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.
High on diesel and gasoline
Psycho for drum machine
Shaking their bits to the hits, oh oh
Drag acts, drug acts, suicides
In your dad's suits you hide
Staining his name again
Cracked up, stacked up, twenty-two
Psycho for sex and glue
Lost it to Bostik, yeah
Shaved heads, rave heads, on the pill
Got too much time to kill
Get into bands and gangs, oh
Here they come
The beautiful ones
The beautiful ones
La la la la
Here they come
The beautiful ones
The beautiful ones
La la la la la
La la, loved up, doved up, hung around
Stoned in a lonely town
Shaking their meat to the beat
High on diesel and gasoline
Psycho for drum machine
Shaking their bits to the hits, oh
Here they come
The beautiful ones
The beautiful ones
La la la la
Here they come
The beautiful ones
The beautiful ones
Oh, you don't think about it
You don't do without it
Because you're beautiful, yeah yeah
And if your baby's are going crazy
That's how you made me, la la
And if your baby's are going crazy
That's how you made me, woah oh
And if your baby's are going crazy
That's how you made me
La la la la la
La la, la la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la, la la la, oh
La la, la la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la, la la la, oh
La la, la la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la, la la la, oh
La la, la la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la, la la la, oh
La la, la la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la, la la la, oh
La la, la la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la, la la la, oh
Psycho for drum machine
Shaking their bits to the hits, oh oh
Drag acts, drug acts, suicides
In your dad's suits you hide
Staining his name again
Cracked up, stacked up, twenty-two
Psycho for sex and glue
Lost it to Bostik, yeah
Shaved heads, rave heads, on the pill
Got too much time to kill
Get into bands and gangs, oh
Here they come
The beautiful ones
The beautiful ones
La la la la
Here they come
The beautiful ones
The beautiful ones
La la la la la
La la, loved up, doved up, hung around
Stoned in a lonely town
Shaking their meat to the beat
High on diesel and gasoline
Psycho for drum machine
Shaking their bits to the hits, oh
Here they come
The beautiful ones
The beautiful ones
La la la la
Here they come
The beautiful ones
The beautiful ones
Oh, you don't think about it
You don't do without it
Because you're beautiful, yeah yeah
And if your baby's are going crazy
That's how you made me, la la
And if your baby's are going crazy
That's how you made me, woah oh
And if your baby's are going crazy
That's how you made me
La la la la la
La la, la la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la, la la la, oh
La la, la la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la, la la la, oh
La la, la la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la, la la la, oh
La la, la la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la, la la la, oh
La la, la la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la, la la la, oh
La la, la la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la, la la la, oh
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