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.
Time
Is never time at all
You can never ever leave
Without leaving a piece of you
And our lives are forever changed
We will never be the same
The more you change, the less you feel
Believe
Believe in me
Believe, Believe!
That life can change
That you're not stuck in vain
We're not the same, we're different
Tonight, Tonight
Tonight
So bright
Tonight, Tonight
And you know you're never sure
But you're sure you could be right
If you held yourself up to the light
And the embers never fade
In the city by the lake
The place where you were born
Believe
Believe in me
Believe, Believe!
In the resolute urgency of now
And if you believe there's not a chance
Tonight, Tonight
Tonight
So bright
Tonight, Tonight
We'll crucify the insincere
Tonight, Tonight
We'll make things right
We'll feel it all
Tonight, Tonight
We'll find a way to offer up the night
Tonight
The indescribable moments of your life
Tonight
The impossible is possible
Tonight, Tonight
Believe in me as I believe in you
Tonight
Tonight, Tonight
Tonight, Tonight
Is never time at all
You can never ever leave
Without leaving a piece of you
And our lives are forever changed
We will never be the same
The more you change, the less you feel
Believe
Believe in me
Believe, Believe!
That life can change
That you're not stuck in vain
We're not the same, we're different
Tonight, Tonight
Tonight
So bright
Tonight, Tonight
And you know you're never sure
But you're sure you could be right
If you held yourself up to the light
And the embers never fade
In the city by the lake
The place where you were born
Believe
Believe in me
Believe, Believe!
In the resolute urgency of now
And if you believe there's not a chance
Tonight, Tonight
Tonight
So bright
Tonight, Tonight
We'll crucify the insincere
Tonight, Tonight
We'll make things right
We'll feel it all
Tonight, Tonight
We'll find a way to offer up the night
Tonight
The indescribable moments of your life
Tonight
The impossible is possible
Tonight, Tonight
Believe in me as I believe in you
Tonight
Tonight, Tonight
Tonight, Tonight
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Ain't that a nice interpertation? :)
awesome song. the night that i found out that my now ex was already with another guy, i drove up to my church around 10pm and i was listening to this song. i couldn't help but cry. the orchestral parts of the song are phenomenal and i totally love it. i just wish that she would have believed in me as i believed in her..thanks.
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thanks for sharing zipped<br /> <br /> For years I thought the last line said "Believe in me as I'm leaving you, tonight"<br /> <br /> It made it very sad to me, and kind of confirms your sense of it<br /> <br /> I hope you got over it okay<br />
yes it is a great song and all but there is real meaning and incredible history behind this song. The film playing in the background is one of the first films, by George M`elies from Paris. It is called A trip to the moon. He took cinema to what they considered a new level of sophistication. George Melies was the first film maker to realize he could put dreams on film, rather than reality. However when WWI came the soldiers had seen, well, horrible reality, and the film maker could not change with their taste so he gave up on himself and stopped making films even though they had been of the utmost inspiration and progress. This song is about pushing through and persevering, to believe in yourself and bring all your new ideas into this hectic world...." though you know your never sure, but your sure you could be right, if you held yourself up to the light... believe in me as i believe in you....tonight.....the impossible is possible tonight..."
@zipped6648 bro, same situation :( stay strong bro
@zipped6648 just realized i replied to a post from thirteen years ago, wow.
@zipped6648 i know this was 17 years ago, but wanna go key her car? i’m down.
Maybe I get this sense because of personal reasons, but this was me and my gf's song. We listened to it all the time. A few months ago she told me she didn't love me and felt like we didn't have a connection. I found out from her friends she hadn't been in love with me for a while and that she'd pretended cause she didn't have the guts to tell me. I think the song is about something like that. When someone you love so much takes a piece of you and you're never the same, and you and her are suddenly different. You just want her to believe in you as you believe in her tonight, but maybe it's more general because any broken relationship takes a piece of you. Tonight.
@Niradiopumpkins idk if you’ll see this but you’re story is very similar to my brothers. Him and his gf loved this band. He then got very sick and they broke up. You also right very similarly to my brother. Kind of eerie to me.
@Niradiopumpkins idk if you’ll see this but you’re story is very similar to my brothers. Him and his gf loved this band. He then got very sick and they broke up. You also right very similarly to my brother. Kind of eerie to me.
remindes me of having the greatest night in your life
Totally.
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hmf, well I just say the video is brilliant, the song is brilliant, Billy is brilliant.
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this song is AMAZING i think it's saying that u shouldn't be afraid to give in to love and that u should trust ur partner's love completely and love him back and all that good stuff. this video is so freaking cool too! i want to meet billy!