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.
Tell me which side I'm on
Approaching constant failure
Tell me which side I'm on
(What's friend or foe?)
Approaching constant failure
Between love and hate
Which path to follow?
How can I keep balance in this race?
Come faith, I'm dying slowly
In many ways I'm the burden
That divides us from the light
In many ways you're the halo
That keeps my spirit alive
Temptation, if you could reave a part
In me you evoke the dark away
Now free me and watch me heal
Tell me which side I'm on
Approaching constant failure
Between love and hate
Which path to follow?
How can I keep balance in this race?
Come faith, I'm dying
Bemused by the trials and tribulations in force of my life
Fly from here but as the chosen pessimist
Carve my name in stone
Carve my name in stone
(Bemused by the trials and tribulations in force of my life
Fly from here but as the chosen pessimist)
How can I keep balance in this race?
Come faith, I'm dying
Approaching constant failure
Tell me which side I'm on
(What's friend or foe?)
Approaching constant failure
Between love and hate
Which path to follow?
How can I keep balance in this race?
Come faith, I'm dying slowly
In many ways I'm the burden
That divides us from the light
In many ways you're the halo
That keeps my spirit alive
Temptation, if you could reave a part
In me you evoke the dark away
Now free me and watch me heal
Tell me which side I'm on
Approaching constant failure
Between love and hate
Which path to follow?
How can I keep balance in this race?
Come faith, I'm dying
Bemused by the trials and tribulations in force of my life
Fly from here but as the chosen pessimist
Carve my name in stone
Carve my name in stone
(Bemused by the trials and tribulations in force of my life
Fly from here but as the chosen pessimist)
How can I keep balance in this race?
Come faith, I'm dying
Lyrics submitted by minus_zer0
The Chosen Pessimist Lyrics as written by Bjorn Gelotte Anders Friden
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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I think this song is simply about himself and his two halves. His dark depressed side and his brighter more optimistic self.
"In many ways I AM the burden that divides us from the light In many ways YOUR the the halo that keeps my spirit alive" (He is looking in a mirror and realizing he controls his own damnation or his own salvation)
"If I survive I fly from here, But as the chosen pessimist,I carve my name in stone"
You can choose to survive and take flight, or you can be the CHOSEN pessimist and carve your own tombstone.
This song is about battling depression. Terrific song.
I think its about someone having problems in life in seeing no solutions wants to run away from them all. They don't see a path to follow so and they see things as a pessimist would, because thats the view they chose. And so they call out to God to give them faith so they can continue and find a way through it all.
sorry, but anders isnt a biblebanger so your theory fails.
@GrayLander I agree with some of this, but I dont think he is asking god, Jesus or any other deity here. He is trying to help his own self.
Imo this song is about some person, that cant make a right chose. Somebody who's between two fires. And his soul, conscience, honor fighting inside him with necessity...
maybe even about someone who needs to make a choise between happiness of his family and feeling of duty
it m8 sound strange, but that is what it for me
The actual lyrics in the end are;
"Amused by the trials and tribulations If I survive I fly from here"
good song, different from what they usually do though... i like the new album but just seems easier and not much time put into the music anymore :(. no more real wicked solos and guitar work and such... but still good i must omit.
Forever smacked, my thoughts exactly. This song isn't um... Too bad, but something old like December Flower beats it hands down.
@DreamersDisease Word, man - exactly how I feel.
Best part of this song is the final build up to the heavy section - there's so much passion in Anders' voice, and it's great to see him delivering an amazing clean performance in addition to his growls and screams.
I think the lyric sounds like "Cut my name in stone" but I could be wrong.
The first part is explained several times in the comments above me: a person who can't make the right decision about which side to choose (not sure what is meant with the 'sides', but there you go) and is losing faith in if he is ever going to make this decision. ("I'm dying, slowly"). He's obviously pessimistic about the current state of society and finds it hard to fit in.
Then the last part. He finds it interesting how many 'trials and tribulations' there are to be able to make the mentioned decision. (This also makes the decision harder, I think) The person is not convinced that he will make the right decision, but if he does, he must be a chosen person (pessimist in this case). He must be THAT special, that he would want his name carved in stone. So it's apparently very hard to get out of his current state.
English isn't my mother tongue, so I couldn't quite say it like I really feel about it, but ah well.
Yeah man, you got it right just about hammer on the head of the nail.
I listened really slow and it's clear that in chorus says: I'm used by the trials and tribulations If I survive I Fly from here but as the chosen pessimist "Amused" doesn't make sense to me by the way XD
i always thought it was ABUSED (sp) lol
took me like 30 secs, why don't u just look up the lyrics inside the cd cover? "Amused by the trials and tribulation" the lyrics posted for this are correct.
A different song for In Flames, still like it though. I'm usually not used to bands changing their sound, I actually hate it, but In Flames is still awesome. At least they wern't like Atreyu and went from 100% screaming from the main vocalist to mostly singing when Alex isn't the greatest at it, and the music isn't as good anymore either. In Flames still has it.