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.
The house is still at midnight, by one we'll be a wreck
Alcohol and bandages will soon follow this mess
Sleeping's overrated, we lie awake and cry
If this is love then kill me now and save me from my life
The house is dead by morning, as good as new again
The morning after funeral is coming to it's end
Smile's aren't too tempting and hopes as good as lies
Memories are pain that lost their meaning over time
Just close your eyes, everything will be okay
Just close your eyes, everything will be okay
Just close your eyes, everything will be okay
(Just sleep, we never asked for this)
Just close your eyes, just close your eyes
Alcohol and bandages will soon follow this mess
Sleeping's overrated, we lie awake and cry
If this is love then kill me now and save me from my life
The house is dead by morning, as good as new again
The morning after funeral is coming to it's end
Smile's aren't too tempting and hopes as good as lies
Memories are pain that lost their meaning over time
Just close your eyes, everything will be okay
Just close your eyes, everything will be okay
Just close your eyes, everything will be okay
(Just sleep, we never asked for this)
Just close your eyes, just close your eyes
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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.
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
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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Hayalperest
Hayalperest
This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
When We Were Young
Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
i think that the "morning after funeral" is the morning after pill his girlfriend takes the morning after because they had sex the previous night
the song expresses Jamison's feelings about this
he tells his girlfriend to "Just close your eyes", because, "everything will be okay," and take the pill
he tells himself that everything will be ok, that he needs to just go ahead and follow through
he tells the possible baby that everything will be ok to just close its eyes and fade away
thats why "alcohol and bandages will soon follow this mess"
because he needs to heal after the mess he made
I think its about how life is such a mess and its crazy but you try to do anything to fix it. Hence the Alcohol or bandages. And you try to tell yourself that ok just breathe
yea just close your eyes, and everything will be okay
I love this song, but god, I really makes me want to sleep
its kinda hypnotic because i listen to my ipod late at night and it was just laying there and when it said just close your eyes i did unintentionally then woke up to a scremo song about an hour later so yeah i love jamisonparker there da domb digity dawg lol jk
this song is about something horrile happening and trying to let go and forget about it
this song is actually amazing, i love it. i love JP
Amazing song, but "remember us for the best" should be "we never asked for this" im pretty sure
i think this song is just about knowing what damage you've done and remembering why it happened in the first place, then letting go if it.
every song that jamison has ever wrote is the anthem to my life.
for some reason i've always had in my head that someone close to them died, they went to their funeral, then to escape the pain went home and got wasted. this song is about waking up the next morning. "morning after funeral" idk..not very meaningful, that's just the first impression i got from the song. lovely song, mesmerizing. love jamison parker.