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.
1-900-USA-NAILS
"Operator I love you.
Operator, I would never leave you
Operator I love to see your face pressed up against the glass.
I need to hear the way your tongue tastes in my ear"
"Put the receiver to your chest
And let me know who loves you best."
"The county sheriff said that my baby is dead.
They found him in some trash can, blue all clenched and chewed.
Don't judge me, I'm not his real mother,
I couldn't even recognize his face, his tears of wax,
His skin like a subway running over spinal tracks.
Operator can I confide you?
They haven't got an ounce of proof!
Those pigs locked me up to see what color I'd rot into!
(It wasn't me it was my false tiger limbs
It wasn't me it was the garbage gryphon!)
When I walk I wald alone (operator come on!),
When I watch you through the phone (operator come on)
And depupil these lonely eyes,
The love scenes grafted to the sky are making me cry
1-900-USA-NAILS (oh baby)
I get one phone call a day from Molson County jail
1-900-USA-NAILS.
98 cents per minute cash or credit, check or debit
Operator-rator won't you tell me again!
Operator-rator yeah you're my only friend!
"Do you remember that night in the back of daddy's car
Strumming the chords of your pubic guitar
The way you tasted like a movie star
The way the windsheild reflected the sunrise,
The way the light tattooed your thighs
You're the most beautiful girl in the whole wide world
Your time is up, till next time! We'll send you a bill."
Listen
Can you hear the buildings crumbling in slow motion?
Blow me up like a baloon we'll float over the ocean!
Listen...can you hear them taking me away,
Don't tell the fucking guards what I've said.
Can you see the angels stringing wires through my face?
Meet me next week, same time, same place.
"Operator I love you.
Operator, I would never leave you
Operator I love to see your face pressed up against the glass.
I need to hear the way your tongue tastes in my ear"
"Put the receiver to your chest
And let me know who loves you best."
"The county sheriff said that my baby is dead.
They found him in some trash can, blue all clenched and chewed.
Don't judge me, I'm not his real mother,
I couldn't even recognize his face, his tears of wax,
His skin like a subway running over spinal tracks.
Operator can I confide you?
They haven't got an ounce of proof!
Those pigs locked me up to see what color I'd rot into!
(It wasn't me it was my false tiger limbs
It wasn't me it was the garbage gryphon!)
When I walk I wald alone (operator come on!),
When I watch you through the phone (operator come on)
And depupil these lonely eyes,
The love scenes grafted to the sky are making me cry
1-900-USA-NAILS (oh baby)
I get one phone call a day from Molson County jail
1-900-USA-NAILS.
98 cents per minute cash or credit, check or debit
Operator-rator won't you tell me again!
Operator-rator yeah you're my only friend!
"Do you remember that night in the back of daddy's car
Strumming the chords of your pubic guitar
The way you tasted like a movie star
The way the windsheild reflected the sunrise,
The way the light tattooed your thighs
You're the most beautiful girl in the whole wide world
Your time is up, till next time! We'll send you a bill."
Listen
Can you hear the buildings crumbling in slow motion?
Blow me up like a baloon we'll float over the ocean!
Listen...can you hear them taking me away,
Don't tell the fucking guards what I've said.
Can you see the angels stringing wires through my face?
Meet me next week, same time, same place.
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
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Great version of a great song,
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Do you remember that night in the back of daddy's car...strumming the chords of your pubic guitar...the way you tasted like a movie star...the way the windsheild reflected the sunrise, the way the light tattooed your thighs...You're the most beautiful girl in the whole wide world... .. your time is up, till next time! We'll send you a bill."
LOVE that part
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The Blood Brother are awesome!! <3
I think this is one of their best songs... Lyrics are so unique (like most other Blood Brothers lyircs) with a hit of morbidness... I love it
this is one of my favorite Blood Brother's song. It gets stuck in my head so often.
"the way your tongue tastes in my ear"
further proof that TBB have the most brilliant, creative ways of saying the simplest things.
I love the way this whole song is set up.
there good live too
i absolutely love this song. it's unlike anything ive ever heard (like most the blood brothers' brilliant songs)
I love this song, it's totally insane and crazy and all over the place especially in the beginning. Great song, great band. <3
"operator come on and depupil these lonely eyes, the love scenes grafted to the sky are making me cry."
amazing.