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.
If the throttle is pulled
Back to burn through the fuel
And the mix is just right
But the speed is too cruel
Then even the strongest
Will slowly burn into ashes
In the atmosphere
When you burn too fast
If you give it too much gas
Wave goodbye to it all
Oh how the mighty fall
Oh how the truth may slip
Tied to the breaking mast
When you burn too fast
Oh, you'll pay it in blood
That kerosene fuels the evil flame
Where they've forgotten your name
And you'll never last
And you'll die very young
When you burn too fast
And the promises,
They may or may not have made
Are just the needles sticking into your veins
Pumping all of their sick lies into you
Until you're stupid enough
To look the other way
When you burn too fast
When you walk that plank
When the stench gets rank
When their knuckles dig so deep in your back
You just turn the crank
It's when they bury you
They never cared for you
Just that you burn too fast
When they've bled you dry
And they cast you aside
Then they'll put out their hands to be friends
Like they never lied
When the last light glides
And you wave goodbye.
Back to burn through the fuel
And the mix is just right
But the speed is too cruel
Then even the strongest
Will slowly burn into ashes
In the atmosphere
When you burn too fast
If you give it too much gas
Wave goodbye to it all
Oh how the mighty fall
Oh how the truth may slip
Tied to the breaking mast
When you burn too fast
Oh, you'll pay it in blood
That kerosene fuels the evil flame
Where they've forgotten your name
And you'll never last
And you'll die very young
When you burn too fast
And the promises,
They may or may not have made
Are just the needles sticking into your veins
Pumping all of their sick lies into you
Until you're stupid enough
To look the other way
When you burn too fast
When you walk that plank
When the stench gets rank
When their knuckles dig so deep in your back
You just turn the crank
It's when they bury you
They never cared for you
Just that you burn too fast
When they've bled you dry
And they cast you aside
Then they'll put out their hands to be friends
Like they never lied
When the last light glides
And you wave goodbye.
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Fortnight
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