Siobhan

August | Taylor Swift

Augustine's story

Taylor Swift is such a clever and brilliant woman that she made us sympathize with every character in the love triangle story— Betty, the realist persona, her enigmatic lover, James, and the fanciful romantic, Augustine.

In this song 'August', we see Augustine reminiscing her clandestine affair with James. As far as I think, this particular story is set in a coastal city/town as implied by the line "Salt air, and the rust on your door". The salty air in beach towns causes metal to rust rapidly. This is a typical setting for the song as it is about a summer fling. It could've taken place during the summer break when James had probably gone on vacation.

So much for summer love and saying 'us'

'Cause you weren't mine to lose

You weren't mine to lose

In the above lines, Augustine is thinking about her illicit 'summer love' with James. She says that he was never hers, so she never lost him. Even if she had loved him, which again has been very clearly implied throughout the song that she was infatuated with James and "Never needed anything more", but the her feelings don't seem to have been reciprocated by James. For him, it was just a 'summer thing' and there was only Betty in his heart the whole time.

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The drought was the very worst, When the flowers that we’d grown together died of thirst. It was months, and months of back and forth, You’re still all over me like a wine-stained dress I can’t wear anymore. 

“I think… I think when it’s all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It’s like a kaleidoscope of memories, it just all comes back. But he never does. I think part of me knew the second I saw him that this would happen. It’s not really anything he said or anything he did, it was the feeling that came along with it. And the crazy thing is I don’t know if I’m ever gonna feel that way again, but I don’t know if I should. I knew his world moved too fast and burned too bright, but I just thought, how can the devil be pulling you toward someone who looks so much like an angel when he smiles at you? Maybe he knew that when he saw me. I guess I just lost my balance. I think that the worst part of it all wasn’t losing him, it was losing me.”

This album is a love letter to love itself- all the captivating, spellbinding, maddening devastating red, blue, gray, golden aspects of it (that's why there are so many songs)

In honor of fever dreams, bad boys, confessions of love on a drunken night out, Christmas lights still hanging in January, guitar string scars on my hands, false gods and blind faith, memories of dumping into an icy outdoor pool, creaks in floorboards and ultraviolet morning light, finally finding a friend, and opening the curtains to see the clearest, brightest daylight after the darkest night.

We are what we love.

These are my personal/in my opinion top 10 saddest songs by Lana Del Rey. It was difficult to put them in an order but it’s a vague attempt at rating them; some may overlap. Also, Lana has written so many emotional or sad songs so it was hard to choose but these are the ones that make me feel the most emotional!

10. Last Girl On Earth

Last Girl On Earth is one of my favourite songs by Lana Del Rey, a song about how “millions can hold” her but she’s feeling lonely: she can have anything she wants but she is the last girl. The way the song conveys the theme of loneliness, at least to me and my perception of it, is how the song sounds quite unique to Lana and I can’t think of any other song she has done like it (I’m sure there are examples but to me there isn’t), which makes it stick out to being a league of it’s own - a lonely song. The girl who has everything but having no one is a sad theme in itself. To be honest, this realistically isn’t one of her saddest ever songs, especially when some of the tracks in the honourable mentions* have themes of loss and betrayal that come across as more emotive and hard-hitting than a song that mostly lists all the pretty things Lana has, but to me it stirs emotion and I feel like the way she sings - a plain voice which never really changes and the careless way she speaks of lovely things as it all means nothing to her - make it a special yet low-spirited song.

9. TV In Black And White

This unreleased tune is a song dedicated to a man in prison, who Lana still loves and misses. There’s several reasons why this song makes me cry pretty much every time I hear it: Lana’s unfaltering dedication to her love, the way she bravely reminds him of the good times and how much he means to her is the first. Secondly, he loves her just as much, and “[holds] his pillow tight” at night time, clearly hating where he is and wanting to be with Lana. This relationship, torn apart, makes for a devastating love story. Thirdly, Lana clearly misses him a lot. The way she describes him as someone who made her see the world as something bright and beautiful, but now has no colour without him, tugs on my heartstrings too. There’s something about people who truly love each other yet cannot be together which is really upsetting, knowing that they are just within reach but a barrier remains between them. Finally, the way Lana sings. She puts such charming, sweet emotion into her voice and sounds genuinely hurt by the loss. The higher register she sings in gives the impression she is trying to be brave and positive, yet she cannot keep her voice steady and instead it goes higher - like when someone upset tries not to cry. The end of the second verse and the bridge - the way she sings even higher and stronger, with emotive conviction - underlines the sentiment. Again, comparatively not one of her saddest songs, yet to me, TV In Black And White is one that brings the tears each time, especially when her voice is so flawlessly sensitive.