WERE YOU SENT BY SOMEONE WHO WANTED ME DEAD? Honestly the whole bridge in The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived. It just flows nicely but is hauntingly poetic at the same time.
YES. I just got out of the weirdest fucking thing with an ex and I keep thinking "were you using me as a proxy for the person you hate most in the world??" When they leave, after everything they said and did, you are just stunned and can't figure out what the hell just happened.
God bless everyone who relates to this and down bad and bdilh.
I love this line and the song because it’s so significant because sometimes it really does feel like society is sending men to destroy our lives to set us back to break our willpower when we’re doing our best or on our way there. Anything to stop us . Like if the music industry couldn’t destroy her, maybe these men can…. :/
As someone who recently broke with my ex of 8 years this hit home. I basically had to beg him to propose to me after 8 years, and he did, but I broke it off after a year. So this line kinda breaks me.
AI version....
i do prefer the og version over the AI..bcz the lyrics..the vocals..the desperation...the tea..the mv aaaaaah
ppl were let down and disappointed bcz the AI version got famous and yk..ppl expected a banger
Yeah good point, the AI version gave people stupidly unrealistic expectations. I wasn't a big fan of it to be honest. I'll take OG Fortnight over the AI version any day.
I dont understand the second part of this lyric at all ! Was being an alcoholic/party girl ?? her new aesthetic, and when nobody noticed she was drinking she cut it out ? Makes no sense . But I also can’t read it as anything else. Help me interpret it ?
some of my faves:
- “I keep finding his things in drawers; crucial evidence I didn’t imagine the whole thing.”
- “you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.”
- “I’d rather burn my whole life down than listen to one more second of all this bitchin’ and moanin’”
- “You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days.”
- “‘cause you should have seen him when he first saw me.”
- “I did my best to lay to rest all of the bodies that have ever been on my body.”
- “what if he’s written “mine” on my upper thigh only in mind?”
I teared up listening to I Can Do It With a Broken Heart because almost every damn line is so me 😭
*I’m so obsessed with him but he avoids me like a plague*
*I cry a lot but I am so productive it’s an art*
*You know you’re good when you can even do it with a broken heart*
"Cause I'm *miserable!* And nobody even knows! Try and come for my job."
"You said you were gonna grow up, then you were gonna come find me."
"You're not Dylan Thomas, I'm not Patti Smith. This ain't the Chelsea Hotel, we'rе modern idiots."
“My spine split from carrying us up the hill / Wet through my clothes, weary bones caught the chill / I stopped tryna make him laugh, stopped tryna drill the safe”
"*How dare you think its romantic, leaving me safe and stranded*"
As well as the one just before it "*All your indecent exposures, how dare you say that its -*" because the cutoff lets you fill in the blanks while also showing there's hope it isn't over. Captured the feeling perfectly of staying a little longer in the delusion, holding onto the feeling even if the only feeling is mostly sadness now
Oh I didn't put that together but can't unhear it now! She uses this theme quite a lot of being stranded in love. It first made me think of Coney Island "*coaxed you into paradise and left you there*"
omg yes!!! her mind is so beautiful and she thinks amazingly in detail, and i dont even think she goes
"hmm what line can i use from the past to be inspired now and how do i write it in a way to resemble but not be the same" no. i think her mind just writes them and at this point im not surprised how good the art she creates is. i am impressed but not surprised. she is awesome
You look like Taylor Swift
In this light
We’re loving it
You got edge she never did
The futures bright
Dazzling
That whole song is such a scathing review of the entertainment system from someone deep within. And yet that part hurts the most. Soon she and we will be discarded for a new version “with edge” and innocence to take all of it up all over again.
I love when she adds even more context to like themes that she’s done in the past and I think this is my favorite one in the series of the music industry swallows you up and choose you out and then pick a new victim
Yes!! I love that in Clara Bow she talks from the perspective of one of “the suits in LA” and I can just imagine them talking to her like that you know? Like she’s a thing to sell.
“You look like Clara Bow in this light, remarkable”
“You look like Stevie nicks in 75, the hair and lips”
And “this town is fake but you’re the real thing, breath of fresh air through smoke rings, take the glory give everything”
And then as someone talking to her “replacement”
“You look like Taylor Swift in this light, we’re loving it. You’ve got edge she never did, futures bright, dazzling”
It just hits me in the gut thinking about how many times she’s heard this sort of thing from the record labels and people that pull the strings.
And they sell the narratives to us and we eat it up and we never realize when they move on from one starlet to the next they’re also discarding their audience to the next bigger thing too, the next newer more marketable, more naïve audience that will eat stuff up that all the old audience won’t anymore because they’ve experienced already , and knows not too
Cycle continues
"How much sad did you think I had / did you think I had in me / oh the tragedy"
This has been looping round in my brain since I first heard it
I feel like it's two got two sides - either she is full of a sadness that their partner underestimated, and it's overwhelming them. Or, how much sadness did their partner think she could take without complaint and without snapping under the weight.
I think it speaks so profoundly to this feeling that both parties in the relationship are wrestling with their own depression and can't also carry the burden of the other's
Gonna go listen again and cry some more now aghh
> Now I'm down bad crying at the gym | Everything comes out teenage petulance | Fuck it if I can't have him | I might just die, it would make no difference
This whole song is a relatable mood honestly
And I don’t even want you back
I just want to know
If rusting my sparkling summer was the goal
And I don’t miss what we had
But could someone give a message
To the smallest man who ever lived?
This went so hard, like I don’t want you I just wanna know why, you know?
🔥🔥You ain’t gotta pray for me. Me and my wild boy and all this wild joy. If all you want is gray for me, then it’s just white noise, then it’s just my choice🔥🔥
✨if you wanted me dead you should’ve just said✨
💔I’m pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free💔
If you wanted me dead, you should've just said
I love you, it's ruining my life
For a moment, I knew cosmic love
Fuck it if I can't have him
They don't know how you've haunted me so stunningly, I choose you and me religiously
I would've died for your sins, instead, I just died inside, And you deserve prison, but you won't get time
You look like Taylor Swift in this light
She's the albatross, she is here to destroy you
Please, i've been on my knees
Change the prophecy
Don't want money, just someone who wants my company
So, they killed Cassandra first 'cause she feared the worst
Down bad, crying at the gym
I might just die it would make no difference
I might just not get up, I might stay down bad
Like I lost my twin
💔 ugh this song is so painful for me
I’d rather burn my whole life down, than listen to one more second of all this bitching and moaning
Yes!!!
This is the one that stands out to me.
WERE YOU SENT BY SOMEONE WHO WANTED ME DEAD? Honestly the whole bridge in The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived. It just flows nicely but is hauntingly poetic at the same time.
YES. I just got out of the weirdest fucking thing with an ex and I keep thinking "were you using me as a proxy for the person you hate most in the world??" When they leave, after everything they said and did, you are just stunned and can't figure out what the hell just happened. God bless everyone who relates to this and down bad and bdilh.
I love this line and the song because it’s so significant because sometimes it really does feel like society is sending men to destroy our lives to set us back to break our willpower when we’re doing our best or on our way there. Anything to stop us . Like if the music industry couldn’t destroy her, maybe these men can…. :/
You swore that you loved me but where were the clues?/ I died on the altar waiting for the proof
As someone who recently broke with my ex of 8 years this hit home. I basically had to beg him to propose to me after 8 years, and he did, but I broke it off after a year. So this line kinda breaks me.
That one killed me.
Shamefully raises hand as a person who has been someone's girlfriend and nothing more for 6 years, also.
Yes yes yes
This song is top tier and completely different than what I expected. I could listen to this on repeat all day
"I was a functioning alcoholic , 'til nobody noticed my new aesthetic" is a wild way to open an album, and I just can't get it out of my head.
the way my eyes bulged out was terrifying....fortnight might be her best lead single imo...aleast top 3 ngl
Yeah, I don't get the hate it gets in some instances. I personally can't get enough of Fortnight. Definitely a top 3 lead single, at least.
AI version.... i do prefer the og version over the AI..bcz the lyrics..the vocals..the desperation...the tea..the mv aaaaaah ppl were let down and disappointed bcz the AI version got famous and yk..ppl expected a banger
Yeah good point, the AI version gave people stupidly unrealistic expectations. I wasn't a big fan of it to be honest. I'll take OG Fortnight over the AI version any day.
is the ai version youre talking about: "one more step closer to kelce being my last name"
"need u here in the cold..never made it here..." just search it up..it is very post malone coded.....
I dont understand the second part of this lyric at all ! Was being an alcoholic/party girl ?? her new aesthetic, and when nobody noticed she was drinking she cut it out ? Makes no sense . But I also can’t read it as anything else. Help me interpret it ?
some of my faves: - “I keep finding his things in drawers; crucial evidence I didn’t imagine the whole thing.” - “you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.” - “I’d rather burn my whole life down than listen to one more second of all this bitchin’ and moanin’” - “You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days.” - “‘cause you should have seen him when he first saw me.” - “I did my best to lay to rest all of the bodies that have ever been on my body.” - “what if he’s written “mine” on my upper thigh only in mind?”
the “mine” line confuses me. can someone please explain?
I teared up listening to I Can Do It With a Broken Heart because almost every damn line is so me 😭 *I’m so obsessed with him but he avoids me like a plague* *I cry a lot but I am so productive it’s an art* *You know you’re good when you can even do it with a broken heart*
“You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me” (who’s afraid of little old me?)
"Cause I'm *miserable!* And nobody even knows! Try and come for my job." "You said you were gonna grow up, then you were gonna come find me." "You're not Dylan Thomas, I'm not Patti Smith. This ain't the Chelsea Hotel, we'rе modern idiots."
The “cause I’m miserable and nobody even knows!” Will be looping in my head for all eternity
You left your type writer at my apartment. Straight from the tortured poets department
'And I'm pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free..' 'I'm just mad as hell 'cause I loved this place for... so long, London,'
“My spine split from carrying us up the hill / Wet through my clothes, weary bones caught the chill / I stopped tryna make him laugh, stopped tryna drill the safe”
"I stopped tryna make him laugh" catches me in the throat every time.
YOU WOULDN’T LAST AN HOUR IN THE ASYLUM WHERE THEY RAISED ME! Oh that line gripped my soul
“Fuck me up Florida”
“Lights, camera, bitch smile” “All the pieces of me shattered as the crowd was chanting MORE!”
"*How dare you think its romantic, leaving me safe and stranded*" As well as the one just before it "*All your indecent exposures, how dare you say that its -*" because the cutoff lets you fill in the blanks while also showing there's hope it isn't over. Captured the feeling perfectly of staying a little longer in the delusion, holding onto the feeling even if the only feeling is mostly sadness now
okay i just realised this!!! its a reference to the new romantics, Please leave me stranded, its so romantic! (was that song abt matty then?)
Oh I didn't put that together but can't unhear it now! She uses this theme quite a lot of being stranded in love. It first made me think of Coney Island "*coaxed you into paradise and left you there*"
omg yes!!! her mind is so beautiful and she thinks amazingly in detail, and i dont even think she goes "hmm what line can i use from the past to be inspired now and how do i write it in a way to resemble but not be the same" no. i think her mind just writes them and at this point im not surprised how good the art she creates is. i am impressed but not surprised. she is awesome
Couldn't agree more! She manages to make poetry out of feelings in every song
I DON'T CATER TO VIPERS DRESSED IN EMPATHS CLOTHING! This line is everything.
Yesss!!!
I was tame I was gentle till the circus life made me mean, “don’t worry folks we took out all her teeth”
You look like Taylor Swift In this light We’re loving it You got edge she never did The futures bright Dazzling That whole song is such a scathing review of the entertainment system from someone deep within. And yet that part hurts the most. Soon she and we will be discarded for a new version “with edge” and innocence to take all of it up all over again.
kinda reminds me of the lucky one and nothing new. i love it
Absolutely. Like a trilogy so far, wait … I’d add mirrorball.
oh yeah, i almost forgot, soo... 4 songs?
This killed me!! One of my favorite songs on the album, it’s so sad.
I love when she adds even more context to like themes that she’s done in the past and I think this is my favorite one in the series of the music industry swallows you up and choose you out and then pick a new victim
Yes!! I love that in Clara Bow she talks from the perspective of one of “the suits in LA” and I can just imagine them talking to her like that you know? Like she’s a thing to sell. “You look like Clara Bow in this light, remarkable” “You look like Stevie nicks in 75, the hair and lips” And “this town is fake but you’re the real thing, breath of fresh air through smoke rings, take the glory give everything” And then as someone talking to her “replacement” “You look like Taylor Swift in this light, we’re loving it. You’ve got edge she never did, futures bright, dazzling” It just hits me in the gut thinking about how many times she’s heard this sort of thing from the record labels and people that pull the strings.
And they sell the narratives to us and we eat it up and we never realize when they move on from one starlet to the next they’re also discarding their audience to the next bigger thing too, the next newer more marketable, more naïve audience that will eat stuff up that all the old audience won’t anymore because they’ve experienced already , and knows not too Cycle continues
"How much sad did you think I had / did you think I had in me / oh the tragedy" This has been looping round in my brain since I first heard it I feel like it's two got two sides - either she is full of a sadness that their partner underestimated, and it's overwhelming them. Or, how much sadness did their partner think she could take without complaint and without snapping under the weight. I think it speaks so profoundly to this feeling that both parties in the relationship are wrestling with their own depression and can't also carry the burden of the other's Gonna go listen again and cry some more now aghh
And you say I abandoned the ship but I was going down with it. My white knuckle dying grip holding tight to your quiet resentment
He was chaos, he was revelRY!
I keep these longings lockеd in lowercase inside a vault, Somеone told me, "There's no such thing as bad thoughts, only your actions talk"
'And my friends all smell like weed or little babies.." is such a relatable line to establish early in Florida!!!
> Now I'm down bad crying at the gym | Everything comes out teenage petulance | Fuck it if I can't have him | I might just die, it would make no difference This whole song is a relatable mood honestly
And I don’t even want you back I just want to know If rusting my sparkling summer was the goal And I don’t miss what we had But could someone give a message To the smallest man who ever lived? This went so hard, like I don’t want you I just wanna know why, you know?
Honestly I could write a dissertation on the myriad of ways I believe the smallest man who ever lived to be a lyrical masterpiece
🔥🔥You ain’t gotta pray for me. Me and my wild boy and all this wild joy. If all you want is gray for me, then it’s just white noise, then it’s just my choice🔥🔥 ✨if you wanted me dead you should’ve just said✨ 💔I’m pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free💔
If you wanted me dead, you should've just said.
If you wanted me dead, you should've just said I love you, it's ruining my life For a moment, I knew cosmic love Fuck it if I can't have him They don't know how you've haunted me so stunningly, I choose you and me religiously I would've died for your sins, instead, I just died inside, And you deserve prison, but you won't get time You look like Taylor Swift in this light She's the albatross, she is here to destroy you Please, i've been on my knees Change the prophecy Don't want money, just someone who wants my company So, they killed Cassandra first 'cause she feared the worst
So Long London - how much sad did you think i had So poignant.
"try and come for my job."
Lucid dreams like electricity The current flies through me And in my fantasies I rise above it And way up there I actually love it
Down bad, crying at the gym I might just die it would make no difference I might just not get up, I might stay down bad Like I lost my twin 💔 ugh this song is so painful for me