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.
not yet 21
with introductions done
a first slow dance just ends
I was at my best
we ignored the rest
(my band and your friends)
but as better night became best day
we left the party while last records played
what started as dessert back at your house
ended on the couch
hours at your mouth
sunday's on our hands
we followed were it led
I followed you to bed
we started secret plans
forward 7 months: I've only seen you once
I never call on time
trying to seem tough
I said one visit's enough
enough to keep you mine
(of course it wasn't)
we were done by June
you'd graduate and leave for london soon
your layover at newark's near my house
we met for dinner there
just one hour to spare
your 20's all mapped out
I'm in my driest drought
feeling old and shot and how
and this is what I thought:
I seem to still be caught
I'm a footnote at best
I envy who comes next
wish we could just make out
'The hour's almost up'
you said into your cup
and it makes no difference now
as I help lift your bags out
that I'm lost and out of rope
while on my wrist you wrote
your newest number down
I kind of said your name
but you'd turn to your plane
so I backed my car out
I knew we'd never write
(somehow that seemed all right)
but this counts as calling three years out
[End lyrics]
Making out's enough /
we need faster guns /
maybe i give up /
maybe money isn't coming /
it'd be nice to just have fun /
maybe married counts as running /
let's run together /
I'm going back in time
with introductions done
a first slow dance just ends
I was at my best
we ignored the rest
(my band and your friends)
but as better night became best day
we left the party while last records played
what started as dessert back at your house
ended on the couch
hours at your mouth
sunday's on our hands
we followed were it led
I followed you to bed
we started secret plans
forward 7 months: I've only seen you once
I never call on time
trying to seem tough
I said one visit's enough
enough to keep you mine
(of course it wasn't)
we were done by June
you'd graduate and leave for london soon
your layover at newark's near my house
we met for dinner there
just one hour to spare
your 20's all mapped out
I'm in my driest drought
feeling old and shot and how
and this is what I thought:
I seem to still be caught
I'm a footnote at best
I envy who comes next
wish we could just make out
'The hour's almost up'
you said into your cup
and it makes no difference now
as I help lift your bags out
that I'm lost and out of rope
while on my wrist you wrote
your newest number down
I kind of said your name
but you'd turn to your plane
so I backed my car out
I knew we'd never write
(somehow that seemed all right)
but this counts as calling three years out
[End lyrics]
Making out's enough /
we need faster guns /
maybe i give up /
maybe money isn't coming /
it'd be nice to just have fun /
maybe married counts as running /
let's run together /
I'm going back in time
Lyrics submitted by Nimbus the Kitten, edited by zapzipzop
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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"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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I adore this song. You just feel like you're there with him watching someone he loves slip away, but not having the courage to do anything about it.
Feeling eminates from this song. One of the best second-to-last tracks in the history of music.
"we started secret plans... forward 7 months: I've only seen you once."
That transition, from nostalgic recollection to frank description, hits me in the gut every time. If there is a thesis statement for the album, this is it.
the end:
"making out's enough / we need faster guns / maybe i give up / maybe money isn't coming / it'd be nice to just have fun / maybe married counts as running / let's run together / i'm going back in time"
simply... moving.
I've been trying to hear the lyrics at the end of the song for some time now, this is all I can get -
"Making out's enough / (something) faster guns / Maybe I could find / Spend the night (something) / It'd be nice to just have (after this I can't hear)
Absolutely love this song. Any live versions with more clear lyrics available?
Assuming nicelynice's 1st three lines are right. According to a Wrens forum, the singer gave the last few lines as:<br /> <br /> Making out's enough / We need faster guns / Maybe I could find<br /> Maybe money isn't coming / maybe last ditches are done<br /> maybe married counts as running / then ready? Let's run together<br /> I'm going _ <br /> <br /> He wasn't sure about the end, could be 'back in time'.
awesome, more than four(!) years later. Those sound right, thanks so much
this song is just amazing. the whole cd is definately full of some downer type songs and this one takes them all. its just really sad thinking of love fading or not working, and watching it go. the wrens have done an incredible job of capturing the emotion of the worst part of a breakup.
there are lyrics at the very end of the song that are not listed here
does any one have them or know whats being said?
They're not in the liner notes to the CD, as well as a few other songs' lyrics, too.
sunday's on our hands... what could have been a moment trespasses into the next day's obligations. it's hard to resist when the moment is such a savory one, but the making out will never sustain.