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.
Just open up like a page in a book.
These words that I'm writing wont be misunderstood
If I'm dishonest bring me back to my knees.
Show me why I'm even able to speak.
I'll testify please help me to see.
Don't close your eyes, keep your eyes on me.
Open up, open up now make me strong.
There's blood on my hands, but the killers not my enemy.
It's all for the sake of love, It's all for you.
[Chorus]
When all we know is falling I'll save something for you you who are all alone.
When everything is beautiful, when everything's OK.
Even if it's not OK I'll say It's all for you.
These hands hold up nothing but scars underneath
From swimming these oceans and learning to breathe
So often I tell them so often they listen to me
So make me strong
There's blood on my hands
But the killers not my enemy
It's all for the sake of love
It's all for you
[Chorus]
I can feel it in my fingertips
I can taste it in the air
I know some how there is something
There is something new
I see it so clearly
I can feel your hands on my fingertips
I'm seeing oh so clear
I know it's for you
I see so clear
[Chorus]
These words that I'm writing wont be misunderstood
If I'm dishonest bring me back to my knees.
Show me why I'm even able to speak.
I'll testify please help me to see.
Don't close your eyes, keep your eyes on me.
Open up, open up now make me strong.
There's blood on my hands, but the killers not my enemy.
It's all for the sake of love, It's all for you.
[Chorus]
When all we know is falling I'll save something for you you who are all alone.
When everything is beautiful, when everything's OK.
Even if it's not OK I'll say It's all for you.
These hands hold up nothing but scars underneath
From swimming these oceans and learning to breathe
So often I tell them so often they listen to me
So make me strong
There's blood on my hands
But the killers not my enemy
It's all for the sake of love
It's all for you
[Chorus]
I can feel it in my fingertips
I can taste it in the air
I know some how there is something
There is something new
I see it so clearly
I can feel your hands on my fingertips
I'm seeing oh so clear
I know it's for you
I see so clear
[Chorus]
Lyrics submitted by darrennn, edited by Mellow_Harsher
The Bomb Dot Com V2.0 Lyrics as written by Jack Fowler Brandon Mcmaster
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Holiday
Bee Gees
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
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I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
this song is so amazing :D
The lyrics are so religious, it just makes me so fucking uncomfortable. That said, I still love the song. But ugh, the lyrics -__- :///
I actually find some of the lines in the song a bit anti-religous. He's obviously singing the song from the perspective of someone who believes in God, but it almost sounds a little satirical, like he's criticizing himself.<br /> <br /> "There's blood on my hands, but the killers not my enemy.<br /> It's all for the sake of love, It's all for you. "<br /> <br /> It sounds a lot like he's committing an act which he himself considers wrong ("the killer is not my enemy", perhaps indicating that the killer is himself), but he quickly ascertains that it's an act of love in God's eyes, which he uses to convince himself to follow through with the act.<br /> (I.e. when God tells Abraham to kill his son.)<br /> <br /> Then there's this line which kinda gives me the same message:<br /> "When everything is beautiful, when everything's OK.<br /> Even if it's not OK I'll say It's all for you."<br /> <br /> Even if he thinks that what's going on and what he's doing is not OK, he'll still accept it, because it's for God's sake.<br /> <br /> "These words that I'm writing wont be misunderstood"<br /> Just a little note on this line. I think of the ones who wrote the bible when I hear this. It's like he's impersonating them, saying "There's no need to worry for me what I write down, people won't take these words the wrong way." and evidently, there is a lot of people who use the bible to explain their acts of hate, possibly having misinterpreted words in it.<br /> <br /> The more I look into it, the more I think of the song as anti-religious :S<br /> <br /> I think it's about those who rely to much on God and their religion and blind themselves from what they truly believe.
Yeah fun fact, he wrote this with me in mind…yeah, he’s like…sorta my wife
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