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 don't listen much to reason
Everybody wants to be here
Santa Claus has lost his mind
Easter Bunny's not a rabbit
Tricks are made for kids until
Pseudo-psycho man tells you to fly
Everyone just ran around just playing games
With anti-socials no none ever taught you how
To fall
I don't listen much to reason
Everyone's a fucking psycho
No one ever taught you how to call
Take it off and shoot it up
And show me how ya used to fly
Take it off and shoot it up
And show me how ya used to die
Everyone around you superstar
They can mother fuckin' die
I don't give a damn 'bout what you think
All the pseudo-psycho hippies always stink
No one else here brought up questions
'til you flied
No one gave you any sex until you cried
Trying to be a superstar
Superstars lie
Everybody wants to be here
Santa Claus has lost his mind
Easter Bunny's not a rabbit
Tricks are made for kids until
Pseudo-psycho man tells you to fly
Everyone just ran around just playing games
With anti-socials no none ever taught you how
To fall
I don't listen much to reason
Everyone's a fucking psycho
No one ever taught you how to call
Take it off and shoot it up
And show me how ya used to fly
Take it off and shoot it up
And show me how ya used to die
Everyone around you superstar
They can mother fuckin' die
I don't give a damn 'bout what you think
All the pseudo-psycho hippies always stink
No one else here brought up questions
'til you flied
No one gave you any sex until you cried
Trying to be a superstar
Superstars lie
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
Cajun Girl
Little Feat
Little Feat
Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
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.
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Just A Little Lovin'
Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
"'Just a Little Lovin’ is a timeless country song originally recorded by Eddy Arnold in 1954. The song, written by Eddie Miller and Jimmy Campbell, explores the delicate nuances of love and showcases Arnold’s emotive vocals. It delves into the universal theme of love and how even the smallest gesture of affection can have a profound impact on our lives." https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-just-a-little-lovin-by-eddy-arnold/
Obviously this song is about superstars, celebrities and rockstars. In this song Santa Clause and Easter Bunny are "superstars", we think we know them, but we actually don't.
"won't you take it off, and shoot it up, and show me how, ya used to fly. "
It's asking from the eyes of the admirer, how he wants to be like the superstar.
trying to be a superstar, superstars lie.
That is just quite simply amazing. It is basically saying, you want to be a superstar, but they lie, and so do you.
I really like this song, the music is kewl too. I just like the whole feel to it, and how it talks about superstars, and how most of them are fake.
Well, it seems you think it's about superstars, I think he's talking about pop culture. (I'm going by the lyrics in the booklet.)
In the first verse, he's saying: He doesn't care (doesn't listen much to reason) what other people tell him to think. People don't know anything (you've lost your minds) and you're just liars. You had your own thoughts, until you're told what to do. Noone really cared who they played with, whether they were anti-socials or not. Noone said what would happen when you became unpopular (fell). He doesn't listen to you, everyone is clueless (fucking psychos), and noone told you what'd happen when you fell.
In the next verse, he's talking about taking off your mask, stop lying to yourself. Take a shot of reality, and think about how you used to get by. Everyone's the same, they can die for all he cares.
In the third, he's saying: He doesn't care what pop culture demands of him, all these people are full of it. Noone asked anything, or cared, until you stopped following them, noone noticed you until you cried out, trying to get everyone's attention (as if saying you're background noise otherwise).
Then he simply says that pop culture is false, summing up the whole song. Well, that's what I thought it meant anyhow. This song happens to be one of my favourites, but I never really thought about the meaning until now... just makes me like it more.
this song is awesome. i wish new cold sounded like this. the new stuff is good but the older cold is so much better
Yah i agree there older stuff is better and, this is an awsome song sounds to me hes talking about coldinhere said but idk watever its still an awsome song.