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 the road on your wheelchair
Roll it out tonight! cause there's only one option for us right now
One of us got to get down
If you don't hear my call for help, you're in another world boy!
I've lost my faith in the pure, blue skied summertime
I've been lying awake at night thinking,
That son of a fuck dragged me down and now I'm lost
Can you help me find my long way back home?
The traffic lights are even dimmer then my past
Give me a sign, some kind of religion, Allah, Buddha
I don't care, I don't dare to choose one sign, one heart one feeling one god
Cause it's one blood floating in the stream
It's one blood floating in the stream
Every day that goes I need more and more people around me,
People I can rely to
Not those fucking sellouts I read about in the papers
Who's only hope are equally dumb consumers
I'm up on that stage, I'm up here, you're down there
Does that make me more important? more intelligent?
More likely to live that happy standard life your parents sets you out to?
I don't know
Your in a position most kids dream of
I don't know
You can be as weak as the man sleeping on newspapers
I don't know
You're still set out to tell the dirty mans story
I don't know
Other people are talking and thinking about you as we speak
But I've seen them out there as well
Yeah, but you don't know them do you!?
No but they don't know me either
Well, they think they do!,
They think they do!!!
So what do I need to get through the day?
One blood!
What do I need to break on through the night?
One heart!
What do I do to get along with these, these fools?
One soul!
Why don't I just go back to the steal factory? or the warehouse?
Or the railroad? get the fuck out of here, get the fuck out of music,
Back to the days when we had one heart, one brain one soul, one god
'Cause it's one blood floating in the stream
It's one blood floating in the stream
'Cause it's one blood floating in the stream
It's one blood floating in the stream
'Cause it's one blood floating in the stream
It's one blood floating in the stream
Roll it out tonight! cause there's only one option for us right now
One of us got to get down
If you don't hear my call for help, you're in another world boy!
I've lost my faith in the pure, blue skied summertime
I've been lying awake at night thinking,
That son of a fuck dragged me down and now I'm lost
Can you help me find my long way back home?
The traffic lights are even dimmer then my past
Give me a sign, some kind of religion, Allah, Buddha
I don't care, I don't dare to choose one sign, one heart one feeling one god
Cause it's one blood floating in the stream
It's one blood floating in the stream
Every day that goes I need more and more people around me,
People I can rely to
Not those fucking sellouts I read about in the papers
Who's only hope are equally dumb consumers
I'm up on that stage, I'm up here, you're down there
Does that make me more important? more intelligent?
More likely to live that happy standard life your parents sets you out to?
I don't know
Your in a position most kids dream of
I don't know
You can be as weak as the man sleeping on newspapers
I don't know
You're still set out to tell the dirty mans story
I don't know
Other people are talking and thinking about you as we speak
But I've seen them out there as well
Yeah, but you don't know them do you!?
No but they don't know me either
Well, they think they do!,
They think they do!!!
So what do I need to get through the day?
One blood!
What do I need to break on through the night?
One heart!
What do I do to get along with these, these fools?
One soul!
Why don't I just go back to the steal factory? or the warehouse?
Or the railroad? get the fuck out of here, get the fuck out of music,
Back to the days when we had one heart, one brain one soul, one god
'Cause it's one blood floating in the stream
It's one blood floating in the stream
'Cause it's one blood floating in the stream
It's one blood floating in the stream
'Cause it's one blood floating in the stream
It's one blood floating in the stream
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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this song reminds me of a song,pulp---I spy. i always tremble when i listen to these songs.