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.
You told us that
We were too young
Now that night's closing in
And in the half light
We run
Lock us up safe
And hide the key
But the night tears us loose
And in the half light
We're free
Strange how the half light
Can make a place new
You can't recognize me
And I can't recognize you
We run through the streets
That we know so well
And the houses hide so much
We're in the half light
None of us can tell
They hide the ocean in a shell
Ocean in a shell
Our heads are just houses
Without enough windows
They say you hear human voices
But they only echo
They only echo
They only echo
Only echo
(We are not listening, we are on the streets)
(We are not listening, we are on the streets)
(We are not listening, we are on the streets)
We were too young
Now that night's closing in
And in the half light
We run
Lock us up safe
And hide the key
But the night tears us loose
And in the half light
We're free
Strange how the half light
Can make a place new
You can't recognize me
And I can't recognize you
We run through the streets
That we know so well
And the houses hide so much
We're in the half light
None of us can tell
They hide the ocean in a shell
Ocean in a shell
Our heads are just houses
Without enough windows
They say you hear human voices
But they only echo
They only echo
They only echo
Only echo
(We are not listening, we are on the streets)
(We are not listening, we are on the streets)
(We are not listening, we are on the streets)
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Half Light I Lyrics as written by Regine Chassagne Jeremy Gara
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Their parents tried to shelter them in the light, but inevitably the night will come. As they start to think for themselves they enter the “half light” which changes how they feel about everything. I think this captures the excitement of starting to really think for yourself. You start to question your parent’s beliefs and find beauty where it wasn’t before.
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This is one of the best songs on The Suburbs. I actually like it more than Half Light II, which is also great. Lyrically there's a lot to sink your teeth into, especially this part:<br /> <br /> Our heads are just houses,<br /> Without enough windows,<br /> You say you hear human voices,<br /> but they're only echoes.<br /> <br /> Lots of ways to interpret it, but I take it to mean being alone with your thoughts and emotions, not being able to reveal your inner self to others(i.e. keeping the window to your mind closed and concealing your inner reality). The "houses" that "hide the ocean in a shell" can be understood as both literally the houses of the suburbs that look so peaceful on the outer shell/surface but hide so much behind their external facades(i.e. family turmoil,etc.) as well as figuratively speaking with the houses as our heads analogy. This illustrates the idea that what's going on in someone's head is also walled off and away from public view, again hiding an ocean of thoughts and emotions in a shell(or an "Ocean of Noise" if you will, for Neon Bible fans). The echo is seemingly the echo of your own voice in your head, a product of feeling isolated or alone with your thoughts. Those aren't other humans you're hearing, it's just your own voice repeating on you. Interestingly, "Empty Room" precedes this song on the album by only two tracks and features the lines "said your name in an empty room", which one could also imagine producing an echo. So there's an apparent theme on the album between being alone with the echoes of your thoughts, which you've either concealed from others or have been unable to share with others. <br /> <br /> The "half light" appears to represent a transition to becoming more free and open under the cover of partial darkness. The "half light" is enough to illuminate and shed light, but there's enough darkness present to feel more comfortable about opening up to someone else. Greater awareness and freedom result, and now they no longer feel imprisoned by living inside their heads/houses. "We are not insane". Instead, they are free("on the streets") and the world begins to look different to them. They are beginning to see things in a new light -- even if it is only a half light.