Snow On The Beach

Album

Midnights

Label

Republic Records

Genre

Dream pop

Composer(s)

Taylor Swift;Lana Del Rey;Jack Antonoff

Entered Chart

Nov 5, 2022

Peak Date

Nov 5, 2022

Released

October 21, 2022

Recorded

Studio Rough Customer, New York City Electric Lady, New York City Henson, Hollywood

B-Side

N/A

Here, Taylor Swift teams up with Lana Del Rey to sing about two people falling in love. They compare the burgeoning romance to snow on the beach: a dreamlike and beautiful pairing. "'Snow On The Beach' is about falling in love with someone at the same time as they're falling in love with you," Swift explained in a video on social media. "Sort of in this cataclysmic, fated moment where you realize someone feels exactly the same way that you feel at the same moment." "And you're kind of looking around going, 'Wait, is this real? Is this a dream? Is this really happening?'" she continued. "Kind of like it would be if you were to see snow falling on a beach." Swift and Del Rey nod to Janet Jackson's 2001 song "All For You." I don't even dare to wish it But your eyes are flying saucers from another planet Now I'm all for you like Janet Jackson shared a video of herself listening to "Snow On The Beach." She smiles when Swift and Del Rey sing "Now I'm all for you like Janet." Swift replied saying she feels like she's "dreaming." Swift and Del Rey wrote "Snow On The Beach" with Jack Antonoff. A longtime Swift collaborator, Antonoff also co-produced Lana Del Rey's Norman F---ing Rockwell! and Chemtrails Over The Country Club albums. Antonoff's production doubles down on the song's magical romantic imagery by adding Christmassy sleigh bells and pizzicato violin. Dylan O'Brien plays drums on the song. The Maze Runner actor became close friends with Swift and Antonoff after the pop star cast him alongside Sadie Sink in her All Too Well short film in 2021. One day, O'Brien was drinking wine and listening to music with Swift and Antonoff at Antonoff's home studio. "He was just trying out the drum kit there," Swift recalled on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "He wasn't serious, but as I said, we were drinking wine and so, we were just sort of like, 'Oh, we haven't recorded the drums for this one yet, see if you wanna.' And he just played the drums on the song. Sometimes it just happens like that."

One night a few moons ago
I saw flecks of what could've been lights
But it might have just been you
Passing by unbeknownst to me
Life is emotionally abusive
And time can't stop me quite like you did
And my flight was awful, thanks for asking
I'm unglued, thanks to you

And it's like snow at the beach
Weird but it was beautiful
Flying in a dream, stars by the pocketful
You wanting me tonight feels impossible
But it's coming down, no sound, it's all around
Like snow on the beach
Like snow on the beach
Like snow on the beach
Like snow, oh, oh oh

This scene feels like what I once saw on a screen
I searched aurora borealis green
I've never seen someone live from within
Blurring out my periphery
My smile is like I won a contest
And to hide that would be so dishonest
And it's fine to fake it 'til you make it
'Til you do, 'til it's true

Now it's like snow at the beach
Weird but it was beautiful
Flying in a dream, stars by the pocketful
You wanting me tonight feels impossible
But it's coming down, no sound, it's all around
Like snow on the beach
Like snow on the beach
Like snow on the beach
Like snow, oh, oh oh

I can't speak afraid to jinx it
I don't even dare to wish it
But your eyes are flying saucers from another planet
Now I'm All For You like Janet
Can this be a real thing? Can it?

Are we falling like snow at the beach?
Weird but it was beautiful
Flying in a dream, stars by the pocketful
You wanting me tonight feels impossible
But it's coming down, no sound, it's all around
Like snow on the beach (snow on the beach)
Like snow on the beach (are we in a dream?)
Like snow on the beach (you want me)
Like snow (like snow)
It's coming down, no sound, it's all round

Like snow on the beach (it's coming down, it's coming down)
(It's coming down, it's coming down)
Like snow on the beach
(It's coming down, it's coming down, it's coming down, it's coming down)
(It's coming down, it's coming down, it's coming down, it's coming down)
(Coming down, it's coming down, it's coming down, it's coming down)