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.
Time!
Has come to wash our shame away
To erase the image of defeat
We!
Have licked our wounds, restored our strength
And our vengeance will be oh so sweet
They thought they had us down
That we'd never rise again
They will learn that they were deadly wrong
What's owed will be repaid
Again we'll feed the wolves
And then vengeance will be ours
We'll split their skulls and spill their guts
Upon the frozen ground
Yeah, we'll never kneel again
Not to deity nor men
Now they'll taste our bitter hate
What's owed will be repaid
So raise the flag once more
And the eagle will be fed
Once again we march to war
For victory or death
They arrived with talk of hvitekrist
By force they wanted us to kneel
With their swords held to our throats they preached
But we will make them pay we'll take their lives away
So Raise!
Raise the flag once more
In the east the eagle will be fed
March!
Again we march to war
We will march for victory or death
Pain!
The pain and suffering
Is but a bleak and distant fading dream
Shame!
Our disgrace; a withering thought
Finally our names will be redeemed
Has come to wash our shame away
To erase the image of defeat
We!
Have licked our wounds, restored our strength
And our vengeance will be oh so sweet
They thought they had us down
That we'd never rise again
They will learn that they were deadly wrong
What's owed will be repaid
Again we'll feed the wolves
And then vengeance will be ours
We'll split their skulls and spill their guts
Upon the frozen ground
Yeah, we'll never kneel again
Not to deity nor men
Now they'll taste our bitter hate
What's owed will be repaid
So raise the flag once more
And the eagle will be fed
Once again we march to war
For victory or death
They arrived with talk of hvitekrist
By force they wanted us to kneel
With their swords held to our throats they preached
But we will make them pay we'll take their lives away
So Raise!
Raise the flag once more
In the east the eagle will be fed
March!
Again we march to war
We will march for victory or death
Pain!
The pain and suffering
Is but a bleak and distant fading dream
Shame!
Our disgrace; a withering thought
Finally our names will be redeemed
Lyrics submitted by VoiceOfTheSoul
For Victory Or Death Lyrics as written by Olavi Mikkonen Ted Oscar Lundstroem
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This song goes along with Amon Amarth's theme of the Pagan "vikings" turning on the Christians (Romans at the time) who forced them to convert from the year 350 onwards, more than 1000 years ago. Hvitekrist is norwegian for "white christ" or more accurately, Jesus Christ. The line: "They arrived with talk of hvitekrist By force they wanted us to kneel" describes the violence that took place during this conversion.
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