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.
The fields weep with blood
Force feed them socialism
leaderships in executions
"to keep you is no benefit"
"to destroy you is no loss"
now behold its incarnation
arbitrary murderous legion
Skilled in death and human affliction
let the misery begin!
witness the degradation
Bodies pave the way
leading to decimation
Bloodied and broken
On your knees praying for god
tremble in horror as hope is lost
close your eyes, You'll still hear them cry
Forgotten and buried, together you lie
Mass graves and nameless corpses
are screaming with no voices
Torture and mutilation
murdered with no compassion
young and old alike lie prostrate
Shot dead with their limbs dissevered
alive or dead, no matter
children of the killing fields
Numb to the agony
soulless vessel's
rape,kill,torment,butcher
and slaughter one another
Bones exposed
protruding beneath the soil
women,children
raped,killed,maimed and tortured
their lives now bleed your color, red
witness the degradation
Bodies pave the way
leading to decimation
Bloodied and broken
On your knees praying for god
tremble in horror as hope is lost
close your eyes, You'll still hear them cry
another casualty of mass genocide
Lying lifeless feigning your death
over bodies,crawl from your own
the stench of flesh
the fear of death
corpses fall in waves
timeless woe engraved
skeletal remains
reminders of such days
Grief still stricken life
begging for your life,for god
you press your palms in prayer
your knees now bend, you break
your marching to your end
praying for the hand of god
you witness genocide
their profane pleading cries
now silent in their grave
Force feed them socialism
leaderships in executions
"to keep you is no benefit"
"to destroy you is no loss"
now behold its incarnation
arbitrary murderous legion
Skilled in death and human affliction
let the misery begin!
witness the degradation
Bodies pave the way
leading to decimation
Bloodied and broken
On your knees praying for god
tremble in horror as hope is lost
close your eyes, You'll still hear them cry
Forgotten and buried, together you lie
Mass graves and nameless corpses
are screaming with no voices
Torture and mutilation
murdered with no compassion
young and old alike lie prostrate
Shot dead with their limbs dissevered
alive or dead, no matter
children of the killing fields
Numb to the agony
soulless vessel's
rape,kill,torment,butcher
and slaughter one another
Bones exposed
protruding beneath the soil
women,children
raped,killed,maimed and tortured
their lives now bleed your color, red
witness the degradation
Bodies pave the way
leading to decimation
Bloodied and broken
On your knees praying for god
tremble in horror as hope is lost
close your eyes, You'll still hear them cry
another casualty of mass genocide
Lying lifeless feigning your death
over bodies,crawl from your own
the stench of flesh
the fear of death
corpses fall in waves
timeless woe engraved
skeletal remains
reminders of such days
Grief still stricken life
begging for your life,for god
you press your palms in prayer
your knees now bend, you break
your marching to your end
praying for the hand of god
you witness genocide
their profane pleading cries
now silent in their grave
Lyrics submitted by sokorny
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