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.
Brought back from the silence
As darkness whitened into a day
Tried to weave the pieces together
Force the past away
Mind weary of sorrow
Body tired from the way
Welcomed yet another morning
Of longing and dismay
What have I for you to offer
Besides this long haul
Wade across vast snowfields
Journey through endless moors
Death walked the earth today
Without a sound, motionless
Forced its way into my arms
Caressed me with the dark
Dragged again up to surface
From the bowels of the earth
To face yet another morning
Breath gasping black steam of death
These are our waking hours
In cold sunlight we pine away
Towards yet another morning
Till following hopeless day
As darkness whitened into a day
Tried to weave the pieces together
Force the past away
Mind weary of sorrow
Body tired from the way
Welcomed yet another morning
Of longing and dismay
What have I for you to offer
Besides this long haul
Wade across vast snowfields
Journey through endless moors
Death walked the earth today
Without a sound, motionless
Forced its way into my arms
Caressed me with the dark
Dragged again up to surface
From the bowels of the earth
To face yet another morning
Breath gasping black steam of death
These are our waking hours
In cold sunlight we pine away
Towards yet another morning
Till following hopeless day
Lyrics submitted by Donka
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Holiday
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
Silent Planet
I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
I think especially the last stanza is very explicit, the "waking hours" (the life) is spent pining away in "cold sunlight" (The sun, symbol of life and joy, is actually cold and bleak). This applies to the seemingly endless succession of days.
The protagonist walks through the moors, an area that is hard to walk through, full of darkness and mist (also mystery, but i think this isn't that relevant here). This way, he/she forces "the past away". The hint "What have i for you to offer" could indicate a lost love, which was there in the past, but the protagonist is trying to forget. So he/she has to walk through the moors, where an encounter with death happens. It forced himself into the protagonists arms, so it was a very close encounter, not wanted by the protagonist. This could mean a "natural" death by depression and a broken heart, but could also be a suicide attempt. It is just later that the protagonist is "dragged again up to surface", back to the life of humans, where the next bleak morning has to be faced. It is not explained, who or what does the dragging, it could perhaps be some kind of remaining will to live or the normal course of life (people go on living if nothing happens). I don't think that an intervention of another human being happens.
Then, the circle closes, and the loop of life continues, "Till following hopless day".
The album this song is on is a story about the loss of a person's mother and how he has such a difficult time dealing with it. It also get's into the sorrow of his father at her loss and how the tragedy tears them apart. An incredibly sad album, but still my favorite from this wonderful band.
I think this song is a continuation of the main character's struggle to accept the loss and it is not going well for him.
what does he mean by journey through endless moors?
A moor is a vast area usually containing bracken and moss. Perhaps "moor" is a metaphor to his live? and the journey through his life?