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.
You've been out on the tiles
Winning the smiles of men of low persuasion
But I know you drink yourself crawling in the street until dawn
Girl you look like a bad dream
You've been places I've never been
Come home come home Angeline
Come home come home Angeline
You've been places I've never been
You took the small change from the jar in the hall
Be back in an hour but you're not back at all
The children are crying the flowers are dying
There's no food on the table
I don't think I'm able to cope
You've been places I've never been
Come home come home Angeline
Come home come home Angeline
You've been places I've never been
Cheap perfume and alcohol dancing on tables
With kissing for strangers all laughing and howling
And jokes and tall tales that ain't funny at all
Bluffers and smugglers boozers and gamblers
Jump old queens and tarts at the babbled bar
Oh they've been pushing you too far
Come home come home Angeline
Come home come home Angeline
You've been places I've never been
Come home come home Angeline
Come home come home Angeline
You've been places I've never been
Winning the smiles of men of low persuasion
But I know you drink yourself crawling in the street until dawn
Girl you look like a bad dream
You've been places I've never been
Come home come home Angeline
Come home come home Angeline
You've been places I've never been
You took the small change from the jar in the hall
Be back in an hour but you're not back at all
The children are crying the flowers are dying
There's no food on the table
I don't think I'm able to cope
You've been places I've never been
Come home come home Angeline
Come home come home Angeline
You've been places I've never been
Cheap perfume and alcohol dancing on tables
With kissing for strangers all laughing and howling
And jokes and tall tales that ain't funny at all
Bluffers and smugglers boozers and gamblers
Jump old queens and tarts at the babbled bar
Oh they've been pushing you too far
Come home come home Angeline
Come home come home Angeline
You've been places I've never been
Come home come home Angeline
Come home come home Angeline
You've been places I've never been
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