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.
You say it's fair, a labor source for the masses
Providing cheap garments we can sell and brand
As a new and hopeful answer to an existence so bland
Open your eyes, as you don't need to buy
You do not have to be a coat hanger for a corporation in a market that's lost the plot
You decide if it's worth having their blood on your hands just to wear the latest Nikes
Open your eyes, as you don't need to buy
If I had a cape, that made me disappear
I'd fly around the world for days just so I could hear
The rich count their dimes whilst the Africans cry
And record it on a tape and stream it high across the sky
Open your eyes, as you don't need to buy it
Providing cheap garments we can sell and brand
As a new and hopeful answer to an existence so bland
Open your eyes, as you don't need to buy
You do not have to be a coat hanger for a corporation in a market that's lost the plot
You decide if it's worth having their blood on your hands just to wear the latest Nikes
Open your eyes, as you don't need to buy
If I had a cape, that made me disappear
I'd fly around the world for days just so I could hear
The rich count their dimes whilst the Africans cry
And record it on a tape and stream it high across the sky
Open your eyes, as you don't need to buy it
Lyrics submitted by xXlastgoodbyeXx
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly Lyrics as written by Samuel Lloyd Duckworth
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Fortnight
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Van Halen
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Just A Little Lovin'
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Dusty Springfield
I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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“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.
My favourite from the album. Clearly about the capitalist society we live in and it's expoiltative nature.
To me, a very mature song.
he has a point. we insist on these latest brands we buy off these people who can't even afford a meal let alone a pair of fancypants trainers.
This song is so real. Not fake like all the other writers try to shove down our thraots. This song totally tells us how all the material things don't even ,matter. Oh, and frazzleface, fancypants is a very good word!!! (/_/) (0.o) (>.
It speaks for itself. And what its saying is SO true. i definately changed after hearing this album.
this song shows the world in a true light how we get the lesser off in 3rd world countries to make items for our leasure and pay them the worse wage than homeless people recive more than from just begging. this song changed the way i think about the people of today.
this song shows the world in a true light how we get the lesser off in 3rd world countries to make items for our leasure and pay them the worse wage than homeless people recive more than from just begging. this song changed the way i think about the people of today.
hmmm i like this song very muchly . its a very openy eyesy song :)