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.
Woo-hoo
Woo-hoo
Woo-hoo
Woo-hoo
I got my head checked
By a jumbo jet
It wasn't easy
But nothing is
No
(Woo-hoo) When I feel heavy metal
(Woo-hoo) And I'm pins and I'm needles
(Woo-hoo) Well, I lie and I'm easy
All of the time but I'm never sure why I need you
Pleased to meet you
I got my head done
When I was young
It's not my problem
It's not my problem
(Woo-hoo) When I feel heavy metal
(Woo-hoo) And I'm pins and I'm needles
(Woo-hoo) Well, I lie and I'm easy
All of the time but I'm never sure why I need you
Pleased to meet you
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Oh, yeah
Woo-hoo
Woo-hoo
Woo-hoo
I got my head checked
By a jumbo jet
It wasn't easy
But nothing is
No
(Woo-hoo) When I feel heavy metal
(Woo-hoo) And I'm pins and I'm needles
(Woo-hoo) Well, I lie and I'm easy
All of the time but I'm never sure why I need you
Pleased to meet you
I got my head done
When I was young
It's not my problem
It's not my problem
(Woo-hoo) When I feel heavy metal
(Woo-hoo) And I'm pins and I'm needles
(Woo-hoo) Well, I lie and I'm easy
All of the time but I'm never sure why I need you
Pleased to meet you
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Oh, yeah
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Song 2 Lyrics as written by David Rowntree Damon Albarn
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Fortnight
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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.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Mountain Song
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Gentle Hour
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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,
Amazing
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
You dumb asses.... This song is a parody to American popular rock. The songs are just random words. The chorus, WOOHOO is just another hack of the lack of meaning in the majority of popular american music. Songs these days are written to make money. Look at all the mainstream punk bands these days. Its rediculous. Go Blur for making a good song. I bet they laughed their asses off when their parody of american pop music became a hit... but only in America. HAHA...
@uncwjoz It was a big hit in the UK, reached #2 on the charts. Bigger hit there than it was in America.
I always thought the song was about fear of flying. Perhaps it's him telling about the first time he flew on an airplane. Every noise and every bump is terrifying:
'I got my head checked By a jumbo jet It wasn't easy But nothing is No'
I think the next bit is him hearing the engins and feeling the terror (pins and needles) of something happening. Who knows maybe he was on a plane that had engin trouble (heavy metal) when he was younger:
"When I feel heavy metal And I'm pins and I'm needles'
The next bit he's telling himself that everythings going to be alright and talking to the person in the neighboring seat to help keep calm.
'Well I lie and I'm easy All of the time but I'm never sure When I need you Pleased to meet you'
I think the, "I got my head done when I was young" means that the whole thing is past tense and just him remembering it or telling a friend what happened.
Ultimately the, 'Woo hoo' is just the terror he feels every time the plane bumps and jostles. It also is probably exilerating to know he survived and to think back on it.
When I think of it in this context it makes me laugh. Just to imagine this guy going insane on an airplane. I think it would have made a fitting music video.
Wow, I never thought of it that way. I was always told that this was a rag on American's and grunge music, and the lyrics weren't supposed to make sense because grunge music lyrics don't ever make sense. But, thinking about it, your analysis makes loads of sense... and it's funny!
That's a pretty impressive analogy.<br /> <br /> Although I can't confirm whether the song is actually about flying (because the band would never really tell me) Damon did actually write it on an aeroplane.<br /> <br /> His story is that he wrote it on a plane and he wrote it in a very short time. The title Song 2 was only a temporary working title but in the end the band decided to keep it.<br /> <br /> The original live playing of this song in 1996 was a bit different to the recorded version. I will try and fish out the original first draft lyrics if I can find them but there is a strong possibility that the song is a reference to flying.
Interesting!<br /> Nice!
@chaosmagick I agree that is a very funny scenario to imagine that's pretty creative.
When I was 11 I loved this song... I still do. But then I'd ride around on my bike singing it, it was funny. I remember that summer it has memories. It was when I loved my friend Bradley.
Sorry everyone. It was fun reading your responses. This song is actually Blur's way of commenting on what gets accepted in American radio/pop culture. The went out to prove a point that no matter what lyrics you put to a song, as long as it has a catchy rhythm, the mindless public will just eat it up. They are saddened by what is being accepted as "great" music. So they made this song with the most ridiculous lyrics ever made, gave it a booming guitar riff, and sent it out. They even casually named it "song 2". True to their suspicions, it caught on. "... I got my head checked. By a jumbo jet. It wasn't easy. But nothing is. WooHOO!" Even after we found out what they were up to we STILL embraced it. I love this song so much as a testament to what truly "great" music is.
although this is a decent song, its a shame to know that its the only song people know by blur and it's really nothing like the lot of their songs. blur is an excellent band and people should really look more into their music than just this song.
Absolutely. Songs like Coffee & TV, Girls & Boys, Parklife, She's so High, This Is a Low, There's No Other Way, The Universal and Crazy Beat are excellent examples and there's more where they came from.
Tender is an epic one as well.
@redplaid The fact that song was ultimately a joke but made them more well-known is what I find sad because they put no effort and wanted to show they could become well-known for a stupid song and we just gobbled it up just seems to prove what idiots live among us. I feel like that's what's so sad here.
The lead singer is SEXAY!
My Chemical Romance is horrible, sorry.
In the mid nineties `Britpop' was everything in parallel to Americas grunge scene. Musically they were polar opposites and they each had very little respect for each other.
Graham, the bassist from blur, was secretly a grunge fan and would play this king of music in his headphones to avoid chastising from the band.
Damon Albarn though approached Graham with a few grunge type songs for Graham to choose. The track he selected was `Song 2'its working title and official release name.
Ironically the song charted very well in England, ironic for the fact it was meant to be a satirical stab at everything grunge. Seeming non-sensical lyrics and a clich‚d video to match apparently weren't noticed by the public at the time who rode it to chart success.
`I got my head done,
When I was young,
It's not my problem'
These lyrics demonstrate the incoherent nature of the whole song, jumping from subject to subject with no links. One of the main victims of `Song 2' was the Pixies who were the poster grunge band of the nineties.
Now Damon Albarn says that it was a branching to more pure music and has never addressed the thoughts that it was in actual fact a mickey take, these have been confirmed by other members of the band though.
No idea why your comment was flagged; I think you're bang on.
Graham Coxon was the guitarist, not the bassist. The bassist was Alex James. Get your facts straight, buffoon.
good memories of this song: a girl in my class insisting the "woo-hoo" bit was "song 2!", and a mate of mine attempting to impress this girl by jumping off a bench in our college common room when the heavy bit kicked in, subsequently falling through a glass pane above a door and cutting his elbow! Excellent!
Yeah this song is great. It will be a classic, I bet they will always use it in movies, tv, and sports.