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.
Every morning I wake up
With a new identity
With some new memories
Of my former life
All the thoughts I ever had
All the memories I can recite
Are just an illusion
Implanted in my brain
And even the city changes
With new buildings and new roads
But I really cannot tell
If it's just an illusion
Implanted illusions is all
that I can remember
Stolen thoughts of a time
When I met you last November
Now, there's just confusion
at this place without a sun
I try so hard to escape
There's no place to which to run
And suddenly it hits me
That there was no sun for years
The illusions fade away
Making room for reality
With a new identity
With some new memories
Of my former life
All the thoughts I ever had
All the memories I can recite
Are just an illusion
Implanted in my brain
And even the city changes
With new buildings and new roads
But I really cannot tell
If it's just an illusion
Implanted illusions is all
that I can remember
Stolen thoughts of a time
When I met you last November
Now, there's just confusion
at this place without a sun
I try so hard to escape
There's no place to which to run
And suddenly it hits me
That there was no sun for years
The illusions fade away
Making room for reality
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