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.
when all the numbers swim together
and all the shadows settle
when doors forced open shut again
a flytrap and a petal
my eyes burn and claws rush to fill them
and in the morning after the night
i fall in love with the light
it is so clear i realize
that here at last i have my eyes
when all the figures sound retreat
the soft skin starts to shrivel
when dreams made real become less sweet
the orchid and the metal
my sex turns and claws rush to spill them
but in the morning after the night
i fall in love with the light
it is so pure i can arise
without the fear of secret lies
when all the characters form signs
and every moon is level
when all the spirits burn in line
the center pierced by steel
my eyes burn and claws rush to fill them
but in the morning after the night
i fall in love with the light
it is so clear i realize
that now at last i have my eyes
and all the shadows settle
when doors forced open shut again
a flytrap and a petal
my eyes burn and claws rush to fill them
and in the morning after the night
i fall in love with the light
it is so clear i realize
that here at last i have my eyes
when all the figures sound retreat
the soft skin starts to shrivel
when dreams made real become less sweet
the orchid and the metal
my sex turns and claws rush to spill them
but in the morning after the night
i fall in love with the light
it is so pure i can arise
without the fear of secret lies
when all the characters form signs
and every moon is level
when all the spirits burn in line
the center pierced by steel
my eyes burn and claws rush to fill them
but in the morning after the night
i fall in love with the light
it is so clear i realize
that now at last i have my eyes
Lyrics submitted by precipitate, edited by freindbeast
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
Fast Car
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Tracy Chapman
"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
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.
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
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”
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
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.
Why no commentary? Come on, there's got to be at least one PTV fan here!
Nightmares fading a daybreak as others appear, I suppose. Has a very occult air about it. Beautiful, amazing song, though. Very "Sunday Morning"-ish, on several levels.
This song is awesome, but what's the story behind Cold Steel, the one that pretty much is the same exact song?
Genesis said in a radio interview that the song is about him and his girl piercing their genitals.
Well, what that other guy heard in an interview is obviously probably right... this however, is my take.
Genesis studied magic under Brion Gysin, who was friends with William S. Burroughs (author of Naked Lunch). I think this is where he got "claws rush to fill them" since crab-like creatures are one of Burroughs' favorite characters. Especially the mention of his sex, this also reminds me of Burroughs' style.
The day after the night, the dark night of the soul? The period in which people who study magic start to doubt it. Which is then followed by something but I can't remember, although I'll bet it has to do with light.
I think it's about enlightenment, and the magical teachings of Gysin/Burroughs.
he has this evil, heaviness, chaotic karma-- whatever name you like-- that drives him as the day wears into the isolation of night; once he wakes in the morning he has been cleansed of those energies and simply bathes in positivity and open morality. in a cycle like that. it's about our society and how hard it is to live in it without succumbing to a lower nature.
he has this evil, heaviness, chaotic karma-- whatever name you like-- that drives him as the day wears into the isolation of night; once he wakes in the morning he has been cleansed of those energies and simply bathes in positivity and open morality. in a cycle like that. it's about our society and how hard it is to live in it without succumbing to a lower nature.
he has this evil, heaviness, chaotic karma-- whatever name you like-- that drives him as the day wears into the isolation of night; once he wakes in the morning he has been cleansed of those energies and simply bathes in positivity and open morality. in a cycle like that. it's about our society and how hard it is to live in it without succumbing to a lower nature.
This song is about the science fiction book "Dhalgren" by Samuel R. Delaney...
According to G.P.O orchids were the result of wolves sperm left in the grass...
Genesis commented on an old youtube video (wish it was still posted) that what inspired the song was the stark juxtaposition of the phonetically similar words - an orchid, the flowering plant, and an orchiectomy, the surgical procedure.
In the same comment stream, someone asked if they'd heard the Califone cover, and they commented that they had, and loved it.