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.
Show me a writer
With a sad, sad song
Who lived his pain
Just stayed to long
Show me a fighter
Fighting for his king
His heart and blood
Left in the ring
Give me a needle
I can pass on through
I'll take that chance, girl
How about you?
Show me the lover
Who when all seems lost
Makes love to his grief
Careless of the cost
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
Show me a father
With a broken son
His face like stone
Cold as a gun
There was a soldier
Atop my crumbling walls
But wind and rain just
Drowned his calls
I know it's hard
Not so hard to tell
That my head don't
Match my water well
Like walking listless
Down a darkened street
I hear the drum
I just can't keep the beat
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
Been a while since
I was on trial
For the course
My life has run
I haven't heard any words
That that forgive the things I've done
So set a course for the north
I'll be waiting for word to come
Just come away
Come away
Come away
Come away
Way
Come away, my son
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
With a sad, sad song
Who lived his pain
Just stayed to long
Show me a fighter
Fighting for his king
His heart and blood
Left in the ring
Give me a needle
I can pass on through
I'll take that chance, girl
How about you?
Show me the lover
Who when all seems lost
Makes love to his grief
Careless of the cost
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
Show me a father
With a broken son
His face like stone
Cold as a gun
There was a soldier
Atop my crumbling walls
But wind and rain just
Drowned his calls
I know it's hard
Not so hard to tell
That my head don't
Match my water well
Like walking listless
Down a darkened street
I hear the drum
I just can't keep the beat
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
Been a while since
I was on trial
For the course
My life has run
I haven't heard any words
That that forgive the things I've done
So set a course for the north
I'll be waiting for word to come
Just come away
Come away
Come away
Come away
Way
Come away, my son
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
Lyrics submitted by chaoticone
Turn the Lights On Lyrics as written by Chris Ryan Greenough Mandeep Ruby Bumrah
Lyrics © Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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wow, those lyrics couldn't be more wrong
show me the writer of a sad sad song who lived his pain, just stayed too long and show me a fighter fighting for his king his heart and blood left in the ring
give me a needle I can pass on through I'll take that chance girl how bout you show me a lover who when all seems lost makes love to his grief careless of the cost
Turn the lights on turn the lights on turn the lights on turn the lights on
show me a father with a broken son his face like stone cold as a gun there was a soldier atop my crumbling walls for wind and rain just drowned his cause I know it's hard it's so hard to tell my head don't match my water well like walking listless down darkened streets I hear the drum I just can't keep the beat
Turn the lights on turn the lights on turn the lights on turn the lights on
It's been awhile since I've been on trial for the course my life has run I haven't heard any words that forgive the things I've done Yeah So set a course for the north I'll be waiting for words that come just come away come away come away come away way come away my son
Turn the lights on turn the lights on turn the lights on turn the lights on
there you have it. this song is my life's theme song. it just talks about a few of life's struggles, saying turn the lights on... like "wake up"
oh yeah and... "first comment" yaaaaaaaay
Thanks so much freakinpro.
I was wondering if anyone knew what the line "my head don't match my water well" line meant.
No prob! I love their lyrical style so I kinda study them quite a bit. I could be wrong but I see the "my head don't match my water well" line as meaning something to the effect of them not recognizing themself in their own reflection. The person they are or have become is not who they see in the mirror/reflection of the water. Correct me if I'm wrong, that's just what I got out of it.