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.
Pleased to meet you, pleased to have you on my plate
Your meat is sweet to me
Your destiny
Your fate
you?re my life support, your life is my sport
I?m a man-eating machine X2
you won?t hear me laughing, as I terminate your day
You can?t trace my footsteps, as I walk the other way
I can?t get enough prey, pray for me X2
(i?m a man-eating machine)
Corporate cannibal, digital criminal
Corporate cannibal, eat you like an animal
employer of the year, grandmaster of fear
My blood flows satanical,
Mechanical, masonical and chemical
Habitual ritual
i?m a man-eating machine.. X2
I deal in the market, every man, woman and child is a target
A closet full of faceless nameless pay more for less empitness
i?ll make you scrounge, in my executive lounge
You pay less tax, but i?ll gain more back
my rules, you fools
we can play the money game
Greedgame, power game, stay insane
Lost in the cell, in this hell
Slave to the rhythm of the corporate prison
i?m a man-eating machine?
I can?t get enough prey
Pray for me
Corporate cannibal?
Digital criminal?
i?ll consume my consumers, with no sense of humour
I?ll give you a uniform, chloroform
Sanatize, homogenize, vaporize? you
i?m the spark, make the world explode
I?m a man-eating machine, i?ll make the world explode
Corporate cannibal?
Your meat is sweet to me
Your destiny
Your fate
you?re my life support, your life is my sport
I?m a man-eating machine X2
you won?t hear me laughing, as I terminate your day
You can?t trace my footsteps, as I walk the other way
I can?t get enough prey, pray for me X2
(i?m a man-eating machine)
Corporate cannibal, digital criminal
Corporate cannibal, eat you like an animal
employer of the year, grandmaster of fear
My blood flows satanical,
Mechanical, masonical and chemical
Habitual ritual
i?m a man-eating machine.. X2
I deal in the market, every man, woman and child is a target
A closet full of faceless nameless pay more for less empitness
i?ll make you scrounge, in my executive lounge
You pay less tax, but i?ll gain more back
my rules, you fools
we can play the money game
Greedgame, power game, stay insane
Lost in the cell, in this hell
Slave to the rhythm of the corporate prison
i?m a man-eating machine?
I can?t get enough prey
Pray for me
Corporate cannibal?
Digital criminal?
i?ll consume my consumers, with no sense of humour
I?ll give you a uniform, chloroform
Sanatize, homogenize, vaporize? you
i?m the spark, make the world explode
I?m a man-eating machine, i?ll make the world explode
Corporate cannibal?
Lyrics submitted by hundredskies
Corporate Cannibal Lyrics as written by Ivor Guest
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Songtrust Ave, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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