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.
What is that sound
Ringing in my ears?
The strangest sound
I've heard for years and years
The sound of two hearts
Beating side by side
The sound of one love
That neither one can hide
The sound that makes the world go 'round
The sound that makes the world go 'round
What is that sound
Running round my head?
Funny, I thought
That part was long since dead
But now there's new life
Coursing through my veins
Because there's someone
To make it beat again
The sound that makes the world go 'round
The sound that makes the world go 'round
The sound that makes the world go 'round
The sound that makes the world go 'round
What is that sound
Ringing in my ears?
The strangest sound
I've heard for years and years
The sound of two hearts
Beating side by side
The sound of one love
That neither one can hide
Ringing in my ears?
The strangest sound
I've heard for years and years
The sound of two hearts
Beating side by side
The sound of one love
That neither one can hide
The sound that makes the world go 'round
The sound that makes the world go 'round
What is that sound
Running round my head?
Funny, I thought
That part was long since dead
But now there's new life
Coursing through my veins
Because there's someone
To make it beat again
The sound that makes the world go 'round
The sound that makes the world go 'round
The sound that makes the world go 'round
The sound that makes the world go 'round
What is that sound
Ringing in my ears?
The strangest sound
I've heard for years and years
The sound of two hearts
Beating side by side
The sound of one love
That neither one can hide
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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"
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,
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.
Amazing
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
really awesome song....the beats in it just complete it and bring the lyrics to life
for me is one of the gratest love songs ive ever heard, the lyric its completly pure and it makes you feel the real intimacy of true love pulsing inside, it makes you feel in love even when you are not. the complexity of the crazy beats from andys mind, its a real interpretation of how the love could sound inside your mind, the string arrangments and the choir its incredible they just appear at the right time, not before, not after. i think on this song as a metaphore of a feeling, every part of it is so confusing and pure at the same time that makes it feel like an emotion, a state of the mind that we can easily reach, just at listening, you may not understand the message at all but for sure you will feel it. the album What sound is the third ive heard from lamb and i feel they are really good, and this song especially is my favorite.pity they are now separated, but i trust they will be back one day...
i love the way her voice just cuts through the music, the second half reminds me a little of bjork actually and i love the line 'the sound of two hearts beating side by side, the sound of one love that niether one can hide' it's the best explanation for the feeling of love that i think has been used in a song for a long time