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.
Walking on velvet green
Scots pine growing
Isn't it rare to be taking the air, singing
Walking on velvet green
Walking on velvet green
Distant cows lowing
Never a care, with your legs in the air, loving
Walking on velvet green
Won't you have my company, yes, take it in your hands
Go down on velvet green, with a country man
Who's a young girls fancy and an old maid's dream
Tell your mother that you walked all night on velvet green
One dusky half-hour's ride up to the north
There lies your reputation and all that you're worth
Where the scent of wild roses turns the milk to cream
Tell your mother that you walked all night on velvet green
And the long grass blows in the evening cool
And August's rare delight may be April's fool
But think not of that, my love
I'm tight against the seam
And I'm growing up to meet you down on velvet green
Now I may tell you that it's love and not just lust
And if we live the lie, let's lie in trust
On golden daffodils, to catch the silver stream
That washes out the wild oat seed on velvet green
We'll dream as lovers under the stars
Of civilizations raging afar
And the ragged dawn breaks on your battle scars
As you walk home cold and alone upon velvet green
Walking on velvet green
Scots pine growing
Isn't it rare to be taking the air, singing
Walking on velvet green
Walking on velvet green
Distant cows lowing
Never a care, with your legs in the air, loving
Walking on velvet green
Scots pine growing
Isn't it rare to be taking the air, singing
Walking on velvet green
Walking on velvet green
Distant cows lowing
Never a care, with your legs in the air, loving
Walking on velvet green
Won't you have my company, yes, take it in your hands
Go down on velvet green, with a country man
Who's a young girls fancy and an old maid's dream
Tell your mother that you walked all night on velvet green
One dusky half-hour's ride up to the north
There lies your reputation and all that you're worth
Where the scent of wild roses turns the milk to cream
Tell your mother that you walked all night on velvet green
And the long grass blows in the evening cool
And August's rare delight may be April's fool
But think not of that, my love
I'm tight against the seam
And I'm growing up to meet you down on velvet green
Now I may tell you that it's love and not just lust
And if we live the lie, let's lie in trust
On golden daffodils, to catch the silver stream
That washes out the wild oat seed on velvet green
We'll dream as lovers under the stars
Of civilizations raging afar
And the ragged dawn breaks on your battle scars
As you walk home cold and alone upon velvet green
Walking on velvet green
Scots pine growing
Isn't it rare to be taking the air, singing
Walking on velvet green
Walking on velvet green
Distant cows lowing
Never a care, with your legs in the air, loving
Walking on velvet green
Lyrics submitted by Philadelphia Eagles
Velvet Green Lyrics as written by Ian Anderson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
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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"
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Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
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Amazing
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
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Not difficult to interpret and all comments are broadly correct. But one or two English expressions that I think you might have overlooked. I believe it is August's "ready lass" who may be April's fool (i.e. a girl who is willing to let this man have his way with her). She is also the "poor maid" (not old maid) who has been seduced by the country man who knows that he is attractive and glamorous to girls like her and cyncically lies to them about it being "love and not just lust". They get to the remote spot on a horse - his horse - because it's an hour's ride away, but she ends up walking back. He's gone and she won't see him again ... but he might have left something to remember him by come next April. Some of the sexual imagery is quite crude, but combined with the bucolic setting and the summer twilight it very successfully conveys a lustful atmosphere of youthful sap rising. And as ever with Jethro Tull, especially on this album, you have the impression that the action is set about 200 years ago without it specifically being mentioned. The shame of the pregnancy will therefore be that much more damaging - the "poor maid" is probably living a harsh rural existence and this will not help matters. Clever stuff.