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.
Swing through sadness, tears of joy. Curse the sunlight. Arsenic for the girls and boys. Drink the madness, smoke so coy. Smile injection. Serum of a will destroyed. The seasons change without me. I remain in shadows growing wings. The spirit song still surrounds me, in refrain, in shadows growing wings. Like an angel with two broken wings, reach the sky again. Like a devil, meant for better things, I will find my place on high.
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Just A Little Lovin'
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I don't know if anyone else understands this song, but I thought I'd post what I can to help understand it.
The Nephilim were characters mentioned in the Bible. They were giants, and reffered to as "Those who from above came down." I have researched a scientist named Zecharia Sitchin, and this is how I came into contact with this information. There is another planet in our solar system, called Nibiru, and it only passes by our orbit every 3600 years. Nibiru's moon crashed into another planet, Tiamat and Tiamat broke into millions of pieces. All the small pieces became the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. There were 2 larger pieces, which became the Earth and our moon. Earth was seeded with life from Tiamat. However Nibiru's atmosphere was deteriorating drastically, and there was only one mineral that could save their planet; gold. So on the next orbit, Some Nibiruans (also called Annunaki) came to Earth to mine gold. 300,000 years ago, the Annunaki tired of slaving in the mines and mutinied. Anu, ruler of Nibiru, had left his son Enki in charge, but a war began between the Annunaki on Earth, and Enki's brother Enlil won command over the mission on Earth. So Enki and Ninhursag (Chief Medical Officer) began an experiment. They spliced Nibiruan DNA into that of the ape-woman of planet Earth. The end result, us - humans. With their DNA mixed with ours, the ape-woman slowly evolved into Humans to take over the mining. Some of the Anunnaki intermarried with the humans, since we looked exactly like them (only shorter), which caused another dispute. Enki thought mankind should be left to prosper on Earth and develop civilization. Enlil thought mankind should be destroyed. So they left. However on the next orbit, Enlil discovered that their re-entry would cause great tidal waves on Earth, but swore everyone to secrecy, hoping it would be his chance to destroy humans. ENki found out however, and warned a human, named Utnapishtim (some think maybe Noah) to build a massive boat to save a few humans to procreate. Since then, the Annunaki have nursed us into civilization and prosperity, while warring against themselves.
This is what Sitchin has discovered in Sumerian text, over thousands of years old. I know, it seems farfetched. But Sitchin has found Sumerian writings and tablets with descriptions and carvings of DNA and rocketships. Now how could a civilization thousands of years old know abuot DNA and rocketships; neither of which were even discovered until the 20th century? That's why I believe this is how we came to be. I'm not sure what this song is saying, I just thought I'd put in my 2 cents.