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.
All alone, or in two's
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands
The bleeding hearts and the artists
Make their stand
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall
Isn't this where
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands
The bleeding hearts and the artists
Make their stand
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall
Isn't this where
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae, edited by Mellow_Harsher, nasses321
Outside the Wall Lyrics as written by Roger Waters
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Thank God for the bleeding hearts and artists or we might all be behind walls! lol
This song doesn't make as much sense if you haven't seen the movie. Beware of SPOILERS: The album and the movie are both named the wall. The first part of Another Brick in the wall along with the movie basicly sets the theme. Pink's father goes off to war and dies and this places the first brick in the wall of Pink's life. The general idea being that we all build these walls to keep out the cold world. Which seems like a great idea as Pink goes through his life relatively normal-like except for that whole, becoming a rock star bit. That's when Pink first starts to experience the other side of the wall. The wall keeps out the cold world, but what we often forget is that, there are people who love us in that cold world, warmth as well is kept out by the wall. What goes up must come down. Anyways I think the important part of this song is a kind of solemn thank you to all those people who help us break down the walls that keep us from happiness. Also serving as a warning to people that we should appreciate those people as well because it isnt't easy "beating your heart against some poor buggers wall" especially when you think about how they must be trying to tear down walls of their own.
Excellent interpretation. Only recently started listening to the band's music after ignoring it in the 70's. VERY talented group of guys...
@Dojindog I like your interpretation, but you are forgetting probably the most important brick in the wall: His overly protective mother who shields him off from any external dangers. I actually think that his father's death may have caused his mother to be overly protective, and this has played a bigger role on the main character's life than his father dying. <br /> <br /> More generally, I believe over-protectionism plays an important role in this song, not only by this mother, but by society in general. This comes back in many songs, for instance in "Another brick in the wall 2", where the teachers are overprotective and obsessively controlling.<br /> <br /> All these things are metaphors, I believe, for our society. Our lives are increasingly being dominated by fear. Modern technology has made us aware of all the possible dangers and everything that goes wrong in the world, which many people project on their social world. Parents are scared to let their children play outside, society is being controlled by fear. <br /> <br /> In my eyes, this song is still extremely relevant!
If you play this song on the record, then just as it ends, if you switch to the very first one, the album loops around with the phrase "Isn't this where we came in?"
Holy shit! I've been listening to this album for at least 10 year and I've never noticed that! Thanks for calling my attention to it!
I see this song as sort of the final narrative. Pink Floyd's take on it, that as a band they are trying to reach people, but it's hard if they don't want to listen, trapped behind their wall.
Exactly!
Nevermind, it was "Isn't this where we came in?"
this is one of floyd's best, and holds a personal meaning to me - the lines "some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy / banging your head against some bugger's / wall" are exactly what i felt like every time i tried to console my long-distance boyfriend (via IM) and talk him out of suicide or convince him that he's not letting me down and that he shouldn't ever think he's not good enough for me or he's not the perfect guy i wanted... i think almost anyone can relate to that; if not BF/GF then just a friend or maybe even a child who thinks he didn't live up to his parents standards but yet they still love him unconditionally... btw, we've been together for 4 months now and still going strong :-) eh well there's my story... Pink Floyd is phenomenal!! very informative site: pinkfloyd-co.net
This song to me is the final depection of pink's(the main character in this story) awakening or revelation. He was into his own world so far that he didnt even realize the people around him looking out for his own good. The "artists" and "bleeding hearts" mentioned numerous times on the album were going through hell trying to reach him and protect him when they could have given up and now he finally sees it. It is a wounderful ending and I believe the "isnt this, where we left off?" refers to the begining of this work of art in 'in the flesh?' where he is a child and still has his inocence. i.e. hes outside the wall.
Well tell me what you think, im not saying thats what Roger was thinking but I belive its an insightful opinion and id like to know if anyone agrees with me.
Very insightful!
Yeah. Like he was in limbo since he started building the wall
The line, "Isn't this where we came in" relates to how people go through cycles. They conquer one obstacle (wall) and move onto the next. You are never complete.
"Die every day. Be born every day. Deny everything you have every day. The superior virtue is not to be free but to fight for freedom." - Nikos Kazantzakis
i don't think so, but it's thee same wistful tune. like most of their albums, it loops around perfectly. sort of like "and so life goes on..."
whoops my bad, that should be "banging your heart"... the line is even more powerful that way..