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.
Come on, come out of the rain
You're not oppressed, you're just too learned
I took the book, I lit the page
Your sabbatical was burning
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fires in the street
Let's sully every stage
Lick my lips, twist my hips, but Contessa
I already did
Some things work but me, I choose to lose
My skin in the dirt
This whiskey priest, he burned the church
To keep his girls alive
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Let's sully every stage
Lick my lips, twist my hips, but Contessa
I already did
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
You're not oppressed, you're just too learned
I took the book, I lit the page
Your sabbatical was burning
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fires in the street
Let's sully every stage
Lick my lips, twist my hips, but Contessa
I already did
Some things work but me, I choose to lose
My skin in the dirt
This whiskey priest, he burned the church
To keep his girls alive
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Let's sully every stage
Lick my lips, twist my hips, but Contessa
I already did
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, fire in the street
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Streets of Fire Lyrics as written by Daniel Bejar
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This was originally a Destroyer song. From the same album as 'Breakin' The Law', 'We'll Build Them A Golden Bridge."
It's a matter of false parallelism, it may sound fine, but grammatically it's just a horrible way of saying it. And it's also certainly oppressed.
I adore this song. It'll mean everything to me at any moment of my life, such as trying to get back together with an old boyfriend that's worried everything will change because of hind-sight bias, how I burned all my journals because I couldn't take what I was thinking about. I spend a lot of time in theaters and a common theme throughout my life is making out with boys in dressing rooms. Every boy I've kissed I've at some point kissed in a dressing room. It's just an absolutely beautiful song.
best NP song ever. saw them last week and they gave me a new apprecation for this song.
theres contessa again in this one just like on the mass romantic contessa-italian for countess but i love it
I hear impressed as opposed to oppressed.
Anyway. To me this song is about trying too hard and taking too many risks for something that isn't necessarily worth it.
i think this song is about relization. "come on come out of the rain." And lighting the book on fire symbolizes a new direction and new beliefs. everytime i listen to this song i picture buildings burning down but everyone is smiling and just moving on.
This is a love song to MSNBC news anchor Contessa Brewer.
I like WOXvonWubbins suggestion best. Haha. But no really, great song. Sorry I can't help more, bt Bejar hardly ever makes sense lyrically. But that's what so damn great about it. Interpretation!
i tend to hear "depressed" rather than "oppressed", but oppressed works too. I think its about not taking yourself too seriously and just living passionately and in the moment. but yeah, awesome song! pretty much love the whole twin cinema album
i tend to hear "depressed" rather than "oppressed", but oppressed works too. I think its about not taking yourself too seriously and just living passionately and in the moment. but yeah, awesome song! pretty much love the whole twin cinema album