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.
Hand me your hand, let me look in your eyes
As my last chance to feel human begins to vaporize
Maybe it's the heat in here, maybe it's the pressure
You ought to head for the exits, the sooner the better
I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam
And no one in her right mind would make my home her home
My heart's an autoclave
My heart's an autoclave
When I try and open up to you I get completely lost
Houses swallowed by the earth, windows thick with frost
And I reach deep down within, but the pathways twist and turn
And there's no light anywhere, and nothing left to burn
And I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam
And no emotion that's worth having could call my heart its home
My heart's an autoclave
My heart's an autoclave
I dreamt that I was perched atop a throne of human skulls
On a cliff above the ocean, howling wind and shrieking seagulls
And the dream went on forever, one single static frame
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name
And I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam
And no one in her right mind would make her home my home
My heart's an autoclave
My heart's an autoclave
As my last chance to feel human begins to vaporize
Maybe it's the heat in here, maybe it's the pressure
You ought to head for the exits, the sooner the better
I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam
And no one in her right mind would make my home her home
My heart's an autoclave
My heart's an autoclave
When I try and open up to you I get completely lost
Houses swallowed by the earth, windows thick with frost
And I reach deep down within, but the pathways twist and turn
And there's no light anywhere, and nothing left to burn
And I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam
And no emotion that's worth having could call my heart its home
My heart's an autoclave
My heart's an autoclave
I dreamt that I was perched atop a throne of human skulls
On a cliff above the ocean, howling wind and shrieking seagulls
And the dream went on forever, one single static frame
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name
And I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam
And no one in her right mind would make her home my home
My heart's an autoclave
My heart's an autoclave
Lyrics submitted by mdon06, edited by Xamnam, etarletons, pineapplejelly
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I disagree on the song being about self-loathing or fear of opening up. This is the surface imagery, yes, but not what the song ultimately builds to.
On the surface the speaker thinks he's destructive and toxic to life and relationships (no woman and no emotion stay with him and still be real) - on the other hand he conveys this in intensely selfaggrandizing imagery, "a great unstoppable mass" "a place where everybody knows your name" and equating his 'destructive' heart (i.e. his emotional intensity) not to toxins, but to something used to purify, an autoclave. The chaos of the second verse is what happens when he tries to share that self-image with others: they don't see him as the great unstoppable thing he thinks he is, and so he winds up lost and in chaos until he can purge the relationship ("nothing left to burn", "no emotion worth having") and be the pure thing he considers himself again.
So, while on the surface it seems to be about self-loathing and loneliness, the undertone is that he is lonely because he feels so intense and so righteous at heart that no-one else can survive exposure to his true feelings (the autoclave). It's not about self-loathing: it's about a narsicistic personality justifying and protecting it's own grand self-image by alienating everything that threatens to expose it as just human (be it romantic partners or his own common sense).
I just re-listened to this the other day and thought the same thing! I was reading a lot about narcissists and Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and this song seemed to me to be absolutely written from a narcissist's point of view (if they had the ability for self-reflection anyway).
@delay "...equating his 'destructive' heart (i.e. his emotional intensity) not to toxins, but to something used to purify, an autoclave."<br /> You and I think autoclaves do different things. I think an autoclave is meant to kill bacteria and fungal spores. I think that in this song, he's comparing his heart to an autoclave because it kills everything it comes in contact with.
"This song is about how when people say to you that they understand what's going on with you... and you want to say to them, 'If you understood what was going on with me, then you wouldn't be at my house.'" youtube.com/watch
I believe it's a warning song to a potential mate about his inability to open up, and how he's sure he's only going to hurt her. His heart is an autoclave because it appears sterile to the one closest to him.
john darnielle and jeffery lewis made a comic explaining each song on the new album, you can look at it here:
thejeffreylewissite.com/Mt-Goats-Press-Kit-08.html
autoclave: "a strong, heated container used for chemical reactions and other processes using high pressures and temperatures..."
"Maybe it's the heat in here, maybe it's the pressure..." Love it.
When I saw them in concert before Heretic Pride came out, they played this and John prefaced it by explaining pretty much what's on the press-kit cartoon: that he had read about some types of life that thrive in an autoclave. That context always gave this song a more hopeful message for me than I think is in the lyrics by themselves - the speaker's heart's an autoclave, but, while the lyrics don't make this clear, there are some things (bacteria, emotions) that would call his heart their home.
Anyway, I love this song. I really identify with it.
I get this, but with a bit of a twist. There are SOME bacteria that can survive, and indeed, thrive in an autoclave atmosphere, but most will die. <br /> <br /> There are also SOME people who would be able to love that person, though most will not.
i have borderline personality disorder and this song is almost spot on what its like having it. failing at relationships because you dont think youre good enough and youre scared of impending abandonment. exploding at really small events and cycling between euphoric and major depressive mood swings. empty all the time. cant handle being alone and cant handle being with people. uncontrollable rage, JD touched it all. i think he did it on purpose but hes not going to tell people 'hey this song is about bpd
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The last few seconds at the end make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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this is weird, so many posts and just 2 with info on the song i agree with splintercat, kinda an autoclave is a medical device used to sterilze equipment nothing is able to live inside an autoclave john (or whoever is singing) is saying that no one would want to reside in his heart somthing so vile can not have anything living in it i may be wrong, but the line "maybe its the heat in here, maybe its the pressure" could be about that feeling you have when you're in love, the way that you feel your heart building pressure its just a thought