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.
Man, oh, man
My hands in the plans
Fan of the man
Sands in the plans
I'm at home
On my own
Gone and flown
A home's a home
Ren the Hoak
And other folk
Soaked and soaked
By their joke
Hey, hey, Joe, Joe
Whatcha know, whatcha know?
Hey, hey, Joe, Joe
Whatcha know, whatcha know?
Push and push
The level of the tone
A bone's a bone
A moan's a moan
What's next, what's next?
Who knows not those?
Bear it wear it
Live it or die it
Hearts that bleed
Hearts that need
Need and need
Bleed and bleed
Toke and toke
The smokin' toke
Smokin' Joe, he know
Smokin' Joe, he know
Hit after hit
My fuck's not fit
To sit and sit
And follow that shit
On my own
My brain's my home
I'm alone you're alone
I'm alone we're alone
Push and push
The level of the tone
A bone's a bone
A moan's a moan
What's next, what's next?
Who knows not those?
Bear it wear it
Live it or die it
There's no glove
There's no love
Push to shove
No glove no love
Safety first
Safely thirst
Skirt the hurt
That ignorance flirts
Go to bed
Cover your head
Cover your head
Or end up dead
Cover you heard
Or end up dead
Cover your head
Or end up dead
Man on man
My hands in the plans
Fan of the man
Sands in the plans
I'm at home
On my own
Gone and flown
A home's a home
Ren the Hoak
Another bloke
Soaked and soaked
By the joke
Hey, hey, John K
Watcha say, watcha say?
Hey, hey, Joe, Joe
Watcha know, watcha know?
My hands in the plans
Fan of the man
Sands in the plans
I'm at home
On my own
Gone and flown
A home's a home
Ren the Hoak
And other folk
Soaked and soaked
By their joke
Hey, hey, Joe, Joe
Whatcha know, whatcha know?
Hey, hey, Joe, Joe
Whatcha know, whatcha know?
Push and push
The level of the tone
A bone's a bone
A moan's a moan
What's next, what's next?
Who knows not those?
Bear it wear it
Live it or die it
Hearts that bleed
Hearts that need
Need and need
Bleed and bleed
Toke and toke
The smokin' toke
Smokin' Joe, he know
Smokin' Joe, he know
Hit after hit
My fuck's not fit
To sit and sit
And follow that shit
On my own
My brain's my home
I'm alone you're alone
I'm alone we're alone
Push and push
The level of the tone
A bone's a bone
A moan's a moan
What's next, what's next?
Who knows not those?
Bear it wear it
Live it or die it
There's no glove
There's no love
Push to shove
No glove no love
Safety first
Safely thirst
Skirt the hurt
That ignorance flirts
Go to bed
Cover your head
Cover your head
Or end up dead
Cover you heard
Or end up dead
Cover your head
Or end up dead
Man on man
My hands in the plans
Fan of the man
Sands in the plans
I'm at home
On my own
Gone and flown
A home's a home
Ren the Hoak
Another bloke
Soaked and soaked
By the joke
Hey, hey, John K
Watcha say, watcha say?
Hey, hey, Joe, Joe
Watcha know, watcha know?
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
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"Some and now none of you"
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I thought K stands for Kent. This is in Ohio where the band is from and where their home is. <a href="dissertationwriter.org/">dissertationwriter.org/</a>