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.
Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our rice crispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can take
Many miles away something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake
Another industrial ugly morning
The factory belches filth into the sky
He walks unhindered through the picket lines today,
He doesn't think to wonder why
The secretaries pout and preen like cheap tarts in a red light street,
But all he ever thinks to do is watch,
And every single meeting with his so-called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
Many miles away something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish loch
Another working day has ended
Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now, looming in his headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake
Many miles away
Many miles away
Many miles away
Many miles away
Many miles away
Many miles away
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our rice crispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can take
Many miles away something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake
Another industrial ugly morning
The factory belches filth into the sky
He walks unhindered through the picket lines today,
He doesn't think to wonder why
The secretaries pout and preen like cheap tarts in a red light street,
But all he ever thinks to do is watch,
And every single meeting with his so-called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
Many miles away something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish loch
Another working day has ended
Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now, looming in his headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake
Many miles away
Many miles away
Many miles away
Many miles away
Many miles away
Many miles away
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Synchronicity II Lyrics as written by Gordon Sumner
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
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It's pretty obvious. He's about to murder the family. He is the monster. The monster is the hatred that's been festering in him, he's personified it. What he's "staring at" in the distance is the monster. i.e. He's envisioning it. Notice every time the monster is mentioned it's accompanied by the man staring, or watching, etc? Until the end, when he and the monster are both reaching to open the door... they have found synchronicity.
Adding to last comment- found 1 line wrong here- should be- "Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance" - the word alone adds emphasis to his ambivolence of feeling towards anyone.
"He knows that something somewhere has to break He sees the family home now looming in his headlights The pain upstairs makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the shore Of a dark Scottish lake
Many miles away"
So to clarify my post- the monster is entering the cottage to kill all inside, at the same time the father is entering the house to kill his family. Hence, the synchronicity. After hearing the song umteen times, reading the lyrics, and realizing this, it sent chills down my spine. Sting is a hell of a lyracist, with one hell of an imagination.
@loderunner Notice the line about him walking unhindered through the picket line? He's frightening. He looks unhinged.
It's about the emasculation and demoralization of the middle class male with the images of the monster rising from the lake serving as a symbol for the need to awaken and relate to man's primal side. The man is besieged at home with problems, seems to be in an unhappy marriage, has a thankless job and a polluted environment. Secretly he wishes to act on his lusty impulses for the secretaries at his office but "all he ever thinks to do is watch." It is indicated that there is an outward signal of the primal force rising inside him: "He walks unhindered through the picket lines today / He doesn't think to wonder why"
It just seems to me that it is about modern middle class man's rising frustration both at his station in life and to the moral and natural decay that seems to be taking place around him, this frustration is linked symbolically as the catalyst for the monster rising from the lake.
I don't think it's any more about men than it is about women, especially in this day and age, or even in the 80's. Everyone is working to get their family through, and that includes mothers and fathers. This song is about a working husband and father, but is relatable to working Mom's, Dad's, gay parents, etc.
@maclasch Yeah, it\'s about working women and homosexuals. Right. Because those groups are every bit as maligned as middle-class men.\r\n\r\nGTFO of here with that nonsense.
@EightiesGuy best eisegesis yet! Well done!
i think that the song is telling two stories about the lochness monster and a frustrated dad. they are feeling and doing the same thing, they are in sychronicity. the dad realizes his life is full of boredom and frustration and hes trapped as a middle class worker. while the monster is full of boredom and frustration, trapped in a loch and always hiding. In this point in the fathers life he finally snaps out side of his house where he can see his family who he's gotten sick of and his monster hes been storing inside of him finally comes out, and goes in and murders them all. The Loch ness monster, in an act of frustration, creeps up to a lake side cottage to kill everyone inhabiting it. basically the same story with both the man and the monster.
this song is about the lives we live today, we have to put up with boredom of family life, the boredom of work, and then at the end of the day the boredom of traffic, "packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes contestants in a suicidal race" when your stuck in traffic next, think of these lyrics and u will see what a waste of life . this song is nearly 20 years old and still it rings true for millions of people throughout the world.
To Stingfan: I was in college in 1983. The environment was definitely a hot topic. The big concerns were acid rain and nuclear fallout. It was only a few years after the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant incident. The prospect of nuclear war was also looming. One of the most-watched TV movies that year, The Day After, was about a nuclear holocaust.
As many have said before, the essence of Synchronicity is that the events that have no causal relationship, and are not taking place in the same place, but nonetheless, are somehow connected. That's why the Police repeat (over and over) the lines "many miles away".
@fanofoldies absolutely, the last possible date for the rise of environmental concerns would be 1962 with the publication of Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' and probably earlier with the foundation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Like many Police songs of this era (check out When the World is Turning...") this is definitely a social commentary on post-modernism. For a good example of fictional post-modernism and to see what it's all about, check out "White Noise" by Don DeLilo (not sure about spelling) but it's an amazing book. I'm not sure about the Loch Ness Monster references though. Perhaps it is comparing the stark, bleak, reality of the American post-modern age, with the fantasy and mystery of ages past? Who knows. grouping may have a good point too.
Some famous writer once described Britons as living lives of quiet desperation. Pink Floyd referenced the line at the beginning of "Dark Side of the Moon." Seems to me this song is referring to it as well, drawing a picture of a desperate middle-class man socially buffeted from all sides until "something has to break," at which point the inner monster is released and, the song seems to imply, something horrible happens.
@PencilNeckedGeek Somerset Maugham's poem The Hero. Pink Floyd ref are: "hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" in Time and also "in quiet desperation, knuckles white upon the slippery reign", from South Hampton Dock, from The Final Cut.
@PencilNeckedGeek Somerset Maugham's poem The Hero. Pink Floyd ref are: "hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" in Time and also "in quiet desperation, knuckles white upon the slippery reign", from South Hampton Dock, from The Final Cut.
@PencilNeckedGeek Somerset Maugham's poem The Hero. Pink Floyd ref are: "hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" in Time and also "in quiet desperation, knuckles white upon the slippery reign", from South Hampton Dock, from The Final Cut.
@PencilNeckedGeek Somerset Maugham's poem The Hero. Pink Floyd ref are: "hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" in Time and also "in quiet desperation, knuckles white upon the slippery reign", from South Hampton Dock, from The Final Cut.
@PencilNeckedGeek Somerset Maugham's poem The Hero. Pink Floyd ref are: "hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" in Time and also "in quiet desperation, knuckles white upon the slippery reign", from South Hampton Dock, from The Final Cut.
@PencilNeckedGeek Somerset Maugham's poem The Hero. Pink Floyd ref are: "hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" in Time and also "in quiet desperation, knuckles white upon the slippery reign", from South Hampton Dock, from The Final Cut.
This song is MOST DEFINITELY about the father slowly slipping into insanity, driven by his poor home life and the hopelessness of his work situation. Sounds like he gets it honestly from his mother.
The 'monster' or 'creature' was never said to be the Lock Ness Monster. There are lots of stories about lake monsters in Scotland, and Nessie is only one of them
I see a vile creature stirring and rising from the depths of a dark slimy lake coinciding with the father's fall. Or, you could say that as the creature rises, so does the evil within the father.
One line that put it into focus for me was:
"He walks unhindered through the picket lines today He doesn't think to wonder why"
I picture him walking him walking through a throng of protesters with suck a look on his face and an air of fear about him that they move aside as he gets closer. But he's already so far gone that it doesn't even occur to him.
And at the end as the shadow falls across the door both of the house and the cottage, the creature has risen and is loose both in life and metaphorically, and I doubt if either is going to simply whine about having a bad day...
I think this song is just about the desperation of modern life, and the way this man's sanity is hanging by a thread. Apparently it's starting to show externally as well, as no one hassles him when he goes through the picket line that day.
I think the monster and the Scottish lake are metaphors for his psychological state. Something primal is coming up from the depths. The 'shadow on the door' is a pretty suspenseful bit of imagery to end with, and I think it implies that something has broken, or at least changed in this man's mind.
It's also interesting to note that the man is always 'staring into the distance', and this monster is 'many miles away'. That's a big part of what makes me think the monster is a metaphor for his own mental state.