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.
Take everything away from me silent angel
Apathy cries out from your lungs, indifference reeks of fiction
Time will tell how far you will go
I can't see why you'd run and hide excluding such complacence
As tears rain from bloodshot eyes
[Chorus]
Take everything away from me silent angel
Leave me nothing to remind me of this time now lost
The air now reeks with the presence of your vile voice
As your smile masks the advance you keep
I am not your trophy
The air now reeks with the presence of your vile voice
As your smile masks the advance you keep
I am not your trophy
Please try to say more carefully that you no longer need me
This back and forth is killing me
The only eyes you'll look into are those in your reflection
You are the means of my end
This conversation is over, it's over
Your truth is a deception meant to poison me
[Chorus]
I can't seem to believe you ever cared for me
This conversation is over
Your empty words now drift away as fragile whispers
I saw the day when the fire left your eyes, your tongue fell still
Your treason is silence
Take everything away from me silent angel
Leave me nothing to remind me of this time now lost
Apathy cries out from your lungs, indifference reeks of fiction
Time will tell how far you will go
I can't see why you'd run and hide excluding such complacence
As tears rain from bloodshot eyes
[Chorus]
Take everything away from me silent angel
Leave me nothing to remind me of this time now lost
The air now reeks with the presence of your vile voice
As your smile masks the advance you keep
I am not your trophy
The air now reeks with the presence of your vile voice
As your smile masks the advance you keep
I am not your trophy
Please try to say more carefully that you no longer need me
This back and forth is killing me
The only eyes you'll look into are those in your reflection
You are the means of my end
This conversation is over, it's over
Your truth is a deception meant to poison me
[Chorus]
I can't seem to believe you ever cared for me
This conversation is over
Your empty words now drift away as fragile whispers
I saw the day when the fire left your eyes, your tongue fell still
Your treason is silence
Take everything away from me silent angel
Leave me nothing to remind me of this time now lost
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