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 don't wanna fall asleep
I don't wanna wake up on my own
I don't wanna fall asleep
Lately, I've been tryin' to figure out
If I'm crazy, for wanting a reason to consume your poison
I've been feeling out of place
Miles apart but feet away
Strike me like a match stick
Weave me in your fabric, anything to get me through the day
I don't wanna fall asleep
I don't wanna wake up on my own
Swimming in an empty sheet
And it's drowning me
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause the ghost of you is all I've known
I don't wanna
I don't wanna fall asleep 'til you're next to me
Lately, thinking that I'd rather be
On the 15
To your one room apartment with 70's carpets
Missing what I've never met
Going all in on my bets
Letters and a cassette get it off of my chest
Anything to know you feel the same
I don't wanna fall asleep
I don't wanna wake up on my own
Swimming in an empty sheet
And it's drowning me
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause the ghost of you is all I've known
I don't wanna
I don't wanna fall asleep 'til you're next to me
I've been freaking out
Got me drunk on how
Every text you've ever sent, I've over read
Cause I've seen these same four white walls
Stuck in downtown Montréal
So just stay
So I don't have to stay awake
I don't wanna fall asleep
I don't wanna wake up on my own
Swimming in an empty sheet
And it's drowning me
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause the ghost of you is all I've known
I don't wanna
I don't wanna fall asleep 'til you're next to me
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause the ghost of you is all I've known
I don't wanna
I don't wanna fall asleep 'til you're next to me
I don't wanna wake up on my own
I don't wanna fall asleep
Lately, I've been tryin' to figure out
If I'm crazy, for wanting a reason to consume your poison
I've been feeling out of place
Miles apart but feet away
Strike me like a match stick
Weave me in your fabric, anything to get me through the day
I don't wanna fall asleep
I don't wanna wake up on my own
Swimming in an empty sheet
And it's drowning me
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause the ghost of you is all I've known
I don't wanna
I don't wanna fall asleep 'til you're next to me
Lately, thinking that I'd rather be
On the 15
To your one room apartment with 70's carpets
Missing what I've never met
Going all in on my bets
Letters and a cassette get it off of my chest
Anything to know you feel the same
I don't wanna fall asleep
I don't wanna wake up on my own
Swimming in an empty sheet
And it's drowning me
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause the ghost of you is all I've known
I don't wanna
I don't wanna fall asleep 'til you're next to me
I've been freaking out
Got me drunk on how
Every text you've ever sent, I've over read
Cause I've seen these same four white walls
Stuck in downtown Montréal
So just stay
So I don't have to stay awake
I don't wanna fall asleep
I don't wanna wake up on my own
Swimming in an empty sheet
And it's drowning me
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause the ghost of you is all I've known
I don't wanna
I don't wanna fall asleep 'til you're next to me
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause the ghost of you is all I've known
I don't wanna
I don't wanna fall asleep 'til you're next to me
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
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Lord Huron
Lord Huron
This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"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.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
Silent Planet
I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Head > Heels
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Head > Heels” is a track that aims to capture what it feels like to experience romance that exceeds expectations. Ed Sheeran dedicates his album outro to a lover who has blessed him with a unique experience that he seeks to describe through the song’s nuanced lyrics.
"He couldn�t find none of his own kind, he didn�t have none of his own kind"
I am sometimes like this: (