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.
Please, sister, wake me up
You've traveled far
Release my mind
Sing this song of mine
Save me from drowning
Quick, cast your spell on me
I sense you're finally getting near
Can you hear me crying?
I've got to break the silence
I know they're out there
Play hide and seek
Watching
My love is wasted
My worst dreams
I can't leave them
I'm the black queen
Here in barren lands
When you walk down
You may not find relief
Will you go down there
I wonder, wonder why
Here on this road of no release
Pale reign of misery
That even time cannot erase
On through my sorrows
Life will go on
Words and dreams unite
I hear an ancient voice
It's calling for me
When death and life collide
I hear an ancient song
Deep inside
I can't find myself
Can't remember at all
The past and my strange end
Come guide me now
Can't remember my fall
There's something
There's someone
It ain't over now
The void, there's more to it
It's real and still alive
I will find you
Slipping away
I'll blind you
Still I coquer the world
Take him away
Here on this road of no release
Pale reign of misery
That even time cannot erase
On through my sorrows
Life will go on
My last steps
Can't leave her
I, the old fox
Will take revenge
I cannot heal your fear and doubts
The void, it waits for us
Still, after all the ghosts are howling
You cannot run, you cannot hide
The void, it waits for us
Still, after all there is no choice
Here on this road of no release
Pale reign of misery
That even time cannot erase
On through my sorrows
Life will go on
Find me, I'm drowning
Then once again
There's nothing left I fear
There's nothing more to say
And no more games to play
To play
You've traveled far
Release my mind
Sing this song of mine
Save me from drowning
Quick, cast your spell on me
I sense you're finally getting near
Can you hear me crying?
I've got to break the silence
I know they're out there
Play hide and seek
Watching
My love is wasted
My worst dreams
I can't leave them
I'm the black queen
Here in barren lands
When you walk down
You may not find relief
Will you go down there
I wonder, wonder why
Here on this road of no release
Pale reign of misery
That even time cannot erase
On through my sorrows
Life will go on
Words and dreams unite
I hear an ancient voice
It's calling for me
When death and life collide
I hear an ancient song
Deep inside
I can't find myself
Can't remember at all
The past and my strange end
Come guide me now
Can't remember my fall
There's something
There's someone
It ain't over now
The void, there's more to it
It's real and still alive
I will find you
Slipping away
I'll blind you
Still I coquer the world
Take him away
Here on this road of no release
Pale reign of misery
That even time cannot erase
On through my sorrows
Life will go on
My last steps
Can't leave her
I, the old fox
Will take revenge
I cannot heal your fear and doubts
The void, it waits for us
Still, after all the ghosts are howling
You cannot run, you cannot hide
The void, it waits for us
Still, after all there is no choice
Here on this road of no release
Pale reign of misery
That even time cannot erase
On through my sorrows
Life will go on
Find me, I'm drowning
Then once again
There's nothing left I fear
There's nothing more to say
And no more games to play
To play
Lyrics submitted by revanchist
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