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.
Tonight I'm coming home in a coma if it fucking kills me.
Listless but relieved,
Beaming like a newborn hostage.
Orphaned by an ambulance.
I got this new black eye just for you.
Your hopeless romantic now hopelessly rheumatic.
Poets grinding teeth to powder.
All my vowels are getting lost in the gauze.
Misinterpret courting for the cursing of a drooling fool.
Here's to cheap sex and codeine in a hospital bed.
And maybe I'd object,
If I felt at all alive.
Everybody is dying to lay down with you.
I got the order all wrong.
I must have bumped my head.
Maybe I should quiet down.
Don't bet on another black out,
I'll be all right.
There's an army at my window waiting to lose this fight.
I'm the king of this all night clinic.
The fucking champion.
Tonight we'll feast like royalty in traction,
Happy and meticulous.
There's a delicate love song in this,
Kicked out and dripping in verse.
Go get your gun because God won't show.
He sent a poet instead.
The Don Quixote of the ICU.
Quite impressive for a cripple.
Munchausen by proxy of a muse.
Tempt not a desperate man.
This split lip is for you.
I traded it for an outdated tooth.
Listless but relieved,
Beaming like a newborn hostage.
Orphaned by an ambulance.
I got this new black eye just for you.
Your hopeless romantic now hopelessly rheumatic.
Poets grinding teeth to powder.
All my vowels are getting lost in the gauze.
Misinterpret courting for the cursing of a drooling fool.
Here's to cheap sex and codeine in a hospital bed.
And maybe I'd object,
If I felt at all alive.
Everybody is dying to lay down with you.
I got the order all wrong.
I must have bumped my head.
Maybe I should quiet down.
Don't bet on another black out,
I'll be all right.
There's an army at my window waiting to lose this fight.
I'm the king of this all night clinic.
The fucking champion.
Tonight we'll feast like royalty in traction,
Happy and meticulous.
There's a delicate love song in this,
Kicked out and dripping in verse.
Go get your gun because God won't show.
He sent a poet instead.
The Don Quixote of the ICU.
Quite impressive for a cripple.
Munchausen by proxy of a muse.
Tempt not a desperate man.
This split lip is for you.
I traded it for an outdated tooth.
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One of their best songs. Guess it's about medical care and hospitals. :)