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.
Now that I'm dead and gone
Look at me I'm floatin' like the breeze
With my roots strong like trees
Unfiltered in your memories
Holdin' a candle light vigil
Sayin' a prayer my name is Grace
Buried with the paint on my face
I put the chase up long enough
I live the lifestyle wrong and tough
And now my life span's up
I give a fuck I'm bout to run it in the after life
And hopefully they put my soul in the butcher knife
If I was to die
It'd make a lot of people happy
No funeral, possesions
No plot at the cemetery
Finally, I can be alone in my own world
The wagons come take me away from the Killing Fields
If I was to die
Would you finally shut your mouth?
Understand what I am
Understand what I'm about
Like curse
Sets me up high on your pedestal
I'm about to find out
(Shaggy it's time to go)
I wanna die so I can see the other side
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die take me to the other side
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die so I can see the other side
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die take me to the other side
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die, maybe I'll get angel wings
So I can cut 'em off, cook 'em up
I have some hella wing dings
I'd take my hallo off, get myself a ladder
Hang it on the wall
Maybe you'll think it's a gold record
Death, everybody follow my hearse
Why does everybody always gotta go and die first?
Before their homies are missin' 'em
And family members kissin' 'em
Everybody even enemies stop dissin' 'em
I wanna die, so I can haunt my buddies
Stand behind them in the mirror
With my eyes all bloody
Stick my long, black
Cold tongue all in they ear
And be like, I'm only playin'
And disappear
I wanna die, and have everything answered
What happened to my father?
Why was I a bastard?
What is thunder?
Is it really God bowlin'?
And nightime's a blanket
And the stars are the holes in it
I wanna die so I can see the other side
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die take me to the other side
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die so I can see the other side
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die take me to the other side
I wanna die so I can fly
Your answers are unneccesary you understand
And never question the emotions of an unstable man
I got the petals of a Lotus
And the pedal to the floor
Followin' a black hearse
In the rain through a thunder storm
Never once did I envision me
Bein' stuck in such a situation
He made decisions, now his spirit levitatin'
I can see him wavin' at me
Through the window of the hearse
He's cryin' blood, it all stops
And it gets worst
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
At least that's what I was told
When I was on the come up
Been to the grave, and it ain't no joke
Resurfaced to the earth with the spirits I invoke
Cut down in my prime, when my clock got hit
Now I'm ridin' in the back of a hearse and shit
Darkness, pitch black, never seein' no one
And the Devil got his darkest demons ridin' shotgun
I wanna die so I can see the otherside
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die take me to the otherside
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die so I can see the otherside
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die take me to the otherside
I wanna die so I can fly
Take me away
Take me with you
Take me away
Take me with you
Take me away...
Look at me I'm floatin' like the breeze
With my roots strong like trees
Unfiltered in your memories
Holdin' a candle light vigil
Sayin' a prayer my name is Grace
Buried with the paint on my face
I put the chase up long enough
I live the lifestyle wrong and tough
And now my life span's up
I give a fuck I'm bout to run it in the after life
And hopefully they put my soul in the butcher knife
If I was to die
It'd make a lot of people happy
No funeral, possesions
No plot at the cemetery
Finally, I can be alone in my own world
The wagons come take me away from the Killing Fields
If I was to die
Would you finally shut your mouth?
Understand what I am
Understand what I'm about
Like curse
Sets me up high on your pedestal
I'm about to find out
(Shaggy it's time to go)
I wanna die so I can see the other side
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die take me to the other side
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die so I can see the other side
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die take me to the other side
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die, maybe I'll get angel wings
So I can cut 'em off, cook 'em up
I have some hella wing dings
I'd take my hallo off, get myself a ladder
Hang it on the wall
Maybe you'll think it's a gold record
Death, everybody follow my hearse
Why does everybody always gotta go and die first?
Before their homies are missin' 'em
And family members kissin' 'em
Everybody even enemies stop dissin' 'em
I wanna die, so I can haunt my buddies
Stand behind them in the mirror
With my eyes all bloody
Stick my long, black
Cold tongue all in they ear
And be like, I'm only playin'
And disappear
I wanna die, and have everything answered
What happened to my father?
Why was I a bastard?
What is thunder?
Is it really God bowlin'?
And nightime's a blanket
And the stars are the holes in it
I wanna die so I can see the other side
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die take me to the other side
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die so I can see the other side
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die take me to the other side
I wanna die so I can fly
Your answers are unneccesary you understand
And never question the emotions of an unstable man
I got the petals of a Lotus
And the pedal to the floor
Followin' a black hearse
In the rain through a thunder storm
Never once did I envision me
Bein' stuck in such a situation
He made decisions, now his spirit levitatin'
I can see him wavin' at me
Through the window of the hearse
He's cryin' blood, it all stops
And it gets worst
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
At least that's what I was told
When I was on the come up
Been to the grave, and it ain't no joke
Resurfaced to the earth with the spirits I invoke
Cut down in my prime, when my clock got hit
Now I'm ridin' in the back of a hearse and shit
Darkness, pitch black, never seein' no one
And the Devil got his darkest demons ridin' shotgun
I wanna die so I can see the otherside
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die take me to the otherside
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die so I can see the otherside
I wanna die so I can fly
I wanna die take me to the otherside
I wanna die so I can fly
Take me away
Take me with you
Take me away
Take me with you
Take me away...
Lyrics submitted by nikuku
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