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.
There are twenty years to go
and twenty ways to know
who will wear
who will wear the hat
There are twenty years to go
the best of all i hope
enjoy the ride
the medicine show
And thems the breaks
for we designer fakes
we need to concentrate on more than meets the eye
There are twenty years to go
the faithful and the low
the best of starts
the broken heart,the stone
There are twenty years to go
the punch drunk and the blow
the worst of starts
the mercy part,the phone
And thems the breaks
for we designer fakes
we need to concentrate on more than meets the eye
Thems the breaks
for we designer fakes
but it's you i take it's you're the truth,not i
There are twenty years to go
a golden age i know
but all will pass
will end too fast,you know
There are twenty years to go
and many friends i hope
though some may hold the rose
some hold the rope
and that's the end and that's the start of it
that's the whole and that's the part of it
that's the high and that's the heart of it
that's the long and that's the short of it
that's the best and that's the test in it
that's the doubt,the doubt,the trust in it
that's the sight and that's the sound of it
that's the gift and that's the trick in it
you're the truth,not i
you're the truth,not i
you're the truth,not i
and twenty ways to know
who will wear
who will wear the hat
There are twenty years to go
the best of all i hope
enjoy the ride
the medicine show
And thems the breaks
for we designer fakes
we need to concentrate on more than meets the eye
There are twenty years to go
the faithful and the low
the best of starts
the broken heart,the stone
There are twenty years to go
the punch drunk and the blow
the worst of starts
the mercy part,the phone
And thems the breaks
for we designer fakes
we need to concentrate on more than meets the eye
Thems the breaks
for we designer fakes
but it's you i take it's you're the truth,not i
There are twenty years to go
a golden age i know
but all will pass
will end too fast,you know
There are twenty years to go
and many friends i hope
though some may hold the rose
some hold the rope
and that's the end and that's the start of it
that's the whole and that's the part of it
that's the high and that's the heart of it
that's the long and that's the short of it
that's the best and that's the test in it
that's the doubt,the doubt,the trust in it
that's the sight and that's the sound of it
that's the gift and that's the trick in it
you're the truth,not i
you're the truth,not i
you're the truth,not i
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
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The Night We Met
Lord Huron
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
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.
Amazing
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
For me it's like being in your late teens or early 20s, when your life starts and you have like twenty years of youth "a golden age", to explore life and find the true meaning of things, until you'll turn 40. And you'll gonna see bad things and good things, meet mean people and screwed-up people and faithful people and just good people... And some of your friends will disappoint you and others will stay by your side 'till the end. And you'll find the truth, but you have to look beyond the surface of things, to "concentrate on more than meets the eye". Most of all, you have to understand that sometimes you'll win and sometimes you'll lose, 'cause that's just how life is. The best you can do is just "enjoy the ride".