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.
In the beginning, I believed every word that you said,
Now that you're gone my world is in shreds
Oh, you loved me and left me,
You took all the things that I needed so bad,
I'm standing here wondering where is the love that I had?
Oh, give me silver, blue and gold,
The colour of the sky I'm told,
My ray-ay-ain-bow is overdue
In the beginning, yeah,
There was something of love that was mine,
Now that it's gone, whoa, I'm cryin'
Oh, the time that it takes for a love to grow cold is a wonder to me,
I'm walkin' around with my head hangin' down
Tell me where is she?
Give me silver, blue and gold,
The colour of the sky I'm told,
My ray-ay-ain-bow is overdue
Don't forsake me 'cause I love you
Don't forsake me 'cause I love you
Give me silver, blue and gold,
The colour of the sky I'm told
My ray-ay-ain-bow is overdue
Give me silver, blue and gold,
The colour of the sky I'm told
My ray-ay-ain-bow is overdue
Now, give me silver, blue and gold,
The colour of the sky I'm told
My ray-ay-ain-bow is overdue, yeah
Oh, don't forsake me 'cause I love you
Don't forsake me 'cause I love you, yeah
Now that you're gone my world is in shreds
Oh, you loved me and left me,
You took all the things that I needed so bad,
I'm standing here wondering where is the love that I had?
Oh, give me silver, blue and gold,
The colour of the sky I'm told,
My ray-ay-ain-bow is overdue
In the beginning, yeah,
There was something of love that was mine,
Now that it's gone, whoa, I'm cryin'
Oh, the time that it takes for a love to grow cold is a wonder to me,
I'm walkin' around with my head hangin' down
Tell me where is she?
Give me silver, blue and gold,
The colour of the sky I'm told,
My ray-ay-ain-bow is overdue
Don't forsake me 'cause I love you
Don't forsake me 'cause I love you
Give me silver, blue and gold,
The colour of the sky I'm told
My ray-ay-ain-bow is overdue
Give me silver, blue and gold,
The colour of the sky I'm told
My ray-ay-ain-bow is overdue
Now, give me silver, blue and gold,
The colour of the sky I'm told
My ray-ay-ain-bow is overdue, yeah
Oh, don't forsake me 'cause I love you
Don't forsake me 'cause I love you, yeah
Lyrics submitted by Charlie the man
Silver, Blue And Gold Lyrics as written by Paul Bernard Rodgers Paul Rodgers
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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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.
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About going through a nasty break-up and wanting to feel better about life.
i most definitely agree with you....i love this song!
It must be as it makes me sad every time I hear it. Paul Rodgers is one of the best male vocalists of all time.
IT'S ABOUT A FAILED RELATIONSHIP THAT ONE GAVE UP EVERYTHING TO HAVE, AND NOW WANTS ANSWERS WHY IT ENDED.
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This song is amazing! It's simultaneously sad and inspirational. I wondered about the meaning of the title but came to the realization that the answer was in the lyrics. It's a call to hold your head up even when your heart and soul is broken. If you look to the sky and hold on to thoughts of love, for someone who is no longer in your life, your rainbow will eventually reappear but if you live with your "head hangin' down" you may miss it.
This song is for women.
I think this song represents the celebration of one's own heart. When you find the one and you are capable of loving them for a lifetime....that's something to be celebrated. The sky is vast and he wants his sky. IT represents endless opportunities toward finding her...the true one. So give me the sky and I'll resume my search and find my rainbow, because I know I'm capable of loving her the way she deserves. The true winner in this world is the real lov-er that can finally end up being the real lov-ed as well.
It's about a breakup, sure, but it's about a one-sided breakup not initiated by the singer (Paul Rodgers sings the song, but far be it for us to assume he ever truly felt these feelings, so for the purpose of the song's message, I'll refer to "the singer" rather than Rodgers). If it was initiated by the singer, he regrets it greatly. The song is sung from the perspective of someone who still very much in love, but the other person broke it off.
Accordingly, it's not about a breakup as much as longing for someone you're in love with but who doesn't love you back. You needn't have been through a bad breakup to know the feeling. Anyone who's experienced any form of unrequited love, from a crush that doesn't materialize into anything more, to the end of a long relationship, can relate to this song.
The singer thoroughly explains his feelings and why he has them. She broke up with him. He's in the dark, crying, brokenhearted, world in shreds. He just wants to escape that feeling, break out of that misery, and have some hope to finally see some light, the silver, blue and gold of clouds, sky and sun one sees when one's finally out of the darkness. Why? Because he's overdue to get a rainbow, the beauty and joy of light and color after the miserable, scary storms and rain that resemble tears and pain.
I went all but about three weeks of the first 28 years of my life being single. Even though I've now been with my wonderful wife for 12 years, this song takes me back to my first 28 years immediately. For those of us for whom we'd rather build lasting relationships with people from our circle rather than seek out the fast, easy score at the bar, repeated failures sting badly. Not only are you lonely, but you have to learn to cope with the cycle of becoming interested in someone, working up the courage to try to reveal your feelings and dealing with the heartbreak and humiliation of rejection, then doing it again, and again, and again. If you were lucky, you went through the cycle over a few weeks. Other times, it took years. I like to say I practically invented the friendzone. I've read that, on average, men only succeed with about 10 percent of the women they actually try with, so I'm sure a lot of guys can relate. And this is what it feels like if you actually have a bit of a heart: You felt like you had something of love. There was probably a little bit of a connection, enough to give you hope that this time is different. But it went nowhere and now you feel hurt, unlovable, unwanted and like everything about you is wrong. You just want to escape that feeling and, just once, get it right.
It does feel good when you finally do. But you never forget the feeling, to the point it almost starts to grow comfortable. And sometimes, when my wife and I are apart for work travel or whatever, it's late at night, and I know I miss her, I can put this song on and know Bad Company captured my feelings when I was single, and still can bring me to a place where it felt like at least one song made me feel like I wasn't the only one who felt that way sometimes. So I put it on, pour a drink, close my eyes and just patiently wait until we're together again while I hope she comes home soon.