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.
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
Skip a hit, don't make a sound
It feels better biting down
Breathed so deep I thought I'd drown
It feels better biting down
Listen to the beats resound
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
Skip a hit, don't make a sound
It feels better biting down
Breathed so deep I thought I'd drown
It feels better biting down
Listen to the beats resound
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
The electronics of your heart
See how fast they fall apart
It feels better biting down
The electronics of your heart
See how fast they fall apart
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
Skip a hit, don't make a sound
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
Skip a hit, don't make a sound
It feels better biting down
Breathed so deep I thought I'd drown
It feels better biting down
Listen to the beats resound
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
Skip a hit, don't make a sound
It feels better biting down
Breathed so deep I thought I'd drown
It feels better biting down
Listen to the beats resound
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
The electronics of your heart
See how fast they fall apart
It feels better biting down
The electronics of your heart
See how fast they fall apart
It feels better biting down
It feels better biting down
Skip a hit, don't make a sound
It feels better biting down
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
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"
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Cajun Girl
Little Feat
Little Feat
Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
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"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
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.
Drugs.
This song is about doing drugs.
Yes you're right, but, more specifically, it's about how she felt peer-pressured into doing drugs. She didn't like it (breathed so deep I thought I'd drown), but she didn't want to seem like a wimp in front of her friends so she just pretended to hit the blunt by biting down on it (it feels better biting down).
Its about ecstasy because one of the side affects is a clenched jaw
I really enjoy singing along to this one. It's like a chain-gang song, easy and fun.
I thought this song is about rape, its easier to get through it if you bite down on the pillow.
Actually I was reading an interview on Rookie (rookiemag.com/2014/01/lorde-interview/6/), and Lorde says that '...“biting down” was small moments of intensity that help you understand something greater, whether that be intense pain or shock or even being super cold or something. Sometimes those things, whether or not they’re pleasant can really tell you something about yourself or what you’re feeling. So that’s what that song was about for me.'. On the other hand I really like the interpretation of it as ecstasy because that would be a really witty reference.
Is it weird that I originally interpreted it as purposefully giving someone a really bad blowjob? lol
@idgrimm I enjoyed your response as it resonated with me. <br /> <br /> Psst: (speaks in a quietly sharing, secretive voice) I also initially had a similar "biting down" image (fellatio), but not necessarily in a vindictive way. It was more like a pause taken during fellatio- a pause taken to revel in the pleasure of the experience. <br /> <br /> (This pause also applies to other moments of pleasure felt during a shared or solo experience, segsually or otherwise.)<br /> <br /> Much like what you initially stated, "...small moments of intensity that help you understand something greater...". <br /> <br /> I personally haven't tried "E", mostly bc I'm certain it's a drug I would become addicted to, being a glutton for pleasure (just one part of the many dualities of my nature). <br /> <br /> So, I avoid "E", resting in the satisfaction of knowing it's a feeling I can confidently fabricate naturally, segsually or otherwise (such as trail running or rock climbing to an amazing view, pausing, taking in the sensation of the sun & wind on the skin, heightened by the natural high running through the bloodstream).<br /> <br /> Another "biting down" moment to consider: This would likely occur when I've done or said something I feel remorse or regret for having done or said. <br /> <br /> I would typically clench my jaw while biting down, close my eyes briefly, replay the experience with a slight shake of my head (in a "no" kind of way), and futily wish I could reverse time to undo or erase that moment entirely- preferably with the chance to redo or restate what I've done or said in a different, better way.
@idgrimm I enjoyed your response as it resonated with me. <br /> <br /> Psst: (speaks in a quietly sharing, secretive voice) I also initially had a similar "biting down" image (fellatio), but not necessarily in a vindictive way. It was more like a pause taken during fellatio- a pause taken to revel in the pleasure of the experience. <br /> <br /> (This pause also applies to other moments of pleasure felt during a shared or solo experience, segsually or otherwise.)<br /> <br /> Much like what you initially stated, "...small moments of intensity that help you understand something greater...". <br /> <br /> I personally haven't tried "E", mostly bc I'm certain it's a drug I would become addicted to, being a glutton for pleasure (just one part of the many dualities of my nature). <br /> <br /> So, I avoid "E", resting in the satisfaction of knowing it's a feeling I can confidently fabricate naturally, segsually or otherwise (such as trail running or rock climbing to an amazing view, pausing, taking in the sensation of the sun & wind on the skin, heightened by the natural high running through the bloodstream).<br /> <br /> Another "biting down" moment to consider: This would likely occur when I've done or said something I feel remorse or regret for having done or said. <br /> <br /> I would typically clench my jaw while biting down, close my eyes briefly, replay the experience with a slight shake of my head (in a "no" kind of way), and futily wish I could reverse time to undo or erase that moment entirely- preferably with the chance to redo or restate what I've done or said in a different, better way.
It's a medical procedure such as an MRI. They sound like the main rhythm.