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.
When I leave this world behind me
to another I will go
And if there are no pipes in heaven
I'll be going down below
If friends in time be severed
someday we will meet again
I'll return to leave you never
be a piper to the end
This has been a day to die for
Now the day is almost done
Up above, a quiet seabird
turns to face the setting sun
Now the evening dove is calling
and all the hills are burning red
And before the night comes falling
clouds are lined with golden thread
We watched the fires together
shared our quarters for a while
walked the dusty roads together
came so many miles
This has been a day to die on
Now the day is almost done
Here the pipes will lay beside me
silent with the battle drum
If friends in time be severed
someday we will meet again
I'll return to leave you never
be a piper to the end
to another I will go
And if there are no pipes in heaven
I'll be going down below
If friends in time be severed
someday we will meet again
I'll return to leave you never
be a piper to the end
This has been a day to die for
Now the day is almost done
Up above, a quiet seabird
turns to face the setting sun
Now the evening dove is calling
and all the hills are burning red
And before the night comes falling
clouds are lined with golden thread
We watched the fires together
shared our quarters for a while
walked the dusty roads together
came so many miles
This has been a day to die on
Now the day is almost done
Here the pipes will lay beside me
silent with the battle drum
If friends in time be severed
someday we will meet again
I'll return to leave you never
be a piper to the end
Lyrics submitted by DogSwede
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
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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"
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
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This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
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Hayalperest
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This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
Mountain Song
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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."
Hearing Mark tell the story of his uncle , and of the Black Watch during WW2 is very poignant. He remarks that lots of us have uncles we never met, due to their dying in the war. So true. What better job to have? Being a piper to the end.
One of my favourite gestures in Mark Knopflers folk solo's is his uncanny ability to paint the scene so clearly with so few words.
His recent songs have been about subtle things that you wouldn't normally notice or pay attention to much such as: So far from the Clyde describing an old ship going to the breakers, but the twist is from a third person describing how cruel it is to see such a material item being destroyed as oposed to a living breathing person / animal or plant. Another example is punish the monkey: a personal favourite where again in a third person veiw of when friends in the workplace are put in the position of "Somebody's got to take the fall". Very clever and yet so simple in words.
There's not many song writers like him anymore.
One of my all time favourites. I can't believe it's got just one comment so far. Kesha's Tik Tok, on the other hand, has over a hundred- that just sums up everything that's wrong with the world, imo.
Mark's uncle was a piper and was killed by the Germans in France, so the song is for him.
Mark Knopfler is an example of aging with dignity and wisdom. Few are rock-n-roll heroes who are capable of writing such wise and witty lyrics. Long live Mark!
This always reminds me of my boyfriend who plays the pipes. We've been together almost two years, mostly long-distance. What a beautiful song. It sounds like autumn. I can't believe I'm the first to comment.
One of my all time favourites. I can't believe it's got just one comment so far. Kesha's Tik Tok, on the other hand, has over a hundred- that just sums up everything that's wrong with the world, imo.
Just getting into Knopflers solo stuff and LOVING this song. Clearly about soldiers, comrades, brothers in arms who have shared their living quarters and marched together and are about to die together in battle.
You're all over it. Read elsewhere the song was for an uncle he never met who died in battle during WW2. Its a great song
One of my favourite gestures in Mark Knopflers folk solo's is his uncanny ability to paint the scene so clearly with so few words.
His recent songs have been about subtle things that you wouldn't normally notice or pay attention to much such as: So far from the Clyde describing an old ship going to the breakers, but the twist is from a third person describing how cruel it is to see such a material item being destroyed as oposed to a living breathing person / animal or plant. Another example is punish the monkey: a personal favourite where again in a third person veiw of when friends in the workplace are put in the position of "Somebody's got to take the fall". Very clever and yet so simple in words.
There's not many song writers like him anymore.
One of my favourite gestures in Mark Knopflers folk solo's is his uncanny ability to paint the scene so clearly with so few words.
His recent songs have been about subtle things that you wouldn't normally notice or pay attention to much such as: So far from the Clyde describing an old ship going to the breakers, but the twist is from a third person describing how cruel it is to see such a material item being destroyed as oposed to a living breathing person / animal or plant. Another example is punish the monkey: a personal favourite where again in a third person veiw of when friends in the workplace are put in the position of "Somebody's got to take the fall". Very clever and yet so simple in words.
There's not many song writers like him anymore.