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.
They shot a movie once, in my hometown
Everybody was in it, from miles around
Out at the speedway, some kind of Elvis thing
Well, I ain't no movie star
But I can get behind anything
Yeah, I can get behind anything
Get it out, get it all out
Yeah stretch that thing
Make it last, make it last
Least until the supper bell rings
Well the taxi driver likes his rhythm
Never likes the stops
Throes of passion, throes of passion
When something just threw him off
Well, sometimes the faster it gets
The less you need to know
But you gotta remember
The smarter it gets
The further it's gonna go
When you blow at high dough
When you blow at high dough
Baby, I feel fine
I'm pretty sure it's genuine
It makes no sense, no it makes no sense
But I'll take it free anytime
Whoever fits her usually gets her
It was the strangest thing how she moved so fast, moved so fast
Into that wedding ring
Well, sometimes the faster it gets
The less you need to know
But you gotta remember
The smarter it gets
The further it's gonna go
When you blow at high dough
When you blow at high dough
Out at the speedway, same Elvis thing
Well I can't catch her, but I can get behind anything
Yea I can get behind anything
Well I can get behind anything
Well, sometimes the faster it gets
The less you need to know
But you gotta remember
The smarter it gets
The further it's gonna go
When you blow at high dough
When you blow at high dough
Yeah, blow at high dough
Blow at high dough
Out at the speedway, some Elvis thing
Everybody was in it, from miles around
Out at the speedway, some kind of Elvis thing
Well, I ain't no movie star
But I can get behind anything
Yeah, I can get behind anything
Get it out, get it all out
Yeah stretch that thing
Make it last, make it last
Least until the supper bell rings
Well the taxi driver likes his rhythm
Never likes the stops
Throes of passion, throes of passion
When something just threw him off
Well, sometimes the faster it gets
The less you need to know
But you gotta remember
The smarter it gets
The further it's gonna go
When you blow at high dough
When you blow at high dough
Baby, I feel fine
I'm pretty sure it's genuine
It makes no sense, no it makes no sense
But I'll take it free anytime
Whoever fits her usually gets her
It was the strangest thing how she moved so fast, moved so fast
Into that wedding ring
Well, sometimes the faster it gets
The less you need to know
But you gotta remember
The smarter it gets
The further it's gonna go
When you blow at high dough
When you blow at high dough
Out at the speedway, same Elvis thing
Well I can't catch her, but I can get behind anything
Yea I can get behind anything
Well I can get behind anything
Well, sometimes the faster it gets
The less you need to know
But you gotta remember
The smarter it gets
The further it's gonna go
When you blow at high dough
When you blow at high dough
Yeah, blow at high dough
Blow at high dough
Out at the speedway, some Elvis thing
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Blow At High Dough Lyrics as written by Gordon Sinclair Gordon Downie
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Great version of a great song,
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Ok people, let`s not get patriotic here...
This song is about materialism and spending as much as you can, as fast as you can.
sometimes the faster it gets the less you need to know but you gotta remember the smarter it gets the further its gonna go when you blow at high dough
Gord
s talking about how people will blow their whole check on shit they dont need, while the ones who put their education to use get more money and therefore spend more.well I ain't no movie star but I can get behind anything yeah I can get behind anything
Not everybodies a movie star, but everybody wants to have all the money and stuff that movie stars do. If they see a movie star advertise some product, they`ll go out and buy it.
"Don't blow at high dough" is an old wife's saving. Literally speaking it means you can't blow on your rising bread dough to make it rise slower if you rushed the process. You can't unscramble eggs, and you can't un-rise dough.
Figuratively speaking, it means "don't get ahead of yourself", or "slow down there, kiddo".
Please stop it with the drug and porn guesses.
@MsMaison Wow!! Love that, and lived through it, and, as a bread baker and candle maker, thanks!!
Yea, this is a pretty damn good song. I love the hip, and guess what, I'm AMERICAN! Yea thanks for all the biased anti-american comments in here, tho guys. The Hip are a wonderful band, but why can't we all just enjoy them together, carms?
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"Don't blow at high dough" is an expression Gord Downie's grandmother would use. A bit of wise matriarchal advice which suggests that you shouldn't get ahead of yourself or attempt to walk before you've crawled.
"...They shot a movie once, in my hometown Everybody was in it, from miles around Out at the speedway, some kinda Elvis thing Well I ain't no movie star But I can get behind anything."
Elvis Presley didn't invent rock and roll, but he did bring it to the masses. Sam Phillips, the guru behind SUN records, discovered Elvis and made him a star. In the segregated South of the 1950's, Phillips was searching for an acceptable white face that could bring rollicking black music to the Memphis mainstream. It is not an exaggeration to say that when Elvis walked into Phillip's store front studio and paid to record some gospel songs with his buddies, popular culture, if not culture period, was forever altered in a significant way.
Elvis went on to become, well, Elvis, and is still a pop culture icon of epic, mythic and dizzying proportions. His film career was less than stellar however, and it's one of these "Anne Margaret and Elvis flirt at a racetrack" crap-a-thons that may be referenced in this song. Elvis wanted out of his binding movie contract as he felt it hindered his ability to record and tour. Col Tom, of New Orleans Is Sinking fame, pressured him to take on more film commitments. Eventually. Presley left Hollywood behind and returned to music with his famous live television concert known as the '68 Comeback Special.'
The story of the King may have been reinforced for The Hip as the recorded "Up To Here" in Memphis.
there's nothing about porn here
after all Dan Akroyd also comes from Kingston & returns every summer - parties ensue - he often promotes events, concerts & he has even made movies here like one of the Blue Brothers movies
"Blow at High Dough'' is a term that means basically don't get ahead of yourself.Nothing more follow the song and put that in prospective.Elvis is used because he got ahead of himself with his movie career.he wasn't ready that's why he went back to singing.I can get behind anything just means he knows he can get behind anything thats why he always gets ahead of himself or Blow at High Dough.Second verse get it all out is describing get it all out when getting ahead of your self you will learn more by getting ahead of yourself then looking back at what you jumped over.when the supper bell rings means you are in trouble for getting ahead of yourself.taxi driver likes his rhythm but don't like the stops means hes ahead of himself and he needs to pause to figure it out or stop playing.The faster it gets the smarter it gets means the faster you go then the more time you get to look back making you smarter because you have more time to see the picture now.the next verse is about someone jumping ahead and getting married when she has done this before meaning the person marring her is jumping ahead and just saying i do without sitting back and thinking about what she has done in the past.Out at the speedway means your fast to jump ahead,same old elvis thing is just saying the same thing because elvis jumped ahead of himself in his acting career,well i cant catch he means she jumps so far ahead of herself he cant keep up ,he can get behind anything means he knows he can not jump ahed of himself but he always gets ahead of himself.
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This is a great song nonetheless, I think I am one of the five americans who know the Tragically Hip are. I have asked maybe several people I know in my hometown (I live 75 miles south of US/Canadian Border and about 140 miles south of Winnipeg) and they are stumped by my questions. Of course, I am only one of five people in my town who listens to public radio, so I am standout strange. I'm ranting now, so long live THE HIP!
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gay porn... yeah shakes head
Not sure why people have to say "Blowing High Dough"..As much as it sound like drugs and money i think its just metaphor.
Its Blow at High Dough. Its just another way of saying not to get ahead of yourself.