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.
Complete and total adoration
My gift to you, my heart was yours
In ten weeks you shaped it
In one night you murdered it
Torn from my chest and laid at your feet
That first step that you took was the worst
Since then you've walked a thousand miles in solace and short remark
And I still have these memories
But will never see what we could have been
Remember when we talked about where we'd be a year from now?
Remember when you held my hand like you'd never let it go?
Remember, because that's all you can do
We'll never make another memory
We'll never make another memory
I wish I would have died in your arms the last time we were together
So I wouldn't have to wake without you today
This time I thought things were real
You said they were
What happened?
You were a priority
Was I an option?
I let you see a side of me that I don't share with anyone
Promises are just words unless they are fulfilled
Knew from the beginning all I had to offer you was my heart
I'm just sorry that it wasn't enough
So, we'll go our own ways
And hopefully you'll remember these things I've told you
Hopefully you'll understand that everything I said is in sincerity
A broken heart is not what I wanted from this
But I guess I've learned from it
But aren't you supposed to learn from your mistakes?
I don't consider this a mistake
I just wish the story didn't end this way
Because I'm still in love with the person who helped me write it
Remember when we talked about where we'd be a year from now?
Remember when you held my hand like you'd never let it go?
My gift to you, my heart was yours
In ten weeks you shaped it
In one night you murdered it
Torn from my chest and laid at your feet
That first step that you took was the worst
Since then you've walked a thousand miles in solace and short remark
And I still have these memories
But will never see what we could have been
Remember when we talked about where we'd be a year from now?
Remember when you held my hand like you'd never let it go?
Remember, because that's all you can do
We'll never make another memory
We'll never make another memory
I wish I would have died in your arms the last time we were together
So I wouldn't have to wake without you today
This time I thought things were real
You said they were
What happened?
You were a priority
Was I an option?
I let you see a side of me that I don't share with anyone
Promises are just words unless they are fulfilled
Knew from the beginning all I had to offer you was my heart
I'm just sorry that it wasn't enough
So, we'll go our own ways
And hopefully you'll remember these things I've told you
Hopefully you'll understand that everything I said is in sincerity
A broken heart is not what I wanted from this
But I guess I've learned from it
But aren't you supposed to learn from your mistakes?
I don't consider this a mistake
I just wish the story didn't end this way
Because I'm still in love with the person who helped me write it
Remember when we talked about where we'd be a year from now?
Remember when you held my hand like you'd never let it go?
Lyrics submitted by midsummernights
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All that shit is amazing right there. the song sounds like some shit i do. i write shit out, letters to people or just shit i have to get out, then i recite it, like im saying it to them... usually its one of these letters. its gets all the emotion out. i love how he shared his emotions with the listener.