Sad Beautiful Tragic (Commentary)

Do you remember were you were and what you were doing
When Taylor Swift Red album came out in 2012?

Would've been about of this time of the year
When we were visiting all of the songs
And Taylor remembers very vividly
Where she was when she wrote this next song
Sad beautiful tragic

Sad beautiful tragic, is a song that I wrote
While I was on tour
And I was on a tour bus that was moving and
I just started playing this really hunting sad chorus
And it just was kind of very simple like
What a sad beautiful tragic love affair
And it just was reflecting on something
That was lost
You can't get back

And I went home and I called Nathan Chapman and said
Heyy
I wrote a song
Please, please, please, can we record today?
And of course he said, yes
And we used that original demo on the album
Because it just came kind supeior and rough

And I had no idea that the version of this song you're about to hear
Was the demo
This is sad beautiful tragic
On big machine radio