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.
Suburban days, they last so long
In shop and office, we sing our song we all sing
We ain't got nothing, nothing to do
A big fat nothing, nothing for me, nothing for you
Suburban dreams, just out of reach
Work till you die, that's what they teach you at school
With that in mind, what's there to lose?
My friends and I, doped up on TV fags and booze
Hear them all singing
We're the ones that you've forgotten
But we will not be denied
Coming out of the shadows
We rock the satellites
Suburban nights, they get so hot
People get angry, we sing our song we all sing
A global terror they say, we are at war
But I ain't got time for that 'cause
These bills keep dropping through my door
Hear them all singing
We're the ones you've forgotten
Out of mind, out of sight
Coming out of the shadows
We rock the satellites
All these people who criticize us well
We're only saying what we're seeing with our own eyes
This one way system it ain't, it ain't paradise
Not everybody wants to race, wants to fight
Hear them all singing
We're the ones you've forgotten
But we will not be denied
Coming out of the shadows
We rock the satellites
We're the ones that you've forgotten
Out of mind, out of sight
Coming out of the shadows
Coming live via satellite
In shop and office, we sing our song we all sing
We ain't got nothing, nothing to do
A big fat nothing, nothing for me, nothing for you
Suburban dreams, just out of reach
Work till you die, that's what they teach you at school
With that in mind, what's there to lose?
My friends and I, doped up on TV fags and booze
Hear them all singing
We're the ones that you've forgotten
But we will not be denied
Coming out of the shadows
We rock the satellites
Suburban nights, they get so hot
People get angry, we sing our song we all sing
A global terror they say, we are at war
But I ain't got time for that 'cause
These bills keep dropping through my door
Hear them all singing
We're the ones you've forgotten
Out of mind, out of sight
Coming out of the shadows
We rock the satellites
All these people who criticize us well
We're only saying what we're seeing with our own eyes
This one way system it ain't, it ain't paradise
Not everybody wants to race, wants to fight
Hear them all singing
We're the ones you've forgotten
But we will not be denied
Coming out of the shadows
We rock the satellites
We're the ones that you've forgotten
Out of mind, out of sight
Coming out of the shadows
Coming live via satellite
Lyrics submitted by Summersault99
Suburban Knights Lyrics as written by Richard Archer
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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I LOVE THIS SONG isnt it kind of about working class morals and stuff how youre never going to get to stop working, and just to live for the moment etc,
they say, we are at war, but aint got time for that coz these bills keep dropping through my door" oh oh
i like that bit
"these bills keep dropping through my door" - a great part, for politicians to remeber bout ordinary people daily issues...
this song grew on me right when i heard it the first time. it's so typical hard-fi. cash mashine quality like.
Rubbish, utter rubbish.
rubbish? what?? i love this song. it keeps growing on me. i love this whole album.
I hope each member of this band dies painfully for their crimes to music, this is an awful song from what i've heard is an awful album by an awful band. Anyone who likes this song really must be a bit simple...
This song is absolutly AMAZING live. We, the crowd did a lot of the "Ayyyyyyy, ahhhhh"s and it was just a brilliant night!
Alex_The_Red... I hope YOU die painfully for your crimes to music. I bet you sit at home listening to dodgy trance shit, My Chemical Romance or some other piece of shit.
Richard Archer (The lead singer) said that parts of this album are autobiographical.
He left Staines for a better life somewhere else thinking that he was getting nowhere in the dead-end town. The band that he was in turned out to be going nowhere and after his life crumbled and the death of his father, Richard returned to Staines. I feel the whole album is about this as well as Can't Get Along from the first album.
SUBURBAN KNIGHTS: The first track, the first step: Dead end 9 to 5s in the slow suburban town of Staines.
Just remembered, Can't Get along is on this album. Just adds to the story.