The song 'Fortnight' by Taylor Swift and Post Malone tells a story about strong feelings, complicated relationships, and secret wishes. It talks about love, betrayal, and wanting someone who doesn't feel the same. The word 'fortnight' shows short-lived happiness and guilty pleasures, leading to sadness. It shows how messy relationships can be and the results of hiding emotions. “I was supposed to be sent away / But they forgot to come and get me,” she kickstarts the song in the first verse with lines suggesting an admission to a hospital for people with mental illnesses. She goes in the verse admitting her lover is the reason why she is like this. In the chorus, she sings about their time in love and reflects on how he has now settled with someone else. “I took the miracle move-on drug, the effects were temporary / And I love you, it’s ruining my life,” on the second verse she details her struggles to forget about him and the negative effects of her failure. “Thought of callin’ ya, but you won’t pick up / ‘Nother fortnight lost in America,” Post Malone sings in the outro.
Her life was more than mine,
Like a proud shooting star into the night,
She crashed through the airwaves and ripped like a knife.
It was a bad disease; her searching was over, over.
Hold on to the light that guides you,
Hold on to the air that cools you,
Hold on, hold on to me
Her mind steadfast through time,
Her family stood by trying hard not to cry,
With patience and virtue, kept strong through the night, oh.
She never fell to her knees, her searching was over, over.
Hold on to the light that guides you,
Hold on to the air that cools you,
Hold on, hold on to me
Hold on to the light that guides you,
Hold on to the air that cools you,
Hold on, hold on to me
And then my eyes stretched out,
As I saw her hand slip away
Hold on to the light that guides you,
Hold on to the air that cools you,
Hold on, hold on to me
Hold on to the light that guides you,
Hold on to the air that cools you,
Hold on, hold on to me
Like a proud shooting star into the night,
She crashed through the airwaves and ripped like a knife.
It was a bad disease; her searching was over, over.
Hold on to the light that guides you,
Hold on to the air that cools you,
Hold on, hold on to me
Her mind steadfast through time,
Her family stood by trying hard not to cry,
With patience and virtue, kept strong through the night, oh.
She never fell to her knees, her searching was over, over.
Hold on to the light that guides you,
Hold on to the air that cools you,
Hold on, hold on to me
Hold on to the light that guides you,
Hold on to the air that cools you,
Hold on, hold on to me
And then my eyes stretched out,
As I saw her hand slip away
Hold on to the light that guides you,
Hold on to the air that cools you,
Hold on, hold on to me
Hold on to the light that guides you,
Hold on to the air that cools you,
Hold on, hold on to me
Lyrics submitted by ScreamingInfidelity
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this is a great song..........it is soo much diff than all there other stuff if they made more music like this they could b a great band(there stuff rite now is pretty good to)
what do you guys think this song is about? there are a few ideas i have in my head... but i'm not sure.
This song is done perfectly and the lyrics are really heartfelt.
this song is just so amazing. there's no way to describe it, it's something different for tsl to do but it's so well done. they're just such an amazing band.
yeah, like these two people said this song seriosly is just amazing. i listen to it a lot and its just so well put together. mad props for this piece of work.
this was the first song i ever heard by tsl. i loved it so much the first time i heard it! its amazing. and its so sad too.
yah maybe the song lyricsare perfectly done and amazing, but to bad they didnt write the lyrics...
who wrote the lyrics???
This song is about one of their friends dying from a bad diesease, obviously this person was a girl and how she stayed strong and how her family stayed by her ... just read the lyrics and read between the lines. When they sing "Hold on to the light that guides you, hold on to the air that cools you, hold on, hold on to me" that is what the girl is saying ... or atleast this is my opinion ... this song reminds me of something one of my friends wrote when a close friend of ours died ~JRH85/02~
This song is so awesome. You all should listen to Konstantine by Something Corporate if you like it... and oh, by the way, Starting Line wrote the lyrics. Duh...