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.
The horseman you have brought deserve me
Somehow they've made it through the floor
The clocks you set, are they reversing?
Before this visit turns conjugal evermore
Maybe tonight, oh-oh-oh-oh
So my half is waiting filed to a pulp
Used insomnia's been cleansing with floods
I got a pain inside that'll rip through the very fabric of time
'Cause I've been with you before, God gave me sin
I've got to get born
Just so you know
There's too many reasons
Too many reasons
Too many ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Too many ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah
Too many re-
You set the silver down to guard me from the weak
You check the spelling for nothing, nothing
You set the silver down to guard me from the weak
You check the spelling for nothing, nothing
You sent yourself the flood
All of this time bedsore containment
Where am I now that the music has faded?
All of this time bedsore containment
Where am I now that the music has faded?
And I'm nowhere near the place
You sent me here to breathe
But I'm drawing closer to the present
And I'll
Find a space with no
Memories
I've got a second chance to inhabit the living
If Goliath wont speak
I'm blinded by heaven
When will your Eden come die?
If the liars that blink
Are bound by the sender
Trinkets you gave have all rusted down
All of this time bedsore containment
Where am I now that the music has faded?
All of this time bedsore containment
Where am I now that the music has faded?
You better steal this chance
To give birth to more
You'll wear those healing damns
Down to the plug
All of this time bedsore containment
Where am I now that the music has faded?
All of this time bedsore containment
Where am I now that the music has faded?
You better steal this chance
To give birth to more
You'll wear those healing damns
Down to the plug
Somehow they've made it through the floor
The clocks you set, are they reversing?
Before this visit turns conjugal evermore
Maybe tonight, oh-oh-oh-oh
So my half is waiting filed to a pulp
Used insomnia's been cleansing with floods
I got a pain inside that'll rip through the very fabric of time
'Cause I've been with you before, God gave me sin
I've got to get born
Just so you know
There's too many reasons
Too many reasons
Too many ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Too many ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah
Too many re-
You set the silver down to guard me from the weak
You check the spelling for nothing, nothing
You set the silver down to guard me from the weak
You check the spelling for nothing, nothing
You sent yourself the flood
All of this time bedsore containment
Where am I now that the music has faded?
All of this time bedsore containment
Where am I now that the music has faded?
And I'm nowhere near the place
You sent me here to breathe
But I'm drawing closer to the present
And I'll
Find a space with no
Memories
I've got a second chance to inhabit the living
If Goliath wont speak
I'm blinded by heaven
When will your Eden come die?
If the liars that blink
Are bound by the sender
Trinkets you gave have all rusted down
All of this time bedsore containment
Where am I now that the music has faded?
All of this time bedsore containment
Where am I now that the music has faded?
You better steal this chance
To give birth to more
You'll wear those healing damns
Down to the plug
All of this time bedsore containment
Where am I now that the music has faded?
All of this time bedsore containment
Where am I now that the music has faded?
You better steal this chance
To give birth to more
You'll wear those healing damns
Down to the plug
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Fortnight
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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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,
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"I got a pain inside that'll rip through the very fabric of time." when i first heard that line, i thought he said: "I got a penis that'll rip through the very fabric of time." and i thought, "well, it goes with conjugal, but cedric wouldn't just say 'penis,' he'd say something like phalice or throbbing stick or whatever." anyways, excellent closer to an album that could punch any spirit in the balls and then spit on them.
I was very disappointed when I looked up the lyrics because I (too, so I thought) have a penis that will rip through the very fabric of time, which scares me infinitely. I was hoping that he would know the solution that I (and possibly other people who suffer from this disease) struggle to find on a daily basis. I at least was hoping that more people would empathize after knowing that this is, in fact, a real disorder that sends people uncontrollably through timeshifts at no fault of their own.
=(
I also have the same problem. A support group has started up, the FoTP, or Fabric of Time Penis, meets weekly via webcam... we tend to dress like Omar or Cedric mostly, so... yeah.
Although the penis ripping through the very fabric of time would've made this song the "best song ever", I think it definitely stands on its own as the best song in Bedlam.
A Flash game called "Goliath the Soothsayer" was released with the album and can be found in: newgrounds.com/portal/view/422645
Jeremy Robert Johnson also wrote about the story behind the album in his "Descent into Bedlam", it's probably the best resource about the Bedlam in Goliath jeremyrobertjohnson.com/TMVDIB.pdf
Finally, I wrote my own entry in RockGenius about the song based on some of the comments here (mainly Marinas' great explanation): rockgeni.us/2010/06/16/conjugal-burns-by-the-mars-volta/
what is going on at the end of this song? like...is Cedric barking at the mic for some reason?
I don't know, probably. All I know is that that final distorted scream sounds fucking awesome.
Ending is messed up, like hell has broken loose or something. Maybe Goliath is eating TMV. Who knows.
rofl avenged survive, i thought that's what he said too
their new cd is incredible aughhh
The whole tone of the song seems to suggest that someone has finally realized something.I think it's that TMV, maybe Cedric in particular realized that Goliath is a dangerous waste of time and a drain on the band. As for the ending, I think its the sound of Goliath wishing not to be buried.
"The clocks you set are they reversing. Before this visit turns conjugal, ever more." Cedric is telling Goliath that he's going to get rid of it before the two of them end up "married" to each other. This is backed up by reports that Cedric buried Goliath somewhere in secret so it can't be found.
"And I'm nowhere near the place. You sent me here to breathe. But I'm drawing closer to the present. And I'll find a space with no memories. I've got a second chance to inhabit the living." This one is pretty literal. A space with no memories is the exact opposite of Goliath, which is a big collection of memories. The band has a second chance to inhabit the living, instead of constantly talking to the past.
"All of this time, bedsore containment. Where am I now that the music has faded?" Either Cedric falling out of love with Goliath (hence the conjugal burns), or Goliath admitting that its been using the band and now distraught because they've left it behind.
Cedric didnt buried Goliath, Omar did
You're totally right. And there I am blathering about Cedric this and Cedric that. If only there were some kind of "edit" button...
All I know is that this song sounds like it could've been a Deloused b-side, which is fine with me. 3:28 and onwards until the chorus is one of the most amazing things my ears have ever heard.