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.
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
It’s time to shine!
You have spent your life confessing what was wrong inside
They left you second guessing how to close your mind
So you cry for redemption from all you thought
Until you wake up tomorrow just the way you were before
So what are you waiting for?
Your feet never leave the floor
You’re running round in circles like a tethered mare
But there is no exertion that will get you there
So you cry for exemption from all you’ve done
And try to shake off the sorrow over all that you’ve become
So what are you waiting for?
Your feet never leave the floor
We are looking out for a leader to believe in
For a watcher of the sky
Don’t want a pretender to deceive us
Or a demon in disguise
So if you can live through the shadow of our eyes
We’ll come to receive you because we need to
In a world that is born to fly
Hesitation has a strong design
But every good intention slowly fades with time
But you force hibernation is no retort
Because you wake up tomorrow just the way you were before
So what are you waiting for?
Your feet never leave the floor
We are looking out for a leader to believe in
For a watcher of the sky
Don’t want a pretender to deceive us
Or a demon in disguise
So if you can live through the shadow of our eyes
We’ll come to receive you because we need to
In a world that is born to fly
In a world watch it fly
Staring at the endless sky longing for the clouds to take you
Looking for a promised time hoping that it won’t forsaken you
There’s nothing you can do about the wasted years
The battle brought the mettle that makes you
You don’t need an angel to carry you here
And you don’t need a devil to break you
When all your reason and reference are taken away
And you believe in the perception that something must change
When all your credence and candour are put in their place
You’ll find the boldness to abandon the future you face
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
It’s time to shine!
So what are you waiting for?
Your feet never leave the floor
We are looking out for a leader to believe in
For a watcher of the sky
Don’t want a pretender to deceive us
Or a demon in disguise
So if you can live through the shadow of our eyes
We’ll come to receive you because we need to
In a world that is born to fly
Don’t look down
It’s time to shine!
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
It’s time to shine!
You have spent your life confessing what was wrong inside
They left you second guessing how to close your mind
So you cry for redemption from all you thought
Until you wake up tomorrow just the way you were before
So what are you waiting for?
Your feet never leave the floor
You’re running round in circles like a tethered mare
But there is no exertion that will get you there
So you cry for exemption from all you’ve done
And try to shake off the sorrow over all that you’ve become
So what are you waiting for?
Your feet never leave the floor
We are looking out for a leader to believe in
For a watcher of the sky
Don’t want a pretender to deceive us
Or a demon in disguise
So if you can live through the shadow of our eyes
We’ll come to receive you because we need to
In a world that is born to fly
Hesitation has a strong design
But every good intention slowly fades with time
But you force hibernation is no retort
Because you wake up tomorrow just the way you were before
So what are you waiting for?
Your feet never leave the floor
We are looking out for a leader to believe in
For a watcher of the sky
Don’t want a pretender to deceive us
Or a demon in disguise
So if you can live through the shadow of our eyes
We’ll come to receive you because we need to
In a world that is born to fly
In a world watch it fly
Staring at the endless sky longing for the clouds to take you
Looking for a promised time hoping that it won’t forsaken you
There’s nothing you can do about the wasted years
The battle brought the mettle that makes you
You don’t need an angel to carry you here
And you don’t need a devil to break you
When all your reason and reference are taken away
And you believe in the perception that something must change
When all your credence and candour are put in their place
You’ll find the boldness to abandon the future you face
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
It’s time to shine!
So what are you waiting for?
Your feet never leave the floor
We are looking out for a leader to believe in
For a watcher of the sky
Don’t want a pretender to deceive us
Or a demon in disguise
So if you can live through the shadow of our eyes
We’ll come to receive you because we need to
In a world that is born to fly
Don’t look down
It’s time to shine!
Lyrics submitted by Octavarium64
Don't Look Down Lyrics as written by Richard Lansdowne West
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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