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.
Up so close I never get to see your face.
Microscope I might as well be out in space.
Up so close I never get to see the view.
Down your throat I'm never sure if it's still you.
Up your nose down to your toes.
In your mouth way down south.
Up so close it seems I only think of you.
Up so close I never see the sky so blue.
I only wanted to be sure
That what it was was really pure.
I put my face down in the cake.
My feet were flailing in a lake.
Up so close, I never get to see your face.
Microscope, I might as well be out in space.
Up so close, I never get to see you.
Microscope, I'm never sure if it's still you.
Microscope I might as well be out in space.
Up so close I never get to see the view.
Down your throat I'm never sure if it's still you.
Up your nose down to your toes.
In your mouth way down south.
Up so close it seems I only think of you.
Up so close I never see the sky so blue.
I only wanted to be sure
That what it was was really pure.
I put my face down in the cake.
My feet were flailing in a lake.
Up so close, I never get to see your face.
Microscope, I might as well be out in space.
Up so close, I never get to see you.
Microscope, I'm never sure if it's still you.
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
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Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
Punchline
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
American Town
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran shares a short story of reconnecting with an old flame on “American Town.” The track is about a holiday Ed Sheeran spends with his countrywoman who resides in America. The two are back together after a long period apart, and get around to enjoying a bunch of fun activities while rekindling the flames of their romance.
no, jawbreaker, stoney's right - c'mon, "way down south" - i don't think that it gets any clearer then that.
He never sees the girl he's with, because he's always "up so close"...to her vagina, that is.
i think that this song definitely adresses oral sex with lyrics like "way down south" but "down your throat" and "in your mouth" for example i think are about kissing. so it's about how in general when your being intimate with somone you can't really see them cus you're too close. it's why i can't help but peek somtimes when i kiss.
That's true but it's too obvious to be interesting. I think it's talking about a relationship where all two people do anymore is have sex, so they don't know each other anymore. "I might as well be out in space" - they're physically intimate, but mentally lightyears apart.
The ultimate meaning is that sexual intimacy alone isn't real intimacy at all. Hence "I might as well be out in space." "I'm never sure if it was still you" -- she might as well be anyone, because they don't have a mental connection anymore.
Oh, and "microscope" refers to seeing only a small aspect of her, that is, parts of her body and her sexuality, not the big picture -- her whole person.
Is it me or is this song about oral sex???? "I put my face down in the cake" He's up so close to her down there he can't see her face. Then he talks about down her throat, she must return the favor!!!!!!!! sigh So deep and meaningful.
I think you are retarded. But, you might have a point... then again probably not.
Might just be my personal experience speaking here but it sounds like this song could be about being so close to someone that you lose sight of other things in your life, though he sort of makes it sexual so I don't know what to think.
I think that the people in song got so close that they didnt realize that they were changing and now there 2 complettly different people
Is that even possible?
I interpreted this song in an entirely different way. When I first heard this song I thought about a long distance relationship. Two people constantly far away, and when they do see each other close up, they soak up every little detail of the other person. The second part of each line indicated the previous distance to me, rather than being "too close".
"I might as well be out in space" "I never get to see the view" "I'm never sure if it's still you" "It's seems I only think of you"
That last line "Up so close, I never see the sky so blue" was the part that indicated that he was happy to be so close. It's as if the world around you is brighter now that the other person is there. In the very end of the song I hear him say "oh it's so sad." Long distance couples get that little time together, but they always have to go back to being far away.
this song is about how the more you're in love with a person, the more distorted they become and the less you know who they really are
(it's not about sex)
This song is clearly about doing cocaine...