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 have finally found a way to live
Just like I never could before
I know that I don't have much to give,
But I can open any door
Everybody knows the secret,
Everybody knows the score, yeah yeah yeah
I have finally found a way to live
In the color of the Lord
I have finally found a place to live
Just like I never could before
And I know I don't have much to give,
But soon I'll open any door
Everybody knows the secret,
Everybody knows the score
I have finally found a place to live, oh
In the presence of the Lord
In the presence of the Lord
I have finally found a way to live
Just like I never could before
And I know I don't have much to give,
But I can open any door
Everybody knows the secret,
I said everybody knows the score
I have finally found a way to live, oh
In the color of the Lord
In the color of the Lord
Just like I never could before
I know that I don't have much to give,
But I can open any door
Everybody knows the secret,
Everybody knows the score, yeah yeah yeah
I have finally found a way to live
In the color of the Lord
I have finally found a place to live
Just like I never could before
And I know I don't have much to give,
But soon I'll open any door
Everybody knows the secret,
Everybody knows the score
I have finally found a place to live, oh
In the presence of the Lord
In the presence of the Lord
I have finally found a way to live
Just like I never could before
And I know I don't have much to give,
But I can open any door
Everybody knows the secret,
I said everybody knows the score
I have finally found a way to live, oh
In the color of the Lord
In the color of the Lord
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
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"
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Cajun Girl
Little Feat
Little Feat
Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
Silent Planet
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.
Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton are complicated people with complex thoughts and feelings on the ultimate questions of life. The dissonant and ironic chord at the end of "In the Presence of the Lord" demonstrates a reluctance to say "I've found the answer - everybody listen up! - the search is over!" and maybe a bit of frustration that it always has to be that way - an open question. The songs here embrace faith in some sort of ultimate peace while acknowledging that the writers want nothing in the way of dogma. And the final cut "Do What You Like" puts to rest any notion that these guys are getting religion in any conventional sense.
Someone above said this song was sung by Clapton - Well, it sure sounds like Winwood to me - struggling (beautifully) for those ultra-high notes. If it's Clapton, he's doing his best Winwood impression (actually, no way - I've never heard Eric sing that high.). I'm a fan of both, but Steve wrote three songs for the album, Eric wrote one, and as far as I can tell Winwood sings all the leads. So, despite Clapton's top billing, it's far more a Winwood album. And after this album, Clapton began to use some of the unusual chord changes typical of Winwood's work, such as sliding from the key of D minor down to E-flat minor for the verse in Layla (The song starts with the familiar energetic chorus sequence in D minor.). My favorite example of really unusual changes that work out beautifully is Winwood's "Empty Chair" on one of his solo albums.
Either way, it's a fantastic collaboration of two giants (and Ginger Baker and Ric Grech were certainly no slouches).
Oops, I meant to write:<br /> ...sliding from the key of D minor down to D-flat minor for the verse in Layla
on Blind Faith album it was sung by Winwood, but later on Clapton sang it. At least hat is what I though. I might have to find the BF version of it, because I looked this up since the EC version from his live CD came up on Itunes.