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.
(Like murder)
Stoned I awoke in your temple
To blackness above you
And death beside me
(Where)
Kitchen knives conspire
Razor blades make bloodless love
(Like murder)
The ghost of a pale girl is solemnly following me
Will she follow me into the sea?
I feel the flowers screaming to consume you
(Like murder)
Earth and sky your cradle, earth and sky entomb you
And death beside me
I burrow through the dust in your skull
But I cannot seem to find your soul
Bloodless and numb, we orbit the sun
Hungry, will this pale thing follow me into the sea
On the cold side of her face, the reptiles awake
Locusts swarm from open mouths that sing thy kingdom come
While blackness hums
Nothing is true and I'm tired of your sad today
You're screaming because there's nothing left for you to say
Bloodless and numb, we orbit the sun
Hungry, will this pale thing follow me into the sea
Stoned I awoke in your temple
To blackness above you
And death beside me
(Where)
Kitchen knives conspire
Razor blades make bloodless love
(Like murder)
Stoned I awoke in your temple
To blackness above you
And death beside me
(Where)
Kitchen knives conspire
Razor blades make bloodless love
(Like murder)
The ghost of a pale girl is solemnly following me
Will she follow me into the sea?
I feel the flowers screaming to consume you
(Like murder)
Earth and sky your cradle, earth and sky entomb you
And death beside me
I burrow through the dust in your skull
But I cannot seem to find your soul
Bloodless and numb, we orbit the sun
Hungry, will this pale thing follow me into the sea
On the cold side of her face, the reptiles awake
Locusts swarm from open mouths that sing thy kingdom come
While blackness hums
Nothing is true and I'm tired of your sad today
You're screaming because there's nothing left for you to say
Bloodless and numb, we orbit the sun
Hungry, will this pale thing follow me into the sea
Stoned I awoke in your temple
To blackness above you
And death beside me
(Where)
Kitchen knives conspire
Razor blades make bloodless love
(Like murder)
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Great version of a great song,
I think that some of you got it half right. this song is not just about death in general. its about a guy who wakes up to find his girl-friend dead beside him. "stoned I awoke to your temple of blackness above you, and death beside me, where kitchen knives conspire razor blades make bloodless love- LIKE MURDER" his reference to the pale girl is the memory of her, pale and dead, following him to the sea means it'll haunt him the rest of his life. its made even more obvious with the line "i burrow through the dust in your skull, but I cannot seem to find your soul... nothing is true and I'm tired of your sad today..." come on people she killed herself. Does the song make any better sense? pretty messed up isn't it? but awesome tho...
I think you're right, but to add on:<br /> <br /> She committed suicide (with knives and razor blades), and first he is dismayed (burrowing through the dust in her skull but can't find her soul = life force) but then decides to end it himself. That's when they're both cold and numb, orbiting the sun. He's experiencing out-of-body experiences as he's dying. I think the reptiles and locusts are dying hallucinations, both of which are grotesque and morbid. The way he kills himself is by drowning in the sea, with the memory/ghost of her following him, waiting for him.<br /> <br /> "Nothing is true and I'm tired of your sad today" - trying to come to terms with her death, this is describing the denial stage<br /> "You're screaming because there's nothing left for you to say" - I think this describes her body or skeleton, her mouth is left open but obviously she can't speak because "there's nothing left to say" since she's dead. This is when he realizes and comes to term with her death and the futility of his own life.<br /> <br /> It actually seems like an even more morbid tale of Romeo and Juliet.
I think you're right, but to add on:<br /> <br /> She committed suicide (with knives and razor blades), and first he is dismayed (burrowing through the dust in her skull but can't find her soul = life force) but then decides to end it himself. That's when they're both cold and numb, orbiting the sun. He's experiencing out-of-body experiences as he's dying. I think the reptiles and locusts are dying hallucinations, both of which are grotesque and morbid. The way he kills himself is by drowning in the sea, with the memory/ghost of her following him, waiting for him.<br /> <br /> "Nothing is true and I'm tired of your sad today" - trying to come to terms with her death, this is describing the denial stage<br /> "You're screaming because there's nothing left for you to say" - I think this describes her body or skeleton, her mouth is left open but obviously she can't speak because "there's nothing left to say" since she's dead. This is when he realizes and comes to term with her death and the futility of his own life.<br /> <br /> It actually seems like an even more morbid tale of Romeo and Juliet.
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