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.
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love
Bum luck will you ever know
I'm not in love with you
A nice girl flown around in pretty girl limbo
I'm not in love with you
Not a mean bone in her body I said
I'm not in love with you
I love her like a bullet to the back of the head
I'm not in love with you
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love with you
I'm in love
Lookin' like a school girl dressed to kill
I'm not in love with you
A pretty girl dress would make a mean girl ill
I'm not in love with you
Like Jon Bonham locked to a doctor beat
I'm not in love with you
I need a mean girl to knock me off my feet
I'm not in love with you
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love with you
I'm in love
I just want mean girl to be nasty and fine
You just want mean girl to be nasty and mine
So what you say
I just want mean girl to be nasty and fine
You just want mean girl to be nasty and mine
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I just want mean girl to be nasty and fine
You just want mean girl to be nasty and mine
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love with you
I'm in love
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love with you
I'm in love
I'm in love
Bum luck will you ever know
I'm not in love with you
A nice girl flown around in pretty girl limbo
I'm not in love with you
Not a mean bone in her body I said
I'm not in love with you
I love her like a bullet to the back of the head
I'm not in love with you
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love with you
I'm in love
Lookin' like a school girl dressed to kill
I'm not in love with you
A pretty girl dress would make a mean girl ill
I'm not in love with you
Like Jon Bonham locked to a doctor beat
I'm not in love with you
I need a mean girl to knock me off my feet
I'm not in love with you
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love with you
I'm in love
I just want mean girl to be nasty and fine
You just want mean girl to be nasty and mine
So what you say
I just want mean girl to be nasty and fine
You just want mean girl to be nasty and mine
1 2 3 4
I just want mean girl to be nasty and fine
You just want mean girl to be nasty and mine
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love with you
I'm in love
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with
I'm in love with mean girl
I'm in love with you
I'm in love
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
The Night We Met
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"
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
Silent Planet
I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
I Can't Go To Sleep
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
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.
When We Were Young
Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
I like this song a lot. I think that it's one of the better songs off of the CD that this is on. I think that the lyriccs are really good and they make you want to listen to it more. I really don't think that this song is the best but I like it. I don't think that Unwritten Law is that good of a band either but this song is pretty good and I like to listen to it every once in a gr8 while. I rather listen to Rufio or Yellowcard so nice and good Emo or Old Skool Punk! Like I said b4 I like this song some but it's not the gr8est I think that Up All Night is way better than this and that song is BY FARE the best song off of the CD! HeHe!:) ~aMbEr*