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.
Jose Jones
Told me alone his story
He got friends like Pacro Picopiedra
La Muneca
He receives on his set
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Please forgive me
Jose Jones
You need these walls
For your own
I'm movin' out of this hospedaje
I'm afraid you'll cut me boy
Thirty miles by
Hundred miles by stinkin' island
Por goofiar an' cruisin' automobile
Chasin' voices he receives in his head
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Told me alone his story
He got friends like Pacro Picopiedra
La Muneca
He receives on his set
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Please forgive me
Jose Jones
You need these walls
For your own
I'm movin' out of this hospedaje
I'm afraid you'll cut me boy
Thirty miles by
Hundred miles by stinkin' island
Por goofiar an' cruisin' automobile
Chasin' voices he receives in his head
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
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Fortnight
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Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
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Blink-182
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Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
i love when commentees focus on the idea of the song rather than correcting other people. it shows character
Yeah, I do too. It's about that, not about the other. Life is too.
Supposedly about Black Francis' insane, gay roomate in Puerto Rico. It sure sound like it's about something deranged.
Makes me want louder speakers.
the word is 'hospedaje'
but anyway, i want an insane gay roommate. gimme.
Occasionally he'll get his spanish wrong...paco picopiedra is incorrect. He's referring to fred flintstone, and he is PEDRO picopiedra.
@spankiespatula Not really. Paco is short in Spanish for Francisco. Frank, Francis... He is right. It is not a mistake, it is epic
The island referenced is Puerto Rico, by the way. 30 miles by 100 miles refers to the length and width of the island.
Paco Picopiedra is Pixie-spanglish for the Fred Flintsone "he receives on his set". What about La Muneca (the wrist)? Why reference "wrist"?
And what the heck is "por goofiar"
@LateCheckout Goofiar perhaps is being goofy? Why not. It's not the worst word he has deconstructed
"la muñeca" means wrist, but also means "doll" (female doll)
That's what I heard too. I love the lyric "I'm moving out of this hopedaje; i'm afraid you'll cut me boy!"
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