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.
Let's go walking on the water
Come all the way please
I want to know
Should I stay or go?
No need to be scared
Let's jump into the day
I want to know
I think I oughta go
Close your eyes and make believe
You can do whatever you please
I want to know
I think I better go
Let's go walking on water
Now you think I'm Satan's daughter
I want to know
Please let me go!
Just too quick
Now I think I'm gonna be sick
I want to know
Should I stay or go?
I'm trying for the future
It's funny that way
I want to know
I want to know!
I took a look into the hate
It made me feel very up-to-date
I want to know
Should I stay or go?
Hold me tight, down on my knees
So I don't go burning 'cross the breeze
I want to know
I want to know
I want to know
Should I stay or go?
Burning 'cross the breeze
Burning 'cross the breeze
Come all the way please
I want to know
Should I stay or go?
No need to be scared
Let's jump into the day
I want to know
I think I oughta go
Close your eyes and make believe
You can do whatever you please
I want to know
I think I better go
Let's go walking on water
Now you think I'm Satan's daughter
I want to know
Please let me go!
Just too quick
Now I think I'm gonna be sick
I want to know
Should I stay or go?
I'm trying for the future
It's funny that way
I want to know
I want to know!
I took a look into the hate
It made me feel very up-to-date
I want to know
Should I stay or go?
Hold me tight, down on my knees
So I don't go burning 'cross the breeze
I want to know
I want to know
I want to know
Should I stay or go?
Burning 'cross the breeze
Burning 'cross the breeze
Lyrics submitted by Richard Enahobo
'Cross the Breeze Lyrics as written by Steve Shelley Thurston Moore
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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sex drugs and sonic youth
This song is painfully under-rated. I personally think it's the best song off DDN.
Defninitley a strong contender.
"just like every other Sonic Youth song"
fuck off, moron
this song looks kinda sex-related(don't most their songs?),but when kim shout out "i wanna know i wanna know",her voice is...it definitely mean something.it sounds very sad,angry and also scared.
yes because of course it has to be one or the other rolls eyes
This might seem explaination too simple, but I think it's about wanting to know what to do with yourself. She keeps saying 'i wanna know', and makes a comment about the future. She asking someone to come with her somewhere, like she doesn't want to be alone when she's trying to figure things out.
I like this explanation .. that's how it sounds to me. Partly it reminds me of waking up the next day with someone perhaps you don't know very well? <br /> <br /> /No need to be scared<br /> Let's jump into the day<br /> I wanna know<br /> I think I oughta go/<br /> <br /> She wants to be certain about how she feels but has no idea.<br /> <br /> /I wanna know<br /> Should I stay or go?/<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
Sometimes I think this is the best song of all time.
@glitcHead hahaha, great man!!
whats this song about? according to kim, "flirting with the devil"
I think this song is about being saved. The reference to walking on water could be referring to Jesus, then midway in the verse when she says "you think i'm satans daughter" is referring to her being judged based on the things she does. The fact that she doesn't want to go burning 'cross the breeze' could be referring to going to hell. Especially because the guitars and drums get hectic towards the end. I love it. haha
I highly highly doubt Sonic Youth would write anything pro-Christian given their very progressive leanings. If anything, the song seems to be loosely about how women who are sexually powerful are marginalized, which is kind of what half of Kim's songs are about. The "walking on water" part is I think meant to highlight the difference between the female speaker and the male Jesus. Jesus walks on water so he's the son of Christ. The speaker walks on water so she's the daughter of Satan.
let's so walking on the water<br /> -an invitation to go for a walk, to talk, be in con-verse-(with verse) ation....<br /> in this context (familiar, as miraculous, with someone named jesus to many but here, incidental).<br /> it is to be exclusive of all the mundane common bindings of human existence. <br /> ideas of religion, nationality, even language, time frame are irrelevant.... as an... immortal or myth...<br /> In this encounter while walking (moving, drifting thinking along ...)<br /> close your eyes and make believe you can do whatever you please...<br /> consider but not limit to: "Make, Be, Leave" <br /> imagine yourself... manifest, then go on, be on your way fly fly fly...<br /> should i stay or go... the presence of Kim (or whomever one may interpret the voice to be)<br /> is considering that if the receiver is not ready, receptive, engaging, that she may as well go...<br /> the truth is not conceivable... for everyone, or delusional security may be hard to part with... so, <br /> "I think I ought to go..." <br /> I'm trying for the future... just as Christ, funny that way, haha still work to be done, not there yet...<br /> the human condition, where we should be able to walk on water, even if in make belief...<br /> I took a look into the hate<br /> It made me feel very up to date<br /> yes still work left to be done... <br /> the answer is blowin' in the wind... <br /> <br />
My first thought is that it fits perfectly to lucid dreaming and 'out of body experience'
Theres alot of drug references in this song and/or images of hallucination: "lets go walking on the water" etc which could also be a biblical reference but then there is also the references to relationship's "should i stay or go?" but that could be about her trying to get off drugs....maybe.