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.
So young, so beautiful and unspoilt
The winters were long and the summers were short
In my teenage dawn, every day was a Monday
I don't think he'll ever understand the pain he caused
I don't think he knew his actions were wrong
The lines they were growing across my face
You know I didn't like the mirror
It gave me a feeling of self distaste
So how can I rid these thoughts from my mind?
I was a little girl running with nowhere to hide
But the summer breeze it blew a flower to me
You know he taught me how to smile
But now my flower's gone
I've gotta listen to my own secret song
And just be grateful for our time
I've got to let you go, let you go, let you go
I've got to let you go, let you go, let you go
I've got to let you go, let you go, let you go
In this mind full of pain space is running short
I'm running out of space to hide
From my memories and thoughts
So how can I rid these thoughts from my mind?
I was a little girl running with nowhere to hide
But the summer breeze it blew a flower to me
You know he taught me how to smile
But now my flower's gone
I've gotta listen to my own secret song
And just be grateful for our time
I've got to let you go, let you go, let you go
I've got to let you go, let you go, let you go
I've got to let you go, let you go, let you go
I think the flower was worth the pain
I think the flower was worth the pain
I think the flower was worth the pain yeah
I'd gladly bear it again
I think the flower was worth the pain
But I wish my flower remained
Yes, I wish my flower remained
The winters were long and the summers were short
In my teenage dawn, every day was a Monday
I don't think he'll ever understand the pain he caused
I don't think he knew his actions were wrong
The lines they were growing across my face
You know I didn't like the mirror
It gave me a feeling of self distaste
So how can I rid these thoughts from my mind?
I was a little girl running with nowhere to hide
But the summer breeze it blew a flower to me
You know he taught me how to smile
But now my flower's gone
I've gotta listen to my own secret song
And just be grateful for our time
I've got to let you go, let you go, let you go
I've got to let you go, let you go, let you go
I've got to let you go, let you go, let you go
In this mind full of pain space is running short
I'm running out of space to hide
From my memories and thoughts
So how can I rid these thoughts from my mind?
I was a little girl running with nowhere to hide
But the summer breeze it blew a flower to me
You know he taught me how to smile
But now my flower's gone
I've gotta listen to my own secret song
And just be grateful for our time
I've got to let you go, let you go, let you go
I've got to let you go, let you go, let you go
I've got to let you go, let you go, let you go
I think the flower was worth the pain
I think the flower was worth the pain
I think the flower was worth the pain yeah
I'd gladly bear it again
I think the flower was worth the pain
But I wish my flower remained
Yes, I wish my flower remained
Lyrics submitted by bananahero
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
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Fast Car
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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.
The Night We Met
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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"
When We Were Young
Blink-182
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This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
Amazing
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.