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.
How can you pine anymore?
It is beautiful
and for all
unavoidable
so these are his bones
and his grinning skull
so now he is home
to the bluebottles
he who was your bull
and made the shadows run
and I understand
In all things he was quite the man
but now perched on his skull
he now wears cuckold's horns
and they're growing full
pushing through the soil
pools gathering round my knees
temptation leers at me from every door
so these are his bones
why won't you leave them alone?
worms crowding her feet
trying to pull me back to their holes
tap-tapping in the room below
nothing more than dead piles of bones
saying:
'I'll eat this young whelp's heart I will'
'I'll eat this young whelp's heart I will'
'I'll eat this young whelp's heart'
HEAVE-HO
HEAVE-HO
with fists for spades we raid his grave
with big black boots we stomp the roots
with fists for spades we raid his grave
with big black boots we stomp the roots
and HEAVE-HO
HEAVE-HO
HEAVE-HO
HEAVE-HO
HEAVE-HO
heave-ho
It is beautiful
and for all
unavoidable
so these are his bones
and his grinning skull
so now he is home
to the bluebottles
he who was your bull
and made the shadows run
and I understand
In all things he was quite the man
but now perched on his skull
he now wears cuckold's horns
and they're growing full
pushing through the soil
pools gathering round my knees
temptation leers at me from every door
so these are his bones
why won't you leave them alone?
worms crowding her feet
trying to pull me back to their holes
tap-tapping in the room below
nothing more than dead piles of bones
saying:
'I'll eat this young whelp's heart I will'
'I'll eat this young whelp's heart I will'
'I'll eat this young whelp's heart'
HEAVE-HO
HEAVE-HO
with fists for spades we raid his grave
with big black boots we stomp the roots
with fists for spades we raid his grave
with big black boots we stomp the roots
and HEAVE-HO
HEAVE-HO
HEAVE-HO
HEAVE-HO
HEAVE-HO
heave-ho
Lyrics submitted by Starlight152
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Fortnight
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In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
No Surprises
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Blue
Ed Sheeran
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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'll eat this young whelp's heart I will' 'I'll eat this young whelp's heart I will' 'I'll eat this young whelp's heart'
^For me the most heart-breaking musical moment of 2008 so far.
<br /> 'I'll eat this young whelp's heart I will' IS a wonderful line. <br /> What do you reckon this song's about. My guess is that it's a kind of vanitas.<br /> The first half seems clear: man dies, woman misses him, but death must be accepted.<br /> But who is the narrator? A gravedigger? the woman's new lover? A graverobber?<br /> Why is the narrator in pools? What is the temptation? Then they raid his grave. So perhaps it is a graverobber? <br /> Anyways, brilliant song, superb live too.<br />
Such a great song.<br /> <br /> I never thought of it as a song about a death in the literal sense, that's interesting, as if the man were dead and his wife/lover who stood by him through all was finally leaving him. <br /> <br /> Obviously there's a lot of death imagery, but I imagined it as "digging the grave" for the lover you scorned, as in ridding yourself of him completely, particularly because of the lines "and now perched on his skull/ are these cuckold's horns." I see the song as the story of a man who was his wife/lover's protector ("he who was your bull/ and made the shadows run"), and has now been cheated on and left by said lover; hence, the reason that even after he is cuckolded, he is humiliated ("I'll eat this young whelp's heart..."; "with fists for spades..."). I agree with regulus, in that maybe the song is narrated by the wife's new lover. He could be sympathetic toward the cuckolded man, but it's a condescending and hypocritical sympathy.
This song's about a man sleeping with a woman whos husband is dead. "He who was your bull" "In all things he was quite the man" "He now wears cuckolds horns" The last line signifies that he's sleeping with a dead womans husband, but perhaps she's still missing him.
It definitely seems to be about a man who's with someone mourning a past love, but I can't help but think it is about The Lord of the Flies...