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.
So now this is the beginning, dear
Have you come to start a fight
Oh you say you won't, but you know you might
Push the living off and say:
Oh mother please
They have no need
For your boy
I've been bitten by disease, my dear
The hurt has come within my heart
Should you say you know i might fall apart
So come darkness, shroud your end
Oh mother please
They have no need
For your boy
Have you come to start a fight
Oh you say you won't, but you know you might
Push the living off and say:
Oh mother please
They have no need
For your boy
I've been bitten by disease, my dear
The hurt has come within my heart
Should you say you know i might fall apart
So come darkness, shroud your end
Oh mother please
They have no need
For your boy
Lyrics submitted by thecrowing83
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There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
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Great version of a great song,
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Form what I can work out, Sir Arthur McCloud approached Moses Early regarding The Missing McCloud Boys, and they started a fight. Arthur McCloud wins, and possibly with his dying breath, Moses Early teases "They have no need for your boy", giving a hint that there is something higher at work, some sort of cult, perhaps? Don't know really, can't wait for The PFI story to come ot light, sounds like it's gonna be a good one.
A very haunting track... very Western sounding in scope. Claudio uses his voice to creepy effect on this song. Very cool.
I really love the music in this song. Claudio's change of voice gives it an almost eery tone.
Well Id say that just about the only obvious thing about this song now, before the release of the album or any stories around it, is that this part of the Prize Fighters' story is told by coheed. the only other assumption ill make is that Moses ends up killing Arthur McCloud. And thats just because of the title of their other song "The Missing McCloud Boys". Another guess could be Arthur is the boys' father and he goes after Moses to ask questions about the boys missing, hearing that moses may know where they are, and fights him and dies. All of these assumptions are a little much considering there is no info on Jesse's stories as the Prizefighter Inferno thus far, but I always love making guesses anywho !
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Form what I can work out, Sir Arthur McCloud approached Moses Early regarding The Missing McCloud Boys, and they started a fight. Arthur McCloud wins, and possibly with his dying breath, Moses Early teases "They have no need for your boy", giving a hint that there is something higher at work, some sort of cult, perhaps? Don't know really, can't wait for The PFI story to come ot light, sounds like it's gonna be a good one.
this is told in the words of jesse.
I think what this is, is Jesse is watching Moses and Sir Arthur from some kind of cover and what he see's there is a lackluster sort of fight, Iam not sure what they are fighting about. One of them seems to be more forthcoming, the other is more defensive. If I were to guess I would say it is Moses coming to attack Sir Arthur, and during the fight there is a accident and McCloud is killed somehow, maybe a snake bit him? Maybe he was killed by accident by moses, fell on the knife or something. but I feel it was accidental and Moses Early covers up the death, maybe burying Arthur, hiding his corpse.
pretty much, i love PFI already. JUST got the cd. :]
Perhaps Arthur and Moses have already had the fight and Arthur comes home to Martha to recount or something? I mean why would he call Moses "dear", twice? The "disease" and the "hurt within his heart" might be referring to his molestation of Cecillia, their daughter. Perhaps he is admitting the truth to her and if she was already told he "might fall apart". The fight might have been because Johnny Early and Cecillia McCloud were in love and, after she was molested, Cecillia asked Johnny to run away with her, but he refused ,so she ran away with her brothers (the missing McCloud boys). Johnny may have gone to Moses and told him what Arthur had done, hence the confrontation.
you guys make some crazy claims, im just going to wait until claudio says something... all i know is that somebody named moses and somebody named arthur mcCloud fight and someone dies.