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.
Batten down the hatches, the devil's got the wretched twitch
Send in the cold assassins with a blitzkrieg fever pitch
All eyes on you, hypnotic voodoo
An overnight sensation, isn't that what you wanted?
Global sodomy, earthly catastrophe
New world order, thy will be done
Starlight, star-bright, who we gonna kill tonight?
Vermin in the burrows? Hunters in the shadows?
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Sent to fight a rich man's war have come home cold and dead
In a forest of hanging bodies, we're feeding the trees
Blood, sweat and oil, and plastic apologies
Into the jaws of death! Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde!
Big war, big business, moral suicide
The worm has turned, your cities have burned
The sky is on fire, your children are dead
Starlight, starbright, who we gonna kill tonight?
Compassion to calm the empire, or fall the way of Rome
Bring your sons and daughters, your brothers and sisters home
Send in the cold assassins with a blitzkrieg fever pitch
All eyes on you, hypnotic voodoo
An overnight sensation, isn't that what you wanted?
Global sodomy, earthly catastrophe
New world order, thy will be done
Starlight, star-bright, who we gonna kill tonight?
Vermin in the burrows? Hunters in the shadows?
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Sent to fight a rich man's war have come home cold and dead
In a forest of hanging bodies, we're feeding the trees
Blood, sweat and oil, and plastic apologies
Into the jaws of death! Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde!
Big war, big business, moral suicide
The worm has turned, your cities have burned
The sky is on fire, your children are dead
Starlight, starbright, who we gonna kill tonight?
Compassion to calm the empire, or fall the way of Rome
Bring your sons and daughters, your brothers and sisters home
Lyrics submitted by GOLDTOOTH
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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