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.
There's a wild wind blowing
Down the corner of my street
Every night there the headlights are glowing
There's a cold war coming
On the radio I heard
Baby, it's a violent world
Oh-oh, love, don't let me go
Won't you take me where the street lights glow?
I can hear it coming
I can hear the siren sound
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Time came a-creeping
Oh and time's a loaded gun
(Every road is a ray of light)
It goes on
Time'll leak and lead you on
Still, it's such a beautiful night
Oh-oh, love, don't let me go
Won't you take me where the street lights glow?
I can hear it coming
Like a serenade of sound
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Gravity, release me
And don't ever hold me down
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Down the corner of my street
Every night there the headlights are glowing
There's a cold war coming
On the radio I heard
Baby, it's a violent world
Oh-oh, love, don't let me go
Won't you take me where the street lights glow?
I can hear it coming
I can hear the siren sound
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Time came a-creeping
Oh and time's a loaded gun
(Every road is a ray of light)
It goes on
Time'll leak and lead you on
Still, it's such a beautiful night
Oh-oh, love, don't let me go
Won't you take me where the street lights glow?
I can hear it coming
Like a serenade of sound
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Gravity, release me
And don't ever hold me down
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Lyrics submitted by eighteesix, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Life In Technicolor II Lyrics as written by Guy Rupert Berryman Christopher Anthony Martin
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song has a lot of meaning, or at least to me it does. It's about how the end of the world is coming, and how everyone is frightened, but as long as he has his love by his side, he knows that he'll be alright no matter what happens.
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I am absolutely in love with this song. Just what was missing from VLV.
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Fantastic song cant wait to go see them in sheffield on the 29th :)
this song is about the end of the world which is quite relivent now days coz the world is in such a state right now!!
but such a great song makes the end of the world not seem that bad lol
xx
Life in Technicolor feels complete with the lyrics in it now. When Viva La Vida first came out and I heard this song, my ears were practically begging for them to add lyrics after a few listens :) I'm glad they did!
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