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.
I only watched her walk but she saw it
I only heard her talk but she saw it
I only touched her hips but she saw it
I only kissed her lips but she saw it
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
She only flicked her eyes but I saw it
She only swung her hair but I saw it
She only shook her hips but I saw it
She only licked her lips but I saw it
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Have to tell her, you tell her tonight, yeah
Have to tell her, you tell her tonight, yeah
Have to tell her, you tell her tonight, yeah
Have to tell her, you tell her tonight, oh yeah
I only watched her walk but she saw it
I only heard her talk but she saw it
I only touched her hips but she saw it
I only kissed her lips but she saw it
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Have to tell her, you tell her tonight, yeah
Have to tell her, you tell her tonight, yeah
Have to tell her, you tell her tonight, oh yeah
I only heard her talk but she saw it
I only touched her hips but she saw it
I only kissed her lips but she saw it
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
She only flicked her eyes but I saw it
She only swung her hair but I saw it
She only shook her hips but I saw it
She only licked her lips but I saw it
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Have to tell her, you tell her tonight, yeah
Have to tell her, you tell her tonight, yeah
Have to tell her, you tell her tonight, yeah
Have to tell her, you tell her tonight, oh yeah
I only watched her walk but she saw it
I only heard her talk but she saw it
I only touched her hips but she saw it
I only kissed her lips but she saw it
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Have to tell her, you tell her tonight, yeah
Have to tell her, you tell her tonight, yeah
Have to tell her, you tell her tonight, oh yeah
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Tell Her Tonight Lyrics as written by Nicholas John Mccarthy Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Fortnight
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
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This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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Ebba Grön
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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does anyone else think this song sounds like "gonna have nutella toniiiiiiight"??
ha thats hilarious.
I can't decide if this song is about two people flirting back and forth, or a couple who are cheating on each other.
I like this song despite itself. Those crazy shouted bridges should really be getting my grits, but for some reason, I don't mind them.
but i love the riff's
lol bbb, the more i listen to the album, the more i agree with you
i like the intro always gets my fingers snapping yeah i agree with cheap and evil, cant decide though im leaning towards two people cheating on each other anf knowing about it, i dont know i need some answers, cos nows its annoying me.
Does anyone else think that this sounds like a Beatles song? Because I really think it does, lol. I still love it though. FF ROCK.
I think this song is about cheating. The girl is doing somewhat subtle things, but he can't stop watching her and he notices every little thing she does.
i agree with you illegal_i, it really sounds a bit like a beatles song. i don't exactly know of which one, but it reminds me of one... :P
I'm thinking along the lines of, when you fancy someone, how you can overanalyse movements into meaning what you want them to mean. "She only swung her hair, but I saw it". Girls playing with hair is known as a flirting signal but, then again, girls also just play with their hair.