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.
Work hard, play nice, then send your souls to paradise
That's your choice, one beekeeper, several billion bees
My honey quota will land me a spot inside
But just in case I'll soak my legs in the deepest pollen vats and then
Transform worker to drone
I'll dig the biggest hole
Die all alone and watch my soul
Just rot in dirt without a home
Give us this day our daily bread
But not too much, please
My appetite has dried out in the last few centuries
But I'm still not going hungry
The few, the proud, the rebel merchants selling science
Intrepid volunteers just easing in a new-school doctrine
Giant lab coats and explosions, powdered old-wave revelations
Dodging smoke and mirrors in the dark
Transform worker to drone
I'll dig the biggest hole
Die all alone and watch my soul
Just rot in dirt without a home
The only ones with complex eyes
That scan and recognize
Sources soaked in hearsay
These words polarize us
Outdated blueprints
Obsolete framework
With foundations in the mud
Let's show the new world how it's done
So here we are
And it's just me
And Mr. Huxley
We're right outside
Open the door
Because it's me
And freakin' Huxley
Leading not deep into deception
Ladies and gentlemen, the situation has evolved
Direct your attention overhead and watch the curtain fall
Take a good look at the hive tonight and watch the fireflies
Cut it down and say goodbye
Tired bugs with complex eyes
So let's utilize them and behold
Ladies and gentlemen, the situation has evolved
That's your choice, one beekeeper, several billion bees
My honey quota will land me a spot inside
But just in case I'll soak my legs in the deepest pollen vats and then
Transform worker to drone
I'll dig the biggest hole
Die all alone and watch my soul
Just rot in dirt without a home
Give us this day our daily bread
But not too much, please
My appetite has dried out in the last few centuries
But I'm still not going hungry
The few, the proud, the rebel merchants selling science
Intrepid volunteers just easing in a new-school doctrine
Giant lab coats and explosions, powdered old-wave revelations
Dodging smoke and mirrors in the dark
Transform worker to drone
I'll dig the biggest hole
Die all alone and watch my soul
Just rot in dirt without a home
The only ones with complex eyes
That scan and recognize
Sources soaked in hearsay
These words polarize us
Outdated blueprints
Obsolete framework
With foundations in the mud
Let's show the new world how it's done
So here we are
And it's just me
And Mr. Huxley
We're right outside
Open the door
Because it's me
And freakin' Huxley
Leading not deep into deception
Ladies and gentlemen, the situation has evolved
Direct your attention overhead and watch the curtain fall
Take a good look at the hive tonight and watch the fireflies
Cut it down and say goodbye
Tired bugs with complex eyes
So let's utilize them and behold
Ladies and gentlemen, the situation has evolved
Lyrics submitted by punkpirate
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
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This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
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Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
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Punchline
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Amazing
Ed Sheeran
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I'm pretty sure this song is about people not thinking for themselves, and letting outdated religious doctrines dictate their beliefs for them. Thomas Huxley, who was a devout atheist, I think is who he's talking about at the end, and it talks about how people need to start coming to terms with science and moderninity in general.
WORD UP!
yepp i agree with xshoutoutx.<br /> <br /> this song is fucking awesome