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.
When I'm out walking
I strut my stuff
And I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite
I just might stop to check you out
Let me go on
Like I blister in the sun
Let me go on
Big hands, I know you're the one
Body and beats
I stain my sheets
I don't even know why
My girlfriend, she's at the end
She is starting to cry
Let me go on
Like I blister in the sun
Let me go on
Big hands, I know you're the one
When I'm out walking
I strut my stuff
And I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite
I just might stop to check you out
When I'm out walking
I strut my stuff
And I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite
I just might stop to check you out
Body and beats
I stain my sheets
I don't even know why
My girlfriend, she's at the end
She is starting to cry
When I'm out walking
I strut my stuff
And I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite
I just might stop to check you out
Let me go on
Like I blister in the sun
Let me go on
Big hands, I know you're the one
I strut my stuff
And I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite
I just might stop to check you out
Let me go on
Like I blister in the sun
Let me go on
Big hands, I know you're the one
Body and beats
I stain my sheets
I don't even know why
My girlfriend, she's at the end
She is starting to cry
Let me go on
Like I blister in the sun
Let me go on
Big hands, I know you're the one
When I'm out walking
I strut my stuff
And I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite
I just might stop to check you out
When I'm out walking
I strut my stuff
And I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite
I just might stop to check you out
Body and beats
I stain my sheets
I don't even know why
My girlfriend, she's at the end
She is starting to cry
When I'm out walking
I strut my stuff
And I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite
I just might stop to check you out
Let me go on
Like I blister in the sun
Let me go on
Big hands, I know you're the one
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Fortnight
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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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This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Holiday
Bee Gees
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
American Town
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Ed Sheeran shares a short story of reconnecting with an old flame on “American Town.” The track is about a holiday Ed Sheeran spends with his countrywoman who resides in America. The two are back together after a long period apart, and get around to enjoying a bunch of fun activities while rekindling the flames of their romance.
This song is about masturbation, ie: Body and beats I stain my sheet I don't even know why. And: Big hands I know you're the one... Come on! You can't say you didn't pick that one!
I always thought this was a song from a penis's point of view...
in the 6th grade i was with my first girlfriend and we were listening to the radio. this song came on and she went on about how it dosent make any sense. and i didnt want to tell her it was about masturbation cus she was y'know a 12 year old girl, so i said it had a meaning that i didnt want to tell her. so she called me a stuborn liar. and then we started fighting...and that is how my very first realationship ended
@zombiesrafterme ahahaahahhh omg
Gordon Gano is a clever and intelligent lyricist. You can tell intelligent by the words in his vast vocabulary. And if you didn't know he was also a member of N.H.S. (national honors society)
Gano was a mere kid when he wrote this self titled Debut album, this song touches base a a couple key elements, he is talking about how he is high on Heroin, this drug, not any other. He's strung out, when they recorded this album, there is a recording of Gordon on an answering machine saying his dad locked him in the basement and he wouldnt be able to make it. They included this recording on the Add it Up album which has different versions of their previous hits, as well as some new tracks mixed in.
Add it up was put together mostly to meet obligations to their record company at the time, i believe it may have been Rhino but im not positive. Gordon Gano's father would lock him in the basement in an effort to prevent the 17 year old then from obtaining Heroin. (maybe he was 18, I'm doing this from memory and i researched this band many years ago so my facts may be a little of, but they are close enough)
"let me go on" clearly a refence to complaining, teen angst type shit im sure. "like i blister in the sun" you ever have a sun burn with blisters? It's fucking hell! you complain a lot about the pain. maybe Gordon was cleverly using this as a metaphor for being dope sick.
As for the masturbation reference? "Body and beats /I stain my sheets / I don't even know why / My girlfriend / she's at the end / She is starting to cry" Body n beats is whacking off, stain my sheets with cum stains. his girlfriends frustrated with him, either because he's shooting up and a junky, or it may be because When you use Heroin it can mess with your sex drive. and he's jerkin off instead of banging his girl. (cum stains on his sheets could have tipped her off possibly, or she thinks hes cheating, maybe he is cheating. He does mention getting high strutting his stuff and possibly, "checking you out"
i will share this, i personally was addicted to Heroin for 10 years, (clean 5 + now) i would often prefer beating off to having sex with my girlfriend, I would think about how messed up it was, and wonder what was wrong with me, why wouldnt i just have sex with my girlfriend, this could be what Gano was going through,, only he truly can explain. WHICH THE FEMMES DID DO!
This is where i have to leave it to you to decide what he is saying, The femmes themselves claim it is about a bald woman they saw or maybe knew, im not sure. All they said about its meaning were these exact words "Its about a bald woman" They may have been fucking with us or not.
It could possibly be that she is the blister in the sun and bitching, and Gano used this line to describe the Bald woman. "Going on like a blister in the sun"
Staining his sheets could be caused from pissing his pants from laughing sooo hard, and his girlfriend's in tears from laughing so hard.and we all know when you are high things are a lot funnier. He might have been "checking out" the Bald woman which they claim this song is about.
Now, Knowing how clever Gano is and having obsessed over this band since i first started liking music, it could be a safe bet he may have found a clever way for this song to be about all the things i talked about.
@mr1man2 I never thought of this, bit now that you mention it this seems most plausible, I too was addicted to heroin for 9 years clean for over 2 years. And I agree on heroin you rather masterbate than have sex. I definitely feel like i stain my sheets is about masterbating but i think when he says my girlfriend she's at the end she is starting to cry is about his girlfriend being upset about his drug use & the struggle of dating an addict a lot of lying & sneaking around & they don't understand why you can't just stop. The only thing im not sure what Gano's referring to is when he says big hands, I know you're the one.
This song is so about masterbation. You can't deny it. I knew the first time i really listened to the lyrics.
no posts on this song? hehe this song reminds me of when i was younger...o well good song rock on
Well, "Blister in the Sun" does rather imply swelling, does it not?
:)
for all of you who don't think it's about masturbation consider "Big hands I know you're the one"..... I bought this album when it was released and read in an interview( been too long to remember where) thhat it is definitely a tounge in cheek ode to masturbation.
Sure, it's about masturbation. Not to be too graphic, but I think the whole whispering verses are done nicely. He sings it very quiet "when I'm out walking.. etc" very quiet, very quiet, (the buildup) then he BURSTS into "LET ME GO ON..." like something else that "bursts" lol
According to lead singer Gordon Gano, this song is not about masturbation as popularly thought. He wrote this song about a girl he had a crush on in high school.
Gordon was sensitive about his small hands, and on the first day of school a girl came up to him, held his hands in the air, and exclaimed "LOOK WHAT SMALL HANDS HE HAS". So, he wrote the song from the perspective of a girl lusting after a boy with big hands. This would explain the "big hands I know you're the one" line.
^not an opinion, what he really said^