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.
Rolling (rolling) the ball, rolling (rolling) the ball, rolling (rolling) the ball to me
Rolling (rolling) the ball, rolling (rolling) the ball, rolling (rolling) the ball to me
They arrived at an inconvenient time
I was hiding in a room in my mind
They made me look at myself
I saw it well, I'd shut the people out of my life
So now I take the opportunities
Wonderful teachers ready to teach me
I must work on my mind
For now I realize
Everyone of us has a heaven inside
Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot
Them heavy people help me
Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot
Rolling the ball (rolling), rolling the ball (rolling), rolling the ball to me
They open doorways that I thought were shut for good
They read me Gurdjieff and Jesu
They build up my body, break me emotionally
It's nearly killing me, but what a lovely feeling!
I love the whirling of the dervishes
I love the beauty of rare innocence
You don't need no crystal ball
Don't fall for a magic wand
We humans got it all, we perform the miracles
Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot
Them heavy people help me
Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot
Rolling the ball (rolling), rolling the ball(rolling), rolling the ball to me
Rolling (rolling) the ball, rolling (rolling) the ball, rolling (rolling) the ball to me
They arrived at an inconvenient time
I was hiding in a room in my mind
They made me look at myself
I saw it well, I'd shut the people out of my life
So now I take the opportunities
Wonderful teachers ready to teach me
I must work on my mind
For now I realize
Everyone of us has a heaven inside
Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot
Them heavy people help me
Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot
Rolling the ball (rolling), rolling the ball (rolling), rolling the ball to me
They open doorways that I thought were shut for good
They read me Gurdjieff and Jesu
They build up my body, break me emotionally
It's nearly killing me, but what a lovely feeling!
I love the whirling of the dervishes
I love the beauty of rare innocence
You don't need no crystal ball
Don't fall for a magic wand
We humans got it all, we perform the miracles
Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot
Them heavy people help me
Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot
Rolling the ball (rolling), rolling the ball(rolling), rolling the ball to me
Lyrics submitted by weezerific:cutlery
Them Heavy People Lyrics as written by Kate Bush
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I think, this song's about the realization of the fact, that all the people around are our own rtflections and if we don't like someone else's vices, we should try and find it inside of us, too. That way, all the people became our Wonderful Teachers! So, probably, it's about self-development and being a master of one's life.
materbation? wtf? where do you people come up with this stuff.
It's definitely about what trinity tragedy said its about. Meeting people, who offer up different ideas about the world, making the world seems shiney and new, getting the protagonist out of her teenage blues.
So not cults either, I don't think.
LOL!! I'm trying to figure that out myself! There are obvious academic references in there and all!
Uh, no. It's about the pursuit of knowledge and how it lifted her out of the teenage blues.
To be fair, the masturbation ideas probably stem from the feeling most males get when listening to the first Kate Bush album, which is that of sneaking into the women's locker, or, perhaps, sneak-peeking into some kind of pornography intended only for women. However much I agree with these people (myself being one of them), I think this song is written about those people who radiate that certain allure, the kind of people you'd change yourself for, only to show them how good you are. I think the emotional breakdown she describes comes from the lack of self-respect that comes with such a deification, but at the end of the day, it turns out to be a lovely feeling indeed (doesn't it?).
BAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAH! You're so right! Pubescent boys the world over were jacking off over her posters and album covers, why not to the album itself?!<br /> <br /> <br /> T.
I guess everybody interprets it the way it fits into their own mind and it is funny to read what everyone thinks.
For me it seemed like she was singing about being in therapy, getting help from 'heavy people' therapist, psychologists, a lot of heavy talking to work on your mind. Rolling the ball to you because it's always up to you yourself to do the hard work in therapy. That's what I think and feel listening to this beautiful song.
It's very easy. It's a reference to David Gilmour of Pink Floyd who discovered her and helped to develop her as an artist. A very heavy person indeed.
Think it's about cults like Jehova Witnesses, Pentecostals and other two-faced weirdos. Knocking at your door, wanting you to "open yourself" for what they say. Wonderful teachers and stupid little girl, hidden in her own world, ready to accept everything, true or lie, as long as it will be attractive. They're hitting everyone of us in soft spot - everyone of us needs something to believe in, needs new emotional feelings, needs to know The True. False or not, just to know and stop thinking. They "help" you with this. Making you their slave at the same time.
Leaving the lyrics aside: great song, sounds very McCartneyish; I love it.
^^ What strange ideas people have!
Gurdjieff was a mystic - "work on my mind" is a reference to his "Fourth Way." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Way
To me, it's pretty clearly about someone seeing a therapist or maybe a therapy group.
They're using the technique where they sit in a circle and the therapist rolls the ball to each and they roll it back. It's a simple method to build trust and very gently interact with others, or summat.
I like the Prof's theory below, though!
For some of us there comes a time - when you stuck and do not know how to handle your live further- you will become connection with something highers - teachers of live - the will help you to learn to solve your own problems and questions about live ; they will bring you to a higher level.
You are open for it thoughts and you will learn more about yourself and that the heaven is inside of you. you will fix your problems at your own and you a will be fantastically happy. And above all you are in the soft spot from your teachers :-)