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.
You know sometimes, when we're lying together,
And I know you're asleep, I can hear the soft sound of your breathing,
So I get up, and I go to the window, Outside, I can see all the houses,
Curtains shut tight against the night, asleep beneath the roof-tiles,
And as I stand here, I wonder, I wonder how many more times,
I'm gonna come here, I wonder how many more times, I'm gonna lie here,
And most of all, most of all I wonder, I wonder what it means,
I just wanna know what it means, So I woke her,
And we went walking through the sleeping town,
Down deserted streets, frozen gardens grey in the moonlight,
Fences, down to the canal,
Creeping slowly past the cooling towers,
Deserted factories, looking for an adventure,
I wandered the streets calling your name, jumping walls,
Hoping to see a light in the window, let me in,
Let me come in, let me in tonight,
Oh I see you shivering in the garden,
Silver goose-flesh in the moonlight , she's balancing,
There are so many others, with unbroken eyes,
No cellulite afternoons, and she is balancing,
Balancing on the edge of ugliness tonight,
She is balancing,
Good God!
My legendary girlfriend,
She is crying tonight,
Oh no she doesn't feel right,
She's got no-one to hold,
Her love is a sham,
He is dancing somewhere.
Oh no he doen't care,
Oh well, he'll never know.
Jump, touch my hair, I wanna, I don't care, cos tonight, we could,
Maybe we, maybe we can touch the sky, do you think that we can,
Do you think that we can, touch the sky, please, I know,
I know it's not forever, but tonight I don't care,
Your skin so pale in the moonlight,
And the way your lips swell up when you're asleep,
Nothing else matters, do you know how much I want you?,
Can you feel how much I want you?,
Oh
Pitsmoor Woman
Oh let
Oh let me in tonight
My legendary girlfriend,
She is crying tonight,
Oh no she doesn't feel right,
She's got no-one to hold.
Her love is a sham,
He is dancing somewhere.
Oh no he doen't care,
Oh well, he'll never know.
And all the stars came out tonight,
And the moon came on it's face,
It shone right though the clothes she wore,
It shone right through the dress she wore.
Good God
Oh, y'know, listen, listen, please, oh, I just wanna,
I just wanna, , He falls to sleep again, no cheese tonight, she knows
My legendary girlfriend,
She is crying tonight,
Oh no she doesn't feel right,
She's got no-one to hold.
Her love is a sham,
He is dancing somewhere.
Oh no he doen't care,
Oh well, he'll never know.
And all the stars came out tonight,
And the moon came on it's face.
It shone right through the dress she wore,
It shone right through the clothes she wore.
And the stars and the moon,
And the stars all came down today.
Oh please love me tonight
Good God now!
And I know you're asleep, I can hear the soft sound of your breathing,
So I get up, and I go to the window, Outside, I can see all the houses,
Curtains shut tight against the night, asleep beneath the roof-tiles,
And as I stand here, I wonder, I wonder how many more times,
I'm gonna come here, I wonder how many more times, I'm gonna lie here,
And most of all, most of all I wonder, I wonder what it means,
I just wanna know what it means, So I woke her,
And we went walking through the sleeping town,
Down deserted streets, frozen gardens grey in the moonlight,
Fences, down to the canal,
Creeping slowly past the cooling towers,
Deserted factories, looking for an adventure,
I wandered the streets calling your name, jumping walls,
Hoping to see a light in the window, let me in,
Let me come in, let me in tonight,
Oh I see you shivering in the garden,
Silver goose-flesh in the moonlight , she's balancing,
There are so many others, with unbroken eyes,
No cellulite afternoons, and she is balancing,
Balancing on the edge of ugliness tonight,
She is balancing,
Good God!
My legendary girlfriend,
She is crying tonight,
Oh no she doesn't feel right,
She's got no-one to hold,
Her love is a sham,
He is dancing somewhere.
Oh no he doen't care,
Oh well, he'll never know.
Jump, touch my hair, I wanna, I don't care, cos tonight, we could,
Maybe we, maybe we can touch the sky, do you think that we can,
Do you think that we can, touch the sky, please, I know,
I know it's not forever, but tonight I don't care,
Your skin so pale in the moonlight,
And the way your lips swell up when you're asleep,
Nothing else matters, do you know how much I want you?,
Can you feel how much I want you?,
Oh
Pitsmoor Woman
Oh let
Oh let me in tonight
My legendary girlfriend,
She is crying tonight,
Oh no she doesn't feel right,
She's got no-one to hold.
Her love is a sham,
He is dancing somewhere.
Oh no he doen't care,
Oh well, he'll never know.
And all the stars came out tonight,
And the moon came on it's face,
It shone right though the clothes she wore,
It shone right through the dress she wore.
Good God
Oh, y'know, listen, listen, please, oh, I just wanna,
I just wanna, , He falls to sleep again, no cheese tonight, she knows
My legendary girlfriend,
She is crying tonight,
Oh no she doesn't feel right,
She's got no-one to hold.
Her love is a sham,
He is dancing somewhere.
Oh no he doen't care,
Oh well, he'll never know.
And all the stars came out tonight,
And the moon came on it's face.
It shone right through the dress she wore,
It shone right through the clothes she wore.
And the stars and the moon,
And the stars all came down today.
Oh please love me tonight
Good God now!
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Well anyway, it's one of my Pulp favorites. Jarvis has that sexiness oozing from his voice in this one.
So it seems he's singing about this girl he desires to be with, and she's broken from the way another man treats her.
"My legendary girlfriend, she is crying tonight Oh no she doesn't feel right She's got no one to hold Her love is a sham He is dancing somewhere Oh no he doesn't care Oh well, he'll never know"
I think you can also see it that these two people are together but maybe it's not good for them to be together. I take it that his legendary girlfriend is distant and the word legendary is not to be taken in a good way. Legendary maybe meaning that this girl takes the cake in dysfunction. And he can't get away because he's not ready or perhaps lonely. "I know it's not forever but tonight I don't care." They must have this sexual relationship and somehow he has morphed it into something deeper for himself. But she doesn't feel it. "Her love is a sham." That's my two cents.