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.
I woke up this morning
Didn't recognize the man in the mirror
Then I laughed and I said
"Oh silly me
That's just me" Then I proceeded
To brush some stranger's teeth
But they were my teeth
And I was weightless
Just quivering like some leaf come in the window of a restroom
I couldn't tell you
What the hell it was supposed to mean
But it was a Monday
No a Tuesday
No a Wednesday Thursday Friday
Then Saturday came around
And I said
"Who's this stupid clown
Blocking the bathroom sink?"
All he ever wanted
Was to be someone in life
Who was just like
"All I want is to just have fun
Live my life like a son of a gun"
I could be one thousand miles away
But still me
What'd I say?
Then I woke up one morning
Didn't recognize the man in the mirror
Then I laughed and I said
"Oh silly me
That's just me" Then I proceeded
To not comb some stranger's hair
Never was my style
But I couldn't tell you
What the hell it was supposed to mean
Cuz it was a Monday
No a Tuesday
No a Wednesday Thursday Friday
Then Saturday came around
And I said
"Who's this stupid clown
Blocking the bathroom sink?"
But he was sporting all my clothes
I gotta say pretty pimpin
All he ever wanted
Was to be a man
But he was always
A little too cute to be admitted and then all was lost
He was always a thousand miles away
While still
Standing
In front of your face
Then he woke up this morning
Didn't recognize the boy in the mirror
Then he laughed and said
"Oh silly me
That's just me" Then I proceeded
To brush some stranger's teeth
But they were my teeth
And I was weightless
Just quivering like some leaf come in the window of a restroom
And I couldn't tell you
What the hell it was supposed to mean
Cuz it was a Monday
No a Tuesday
No a Wednesday Thursday Friday
Then Saturday came around
And I said
"Who's this stupid clown
Blocking the bathroom sink?"
But he was sporting all my clothes
I gotta say pretty pimpin
I woke up this morning
Didn't recognize the boy in the mirror...
I woke up this morning
Didn't recognize the boy in the mirror...
I woke up this morning
Didn't recognize the boy in the mirror...
I woke up this morning
Didn't recognize the boy in the mirror...
I woke up this morning
Didn't recognize the boy in the mirror...
I woke up this morning
Didn't recognize the boy in the mirror...
Didn't recognize the man in the mirror
Then I laughed and I said
"Oh silly me
That's just me" Then I proceeded
To brush some stranger's teeth
But they were my teeth
And I was weightless
Just quivering like some leaf come in the window of a restroom
I couldn't tell you
What the hell it was supposed to mean
But it was a Monday
No a Tuesday
No a Wednesday Thursday Friday
Then Saturday came around
And I said
"Who's this stupid clown
Blocking the bathroom sink?"
All he ever wanted
Was to be someone in life
Who was just like
"All I want is to just have fun
Live my life like a son of a gun"
I could be one thousand miles away
But still me
What'd I say?
Then I woke up one morning
Didn't recognize the man in the mirror
Then I laughed and I said
"Oh silly me
That's just me" Then I proceeded
To not comb some stranger's hair
Never was my style
But I couldn't tell you
What the hell it was supposed to mean
Cuz it was a Monday
No a Tuesday
No a Wednesday Thursday Friday
Then Saturday came around
And I said
"Who's this stupid clown
Blocking the bathroom sink?"
But he was sporting all my clothes
I gotta say pretty pimpin
All he ever wanted
Was to be a man
But he was always
A little too cute to be admitted and then all was lost
He was always a thousand miles away
While still
Standing
In front of your face
Then he woke up this morning
Didn't recognize the boy in the mirror
Then he laughed and said
"Oh silly me
That's just me" Then I proceeded
To brush some stranger's teeth
But they were my teeth
And I was weightless
Just quivering like some leaf come in the window of a restroom
And I couldn't tell you
What the hell it was supposed to mean
Cuz it was a Monday
No a Tuesday
No a Wednesday Thursday Friday
Then Saturday came around
And I said
"Who's this stupid clown
Blocking the bathroom sink?"
But he was sporting all my clothes
I gotta say pretty pimpin
I woke up this morning
Didn't recognize the boy in the mirror...
I woke up this morning
Didn't recognize the boy in the mirror...
I woke up this morning
Didn't recognize the boy in the mirror...
I woke up this morning
Didn't recognize the boy in the mirror...
I woke up this morning
Didn't recognize the boy in the mirror...
I woke up this morning
Didn't recognize the boy in the mirror...
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
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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
I Can't Go To Sleep
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This is why the music video takes place in an orphanage.) The seen, and unseen collective suffering is imbedded in the boys’ mind, consciously or subconsciously, and is haunting them. Which path will the boys choose? Issac Hayes is the voice of reason, maybe God, the angel on his shoulder, or the voice of his forefathers from beyond the grave who can see the big picture and are pleading with the boys not to continue the violence and pattern of killing their brothers, but to rise above. The most beautiful song and has so many levels. Racism towards African Americans in America would not exist if everyone sat down and listened to this song and understood the history behind the words. The power, fear, pleading in RZA and Ghostface voices are genuine and powerful. Issac Hayes’ strong voice makes the perfect strong father figure, who is possibly from beyond the grave.
When We Were Young
Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
This is a song about finding yourself and having the strength to be it in the face of adversity.
All of our lives we're told who to be, and until we decide it for ourselves, we'll continue to be somebody else. And then when you find the true you, and the past you fails to recognize it, It won't matter, because you'll know who are really are, and you'll like it
@JamzXIV Awesome interpretation! =)
Since he also sings something about "lost marbles", I would say the lyrics are no metaphor but about disassociation: He literally does not recognize the face in the mirror, he is annoyed by the stranger in the bathroom, he switches into third person at one point ("All he ever wanted..."), and he literally does not know which day it is. But he takes it with a wink ("But he was sporting all my clothes, I gotta say pretty pimpin'").
It's about exhaustion. When you're startled by the man or woman in the mirror, it's a bad sign and often an effective wake up call which means you need to wake up and look at something that made you mentally exhausted.
It's about being a man who can stand up to criticism. Also seeing yourself in the mirror as a stranger. Then thinking you are dressed somewhat OK (pretty pimping).
I just imagine this song is the feeling that life is going better than expected…walking around head in the clouds and then accidentally catching a glimpse of yourself like oh dang, I’m pretty fly. Sometimes looking up to better folks than us makes us scoff (maybe jealousy or what have you) but Kurt looks up and sees himself in a good image for once. Unrecognizably. He’s probably so impressed with what he sees that he can’t help but recall all the longing he once held.