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.
If I could only get the tools, the stimuli and
Molecules, frozen moments in time
I could be the archetype, a credit to the
Genotype, reprogram your mind
But the storybook sages fill their pages
Hiding from the warming sun
Limitless distractions give no pause to distort a precious delusion
Delusion, precious delusion
Did you see the moralist retort and raise his fist
"You can't make man a machine!"?
I can see the edifice crumbling in foggy mist
Razed by discovery
But the storybook sages fill their pages
Hiding from the warming sun
Limitless distractions give no pause to distort a precious delusion
Delusion, precious delusion
Delusion
Molecules, frozen moments in time
I could be the archetype, a credit to the
Genotype, reprogram your mind
But the storybook sages fill their pages
Hiding from the warming sun
Limitless distractions give no pause to distort a precious delusion
Delusion, precious delusion
Did you see the moralist retort and raise his fist
"You can't make man a machine!"?
I can see the edifice crumbling in foggy mist
Razed by discovery
But the storybook sages fill their pages
Hiding from the warming sun
Limitless distractions give no pause to distort a precious delusion
Delusion, precious delusion
Delusion
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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.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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I think this song is about the people who cling to the "precious delusion" that humans are special, that we are not, when you get down to it, merely biological machines and their staunch resistance to the light of discovery and truth that would rip it away.
This one has a similar message to "Lost Pilgrim." In that the powers that hold sway upon the masses are distorting reality and facts to fit their own "precious delusion." "Storybook sages" are the people who write and control history, i.e. politicians and religious figures. "Warming sun" I think has a double meaning. One: shedding light on facts (scientific discoveries, etc.) & Two: literally warming sun, global warming, giving the song an example of the manipulation that is occuring. $0.02
This song is about how politicians are so "dilusionized" by other issues in society that they divert their attention away from what Greg Graffin considers to be the issue of chief importance, global warming and climate change.
I thought it seemed to be about how moralists myopic delusional vindictions stand in the way to hinder science and progression..
But it also appears it could be about global warming
The Grand Delusion is Free Will.
The first verse is arguing for determinism - if he had the tools and knowledge to control circumstances completely, he could mold your mind or mine, just like any other physical system.
The chorus refers to storybook sages - these would be the theologians and religious apologists who know a lot about religious scripture and doctrine, but presumably little else in the real world (they hide from the sun, so to speak).
The second verse is about arguments for Free Will being based purely on an emotional need to make Man "special" and not subject to the deterministic laws of nature. The discoveries that have razed the edifice of the delusion of Free Will are discoveries in neuroscience and related fields.
Correct me if I'm wrong.