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.
Dreams, sensations you prove
Are taken from nature
You find those emotions are true in your mind
Fight against the kingdom of fear
Sooner or later they'll try to convince you are wrong
But I'm sure,
We're just
Crawling angels and demons disguised
The truth you don't know so try to be sure
When your angels and demons arise
Face the truth, God is not love!
Feel as fluid as life,
Love is a rainbow
As much as it seems to be real
It's all in your mind
Sooner or later I'm gonna convince that
The truth is a lie
There's no judge when we die
Only dust
We're just
Crawling angels and demons disguised
The truth you don't know so try to be sure
When your angels and demons arise
But we're still not sure which way we should go
When the angels and demons disguise
Just confusing our brains with their lies
Enticing emotions
Revolting devotions
The angels and demons telling me lies!
Are taken from nature
You find those emotions are true in your mind
Fight against the kingdom of fear
Sooner or later they'll try to convince you are wrong
But I'm sure,
We're just
Crawling angels and demons disguised
The truth you don't know so try to be sure
When your angels and demons arise
Face the truth, God is not love!
Feel as fluid as life,
Love is a rainbow
As much as it seems to be real
It's all in your mind
Sooner or later I'm gonna convince that
The truth is a lie
There's no judge when we die
Only dust
We're just
Crawling angels and demons disguised
The truth you don't know so try to be sure
When your angels and demons arise
But we're still not sure which way we should go
When the angels and demons disguise
Just confusing our brains with their lies
Enticing emotions
Revolting devotions
The angels and demons telling me lies!
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
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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”
Magical
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
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.
Amazing
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
This is about the difference between emotions and real, tangible things, and what counts as real, tangible things. Tangible things represent the truth, while non-tangible things would count as lies.
This can be found here:
"Face the Truth: God is not love! Feel as fluid as life, Love is a rainbow As much as it seems to be real It's all in your mind
Sooner or later I'm gonna convince that The truth is a lie There's no Judge when we die Only dust"
Love is not a tangible thing, "Its all in your mind" so it is real in our minds but it has no physical representation. God is not love, so God can still be real ("Face the truth: God's not love") but this song takes no stance on that.
The second part becomes a little clearer after you put a colon (":") after the second line (So it reads "Sooner or later I'm gonna convince that The truth is a lie:"
So he is going to tell people (or "convince" them) that there IS a judge when you die (there is an afterlife) because, remember, he is supposed to be a Crusader (this is a concept/storytelling album) but he is of the opinion that there is not a judge when you die.
"he" is the main character of the story, not Edu Falaschi.
The rest of the song is about people telling lies, and how hard it is to take stances on anything using help from other people because people lie and are devoted to their causes.
I think this song is more or less saying "there is no heaven or hell when we die - just 'dust'".
We are the angels and the demons.
I think this song is more or less saying "there is no heaven or hell when we die - just 'dust'".
We are the angels and the demons.