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.
Stolen from an African land
Chased out with a knife
With a face like Bob Marley
And a mouth like a motorbike
Oh well the bars are always open
And the time is always right
And if God's good word goes unspoken
The music goes all night
And it goes
On the beach on blanket mommy I am the one
Buddy bye good lovin' give me lots of good fun
Buddy bye on beach break it and all night long
They kickin' on the court listenin' to the reggae song
Me say a beach blanket wicked and wild
My beach blanket she's such a nature's child
Stolen a shotgun you know what I'd do
I'd point it straight up at the sky
And shoot heaven on down for you
Because the bars are always open
And the time is always right
And if God's good word goes unspoken
The music goes all night
It says
Me do not want no lover me don't want no lover hey hey
Me don't want no lover me don't want no lover springtime
Here no lover me don't want no lover hey
Me don't want no lover me don't want no lover hey
Second street
Where it's at
Walkin' downtown you're strapped with a gat ey
Lifetime it's free
Anytime just call me
438-4836
This a kind of number make you get your kicks
Buddy bye
I love love love love love
No no no no no no no no no
There's a steel train
Chased out with a knife
With a face like Bob Marley
And a mouth like a motorbike
Oh well the bars are always open
And the time is always right
And if God's good word goes unspoken
The music goes all night
And it goes
On the beach on blanket mommy I am the one
Buddy bye good lovin' give me lots of good fun
Buddy bye on beach break it and all night long
They kickin' on the court listenin' to the reggae song
Me say a beach blanket wicked and wild
My beach blanket she's such a nature's child
Stolen a shotgun you know what I'd do
I'd point it straight up at the sky
And shoot heaven on down for you
Because the bars are always open
And the time is always right
And if God's good word goes unspoken
The music goes all night
It says
Me do not want no lover me don't want no lover hey hey
Me don't want no lover me don't want no lover springtime
Here no lover me don't want no lover hey
Me don't want no lover me don't want no lover hey
Second street
Where it's at
Walkin' downtown you're strapped with a gat ey
Lifetime it's free
Anytime just call me
438-4836
This a kind of number make you get your kicks
Buddy bye
I love love love love love
No no no no no no no no no
There's a steel train
Lyrics submitted by The Big Andowski, edited by waghte1, Musicislfe08
Don't Push Lyrics as written by Marshall Goodman Bradley James Nowell
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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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.
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Great version of a great song,
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sublime is the shit... this song kicks