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.
Lyrics pending for the remaining parts
Pt. 1 (instrumental)
Pt. 1 backwards (instrumental)
Pt. 2 (instrumental)
Pt. 3:
Person 1: I don't mean to sound like a snob, but that man, worrying about his car, you know what I mean, he's not alive. If you can do what you say, why don't you wake him up.
Person 2: Just tell me what happened.
Person 1: You could ask him, but he couldn't tell you. That''s the point, isn't it? He couldn't tell you.
Person 2: Can you tell me?
Person 1: I can tell you this. In that car there was nothing, see, nothing, just talk. It's fair to say, isn't it, that a man like that doesn't think. He doesn't really feel. He goes through the motions of being human because nobody told him different.
Person 2: Look, you may be the best surgeon in town, but you're not making yourself very clear. What...
Person 1: Oh, hey
Person 2: ...doesn't he think?
Person 1: OK, for all I know he might be a very clever and successful person.
Person 2: Successful in whose terms?
Person 1: In our terms.
Person 2: His terms don't matter?
Person 1: Yes, in some sense they don't matter. I know that sounds awful, I probably don't even mean it. Maybe I have the whole thing wrong. The only thing to do is to try to make things better.
Person 2: In whose terms?
Person 1: Look, I'd like to explain to you about that guy. He's enclosed in himself. He's goes on and on, I get the feeling that he just isn't concerned. Concerned with other people. I mean, everything else is a matter of taste, a matter of opinion. But if anyone can live on this earth and not care about other people.
Person 2: So you cut his head off. The thing you really seem to hold against him is typified by what you did to him.
Person 1: I did nothing to him. He's okay. I put it back on. The head, I mean.
Person2: His head.
Person 1: Yeah, I put the right head back on. In that car I was suffocating. Not just there, lots of times. We're helpless really. You as well.
Person 2: If we are helpless, then we are not responsible. But there is a difference between things. I can hold my breath, but my blood flows regardless.
Person 1: You can hold your breath for a little while, but if you stop the blood flowing, that's for good.
Part 4. (to be continued whenever I get a chance)
Pt. 1 (instrumental)
Pt. 1 backwards (instrumental)
Pt. 2 (instrumental)
Pt. 3:
Person 1: I don't mean to sound like a snob, but that man, worrying about his car, you know what I mean, he's not alive. If you can do what you say, why don't you wake him up.
Person 2: Just tell me what happened.
Person 1: You could ask him, but he couldn't tell you. That''s the point, isn't it? He couldn't tell you.
Person 2: Can you tell me?
Person 1: I can tell you this. In that car there was nothing, see, nothing, just talk. It's fair to say, isn't it, that a man like that doesn't think. He doesn't really feel. He goes through the motions of being human because nobody told him different.
Person 2: Look, you may be the best surgeon in town, but you're not making yourself very clear. What...
Person 1: Oh, hey
Person 2: ...doesn't he think?
Person 1: OK, for all I know he might be a very clever and successful person.
Person 2: Successful in whose terms?
Person 1: In our terms.
Person 2: His terms don't matter?
Person 1: Yes, in some sense they don't matter. I know that sounds awful, I probably don't even mean it. Maybe I have the whole thing wrong. The only thing to do is to try to make things better.
Person 2: In whose terms?
Person 1: Look, I'd like to explain to you about that guy. He's enclosed in himself. He's goes on and on, I get the feeling that he just isn't concerned. Concerned with other people. I mean, everything else is a matter of taste, a matter of opinion. But if anyone can live on this earth and not care about other people.
Person 2: So you cut his head off. The thing you really seem to hold against him is typified by what you did to him.
Person 1: I did nothing to him. He's okay. I put it back on. The head, I mean.
Person2: His head.
Person 1: Yeah, I put the right head back on. In that car I was suffocating. Not just there, lots of times. We're helpless really. You as well.
Person 2: If we are helpless, then we are not responsible. But there is a difference between things. I can hold my breath, but my blood flows regardless.
Person 1: You can hold your breath for a little while, but if you stop the blood flowing, that's for good.
Part 4. (to be continued whenever I get a chance)
Lyrics submitted by inpraiseoffolly
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Oh, and other people could post as well, it doesn't just have to be me, updating you on when installments are coming. For example, you could tell me that you really don't care about the lyrics, and then I wouldn't waste my time posting them. Or, you could help me out by posting some of the lyrics yourself, and then I would check them and add them to what I have already done, which would save me a lot of time and you a lot of exasperation.