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.
That little bastard
With his tricks and vile forms of play
Hacking shaving slicing mutillating
All that gets before him or that gets in his way.
Coming around down the stairs
The wood cracked beneath my feet
My hand slid across the rail
Collecting dust on my fingertips
Then I came into a dark room
That smelled of wet stone and many years
And there was a robotic retard
With a blank empty stare
It was a little android man
Half the size that I am
Scissors on his head
Scissors on his fucking head!
Little android man
Born without a soul
Without that force of reason
The scissors took control
Little android man
Born without a heart
If he's in your vicinity he'll cut you apart!
Here he comes
There's no time it's just a game
Don't look back he's right behind
And here's your piece of mind.
Cut! Cut! Cut Cut!
Cut! Cut! Cut Cut!
Little android man
Born without a soul
Without the voice of reason the scissors took control!
Little android man
Born without a heart
Anything in his vicinity he'll cut you apart.
Robotic retard counts his fingers
1 2 3 4
Little android man
Never never never trust a...
Little android man
He'll cut cut cut cut!
With his tricks and vile forms of play
Hacking shaving slicing mutillating
All that gets before him or that gets in his way.
Coming around down the stairs
The wood cracked beneath my feet
My hand slid across the rail
Collecting dust on my fingertips
Then I came into a dark room
That smelled of wet stone and many years
And there was a robotic retard
With a blank empty stare
It was a little android man
Half the size that I am
Scissors on his head
Scissors on his fucking head!
Little android man
Born without a soul
Without that force of reason
The scissors took control
Little android man
Born without a heart
If he's in your vicinity he'll cut you apart!
Here he comes
There's no time it's just a game
Don't look back he's right behind
And here's your piece of mind.
Cut! Cut! Cut Cut!
Cut! Cut! Cut Cut!
Little android man
Born without a soul
Without the voice of reason the scissors took control!
Little android man
Born without a heart
Anything in his vicinity he'll cut you apart.
Robotic retard counts his fingers
1 2 3 4
Little android man
Never never never trust a...
Little android man
He'll cut cut cut cut!
Lyrics submitted by x_melancholy_x
Cutsman Lyrics as written by Derba Arkenstone
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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fucking awesome song.
thats all i have to say.