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.
Sometimes I pray for the rain
You know I try, to see things from your side
To leave things undefined
But where would you advise?
That I generate a new design
For the missing piece I had to disguise
Saw a paper with the header that your love is just a myth I devised
And things like that you can never take back again
Things like that you can never take back again
If there was a time
That you loved me
If there was a time
When you said that you want me to believe
But you can't go back, baby
Can't go back, baby
And sometimes I pray for the rain
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
You and your glass world that does ring
Though at times a frozen thing
It encloses you in its crystalline
Look so lovely but you'll have to decide
If you could play it in reverse then you'd find
That you'd better reconsider all the love you took and then cast aside
But things like that you can never take back again
Things like that you can never take back again
If there was a time
When you loved me
If there was a time
When you said that you want me to believe
But you can't go back, baby
Can't go back, baby
And sometimes I pray for the rain
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Girl, I know I'm losing time without you
Never had a second chance before this time
But things like that, they never do work out right
Things like that, no, they never do work out right
Can't go back, baby
Can't go back, baby
And sometimes I pray for the rain
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
You know I try, to see things from your side
To leave things undefined
But where would you advise?
That I generate a new design
For the missing piece I had to disguise
Saw a paper with the header that your love is just a myth I devised
And things like that you can never take back again
Things like that you can never take back again
If there was a time
That you loved me
If there was a time
When you said that you want me to believe
But you can't go back, baby
Can't go back, baby
And sometimes I pray for the rain
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
You and your glass world that does ring
Though at times a frozen thing
It encloses you in its crystalline
Look so lovely but you'll have to decide
If you could play it in reverse then you'd find
That you'd better reconsider all the love you took and then cast aside
But things like that you can never take back again
Things like that you can never take back again
If there was a time
When you loved me
If there was a time
When you said that you want me to believe
But you can't go back, baby
Can't go back, baby
And sometimes I pray for the rain
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Girl, I know I'm losing time without you
Never had a second chance before this time
But things like that, they never do work out right
Things like that, no, they never do work out right
Can't go back, baby
Can't go back, baby
And sometimes I pray for the rain
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
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Lord Huron
Lord Huron
This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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Hayalperest
Hayalperest
This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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.