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.
I can remember the good old days
When you and me used to hide away
Where the stars were shining or the sun was blinding our eyes
Yeah you filled up my glass
With promises that could never last
But I still find pieces of you in the back of my mind
And all of the things that we once said
Are not in my heart, they're in my head
That was the time to say goodbye
Let's put it to rest yeah, let it die
'Cause we don't, we don't need to talk about this now
Yeah we've been down that road before
That was then and this is now
The crowds in my heart they've been calling out your name
Now it just don't feel the same
Guess it's over, yeah we're done
I heard you made your way downtown
To the place that I've been hanging around
I was looking for your face in the crowd
But trying to keep my head down
Over time our wires crossed
Well you changed and truth got lost
All the things I would change if we could only rewind
You were a moment in life that comes and goes
A riddle, a rhyme that no one knows
A change of a heart, a twist of fate
Couldn't fix it, it's too late
'Cause we don't, we don't need to talk about this now
Yeah we've been down that road before
That was then and this is now
The crowds in my heart they've been calling out your name
But it just don't feel the same
I guess it's over, yeah we're done
Whoa, oh oh oh
We don't, we don't need to talk about this now
We don't, we don't need to talk about this now
We don't, we don't need to talk about this now
We don't, we don't need to talk about this now
When you and me used to hide away
Where the stars were shining or the sun was blinding our eyes
Yeah you filled up my glass
With promises that could never last
But I still find pieces of you in the back of my mind
And all of the things that we once said
Are not in my heart, they're in my head
That was the time to say goodbye
Let's put it to rest yeah, let it die
'Cause we don't, we don't need to talk about this now
Yeah we've been down that road before
That was then and this is now
The crowds in my heart they've been calling out your name
Now it just don't feel the same
Guess it's over, yeah we're done
I heard you made your way downtown
To the place that I've been hanging around
I was looking for your face in the crowd
But trying to keep my head down
Over time our wires crossed
Well you changed and truth got lost
All the things I would change if we could only rewind
You were a moment in life that comes and goes
A riddle, a rhyme that no one knows
A change of a heart, a twist of fate
Couldn't fix it, it's too late
'Cause we don't, we don't need to talk about this now
Yeah we've been down that road before
That was then and this is now
The crowds in my heart they've been calling out your name
But it just don't feel the same
I guess it's over, yeah we're done
Whoa, oh oh oh
We don't, we don't need to talk about this now
We don't, we don't need to talk about this now
We don't, we don't need to talk about this now
We don't, we don't need to talk about this now
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Fortnight
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Just A Little Lovin'
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Dusty Springfield
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Amazing
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This song is about a Man reflecting on either a past relationship or a recent break up.
There's nothing left for them to discuss with their relationship. Both of them have been through this before and everything that could possibly be said or talked about has already been discussed. He's simply reflecting on the relationship with himself.
He loves her but now he truly sees how things are and is using his head and not just his heart. He can now see all the promises, talks and things between them for what they truly are. They no longer hold the same value that they once did and he sees them for what they really are.
He still thinks about her and and looks for her amongst the crowds. However at the same time, he doesn't really want to see her anymore so he tries to avoid any physical meetings.
Somewhere along the way she changed and he realizes this now but he still wonders if he he could rewind to the beginning to stop that change.
In the end he accepts that they're done, there's nothing left to talk about because they've been through it all before. She's one of those people in your life that come and go, despite his love for her he's accepted that.
Once you accept that there's nothing you can do to change a situation there's little that word's can fix, there's nothing to talk about.
Beautiful intrepretation, beautifully written and explained.