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.
Are you ready?
Woo
Free, baby
Boy, when you look at me
Do you judge me by my cover?
Got to be kiddin' me
To think that I'm that kind of lover
I don't mean to disagree
Sorry, you can't buy my kisses
Open your eyes and see
True love comes for free
I'm keepin' my heart open and hopin' you won't stab me in it
'Cause I've been in love before and when I had to pay I didn't
I'll lose my sanity tryin' to measure your intentions
What do you want from me? How much will it be?
No more than you're willing to give (yeah, yeah)
'Cause you won't pay nothin' for this good lovin', it's for free (alright)
And I won't make you promises (uh, uh)
I'll just do all I can to be your lover 'cause I understand
The best things in life are free (yeah)
Now that I've discovered what you mean to me (don't you know that)
The best things in life are free (yeah)
Now that we've got each other
The best things in life are free
Yeah, yeah, sing (come on now)
Oh, yeah, yeah (yeah)
Alright, I like that (ooh, yeah)
Now, Janet
Ooh, Luther
I know you are my baby, my one and only baby
You said it twice, I'll say it thrice my baby, baby, baby
I've got so much love for you (yeah)
And it's easy to give it when I know you feel the same way too (yeah, yeah)
That's all I expect from you
Just do all that you can to be my lover 'cause I understand
I do (ooh), I do (ooh, ooh)
They say
The best things in life are free (yeah, yeah)
Now that I've discovered what you mean to me (I've discovered)
The best things in life are free (come on now)
Now that we've got each other (we do)
The best things in life are free
The best things in life are free
Now that I've discovered what you mean to me
The best things in life are free (so free, I'm free)
Now that we've got each other (so glad I'm free now)
The best things in life are free (BBD tell 'em 'bout free)
Sister, sister kickin' all that jazz (yeah)
'Cause money, honey, want what you never had (yeah)
A lot of bone structure, I can make it last
I'm in it to win it, RD feel the past
Yeah, material, imperial, so get the info
You know, I know, it's not about the dough
So, baby, baby, if you want to be my lady
I'll forget the riches and the other itches
Mo' money, mo' money, Jam & Lewis here we go
Mo' money, mo' money, Luther, Janet here we go
Mo' money, mo' money, Biv, DeVoe here we go
Ralph T. (That's me), best things in life are for free
Free, baby (yeah)
No more than you're willing to give (willing to give)
'Cause you won't give me nothin' for that good lovin', it's for free
And I won't make you promises, you see (yeah, woo)
I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be, we're gonna do, I'm gonna do
The very best I can to be your lover 'cause I understand
(Woo)
It feels good, it feels good
It feels good, it feels so good (uh, hold, hold, wait a minute)
I still don't think they've got it
Let's tell them one more time
Check it out
Everybody needs to know that
The best things in life are free (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Now that I've discovered what you mean to me (alright, everybody knows that)
The best things in life are free (that's right, yeah)
Now that we've got each other (each other)
The best things in life are free
The best things in life are free (don't you know, don't you know)
(The best things in life are free)
Now that I've discovered what you mean to me (don't you know)
What you mean to me (baby, yeah, baby)
The best things in life are free (you know, you know the best things are free)
Now that we've got each other (baby)
The best things in life are free
Don't ya know, don't ya know
The very best in life is free
And I'm free, yeah
Woo
Free, baby
Boy, when you look at me
Do you judge me by my cover?
Got to be kiddin' me
To think that I'm that kind of lover
I don't mean to disagree
Sorry, you can't buy my kisses
Open your eyes and see
True love comes for free
I'm keepin' my heart open and hopin' you won't stab me in it
'Cause I've been in love before and when I had to pay I didn't
I'll lose my sanity tryin' to measure your intentions
What do you want from me? How much will it be?
No more than you're willing to give (yeah, yeah)
'Cause you won't pay nothin' for this good lovin', it's for free (alright)
And I won't make you promises (uh, uh)
I'll just do all I can to be your lover 'cause I understand
The best things in life are free (yeah)
Now that I've discovered what you mean to me (don't you know that)
The best things in life are free (yeah)
Now that we've got each other
The best things in life are free
Yeah, yeah, sing (come on now)
Oh, yeah, yeah (yeah)
Alright, I like that (ooh, yeah)
Now, Janet
Ooh, Luther
I know you are my baby, my one and only baby
You said it twice, I'll say it thrice my baby, baby, baby
I've got so much love for you (yeah)
And it's easy to give it when I know you feel the same way too (yeah, yeah)
That's all I expect from you
Just do all that you can to be my lover 'cause I understand
I do (ooh), I do (ooh, ooh)
They say
The best things in life are free (yeah, yeah)
Now that I've discovered what you mean to me (I've discovered)
The best things in life are free (come on now)
Now that we've got each other (we do)
The best things in life are free
The best things in life are free
Now that I've discovered what you mean to me
The best things in life are free (so free, I'm free)
Now that we've got each other (so glad I'm free now)
The best things in life are free (BBD tell 'em 'bout free)
Sister, sister kickin' all that jazz (yeah)
'Cause money, honey, want what you never had (yeah)
A lot of bone structure, I can make it last
I'm in it to win it, RD feel the past
Yeah, material, imperial, so get the info
You know, I know, it's not about the dough
So, baby, baby, if you want to be my lady
I'll forget the riches and the other itches
Mo' money, mo' money, Jam & Lewis here we go
Mo' money, mo' money, Luther, Janet here we go
Mo' money, mo' money, Biv, DeVoe here we go
Ralph T. (That's me), best things in life are for free
Free, baby (yeah)
No more than you're willing to give (willing to give)
'Cause you won't give me nothin' for that good lovin', it's for free
And I won't make you promises, you see (yeah, woo)
I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be, we're gonna do, I'm gonna do
The very best I can to be your lover 'cause I understand
(Woo)
It feels good, it feels good
It feels good, it feels so good (uh, hold, hold, wait a minute)
I still don't think they've got it
Let's tell them one more time
Check it out
Everybody needs to know that
The best things in life are free (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Now that I've discovered what you mean to me (alright, everybody knows that)
The best things in life are free (that's right, yeah)
Now that we've got each other (each other)
The best things in life are free
The best things in life are free (don't you know, don't you know)
(The best things in life are free)
Now that I've discovered what you mean to me (don't you know)
What you mean to me (baby, yeah, baby)
The best things in life are free (you know, you know the best things are free)
Now that we've got each other (baby)
The best things in life are free
Don't ya know, don't ya know
The very best in life is free
And I'm free, yeah
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Fortnight
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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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@[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.
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
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Page
Ed Sheeran
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