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.
A sea of waves we hug the same plank
(Saw your end)
Just as I'd rehearsed over in my brain
(Saw your end)
The waves suck you in and you drown
If like, you should sink down beneath
I'll swim down, would you?
You?
You hang the anchors over my neck
(Saw your end)
I liked it at first but the more you laughed
The crazier I came
The waves suck you in then you drown
If like, you'd just stay down with me
I'll swim down with you
Is that what you want?
You
Is that what you want?
Wave
Wave
Inside
If like, you should stay down beneath
I'll swim down
Would you?
Is that what you want?
Would you?
Is that what you want?
With you?
You
Escape
Below
Escape
Below
(Saw your end)
Just as I'd rehearsed over in my brain
(Saw your end)
The waves suck you in and you drown
If like, you should sink down beneath
I'll swim down, would you?
You?
You hang the anchors over my neck
(Saw your end)
I liked it at first but the more you laughed
The crazier I came
The waves suck you in then you drown
If like, you'd just stay down with me
I'll swim down with you
Is that what you want?
You
Is that what you want?
Wave
Wave
Inside
If like, you should stay down beneath
I'll swim down
Would you?
Is that what you want?
Would you?
Is that what you want?
With you?
You
Escape
Below
Escape
Below
Lyrics submitted by poolhallXjunkie, edited by orestes16, blacknred
Cherry Waves Lyrics as written by Chi Cheng Abran Cunningham
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
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No Surprises
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Magical
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
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Page
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
My most favorite song off this album. I think that this song is describing a relationship where this person loves someone who loves someone else and feels that they both share that displeasure of not being loved back "In a sea of waves, we hug the same plank." the plank could be referring to a person that doesn't show affection or emotion. Anyway, this person is telling the one he/she loves that if they ever find themselves in a low, that they'll be there for them and do whatever it takes to make them happy "If like you should sink down beneath, i'll swim down". But at the same time, the person is tired and frustrated because the person she/he loves is keeping them around only to constantly tease them, "you hanged the anchors over my neck, i liked it at first, but the more you laughed the crazier i came." and he/she's questioning what the loved one really wants "is that what you want?"...a lot like being in the "friend zone", to put it easier & i currently find myself in that position. And let me just tell you, doing that shit to anybody is fucking horrible.
God, I hope I am not doing that to someone I care a lot about. Sometimes circumstances don't allow you to love someone the way they deserve to be loved.
Great song. Wonderful lyrics. I know the friend zone drill, although I don't even rate an in-your-face friend. Yup, I'm lower down the ladder than that so s/he should consider herself fortunate! <br /> <br /> "I think that this song is describing a relationship where this person loves someone who loves someone else." Hmmmmm. It's a real sucky feelin', trust me.
This song is deeper than you think. This is an Allegory about self-destructive behaviour, probably Drug Abuse and dragging down the one who loves you. "You hang anchors over my neck" , Implying that she will pull him down with her. Would she do that intentionally? He loves her so much that he would go down with her and try to save her. I can relate to this song. This happenned to me and she is dead. This song speaks to me.
@killareal Sorry to hear about your experience, although I was hoping to find someone who shared my interpretation of this song. Its interesting how a person's take on a song can change completely depending on what they had lived through.
@killareal @killareal exactly what I got from it. Same situation. 7 years of my life and tens of thousands of dollars (a lot on drugs for her because I didnt want her going out on the streets to find stuff) later. Then she dies on me. Not from an overdose though. But I think her condition was exacerbated my years of serious drug abuse. And now I have a problem. Broken back too though but. This song and Xerxes really speak to me and the way I fealt. Even though she was damaged I still loved her more than anything in this world.
@killareal absolutely nailed it. \r\nI\'m sorry for your loss (all of them). \r\n
@killareal absolutely nailed it. \r\nI\'m sorry for your loss (all of them). \r\n
CHERRY WAVES
"This is a story about being in the middle of the ocean with someone saying, 'If you were to sink underneath the waves, then I'd swim after you. Would you do the same for me?. It's seeing how far the trust goes." - Chino
I've been listening to this song non stop for two days. I obviously can't say for certain but I'm pretty sure it's about heroin addiction. If you look at a syringe when the blood goes inside it clearly looks like red "Cherry waves." Once you grasp the concept of the song, the lyrics all make sense. He's basically saying if this woman he loves wants to succumb to addiction he'll "go down" ie..give in to his own addiction as well so they can be together. Very romantic and very powerful.
@djfist This is legit. Its not as simple as a love story no matter how "safe" and "clean" and "lovey" you think these lyrics are. This is a mutual battle with heroin addiction. There is a deeper darker meaning to this song. It is very allegorical. Sex, DRUGS, and rock n roll.
cherry waves. cherry is a sweet soft fruit, the color is so strong and at the same time, is so fragile looking
i think it's about how deep in love a person could fall for someone else. if i fall for you - and i am, deeply - would you feel the same? would you swim to take me?
Cherry Waves of blood from a slit wrist.
Wouldn't Cherry Waves better refer 'that time of the month'?
here\'s my personal, humble, and insignificant opinion, which is pretty similar to the ones already written.\n\nI think the song is about someone1 who likes/loves someone2 else, and has some serious attachment to this person. someone1 is probably in, what i think, a one-sided relationship and is questioning the trust, love, and attachment the other person has for them ("would you?")\n\nThe verses: \n\nJust as I\'d rehearsed over in my brain\nThe waves suck you in and you drown\nIf like, you should sink down beneath\nI\'ll swim down, would you?\nYou?\n\nTell me that the someone1 is pretty obsessed with this idea of getting validity and certainty of whether the other person loves them back because he says that he "rehearsed over and over" in his head asking his person, "if, like, you sink, then i would sink with you. Would you do the same for me? Do you love me as much as I love you? Would you drown (die) for me, just as I would drown (die) for you?" \n\nThis song is really beautiful and perfectly demonstrates the darker aspects of codependency, trust, validation, and obsession. \n\nThe "waves", and drowning in the "waves" can be interpreted as many different struggles. Some people could probably relate see it as drug addiction.\n\nAs horrible as this situation and relationship sounds to be in, this song still makes me feel so lonely lol. \m/ \m/
great song can't wait to get the new album...
I love this song!!
at 2:37 im fairly sure he says "i'd throw..) it? maybe, but i don't see that word mention in the above lyrics. Anyone want to start analyzing with me?