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'm just something else he tried
a catalogue of interests in a catalogue of lives
i hid myself from him, i wouldn't say it was a lie
but hiding worked its way into the way we lived our lives
it was clear that he was troubled
he had trouble with his pride
but i could never tell if the fault was his or mine
so i drew myself away, i wouldn't say i left behind
a man who would never know the man he was inside
in a moment he was gone, i could see that he had died
by the quickening of blood and the fluttering of eyes
so i held him to my breast like all the better wives
who furnish men with love and never leave their side
i'm just something else he tried
the salt that's left behind after tears have dried
and i suppose that i'll go on, after all it was my life
and all that i supposed i held has come to be untied
a catalogue of interests in a catalogue of lives
i hid myself from him, i wouldn't say it was a lie
but hiding worked its way into the way we lived our lives
it was clear that he was troubled
he had trouble with his pride
but i could never tell if the fault was his or mine
so i drew myself away, i wouldn't say i left behind
a man who would never know the man he was inside
in a moment he was gone, i could see that he had died
by the quickening of blood and the fluttering of eyes
so i held him to my breast like all the better wives
who furnish men with love and never leave their side
i'm just something else he tried
the salt that's left behind after tears have dried
and i suppose that i'll go on, after all it was my life
and all that i supposed i held has come to be untied
Lyrics submitted by monicatx
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I think it's about a women who is with a man but the man doesn't know who he is. He never really cared for her as she was just "something her tired." Despite this, She is trying to comfort him like all the "better wives" but it doesn't seem to work. They break up and in the end all she has is herself. Or at least that's what I think. The writing her is superb and Erin Mckeown is becoming one of my favorite singer-songwriters.
Rethinking what I wrote, I think my interpretation is a bit off I'm just something else he tried a catalogue of interests in a catalogue of lives i hid myself from him, i wouldn't say it was a lie but hiding worked its way into the way we lived our lives
The narrator and her partner seem to have a very impersonal relationship. It seems very business like. She pretended to be something she wasn't as did he.
it was clear that he was troubled he had trouble with his pride but i could never tell if the fault was his or mine so i drew myself away, i wouldn't say i left behind a man who would never know the man he was inside
She is with a man who has trouble with self-confidence and the narrator can't tell wether she caused him to feel that way or if he already did. Regardless his lack of confidence caused her to draw herself from him. Because of the man's like of self-confidence he doesn't have a sense of who he is.
in a moment he was gone, i could see that he had died by the quickening of blood and the fluttering of eyes so i held him to my breast like all the better wives who furnish men with love and never leave their side
After she leaves him, he loses all sense of self and doesn't know who he is. She feels guilty for leaving or for whatever reason she came back to comfort him
i'm just something else he tried the salt that's left behind after tears have dried and i suppose that i'll go on, after all it was my life and all that i supposed i held has come to be untied
This confuses me as it could be interpreted in two ways: First way: The first line is repeated again as she is now back in the same situation as before. She says rather so-so way that she'll forgot the sense of self she used to have in order to be "a better wife."
Second way: She decides to leave him anyway the verse is just a reminder of why she left. So again she nonchalantly says her life will go on, even though all she has ever known is gone.