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.
In Candy's room there are pictures of her heroes on the wall
But to get to Candy's room you gotta walk the darkness of Candy's hall
Strangers from the city, call my baby's number and they bring her toys
When I come knocking, she smiles pretty, she knows I want to be Candy's boy
There's a sadness hidden in that pretty face
A sadness al I her own
From which no man can keep Candy safe
We kiss, my heart's pumpin' to my brain
And the blood rushes in my veins, the fire rushes towards the skies
We go driving, driving deep into the night
I go driving deep into the light, in Candy's eyes
She says, Baby if you want to be wild
You got a lot to learn, close your eyes
Let them melt, let them fire
Let them burn
'Cause in the darkness, there'll be hidden worlds that shine
When I hold Candy close she makes the hidden worlds mine
She has fancy clothes and diamond rings
She has men who give her anything she wants, but they don't see
That what she wants is me
Oh, and I want her so
I'll never let her go, no, no, no
She knows that I'd give
All that I got to give
All that I want, all that I live
To make Candy mine
Tonight
But to get to Candy's room you gotta walk the darkness of Candy's hall
Strangers from the city, call my baby's number and they bring her toys
When I come knocking, she smiles pretty, she knows I want to be Candy's boy
There's a sadness hidden in that pretty face
A sadness al I her own
From which no man can keep Candy safe
We kiss, my heart's pumpin' to my brain
And the blood rushes in my veins, the fire rushes towards the skies
We go driving, driving deep into the night
I go driving deep into the light, in Candy's eyes
She says, Baby if you want to be wild
You got a lot to learn, close your eyes
Let them melt, let them fire
Let them burn
'Cause in the darkness, there'll be hidden worlds that shine
When I hold Candy close she makes the hidden worlds mine
She has fancy clothes and diamond rings
She has men who give her anything she wants, but they don't see
That what she wants is me
Oh, and I want her so
I'll never let her go, no, no, no
She knows that I'd give
All that I got to give
All that I want, all that I live
To make Candy mine
Tonight
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
Light Up The Sky
Van Halen
Van Halen
The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
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"
When We Were Young
Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
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.
This is not a song about a prostitute, or a stripper. You have to look at where Springsteen was in his life when he was writing the Darkness album. The characters on this album are in their mid 20's. Bruce saw many of his characters still living at home, with their Dads. The girl in Racing in the Street sat on her daddys porch, The girl from Talk to Me sat with her daddy upstairs, the Preachers Daughter worked with her dad, and lived at home. Even the boys had an attachment to their parents, the singer in Promised Land worked at his Daddys garage, and of course Independence Day, written during Darkness is a goodbye to the singers dad. The album focuses on the point in your life where you are making that break to independence. The romantic days of being Born to Run, are giving way to manhood, responsibility, and a sense of settling down.
Bruce also saw himself as this guy that you wouldn't necessarily want to bring home to meet your folks. Long hair, playing rock and roll, and normally looking pretty scruffy probably didn't go over well with the folks in general. This isn't really related in this song, but look at the song with Bruces vision of himself in mind. Now Candy is probably young, good looking, and coming from a family with a bit of wealth. Much like the theme that was played out in the I'm on Fire video years later. Scruffy mechanic, pretty rich lady, and some cross class romance.
Candys Room has pictures of her heroes on it, because she is still living at home probably with movie posters or singers on her walls from her recent youth. Now the men calling her from the city are suitors, Candy is a pretty girl, and many men would like to be dating her. They will bring her things to try and convince her to go out with them, as men will do. There's a sadness in her pretty face, just like the girl from Racing in the Street, they are growing up, and the innocence, and freedom of youth is giving way to the realities of her life ahead.
They kiss, and go driving deep into the night, Candy likes riding with the bad boy, similar to the singer in Preachers daughter. The singer is a little more naive than Candy, and she is trying to show him that there is a better life waiting, and when he pulls her close he feels he has everything.
The final verse is just an affirmation of what we already knew, She has fancy clothes, and diamonds, because she comes from a more established family than the singer. She has men who would bring her anything to be in his position, but she wants the singer even though he can't give her those things. He affirms at the end that she knows while not much, he would give her all the things he has.
@chrisg19 I think that's sort of right. I think Candy has men who take care of her, give her fancy gifts, and the darkness is complicated and compromised life, and her sold-out soul. The protagonist likes to think she really prefers to be with him, and she clearly rocks his world. He's infatuated and obsessed. <br />
@chrisg19 Chris you nailed it. Thanks for the interpretation. What an amazing song.
the song is as short as candy's relationships with men...amazing, explosive, and over just as quick as it starts...and then there's nothing...and is it just me, or is the wailing guitar at the very end just intoxicating?
The song is about a young, sexually inexperienced man who becomes infatuated with a high-end prostitute.
The song is told from the perspective of an unreliable narrator. His infatuation (and her performance) allows him to trick himself into believing that she is in love with him when he’s really just another of her punters.
For clues to her occupation, and our narrator’s relationship with her, look at the following lines:
“Strangers from the city, call my baby’s number and they bring her toys” -why are (multiple) strangers phoning her? Where are they getting her number? And why are they bringing her toys?
“She has fancy clothes and diamond rings / She has men who give her anything she wants” -Her fancy clothes and diamond rings are gifts from her ‘clients’ who are bringing her expensive gifts (and money) to pay for her time.
“To get to Candys room, you gotta walk the darkness of Candys hall” -why is a woman with expensive clothes and diamond rings living in a single room at the end of a dark hallway? Our narrator has to knock to enter.
“They don’t see / that what she wants is me” -he believes that she is equally infatuated with him.
“She knows that I’d give / all that I got to give, / All that I want, all that I live, / to make Candy mine / Tonight” -he’ll give all that he has to buy Candy’s time for one night. And - what’s more - she knows it. Everything that’s gone before with her seduction has been a sales pitch. Now that he’s infatuated, he’s just another punter bringing her money, expensive gifts and toys to be with her.
@milominderbinder I think you have perfectly expressed it here my friend!<br /> This is always how I have interpreted these lyrics - with maybe one slight difference but I don't think it matters too much. In my interpretation, Candy is not necessarily high-end, but she's definitely experienced in getting what she wants from these 'strangers from the city', and as you say, the narrator just doesn't see it.<br /> Also, I detect an undertone of maybe she wants to escape this life she is trapped in (is she trapped? It's unclear, but that's the great mystery of this song that makes it brilliant) and maybe he sees that (or imagines it) and imagines that he is her route out, her knight in shining armour if you like that metaphor.
i absolutely adore this song. i just wish it was a little longer.
about a stripper.
Such passion, such power - the song leaves you breathless - reminds me of pure lust
One can say this song is about a stripper, a prostitute or whatever, it doesn't really matter. It's a very emotional, physical song that tugs at different feelings to most of the album and Springsteen's catalogue. Whereas much of Darkness on the Edge of Town is about difficulty, this is about the delusions of lust.
The guitar solo is, along with the one in Incident on 57th Street, the best and most vital in his enormous collection, while the buildup is absolutely stunning. Compositionally this is a masterpiece.
Agreed - prostitute (to get to Candy's room...) - the driving beat of the drums is fantastic and works so well in the song. It wouldn't be right if the song were longer since the lust is short, powerful, concentrated, but ultimately short lived (she's not called "Candy" by coincidence). The ending is perfect - "All that I want all that I live to make Candy mine...(wait for it)...Tonight".
Agreed - prostitute (to get to Candy's room...) - the driving beat of the drums is fantastic and works so well in the song. It wouldn't be right if the song were longer since the lust is short, powerful, concentrated, but ultimately short lived (she's not called "Candy" by coincidence). The ending is perfect - "All that I want all that I live to make Candy mine...(wait for it)...Tonight".
Where do lyrics like " Let them melt, let them fire, let them burn" come from. So powerful, so delicious, so picturesque