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.
So tired
Tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
So tired
Tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
I was a lonely soul
I had nobody till I met you
But you keep a-me waiting
All of the time
What can I do?
It's your life
And you can do what you want
Do what you like
But please don't keep a-me waiting
Please don't keep a-me waiting
'Cause I'm so tired
Tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
So tired
Tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
I was a lonely soul
I had nobody till I met you
But you keep a-me waiting
All of the time
What can I do?
It's your life
And you can do what you want
Do what you like
But please don't keep a-me waiting
Please don't keep a-me waiting
'Cause I'm so tired
Tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
So tired
Tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
For you
For you
Tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
So tired
Tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
I was a lonely soul
I had nobody till I met you
But you keep a-me waiting
All of the time
What can I do?
It's your life
And you can do what you want
Do what you like
But please don't keep a-me waiting
Please don't keep a-me waiting
'Cause I'm so tired
Tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
So tired
Tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
I was a lonely soul
I had nobody till I met you
But you keep a-me waiting
All of the time
What can I do?
It's your life
And you can do what you want
Do what you like
But please don't keep a-me waiting
Please don't keep a-me waiting
'Cause I'm so tired
Tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
So tired
Tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
For you
For you
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Tired of Waiting for You Lyrics as written by Raymond Douglas Davies
Lyrics © BROADWAY MUSIC CORPORATION, Kassner Associated Publishers Ltd, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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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.
The Night We Met
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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"
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Ebba Grön
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
I am surprised no one has commented on this song. Great song. Green Day does a cover of this song, and does a great job on the song, and doesn't ruin it like some bands have. I recommend you check out the cover if you like the original.
Lack of Kink fans on here i see. Oh well, I actually prefer the Green Day cover than the original.
I'm a great Kinks fan, I really like this song but I haven't heard the cover yet.
2, Go die.
How does one "go die"? I really like the chorususususs... I think this song is about a relationship. One that has no jet engines, more blockage and waiting gating. Yeah.
I quite liked the Greenday version. Although recently heard a slightly remixed version on Green Wing.. muchos love for Green Wing as the character Mac is a kinks fan (the beginning of the episode here- vids.myspace.com/index.cfm)
this song is about a girl who is fucking some fella around. but yes! there is no kinks fans. well i love them!
this song is about a girl who is fucking some fella around. but yes! there is no kinks fans. well i love them!
There was an episode of Crossing Jordan with this song in it. The main character, Jordan, sings this song with her friend on karaoke night. Here's a link to it: youtube.com/watch
I might be wrong, but I've always had the impression that he's yet to meet this girl. He's tired of waiting for the girl of his dreams. He thinks that out there is someone who is right for him, and until the day she comes into his life he will always feel lonely. But he's getting frustrated waiting on her, he wishes he could meet his dream partner as soon as possible.