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.
(Jamie Madrox)
Your whole life’s about to change in the next 20 seconds
As you glance there’s a lady running at your car half naked
Bleeding from her neck to her chest
And four guys chasing her with axes and they look fucking possessed
Without thinking you unlock the door to lend a hand
Before she gets in the car they’re approaching and coming fast
Hit the gas, she won’t stop screaming
She keeps saying over and over that she was mauled by a demon
Blood, so much blood it was unreal
She’d go quiet for a second then go nuts and grab the steering wheel
Just calm the fuck down, you’re scaring the shit out of me
I’m gonna take you to the hospital and leave you in the lobby
You're gonna be fine, sideswiped in my blind side
By a deuce and a quarter with one headlight
Just then I looked him right in the face
And seen two glowing eyes peering out of a pillow case
Now what the fuck is that? I think your friends are back
Hey lady wake up, you’re bleeding all over the dash
As I pushed her on the shoulder, she turned around and bit me
First the guys with the axes and now this bitch wants to kill me
(Chorus)
Hom-Sha-Bom
Release the spirit and move along
They'll be coming
We'll be coming for you and it won’t be long
Hom-Sha-Bom
Release the spirit and move along
They'll be coming
We'll be coming for you and it won’t be long
This body doesn’t belong to you (I know)
This body never belonged to you (I know)
This body doesn’t belong to you (I know)
This body never belonged to you (Just go)
(Monoxide Child)
Now they're on the side of us
I can either run us both off of the road or crash into a school bus
I'm looking out and see one of my front wheels
Go bouncing off a tree and now it's headed for my windshield
Pieces of glass are in my throat
And this bitch is in the front seat laughing like it's a joke
And now I look and see 'em coming, walking
They got their axes and they're talking in Aramaic or maybe it was Latin
I'm kinda woozy and I'm starting to trip
Cause this bitch must have bit a fucking hole in my wrist
I feel it thriving like a heart attack
But I can't think about that and I all see is the end of a bloody axe
Come smashin' through, all of my windows on both sides
And all these hands grabbing us out the ride
And choke holds applied then I'm thrown across the street
Face first and I'm so weak that I can barely even speak
There's gotta be some kind of code or witch practice
Some sort of a horrific movie of Black Magic
All the blood in my eyes, I couldn’t hide
And by the screams I heard, they must be ripping out her insides
(Chorus)
Hom-Sha-Bom
Release the spirit and move along
We'll be coming
They’ll be coming for you and it won’t be long
Hom-Sha-Bom
Release the spirit and move along
We'll be coming
They’ll be coming for you and it won’t be long
This body doesn’t belong to you (I know)
This body never belonged to you (I know)
This body doesn’t belong to you (I know)
This body never belonged to you (Just Go)
(Jamie Madrox)
I can't see, too much blood inside of my eyes
But I can kind of make out silhouettes to my surprise
I'm in the clear, no one surround me
But across the street it sounds just like the Exorcist movie
Screaming, crying, parked cars flying
Around and smashing into the ground, it's devastating
The strange motherfuckers with axes got us surrounded
I wonder if they're gonna kill her, my heart's pounding
Drowning in anticipation
I mean if they kill her, they're killing me and that's a fucked up situation
She's changing into a demon with every chant
That they're saying in that language that I still don't understand
Then a burst of light exploded
And the ground started shaking, in the side of a building a portal opened
She doesn't look anything like she did before
She's got the body of a snake with wings and devil horns
(Chorus)
Hom-Sha-Bom
Release the spirit and move along
We'll be coming
They’ll be coming for you and it won’t be long
HOM-SHA-BOM
Release the spirit and move along
We'll be coming
They’ll be coming for you and it won’t be long
This body doesn’t belong to you (I know)
This body never belonged to you (I know)
This body doesn’t belong to you (I know)
This body never belonged to you (Just Go)
Your whole life’s about to change in the next 20 seconds
As you glance there’s a lady running at your car half naked
Bleeding from her neck to her chest
And four guys chasing her with axes and they look fucking possessed
Without thinking you unlock the door to lend a hand
Before she gets in the car they’re approaching and coming fast
Hit the gas, she won’t stop screaming
She keeps saying over and over that she was mauled by a demon
Blood, so much blood it was unreal
She’d go quiet for a second then go nuts and grab the steering wheel
Just calm the fuck down, you’re scaring the shit out of me
I’m gonna take you to the hospital and leave you in the lobby
You're gonna be fine, sideswiped in my blind side
By a deuce and a quarter with one headlight
Just then I looked him right in the face
And seen two glowing eyes peering out of a pillow case
Now what the fuck is that? I think your friends are back
Hey lady wake up, you’re bleeding all over the dash
As I pushed her on the shoulder, she turned around and bit me
First the guys with the axes and now this bitch wants to kill me
(Chorus)
Hom-Sha-Bom
Release the spirit and move along
They'll be coming
We'll be coming for you and it won’t be long
Hom-Sha-Bom
Release the spirit and move along
They'll be coming
We'll be coming for you and it won’t be long
This body doesn’t belong to you (I know)
This body never belonged to you (I know)
This body doesn’t belong to you (I know)
This body never belonged to you (Just go)
(Monoxide Child)
Now they're on the side of us
I can either run us both off of the road or crash into a school bus
I'm looking out and see one of my front wheels
Go bouncing off a tree and now it's headed for my windshield
Pieces of glass are in my throat
And this bitch is in the front seat laughing like it's a joke
And now I look and see 'em coming, walking
They got their axes and they're talking in Aramaic or maybe it was Latin
I'm kinda woozy and I'm starting to trip
Cause this bitch must have bit a fucking hole in my wrist
I feel it thriving like a heart attack
But I can't think about that and I all see is the end of a bloody axe
Come smashin' through, all of my windows on both sides
And all these hands grabbing us out the ride
And choke holds applied then I'm thrown across the street
Face first and I'm so weak that I can barely even speak
There's gotta be some kind of code or witch practice
Some sort of a horrific movie of Black Magic
All the blood in my eyes, I couldn’t hide
And by the screams I heard, they must be ripping out her insides
(Chorus)
Hom-Sha-Bom
Release the spirit and move along
We'll be coming
They’ll be coming for you and it won’t be long
Hom-Sha-Bom
Release the spirit and move along
We'll be coming
They’ll be coming for you and it won’t be long
This body doesn’t belong to you (I know)
This body never belonged to you (I know)
This body doesn’t belong to you (I know)
This body never belonged to you (Just Go)
(Jamie Madrox)
I can't see, too much blood inside of my eyes
But I can kind of make out silhouettes to my surprise
I'm in the clear, no one surround me
But across the street it sounds just like the Exorcist movie
Screaming, crying, parked cars flying
Around and smashing into the ground, it's devastating
The strange motherfuckers with axes got us surrounded
I wonder if they're gonna kill her, my heart's pounding
Drowning in anticipation
I mean if they kill her, they're killing me and that's a fucked up situation
She's changing into a demon with every chant
That they're saying in that language that I still don't understand
Then a burst of light exploded
And the ground started shaking, in the side of a building a portal opened
She doesn't look anything like she did before
She's got the body of a snake with wings and devil horns
(Chorus)
Hom-Sha-Bom
Release the spirit and move along
We'll be coming
They’ll be coming for you and it won’t be long
HOM-SHA-BOM
Release the spirit and move along
We'll be coming
They’ll be coming for you and it won’t be long
This body doesn’t belong to you (I know)
This body never belonged to you (I know)
This body doesn’t belong to you (I know)
This body never belonged to you (Just Go)
Lyrics submitted by MyAntiDrugIsSuicide, edited by DarkSidePoet
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