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.
Joy:
People are you ready lets start the show
Don't worry 'bout the present day, he can't stop us now
LB:
Calling out t'all area crew
we gonna make this shit happen
right here right now x4
I want to welcome y'all to absolutely hell heating
And it's truly chocka make it to my new meeting
So take you time grab a table we got booth seating
Now allow me introduce me to my new people
You see my name is lyrics born baby and I truly mean that
From the past from the future from the new and recent
You don't believe you can read page one in you leaflet
L-why-are-see is funk philly born baby
Top of the esch-e-lon of MCing
And I think on the topic we all in agreement
I'm never running from a challenge never been sheepish
In the rap all the fame we gotta get me in
You gotta see me do my thang son I'm too fiendish
Flinging tune after tune till the wound deepens
I have a rumour human thing, it's feeling wousy like a fiend
Lead me move you to the music and the fever screaming baby
Calling out t'all area crew
we gonna make this shit happen
right here right now x4
My life's a combination of my past achievements
With a lotta heavy lifting, lotta deep breathing
A lotta courage, lotta doubts a lotta mixed feelings
A lotta love a lotta luggage for a lotta reasons
I ain't forgot about the pain and all the mistreatments
I ain't forgot the little box they try to wiggle me in
I ain't forgot about the flower deep underneath the crowded streets
Sprouting inbetween the cracks see me shout baby
Follow like a lock in, in the Colliseum
And you can positive I think I'm in the mausoleum
You think I'll ever hang it up hoh body stop dreaming
You think I'll ever stop oh baby now you're reaching
I won't stop till I feel my lungs stop breathing
I won't stop till I feel my heart stop beating
I won't stop speaking this week and next week
And all folks, Steep singing, hot dogs
Stop seeing, five freezing, ice heating
Fire palms, reading all fat fall
Freak clear from the mountain tops screaming Baby
Calling out t'all area crew
we gonna make this shit happen
right here right now x4
Joy
People are you ready lets start the show
LB:
Get it on get it on we bout to get it on
Get it on getting it on, on and on
Joy:
Don't worry 'bout the present day, he can't stop us now
LB:
I said Get it on get it on we bout to get it on
Get it on getting it on, on and on
Calling out t'all area crew
we gonna make this shit happen
right here right now
People are you ready lets start the show
Don't worry 'bout the present day, he can't stop us now
LB:
Calling out t'all area crew
we gonna make this shit happen
right here right now x4
I want to welcome y'all to absolutely hell heating
And it's truly chocka make it to my new meeting
So take you time grab a table we got booth seating
Now allow me introduce me to my new people
You see my name is lyrics born baby and I truly mean that
From the past from the future from the new and recent
You don't believe you can read page one in you leaflet
L-why-are-see is funk philly born baby
Top of the esch-e-lon of MCing
And I think on the topic we all in agreement
I'm never running from a challenge never been sheepish
In the rap all the fame we gotta get me in
You gotta see me do my thang son I'm too fiendish
Flinging tune after tune till the wound deepens
I have a rumour human thing, it's feeling wousy like a fiend
Lead me move you to the music and the fever screaming baby
Calling out t'all area crew
we gonna make this shit happen
right here right now x4
My life's a combination of my past achievements
With a lotta heavy lifting, lotta deep breathing
A lotta courage, lotta doubts a lotta mixed feelings
A lotta love a lotta luggage for a lotta reasons
I ain't forgot about the pain and all the mistreatments
I ain't forgot the little box they try to wiggle me in
I ain't forgot about the flower deep underneath the crowded streets
Sprouting inbetween the cracks see me shout baby
Follow like a lock in, in the Colliseum
And you can positive I think I'm in the mausoleum
You think I'll ever hang it up hoh body stop dreaming
You think I'll ever stop oh baby now you're reaching
I won't stop till I feel my lungs stop breathing
I won't stop till I feel my heart stop beating
I won't stop speaking this week and next week
And all folks, Steep singing, hot dogs
Stop seeing, five freezing, ice heating
Fire palms, reading all fat fall
Freak clear from the mountain tops screaming Baby
Calling out t'all area crew
we gonna make this shit happen
right here right now x4
Joy
People are you ready lets start the show
LB:
Get it on get it on we bout to get it on
Get it on getting it on, on and on
Joy:
Don't worry 'bout the present day, he can't stop us now
LB:
I said Get it on get it on we bout to get it on
Get it on getting it on, on and on
Calling out t'all area crew
we gonna make this shit happen
right here right now
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Just A Little Lovin'
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the only truly HORRIBLE thing about this website is that people can put up the most horrendous versions of what they think the lyrics to a song are.
for this one, they really butchered it.
for LYRICS BORN lyrics straight from the source, go to: lyricsborn.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php
other than that, LB is one of my favorite hip hop artists of all time. along with mos, talib, cunninlynguists, binary star