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.
Scarlet red gushing from pulsing veins
lacerations, stab sounds, quadriplegia, severely ill,
whole body covered in burns and keloid due to infectious disease
This is the bloody sadistic show
Being overdosed with the drug of derangement
Convulsing in an epileptic fit as the brain dissolves
Escaping from reality with disassociation of personality
This is the bloody dirty show
Endless drifting dying
becoming a sweet reverberation
drop your gut spilled out
a vivid and bright red scattering bouquet
from your gut spilled out
a vivid and bright red scattering bouquet
Control
Strange Voice
Strange Life
Sacrifice
Control
Strange Voice
Strange Life
Sacrifice
Bleh
This is who we are
Pain to your mind the space has stagnated and the facial expressions distorted
This is who we are
Leaving them alone
It had bloomed vividly in profusion
Showing a glimpse of the line between life and death
Being in search of beauty over and over again
shitty dirty mother f#cker
lousy lowly mother f#cker
sleazy trashy mother f#cker
creepy nasty mother f#cker
shitty dirty mother f#cker
lousy lowly mother f#cker
Scarlet red gushing from pulsing veins
lacerations, stab sounds, quadriplegia, severely ill,
whole body covered in burns and keloid due to infectious disease
This is the bloody sadistic show
Being overdosed with the drug of derangement
Convulsing in an epileptic fit as the brain dissolves
Escaping from reality with disassociation of personality
This is the bloody dirty show
Swallowed by a whirling vortex swiftly flowing
It's always time for pain and
pleasureeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Time for pleasureeeeeeeeeeeeeee
lacerations, stab sounds, quadriplegia, severely ill,
whole body covered in burns and keloid due to infectious disease
This is the bloody sadistic show
Being overdosed with the drug of derangement
Convulsing in an epileptic fit as the brain dissolves
Escaping from reality with disassociation of personality
This is the bloody dirty show
Endless drifting dying
becoming a sweet reverberation
drop your gut spilled out
a vivid and bright red scattering bouquet
from your gut spilled out
a vivid and bright red scattering bouquet
Control
Strange Voice
Strange Life
Sacrifice
Control
Strange Voice
Strange Life
Sacrifice
Bleh
This is who we are
Pain to your mind the space has stagnated and the facial expressions distorted
This is who we are
Leaving them alone
It had bloomed vividly in profusion
Showing a glimpse of the line between life and death
Being in search of beauty over and over again
shitty dirty mother f#cker
lousy lowly mother f#cker
sleazy trashy mother f#cker
creepy nasty mother f#cker
shitty dirty mother f#cker
lousy lowly mother f#cker
Scarlet red gushing from pulsing veins
lacerations, stab sounds, quadriplegia, severely ill,
whole body covered in burns and keloid due to infectious disease
This is the bloody sadistic show
Being overdosed with the drug of derangement
Convulsing in an epileptic fit as the brain dissolves
Escaping from reality with disassociation of personality
This is the bloody dirty show
Swallowed by a whirling vortex swiftly flowing
It's always time for pain and
pleasureeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Time for pleasureeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
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The Night We Met
Lord Huron
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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"
Cajun Girl
Little Feat
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Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Amazing
Ed Sheeran
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
I think this an exaggerated look at society, how it pushes perfection/ plastic surgery and such in order for everyone to look a certain way. Not everyone can afford to or should have to go under the knife, but Society's unreal expectations of beauty make them feel as if they do.