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.
my systems down
got an overload of hate
got a bad additude
i dont intend to change
ive had my fill
ive put my cards on the table
won't take it back
cause today i hate everything
i hate it all
hate my friends
hate this song
hate this bad additude
im sure youll hate it too
but i dont care
you know why? (why?)
cause when its over then you die (die)
no makin friends today
cause i hate everything
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
trees hate the birds and the bees
got a sick fuckin mind
and no time for your kind
ill say again
lest i still question my friends
ill smile tomorrow
cause today i hate everything
i got a chip on my shoulder
and a monkey on my back
got a lot of things to say
and i think im gonna crack
cant buy a smile
off the worlds happiest man
no huggin trees today
cause i hate everything.
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
fuck
i hate it all
i hate the winter, summer, spring,
i hate the fall
i hate the world, the birds
the flowers and the squirrels
i said before that today i hate everything
i got an itch i cant scratch
all these people on my back
make me sick
theyre all pricks
and your mother turns tricks
so bother me even
when i dont care what you say
dont need a hug
cause today i hate everything
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
fuck you... y'know what i mean.
got an overload of hate
got a bad additude
i dont intend to change
ive had my fill
ive put my cards on the table
won't take it back
cause today i hate everything
i hate it all
hate my friends
hate this song
hate this bad additude
im sure youll hate it too
but i dont care
you know why? (why?)
cause when its over then you die (die)
no makin friends today
cause i hate everything
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
trees hate the birds and the bees
got a sick fuckin mind
and no time for your kind
ill say again
lest i still question my friends
ill smile tomorrow
cause today i hate everything
i got a chip on my shoulder
and a monkey on my back
got a lot of things to say
and i think im gonna crack
cant buy a smile
off the worlds happiest man
no huggin trees today
cause i hate everything.
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
fuck
i hate it all
i hate the winter, summer, spring,
i hate the fall
i hate the world, the birds
the flowers and the squirrels
i said before that today i hate everything
i got an itch i cant scratch
all these people on my back
make me sick
theyre all pricks
and your mother turns tricks
so bother me even
when i dont care what you say
dont need a hug
cause today i hate everything
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
i hate everything (fuck you!)
fuck you... y'know what i mean.
Lyrics submitted by alk3girl
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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"
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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Actually, just to reinforce what I said before... I noticed that after the chorus, you can hear him scream "Fuck hate!" So I reckon by singing this song, they are just being ironic. He say's he hates everything... but be hates hate too.