chick (former dancer) but now time is ticking (she is older). She is hardened and jaded from turning tricks and just being with a guy for one night who then goes off to his better life and she stays in her rut.

anonymous September 26th, 2009 06:23PM  
Taylor was a good girl. She "wishes she would've listened" but she didn't and is now in trouble.
Peter Patrick did something wrong (maybe with taylor) its not for sure. "Sunny" is the feeling of happiness/joy. Which has locked him out. He thinks going to church will make everything better.
In the last verse, it implies that Taylor and Peter are together, but he's only "stopping by" because he's leaving her to go to a better life.