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.
These back steps are steeper to the ground
The brightest stars are falling down
I'm walking the edge
I'm walking the tightest rope
And we can be frank
Reality rips on through rolling like a hurricane
I'm over the bridge and under the rain
If everything's falling, if everything's changed
If I'm in the open, if I'm in the way
What am I doing here if you're not with me
What have I got to live for if it's just my own dream
Take it back to the beginning, back to the start
Gravity's pulling, you're still holding my heart
You come crashing down, crashing down
These four walls are closing in on me
The talk is louder than I'll sing
I want to be there
I want to be where you are
But you know it all
Every look and smile that are meant to break
I'm over the bridge and under the rain
If everything's falling, if everything's changed
If I'm in the open, if I'm in the way
What am I doing here if you're not with me
What have I got to live for if it's just my own dream
Take it back to the beginning, back to the start
Gravity's pulling, you're still holding my heart
You come crashing down, crashing down
You said that everything's different
Why don't we just hold on
You say that everything is different
Why don't we just hold on
Crashing down, crashing down
Crashing down, crashing down
You come crashing down
You come crashing down
The brightest stars are falling down
I'm walking the edge
I'm walking the tightest rope
And we can be frank
Reality rips on through rolling like a hurricane
I'm over the bridge and under the rain
If everything's falling, if everything's changed
If I'm in the open, if I'm in the way
What am I doing here if you're not with me
What have I got to live for if it's just my own dream
Take it back to the beginning, back to the start
Gravity's pulling, you're still holding my heart
You come crashing down, crashing down
These four walls are closing in on me
The talk is louder than I'll sing
I want to be there
I want to be where you are
But you know it all
Every look and smile that are meant to break
I'm over the bridge and under the rain
If everything's falling, if everything's changed
If I'm in the open, if I'm in the way
What am I doing here if you're not with me
What have I got to live for if it's just my own dream
Take it back to the beginning, back to the start
Gravity's pulling, you're still holding my heart
You come crashing down, crashing down
You said that everything's different
Why don't we just hold on
You say that everything is different
Why don't we just hold on
Crashing down, crashing down
Crashing down, crashing down
You come crashing down
You come crashing down
Lyrics submitted by eltroyo11
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In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
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"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"
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"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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Ebba Grön
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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When i listen to this song i get a wierd feeling like he is singing about someone he loves, or a lover. But when i think of it in a literal sense it almost seems like he is talking about his relationship with god. not sure at all though