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.
Raindrop hits the leaf changing it's position
Slightly on the street next to polls of monotonous waters
He walks slipping feet from steps at random
He falls
In the space of between his body and the ground
Comets cast off their names
Stellar neurons misfire
Witnesses
Inhale the seed
And spit out a million branches
Buds abloom in all directions
Fringe which events occur
Relations and virused meetings
Catch fire and explode
In the margin of butterfly wings
Entire cycles of evolution
Outplayed and faded
Sparked away and leaned back into
Vacuum-filled nirvana
Between the two of my eyes
Feverish fractal scar
Dance like were they on drugs
Peyote labyrinth re-mapped exits
A hasty blink
And a million life-to-comes
Will never be the same
As they never were
In the kinetic energy of a moving fist
Lies a birth-machine for a parallel universe
With the first movement in organic scap
Came a bouquet of alternative answers
All different multiplied and re-divided
Coded in the spinal cord of a trilobite
Written between the legs on the Meganeura
Suburban city maps and dormant dictator semen
Marked their way through time
In the kinetic energy of a moving fist
Lies a birth-machine for a parallel universe
Slightly on the street next to polls of monotonous waters
He walks slipping feet from steps at random
He falls
In the space of between his body and the ground
Comets cast off their names
Stellar neurons misfire
Witnesses
Inhale the seed
And spit out a million branches
Buds abloom in all directions
Fringe which events occur
Relations and virused meetings
Catch fire and explode
In the margin of butterfly wings
Entire cycles of evolution
Outplayed and faded
Sparked away and leaned back into
Vacuum-filled nirvana
Between the two of my eyes
Feverish fractal scar
Dance like were they on drugs
Peyote labyrinth re-mapped exits
A hasty blink
And a million life-to-comes
Will never be the same
As they never were
In the kinetic energy of a moving fist
Lies a birth-machine for a parallel universe
With the first movement in organic scap
Came a bouquet of alternative answers
All different multiplied and re-divided
Coded in the spinal cord of a trilobite
Written between the legs on the Meganeura
Suburban city maps and dormant dictator semen
Marked their way through time
In the kinetic energy of a moving fist
Lies a birth-machine for a parallel universe
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Wow!! I think Iceburn is right, this also fits in, kinda stangely.
"In the space between his body and the ground comets cast of their names, stellar neurones misfire"
All the "potential names"... comets represent the "potential" humans that have been "misfired", so to speak ;).