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.
Lungs turn to rust, turn to soot
While you smother yourself
The taste of your mouth is of smoke
Lip gloss under his belt
Somebody help
Charred away
Your flesh and bones
This doll's been brought to life
Wrapped up in orchid leaves
Tangle all the twine
This wool, it will survive
In time
Pull out what's left of your hair
Is that lace in your skin
Focused and fixed on your ribs
Would you break from within
Somebody send
Oh I know, but I can't take this
Charred away
Your flesh and bones
This doll's been brought to life
Wrapped up in orchid leaves
Tangle all the twine
This wool, it will survive
Charred away
Your flesh and bones
This doll's been brought to life
Wrapped up in orchid leaves
Tangle all the twine
This wool, it will survive
Charred away
Your flesh and bones
This doll's been brought to life
Wrapped up in orchid leaves
Tangle all the twine
This wool, it will survive
This wool, it will survive
In time
While you smother yourself
The taste of your mouth is of smoke
Lip gloss under his belt
Somebody help
Charred away
Your flesh and bones
This doll's been brought to life
Wrapped up in orchid leaves
Tangle all the twine
This wool, it will survive
In time
Pull out what's left of your hair
Is that lace in your skin
Focused and fixed on your ribs
Would you break from within
Somebody send
Oh I know, but I can't take this
Charred away
Your flesh and bones
This doll's been brought to life
Wrapped up in orchid leaves
Tangle all the twine
This wool, it will survive
Charred away
Your flesh and bones
This doll's been brought to life
Wrapped up in orchid leaves
Tangle all the twine
This wool, it will survive
Charred away
Your flesh and bones
This doll's been brought to life
Wrapped up in orchid leaves
Tangle all the twine
This wool, it will survive
This wool, it will survive
In time
Lyrics submitted by eltroyo11
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
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Fast Car
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"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.
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,
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.
I think it's;
Charred away Your flesh and bones This doll's been brought to life Wrapped up in orchid leaves Tangled in twine This womb, it will survive
Miss Havisham is a character from Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" It fits her quite well.... Great song.
Ya, it's defintely about her, but I don't really get the "this womb it will survive" part, cause she had adopted a child, and also Miss Havisham died after the fire (though not in it, so that could be it.) Right?
meh, i don't get this but my thirteen year old sister is reading it, she's a genius :S
If you ask me not knowing any thing about Miss Havisham is it makes me think of adam and eve. if you look at the chorus: "Charred away Your flesh and bones This doll's been brought to life Wrapped up in orchid leaves Tangle all the twine This wool, it will survive" charred away you flesh and bones would me well... char. then the dolls that where brought to life would be adam and eve, and the tangled twine and orchid leaves would be there closes that they made after they had eaten the apple. "Focused and fixed on your ribs Would you break from within" adams rib that was taken to make eve, being broken by god b/c of eating the apple. "This wool, it will survive In time" which i think should be Wound not wool, would be their sin but how humanity will survive...
Thats my take! but this should be wrong though just because it has nothing to do with the title... sooo hope you enjoyed this.
It's wool as in like lamb's wool, as in Jesus is the lamb of God who's Blood covers sin. I think. OR it's wool as in she works in a factory and makes wool... I've never read Great Expectations so I wouldn't know.
It's wool as in like lamb's wool, as in Jesus is the lamb of God who's Blood covers sin. I think. OR it's wool as in she works in a factory and makes wool... I've never read Great Expectations so I wouldn't know.