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.
Baptized and salt skinned with bitten lips
I pass by all lost in the sketchy lead
Lines of bread crumbs retraced for the ride
Bathed in the blue light of perfect American nights
American nights
Funny ride, lovely night, song sets pace
Young lovers sing along through touched face
True love waits in shallow waters under darkened skies
Preying on handcuffed hands of solid plans and blacked out eyes
We're killing cowboys left and right again with guilty little trips
Recycled cans that gimme whiskey lips and dirty hands
And everybody's got a ribbon all of a sudden and a soapbox to stand
Alright
Starry-eyed and shitfaced on their planes, let's call the super models
And all of your fucking favourite bands and ask them just exactly what they've got planned
To save us from our own impeding doom
They were baptized, salt skinned, bitten lipped smiles
Bitten lipped smiles, all lost in
God, how you glow, oh God how you glow
Meet me here later and we'll make out
They were broke bones, paint chips
With bitten lip smiles, bitten lip smiles and soft heads
Oh Lord, how you shine, oh Lord how you shine
Meet me here later and we'll make out
(Are you ready?
Yeah, I'm ready.
Okay, let's go. One... two... three)
The last ones roll bowling balls right down 3rd street
Doing donuts through the front lawn
Keg in back seat, paint stained pants
Gas huff, make out, and bleed
Mr. Mouthful of bugs has pockets packed with popcorn seeds
It cost me nothing, cost me nothing, cost me nothing, cost me
Assholes all obsessed with spelling, sweaty, out of breath from yelling
Chase them up and down the ceiling
Fuck your bleeding heart
Take another twenty, buddy, all we need is murder money
Cheque
Swore I'd laugh at anything
They were baptized, salt skinned, with bitten lipped smiles
Bitten lipped smiles, all lost in
Oh God, how you glow, oh God how you glow
Meet me here later and we'll make out
They were broke bones, paint chips
With bitten lip smiles, bitten lip smiles and soft heads
Oh Lord, how you shine, oh Lord how you shine
Meet me here later and we'll make out
They were baptized, salt skinned, with bitten lipped smiles
Bitten lipped smiles, all lost in
Oh God, how you glow, oh God how you glow
Meet me here later and we'll make out
They were broke bones, paint chips
With bitten lip smiles, bitten lip smiles and soft heads
Oh Lord, how you shine, oh Lord how you shine
Meet me here later and we'll make out
I pass by all lost in the sketchy lead
Lines of bread crumbs retraced for the ride
Bathed in the blue light of perfect American nights
American nights
Funny ride, lovely night, song sets pace
Young lovers sing along through touched face
True love waits in shallow waters under darkened skies
Preying on handcuffed hands of solid plans and blacked out eyes
We're killing cowboys left and right again with guilty little trips
Recycled cans that gimme whiskey lips and dirty hands
And everybody's got a ribbon all of a sudden and a soapbox to stand
Alright
Starry-eyed and shitfaced on their planes, let's call the super models
And all of your fucking favourite bands and ask them just exactly what they've got planned
To save us from our own impeding doom
They were baptized, salt skinned, bitten lipped smiles
Bitten lipped smiles, all lost in
God, how you glow, oh God how you glow
Meet me here later and we'll make out
They were broke bones, paint chips
With bitten lip smiles, bitten lip smiles and soft heads
Oh Lord, how you shine, oh Lord how you shine
Meet me here later and we'll make out
(Are you ready?
Yeah, I'm ready.
Okay, let's go. One... two... three)
The last ones roll bowling balls right down 3rd street
Doing donuts through the front lawn
Keg in back seat, paint stained pants
Gas huff, make out, and bleed
Mr. Mouthful of bugs has pockets packed with popcorn seeds
It cost me nothing, cost me nothing, cost me nothing, cost me
Assholes all obsessed with spelling, sweaty, out of breath from yelling
Chase them up and down the ceiling
Fuck your bleeding heart
Take another twenty, buddy, all we need is murder money
Cheque
Swore I'd laugh at anything
They were baptized, salt skinned, with bitten lipped smiles
Bitten lipped smiles, all lost in
Oh God, how you glow, oh God how you glow
Meet me here later and we'll make out
They were broke bones, paint chips
With bitten lip smiles, bitten lip smiles and soft heads
Oh Lord, how you shine, oh Lord how you shine
Meet me here later and we'll make out
They were baptized, salt skinned, with bitten lipped smiles
Bitten lipped smiles, all lost in
Oh God, how you glow, oh God how you glow
Meet me here later and we'll make out
They were broke bones, paint chips
With bitten lip smiles, bitten lip smiles and soft heads
Oh Lord, how you shine, oh Lord how you shine
Meet me here later and we'll make out
Lyrics submitted by moonbounce, edited by TheSatah
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