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.
lets say for arts sake
we killed ourselves tonight
in our dreams we could live forever
immortalized in our beauty
don't say i didn't warn you, beauty can be reversed
expose to me, the heart stings deep within
until it bleeds
for one day of beauty
you pinned your hopes, upon the mirror and now it cuts your skin
shattered by your own reflection
do you recall your own fucking face
she looked so beautiful, fashioned in her own despair
a fitting end to fashion
her source of suicide
beneath the veil of make up, your soul has slowly died
an endless wave of martyrs, dressed in a sea of black
to serenade the serpents, this scene has turned its back
feel this shatter
to the ground
your misfortunes i resound
so clean yourself up bitch
the fragments you savour
are barely held together
your basis for reason, compounded by the seasons
i suffered the arrows, your heart a formless shadow
beneath the lies, your wings have been dissected
from this fashion, the dead arise
and with its failure, we breath new life.
we killed ourselves tonight
in our dreams we could live forever
immortalized in our beauty
don't say i didn't warn you, beauty can be reversed
expose to me, the heart stings deep within
until it bleeds
for one day of beauty
you pinned your hopes, upon the mirror and now it cuts your skin
shattered by your own reflection
do you recall your own fucking face
she looked so beautiful, fashioned in her own despair
a fitting end to fashion
her source of suicide
beneath the veil of make up, your soul has slowly died
an endless wave of martyrs, dressed in a sea of black
to serenade the serpents, this scene has turned its back
feel this shatter
to the ground
your misfortunes i resound
so clean yourself up bitch
the fragments you savour
are barely held together
your basis for reason, compounded by the seasons
i suffered the arrows, your heart a formless shadow
beneath the lies, your wings have been dissected
from this fashion, the dead arise
and with its failure, we breath new life.
Lyrics submitted by KillRyanDead
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Lyrics straight off of the Myspace profile (only i fixed their misspelled words) tell me what you think