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.
We go following sorrow to feel your
Blood spilling out of the reeds there
Give me a sign I can breathe air
Blood flowing out of the stream there
(give me something new please, something I can love)
Blood spilling out of the reeds there
Give me a sign I can breathe air
Blood flowing out of the stream there
(give me something new please, something I can love)
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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.
Cajun Girl
Little Feat
Little Feat
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”
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
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.
'Give me a sign I can breathe there' i think that should be: Give me a sign I can breathe in air
It goes like this, so says the Lyric booklet!
We go following sorrow to free your Blood spilling out of the reeds there Blood spilling out of the stream there Give me a sign I can breathe air
give me something new please, something I can love
an early favorite for me
reminds me of gravity eyelids
Any ideas on the meaning? I guess Ill start: Octane is a kind of fuel so it could be about a car, the song references blood flowing out of reeds and a river, so an sutomobile accident that occurred near a river?
im pretty sure this song is about a family that found a young girls body washed up in a river while on a fishing trip. If you look at the photography book that came with the special edition of the incident it portrays someone killing another person and dumping their body in a river. also in a couple interviews steven wilson has stated that one of the "incidents" described in the album is about the before mentioned family that found the washed up body.
Thx man, that makes a lot more sense, haha.
also in this song there is some kind of whisper at one point...anyone figured it out?
I read somewhere (I believe it was an interview with Steven, I'm not sure though) that it was based on a story he heard on the news about a family that went to go hang out at the river and found the body of a murdered girl.
Well, here's my take on it, I know from reading interview with Steven that he doesn't write in a linear fashion and even more so with The Incident. I also know he uses Babicz Guitars and they have produced a wonderful version call the OCTANE, which has a unique system of lowering and raising the strings over the strings for intonation setiings. The settings are adjdusted by "twisting" an allen key at the back of the guitar where the neck meets the body. I just wonder if the song title is a reference to the track before the lyrics were written/recorded and it just stuck??? Octane Twisted could also be a reference to the production methods used post recording...anyway...Enough pontification, anyone agree???