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.
It starts to tear me down
Destroyed by what I create
It left the nerve exposed
Feels like a lost cause
Frustration's all I have left
It's what reduced me to this
Turned me against myself
It's still a lost cause
I can't keep doing this to myself
But it's the only way to forget who I am
Your disability
Kept pushing me away
It went beneath what's so real to me
And threw it all away
I underestimated
The lengths that you would have gone
To deny who you are
You threw it all away
I will keep doing this to myself
'Cause it's the only way to forget who I am
I never wanted your help
I never needed your help
This failure has to be all mine all mine now
I'll turn my back on myself
If it's my only way out
It can only help me if it hurts
I won't give into, I won't give into...
I won't become one with your lies
I never wanted your help
I never needed your help
This failure has to be all mine all mine now
I'll turn my back on myself
If it's my only way out
I'm too tired to feel anything anyway
I will keep doing this to myself
'Cause it's the only way to forget who I am
I never wanted your help
I never needed your help
This failure has to be all mine all mine now
I'll turn my back on myself
If it's my only way out
I'm too tired to feel anything anyway
I have become one with your lies
Destroyed by what I create
It left the nerve exposed
Feels like a lost cause
Frustration's all I have left
It's what reduced me to this
Turned me against myself
It's still a lost cause
I can't keep doing this to myself
But it's the only way to forget who I am
Your disability
Kept pushing me away
It went beneath what's so real to me
And threw it all away
I underestimated
The lengths that you would have gone
To deny who you are
You threw it all away
I will keep doing this to myself
'Cause it's the only way to forget who I am
I never wanted your help
I never needed your help
This failure has to be all mine all mine now
I'll turn my back on myself
If it's my only way out
It can only help me if it hurts
I won't give into, I won't give into...
I won't become one with your lies
I never wanted your help
I never needed your help
This failure has to be all mine all mine now
I'll turn my back on myself
If it's my only way out
I'm too tired to feel anything anyway
I will keep doing this to myself
'Cause it's the only way to forget who I am
I never wanted your help
I never needed your help
This failure has to be all mine all mine now
I'll turn my back on myself
If it's my only way out
I'm too tired to feel anything anyway
I have become one with your lies
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"Your disability Kept pushing me away It went beneath what's so real to me ..And threw it all away
I underestimated The lengths that you would have gone To deny who you are ..You threw it all away."
this song.. as well as a lot of this album, is about someone who abondoned him and left him with nothing but lies and a sense of failure. he has nowhere else to turn and the pain is slowly numbing him to the point of hostile apathy.
this band diserves a lot more attention then they got
this band kicks ass!....first time heard of them was bout a yr ago...was blown away by the music
leet song.
sounds kind of like using alcohol or drugs to escape a problem, "I'll keep doing this to myself 'cause it's the only way to forget who I am"
Kind of makes you think about alcohol or maybe a drug of some sort. I guess it's just a bout a failed relationship that led to drugs.
i agree they are so underated __ :(
yea, definitely a very underrated band.
hopefully silent civilian becomes pretty popular
This song is about a relationship that was about drugs and alcohol. Then the girl stopped doing drugs and alcohol then they broke up.
"It starts to tear me down Destroyed by what I create" The relationship ending hit him really hard
"It left the nerve exposed Feels like a lost cause" She was a major part of his life and breaking up feels like all that time was waisted
"Frustration's all I have left It's what reduced me to this" He's really angry, and he continues to do drugs and alcohol.
"Turned me against myself It's still a lost cause" Doesn't know if he can trust anyone anymore and doesn't beleive his life to be worth anything.
Thats just my thoughts
Really one of the bands I love the most.
I think this song could be about a total downfall an resorting to either alcohol/drugs or even self mutalation. i mean, really, think about it for a minute. but this song is amazing. so much emotioan and energy.
activate the pit!