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.
Please don't come around talking 'bout that you love me
'Cause that love just ain't for me
I don't wanna hear that you adore me
And I know that all you're doing is running your mind games
Don't you know that game repeats game?
So your best bet is to be straight with me
So you say you wanna talk, let's talk
If you won't talk, I'll walk
Yeah, it's like that
I got a new man, he's waitin' out back
Now what, whatcha think about that?
Now when I say I'm through, I'm through
Basically I'm through with you
What you wanna say?
Had to have it your way, had to play games
Now you're begging me to stay
There you go, looking pitiful
Just because I let you go
There you go, talking 'bout you want me back
But sometimes it be's like that, so
There you go, talking 'bout you miss me so
That you love me so, why I let you go?
Yeah, you know 'cause your lies got old
Look at you, there you go
Please don't come around talking 'bout how you changed
How you said goodbye to what's-her-name
All it sounds like to me is new game
And I was right when I thought I'd be much better off without you
Had to get myself from 'round you
'Cause my life was all about you
So you say you wanna talk, I don't
Say you wanna change, I won't
Yeah, it's like that
Had your chance, won't take you back
Now what, whatcha think about that?
And when I say I'm through, I'm through
Basically I'm through with you
What you wanna say?
I had to have it your way, had to play games
Now you're begging me to stay
There you go, looking pitiful
Just because I let you go
There you go, talking 'bout you want me back
But sometimes it be's like that, so
There you go, talking 'bout you miss me so
That you love me so, why I let you go?
Yeah, you know 'cause your lies got old
Look at you, there you go
Don't you wish you could turn the hands of time?
Don't you wish that you still were mine?
Don't you wish I'd take you back?
Don't you wish that things were simple like that? Oh
Didn't miss a good thing 'til it's gone
But I knew it wouldn't be long
'Til you came running back
Missing my love, there you go
There you go, looking pitiful
Just because I let you go
There you go, talking 'bout you want me back
But sometimes it be's like that
There you go, talking 'bout you miss me so
That you love me so, why I let you go?
Yeah, you know 'cause your lies got old
Look at you, there you go
There you go, looking pitiful
Just because I let you go
There you go, talking 'bout you want me back
But sometimes it be's like that
There you go, talking 'bout you miss me so
That you love me so, why I let you go?
Yeah, you know 'cause your lies got old
Look at you, there you go
There you go, looking pitiful
Just because I let you go
There you go, talking 'bout you want me back
But sometimes it be's like that
There you go, talking 'bout you miss me so
That you love me so, why I let you go?
Yeah, you know 'cause your lies got old
Look at you, there you go
So there you go, there you go
'Cause that love just ain't for me
I don't wanna hear that you adore me
And I know that all you're doing is running your mind games
Don't you know that game repeats game?
So your best bet is to be straight with me
So you say you wanna talk, let's talk
If you won't talk, I'll walk
Yeah, it's like that
I got a new man, he's waitin' out back
Now what, whatcha think about that?
Now when I say I'm through, I'm through
Basically I'm through with you
What you wanna say?
Had to have it your way, had to play games
Now you're begging me to stay
There you go, looking pitiful
Just because I let you go
There you go, talking 'bout you want me back
But sometimes it be's like that, so
There you go, talking 'bout you miss me so
That you love me so, why I let you go?
Yeah, you know 'cause your lies got old
Look at you, there you go
Please don't come around talking 'bout how you changed
How you said goodbye to what's-her-name
All it sounds like to me is new game
And I was right when I thought I'd be much better off without you
Had to get myself from 'round you
'Cause my life was all about you
So you say you wanna talk, I don't
Say you wanna change, I won't
Yeah, it's like that
Had your chance, won't take you back
Now what, whatcha think about that?
And when I say I'm through, I'm through
Basically I'm through with you
What you wanna say?
I had to have it your way, had to play games
Now you're begging me to stay
There you go, looking pitiful
Just because I let you go
There you go, talking 'bout you want me back
But sometimes it be's like that, so
There you go, talking 'bout you miss me so
That you love me so, why I let you go?
Yeah, you know 'cause your lies got old
Look at you, there you go
Don't you wish you could turn the hands of time?
Don't you wish that you still were mine?
Don't you wish I'd take you back?
Don't you wish that things were simple like that? Oh
Didn't miss a good thing 'til it's gone
But I knew it wouldn't be long
'Til you came running back
Missing my love, there you go
There you go, looking pitiful
Just because I let you go
There you go, talking 'bout you want me back
But sometimes it be's like that
There you go, talking 'bout you miss me so
That you love me so, why I let you go?
Yeah, you know 'cause your lies got old
Look at you, there you go
There you go, looking pitiful
Just because I let you go
There you go, talking 'bout you want me back
But sometimes it be's like that
There you go, talking 'bout you miss me so
That you love me so, why I let you go?
Yeah, you know 'cause your lies got old
Look at you, there you go
There you go, looking pitiful
Just because I let you go
There you go, talking 'bout you want me back
But sometimes it be's like that
There you go, talking 'bout you miss me so
That you love me so, why I let you go?
Yeah, you know 'cause your lies got old
Look at you, there you go
So there you go, there you go
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Fortnight
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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