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.
Some say love, it is a river
That drowns the tender reed
Some say love, it is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed
Some say love, it is a hunger
An endless aching need
I say love, it is a flower
And you, its only seed
It's the heart afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
That never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
Who cannot seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying
That never learns to live
When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring becomes the rose
That drowns the tender reed
Some say love, it is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed
Some say love, it is a hunger
An endless aching need
I say love, it is a flower
And you, its only seed
It's the heart afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
That never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
Who cannot seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying
That never learns to live
When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring becomes the rose
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Fortnight
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@[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.
Blue
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“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
This is one of my favorite songs. It really isn't just the cheesy, over-the-top 80's love tune that so many make it out to be.
In fact, I really don't think it is a song that is necessarily about ROMANTIC love. Rather, it is a poem on how one should approach and live life. Only YOU can determine whether or not there will be love in your life. This is what she means when she says "I say love, it is a flower... and you... it's only seed." Only YOU have the power to fill your world with love. TRUE love, not romantic love. Romantic love, as beautiful as it is, is too often an illusion of Hollywood. True love is lasts forever, regardless if you receive any back.
Furthermore, it teaches us that just because there is suffering doesn't mean we should run from it. In fact, the five or six most powerful lines in the song are dedicated to making this point. It is suffering, hardship, and not getting what we want that ultimately teaches us how valuable life is and how deeply it should be appreciated. Instead of running from these things under the naive illusion that life is supposed to be perfect, it is better to accept them (not in a defeatist way, of course).
Anyway, thats my two cents.
@TheDesertFox nailed it????
My mom adored this song like no other. When she died of cancer it was one of the obvious songs we played at her funeral.
A few months later I met an amazing girl, and now a year later I feel like I've come to understand the lyrics in a way I never did before.
She had a heart afraid of breaking and it killed our relationship. She preemptively took her heart and commitment out of the relationship, even though she loved me. She did realize she was doing so but rationalized it by saying that she didn't deserve love. I tried to convince her she deserved mine and I deserved her heart to open up to me but she couldn't commit to it.
In her defense the next line very much applies to me. I've had plenty of dreams but never dared to make any of them reality. I'm to afraid of waking to take the chance to make my life into what I hope it to be. Something she had less isuee. with.
I guess ultimately I feel encouraged by Midler's words that some winter another seed will grow into the rose of love, for both me and my former beloved. Hopefully one day my mother can look down on me and see that I grew up happy and loved by someone willing to dance with me.
The Rose was written by Amanda McBroom. She was talked into submitting it for use in the movie as the producers were looking for a song to use. Initially, they turned it down. The music director who at one time worked with Janis Joplin tried to get the producers to use the song, but ended up sending it to Bette Midler who made the producers use the song in the movie. You can read the story on Amanda's web site at amcbroom.com. I am not her, have never met her, but heard her sing on a Mobile Fidelity recording back in the 70's. called 'Growing Up in Hollywood Town.' She has a beautiful voice in her own right.
"just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows lies the seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose"
That's my favorite part of the song. It's like saying despite how cold someone might seem to be on the exterior, inside there's a beautiful soul yearning to be loved just like anyone else.
This song has never failed to bring tears to my eyes. :)
@JemmaDilemma This is exactly why I chose this song as the main one at her funeral. She only showed me love , as her only child, on her death bed. I was 55 whan she passed with me holding her hand last year, 55 lost years, but she loved roses and am tending her many roses in her memory<br /> <br />
Some look at this song as a pop song, but if you look at it as poetry, it's really beautiful and it has a good point.
i love this song because it means so much to me one of my friends sung it in a beauty pageant. She died about a year later and everytiime i hear this song it reminds me of her. It doesnt make me sad it just makes me remember her and what a talented musician and great person she was.
Two days ago, this song was playing in the waiting room at the veterinary hospital while I was waiting for my cat to be seen, she was very weak.
I was fine until this song began to play and then I lost all control and wept like a baby.
Later that day I had to make the horrible decision to put my baby girl to sleep. This song will always remind me of the worst day of my life. But also as a reminder of all the happy times we spent during her 17 years in this world.
I miss her terribly.
This touching ballad, written by songwriter Amanda McBroom, was the title track to the 1979 film
The Rose,'' starring Bette Midler. The film was based loosely on the life of Janis Joplin, a talented singer / songwriter who died of a heroin overdose in 1971 at the age of 27.<br /> <br /> One day in 1977, McBroom was driving down the freeway when Leo Sayer's hit singleMagdalena'' came on the radio. A line in the song caught her attention:Your love is like a razor; my heart is just a scar.'' She loved the lyric, but didn't agree with the simile.<br /> <br /> InThe Rose,'' McBroom acknowledges that love can be a painful process that can leave a person feeling hurt and vulnerable. However, she also describes the wonderful moments that one might miss out on if they never take a chance on love, and encourages those without hope to remain optimistic:<br /> <br /> Just remember in the winter<br /> <br /> Far beneath the bitter snows<br /> <br /> Lies the seed that with the sun's love<br /> <br /> In the spring becomes the rose<br /> <br /> McBroom won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, but was not nominated for an Academy Award. With her `divine' performance, Bette Midler was awarded the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.<br /> <br /> Read more: musicbanter.com/lyrics/Bette-Midler-The-Rose.htmlThis touching ballad, written by songwriter Amanda McBroom, was the title track to the 1979 film ``The Rose,'' starring Bette Midler. The film was based loosely on the life of Janis Joplin, a talented singer / songwriter who died of a heroin overdose in 1971 at the age of 27.
One day in 1977, McBroom was driving down the freeway when Leo Sayer's hit single
Magdalena'' came on the radio. A line in the song caught her attention:Your love is like a razor; my heart is just a scar.'' She loved the lyric, but didn't agree with the simile.In ``The Rose,'' McBroom acknowledges that love can be a painful process that can leave a person feeling hurt and vulnerable. However, she also describes the wonderful moments that one might miss out on if they never take a chance on love, and encourages those without hope to remain optimistic:
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring becomes the rose
McBroom won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, but was not nominated for an Academy Award. With her `divine' performance, Bette Midler was awarded the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Read more: musicbanter.com/lyrics/Bette-Midler-The-Rose.html
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