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 dug you up this morning and took you home.
To have you here beside me, cold but close,
I made my mind up last night that heaven just can't have you.
I made you breakfast but you would not eat. so I took your black dress off and washed you clean.
The sheets are creased from your last day, a silhouette of where you laid.
They'll find your headstong in the yard with your black dress and my guitar.
I'll carry you back to your grave, where you and I will always stay.
I close the casket, it gets dark, they'll find us in each others arms.
To have you here beside me, cold but close,
I made my mind up last night that heaven just can't have you.
I made you breakfast but you would not eat. so I took your black dress off and washed you clean.
The sheets are creased from your last day, a silhouette of where you laid.
They'll find your headstong in the yard with your black dress and my guitar.
I'll carry you back to your grave, where you and I will always stay.
I close the casket, it gets dark, they'll find us in each others arms.
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Fortnight
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
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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,
i think this song is about someone who is greiving so so much. it gives me chills everytime i hear it. its so dark, yet so amazingly beautiful.
'I close the casket, it gets dark, they'll find us in each others arms.'