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.
Would you believe in what I said
If I shoved it down your throat?
How unusual the lettered backdrop
Do you wonder where you are?
The meaning of the words?
Push the plunger, say good-bye
Consent to manufacture
A brand new opposition
It's starting right now
Up and down we spend in all conditions
For many years I played the fool
Locked so deep inside that we can't see, ah
Much too bored to look for
Touch the surface flow and ebb
With nowhere left to go
If I could only live like this
Ideal in its birth
a drunk bewildered herd
Follow the leader, come pin the tail
You were caught in misdirection
Our spectacle distracts
And it's just the right time
Up and down we spend in all conditions
For many years I played the fool
Locked so deep inside that we can't see, ah
Much too bored to look for
Yeah, we always say it, we never mean it
If that's enough, if that's enough
That's the way it looks and no one's asking why
It's the right time but we don't have the time
Keep it locked down , it's only what your heart would say
Yeah, we're barely living through it, we're just surviving
Oh, there's nothing to it
Oh
(I'm so sick of surviving)
Up and down we spend in all conditions
For many years I played the fool
But if it's out for deception and still playing cool
Like a piece of the puzzle we're so quick to salute it now
Much too bored to look for
Much too bored to look for
We didn't say it, we never needed it
If that's enough, if that's enough
It's the way we look and no one's asking why
It's the right, right time but we don't have the time
Keep it locked down ignoring what your heart would say
Yeah, we're barely living through it, too scared to do it
Come on, I said
We always say it but we never, never mean it
Is that's enough? Is that's enough?
That's the way it works and no one's asking why
Oh, it's the right, right time but we never have the time
Keep it locked down ignoring what your heart would say
Yeah we're barely living through it, too scared to do it
Oh, we're so sick of surviving
So sick of surviving, yeah
If I shoved it down your throat?
How unusual the lettered backdrop
Do you wonder where you are?
The meaning of the words?
Push the plunger, say good-bye
Consent to manufacture
A brand new opposition
It's starting right now
Up and down we spend in all conditions
For many years I played the fool
Locked so deep inside that we can't see, ah
Much too bored to look for
Touch the surface flow and ebb
With nowhere left to go
If I could only live like this
Ideal in its birth
a drunk bewildered herd
Follow the leader, come pin the tail
You were caught in misdirection
Our spectacle distracts
And it's just the right time
Up and down we spend in all conditions
For many years I played the fool
Locked so deep inside that we can't see, ah
Much too bored to look for
Yeah, we always say it, we never mean it
If that's enough, if that's enough
That's the way it looks and no one's asking why
It's the right time but we don't have the time
Keep it locked down , it's only what your heart would say
Yeah, we're barely living through it, we're just surviving
Oh, there's nothing to it
Oh
(I'm so sick of surviving)
Up and down we spend in all conditions
For many years I played the fool
But if it's out for deception and still playing cool
Like a piece of the puzzle we're so quick to salute it now
Much too bored to look for
Much too bored to look for
We didn't say it, we never needed it
If that's enough, if that's enough
It's the way we look and no one's asking why
It's the right, right time but we don't have the time
Keep it locked down ignoring what your heart would say
Yeah, we're barely living through it, too scared to do it
Come on, I said
We always say it but we never, never mean it
Is that's enough? Is that's enough?
That's the way it works and no one's asking why
Oh, it's the right, right time but we never have the time
Keep it locked down ignoring what your heart would say
Yeah we're barely living through it, too scared to do it
Oh, we're so sick of surviving
So sick of surviving, yeah
Lyrics submitted by MizunoPunk
Falling Down the Mountain Lyrics as written by Matthew Dean Embree Christopher Tyler Tsagakis
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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