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.
Tear it down
Strip the layers off
My turpentine
Old paint, old looks
Cover up the past
White heat, white light
Super white bones
Bones of you and I
Pure if I (can't you help me?)
Pure if I (won't you help me?)
Purify, you and I
Purify, you and I
Pure if I (can't you help me?)
Pure if I (won't you help me?)
You and I, purify
You and I, purify
Purify
Truth and dare
Peeling back the skin
Acid wash
Ghost white
Ultra clean
Wanna be skeleton
Clear eyes, diamond eyes
Strip the past of mine
My sweet turpentine
Pure if I (can't you help me?)
Pure if I (won't you help me?)
Purify, you and I
Purify, you and I
Pure if I (can't you help me?)
Pure if I (won't you help me?)
You and I, purify
You and I, purify
Oh, purify
I can find the dirt on anything
I can find the dirt on anything
I ain't dancing with your skeletons
I, I ain't dancing with what might have been
Pure if I (can't you help me?)
Pure if I (won't you help me?)
Purify, you and I
Purify, you and I
Pure if I (can't you help me?)
Pure if I (why won't you help me?)
You and I, purify
You and I, purify
Come on, purify
Strip the layers off
My turpentine
Old paint, old looks
Cover up the past
White heat, white light
Super white bones
Bones of you and I
Pure if I (can't you help me?)
Pure if I (won't you help me?)
Purify, you and I
Purify, you and I
Pure if I (can't you help me?)
Pure if I (won't you help me?)
You and I, purify
You and I, purify
Purify
Truth and dare
Peeling back the skin
Acid wash
Ghost white
Ultra clean
Wanna be skeleton
Clear eyes, diamond eyes
Strip the past of mine
My sweet turpentine
Pure if I (can't you help me?)
Pure if I (won't you help me?)
Purify, you and I
Purify, you and I
Pure if I (can't you help me?)
Pure if I (won't you help me?)
You and I, purify
You and I, purify
Oh, purify
I can find the dirt on anything
I can find the dirt on anything
I ain't dancing with your skeletons
I, I ain't dancing with what might have been
Pure if I (can't you help me?)
Pure if I (won't you help me?)
Purify, you and I
Purify, you and I
Pure if I (can't you help me?)
Pure if I (why won't you help me?)
You and I, purify
You and I, purify
Come on, purify
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Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
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