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.
Live your life and just be yourself cause you're somebody special cause somebody loves ya
Your life so just be yourself cause you're somebody special cause somebody loves ya
Someone loves your life, life, hey hey I can see you shining shining I can see you shining With light light hey hey I can see you shining shining I can see you shining bright
In America today, people seem they lost their way
They don't know they're wrong from right
Something something just ain't right
Cause On TV in Magazines all I see is violent things
Killers here and killers there killers seems to be everywhere
Where did all the healers go, I don't know I don't know
Maybe all the killers killed them yo Carlos lets save the children
Lets build their minds up & build their spines up
Teach em how to stand proud teach say it just say it loud
I am somebody, I am somebody, I am somebody, somebody I am somebody
I am somebody, I am somebody, and you can
Be who you want to be, go where you want to go love who you want to love - hey
It's your life so just be yourself cause you're somebody special cause somebody loves ya
Your life so just be yourself 'cause you're somebody special cause
Someone loves your life, life, hey hey I can see you shining shining I can see you shining with light light hey hey I can see you shining shining I can see you shining bright Hey Hey
In America today, people call up in pain
Lets try to help them change & stop this suffering
Teach em how to stand for something don't let them stand for nothing
Teach em how to stand proud teach say it just say it loud
I am somebody, somebody I am somebody, I am somebody, I am somebody, & I can
Be who I want to be, go where I want to go love who I want to love - hey & you can
Be who you want to be, go where you want to go love who you want to love - hey
I am somebody, I am somebody, I am somebody, somebody I am somebody
I am somebody, I am somebody, and you can Be who you want to be, go where you want to go love who you want to love - hey
Cause someone loves my life, life
Hey hey I can see you shining shining I can see you shining with
Light light hey hey I can see you shining shining I can see you shining bright
Your life so just be yourself cause you're somebody special cause somebody loves ya
Someone loves your life, life, hey hey I can see you shining shining I can see you shining With light light hey hey I can see you shining shining I can see you shining bright
In America today, people seem they lost their way
They don't know they're wrong from right
Something something just ain't right
Cause On TV in Magazines all I see is violent things
Killers here and killers there killers seems to be everywhere
Where did all the healers go, I don't know I don't know
Maybe all the killers killed them yo Carlos lets save the children
Lets build their minds up & build their spines up
Teach em how to stand proud teach say it just say it loud
I am somebody, I am somebody, I am somebody, somebody I am somebody
I am somebody, I am somebody, and you can
Be who you want to be, go where you want to go love who you want to love - hey
It's your life so just be yourself cause you're somebody special cause somebody loves ya
Your life so just be yourself 'cause you're somebody special cause
Someone loves your life, life, hey hey I can see you shining shining I can see you shining with light light hey hey I can see you shining shining I can see you shining bright Hey Hey
In America today, people call up in pain
Lets try to help them change & stop this suffering
Teach em how to stand for something don't let them stand for nothing
Teach em how to stand proud teach say it just say it loud
I am somebody, somebody I am somebody, I am somebody, I am somebody, & I can
Be who I want to be, go where I want to go love who I want to love - hey & you can
Be who you want to be, go where you want to go love who you want to love - hey
I am somebody, I am somebody, I am somebody, somebody I am somebody
I am somebody, I am somebody, and you can Be who you want to be, go where you want to go love who you want to love - hey
Cause someone loves my life, life
Hey hey I can see you shining shining I can see you shining with
Light light hey hey I can see you shining shining I can see you shining bright
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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"
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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Five words: Great rythem and awesome lyrics