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.
We know full well there's just time
So is it wrong to dance this line?
If your heart was full of love
Could you give it up?
'Cause what about, what about angels?
They will come, they will go, make us special, oh
Don't give me up
Don't give me up
How unfair, it's just our luck
Found something real that's out of touch
But if you'd searched the whole wide world
Would you dare to let it go?
'Cause what about, what about angels?
They will come, they will go, make us special, oh
Don't give me up
Don't give me up
'Cause what about, what about angels?
They will come, they will go, make us special
It's not about, not about angels, angels
So is it wrong to dance this line?
If your heart was full of love
Could you give it up?
'Cause what about, what about angels?
They will come, they will go, make us special, oh
Don't give me up
Don't give me up
How unfair, it's just our luck
Found something real that's out of touch
But if you'd searched the whole wide world
Would you dare to let it go?
'Cause what about, what about angels?
They will come, they will go, make us special, oh
Don't give me up
Don't give me up
'Cause what about, what about angels?
They will come, they will go, make us special
It's not about, not about angels, angels
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Not About Angels Lyrics as written by Jasmine Lucilla Elisabeth Van Den Bogaerde
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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@RunningWolf Unconditional love is not a choice. You can't choose to love in this manner.. as if you can at any moment decide to 'adopt' unconditional love for another. Or suddenly come to an intellectual understanding of it's meaning and then feel it by virtue of this alone.
On the flip side, you can't choose not to as well. Once one falls - and it is definitely a fall - into this type of love it is there forever. Your words have extended this belief for me into a line of inquiry I had not thought much about. Perhaps it does not dissipate once our bodies are gone. That's a nice thought. Thank you for that.
Unconditional love will be felt forever. Even if separation is forced, an alienated parent, or an abduction of one's child by an individual or by government decree. Or perhaps separation is forced when one's unconditional love for another is prohibiting the ONLY thing they would ever, EVER choose over their love for another person. Their love for themselves.
As you said, unconditional love is ever present. It is there always there, even when the person is not. If it is felt it is still part of our universe. If you can love from beyond the grave, you can love from a distance. An alienated mother will always love her son. An alienated father will always love his daughter. A lover will always love his soulmate, even when the reality of life has forced them apart..perhaps money..perhaps family or perhaps ideological differences..
Unconditional love does not have conditions. If you place the condition that someone must be present, else you cannot believe that they still love you. Well, you need to read the first of the these two words once more. Unconditional love.
Unconditional love does not have conditions. There is no condition that it must be received by the recipient. There is no condition that it must be proven, accepted or acknowledged. There are no conditions at all.
It's just there. It knows what it is. It knows it is immovable, invulnerable. It just... is.
Angels will come and they will go. It is plural, if one is gone.. another is on its way.
Keep running my beautiful wolf x