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.
Mary walks
Down to the water's edge
And there she hangs her head
To find herself faded
A shadow of what she once was
She said, "how long have I been sleeping?
And why do I feel so old?
Why do I feel so cold?
My heart is saying one thing
But my body won't let go"
With trembling hands, she reaches up
A stranger's flesh is offered
And I would be the last to know
I would be the last to let it show
I would be the last to go
Take her hand
She will lead you through the fire
Oh and give you back hope
And hope that you won't take too much
Respecting what is left
She cradled us
Oh, she held us in her arms
Unselfish in her suffering, she could not understand
That no one seemed to have the time
To cherish what was given
Oh, and I would be the last to know
And I would be the last to let it show
I would be the last to go
Mary walks
Oh, and I would be the last to know
And I would be the last to let it show
I would be the last to go
Down to the water's edge
And there she hangs her head
To find herself faded
A shadow of what she once was
She said, "how long have I been sleeping?
And why do I feel so old?
Why do I feel so cold?
My heart is saying one thing
But my body won't let go"
With trembling hands, she reaches up
A stranger's flesh is offered
And I would be the last to know
I would be the last to let it show
I would be the last to go
Take her hand
She will lead you through the fire
Oh and give you back hope
And hope that you won't take too much
Respecting what is left
She cradled us
Oh, she held us in her arms
Unselfish in her suffering, she could not understand
That no one seemed to have the time
To cherish what was given
Oh, and I would be the last to know
And I would be the last to let it show
I would be the last to go
Mary walks
Oh, and I would be the last to know
And I would be the last to let it show
I would be the last to go
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Fortnight
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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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
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To me it is a story of awakening. It has nothing to do with Mary Magdoline other than to make reference to her as the representation of the divine feminine spirit perhaps.
Mary - this is her name identity, her flesh. She realizes her life has not gone as she hoped and she hangs her head - classic body language for sadness, defeat etc.
"To find herself faded a shadow of what she once was" Perhaps a shadow of her childhood self (because kids are so full of light and close to source) or it may even go deeper spiritually to reference how she is in her shadow-self and is not the light of spirit she came in as. .
"How long have I been sleeping and why do I feel so old"
A reference to time passing and her aging body, and perhaps also because when you are in a depressed state you really feel weighed down and old, tired, sad all the time.
"My heart is saying one thing but my body won't let go" This is the struggle during the time of awakening, to try and follow your heart and how the body and mind have built up so much resistance to that idea that it is really hard to let go.
"She reaches up a stranger's flesh is offered" This is about looking up to find yourself in moments of depression and crisis, the "stranger" is simply her spirit touching her and in that moment spirit is a stranger.
All the last to know reference stuff, to me, is about her body and physical self not yet understanding how her spirit is already there....she is just the last to know about it, to realize it, to appreciate it.
Now the tone changes. "Take her hand she will lead you through the fire" - this is about how the spirit will guide a person back to who they truly are, through all the BS that has piled on them through life.
"Hope you won't take too much, respecting what is left, she cradled us", again a tone change and I believe this speaks to mother earth itself as a massively creative life form that has given and given only to be abused and uncherished by humanity. Yet mother earth is still unselfish in her suffering and ever loving - there to heal us from the damage we have caused ourselves and to her. She has unconditional love for us.
So with all this EPIC stuff going on around Mary and her awakening, she is the last to know. Her mind, her physical self, is the last to let it all go and trust.
"Mary Walks" - she is now an embodiment of the divine feminine and she walks this earth...
This is a story of divine feminine awakening my friends, much more akin to Sarah McLachlan.
@JGarden Intuitively interpreted and eloquently summarised IMO!
@JGarden ... this is such a beautiful and inspiring interpretation of this song.. and so in line with my own feelings .. even tho i couldnt find the words you so beautifully wrote here . . Id like to share it in a post with the song .. ill of course credit you for your words and just wanted to ask first .. ????????