Taylor Swift Just Gave a Very Rare Live Performance of a Song She Wrote When She Was 13

Anyone who is tired of Taylor Swift news should probably avoid the internet as much as possible until at least mid-August because, in addition to being a history-making, record-breaking, 3-hour spectacle, the Eras Tour is basically a headline factory. And that goes double (at least) for the show's built-in nightly wildcard factor: The Eras Tour surprise songs acoustic set.

If you don't already know, Taylor has a long history of building in time for a mini-acoustic set in her concerts. In the past, she's sometimes used this as a time to do covers of songs she loves. During the Eras Tour, she's dedicated this two-song mini-set to working her way through songs from her catalogue that didn't make the permanent setlist. She's also said that, with the exception of songs from Midnights, which might get played more than once on the tour, her goal is to avoid repeats—meaning that fans are rabidly tracking the surprise songs from each show and crossing off the ones they shouldn't expect to hear at later dates they might have tickets to.

During the Eras Tour, the surprise song acoustic set has been a place for deep cuts and, notably, the only chance audiences have to hear songs from Taylor's debut album, since none of those songs are part of the show's permanent set. On Saturday night during the second of her three consecutive Eras Tour shows in Houston, Taylor performed one such rare debut album deep cut, "A Place in This World," a song she wrote when she was just 13 years old.

In her intro for the song, she revealed that, even though she wrote "A Place in This World" when she was literally in middle school, the song actually resonates even more with her more now, as a 33-year-old woman, than it did back then.

"So this is a song that I wrote when I was like 13 years old and I was on my first album," she explained. "And I'm sure I related to it when I wrote it, but I think I relate to it more now 20 years later. And I very rarely ever play it live, so I decided to play 'A Place In This World.'"

On Twitter, many fans were immediately hit by an urge to hug Taylor for being so baby and relatable:

Some also zeroed in on the song's lyrics about being all alone and on your own (which Taylor recently is again, romantically speaking):

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But, as some pointed out, while 13-year-old Taylor was just a girl *trying* to find her place in this world, 33-year-old Taylor is a woman who, in many ways, very much has.

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