Country-pop superstar Taylor Swift has revealed that she had a dream about an ex-boyfriend a while ago and it ended up being the inspiration behind her '1989' track, 'All You Had To Do Was Stay'. 

During her new interview with TIME magazine, the beauty explained that she dreamed about asking the unnamed former lover to 'stay' and when she woke up it seemed so vivid that she had to write about it:

“I was having this dream, that was actually one of those embarrassing dreams, where you’re mortified in the dream, you’re like humiliated. In the dream, my ex had come to the door to beg for me to talk to him or whatever, and I opened up the door and I went to go say, ‘Hi,’ or ‘What are you doing here?’ or something—something normal—but all that came out was this high-pitched singing that said, ‘Stay!’ It was almost operatic.”

“So I wrote this song, and I used that sound in the song. Weird, right? I woke up from the dream, saying the weird part into my phone, figuring I had to include it in something because it was just too strange not to. In pop, it’s fun to play around with little weird noises like that.”

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Watch Swift and Radio 1's Greg James singing 'Blank Space' here: