Fortnight
“Move to Florida, buy the car you want But it won't start up 'til you touch, touch, touch me”
The car that will not start without her touch as dependence made mechanical; the move to Florida buys the freedom, and the freedom stalls without her.
“I took the miracle move-on drug, the effects were temporary”
Getting over someone is swallowed like a pill, a miracle move-on drug whose effects wear off fast, so the cure for the feeling turns out to be as short-lived as a dose.
“Your wife waters flowers, I wanna kill her”
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the Florida that returns
“Move to Florida, buy the car you want”
“Florida!!!” — Florida!!!
Fortnight reaches for the same place name that titles another song on the album, Florida. An opening track naming a place that returns as its own song binds the two together.
un-recalling the memory you can't drink away
“I was a functioning alcoholic / 'Til nobody noticed my new aesthetic”
“I wish I could un-recall How we almost had it all” — loml
Community readers connect loml's wish to "un-recall" the relationship with Fortnight's functioning-alcoholic line: in both, the speaker reaches for a way to dull or erase a memory she cannot otherwise lay down.
envy of others' intact relationships
“Your wife waters flowers, I wanna kill her”
“Soon they'll go home to their husbands Smug 'cause they know they can trust him” — How Did It End?
Community readers parallel the smug wives who "go home to their husbands" with Fortnight's "Your wife waters flowers, I wanna kill her": the same envious sideways glance at other people's secure domesticity, surfacing at both ends of the album. In one song the narrator is the object of the gossips' smugness; in the other she is the one watching a settled life she cannot have.