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.
Where you been hidin'?
I'm believing
You give me life
Life my dear
You give me strength to beat the odds
And overcome my fears
You make me feel like I belong under the sun
You never grow old
Because you're forever young
If there's love
I just want to have somethin' to do with it
I just want to feel yours
If there's love
I just want to have somethin' to do with it
I just want to feel yours
When I'm alone you make me feel at home
If I give enough of you
To a higher place we'll go
You make me feel like I belong under the sun
You'll never grow old
Because you're forever young
And you know that you got my tomorrow baby
Today and yesterday
Believe that you've got my tomorrow baby
I'll hold you close as far as I can see
If there's love
I just want to have somethin' to do with it
I just want to feel yours
I'm believing
You give me life
Life my dear
You give me strength to beat the odds
And overcome my fears
You make me feel like I belong under the sun
You never grow old
Because you're forever young
If there's love
I just want to have somethin' to do with it
I just want to feel yours
If there's love
I just want to have somethin' to do with it
I just want to feel yours
When I'm alone you make me feel at home
If I give enough of you
To a higher place we'll go
You make me feel like I belong under the sun
You'll never grow old
Because you're forever young
And you know that you got my tomorrow baby
Today and yesterday
Believe that you've got my tomorrow baby
I'll hold you close as far as I can see
If there's love
I just want to have somethin' to do with it
I just want to feel yours
Lyrics submitted by So_Impossible
If There's Love Lyrics as written by Clarence Greenwood
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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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"
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Wow, this is such an amzing song! Just listening to it brings back memories of what it feels like to be in love. If all the feeling and emotions that come with falling in love with someone could be written down on paper, these would be them. =)
This song is probably the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. I never thought it was possible to tangibly express what love feels like, but this does it.
Clarence is talking about being in love (shocker). He doesn't understand how he could have lived before he met his "dear," wanting to know how she could have been hidden from his searching eyes for him. He definately focuses on age throughout most of the piece, saying that they can (and probably will, with lines like "you've got my tomorrow, baby") be together forever, but he'll still always see her as being as youthful and radiant as the day when they first met and fell in love.
The first time I heard it though, I kept focusing on the shallow selfishness of it all. He kept saying in the chorus, "If there's love, I just want to have something to do with it." It made me think of those high school girls who just want to be in love, who look for it, and that's not authentic love, to me.
-And I'm pretty sure it's "I just want to feel yours," not young. :)
(Sorry for writing so much, this song just holds so much meaning to me.)
i'm sorry if any of these lyrics are terribly incorrect. i did this by ear.
this songs sounds like crickets and angels. if this is what it's like to be in love...
This song is probably the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. I never thought it was possible to tangibly express what love feels like, but this does it.
Clarence is talking about being in love (shocker). He doesn't understand how he could have lived before he met his "dear," wanting to know how she could have been hidden from his searching eyes for him. He definately focuses on age throughout most of the piece, saying that they can (and probably will, with lines like "you've got my tomorrow, baby") be together forever, but he'll still always see her as being as youthful and radiant as the day when they first met and fell in love.
The first time I heard it though, I kept focusing on the shallow selfishness of it all. He kept saying in the chorus, "If there's love, I just want to have something to do with it." It made me think of those high school girls who just want to be in love, who look for it, and that's not authentic love, to me.
-And I'm pretty sure it's "I just want to feel yours," not young. :)
(Sorry for writing so much, this song just holds so much meaning to me.)
This song is great, it is what I fill for my g/f.Its like it read my mind.I dig it
These lyrics definitely create a certain tangibility to being in love. Good song. :)
What a beutiful song.