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.
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Fortnight
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Great version of a great song,
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Lol, why do people think that mostly all great songs written are about drugs? It really makes me laugh. As for me, I think that this song is about a very "witchy" woman (no pun intended)...Because in some cultures, women are described as witches because of their beauty, seductiveness. I think this song is very much about such a seductive, sexy woman. A succubus probably.
Lets be honest most of the greatest songs were written whilst the writer was high<br />
They think that because back in the sixties and seventies this type of hippy code language was in all the great songs almost. I know, I was there and flyin high baby. Dig it? Lucy In the sky with diamonds was about LSD, strawberry fields was a pot thing, and don't even get me started on the Doors. I am not bragging about my drug use, it was stupid and I paid the long term consequences. But you kids now days simply don't get it, and you never will. You had to be there in the moment, part of that rising tide of change. We thought anything was possible, and it was.
@mydoglucky I agree...because if it's about drugs at all, it's funny they never mention it in ANY interview regarding this song.
@mydoglucky interesting take that is heroin. I was thinking the exact same song meaning except I was thinking cocaine due to the fact that people often use a little silver coke spoon to snort coke. That is why Stevie Nicks referred to it in the song Gold dust woman. She has openly admitted she was referring to cocaine. But since you use a silver spoon to heat up heroin that is also a good explanation.
@mydoglucky I agrer with you..<br /> Hhe Blue Oyster Cult song Sinful Love has a similar theme
its about a seductive woman who sleeps around, has apparently killed one of her boy toys, and is addicted to heroine. and it IS about heroine, what other meaning could the line "and she drove herself to madness with a silver spoon" mean? and, "see how high she flies" meaning, see how high she gets.
anyway, its got great lyrics, and the song itself is incredible for setting a mood - eerie and sleazy. its energizing but very smooth sounding at the same time.
i think the lyrics should actually read "I know you want to love her" not "I know you want a lover".
@AndreAndre it's called absinthe, which traditionally, You use a silver slotted spoon, with an sugar cube resting on it, pour water over the sugar cube through the slotted spoon to drink it.<br /> Absinthe these days is different to how it used to be, which had a lot more wormwood in it when brewed originally, wormwood contains thujone which is known to make you hallucinate, in witchcraft it's a potent dream herb and also known as a nerve tonic. It can be toxic if drank too often.<br /> Furthermore, this is actually the reference the song writer is making, not heroine at all.<br /> The Song writer has actually stated that too.
i dont know if you guys have read Wikipedia,it says this song has something to do with Zelda Fitzgerald...idk if that's right but i do think the idea that this song is about herion is really funny and absured...maybe the line "madness with a silver spoon " is about drugs or something like that,but this is not the main idea of this song.
My interpretation is that the woman is wealthy "drove herself to madness with a silver spoon" not only is she incredibly sexy and seductive to every man she meets, she has power in the sense that she's wealthy. she can do anything. she's flying high with power and sex. She's "witchy" in the sense that she's manipulative, cunning. Sleeping in the devil's bed, possibly means that she gets wealth from one or multiple men she sleeps with. A seductive woman with men and their money at her every whim. It would drive anyone insane.
@sleptxdown the silver spoon reference is referring to either a coke spoon or a spoon used to heat up heroin so it can be shot up.
Its about Stevie Nicks. She & Don had a relationship. Gold Dust Woman-take your silver spoon. Rhiannon about a witch.
A woman that has got hooked on herion.
great tune. It kind of makes me smile, but nevertheless a good tune.
The inspiration was apparently Indians (native_Americans for the PC-people) and F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Fitzgerald were somehow also behind the inspiration.
its about my girlfriend, that heroin addict
An absolute CLASSIC and a very underrated Eagles track. Great Bluesy guitar, one of those songs that must be cranked up real LOUD. I think its just about a woman that can take you over (kinda live the chick in livin la vioda loca!!!!!)