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.
Falling into space
At the end of time
Black as the black in your eye
Staring through a hole in the ozone
There's nobody home
To play back your ansaphone
Climax out of blue
Is it just another high?
No there must be something new
Now that I'm so alien
Entering the atmosphere
Don't know what is waiting here (oh no)
If there's nothing left to fear
When we come together in
The Big Bang Generation
Teardrop in the sky
Bursting my eye
Sound of a morning sigh
This life is stranger than fiction
Surreal addiction
It's all I recognize
Feeding off the habit
Losing control
Where is it leading to?
Now that I'm the alien
Entering the atmosphere
Don't know what is waiting here (oh no)
If there's nothing left to fear
When we come together in
The Big Bang Generation
(Feel like I'm losing control)
Big Bang Generation
(Now that I'm here all alone)
Big Bang Generation
(Feel like I'm losing control)
Big Bang Generation
(Feel like I'm losing it)
We're gonna come together here
Where you coming from?
When we gonna burn out? Don't know
Having so much fun
Greetings from the Big Bang Generation
Big Bang Generation
Meet you in the Big Bang Generation
Together in the Big Bang Generation
Together with the Big Bang Generation
At the end of time
Black as the black in your eye
Staring through a hole in the ozone
There's nobody home
To play back your ansaphone
Climax out of blue
Is it just another high?
No there must be something new
Now that I'm so alien
Entering the atmosphere
Don't know what is waiting here (oh no)
If there's nothing left to fear
When we come together in
The Big Bang Generation
Teardrop in the sky
Bursting my eye
Sound of a morning sigh
This life is stranger than fiction
Surreal addiction
It's all I recognize
Feeding off the habit
Losing control
Where is it leading to?
Now that I'm the alien
Entering the atmosphere
Don't know what is waiting here (oh no)
If there's nothing left to fear
When we come together in
The Big Bang Generation
(Feel like I'm losing control)
Big Bang Generation
(Now that I'm here all alone)
Big Bang Generation
(Feel like I'm losing control)
Big Bang Generation
(Feel like I'm losing it)
We're gonna come together here
Where you coming from?
When we gonna burn out? Don't know
Having so much fun
Greetings from the Big Bang Generation
Big Bang Generation
Meet you in the Big Bang Generation
Together in the Big Bang Generation
Together with the Big Bang Generation
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This ong to me seems to be about an alternative Universe. Simon's in the "Big Bang Generation" actually means taht he's Outside his own Body, via Astral Body, & he's traveling all the planets & the Milky Way.
I thought maybe this song was about drugs. Like someone who is barely dicovering drugs: "Don't know what is waiting here." And it uses the words "habit" and surreal addiction." But the thing about traveling outside his body seems to make sense, although i don't think i've heard about something like that before.