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.
He bit your lip
And on the tip
Of your tongue
Was your view
The heavy belt
With how you felt
In ways
That tilted you
The paper cuts
From the love letter
You never gave him
Could not meet
Your new found meat
A misbehaving lie
Why
Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you say
Why would you say
You said there
Was a nagging lack of smiles
Went dancing on your back
Tenderness a plenty book
That wasn't what you craved
His whole thin heart desire
Start to make demands
And he adored you
Would be a fool
To make your plans with her
Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you
Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you
When it's just one
Of many bullets
You will bite
While waiting
For a ray of light
Waiting
For a ray of light
Waiting
For a ray of light
The paper cuts
From the love letter
You never gave him
Could not meet
Your new found meat
A misbehaving lie
Why
Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you
Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you
Why would you say sorry
And on the tip
Of your tongue
Was your view
The heavy belt
With how you felt
In ways
That tilted you
The paper cuts
From the love letter
You never gave him
Could not meet
Your new found meat
A misbehaving lie
Why
Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you say
Why would you say
You said there
Was a nagging lack of smiles
Went dancing on your back
Tenderness a plenty book
That wasn't what you craved
His whole thin heart desire
Start to make demands
And he adored you
Would be a fool
To make your plans with her
Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you
Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you
When it's just one
Of many bullets
You will bite
While waiting
For a ray of light
Waiting
For a ray of light
Waiting
For a ray of light
The paper cuts
From the love letter
You never gave him
Could not meet
Your new found meat
A misbehaving lie
Why
Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you
Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you
Why would you say sorry
Lyrics submitted by olliemilton7, edited by cluelessalpaca
Black Plant Lyrics as written by Miles Kane Alex Turner
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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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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The way I see it is that the guy rejected the girl ("He hadn't dealt with how you felt with ways that suited you") and so she tried to make up for it by having a load of one-night stands ("your new found needs for misbehaving") but they're not enough to make up for the fact she won't have him- ("Tenderness aplenty but that wasn't what you craved"), and so it all feels like a waste of time.
Definitely by far my fave song off the album! The big string part at the end really makes it.
This song is called Black Plant because Alex & Miles compare a man with a plant a plant is black when it's withered so it needs "a ray of light" to be fine a man just needs love Black plant is about a boy and a girl involved in a relationship but they don't feel love... That's what I think... (sorry for my English, I'm from Argentina)
Nice quick summary. Like it
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no comments on this one? hot damn its good
i'm probably completely wrong but i think this is kind of showing both sides of a relationship. i think the first couple of verses show the girls side and how she wanted something intimate and tender but didn't get what she wanted. then it goes on to the boys side where it shows the girl forced love on him but he didn't want that. he just wanted a fling of some sort. im probly wrong lol
I haven't entirely figured out why I think this song is about two different stories of adultery or cheating, but that's my theory..
In the first verse, it seems like a girl cheated on her guy (she's been misbehaving), she told him and he is extremely pissed and probably told her to get lost (he hadn't deal with how you felt with ways that suited you). She wants to apologize to him by writing him a love letter, but she knows that letter is probably not going to work because she cheated, and that's that.
The second verse is a man who is probably not feeling satisfied in his current relationship situation, hence, "tenderness aplenty, but that wasn't what you craved."
So then temptation greets him like a naughty friend ("desire starts to make demands") and he strays, even thought he narrator warns him, "you'd be a fool to make your plans with her."
So that's why the chorus says "why would you say sorry?" Can you really apologize after you've cheated and have your significant other understand where you're coming from? It's why the girl never sent the love letter; it wouldn't have made the guy feel any better! It's one of those few things you can honestly control and to do it is just wrong, so an apology after cheating is kind of worthless because you had a choice over what you were doing.
I think "when it's just one of many bullets you will bite while waiting for a ray of light," means that after the guilt of cheating sets in, and they've apologized, they will sit there (in pain from the guilt) trying to justify their behavior.
...And I guess after all of that, I still have no clue why the song is called "Black Plant."
I guess the name of the song is related to "waiting for a ray of light"...plants need light, right?
probably I'm wrong...
i think this song is about a girl who is unsatisfied in a relationship, doesnt say anythin tho, keeps it in.
"Got paper-cuts from the love letters you never gave him"
she's starting to desire for more things, more than this seemingly tender relationship, something more risque.
the "why would you say sorry" to me is the boy constantly apologising cos he thinks he's doing something wrong but the girl knows that he doesnt do anything wrong and thinking "why does he apologise"- it probs makes her feel worse.
it cud be the girl apologising however as wotever he dus is not enuff and she cant love him back- and the boys not understanding why shes apologising, he's oblivious to how she rele feels- she douesnt love him!.
i dont alf go on do i, my take on it :) dead well written this song is! xxx
i'm going with thelostriots, some girl who is unsatisfied with her relationship.
great song
I think Regina91 is right about the Black Plant needing light. I think the singer himself is asking 'Why would you say sorry?' because he is the other man and she has 'misbehaved' with him and she still is not realizing that she's not in love with her other man. Just my interpretation. I love this song and the whole cd!