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.
We used to get our kicks reading surfing magazines
Some good looking people wearing
Lee cooper jeans
They're breaking on the headland, they're breaking on the shore
And when you're living in hawaii they're breaking at your door
We used to wet our fingers on surfing magazines
Going to throw school and follow those scenes
Going to get a kombi and go from beach to beach
Be the kind of people the authorities can't reach
We used to get our kicks reading surfing magazines
Wake up in the morning and the waves are clean
Standing on the headland taking in the scene
Just like they do it ... in surfing magazines
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Some good looking people wearing
Lee cooper jeans
They're breaking on the headland, they're breaking on the shore
And when you're living in hawaii they're breaking at your door
We used to wet our fingers on surfing magazines
Going to throw school and follow those scenes
Going to get a kombi and go from beach to beach
Be the kind of people the authorities can't reach
We used to get our kicks reading surfing magazines
Wake up in the morning and the waves are clean
Standing on the headland taking in the scene
Just like they do it ... in surfing magazines
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i think this is a brilliant song detailing the teenage years of the artist. most likely during the seventies because no one surfs these days apart from people that surfed in the seventies.
Four years have gone by, and no one has refuted this asinine assertation that "no one surfs these days apart from people that surfed in the seventies". Wowzers.
Haha that's exactly the kind of life I used to dream of when I was a little kid... Well, I still do actually ;)