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.
So we've reach the fatal shore
Some have gained where some have suffered
Though our quest wants for always more
We only took from those we conquered
Back to ground - Choose a mind the wheels of time always go
Round and round
Back to ground - So we sell the little tales the story will
Round and round
So we made a battlefield
We mixed our blood as perfect strangers
This was life and it's so very real
With his needs we're the losers' dangers
Back to ground - So we sell the little tales the story will
Round and round
Round and round
Round and round
Hey - We still oppress the people and our chromosomes come raining down
Raining down
Raining down
As the waters starts to raise - hey we realize
So we've reached the city walls
Where the last poor fool spluttered
He said:
Though my children never knew
They served their purpose like the others
Round and round
Round and round
Hey - We still oppress the people and our chromosomes come raining down
Raining down
Raining down
Carrying the fatal four
Back to ground
Round and round
Round and round
Swimming to the fatal shore
Round and round and round...
Carry it to the fatal shore...
So we've reached the city walls
So we've reached the fatal shore
We made blood our battlefield
The quest is forever more
Carrying the fatal four...
Swimming to the fatal shore...
Some have gained where some have suffered
Though our quest wants for always more
We only took from those we conquered
Back to ground - Choose a mind the wheels of time always go
Round and round
Back to ground - So we sell the little tales the story will
Round and round
So we made a battlefield
We mixed our blood as perfect strangers
This was life and it's so very real
With his needs we're the losers' dangers
Back to ground - So we sell the little tales the story will
Round and round
Round and round
Round and round
Hey - We still oppress the people and our chromosomes come raining down
Raining down
Raining down
As the waters starts to raise - hey we realize
So we've reached the city walls
Where the last poor fool spluttered
He said:
Though my children never knew
They served their purpose like the others
Round and round
Round and round
Hey - We still oppress the people and our chromosomes come raining down
Raining down
Raining down
Carrying the fatal four
Back to ground
Round and round
Round and round
Swimming to the fatal shore
Round and round and round...
Carry it to the fatal shore...
So we've reached the city walls
So we've reached the fatal shore
We made blood our battlefield
The quest is forever more
Carrying the fatal four...
Swimming to the fatal shore...
Lyrics submitted by Asuyuka
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Fortnight
Taylor Swift
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Hayalperest
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This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
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Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
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Ed Sheeran
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