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