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.
Take me through the centuries to supersonic years
Electrifying enemy is drowning in his tears
All I have to give you is a love that never dies
The symptom of the universe is written in your eyes
Mother moon she's calling me back to her silver womb
Father of creation takes me from my stolen tomb
Seven hundredth unicorn is waiting in the skies
A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies
Take my hand, my child of love come step inside my tears
Swim the magic ocean I've been crying all these years
With our love we'll ride away into eternal skies
A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies
Woman child of love's creation, come and step inside my dreams
In your eyes I see no sadness, you are all that loving means
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above
We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love
Electrifying enemy is drowning in his tears
All I have to give you is a love that never dies
The symptom of the universe is written in your eyes
Mother moon she's calling me back to her silver womb
Father of creation takes me from my stolen tomb
Seven hundredth unicorn is waiting in the skies
A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies
Take my hand, my child of love come step inside my tears
Swim the magic ocean I've been crying all these years
With our love we'll ride away into eternal skies
A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies
Woman child of love's creation, come and step inside my dreams
In your eyes I see no sadness, you are all that loving means
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above
We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
I think it's about birth.
"...calling me back to her silver womb..." Doesn't want to leave the warmth of a mothers womb.
"Father of creation takes me from my stolen tomb" It's time for him to be born and since the father of creation made everything, he decides (basically) it's time.
"Seventh night...unicorn waiting in the skies.." Maybe one of those motorized carousel things hanging above cribs..I don't know.
"Take my hand..." (Third chorus) The mother is so happy about her newborn child.
"..Child of loves creation..." Lovers create babies...
"Symptom of the Universe a love that never dies." Most women get that feeling it's time to make a child, which would be the symptom, and after theve done it, they love what hey produce.
At least thats what I think it is about. Any thoughts?
The lyrics here are wrong thats partly why peolpe can figure it out. Its seven hundreth unicorn is waiting..<br /> Geezer Butler wrote these lyrics from a dream he had. He is the bass player. <br /> Ozzy hardly ever wrote a lyric or the music itself. Iommi and butler wrote these. <br /> Its mother moon,,not mother mooch. mother mooch doesnt even mean anything lol..<br /> where does this site find its lyrics??
I agree with you.
pretty sure its about birthin' babies.
i agree, becuase of the title of the song. The Symptom of the Universe being to just reproduce so we can go on and how pointless it is.
hmm i dont know about the FIRST thrash riff, but its pretty heavy!! what they meant is the fast, palm muted powerchording on the downtuned E, and since its in 4/4 every 4th it changes chord, classic metal riffing.
Killspy has a good point with those lyrics. I just used to think it was some psychedelic stuff because he was on alot of acid in the "good ol days"
Speed metal or thrash metal started when this album was recorded. This whole albums was then and still is inspiring young metal fans to pick up and record. Brake this entire disc down pull it apart and smash it against the fucking wall. The Thrill of it all.
Actually the lyric is "Seventh Advent unicorn..."
@OctoQuad I checked out a few different sources and there was a wide variety from:<br /> <br /> "Seventh Advent unicorn"<br /> "Seven hundredth unicorn"<br /> "Seventh night the unicorn"<br /> <br /> Perhaps we need a bit of a poll on what is correct??
IMHO, Song is about love's different manifestations, while telling the epic journey of some cosmic traveller, based on a crazy dream that Geezer had. Symptom of the Universe = Love.
Verse 1 - Facing an enemy, defeating that enemy and offering a dignified death in defeat, while seeing the enemy's struggle for life for his own loves (was written in his eyes) Verse 2 - Returning home to his mate to procreate. This act of love redeems him from his violence (stolen tomb). "Seventh Advent Unicorn" is an omen of the future, the segue Verse 3 - The Child of Love is the offspring. She either is a pain in the arse to raise, or has to endure the sadness of the protagonist's past to help heal the protagonist.
Note that between v3 and v4 the music transitions and is no longer heavy....so all tense struggle to go from dissonance to assonance (or resolution) manifests into verse 4...
Verse 4 - The Child is grown, has learned from the past, and is a version better suited to pass on a better version of the symptom of the universe.
Thoughts? It's a pretty revolutionary song for it's time. Black Sabbath forever (all variations), RIP DIO!
its obviously a love song of sorts, but some parts of it make no sense whatsoever. Also, the actual lyrics are "mother moon she's calling me..." not "mother mooch is calling me...."
I heard the opening riffs to this song was the first"thrash riff" and what exactly is a thrash riff? Ive never actually heard the song but i dont think thrash metal guys use any different riffs than any other guitarist..