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.
Don't you be a traffic light
With all things said
You turn to red
Don't you be a traffic light
Don't you be a round-about
Not another round-about
We've come this far
Yet back to the start
Don't you be a round-about
Oh now baby don't mis-read the signs
If you turn the key then things will turn out fine
Lets not have a break down
Not another breakdown
You're on your own a long way from home
Lets not have a breakdown
Don't mis-read the signs
If you had just turned the key then things would have turned out fine
You're pushing me, you're breaking
Over taking me you're racing
First placing me not chasing me back home
Don't let me down
With all things said
You turn to red
Don't you be a traffic light
Don't you be a round-about
Not another round-about
We've come this far
Yet back to the start
Don't you be a round-about
Oh now baby don't mis-read the signs
If you turn the key then things will turn out fine
Lets not have a break down
Not another breakdown
You're on your own a long way from home
Lets not have a breakdown
Don't mis-read the signs
If you had just turned the key then things would have turned out fine
You're pushing me, you're breaking
Over taking me you're racing
First placing me not chasing me back home
Don't let me down
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
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"
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Punchline
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
I personally think it means she's leaving, and she doesn't want to be stopped or held back, and she doesn't want to cause a breakdown because it's for the best =]
this songs really cute. unlike kaylalynn i dont think shes leaving, i think shes afraid HE will be leaving her, and she really doesnt want him to
I really like the way she sounds in this song. :) I think I know what it means.... but I don't know how to explain it. XD Good job, me. :P
File under 'needs to be experienced live'.
I was dragged kicking and screaming to see the Ting Tings play this week - this song completely changed my mind about them. A gradual build up to a delighfully joyful boingy climax, the crowd was eating out of Katie's hand by the end. And she was feeding them all happy sweets.
It isn't exactly the deepest song ever written, but then that's not really the point, is it? And, of course, the subtext of menstruation is so understated that many miss it at first glance.
Did a 4 year old write these lyrics? They're utterly infantile. I like the Fruit Machine comparison, but this is too much for one album. The music also doesn't fit the rest of the album, which is a shame because the rest (aside from the title track) is excellent.
Leave these kind of songs of the album in the future, and turn them into b-sides of singles at most.
As I said, it is about mentruation - the line 'if you turn the key then things will be fine' is an allusion to remembering to pack a clot of tampons in your handbag before you go to the salon in the morning.
I think it's telling someone to stop being indecisive.
Don't be a round about (going around in circles.. witht heir decisions?) Don't you be a traffic light (traffic lights change all the time)