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.
I saw the millions, the naked and the dead
I saw the city streets running bloody red
I saw a thousand bombers circle in the sky
I saw the firestorm fifty stories high
I saw a hundred thousand scream and burn
I saw the armored wheels grind and turn
Universal soldier, doomed to live to tell
Fight and die forever, burn in bloody hell
Death or glory, death or glory
March forever in the sound and fury
Death or glory, death or glory
Blood and iron, it's the same old story
I held the iron cross, first class with the swords
I marched with Hitler down the bloody road to war
I was at Jutland loading till the gun was hot
Killed at Trafalgar without firing a shot
I was at Moscow, burning in my tank
I was at Shiloh, marching in the ranks
I was a Sturmbannfuhrer fighting in Berlin
I was a Russian hero dying for Stalin
Death or glory, death or glory
March forever in the sound and fury
Death or glory, death or glory
Blood and iron, it's the same old story
I swung a saber and I was a young Hussar
I was a Cossack, fighting for the czar
I was a viking, berserker from the north
A roman gladiator murdered just for sport
I was with Bonaparte, I died at Waterloo
I was a Frankish knight, a Polish Jew
I was a spartan in the Trojan wars
I was a warrior for crazy horse
Death or glory, death or glory
March forever in the sound and fury
Death or glory, death or glory
The lone survivor but no comfort for me
Death or glory, death or glory
Executioner, judge and jury
Death or glory, death or glory
Blood and iron it's the same old story
Auf stehen
I saw the city streets running bloody red
I saw a thousand bombers circle in the sky
I saw the firestorm fifty stories high
I saw a hundred thousand scream and burn
I saw the armored wheels grind and turn
Universal soldier, doomed to live to tell
Fight and die forever, burn in bloody hell
Death or glory, death or glory
March forever in the sound and fury
Death or glory, death or glory
Blood and iron, it's the same old story
I held the iron cross, first class with the swords
I marched with Hitler down the bloody road to war
I was at Jutland loading till the gun was hot
Killed at Trafalgar without firing a shot
I was at Moscow, burning in my tank
I was at Shiloh, marching in the ranks
I was a Sturmbannfuhrer fighting in Berlin
I was a Russian hero dying for Stalin
Death or glory, death or glory
March forever in the sound and fury
Death or glory, death or glory
Blood and iron, it's the same old story
I swung a saber and I was a young Hussar
I was a Cossack, fighting for the czar
I was a viking, berserker from the north
A roman gladiator murdered just for sport
I was with Bonaparte, I died at Waterloo
I was a Frankish knight, a Polish Jew
I was a spartan in the Trojan wars
I was a warrior for crazy horse
Death or glory, death or glory
March forever in the sound and fury
Death or glory, death or glory
The lone survivor but no comfort for me
Death or glory, death or glory
Executioner, judge and jury
Death or glory, death or glory
Blood and iron it's the same old story
Auf stehen
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Death or Glory Lyrics as written by Philip Anthony Campbell Ian Fraser Kilmister
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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