Chords for Taylor Swift - august (folklore: the long pond studio sessions)

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It's a weird experience to work with you and now Aaron can understand it
No, I'm serious because it's like here's the song.
Oh wait, here's the bridge.
Here's a better bridge
Okay, now the perfect bridge and then here's a thing after bridge this thing's gonna come in _ _ _
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But hearing the patchwork of like that whole thing coming together I was just like I just I just love
What you did on that song?
_ _ And I've been kind of in my head like calling the girl from August either Augusta or Augustine
I've just been like naming her that in my head that changes things for me
She's really nameless to me.
But now it's forever changed
What happened in my head was okay.
So like cardigan is Betty's perspective from
Like 20 to 30 years later looking back on her this love that was this tumultuous thing in my head
I think Betty and James ended up together
Right thing so in my head she ends up with him, but he really put her through it
But like August was obviously about the girl that James had this summer with right?
So she seems like she's a bad girl, but really she's not a bad girl
she's like really a sensitive person who like really fell for him and
she was trying to seem cool and seem like she didn't care because that's what girls have to do and
She was trying to let him think that she didn't care
But she really did and she thought they had something very real and then he goes back to Betty
So the idea that there's some like some bad
villain girl in any type of situation like takes your man is actually a total myth because
_ That's not usually the case at all
Like everybody has feelings and wants to be seen and loved and just like Augustine.
That's all she wanted
That's what I love about August is like it's not a dream
[F]
Even though it sort of sounds like it like it's like like it feels the situation feels very close to me
Like getting swept up like that that whole song started with the fact that I had written down in my phone
Meet me behind the mall years ago wanting to write it into a song
_ so
_ [Bb] And the rust [Dm] on your door I never needed anything
_ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ Whispers are [Gm] you sure?
Never have I ever
Before _ [F] but I can see is lost in the memory [F] August slipped away into [Gm] a moment in time
Cuz it [C] was never mine
_ _ [F] And I can see twisted in bed sheets [Bb] August slipped away like [Gm] a bottle of wine
Is you [C] never mind?
_ [F] _ _
You're back
_ Beneath [Gm] the Sun
Wishing I could ride my name [F] on it.
Will you call?
_ [Bb] You back [Gm] at school.
I
Remember thinking I had [F] you but I can see it's lost in the memory
[Bb] I'll get slipped away to [D] a moment in time
[Gm]
Cuz it was [C] never mine
_ _ [F] And I can see it's twisted in bed sheets August slipped away like a bottle of [Gm] wine
Did you [C] never mind?
_ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] Back when we were still changing for [Bb] better
One thing was [Gm] enough
For me it [G] was [C] enough
_ [Am] To live for the [F] hope of it all
Cancel plans just [Bb] in case you call and say meet me [Gm] behind the mall _
_ [C] _ If you were
[F] _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ [C] _ Is _ [F] I can see it's lost in the memory [F] August slipped away into a [G] moment in time
Cuz it was [C] never mine
_ [F] And I can see twisted in bed sheets [Bb] August slipped away like [Gm] a bottle of wine
You [C] never mind
_ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [Bb] Never mind
_ [G] Never [Gm] mind _
_ [C] _ _ _ [F] Remember when I pulled up and said get in the car and then cancel my plans just in [G] case you call
Back when I was [Gm] living for the hope of it [G] all
For the hope of it all
Meet me [F] behind the mall _
And then I [F] cancelled my plans just in [G] case you call
[Gm] Back when I was living for the hope of it [C] all
Hope of it all
[C] Remember when I pulled [Bb] up and said get in the car
And then cancelled my plans just in case you [G] call
[Gm] Back when I was living for the hope [C] of it all
For the hope of it all
Meet me [F] behind the mall _
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [F] _
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ Meet me [Fm] behind the mall
Meet me behind the mall
_ [N] Meet me behind the mall
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