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.
featuring Noreaga
[Noreaga]
Yeah yeah
Niggaz is travellin everywhere word up
I perform in the South
You know I put on _Fish'N'Grits_ and shit like that ya heard?
Word up; I perform in the West I put on..
_Ain't Nuttin Like a Sunny Day in Cali For Ni A_ ya heard?
I'm on the East I'm rockin _T.O.N.Y._
In the Midwest I put on a little No Limit or some shit like that
Word is bond
Chorus: Crooked Lettaz
We got that firewater (WHAT?)
y'all want that water-water (WHAT?)
We got that firewater (WHAT?)
y'all want that water-water (WHAT?)
We got that firewater (WHAT?)
y'all want that water-water (WHAT?)
We got that firewater WHAT?
We got that firewater WHAT?
[Noreaga]
Yo, yo
Yo I'msa gangsta, so y'all niggaz, know that I mask
I smoke, mad weed, while I drink a V-8 splash
Niggaz, fuck with me, and you will get smashed
I'm gettin, head in the whip, and I won't even crash
I'm sayin, niggaz don't fuck no mo', all we get is head
Niggaz don't play with bread and butter, all we count is bread
My niggaz from, Mississipp-I, still get high
Off the water-water, slangin quarter-quarter
across the border border, Seargeant Slaughter Slaughter
My Down South niggaz, yo we got mad game
And we both, from the ghetto, so we kick it the same
You call your weed chronic, we call our weed hydro
You call your shit doja, we call out shit gamble
From the Calliope to Iraq, we still get dough
We call a, bitch is a bitch, and a hoe is a hoe
Penalty the label, in New York, we on cable
Chorus
[Crooked Lettaz 1]
Check it out
Basically, you silly niggaz ain't facin me
I turn my back and then you chase me hate me daily
And you attempt to limp like youse a pimp
but youse a shrimp, you can't play me
See we the brothers with the hot tracks
Puttin butter on the hot wax
You want to ball with the top cats
Well you talk about fat gats
You can't rap nigga stop that, got that
You want to act like you cock back
Couldn't hold a nigga jockstrap
We can take it to the streets when the party people meet
tell the niggaz take a seat take a beat and cold rock that
back to the M-I, mill'n-dol'-mill'n-dol'-I
mill'n-dol'-mill'n-dol'-I, humpback, humpback
Watch a nigga jump back, dead I
Spittin that upon the red eye, flyin to the N.Y.
Niggaz high from coast to coast
Keepin it close, put it in a post
E.T. the coach, niggaz want to be me the most
You boast and brag and sport the sag
cause I dope rhyme, niggaz never want to quote rhymes
Try to bite and then you choke rhyme
Rollin up a smoke rhyme
Comin out with your wrote rhyme
Ain't nuttin but some broke rhymes
Me I got the right rhymes, always comin out tight rhymes
Break a nigga see the light rhymes
want to fight rhymes? Naw nigga not tonight rhymes
Get your girl I just might rhyme
And the story go, for the thugs even Nore know
the gory flow, can't be faded
Prayed it down, laid it down, and I'm gone
Take double-steps turn around and show em
Chorus
[Crooked Lettaz 2]
Now it's that Crooked Letta hot shit
Old block rockin locked quick
Rhymes shined with hot spit
y'all speak about shine I write rhymes
then I burn clicks, and give em this
Your platinum plaque's counterfeit
You shipped gold, is what I was told
Your airplay was BOUGHT hits
Payola Motorala cell phones
where you spent all these ends, then he's gone
in the wind POOF, ain't no PROOF, a super sleuth
couldn't find his shoes
I wrap heads, like bad news
And bust bass and blow a fuse
Then I move to Baton Rouge like, Snoop on the move
I'm like Megatron, an underground rap shit phenomenon
I blow up in my Prime (and after that?)
Then I move to Cybertron, with Omega Supreme
But it seems that I gotta sit back and pray (back and pray)
to God that these niggaz won't take me away (why?)
I say it seems that I gotta sit back and pray
to God that these niggaz won't take me away
Chorus
[Noreaga]
Firewater HUH?
You see them niggaz bouncin
want to see them niggaz BOUNCIN
want to see them niggaz BOUNCIN!!
Sittin on whatever y'all fuckin niggaz sittin on
That chrome shit HUH?
Seventeen inch shit
Twenty inch shit
Twenty-two inch shit
Fuck that shit, let the shit glisten
Let the shit GLISTEN
Let the shit GLISTEN!! HUH?
Let the shit glisten! HUH?
If y'all niggaz ain't got a car wash
y'all niggaz need to go Uptown right now
and get your shit washed
And get the inside done up, you feel?
You feel me?
Get that inside done up
Make sure your speakers is blowin
Cause if the shit is at a low level
It ain't even penetratin
Turn the shit the fuck up, HUH?
Thugged Out, Crooked Lettaz, what the fuck is up?
Turn shit the fuck up!
[Noreaga]
Yeah yeah
Niggaz is travellin everywhere word up
I perform in the South
You know I put on _Fish'N'Grits_ and shit like that ya heard?
Word up; I perform in the West I put on..
_Ain't Nuttin Like a Sunny Day in Cali For Ni A_ ya heard?
I'm on the East I'm rockin _T.O.N.Y._
In the Midwest I put on a little No Limit or some shit like that
Word is bond
Chorus: Crooked Lettaz
We got that firewater (WHAT?)
y'all want that water-water (WHAT?)
We got that firewater (WHAT?)
y'all want that water-water (WHAT?)
We got that firewater (WHAT?)
y'all want that water-water (WHAT?)
We got that firewater WHAT?
We got that firewater WHAT?
[Noreaga]
Yo, yo
Yo I'msa gangsta, so y'all niggaz, know that I mask
I smoke, mad weed, while I drink a V-8 splash
Niggaz, fuck with me, and you will get smashed
I'm gettin, head in the whip, and I won't even crash
I'm sayin, niggaz don't fuck no mo', all we get is head
Niggaz don't play with bread and butter, all we count is bread
My niggaz from, Mississipp-I, still get high
Off the water-water, slangin quarter-quarter
across the border border, Seargeant Slaughter Slaughter
My Down South niggaz, yo we got mad game
And we both, from the ghetto, so we kick it the same
You call your weed chronic, we call our weed hydro
You call your shit doja, we call out shit gamble
From the Calliope to Iraq, we still get dough
We call a, bitch is a bitch, and a hoe is a hoe
Penalty the label, in New York, we on cable
Chorus
[Crooked Lettaz 1]
Check it out
Basically, you silly niggaz ain't facin me
I turn my back and then you chase me hate me daily
And you attempt to limp like youse a pimp
but youse a shrimp, you can't play me
See we the brothers with the hot tracks
Puttin butter on the hot wax
You want to ball with the top cats
Well you talk about fat gats
You can't rap nigga stop that, got that
You want to act like you cock back
Couldn't hold a nigga jockstrap
We can take it to the streets when the party people meet
tell the niggaz take a seat take a beat and cold rock that
back to the M-I, mill'n-dol'-mill'n-dol'-I
mill'n-dol'-mill'n-dol'-I, humpback, humpback
Watch a nigga jump back, dead I
Spittin that upon the red eye, flyin to the N.Y.
Niggaz high from coast to coast
Keepin it close, put it in a post
E.T. the coach, niggaz want to be me the most
You boast and brag and sport the sag
cause I dope rhyme, niggaz never want to quote rhymes
Try to bite and then you choke rhyme
Rollin up a smoke rhyme
Comin out with your wrote rhyme
Ain't nuttin but some broke rhymes
Me I got the right rhymes, always comin out tight rhymes
Break a nigga see the light rhymes
want to fight rhymes? Naw nigga not tonight rhymes
Get your girl I just might rhyme
And the story go, for the thugs even Nore know
the gory flow, can't be faded
Prayed it down, laid it down, and I'm gone
Take double-steps turn around and show em
Chorus
[Crooked Lettaz 2]
Now it's that Crooked Letta hot shit
Old block rockin locked quick
Rhymes shined with hot spit
y'all speak about shine I write rhymes
then I burn clicks, and give em this
Your platinum plaque's counterfeit
You shipped gold, is what I was told
Your airplay was BOUGHT hits
Payola Motorala cell phones
where you spent all these ends, then he's gone
in the wind POOF, ain't no PROOF, a super sleuth
couldn't find his shoes
I wrap heads, like bad news
And bust bass and blow a fuse
Then I move to Baton Rouge like, Snoop on the move
I'm like Megatron, an underground rap shit phenomenon
I blow up in my Prime (and after that?)
Then I move to Cybertron, with Omega Supreme
But it seems that I gotta sit back and pray (back and pray)
to God that these niggaz won't take me away (why?)
I say it seems that I gotta sit back and pray
to God that these niggaz won't take me away
Chorus
[Noreaga]
Firewater HUH?
You see them niggaz bouncin
want to see them niggaz BOUNCIN
want to see them niggaz BOUNCIN!!
Sittin on whatever y'all fuckin niggaz sittin on
That chrome shit HUH?
Seventeen inch shit
Twenty inch shit
Twenty-two inch shit
Fuck that shit, let the shit glisten
Let the shit GLISTEN
Let the shit GLISTEN!! HUH?
Let the shit glisten! HUH?
If y'all niggaz ain't got a car wash
y'all niggaz need to go Uptown right now
and get your shit washed
And get the inside done up, you feel?
You feel me?
Get that inside done up
Make sure your speakers is blowin
Cause if the shit is at a low level
It ain't even penetratin
Turn the shit the fuck up, HUH?
Thugged Out, Crooked Lettaz, what the fuck is up?
Turn shit the fuck up!
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Fire Water [Bonus Track] Lyrics as written by Woodrow Sparrow Ronald Bell
Lyrics © Raleigh Music Publishing LLC, BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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