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.
In the heat of the fight I walked away
Ignoring words that you were saying
Trying to make me stay
I said this time I've had enough
And you've called a hundred times
But I'm not picking up
'Cause I'm so mad I might tell you that it's over
But if you look a little closer
I said leave but all I really want is you
To stand outside my window throwing pebbles
Screaming, "I'm in love with you"
Wait there in the pouring rain, coming back for more
And don't you leave 'cause I know
All I need is on the other side of the door
Well, me and my stupid pride are sitting here alone
Going through the photographs, staring at the phone
I keep going back over things we both said
And I remember the slamming door
And all the things that I misread
So babe, if you know everything
Tell me why you couldn't see
When I left I wanted you to chase after me
Yeah, I said leave, but all I really want is you
To stand outside my window throwing pebbles
Screaming, "I'm in love with you"
Wait there in the pouring rain, coming back for more
And don't you leave 'cause I know
All I need is on the other side of the door
And I'll scream out the window
I can't even look at you
I don't need you but I do, I do, I do
I say there's nothing you can say
To make this right again
I mean it, I mean it, but what I mean is
I said leave, but baby all I want is you
To stand outside my window throwing pebbles
Screaming, "I'm in love with you"
Wait there in the pouring rain, coming back for more
And don't you leave 'cause I know
All I need is on the other side of the door
With your face and the beautiful eyes
And the conversation with the little white lies
And the faded picture of a beautiful night
You carry me from your car up the stairs
And I broke down crying, was she worth this mess?
After everything and that little black dress
After everything I must confess, I need you
Ignoring words that you were saying
Trying to make me stay
I said this time I've had enough
And you've called a hundred times
But I'm not picking up
'Cause I'm so mad I might tell you that it's over
But if you look a little closer
I said leave but all I really want is you
To stand outside my window throwing pebbles
Screaming, "I'm in love with you"
Wait there in the pouring rain, coming back for more
And don't you leave 'cause I know
All I need is on the other side of the door
Well, me and my stupid pride are sitting here alone
Going through the photographs, staring at the phone
I keep going back over things we both said
And I remember the slamming door
And all the things that I misread
So babe, if you know everything
Tell me why you couldn't see
When I left I wanted you to chase after me
Yeah, I said leave, but all I really want is you
To stand outside my window throwing pebbles
Screaming, "I'm in love with you"
Wait there in the pouring rain, coming back for more
And don't you leave 'cause I know
All I need is on the other side of the door
And I'll scream out the window
I can't even look at you
I don't need you but I do, I do, I do
I say there's nothing you can say
To make this right again
I mean it, I mean it, but what I mean is
I said leave, but baby all I want is you
To stand outside my window throwing pebbles
Screaming, "I'm in love with you"
Wait there in the pouring rain, coming back for more
And don't you leave 'cause I know
All I need is on the other side of the door
With your face and the beautiful eyes
And the conversation with the little white lies
And the faded picture of a beautiful night
You carry me from your car up the stairs
And I broke down crying, was she worth this mess?
After everything and that little black dress
After everything I must confess, I need you
Lyrics submitted by someowlsgo
The Other Side of the Door Lyrics as written by Taylor Swift
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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I get from this song that she saw him with another girl and missunderstood the situation which caused tham to fight so she just walked away in the middle of their fight ignoring what he was saying because she was so mad. She feels like she has had enough and wants to give up on him but then looks at things more closely. She tells him to leave but wants him to see passed that and stand outside her window throwing pebbles saying he loves her. "Me and my stupid pride are sitting here alone going through the photographs, staring at the phone" .. This line says that how she got the wrong idea about the other girl so was left sitting alone with no one else to blame but herself and how shes waiting for him to call her. Shes sitting alone thionking of what eac of them said to each other when they were fighting, and how she misread everything. "I don't need you, but I do, I do, I do"... she wants to believe she doesn't need him but does. In the last verse shes thinking back of a certain moment in their relationship. She wonders if this other girl really was worth all this fighting and finally admits she does in fact need him!