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.
I can’t love your eyes (Its all your fault)
I’m pushing back for more (As time flies by you wait for it)
And they paralyse (And for anything at all)
I can’t let you in (Lets break away tonight)
Because that means that you win (The sands gone from the hourglass).
And its forever (We’re free at last)
You’re not the one to blame for this at all
Must have burnt this down, ashes all around
What were the questions that you had for me?
I couldn’t solve it all, so just let it be
Waiting awake by the window and
In my heart answers in the form of a question:
Why don’t we all end this with the quickness of breaking down the glass?
Now your waiting and I am ready.
Seasons are constantly changing
(Waking up, waking up to your eyes)
Time that we seem to be wasting
(You cut me out; you cut me out completely this time.)
Making up, breaking up for the last time (Time wont wait)
The reflection of, your life tells me you’re sleeping (Life wont wait)
Runaway, run from this
Cant be, cant be real.
[x2]
I can’t love your eyes (And all you are)
I’m pushing back for more (Are the mistakes that you make always)
And they paralyse (When everything’s all wrong)
I can’t let you in (Lets waste away tonight)
Because that means that you win (The sands gone from the hourglass)
And its forever (Our time has passed)
You’re not the one to blame for this at all
Must have burnt this down, ashes all around
What were the questions that you had for me?
I couldn’t solve it all, so just let it be
Fingers that tap the windowpane
Are to numb. Numb for you to feel the real pain
The kind that waits in me
Wanting something more than what this life has brought to me
Now I’m running, now I’m running
Seasons are constantly changing
(Waking up, waking up to your eyes)
Time that we seem to be wasting
(You cut me out; you cut me out completely this time.)
Making up, breaking up for the last time (Time wont wait)
The reflection of, your life tells me you’re sleeping (Life wont wait)
Runaway, run from this
Cant be, cant be real.
Seasons are constantly changing
Time that we seem to be wasting
I’m leaving now (Time won’t wait)
Don’t forget (Life won’t wait)
I’m pushing back for more (As time flies by you wait for it)
And they paralyse (And for anything at all)
I can’t let you in (Lets break away tonight)
Because that means that you win (The sands gone from the hourglass).
And its forever (We’re free at last)
You’re not the one to blame for this at all
Must have burnt this down, ashes all around
What were the questions that you had for me?
I couldn’t solve it all, so just let it be
Waiting awake by the window and
In my heart answers in the form of a question:
Why don’t we all end this with the quickness of breaking down the glass?
Now your waiting and I am ready.
Seasons are constantly changing
(Waking up, waking up to your eyes)
Time that we seem to be wasting
(You cut me out; you cut me out completely this time.)
Making up, breaking up for the last time (Time wont wait)
The reflection of, your life tells me you’re sleeping (Life wont wait)
Runaway, run from this
Cant be, cant be real.
[x2]
I can’t love your eyes (And all you are)
I’m pushing back for more (Are the mistakes that you make always)
And they paralyse (When everything’s all wrong)
I can’t let you in (Lets waste away tonight)
Because that means that you win (The sands gone from the hourglass)
And its forever (Our time has passed)
You’re not the one to blame for this at all
Must have burnt this down, ashes all around
What were the questions that you had for me?
I couldn’t solve it all, so just let it be
Fingers that tap the windowpane
Are to numb. Numb for you to feel the real pain
The kind that waits in me
Wanting something more than what this life has brought to me
Now I’m running, now I’m running
Seasons are constantly changing
(Waking up, waking up to your eyes)
Time that we seem to be wasting
(You cut me out; you cut me out completely this time.)
Making up, breaking up for the last time (Time wont wait)
The reflection of, your life tells me you’re sleeping (Life wont wait)
Runaway, run from this
Cant be, cant be real.
Seasons are constantly changing
Time that we seem to be wasting
I’m leaving now (Time won’t wait)
Don’t forget (Life won’t wait)
Lyrics submitted by Brandnizzle2k4
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