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.
Change your heart, look around you
Change your heart, it will astound you
I need your lovin' like the sunshine
Everybody's got to learn sometime
Everybody's got to learn sometime
Everybody's got to learn sometime
Change your heart, look around you
Change your heart, will astound you
I need your lovin' like the sunshine
Everybody's got to learn sometime
Everybody's got to learn sometime
Everybody's got to learn sometime
I need your lovin' like the sunshine
Everybody's got to learn sometime
Everybody's got to learn sometime
Change your heart, it will astound you
I need your lovin' like the sunshine
Everybody's got to learn sometime
Everybody's got to learn sometime
Everybody's got to learn sometime
Change your heart, look around you
Change your heart, will astound you
I need your lovin' like the sunshine
Everybody's got to learn sometime
Everybody's got to learn sometime
Everybody's got to learn sometime
I need your lovin' like the sunshine
Everybody's got to learn sometime
Everybody's got to learn sometime
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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
Holiday
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
Silent Planet
I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
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.
i love this song. i remember it from back in 1980 when it first came out, and then became reacquainted with it via beck's version during a nip tuck episode. this song seems to be about someone in love with a person who will not love them back, and who has probably never been in love before. the person in love is trying to persuade the other to take a chance and learn what this love thing is all about.
why is there no coment on this song? suprised It's a really great song. I think the beck version is better because of the better music. The Krogis have some kind of weird sound but the song is nice.
What's there to say? A really cool retro pick brought back by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Check out the electronic versin from Trip To The Moon (NRG Chris Shepperd?)...
i hate this song alway being on tv, ads, films etc!!!! and nobody knowing it is by the korgis!!!!!!
if ur after songs with no obvious meaning to disscuss listen to 'boots and shoes' and/or 'dirty postcards'.
on the brink of politcal incorectness is 'chinese girl' and 'young 'n' russian'.
for funny 'contraband' and 'dumb waiters'
for cute quirky love songs 'domestic bliss' and 'o maxine'
the korgis rock! lol in there own way.
i love this song. i remember it from back in 1980 when it first came out, and then became reacquainted with it via beck's version during a nip tuck episode. this song seems to be about someone in love with a person who will not love them back, and who has probably never been in love before. the person in love is trying to persuade the other to take a chance and learn what this love thing is all about.
I completely agree with shooter. In fact, their interpretation is exactly what I came here to say. It's a simple song asking someone to learn what it is to love.
As general commentary I think this is a great song with fantastic sentiments. A lot of songs interpret love as an instinctual/innate thing, when it is fairly obvious that one has to learn how to love and what love means to them. It's fair enough to say "you know it when you feel it" but you still have to be able to define it in your own terms in order to live it.
The writer/singer actually said that it was more of a spiritual song. "Change your heart, look around you" - at the state of things and how we have grown jaded and cold to them. "I need your lovin'..." - this to God and how we need Him. "Everybody's gotta learn..." - about us, our world and how it comes together under God - once we learn and accept this truth, then we get it.
“At that time I was into new wave philosophies about working on yourself, meditation and that sort of stuff. The whole lyric comes out of that. It wasn’t a romantic song at all. For me it was all about an individual changing and being a different sort of person – trying to find out the root of your inner confusion, dealing with it and becoming a better person. So it was literally a philosophical lyric."
Lead singer James Warren on Songwriting.co.uk (songwritingmagazine.co.uk/features/how-i-wrote-everybodys-got-to-learn-sometime-by-the-korgis-james-warren/14732)
this 'song' is as creepy as the 'man' singing it [shudders]