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.
I saw two shadow men on the Vallance Road
Said they'd pay me for your address
Oh, I was so bold
I said you see these two cold fingers
These crooked fingers I show
You's a way to mean no
Well they didn't like that much I can tell you
Said "Sunshine, I wouldn't wanna be in your shoes"
They chased me up two flights of stairs
Caught me in the lift how I sighed and said
"Hello," cause you're impossible
But it's just like he's in another world
He doesn't see the danger on show
Wind up like Joseph, bloody in a hole
And it's just like she's in another world
And how they suit each other oh no
But they never get close
It's impossible
Saw the same two men on the Cally Road
Said now they'd double their offer
I was so bold
To say "You see these two cold fingers"
These crooked fingers I show
Oh you's a way to mean no
But it's just like he's in another world
He doesn't see the danger on show
That he'll end up like Joseph, bloody in a hole
And it's just like she's in another world
And how they suit each other oh no
But they never get close
(Crazy, unstoppable)
But it's just like we're all in another world
How we suit each other oh no
But we never get close
That's close enough now
Said they'd pay me for your address
Oh, I was so bold
I said you see these two cold fingers
These crooked fingers I show
You's a way to mean no
Well they didn't like that much I can tell you
Said "Sunshine, I wouldn't wanna be in your shoes"
They chased me up two flights of stairs
Caught me in the lift how I sighed and said
"Hello," cause you're impossible
But it's just like he's in another world
He doesn't see the danger on show
Wind up like Joseph, bloody in a hole
And it's just like she's in another world
And how they suit each other oh no
But they never get close
It's impossible
Saw the same two men on the Cally Road
Said now they'd double their offer
I was so bold
To say "You see these two cold fingers"
These crooked fingers I show
Oh you's a way to mean no
But it's just like he's in another world
He doesn't see the danger on show
That he'll end up like Joseph, bloody in a hole
And it's just like she's in another world
And how they suit each other oh no
But they never get close
(Crazy, unstoppable)
But it's just like we're all in another world
How we suit each other oh no
But we never get close
That's close enough now
Lyrics submitted by iloveweezer
Up the Bracket Lyrics as written by Peter Doherty Carl Barat
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Fortnight
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Page
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I agree that the song is about someone shady searching for one of Pete's friends and him refusing to give them his address, and expanding on that I think the choruses are Pete/the narrator lamenting how this same friend always gets himself into this kind of trouble, either by getting into debt or generally pissing people off, and is always oblivious to it, or is arrogant enough to think he can handle it (it's just like he's in another world/he doesn't see the danger on show). He worries that if this friend doesn't stop getting on the wrong side of these people "he'll end up like Joseph, bloody in a hole". Fairly straightforward really.