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.
On a bridge across the Severn on a Saturday night,
Susie meets the man of her dreams.
He says that he got in trouble and if she doesn't mind
He doesn't want the company
But there's something in the air
They share a look in silence and everything is understood
Susie grabs her man and puts a grip on his hand as the rain puts a tear in his eye.
She says
Don't let go
Never give up, it's such a wonderful life
Don't let go
Never give up, it's such a wonderful life
Driving through the city to the temple station,
Cries into the leather seat
And Susie knows the baby was a family man,
But the world has got him down on his knees
So she throws him at the wall and kisses burn like fire,
And suddenly he starts to believe
He takes her in his arms and he doesn't know why,
But he thinks that he begins to see
She says,
Don't let go
Never give up, it's such a wonderful life
Don't let go
Never give up, it's such a wonderful life
Don't let go
Never give up, it's such a wonderful life
Don't let go
Never give up, it's such a wonderful life
She says
Don't let go
Never give up
Don't let go
Never give up, it's such a wonderful life
Wonderful life, wonderful life, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful life
Wonderful life, wonderful life, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful life
Don't let go
Don't let go
Susie meets the man of her dreams.
He says that he got in trouble and if she doesn't mind
He doesn't want the company
But there's something in the air
They share a look in silence and everything is understood
Susie grabs her man and puts a grip on his hand as the rain puts a tear in his eye.
She says
Don't let go
Never give up, it's such a wonderful life
Don't let go
Never give up, it's such a wonderful life
Driving through the city to the temple station,
Cries into the leather seat
And Susie knows the baby was a family man,
But the world has got him down on his knees
So she throws him at the wall and kisses burn like fire,
And suddenly he starts to believe
He takes her in his arms and he doesn't know why,
But he thinks that he begins to see
She says,
Don't let go
Never give up, it's such a wonderful life
Don't let go
Never give up, it's such a wonderful life
Don't let go
Never give up, it's such a wonderful life
Don't let go
Never give up, it's such a wonderful life
She says
Don't let go
Never give up
Don't let go
Never give up, it's such a wonderful life
Wonderful life, wonderful life, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful life
Wonderful life, wonderful life, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful life
Don't let go
Don't let go
Lyrics submitted by seventeenhands
Wonderful Life Lyrics as written by Joseph Cross Adam Anderson
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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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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.
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This song is about a man who is just going to suicide "On a bridge across the seven", he also says he is in trouble and he doesn't want company, but a woman (Susie) makes him change his mind and they fall in love at first sight.
She says "Dont let go, never give up, it's such a wonderful life.."
Great song, they are really great!!!
beside suicide is it possible that it's about love affair because he sings: But Susie knows the baby was a family man,<br /> But the world has got him down on his knees<br /> and also: <br /> Her kisses burn like fire,<br /> And suddenly he starts to believe, <br /> And he takes her in his arms but he doesnt know why,<br /> to me it is like love affair...one can understand it also that way....
I got this from Wikipedia: In an interview with entertainment website Digital Spy lead singer Theo Hutchcraft said of the song: "It's basically based on two extremes: the first being a man who wants to kill himself and the second being love at first sight. He's standing on the bridge about to jump and he's stopped by a woman. They see each other and fall in love. She basically says, 'Come with me, it's all going to be fine'. The song only offers a snippet of someone's life, so we don't know what happens at the end of it."
Oh, I love this song. It aways reminds my of Richey Edwards (of Manic Street Preachers). He disappeared in 1995 and his car was found abandoned near the Severn Bridge a few weeks after. He was presumed dead, but I like to think that this song describes what happened to him instead.
More than a passing resemblance to "talktalk"'s "it's my life"... but that's not a criticism.
This so gives me such determination not to give up - even though i'm not particularly suicidal at the moment!
Really sweet story about this desperate guy thinking of jumping from the bridge - but instead meeting a voracious, passionate lover instead.
I feel sad for his family, who have lost him in either scenario but happy that at least they found each other.
Susie sounds really sexy. Mmm
:-)
Wow these guys know how to make a great song.. Plus they have this sophistication about them that i love..amazing music vid too.. Can't believe more people haven't commented on this song yet! These guys are going to be big...
I totally agree. I absoulely luv this band, 21st century genius.
Firstly this is an amazing song with deep meaning.. As quoted by the band themselves, the song is about "Suicide, love, salvation and Bristol" And lyric correction: it's "on a bridge across the Severn"
Yes i Agree this song is about love,Suicide,the Severn bridge and Bristol Temple meads . (maybe they should write one about the Avonmouth bridge same things happen there!)
Great song!
oh wonderful love about how love can CURE !!!!!!!!! I had exactly this situation in my life, but loose, I couldn't make him believe and he gave up
'And lyric correction: it's "on a bridge across the Severn"'
Should they have written 'Avon' though? The Severn crossings are a bit of a trek from Bristol (10 miles), wouldn't be the first time people have thought the river going through Bristol is the Severn...