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.
Now my suspicion's on the rise
I have known, I have known your kind
Please don't talk, don't make me think
Order up another drink
Let me let imagination drive
Can't you see
I need nothing too deep
Imagination come alive
Suspicion
Tonight, I'll dream tonight
Listen to the devils in my ear
Tell me what, what I want to hear
You're so funny, you're so fine
You're so perfect, you're so mine
That I never had an opportunity
To hide
No, I've never had a chance
Can't you see
I need nothing too deep
Imagination come alive
Suspicion
Tonight, I'll dream tonight
Look into my eyes
They hypnotize
The lights, the drinks
Let the music carry you away
My eyes are blurred
My sights are limited
Am I sensing a familiar twinge?
Please don't speak
Make me think
It's all too deep
Imagination
Come alive, suspicion
Step down, I'll dream tonight
Step down, I'll dream
You're so naked baby
Carry me away
Dream, dream
I have known, I have known your kind
Please don't talk, don't make me think
Order up another drink
Let me let imagination drive
Can't you see
I need nothing too deep
Imagination come alive
Suspicion
Tonight, I'll dream tonight
Listen to the devils in my ear
Tell me what, what I want to hear
You're so funny, you're so fine
You're so perfect, you're so mine
That I never had an opportunity
To hide
No, I've never had a chance
Can't you see
I need nothing too deep
Imagination come alive
Suspicion
Tonight, I'll dream tonight
Look into my eyes
They hypnotize
The lights, the drinks
Let the music carry you away
My eyes are blurred
My sights are limited
Am I sensing a familiar twinge?
Please don't speak
Make me think
It's all too deep
Imagination
Come alive, suspicion
Step down, I'll dream tonight
Step down, I'll dream
You're so naked baby
Carry me away
Dream, dream
Lyrics submitted by xpankfrisst
Suspicion Lyrics as written by Michael Mills Peter Buck
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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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.
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It seems like a song about a one night stand, but it makes it sound sorta nice. Like he's sorta fallen for this g.u. individual, but wants to give it one night to see how it goes. Too confusing? OK, so I'm not really sure
The mechanics of paranoia - don't let yourself think, just allow yourself to slip into the same old neurotic routines.
That bitter self-deluding feeling you get when you feed off your stereotyped ideas of types and intuition.
Short skirt = sexually promiscuious; red lips = sexually promiscuious; black bra = sexually promiscuious etc. etc. until you're so wrapped up in it and hypnotised by your own delusions you KNOW you're right.
It seems to me to be about the paranoia and anxiety you get from some situations which you might feel are almost too perfect.
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Reason is an obstacle to truth (or can be, anyway).
This song is about letting go ...
To me, this song is about a person who engages in a lot of one-night stands. They are using them as a distraction from some sort of pain (possibly a romantic pain, but the lyrics aren't completely clear).
Essentially, the protagonist gets drunk ("Order up another drink"... "My eyes are blurred...My sights are limited") and picks up random sexual partners, but is clearly not interested in knowing them in any "deep" way.
The protagonist uses their imagination to "fill in the blanks" about the person they have picked up. They know they are deluding themselves on some level, but go ahead with it anyway.
This is about only allowing shallow short-term physical relationships. There’s been too much pain in past relationships, betrayals. There is suspicion in another’s motives, and all the singer can have are dreams of true intimacy