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.
At beginning of light
Where the energy gathered
Grew a sentience that was the prime
Laced with flickers of madness
As these forces drove out into dark
And the fires began to form
Each holding a mind of its own
From whence the star gods were born
The sleeping giants have awoken
Our feeble devices have broken their slumber
I begin to see
My mind grows clear
Long I lay dormant
Yet my thoughts are keen
I bathe in power
We are the Tre'aste
And I will feast upon these wretches in their ignorance
Out of the sky fire, into the darkness
We are the star gods, I will consume thee
Our imprudence
Is now all too clear
What we have stirred
Is vengeance incarnate
The fuel of the stars
Is no satiety
They will pursue us to the ends of the universe
We are but mortals, our fate is sealed
As we now accede eternity
Having stripped this plane of mortal flesh
We return once more to our dormancy
And await the renewal of life force
The Tre'aste sleep once more in the fire
Until the cycle can begin again
Where the energy gathered
Grew a sentience that was the prime
Laced with flickers of madness
As these forces drove out into dark
And the fires began to form
Each holding a mind of its own
From whence the star gods were born
The sleeping giants have awoken
Our feeble devices have broken their slumber
I begin to see
My mind grows clear
Long I lay dormant
Yet my thoughts are keen
I bathe in power
We are the Tre'aste
And I will feast upon these wretches in their ignorance
Out of the sky fire, into the darkness
We are the star gods, I will consume thee
Our imprudence
Is now all too clear
What we have stirred
Is vengeance incarnate
The fuel of the stars
Is no satiety
They will pursue us to the ends of the universe
We are but mortals, our fate is sealed
As we now accede eternity
Having stripped this plane of mortal flesh
We return once more to our dormancy
And await the renewal of life force
The Tre'aste sleep once more in the fire
Until the cycle can begin again
Lyrics submitted by dkommel
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This songs seems to be about the feeble life between birth and death, but what i can't figure out is the meaning of the title "Tre'aste". Does anyone have any idea what this could mean?
"tre aste" in italian seems to mean "three auctions", but that's quite far-fetched and wouldn't account for the apostrophe.
The name of the band is derived from a character of "Warhammer". Could "Tre'aste" have some kind of meaning in this context?
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Looking at it after a while, it could be about humans "start to mess things up" as you said, but then maybe the PoV doesn't actually change, but humans perhaps start to think that they are the Tre'aste, that they "are the star gods". <br /> <br /> At first, there is this light and energy, like a creation myth. But it already contained some kind of madness, which is important ("prime"). This could be a hint for the interpretation. The fires with "Each holding a mind of it's own" could be humans (though i have to admit that it fits to ancient deities as well).<br /> <br /> Later the humans realise, that their "imprudence is now all too clear", they invoked some kind of vengance by their arrogance and conceitedness. There he says that "we are just mortals", in contrast to the former statement: "I bathe in power, we are the Tre'aste".<br /> <br /> Then, the "mortal flesh" dies, and lays dormant, for maybe life in general to await a rebirth. They "accede eternity", eternity being a metaphor for death.<br /> <br /> I don't know enough about the background of the band to say this for certain, but one could see in that the humans exploiting and destroying the earth, until life stops eventually, for some time in the future to start again.<br /> <br /> It's hard to be sure when there are no real hints about the perspectives of the stanzas. There is this switch from I to We, that i can't really make sense of.
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