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.
This sinking warmth through obscurity
Beyond the sweet in between where and what you're doing
There is a view of an uncharted place
Where you're the brunt of a joke and everyone's laughing
I am not who I seem, who you thought I could be
The support you could lean up against when you need
I'm the dark when you want, the lights out at all costs
This is mine, that is yours, I'm the bricks in your wall
Goodbye forever, my darling
Whether I was everything you thought I'd be or not
I was a bad man, oh, to stop you girl from loving me, oh oh
Goodbye forever, my darling
Whether I was everything you thought I'd be or not
I was a bad man, oh, to stop you girl from loving me, oh oh
A yearning loss to silence me
The struggle breaks the black and white, calling, transmitting
The echo breaks electric air
Her pulse, it stretches from never to everywhere
And from the other side she'll save me
Her courage, strength and heart beyond
I wish she'd stay mine
But her place is in some other time, oh oh
Goodbye forever, my darling
Whether I was everything you thought I'd be or not
I was a bad man, oh, to stop you girl from loving me, oh oh
Body separating, ascend and release
This tragedy is all my fault
Reaching desperately to salvage any piece
This tragedy is all my fault
This hurt won't, won't go away
This hurt won't, won't go away
This hurt won't, won't go away
This hurt won't, won't go away
This hurt won't, won't go away
This hurt won't, won't go away
This hurt won't, won't go away
This hurt won't, won't go away
And from the other side she'll save me
Her courage, strength and heart beyond
I wish she'd stay mine
But her place is in some other time, oh oh
Goodbye forever, my darling
Whether I was everything you thought I'd be or not
I was a bad man, oh, to stop you girl from loving me, oh oh
Goodbye forever, goodbye forever (you won't be forgotten)
Goodbye forever, goodbye forever (you won't be forgotten)
Goodbye forever, goodbye forever (you won't be forgotten)
Goodbye forever, goodbye forever (you won't be forgotten)
Beyond the sweet in between where and what you're doing
There is a view of an uncharted place
Where you're the brunt of a joke and everyone's laughing
I am not who I seem, who you thought I could be
The support you could lean up against when you need
I'm the dark when you want, the lights out at all costs
This is mine, that is yours, I'm the bricks in your wall
Goodbye forever, my darling
Whether I was everything you thought I'd be or not
I was a bad man, oh, to stop you girl from loving me, oh oh
Goodbye forever, my darling
Whether I was everything you thought I'd be or not
I was a bad man, oh, to stop you girl from loving me, oh oh
A yearning loss to silence me
The struggle breaks the black and white, calling, transmitting
The echo breaks electric air
Her pulse, it stretches from never to everywhere
And from the other side she'll save me
Her courage, strength and heart beyond
I wish she'd stay mine
But her place is in some other time, oh oh
Goodbye forever, my darling
Whether I was everything you thought I'd be or not
I was a bad man, oh, to stop you girl from loving me, oh oh
Body separating, ascend and release
This tragedy is all my fault
Reaching desperately to salvage any piece
This tragedy is all my fault
This hurt won't, won't go away
This hurt won't, won't go away
This hurt won't, won't go away
This hurt won't, won't go away
This hurt won't, won't go away
This hurt won't, won't go away
This hurt won't, won't go away
This hurt won't, won't go away
And from the other side she'll save me
Her courage, strength and heart beyond
I wish she'd stay mine
But her place is in some other time, oh oh
Goodbye forever, my darling
Whether I was everything you thought I'd be or not
I was a bad man, oh, to stop you girl from loving me, oh oh
Goodbye forever, goodbye forever (you won't be forgotten)
Goodbye forever, goodbye forever (you won't be forgotten)
Goodbye forever, goodbye forever (you won't be forgotten)
Goodbye forever, goodbye forever (you won't be forgotten)
Lyrics submitted by Bskiffington, edited by tailsdeveraux, Tilet, innominata
Key Entity Extraction IV: Evagria the Faithful Lyrics as written by Claudio Sanchez
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