What Is The Song In The First Trailer For HBO's The Last Of Us?
By Isabella Wilson
The song is "Alone and Forsaken" by country artist Hank Williams, and the title alone could explain why it's perfect for this series. The world of "The Last of Us" is defined by a sense of impending loneliness, with characters afraid that their loved ones could be taken from them at any moment or scarred because they're already gone.
The trailer doesn't start at the song's first lyric, instead picking up at the appropriately moody "The roses have faded, there's frost at my door / The birds in the morning don't sing anymore." This smartly bypasses the overtly romantic opening of the song to a foreboding sense of negative change. It also features a synthetic repeat of a portion of the chorus, the phrase "hold my hand" echoing as the action of the teaser intensifies. This thematically underscores and reinforces one of the series' major ideas of holding on to what one has left — a point ominously summed up in the trailer's final line, "Save who you can save." Fans still have a while left before the 2023 series airs, but this trailer makes it seem like it will be worth the wait.
