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.
Road to ruin, no paper trail
No mercy shown, for heaven's sake
Sheets on the wall, ashamed to love
Fucks your friends, so refuse to come
Cheery call, chug along
Knock it off till you see that beauty's gone
Perfect bloom, perfect might
Sell it as this love crept out of sight
It's been a while, I'm made of ribbon
He's been inside, now I'm full of him
To here knows when, our clearance cold
I'm dressed for space, now can I go?
Well, he needs me like a royal fox
Like he sorry's me, like he smokes the rocks
Several masks to last the year
Makes life dance right out of me
It's too hard to dream, well, fickle me
Put it in the icebox, then we'll see
Wasting time, you've been caught
Bored, unravel knot for knot
It's been a while, I'm made of ribbon
He's been inside, now I'm full of him
To here knows when, our clearance cold
I'm dressed for space, now can I go?
No mercy shown, for heaven's sake
Sheets on the wall, ashamed to love
Fucks your friends, so refuse to come
Cheery call, chug along
Knock it off till you see that beauty's gone
Perfect bloom, perfect might
Sell it as this love crept out of sight
It's been a while, I'm made of ribbon
He's been inside, now I'm full of him
To here knows when, our clearance cold
I'm dressed for space, now can I go?
Well, he needs me like a royal fox
Like he sorry's me, like he smokes the rocks
Several masks to last the year
Makes life dance right out of me
It's too hard to dream, well, fickle me
Put it in the icebox, then we'll see
Wasting time, you've been caught
Bored, unravel knot for knot
It's been a while, I'm made of ribbon
He's been inside, now I'm full of him
To here knows when, our clearance cold
I'm dressed for space, now can I go?
Lyrics submitted by chemicalX, edited by hexagonal, conspired, Mellow_Harsher, MCSMeister
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Mountain Song
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
I Can't Go To Sleep
Wu-Tang Clan
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This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This is why the music video takes place in an orphanage.) The seen, and unseen collective suffering is imbedded in the boys’ mind, consciously or subconsciously, and is haunting them. Which path will the boys choose? Issac Hayes is the voice of reason, maybe God, the angel on his shoulder, or the voice of his forefathers from beyond the grave who can see the big picture and are pleading with the boys not to continue the violence and pattern of killing their brothers, but to rise above. The most beautiful song and has so many levels. Racism towards African Americans in America would not exist if everyone sat down and listened to this song and understood the history behind the words. The power, fear, pleading in RZA and Ghostface voices are genuine and powerful. Issac Hayes’ strong voice makes the perfect strong father figure, who is possibly from beyond the grave.
I interpret it as a song about a woman who desires control/manipulation over genuine connection in relationships and finds control/power in people's weaknesses/vices i.e. sex and drugs ("Road to ruin, no paper trail") and uses these vices to get people (especially men) to keep coming back.
I picture her herself being a user (mostly alcohol) and a lot of that using being centered on self-image and aging in particular ("Chug along, knock it off till you see that beauty's gone").
I think the line "It's been awhile, I'm made of ribbon" refers to not being intimate for a period and slightly forgetting how vulnerable it is.
The man in question turns out to be just as manipulative and cunning as the 'narrator' (unknown to him he's been caught), and it catches her off guard to realize she hasn't had the upper hand the entire time, as she has desired and she finds out (through sources other than him) he's simply entertaining her because he finds it amusing ("Well he needs me, like a royal fox, like he sorry's me"). The narrator ponders the multiple facades she puts up and how tiring it is to keep it up ("Several masks to last the year, makes life dance right out of me").
The last few parts refer to her starting to have genuine, romantic feelings for the man and how because of past hurt the idea of a healthy, mutually loving relationship seems like a fantasy of sorts and suppressing those emotions because they're unfamiliar ("It's too hard to dream, well fickle me, put it in the icebox then we'll see"). The very last verse describes her reverting to her old ways, gaining the upper hand in the end (despite it presenting no challenge in the grand scheme) and emotionally picking apart and destroying the man and revealing she's knows about him mutually toying with her ("Wasting time, you've been caught, bored unraveling knot for knot").
I think the title refers to a metaphorical 'dressing up' of someone's appearance through how they choose to present themselves through things like facial expressions and body language, the line "I'm dressed for space, now can I go?" referring to the narrator presenting herself as distant, mysterious and larger than life and desiring to stay that way instead of working on changing for the better for another person.