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.
I once knew a girl
In the years of my youth
With eyes like the summer
All beauty and truth
In the mourning I fled
Left a note and it read
Someday you will be loved
I cannot pretend that I felt any regret
Cause each broken heart will eventually mend
As the blood runs red down the needle and thread
Someday you will be loved
You'll be loved, you'll be loved
Like you never have known
And the memories of me will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved
You may feel alone
When you're falling asleep
Every time tears roll down your cheek
But I know your heart belongs
To someone you've yet to meet
Someday you will be loved
You'll be loved, you'll be loved
Like you never have known
And the memories of me will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved
You'll be loved, you'll be loved
Like you never have known
And the memories of me will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved
Someday you will be loved
In the years of my youth
With eyes like the summer
All beauty and truth
In the mourning I fled
Left a note and it read
Someday you will be loved
I cannot pretend that I felt any regret
Cause each broken heart will eventually mend
As the blood runs red down the needle and thread
Someday you will be loved
You'll be loved, you'll be loved
Like you never have known
And the memories of me will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved
You may feel alone
When you're falling asleep
Every time tears roll down your cheek
But I know your heart belongs
To someone you've yet to meet
Someday you will be loved
You'll be loved, you'll be loved
Like you never have known
And the memories of me will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved
You'll be loved, you'll be loved
Like you never have known
And the memories of me will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved
Someday you will be loved
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
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.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Holiday
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
@[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.
When We Were Young
Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
Magical
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
He's rehashing his past: Back in his youth he convinced a gorgeous girl that he really liked her, and carries on the charade until she finally develops feelings about him and trusts him enough to sleep with him. Now finally getting what he wanted, he leaves her to wake up alone the morning after. And instead of going quietly, he chooses to tell her (not in person - but on a note) that it's not you, it's me. He knows he's breaking her heart because he alludes that her heart will have to be stitched together again "Just as the blood runs down the needle and thread." But what really bothers me is that he's so patronizing that after using her for sex that he tells her not to worry because someone will love you someday instead of deceiving you just get some action. It's just adding insult to injury. This song is gorgeous, but the lyrics are not about her or love. They're about how he's a douche bag. He's like a more cruel version of Barney from "How I Met Your Mother."
He is such a cop out! Someday you will be loved? Just tell her you're leaving and don't try to make it worse by telling her things will get better. She loved you and now you're leaving her, it's going to hurt. She doesn't need to know about the future, she needs someone to make it better now!
Haha obviously I just had a break up and was greeted with similar sentiments.
Brilliant song!
let's take a look at this song from the girl's point of view. She get's dumped by a guy that tells her pretty much everything he thinks she needs to hear. (because he's a hopeless romantic - except for the fact that he is incapable of loving anyone) She buys into it because she is so completely madly in love with him - and well why shouldn’t she? All she wants is him and he knows this and that she will take everything he says to heart. That is why she actually believes this nonsense. He knows that “every broken heart will eventually mend,” but to her this is practically the end of existence.. the fact that he tells her "the memories of me will seem more like bad dreams" means that he knows eventually she'll wake up and realize that he was in fact an ass.. maybe I’m just bitter because of my stupid ex - who has said many a similar things to me like the things said in this song.
A guy sent this to me, I understand what the songs means, but how should I take it? Here is the background, we never actually dated.. but we almost did.. He told me he wasn't ready.. but he said he never met anyone like me before.. and we could talk for hours.. and that nobody else could compare. Now we aren't friends..or are even together.. and we its impossible to be just friends.
just move on...
. .. .. .. ..
i've kinda sorta been there. it's never easy to "just move on", always easier said than done, I know.
As much as I love this song...it is so sad.
This is a cop out. This is some guy saying "I am justifying breaking your heart and treating you like shit, because someday, you will find a guy who treats you amazingly...that's just not me, therefore, I don't care."
Sad.
I agree with HeyAmanda. Ben Gibbard said in Spin that he thought this song was so hopeful and happy, but it makes me sick. It makes me think that he's like every other guy... just justifying breaking up with you and trying to be nice even though they don't care.
my god, this song rips someone broke up with me with this song, essentially it's a big blow to the testes
it's so blunt and apathetic and the guitar is so punctual at the beginning gawd, it burns ben gibbard, you callous ass why can't you be nice? heh
Consider this. The regret he feels is not for having left the girl alone in bed, but for not having the empathy to want to stay. It's not a song for her--it's a song highlighting his own self-loathing.
Boy got hurt. Boy found Rebound Girl. They lasted a while, and though he respected her and felt duty to soldier on because kept waiting for it to happen ( falling in love) but it never did. Boy meets differnt girl, and is torn but he knows where his heart lies, and has to break Rebound girls heart and feels really bad about it but he knows she is wonderful and will find another one, one she was ment to be with.
This song is absolutely beautiful. It explains my last relationship almost completely. He just kind of... walked out with no rhyme or reason to it.
The meaning of this song is pretty obvious if you ask me. That he loved (For lack of a better word) a girl and left her without feeling any regret. How much easier could it get?