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.
Young,
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Done,
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
oooooohhhhhhhh
Get,
Get the line down
Get the line down
Get the line down
Don't elaborate like that
You'll frighten off the frat boys
Use your baby talk
Frighten off, frighten on
oooooohhhhhhh
This fall, the blues are brown
So turn your horse around NOW
The blues are brown
Missing, mostly waving
Thought as I was
Young, thought I was
Done, thought I was
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Done,
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
oooooohhhhhhhh
Get,
Get the line down
Get the line down
Get the line down
Don't elaborate like that
You'll frighten off the frat boys
Use your baby talk
Frighten off, frighten on
oooooohhhhhhh
This fall, the blues are brown
So turn your horse around NOW
The blues are brown
Missing, mostly waving
Thought as I was
Young, thought I was
Done, thought I was
Lyrics submitted by tinylittlewords
Mostly Waving Lyrics as written by Emily Haines
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But what does being depressed at a party have to do with the lines, "Get, get the line down?" Even if you don't take it as literal interpretation of song-writing, you must admit that the singer is struggling to articulate something but she's having a hard time which is why she repeats "get the line down".
Another explanation could be the difference between writing songs for Metric and writing more personal songs like she does for this solo project. She's just trying to get the line down, but she's afraid her fans or the general public won't get it, hence someone urging her to use her "baby talk" instead. Not to rip on Metric, because I love them, but the songs she has written for that band are definitely not as heavy or as personal than the songs on this album. She wants to express her grief, to write the song, to get it out, but she's worried it's too much.
I agree with your point on blue not being blue at all but brown. I wonder if this has anything to do with "this fog"? Metric has a lot of songs about the "blues" but this feeling is more intense than the blues - it's brown. I like to think of it as a leaf in the fall that turns brown and brittle, but that's probably because at first I thought she sang "this fall" instead of "this fog." :)