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.
Hallelujah (hey), holy lion, word to Judas (hey)
How I'm supposed to (hey), trust what you say is the truest? (right)
Haile Selassie (uh), insha'Allah if I gotta (woo)
Spin my words around as if you wanted a mandala, for Nirvana
Singin' a sonata towards our karma
Did a rain dance, bringin' commas from Tacoma to Oaxaca
I got spirits in my heart that make my mind move like it's water
Flow into the moment and avoid the melodrama
Gotta breathe for a second, can't believe anybody still testing
My whole team is a force to be reckoned with
Operating like specialists
One, to the two, to the, "Who are you?"
Sending out projections with prejudice
My attention to detail is in scale with classic impressionists
So the lesson is your prerequisites are irrelevant to my standards (right)
It's a deficit in your settlement, you better learn to mind all your manners (right)
My whole troop been goin' bananas
Try and step inside of our jungle (right)
You can try to take all your chances
We won't help your ass if you stumble, boo (right)
Hiding at my partner's house
Couple bands'll send 'em out
Instead of feeling trippy, dog
You need to help your city out
Hiding at my partner's house
Couple bands'll send 'em out
Instead of feeling trippy, dog
You need to help your city out
Couple with that teflon
Couple with that teflon
Couple with that teflon
Couple bands ins-, couple bands ins-
Couple with that teflon
Couple with that teflon
Couple bands inside the mouth
Couple bands ins-, couple bands ins-
Watch your back (ayy), don't leave your door cracked (yeah, yeah)
Slither through your space and watch it all collapse (yeah)
Watch your back (what), don't leave your door cracked (woohoo)
Slither through your space and watch it all collapse (if you, if you, if you, if you, hey)
If you want a feature we can figure it out
Want a color for your album, we can figure it out
How you not invite the boys who colored your rollout
Then they copy, paste hard work from the BH house
I always got something to say when you take food from my mouth
I begged my mommy for money until the day it ran out
They say, "We helped you when and when, now you should figure it out"
Figure it out
Hiding at my partner's house
Couple bands'll send 'em out
Instead of feeling trippy, dog
You need to help your city out
Hiding at my partner's house
Couple bands'll send 'em out
Instead of feeling trippy, dog
You need to help your city out
Couple with that teflon
Couple with that teflon
Couple with that teflon
Couple bands ins-, couple bands ins-
Couple with that teflon
Couple with that teflon
Couple bands inside the mouth
Couple bands ins-, couple bands ins-
Waste your breath, watch the tone though
Take you to the dojo
Roll up my doja, sticky fingers
At the door, bruh, Jehovah, you hoe bitch
Witness sadistic shit, well come again
Next time I'll take my belt off, spank you
Bad kid, bad seed, not me, got beef
I leave body, blackout from rage
Childproof my pockets, don't need the options
Romanticizing what I do if I ain't stop me
Can be off me, tread lightly
Break the law, break the law
Break the law, break the law
Break the law, break the law
Break the law
I'm tired of making a fool out of me and you
Is there anything that I can do that'll save us, baby?
Is there anybody lovin' lies and robbin' shotties, .45's?
I'm still alive, and no drunk drivin', that's how they killed my brother
(Walking with Jesus)
You know, you know betta, betta, betta, betta, betta
Betta, betta, betta, betta, betta, betta, betta, bet on it
Betta bet on it, betta bet on it, hey
(Walking with Jesus)
You know, you know betta
Betta, betta, betta, be-et on it
Bet on it, eh, eh, eh, eh, yeah
Eh, yeah
I wanna sing, I wanna
I wanna sing, ooh
(Just tell 'em, tell 'em that)
Ah, cool
(Walking with Jesus Christ)
(Walking with the Lord)
How I'm supposed to (hey), trust what you say is the truest? (right)
Haile Selassie (uh), insha'Allah if I gotta (woo)
Spin my words around as if you wanted a mandala, for Nirvana
Singin' a sonata towards our karma
Did a rain dance, bringin' commas from Tacoma to Oaxaca
I got spirits in my heart that make my mind move like it's water
Flow into the moment and avoid the melodrama
Gotta breathe for a second, can't believe anybody still testing
My whole team is a force to be reckoned with
Operating like specialists
One, to the two, to the, "Who are you?"
Sending out projections with prejudice
My attention to detail is in scale with classic impressionists
So the lesson is your prerequisites are irrelevant to my standards (right)
It's a deficit in your settlement, you better learn to mind all your manners (right)
My whole troop been goin' bananas
Try and step inside of our jungle (right)
You can try to take all your chances
We won't help your ass if you stumble, boo (right)
Hiding at my partner's house
Couple bands'll send 'em out
Instead of feeling trippy, dog
You need to help your city out
Hiding at my partner's house
Couple bands'll send 'em out
Instead of feeling trippy, dog
You need to help your city out
Couple with that teflon
Couple with that teflon
Couple with that teflon
Couple bands ins-, couple bands ins-
Couple with that teflon
Couple with that teflon
Couple bands inside the mouth
Couple bands ins-, couple bands ins-
Watch your back (ayy), don't leave your door cracked (yeah, yeah)
Slither through your space and watch it all collapse (yeah)
Watch your back (what), don't leave your door cracked (woohoo)
Slither through your space and watch it all collapse (if you, if you, if you, if you, hey)
If you want a feature we can figure it out
Want a color for your album, we can figure it out
How you not invite the boys who colored your rollout
Then they copy, paste hard work from the BH house
I always got something to say when you take food from my mouth
I begged my mommy for money until the day it ran out
They say, "We helped you when and when, now you should figure it out"
Figure it out
Hiding at my partner's house
Couple bands'll send 'em out
Instead of feeling trippy, dog
You need to help your city out
Hiding at my partner's house
Couple bands'll send 'em out
Instead of feeling trippy, dog
You need to help your city out
Couple with that teflon
Couple with that teflon
Couple with that teflon
Couple bands ins-, couple bands ins-
Couple with that teflon
Couple with that teflon
Couple bands inside the mouth
Couple bands ins-, couple bands ins-
Waste your breath, watch the tone though
Take you to the dojo
Roll up my doja, sticky fingers
At the door, bruh, Jehovah, you hoe bitch
Witness sadistic shit, well come again
Next time I'll take my belt off, spank you
Bad kid, bad seed, not me, got beef
I leave body, blackout from rage
Childproof my pockets, don't need the options
Romanticizing what I do if I ain't stop me
Can be off me, tread lightly
Break the law, break the law
Break the law, break the law
Break the law, break the law
Break the law
I'm tired of making a fool out of me and you
Is there anything that I can do that'll save us, baby?
Is there anybody lovin' lies and robbin' shotties, .45's?
I'm still alive, and no drunk drivin', that's how they killed my brother
(Walking with Jesus)
You know, you know betta, betta, betta, betta, betta
Betta, betta, betta, betta, betta, betta, betta, bet on it
Betta bet on it, betta bet on it, hey
(Walking with Jesus)
You know, you know betta
Betta, betta, betta, be-et on it
Bet on it, eh, eh, eh, eh, yeah
Eh, yeah
I wanna sing, I wanna
I wanna sing, ooh
(Just tell 'em, tell 'em that)
Ah, cool
(Walking with Jesus Christ)
(Walking with the Lord)
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
IF YOU PRAY RIGHT Lyrics as written by Dominique Simpson Otis George Johnson
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
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"
Holiday
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
@[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.
When We Were Young
Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
Page
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.