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.
Oh tequila, I turn to you like a long lost friend
I want to kiss my Mexican cousin once again
We'll cover every emotion from happiness to sorrow
And the conversations I forget you'll tell me about tomorrow
When the phone calls start, am I in bed or in a hearse?
The things you tell me about myself can't make me feel any worse
Well I'm awful sorry you got pissed
Just have to cross you off the list
of my true friends...
And tequila's where that starts and where it ends
I want to kiss my Mexican cousin once again
We'll cover every emotion from happiness to sorrow
And the conversations I forget you'll tell me about tomorrow
When the phone calls start, am I in bed or in a hearse?
The things you tell me about myself can't make me feel any worse
Well I'm awful sorry you got pissed
Just have to cross you off the list
of my true friends...
And tequila's where that starts and where it ends
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Fortnight
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In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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.
Page
Ed Sheeran
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There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
The "Mexican Cousin" is him when he's drunk on tequila.
He wakes up in the morning hungover as all get out, hence not sure if it's a bed or a hearse, because he feels like he is dead.
The next day when people start calling him pissed off, he pretty much says whatever, I can't feel much worse, and if you can handle me at my worse then you aren't a true friend, so I am crossing you off my list of true friends that. The one that starts with tequila, and ends with tequila.
Saying he would rather drink tequila, his true friend, than have to deal with you being angry with him.
@LostNine CAN'T handle me^
Is this Phish's only drinking song? If you don't know the meaning then you're an idiot.
this song confuses me...
it seems as if the lyrics are purposely tangled and non-coherent as if to convey a night with tequila!
cause at first it's "my" mexican cousin, then, ultimately, it ends up being "your" mexican cousin....
example 1: the conversations "i forget" (past tense) "tell me about tomorrow" (future), wtf?
example 2: "the things you tell me about myself can make me feel any worse" that sentence is sooo twisted, so much so that it almost would only make sense after (or in) a night of tequila...
then it goes on to, what i assume is, people getting pissed cause "i" (he/the narrator) made out with "my" mexican cousin; "well im awful sorry you got pissed"
but then ends with, "i wanna kiss your mexican cousin again"
as fcked up and illogical as the lyrics are and seem, they are and seem absolutely perfectly fcked up (for a song that is drowned in a night of tequila)!
that's because these lyrics are a little off, the real ones say "the conversations I forget YOU'LL tell me about tomorrow" meaning he wont remember anything that happened that night but someone will tell him in the morning. then its "the things you tell me about myself can'T make me feel any worse" meaning when he's drunk he's learning things about himself he doesnt like. then its not "I wanna kiss your mexican cousin again" its "i wanna kiss YOU-OOH, mexican cousin again." he makes it 2 syllables just b/c it sounds better that way.<br /> <br /> great song overall, really does sum up a night of tequila