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.
If I had to I would put myself right beside you
So let me ask you
Would ya like that? Would ya like that?
And I don't mind If you say this love is the last time
So now I'll ask
Do ya like that? Do ya like that? No
Something's getting in the way
Something's just about to break
I will try to find my place
In the diary of Jane
So, tell me
How it should be
Try to find out
What makes you tick as I lie down
Sore and sick
Do ya like that? Do ya like that?
There's a fine line between love and hate
And I don't mind, just let me say
That I like that, I like that
Something's getting in the way
Something's just about to break
I will try to find my place
In the diary of Jane
As I burn another page
As I look the other way
I still try to find my place
In the diary of Jane
So tell me
How it should be
Desperate, I will crawl
Waiting for so long
No love, there's no love
Die for anyone
What have I become?
Something's getting in the way
Something's just about to break
I will try to find my place
In the diary of Jane
As I burn another page
As I look the other way
I still try to find my place
In the diary of Jane
So let me ask you
Would ya like that? Would ya like that?
And I don't mind If you say this love is the last time
So now I'll ask
Do ya like that? Do ya like that? No
Something's getting in the way
Something's just about to break
I will try to find my place
In the diary of Jane
So, tell me
How it should be
Try to find out
What makes you tick as I lie down
Sore and sick
Do ya like that? Do ya like that?
There's a fine line between love and hate
And I don't mind, just let me say
That I like that, I like that
Something's getting in the way
Something's just about to break
I will try to find my place
In the diary of Jane
As I burn another page
As I look the other way
I still try to find my place
In the diary of Jane
So tell me
How it should be
Desperate, I will crawl
Waiting for so long
No love, there's no love
Die for anyone
What have I become?
Something's getting in the way
Something's just about to break
I will try to find my place
In the diary of Jane
As I burn another page
As I look the other way
I still try to find my place
In the diary of Jane
Lyrics submitted by St3wi3Griffin, edited by winny32, CherryxB, Floordakid
The Diary Of Jane Lyrics as written by Aaron C Fincke Benjamin Burnley
Lyrics © Walt Disney Music Company
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Fortnight
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The Night We Met
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"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.
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Bee Gees
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
No Surprises
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
For some reason, whenever I hear this song I think about it in a female perspective, with Jane as a another woman (whole forbidden thing...) or 'Jane' as a guy who's using her as a random thing to fuck while she wants him to really love her. Long-winded analysis:
If I had to I would put myself right beside you So let me ask Would you like that? Would you like that? -She'll do anything for him to really love her, even change herself completely, but she's not really happy about doing so and would only do it for him.
And I don't mind if you say this love is the last time and now I'll ask Do you like that? Do you like that? No -He couldn't care less about her if he decides to leave, but tells her that it could be the last time he sees her everytime they're together.'And I don't mind' could refer to the girl's ill-treatment or a sarcastic reply to this.
Something's getting in the way Something's just about to break I will try to find my place in the Diary of Jane So tell me how it should be -She hopelessly thinks it could work with someone she knows dosen't care, and is tearing herself into pieces emotionally and mentally, just to be a part of his life.
Try to find out What makes you tick as I lie down Sore and sick Do you like that? Do you like that? -This sounds like she's remembering the first time they had sex, knowing he didn't love her (or really didn't know him) and possibly having no idea what expect...
Try to find out What makes you tick as I lie down Sore and sick Do you like that? Do you like that? -She really hates him for what he has made her do and turn into, but still loves him all the same.
Try to find out What makes you tick as I lie down Sore and sick Do you like that? Do you like that? -When it comes to his bad points and the 'bad' things he does to her and others, she chooses to look the other way and ignore the obvious problems.
Despereate I will crawl -She's wasted so much of her time and love , and is now reduced to crawling on her hands and knees for him, begging him to stay, because without this, she has nothing, and can't believe what she has become- Something's getting in the way Something's just about to break I will try to find my place In the Diary of Jane As I burn another page As I look the other way I still try to find my place In the Diary of Jane -So this is in the present tense, and she still crawls and tries to find her place in the diary of 'Jane'
Depressing...T_T