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.
In the spring of 1315
There began an era of unpredictable weather
It did not lift until 1851
You remember 1816 as the year without a summer
June 1816
A sudden snowstorm blankets all the country side
So Mary Shelly had to stay inside
And she wrote Frankenstein
Oh 1816 was the year without a summer
Grain couldn’t ripen under these conditions, no
It was brought in-doors in urns and pots
It’d go from 95 degrees to freezing within hours
A brutal struggle for the people and the starving livestock
During the most sever years of this little ice age
We looked for scapegoats to blame
Many people tried to blame it all
On a vast Freemason conspiracy
Or Benjamin Franklin and his experiments with electricity
The eruption of the volcano Tambora
Blanketed the earth with ash
That was the real cause discovered by some explorer
Years later, looking back at the past
I will give you
My red color
To take away your sickly pallor
For you were very choleric of complexion
Please beware the mounting sun
And all dejection
1816 was the year without a summer
There began an era of unpredictable weather
It did not lift until 1851
You remember 1816 as the year without a summer
June 1816
A sudden snowstorm blankets all the country side
So Mary Shelly had to stay inside
And she wrote Frankenstein
Oh 1816 was the year without a summer
Grain couldn’t ripen under these conditions, no
It was brought in-doors in urns and pots
It’d go from 95 degrees to freezing within hours
A brutal struggle for the people and the starving livestock
During the most sever years of this little ice age
We looked for scapegoats to blame
Many people tried to blame it all
On a vast Freemason conspiracy
Or Benjamin Franklin and his experiments with electricity
The eruption of the volcano Tambora
Blanketed the earth with ash
That was the real cause discovered by some explorer
Years later, looking back at the past
I will give you
My red color
To take away your sickly pallor
For you were very choleric of complexion
Please beware the mounting sun
And all dejection
1816 was the year without a summer
Lyrics submitted by boneyardsorceress
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Just A Little Lovin'
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Amazing
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
The opening lines humorously treat a climatic period, the "Little Ice Age" following the medieval warm period, as though it were a weather event that we could say started and ended at a specific moment: from the spring of 1315 to 1851. In reality this was a gradual cooling trend, not something that suddenly began in a particular month.
Another humorous note is sounded by "You remember 1816 as the year without a summer." Of course no one living remembers that year, and few people are aware of weather events from centuries past. The sudden change of subject suggests that there's a causal link between the Little Ice Age and the freakishly cold summer of 1816, but as the rest of the song will go on to explain, there isn't one.
Did many people at the time think Benjamin Franklin--who had died almost 30 years earlier--or a freemason conspiracy caused the weather events of 1816? I highly doubt it. Doing some searching for Franklin in connection with the summer of 1816 only turned up the interesting factoid that, in addition to doing experiments on electricity, Franklin was actually one of the first people to theorize that unusually cold weather could be caused by the ash kicked into the atmosphere by volcanoes, which turned out to be the cause of the freak weather events of 1816-18. What a clever guy! If anyone has any guesses as to where Melora could have gotten this claim, I'd be interested to hear.
The line "That was the real cause, discovered by some explorer" is puzzling. It makes it sound like Mount Tambora, or the fact that it had erupted in 1815, was only discovered later by Europeans thanks to some voyage of discovery, when in reality Tambora is part of what was then the Dutch East Indies and was reported on by European observers at the time. That said, I'm not an expert and don't know exactly who did first posit a link between the eruption and 1816's unusual weather, so I suppose that person could have been "some explorer." Anyone else know about this?
"You are so very choleric of complexion / Please beware the mounting sun and all dejection" is a quote from a modern English translation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, specifically the Nun's Priest's Tale, lines 190-91. The hen Pertelote is giving advice to her husband, the rooster Chanticleer, after he has related a disturbing dream he had. The gist is that he's just not taking enough care of his health, the dream being a product of humoral imbalance. How this relates to the previous 2 lines, or how this whole stanza relates to 1816, I am at a loss to understand.