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.
Billy was a young boy throwing bricks
Running through town with his finger flipped
Crying inside for the love he missed
Kissing your face with his pale fist
He could fly he could fly
Lucy was a swimmer in her old school team
Cut through the water like a fish in a stream
But when she got home and
Heard her mother scream
She put her fingers in her
Ears and began to dream
She could fly she could fly
Closer, what do you say
It was all too much to bear
Closer, we’re not the same
It was not your pain to share
And I will never be a hero
But I can look you in the eye and try
And try and try
Emma was a shadow at the back of the class
Never saw her move, never heard her ask
Hiding from the words that had cut like glass
Hiding from your friends and
The way you laughed
She could fly she could fly
Closer, what do you say
It was all too much to bear
Closer, we’re not the same
It was not your pain to share
And I will never be a hero
But I can look you in the eye and try
And try and try
And one day they will need you
But you won’t need them then
And one day they will love you
But they are not your friends
They don’t know you like that
Closer, what do you say
It was all too much to bear
Closer, we’re not the same
It was not your pain to share
And I will never be a hero
But I can look you in the eye and try
And try and try
Running through town with his finger flipped
Crying inside for the love he missed
Kissing your face with his pale fist
He could fly he could fly
Lucy was a swimmer in her old school team
Cut through the water like a fish in a stream
But when she got home and
Heard her mother scream
She put her fingers in her
Ears and began to dream
She could fly she could fly
Closer, what do you say
It was all too much to bear
Closer, we’re not the same
It was not your pain to share
And I will never be a hero
But I can look you in the eye and try
And try and try
Emma was a shadow at the back of the class
Never saw her move, never heard her ask
Hiding from the words that had cut like glass
Hiding from your friends and
The way you laughed
She could fly she could fly
Closer, what do you say
It was all too much to bear
Closer, we’re not the same
It was not your pain to share
And I will never be a hero
But I can look you in the eye and try
And try and try
And one day they will need you
But you won’t need them then
And one day they will love you
But they are not your friends
They don’t know you like that
Closer, what do you say
It was all too much to bear
Closer, we’re not the same
It was not your pain to share
And I will never be a hero
But I can look you in the eye and try
And try and try
Lyrics submitted by iholdher
Fly Lyrics as written by Janie Price
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Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
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To me this song is about a girl named Closer (how it is sang in the chorus) that seems to be very indifferent towards the pain and sadness of people that are struggling (even in a very young age) and they have to make their own way through life with their own fists (Kyla sings about them in the verses). Closer judges those people for being different, for having their own world (there's a lyric saying "she/he could fly" which to me symbolizes that although they're damaged in some way, they still have something special about them, something that makes them who they are). She doesn't really care what stories are behind their actions and behaviour. In the bridge there’s some sort of a promise that says “And one day they will need you/ But you won’t need them then/ And one day they will love you/ But they are not your friends” which means that the position you’re in now doesn’t have to last forever and better times are about to come. And the people who were putting them down will suddenly be looking up to them.