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.
Don't you forget what I've told you
So many years
We are hopeless and slaves to our fears
We're an accident called human beings
Don't be angry for loving the baby
And say it's unreal
So many lives turned to salt
Like roses who're hiding their thorns
It's the end of the world
The end of the world
It's a prison for dreams and for hopes
And still we believe there is God
It's the end of the world
The end of the world
We're dead but pretend we're alive
Full of ignorance, fools in disguise
In your room doing nothing
But staring at flickering screens
Streets are empty, but still you can hear
Joy of children turning to tears
Disease hides around every corner
Quiet, lay still
Wait for a moment to hear
We forgot what is touch, what to feel
It's the end of the world
The end of the world
It's a prison for dreams and for hopes
And still we believe there is God
It's the end of the world
The end of the world
We're dead but pretend we're alive
Full of ignorance, fools in disguise
Take this pill, it will make you feel dizzy
And then give you wings
Soon, boy, you'll fall into sleep
Without nightmares, without any fears
If you wake up in hell or in heaven
Tell the angels we're here
Waiting below for a dream
Here in the garden of sin
It's the end of the world
The end of the world
It's a prison for dreams and for hopes
And still we believe there is God
It's the end of the world
The end of the world
We're dead but pretend we're alive
Full of ignorance, fools in disguise
So many years
We are hopeless and slaves to our fears
We're an accident called human beings
Don't be angry for loving the baby
And say it's unreal
So many lives turned to salt
Like roses who're hiding their thorns
It's the end of the world
The end of the world
It's a prison for dreams and for hopes
And still we believe there is God
It's the end of the world
The end of the world
We're dead but pretend we're alive
Full of ignorance, fools in disguise
In your room doing nothing
But staring at flickering screens
Streets are empty, but still you can hear
Joy of children turning to tears
Disease hides around every corner
Quiet, lay still
Wait for a moment to hear
We forgot what is touch, what to feel
It's the end of the world
The end of the world
It's a prison for dreams and for hopes
And still we believe there is God
It's the end of the world
The end of the world
We're dead but pretend we're alive
Full of ignorance, fools in disguise
Take this pill, it will make you feel dizzy
And then give you wings
Soon, boy, you'll fall into sleep
Without nightmares, without any fears
If you wake up in hell or in heaven
Tell the angels we're here
Waiting below for a dream
Here in the garden of sin
It's the end of the world
The end of the world
It's a prison for dreams and for hopes
And still we believe there is God
It's the end of the world
The end of the world
We're dead but pretend we're alive
Full of ignorance, fools in disguise
Lyrics submitted by christsizeshoes, edited by nyebear
End of the World Lyrics as written by Aviv Geffen
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Actually, this song is a translation and was written by Aviv Gefen who is an Israely that's working with blackfield. he is a musical genius, but a very pessimistic peron and so is his songs.. for me, its about being too optimistic, about not seeing the reality as it is - we dont want too see all the pain because it hearts too much, but that's what makes us blind, we are fooling ourselves - "Full of ignorance, fools in disguise", and by the time we wiil realize it, it will be too late. there's so much to say about the meanning of this song but i want to translate just one verse too demostrate what i mean "so take the pill that will make you fly far away from this place when thay'll find you you'll be dead and they will write that you were silent if the dead coult talk - what would you say? you would scream at everyone look - it's the end of the world"
A very beautiful Song! The best Blackfield-song so far. I think we should all live our lifes with more happieness and maybe passion. And I think this is what they want to express with this song... (If I have a bad english please forgive me, I'm from germany ;)
"Tell the angels we're here" - not "till the end you're still here". Great, great, morbid song. Reflects exactly my view of the way things are.
I actually find the original Hebrew version of this song to be better. Look it up.
I'm guessing that this song is about someone who has lost hope in the world, and sees it for the pit of corruption that it is. This leads them to ending their lives through ODing on pills.
the hebrew version is SO much better!
in the context of hope. it's the end of the world. the shitty things about we as human beings that collectively condensed. It's about most unhealthy things. Hey, its the end of the world already!
So I think what was left is to inspire hope.
I take this song (sad, gloomy and, yet, terrific) to mean a deep sadness and confusion for, literally, the loss of an unborn child due, maybe, to an abortion ("Don't be angry for loving the baby/And say it's unreal/So many lives turned to salt/Like roses who're hiding their thorns") whom the singer mourn before someone just a little insensitive. From there, the song displays the whole bunch of the singer's depressing, dreary feelings, and his growing incapacity for feeling and touching, together with his couple, whomever that might be. Still, the guy's able to rationalize and dopped himself--a substitute for loving and melancholy--the emotional ordeal he's/they're passing through, although we all know that there's no much hope: it's the end of the world.