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.
Conceal your deepest worries
Confine your thoughts inside
The walls you built of damaged pride
The light in your eyes failing
Like you're adrift
Like night pretending to be day
These storms subside
Though the past, the unwanted memories, are holding onto you
All the power in the universe conspires to carry you
Truths you find through your adversities will defend you
As your powers and all your energies conspire to carry you
The adversary to your soul
The blackest thoughts
That try to poison you
These storms subside
Lay down your greatest burden
Relinquish that which has control of you
And let yourself through
Though it seems the past and the future look the same
Suffice to say you're still here
Confine your thoughts inside
The walls you built of damaged pride
The light in your eyes failing
Like you're adrift
Like night pretending to be day
These storms subside
Though the past, the unwanted memories, are holding onto you
All the power in the universe conspires to carry you
Truths you find through your adversities will defend you
As your powers and all your energies conspire to carry you
The adversary to your soul
The blackest thoughts
That try to poison you
These storms subside
Lay down your greatest burden
Relinquish that which has control of you
And let yourself through
Though it seems the past and the future look the same
Suffice to say you're still here
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To me, this song means exactly the opposite of what most people here have concluded. Most interpretations here are that we must "dump our baggage" or "get rid of" the bad things from our past.
What he says is the opposite. Everything you've experienced is what you are. All your unwanted memories are actually making you the person you are. They "carry you". Accept them, don't drop them. Relish even the bad parts of your past and you'll find that all the energies in the universe will carry you.
I can't say I feel this way myself, carried by the universe. I'm not a big believer in spirituality. But I do believe that we must accept what has happened. The past cannot be changed except through our interpretation of it.
VNV NATION "SONG MEANINGS" INSIDE 15 page interview with Ronan Harris.
dancemusic.about.com/od/artistshomepages/a/VnVNationInt.htm
see my Farthest Star comment, so I don't have to say it all over again...these are the most spiritual, most straight-up lyrics from VNV...the words are in your face this time, not much to "interpret" in my opinion.
wow, I just realized, this is exactly what I went through 5 years ago. I wish I could get into detail. I need to write a book, except it won't be fiction. To be short, for me, when the light has touched your mind the first time, all the darkness built up inside surfaces, and you need to deal with it, and get over it all, until that light can consume you and you can share it with others.
Be Yoursef. Its simple.
Top paragraph defines what keeps one afraid of bieng thierself.
Truths you find through your adversities will defend you As your powers and all your energies conspire to carry you to be yourself means u have found yourself and believe in it enuf to have found personal truths to defend yourself from a society that doesn't agree.
3rd is sayin.. let it go
4th.. past has been dark but one doesnt have to let thier future be as thier past.
defend not nessisaraly from others or a society, but to yourself as what you know is right even though society is tring to change you. Seems alot of this album is about bieng yourself
from The Top 10 Steps Toward Spiritual Growth. Diana Robinson, Ph.D., Personal & Spirituality Coach
Dump your baggage.
We must unload our baggage, our beloved belongings, our sources of victimhood, our hurts, our perpetrators, our righteous wrath. We must unhook ourselves and be prepared to leave them all behind.
The Wheel of Transformation: Karlfried Graf Durckheim's method of spiritual awakening Durckheim warns us that this practice must be done continuously with concentrated awareness or it will lead nowhere.
Stage 1-- all that is contrary to essential being must be relinquished.
step 1: the practice of critical watchfulness
step 2: the letting go of all that stands in the way of new becoming
Stage 2-- that which has been relinquished must be dissolved in transcendent Being which absorbs and recreates us.
step 3: union with transcendent Being.
6th chakra: 3rd Eye: psychic POWER, spirit ENERGIES, higher intuition, light.
These is more at play than any of us could possibly understand. No matter how bad off we may feel we are, there are powers at work that none of us can grasp.
no, there are powers within yourself that you CAN grasp. :)
to Sciboy...
I agree with some of what you are saying, I don't think the song is saying to 'forget' your past, but to not let it control you. It is true, everything we have been through individually in our lives makes us who we are, but holding on to the past and letting it control us keeps us from moving forward.That goes for humans individually and as a whole/race.