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.
It crawls down deep inside without a pulse or a will to die
Not known to sympathize
And now it takes what it takes and let's the feelings suffocate
It's nothing new it'll get it's way
Another thing that I see is how it gets inside of me and tears away my life
It's time to love! it's time to hate!
It's coming face to face trying to desecrate
No time at all to break away
Temptation still got a hold on me
It's awake even when you sleep
It breathes without a heartbeat making me incomplete
And now I know what I know
Except the demon down below to surface through my mortal soul
And now it looks to be it's smiling as it's killing me day to day eye to eye
Not known to sympathize
And now it takes what it takes and let's the feelings suffocate
It's nothing new it'll get it's way
Another thing that I see is how it gets inside of me and tears away my life
It's time to love! it's time to hate!
It's coming face to face trying to desecrate
No time at all to break away
Temptation still got a hold on me
It's awake even when you sleep
It breathes without a heartbeat making me incomplete
And now I know what I know
Except the demon down below to surface through my mortal soul
And now it looks to be it's smiling as it's killing me day to day eye to eye
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
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Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
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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.
Punchline
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
Amazing
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
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.
Another good song off of another great album. I think the meaning is simple. Temptation still got a hold him.
This song is about the singer's wanting to go back to the stuff he used to do (drinking, smoking, drugs) but he refuses to go and everytime he sees those things, the temptation builds for it.
yea i agree but i do think each individual could sculpt it into sumthing that rellates to them
It's about our "demons" and they got a hold of us GodSmack gods PS:i think they're music can even awake deads if they could hear it
The way I see it...simple bare bones, that bad habbits and or addictions are things that no matter what you do is the hardest thing to deal with, due to temtations. And it is hard to deal with a Beast like temtptation when there is no pluse or heartbeat to it..for how can ya kill something that is not alive yes?
Ever think its about the girl in moon baby? i was just looking at that song and seems like he's talking about something spacific.. i donno, but the more general side of it is what you guys said
Just here incase Roach Koach decide to review this album. Been listening to you all for about two weeks since this date. Excellent show.
As for the song, I think it’s pretty straight forward. Dealing with the temptation to do right or wrong, or something like that. I don’t know, it’s Sully so it’s probably about as deep as a kitchen sink.
That said, the song rips in my opinion. This is the kind of energy and pace I’ve been waiting for from Godsmack.