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.
I can't sing today, no voice in my head
Can spell out the words, now our love is dead
So if you hear it break, it breaks from the heart
It sounds like a song, but it isn't an art
No-body told me, to love her carefully
A happiness, well it fades it from kiss to kiss to kiss
Now defeat, stands over me
I hear her sweetly say, what you can't say
When you leave
From here I dispair, it's ugly and true
So much that it hurts, too much to show you
So this is the face, we're all the same
It cracks when I smile, and it bleeds in the rain
No-body told me, to love her carefully
The happiness, well it fades from kiss to kiss to kiss
Now defeat, stands over me
I hear her sweetly say, what you can't say
When you leave
Oh isn't it sad, oh, isn't it sad
My heart is screaming, look what you had
It may be she's waiting home and if she is
I'm going to tell her how much I miss her
Please, come back to me
I'll be your man and say
What you can't say
Cus I'm weak
Can spell out the words, now our love is dead
So if you hear it break, it breaks from the heart
It sounds like a song, but it isn't an art
No-body told me, to love her carefully
A happiness, well it fades it from kiss to kiss to kiss
Now defeat, stands over me
I hear her sweetly say, what you can't say
When you leave
From here I dispair, it's ugly and true
So much that it hurts, too much to show you
So this is the face, we're all the same
It cracks when I smile, and it bleeds in the rain
No-body told me, to love her carefully
The happiness, well it fades from kiss to kiss to kiss
Now defeat, stands over me
I hear her sweetly say, what you can't say
When you leave
Oh isn't it sad, oh, isn't it sad
My heart is screaming, look what you had
It may be she's waiting home and if she is
I'm going to tell her how much I miss her
Please, come back to me
I'll be your man and say
What you can't say
Cus I'm weak
Lyrics submitted by ricky9
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