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'll buy you six bay mares to put in your stable
Six golden apples bought with my pay.
I am the first piper who calls the sweet tune,
But I must be gone by the seventh day.
So come on, I'm the whistler.
I have a fife and a drum to play.
Get ready for the whistler.
I whistle along on the seventh day
Whistle along on the seventh day.
All kinds of sadness I've left behind me.
Many's the day when I have done wrong.
But I'll be yours for ever and ever.
Climb in the saddle and whistle along.
So come on, I'm the whistler.
I have a fife and a drum to play.
Get ready for the whistler.
I whistle along on the seventh day
Whistle along on the seventh day.
Deep red are the sun-sets in mystical places.
Black are the nights on summer-day sands.
We'll find the speck of truth in each riddle.
Hold the first grain of love in our hands.
Six golden apples bought with my pay.
I am the first piper who calls the sweet tune,
But I must be gone by the seventh day.
So come on, I'm the whistler.
I have a fife and a drum to play.
Get ready for the whistler.
I whistle along on the seventh day
Whistle along on the seventh day.
All kinds of sadness I've left behind me.
Many's the day when I have done wrong.
But I'll be yours for ever and ever.
Climb in the saddle and whistle along.
So come on, I'm the whistler.
I have a fife and a drum to play.
Get ready for the whistler.
I whistle along on the seventh day
Whistle along on the seventh day.
Deep red are the sun-sets in mystical places.
Black are the nights on summer-day sands.
We'll find the speck of truth in each riddle.
Hold the first grain of love in our hands.
Lyrics submitted by thewallbreaker67
The Whistler Lyrics as written by Ian Anderson
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my favorite tull song from my favorite tull album
This truly is a great song. Its about a traveling musician who falls in love with a girl at one of the towns he is visiting. This story obviously takes place during midievil times, hence the mares and golden apples as gifts for the girl. This song is also one of the best flute solos i have ever heard. Ian Anderson has so much talent its sad that he's not as appreciated as he should be.
Also, I think there's a problem with the lyrics. I'm pretty sure it's: "I have a fife, and I've come to play", rather than "I have a fife, and a drum to play."
I dunno, could be wrong, but thats what i hear.
I hear the same thing.
I am getting a very religion creation story from this song. The first four lines give me that impretion.
"I'll buy you six bay mares to put in your stable six golden apples bought with my pay. I am the first piper who calls the sweet tune, but I must be gone by the seventh day. "
-God gave us animals -God gave us the land (vegetation and such) -God was the beginning, the creator. -On the seventh day he rested.
Also these next lines can be attributed to God.
"All kinds of sadness I've left behind me. Many's the day when I have done wrong. But I'll be yours for ever and ever. "
-In the Old Testament, God casted plagues, wiped out the world with flood, and helped the israelites battle foes. -Also he calls the Hebrews his chosen people so the woman could be the people of israel whom he will give himself too.
Well those last lines im not really seeing any connection. He could be talking about heaven and how all will be revealed when you pass on. Who knows. There is my two cents. Use it as you will.
P.S And yea I hear, "I have fife, and Ive come to play" too.
I hear "drum". The coolest thing I like about this song is the 2nd & 4th line in the verses start before the previous one fades out - meaning Ian had to dub them in. Awesome effect.
when i was young i remember hearing this song and many other Jethro Tull songs......Ian Anderson's music just seems larger than life
everytime i heard the song i thought he said "and i've come to play" however after paying a little more attention i noticed after he says "iv'e got a fife" you hear the high whistle and then after "and a drum to play" you here the drums kick in.
It's clearly "and a drum to play," since the line is immediately followed by a drum riff.
Anyway, a truly great song.
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omfg this song is not about god! You all should know that Ian Anderson isn't christian. He is a panthiest for gods sake!
He doesn't believe in the creation MYTH.
This delightful song is about a whistler falling in love with a girl, and how he convinced her to come and travel with him in love. It is my favorite Tull song. It's so sweet
I think he's actually an atheist.<br /> <br /> The song could have a more sinister meaning. In British folklore, the seven whistlers are omens of death.
You don't have to be a Christian (or even believe in God) to write music about God and Judeo-Christian legendarium. Just sayin'.
From what I hear Ian Anderson describes himself as "somewhere between Deist and Pantheist". Reguardless of his own beliefs, if the other songs on this album are any signifier, it seems very unlikely this song is based in any Judeo-Christian symbolism. It seems like, as with the other songs of this album like Ring Out Solstice Bells, Jack in the Green, and Cup of Wonder being as rich with old pagan symbolism, this is much the same in its use of symbolism. Given, a lot of Judeo-Christian traditions and stories have a base in old Pagan mythology simply out of old traditions dying hard or some compromise made to convince folks to convert.
That being said, as for interpreting the meaning of the song itself, I'm not sure, but it seems to present the idea of the classical bard. Personally, I mostly like it for the energy of the instrumental bits, especially during the chorus.
This song, much like this whole album, has a theme of returning to the beauty of nature and the countryside of the British Isles and making a kind of mystical, spiritual inner connection. Finding "the speck of truth in each riddle" and holding "the first grain of love in our hands" is mystical poetry. It means connecting to God in a pantheistic way, through the present energy of what is right in front of us. Music and nature have a clear value and role to play in this experience. The ultimate nature of the experience is a kind of transcendence.