Which song immediately follows Taylor Swift’s “august” on the Folklore tracklist?

Taylor Swift’s “this is me trying” immediately follows “august” on the standard Folklore tracklist.

“august” is track eight on Folklore, and “this is me trying” is track nine. The neighboring placement is easy to miss because the songs have different moods: “august” is a hazy, nostalgic account of a fleeting summer relationship, while “this is me trying” is a more inward-looking song about regret, struggle, and attempting to keep going.

The tracklist order is also separate from the album’s thematic interpretations. Listeners frequently group “august” with “cardigan” and “betty” because of the imagined teenage love triangle, but “this is me trying” is the next numbered track and is not one of that commonly discussed trio.

The title uses Swift’s lowercase styling, as do the titles of many Folklore songs. It is not the same song as “the 1,” “seven,” or “betty,” all of which appear elsewhere on the album. Asking for the immediately following track produces one specific answer because the standard edition has a fixed sequence.