“august” is the eighth track on Taylor Swift’s standard Folklore album.
The track listing places it after “seven” and before “this is me trying.” Its position is significant because Folklore’s songs were designed as a connected collection of moods, images, and fictional narratives rather than as a straightforward autobiography. “august” occupies the album’s central stretch, where the record moves through memories, imagined relationships, and emotional aftermath.
The song is part of Folklore’s fictional teenage love triangle, alongside “cardigan” and “betty.” Those three songs present related events from different perspectives, though “august” is the first of them that Swift wrote.
Listeners sometimes confuse the song’s track number with the album’s release date or with the month in its title. The title refers to the story’s summer setting, not to the song being track eight or to the album’s August release; Folklore arrived in July 2020.