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.
So many reasons why one should never entertain the taste of the red
A cry for a life of innocence is key to her head
Keep running back to kill 'cause it might make it easier
A fear that keeps you chained down to the ritual adhere
You're a slave born into a dark world of disease (a disease)
A slave that's longing for a rich way
Learning to love a disaster
Direct your soul in the essence of light
To draw the blood of the master flee
The stains on your wings now carry the fray
Tell that she
Embraced the glory vengeance brings
Hold, curl in tight
Illuminate the light
Punish me, punish me
An eye for an eye, an eye for the wicked
Just the sight of me
Your cold intention, burn intuitions
But with a smile on his face
Exist like you can last within this wretched place
So please forgive what I've become
Learning to love a disaster
Direct your soul in the essence of light
To draw the blood of the master flee
The stains on your wings now carry the
Coldest zeal
Extracted from the omen's life
One steady hand in victory
Darkness weeps
As love informs under a pure and present night
Point from the eye, endure the way
So many reasons why one should never entertain the taste of scarlet (scarlet)
Scarlet
So many reasons why one should never entertain the taste of the red
A cry for a life of innocence is key to
Learning to love a disaster
Direct your soul in the essence of light
To draw the blood of the master flee
The stains on your wings now carry the fray
A cry for a life of innocence is key to her head
Keep running back to kill 'cause it might make it easier
A fear that keeps you chained down to the ritual adhere
You're a slave born into a dark world of disease (a disease)
A slave that's longing for a rich way
Learning to love a disaster
Direct your soul in the essence of light
To draw the blood of the master flee
The stains on your wings now carry the fray
Tell that she
Embraced the glory vengeance brings
Hold, curl in tight
Illuminate the light
Punish me, punish me
An eye for an eye, an eye for the wicked
Just the sight of me
Your cold intention, burn intuitions
But with a smile on his face
Exist like you can last within this wretched place
So please forgive what I've become
Learning to love a disaster
Direct your soul in the essence of light
To draw the blood of the master flee
The stains on your wings now carry the
Coldest zeal
Extracted from the omen's life
One steady hand in victory
Darkness weeps
As love informs under a pure and present night
Point from the eye, endure the way
So many reasons why one should never entertain the taste of scarlet (scarlet)
Scarlet
So many reasons why one should never entertain the taste of the red
A cry for a life of innocence is key to
Learning to love a disaster
Direct your soul in the essence of light
To draw the blood of the master flee
The stains on your wings now carry the fray
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
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.
American Town
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran shares a short story of reconnecting with an old flame on “American Town.” The track is about a holiday Ed Sheeran spends with his countrywoman who resides in America. The two are back together after a long period apart, and get around to enjoying a bunch of fun activities while rekindling the flames of their romance.
i think this song is about breaking free from something.....probably drugs?
It's actually about breaking free of mustard loving people