Do you remember where you were and what you were doing when Taylor Swift's Red album came out in 2012? It would have been about this time of the year. Well, we're revisiting 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 haunting, sad chorus and it just kind of was very simple, like, what a sad, beautiful, tragic love affair. And it was just reflecting on something that was lost. You can't get it back. And I went home and I called up Nathan Chapman and said, hey, 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 kind of came across so pure and raw. 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.