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.
She's beautiful in her simple little way
She don't have too much to say when she gets mad
She understands, she don't let go of anything
Even when the pain gets really bad
I guess I should've been more like that
You had it all for a pretty little while
And somehow you made me smile when I was sad
You took a chance on a bruised and beaten heart
And then you realized you wanted what you had
I guess I should've been more like that
I should have held on to my pride
I should have never let you lie
I guess you got what you deserved
I guess I should've been more like her
Forgiving you, well, she's stronger than I am
You don't look much like a man from where I'm at
It's plain to see desperation showed it's truth
You love her, and she loves you with all she has
I guess I should've been more like that
I should have held on to my pride
I should have never let you lie
I guess you got what you deserved
I guess I should've been more like her
She's beautiful in her simple little way
She don't have too much to say when she gets mad
She understands, she don't let go of anything
Even when the pain gets really bad
I guess I should've been more like that
You had it all for a pretty little while
And somehow you made me smile when I was sad
You took a chance on a bruised and beaten heart
And then you realized you wanted what you had
I guess I should've been more like that
I should have held on to my pride
I should have never let you lie
I guess you got what you deserved
I guess I should've been more like her
Forgiving you, well, she's stronger than I am
You don't look much like a man from where I'm at
It's plain to see desperation showed it's truth
You love her, and she loves you with all she has
I guess I should've been more like that
I should have held on to my pride
I should have never let you lie
I guess you got what you deserved
I guess I should've been more like her
She's beautiful in her simple little way
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More Like Her Lyrics as written by Miranda Lambert
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Fortnight
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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"
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Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
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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,
I was wishing someone else would have wrote something about this song cuz i'd really like to know what everyone else thinks! This song is EXACTLY what just happened to me.. well the way that i interpreted it. I started dating this guy who had just gotten outta a serious relationship and was still talking to her kinda and i had been hurt really bad in the past and we dated for about a month and everything was going fine and then he decided to get back together with his ex gf.. Does anyone else interpret it that way?
That's exactly how I think it is. I went through the exact same thing.
@lollipops9 <br /> The song is from the other woman's perspective the one who had the affair. Believed him when he was saying what was wrong with the relationship. She thought he would leave the wife for her, thought they were seperated or getting a divorce whatever he told her. She is calling the wife simple that's what she sees because she believes he's leaving her. She thinks she's weak and never has much to say even when she's mad. I see it as she has learned not to spout off even when she's mad as being stronger because the wife has learned you can't take words back. She understands, she don't let go of anything even when the pain gets really bad. That was when the wife found out he had an affair or is having one, and she's still there<br /> <br /> You had it all for a pretty little while<br /> And somehow you made me smile when I was sad<br /> You took a chance on a bruised and beaten heart<br /> That was him playing both sides of the fence<br /> HE made her smile even when she was sad...<br /> <br /> I should have held on to my pride<br /> I should have never let you lie<br /> <br /> that is the narrartor because she had come out of a bad relationship and thought they were going to have a future. She got what she deserved a broken heart for believing his lies <br /> <br /> Forgiving you, well, she's stronger than I am<br /> You don't look much like a man from where I'm at<br /> She the other woman, wouldnt've been able to forgive him, so there she is sayin the wife is stronger than her, he doesn't look like a man to her because now she see's him as a liar and a cheat.<br /> <br /> It's plain to see desperation showed it's truth<br /> You love her, and she loves you with all she has<br /> the desperation here is the man because he desperately doesnt want to lose his wife and all the have ...be it their love, the kids, the house, etc...<br /> The wife has to love him with all she has to be able to forgive him for all that he has done...lying and cheating<br /> She should of held on to her Pride and not got involved and listened to all his lies
@lollipops9 <br /> The song is from the other woman's perspective the one who had the affair. Believed him when he was saying what was wrong with the relationship. She thought he would leave the wife for her, thought they were seperated or getting a divorce whatever he told her. She is calling the wife simple that's what she sees because she believes he's leaving her. She thinks she's weak and never has much to say even when she's mad. I see it as she has learned not to spout off even when she's mad as being stronger because the wife has learned you can't take words back. She understands, she don't let go of anything even when the pain gets really bad. That was when the wife found out he had an affair or is having one, and she's still there<br /> <br /> You had it all for a pretty little while<br /> And somehow you made me smile when I was sad<br /> You took a chance on a bruised and beaten heart<br /> That was him playing both sides of the fence<br /> HE made her smile even when she was sad...<br /> <br /> I should have held on to my pride<br /> I should have never let you lie<br /> <br /> that is the narrartor because she had come out of a bad relationship and thought they were going to have a future. She got what she deserved a broken heart for believing his lies <br /> <br /> Forgiving you, well, she's stronger than I am<br /> You don't look much like a man from where I'm at<br /> She the other woman, wouldnt've been able to forgive him, so there she is sayin the wife is stronger than her, he doesn't look like a man to her because now she see's him as a liar and a cheat.<br /> <br /> It's plain to see desperation showed it's truth<br /> You love her, and she loves you with all she has<br /> the desperation here is the man because he desperately doesnt want to lose his wife and all the have ...be it their love, the kids, the house, etc...<br /> The wife has to love him with all she has to be able to forgive him for all that he has done...lying and cheating<br /> She should of held on to her Pride and not got involved and listened to all his lies<br /> <br /> I was the wife