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.
Cook it up just to numb the pain
Pull the belt in a search to find my last vein
Like a felon in for life I'm wasting away
It's the only thing in life that keeps my mind sane
But was it worth the consequences?
It numbs the hurt, it numbs the pain
Cause in the end I lost a friend who died in vain
I could never get enough to heal the pain
It all went wrong, he was left defenseless
He should not have died, it should be me
But now I see that if I believed in something
We'd be alive, but now we're nothing
But it made me feel
It set me free
It cloaked the pain that tortured me
It made me blind I couldn't see
The only one to blame was me
It was my selfish lies
That caused the end of his life
And now he's gone and so are we
We're all just fading memories
Destined to fail
Sink back as the drugs take way
Through my veins I feel my life begin to fade
What's done is done and it ain't ever gonna change
It's the only thing in life that keeps me sane
My skin turns pale as the drugs destroy my soul within
It's poison, complete, bittersweet, defeat I'll never win
I'll give in. Let go of the life I wish I never began
This man is sick so I ask myself
Well what if I believed in something
We'd be alive, but now we're nothing
But it made me feel
It set me free
It cloaked the pain that tortured me
It made me blind I couldn't see
The only one to blame was me
It was my selfish lies
That caused the end of his life
And now he's gone and so are we
We're all just fading memories
Destined to fail
Destined to fail
I'm falling faster Gaining speed to a fate I can't believe
I'm a disaster A one-way ticket to hell made just for me
I'm sorry mother, I'm not the man that you thought that I would be
Now it's all over, Hell's awaiting me
Pull the belt in a search to find my last vein
Like a felon in for life I'm wasting away
It's the only thing in life that keeps my mind sane
But was it worth the consequences?
It numbs the hurt, it numbs the pain
Cause in the end I lost a friend who died in vain
I could never get enough to heal the pain
It all went wrong, he was left defenseless
He should not have died, it should be me
But now I see that if I believed in something
We'd be alive, but now we're nothing
But it made me feel
It set me free
It cloaked the pain that tortured me
It made me blind I couldn't see
The only one to blame was me
It was my selfish lies
That caused the end of his life
And now he's gone and so are we
We're all just fading memories
Destined to fail
Sink back as the drugs take way
Through my veins I feel my life begin to fade
What's done is done and it ain't ever gonna change
It's the only thing in life that keeps me sane
My skin turns pale as the drugs destroy my soul within
It's poison, complete, bittersweet, defeat I'll never win
I'll give in. Let go of the life I wish I never began
This man is sick so I ask myself
Well what if I believed in something
We'd be alive, but now we're nothing
But it made me feel
It set me free
It cloaked the pain that tortured me
It made me blind I couldn't see
The only one to blame was me
It was my selfish lies
That caused the end of his life
And now he's gone and so are we
We're all just fading memories
Destined to fail
Destined to fail
I'm falling faster Gaining speed to a fate I can't believe
I'm a disaster A one-way ticket to hell made just for me
I'm sorry mother, I'm not the man that you thought that I would be
Now it's all over, Hell's awaiting me
Lyrics submitted by darkforce100
Fading Memories Lyrics as written by Jeremy A Tollas
Lyrics © Songtrust Ave
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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.
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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,
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