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.
Lullaby (Mountain) by The Acorn
I, I will wash over you
I know your heart is true
Little Mountain of mine
?Cause the sun set down on me
You turn your head and slowly start to breathe
Like the common bonds on carbon, buried deep
I?m the shadow of the long forgotten dream
But I, I will wash over you
I know your heart is true
Little mountain of mine
But every word I wrote left incomplete
And the promises I never got to keep
Though you toes grow colder as you sleep
The blood runs through your heart with every beat
?Cause I, I will wash over you
I know your heart is true
Little Mountain of mine
I, I will wash over you
I know your heart is true
Little Mountain of mine
I, I will wash over you
I know your heart is true
Little Mountain of mine
?Cause the sun set down on me
You turn your head and slowly start to breathe
Like the common bonds on carbon, buried deep
I?m the shadow of the long forgotten dream
But I, I will wash over you
I know your heart is true
Little mountain of mine
But every word I wrote left incomplete
And the promises I never got to keep
Though you toes grow colder as you sleep
The blood runs through your heart with every beat
?Cause I, I will wash over you
I know your heart is true
Little Mountain of mine
I, I will wash over you
I know your heart is true
Little Mountain of mine
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The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
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I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
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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,
I've read that the whole album is about the life of lyricist/singer/guitarist Rolf Klausener's mother, Gloria Esperanza Montoya (hence, Glory Hope Mountain). The whole song is a new mother's lullaby, in which the little mountain takes on a double meaning. It is the enormous significance of the child, but it is also the mother's family name. The song affirms the everlasting commitment of a mother to her child.
If you love the singer, she is not actually part of The Acorn, but Casey Mecija of Ohbijou.
...I could listen to this all day..
I wrote 'wash' because that's what I've seen written elsewhere but I hear 'watch'
what do you all hear, 'wash' or 'watch'?
It says "watch" in the liner notes plus it fits with the lullaby theme.
And yeah, I definitely agree! It's my favorite track off of the album and definitely one of the most beautiful songs ever written!
thanks, i fixed it!<br /> <br /> this is truly beautiful<br /> <br /> i would love to hear the acorn sing live
This is the best song I've heard in a long time.
Oh and I meant to say, I thought it was "note I wrote" not "word I wrote".
I'm really bad with interpreting lyrics... but this is her saying goodbye, right?
She is leaving this life, but she will always be there and inside of him...?