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.
When we swam our love to pieces
We washed up on messy beaches
You cleaned dry
I would not drift yet
I should drink salt water to forget
Oh why, oh why, oh why?
Won't you sing?
Bring your hips to me
Oh, bring your hips
Oh, oh, bring your hips to me?
To me?
Oh, bring your hips to me
Oh, bring your hips
Oh, oh, bring your hips to me?
To me?
To me?
To me?
To me?
Well once I arrived
But you would not receive me
I wanted it all
You could not tell
Then I paid expensive attention to detail
The fall of your face
The wish of the well
The rush of the push
The length of the spell
And you won't
Oh why, oh why, oh why?
Won't you sing?
Bring your hips to me
Oh, bring your hips
Oh, oh, bring your hips to me?
To me?
Oh, bring your hips to me
Oh, bring your hips
Oh, oh, bring your hips to me?
To me?
To me?
To me?
To me?
You tug so lightly on me
Work like you are on vacation
While I was swept wide
I wept for you across the nation
All my love I don't deny
When they place their hands
On both my sides
When we swam our love to pieces
We washed up on messy beaches
You cleaned dry
I would not drift yet
I should drink salt water to forget
Oh why, oh why, oh why
Won't you sing
We washed up on messy beaches
You cleaned dry
I would not drift yet
I should drink salt water to forget
Oh why, oh why, oh why?
Won't you sing?
Bring your hips to me
Oh, bring your hips
Oh, oh, bring your hips to me?
To me?
Oh, bring your hips to me
Oh, bring your hips
Oh, oh, bring your hips to me?
To me?
To me?
To me?
To me?
Well once I arrived
But you would not receive me
I wanted it all
You could not tell
Then I paid expensive attention to detail
The fall of your face
The wish of the well
The rush of the push
The length of the spell
And you won't
Oh why, oh why, oh why?
Won't you sing?
Bring your hips to me
Oh, bring your hips
Oh, oh, bring your hips to me?
To me?
Oh, bring your hips to me
Oh, bring your hips
Oh, oh, bring your hips to me?
To me?
To me?
To me?
To me?
You tug so lightly on me
Work like you are on vacation
While I was swept wide
I wept for you across the nation
All my love I don't deny
When they place their hands
On both my sides
When we swam our love to pieces
We washed up on messy beaches
You cleaned dry
I would not drift yet
I should drink salt water to forget
Oh why, oh why, oh why
Won't you sing
Lyrics submitted by thepalacewall
When We Swam Lyrics as written by Thao Nguyen
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
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"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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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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most definitely a "run off and see the world" type song. i love the inner child in thao's voice :)