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.
The banks of the river run through my hometown
'BOARDED ON THE dirt roads, and I scraped my knees
Well they paved the roads eventually
With neon signs and car dealerships and diners
The soldiers fill the hotels on the weekends
I saw the pretty women as I walked through town
Well, I moved away soon as I turned sixteen
Figured I was old enough to go and work a job
Well I floated down main street, pools of car lights
WOE BECAME me, wishing I was still back home
The soldiers fill the hotels on the weekends
I saw the pretty women as I walked through town
Well, Jacksonville's a city with a hopeless streetlight
Seems like you're lucky if it ever change from red to green
I was born in an abundance of inherited sadness
And .50 cent picture frames bought at a five and dime
I ended up a soldier on the weekend
Looking for a vacancy I was NEVER to find
Somewhere the night sky hangs like a blanket
Shoot it with my cap gun just to make it
Seem like stars
'BOARDED ON THE dirt roads, and I scraped my knees
Well they paved the roads eventually
With neon signs and car dealerships and diners
The soldiers fill the hotels on the weekends
I saw the pretty women as I walked through town
Well, I moved away soon as I turned sixteen
Figured I was old enough to go and work a job
Well I floated down main street, pools of car lights
WOE BECAME me, wishing I was still back home
The soldiers fill the hotels on the weekends
I saw the pretty women as I walked through town
Well, Jacksonville's a city with a hopeless streetlight
Seems like you're lucky if it ever change from red to green
I was born in an abundance of inherited sadness
And .50 cent picture frames bought at a five and dime
I ended up a soldier on the weekend
Looking for a vacancy I was NEVER to find
Somewhere the night sky hangs like a blanket
Shoot it with my cap gun just to make it
Seem like stars
Lyrics submitted by rosyquill, edited by littergrrl
Jacksonville Skyline 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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Great version of a great song,
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Ryan has said that this song is mostly autobiographical. Completely understandable.
Still a great song about home, youth, growing up and how much of a struggle all of it can be! One of my favies!
you feel immediately that this is his most personal song, and what a song it is.
I know it's easy to say "such and such might be the best such and such of all time" but seriously....this song must have one of the top 5 ending lines of all time. "Somewhere the night sky hangs like a blanket, shoot it with my cap gun just to make it seem like stars"
It paints such a meaningful vision, and it almost seems out of place in the song. It's 100% perfect.
Yes! I absolutely agree with you about the last two lines--they are a beautiful, perfect surprise, I feel incredibly happy every time I hear them. It is one of my most favorite Ryan Adams songs.
Oh well ... I must say, I'm from Germany, 33 years of age, and, wow, how wonderful Ryan Adams fits my personal life ... for every situation he has the perfect matching song ... this one is really one of his alltime greatest, saddest, deepest and loneliest tunes ever ...
Hope to be in Nashville sometime ... never was there, but long to be ...
Nice greets!
My favorite Whiskeytown song, such an excellent song.
ME TOO.
jacksonville, nc is where Adams is from, he hated it as a kid growing up and couldnt wait to leave, its an army town (hence the references of that)...this song is painful to listen to sometimes but Ryan can really paint a picture with his words, pure brillance