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.
Locked up inside you
Like the calm beneath castles
Is a cavern of treasures that
Noone has been to
Let's go digging
Let's go digging
Bring it out to take you back in
You won't do what you'd like to do
Lay back and let me show you another way
I'll kill what you want me to
Take what's left and eat it
Take all or nothing
Life's just too short to push it away
Take it all
Take it all in
All the way in
All the way in
Let it go in
Let it go in
You won't feel what you'd like to feel
Lay back and let me show you another way
Kill what you want me
Take what's left and eat it
Take all or nothing
Just too short to push it away
If you knock me down
I'll just come back running
Knock you down
It won't be long now
All the way in
All the way
All the way in
All the way in
Kill what you want me
Take what's left and eat it
Take all or nothing
Just too short to push it away
Take it up, take it up higher
4 degrees now, 4 degrees warmer
Give in now, give in now
And let me in
You'll like this in
Don't pull it out
It brings us closer than
Dying and cancer and crying
Kill what you want me
Take what's left and eat it
Take all or nothing
Just too short to push it away
Just like that
Just like that
Just like that
Like the calm beneath castles
Is a cavern of treasures that
Noone has been to
Let's go digging
Let's go digging
Bring it out to take you back in
You won't do what you'd like to do
Lay back and let me show you another way
I'll kill what you want me to
Take what's left and eat it
Take all or nothing
Life's just too short to push it away
Take it all
Take it all in
All the way in
All the way in
Let it go in
Let it go in
You won't feel what you'd like to feel
Lay back and let me show you another way
Kill what you want me
Take what's left and eat it
Take all or nothing
Just too short to push it away
If you knock me down
I'll just come back running
Knock you down
It won't be long now
All the way in
All the way
All the way in
All the way in
Kill what you want me
Take what's left and eat it
Take all or nothing
Just too short to push it away
Take it up, take it up higher
4 degrees now, 4 degrees warmer
Give in now, give in now
And let me in
You'll like this in
Don't pull it out
It brings us closer than
Dying and cancer and crying
Kill what you want me
Take what's left and eat it
Take all or nothing
Just too short to push it away
Just like that
Just like that
Just like that
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@AquilusDomini you're totally right. I was ill when I wrote this and it was poor wording. What I was trying to get at is that the negativity directed at homosexuals is tied to imagery that is evoked unconsciously in some people... I still suck at this.
I was trying to make neuropsychological hypothesis that would've been at best a part of the issue. <br /> <br /> Equal rights and treatment for everybody regardless of sex(ual preference), gender, race, class, language.