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.
rip it, tear it, smash the controls
let it all go down for the people outside
we want your chaos
we don't want your fucking stability
economic wars of destruction
rip apart the fucking function
now we fall in the ground
we face the sound, we die forever
infested your intervention of hate
left half-dead, completely mutilate
scraping at the wall
try to escape, but nothing hears
the beauty of life is slowly sinking in
yeah, don't push down, you let it in
you push it down, you let it end
you push it down
you live your life on a splattered soul
we watch it sink into the floor
now you can see the light of day
everyone just closes their eyes
now you can see reality
we live on broken tv screens
now you can kiss it goodbye
the red light comes crawling down
now rolling into nothing
look, i'm feeling down
the red light comes calling you
now they don't know what burns so
so spill the blood all over you
feeling pain, agony
stressed fate
on your knees, bow down
to the ones you plead
rip it up, this sound
will not stop 'till you realize
now, now let it go
this sound will not stop
Cut Throat Psycho Rave Mix
the knife that slices your throat
the knife that slices your throat
fucking die, mother fucker
fucking die, mother fucker
fucking die, mother fucker
fucking die, mother fucker
fucking die, mother fucker
infested your intervention of hate
scrape at the walls, try to escape
nothing hears, nothing hears
the beauty of life is slowly sinking in
sinking in
the knife that slices your throat
the knife that slices your throat
let it all go down for the people outside
we want your chaos
we don't want your fucking stability
economic wars of destruction
rip apart the fucking function
now we fall in the ground
we face the sound, we die forever
infested your intervention of hate
left half-dead, completely mutilate
scraping at the wall
try to escape, but nothing hears
the beauty of life is slowly sinking in
yeah, don't push down, you let it in
you push it down, you let it end
you push it down
you live your life on a splattered soul
we watch it sink into the floor
now you can see the light of day
everyone just closes their eyes
now you can see reality
we live on broken tv screens
now you can kiss it goodbye
the red light comes crawling down
now rolling into nothing
look, i'm feeling down
the red light comes calling you
now they don't know what burns so
so spill the blood all over you
feeling pain, agony
stressed fate
on your knees, bow down
to the ones you plead
rip it up, this sound
will not stop 'till you realize
now, now let it go
this sound will not stop
Cut Throat Psycho Rave Mix
the knife that slices your throat
the knife that slices your throat
fucking die, mother fucker
fucking die, mother fucker
fucking die, mother fucker
fucking die, mother fucker
fucking die, mother fucker
infested your intervention of hate
scrape at the walls, try to escape
nothing hears, nothing hears
the beauty of life is slowly sinking in
sinking in
the knife that slices your throat
the knife that slices your throat
Lyrics submitted by XorcistVAC
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
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@[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.
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No Surprises
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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.
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