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.
She was born in November, 1963
The day Aldous Huxley died
And her mama believed
That every man could be free
So her mama got high, high, high
And her daddy marched on Birmingham
Singing mighty protest songs
And he pictured all the places
Where he knew that she'd belong
But he failed and taught her young
The only thing she'd need to carry on
He taught her how to
Run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
So run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
Past the arms of the familiar
And their talk of better days
To the comfort of the strangers
Slipping out before they say
So long, baby loves to run
She counts out all her money
In the taxi on the way to meet her plane
And stares hopeful out the window
At the workers fighting through the pouring rain
And she's searching through the stations
For an unfamiliar song
And she's thinkin' 'bout the places
Where she knows she still belongs
She smiles the secret smile
That shows she knows exactly how to carry on
So run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
So run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
From their old familiar faces
And their old familiar ways
To the comfort of the strangers
Slipping out before they say
So long
Baby, loves to run
And she's searching through the stations
For an unfamiliar song
And she pictures all the places
Where she knows she still belongs
And she smiles the secret smile
Because she knows exactly how to carry on
So run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
So run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
So run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
So run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
So run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
The day Aldous Huxley died
And her mama believed
That every man could be free
So her mama got high, high, high
And her daddy marched on Birmingham
Singing mighty protest songs
And he pictured all the places
Where he knew that she'd belong
But he failed and taught her young
The only thing she'd need to carry on
He taught her how to
Run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
So run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
Past the arms of the familiar
And their talk of better days
To the comfort of the strangers
Slipping out before they say
So long, baby loves to run
She counts out all her money
In the taxi on the way to meet her plane
And stares hopeful out the window
At the workers fighting through the pouring rain
And she's searching through the stations
For an unfamiliar song
And she's thinkin' 'bout the places
Where she knows she still belongs
She smiles the secret smile
That shows she knows exactly how to carry on
So run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
So run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
From their old familiar faces
And their old familiar ways
To the comfort of the strangers
Slipping out before they say
So long
Baby, loves to run
And she's searching through the stations
For an unfamiliar song
And she pictures all the places
Where she knows she still belongs
And she smiles the secret smile
Because she knows exactly how to carry on
So run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
So run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
So run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
So run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
So run, baby, run, baby, run
Baby, run, baby, run
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Run, Baby, Run Lyrics as written by David Francis Baerwald Bill Bottrell
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Downtown Music Publishing, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
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Tracy Chapman
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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
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
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"
Holiday
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
awww I love this song! It is soooo beautiful!
I love this song too Sunny I guess if you have legs and a problem sometimes you gotta run
Aldous Huxley died on November 22nd.
Clever writer, that Sheryl Crow...
@ShineYouDiamond, Sheryl Crow was born February 11. 2/11 and 11/22. Kennedy was killed the day Huxley died. More info in the album's 10th track.
Aldous Huxley died the same day as JFK. Must have some significance in this song.
@Pooer, it does. Listen to "We Do,What We Can" (10th track, same album).
Sheryl Crow's SEMI-autobiographical song written with creative license, I would say. Growing up as a late-boomer surrounded by history unfolding and a keen awareness by family members...I can relate. The subject of the song was born on 11/22 while Sheryl was born on 2/11. Thinking about dates and events growing up, Kennedy and Huxley died on that same day and both are mentioned in the song, Sheryl created quite a period piece in this one. Anyone doing a history project about the 1960s for school might well want to include this as a soundtrack.
@Abe E. Boomer mixed together lyrics from "We Do What We Can" (10th track on the same album) with "Run Baby Run". The dates, people, and events mentioned are from both songs combined...not just Run Baby Run. You must hear, We Do What We Can to draw more meaning from this song.
@Abe E. Boomer can you please show where this song mentions JFK? Other than referencing the day he died.
There is almost a rap narrative in the original extended play version (seldom heard on the radio) which mentions politics, the Vietnam War draft, and JFK's assassination. It really brings the meaning of the song together. However, as it makes this otherwise "soft-rock" song edgier and definitely politicized, it is usually not heard on the radio. That narrative is not included in the lyrics contained on this site.
@Abe E. Boomer wanted to add this correction: The narrative is NOT in this song, but can be heard in Track 10 of the same album in,"We Do What We Can". When heard together, the meaning of this song comes out more.