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.
I'd do anything that I'm told to
I'd even mean it if I'm supposed to
Leave me on a little
I go for broke
Leave me on some more
I'd go for the big toke
Everybody's watching oh but nobody cares
Oh wait cause no
Nobody's watching but everybody cares
Oh whatever talk to you later
Look out
Cause I'm just too fake for the world
I know it's just a game to me
I'm just too fake you see
I wish I didn't have to be but watch out
I got too much soul for the world
It's breaking my heart in two
I got too much soul for you
I don't like it but it's true
Get off
I go to church and
I'm expected to be lost soul
They need examples to use
I could stay forever leave right now
It's your call either way
It's time to use my life for myself
(most people just won't tell you that)
I'm gonna use my life for someone else, yeah
No wait wait wait wait
Hurts right?
But I can't even talk to you
About my effect on people
Cause I'm doing the same thing to you
That's right even right now
Oh just wait up for me if you want to but
Oh look out now
I'm just too fake for the world
And there's nothing I can do about it
Yeah I'm just too fake for you
I don't like it but it's true
Look out
I got too much soul for the world
It's breaking my heart in two
I got too much soul for you
I don't like it but it's true
Look out
I'm just too fake for the world
I know it's just a game to me
I'm just to fake you see
I hope you can forgive me
Look out now
I'm too fake
I'd even mean it if I'm supposed to
Leave me on a little
I go for broke
Leave me on some more
I'd go for the big toke
Everybody's watching oh but nobody cares
Oh wait cause no
Nobody's watching but everybody cares
Oh whatever talk to you later
Look out
Cause I'm just too fake for the world
I know it's just a game to me
I'm just too fake you see
I wish I didn't have to be but watch out
I got too much soul for the world
It's breaking my heart in two
I got too much soul for you
I don't like it but it's true
Get off
I go to church and
I'm expected to be lost soul
They need examples to use
I could stay forever leave right now
It's your call either way
It's time to use my life for myself
(most people just won't tell you that)
I'm gonna use my life for someone else, yeah
No wait wait wait wait
Hurts right?
But I can't even talk to you
About my effect on people
Cause I'm doing the same thing to you
That's right even right now
Oh just wait up for me if you want to but
Oh look out now
I'm just too fake for the world
And there's nothing I can do about it
Yeah I'm just too fake for you
I don't like it but it's true
Look out
I got too much soul for the world
It's breaking my heart in two
I got too much soul for you
I don't like it but it's true
Look out
I'm just too fake for the world
I know it's just a game to me
I'm just to fake you see
I hope you can forgive me
Look out now
I'm too fake
Lyrics submitted by Sabarella, edited by remembuary
Too Fake Lyrics as written by Benjamin Grubin
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
Silent Planet
I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
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.
I think the key to this song lies with this lyric: "Oh you know it's just a game to me" There are some ancient religions who view life as a game. So this seemingly unholy view of the world is actual spiritual in nature which is why he's says he's got too much soul for the world. How he plays the game is he stays light and tells people what they want to hear adhering to the path of least resistance "I do anything that I'm told to I even mean it, if i'm supposed to" ...but he knows the truth: "It's time to use my life, for myself, Those people just won't tell you that"
"But I can't even talk to you 'bout my effect on people 'cause i'm doin' the same thing to you That's right even right now" This is a great line where he tries to see if other people will understand him but of course people won't.
This song is awesome.