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.
Tell them that the house is not for sale
We're still living here
How come nobody can tell?
They're taking all the furniture
Moving our things
Come on little honey, put your head on my knee
Tell them that the house is not for sale
And calm down.
Calm down.
Do you remember when we even bought this thing?
I danced you across the wooden floor
And you signed the lease
What happened in the car that night?
What happened in the car that night?
Tell them that the house is not for sale
Calm down.
Tell them that the house is not for sale
We can grab a couple sheets and give them quite a scare
I remember lying on the bedroom floor
You were holding me honey, shaking my soul
Tell them that the house is not for sale
And Calm down
Calm down
We're still living here
How come nobody can tell?
They're taking all the furniture
Moving our things
Come on little honey, put your head on my knee
Tell them that the house is not for sale
And calm down.
Calm down.
Do you remember when we even bought this thing?
I danced you across the wooden floor
And you signed the lease
What happened in the car that night?
What happened in the car that night?
Tell them that the house is not for sale
Calm down.
Tell them that the house is not for sale
We can grab a couple sheets and give them quite a scare
I remember lying on the bedroom floor
You were holding me honey, shaking my soul
Tell them that the house is not for sale
And Calm down
Calm down
Lyrics submitted by BlueAndStarry, edited by Franchesco
This House Is Not for Sale Lyrics as written by Ryan Adams
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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About a couple that bought a house together then died in a car accident.
Paging Beetlejuice!
spot on heidi
"About a couple that bought a house together then died in a car accident"
Yes that's true I think! I remember reading an interview with Ryan somewhere and he did say this song was from the perspective of two people who had died and were ghosts in the house, and reading the lyrics back, Ryan's explanation makes sense. But as with any song, the lyrics can also be interpreted in another way.
Anyway I love this song, one of my favourite Ryan tracks. There really isn't many of his songs that I don't like to be honest.
Did anybody ever see the film "Betelguese"? It sounds very much to me like the plot of that film. "What happened in the car that night?" "We can grab a couple sheets and give them quite a scare " Sound familiar?
"We could grab a couple sheets and give them quite a scare I remember lying on the bedroom floor You were holding me honey, KISSING my soul" My favourite part of this masterpiece.
Gimme a break.
I feel like this is a song about loss, about losing someone and the feeling (or the knowledge...) of not being able to do anything about it.
I'd recommend anyone to download it btw, it's a sad and melancholic song, but a truly great one too.
sounds like a drug bust to me. ??
I think it's a metaphor for a very large emotional investment. She's in a panic over the magnitude, the commitment, and is ready to run off. But he's obviously trying to keep them together, a last ditch effort to hold onto the memories. "What happened in the car that night?" is not her death, but rather a reference to their first time (I wouldn't put it past Ryan to be dirty and sad at the same time).
For me, this song strikes up imagery from "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
Right, so the couple dies in a car accident. Then, they're haunting their old house and someone comes to buy it and they want to stop them because it's THEIR house... but they can't do anything because their helpless in the afterlife... absolutely heartbreaking...
Ryan has said, I think that his inspiration for this song was Beetlejuice
lol Ochikanobee, if that was a joke, it was a real good one.