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.
Taken to a place underground,
A cavern, ten thousand steps down
The only light was fire fly glow,
Reflecting in the blue crystal show
Feeling in the darkness surrounding me,
Roots of giant Sequoia trees
Anchor the canopy of life that's above
The answer to the mystery of life is
Traveled through the jungles of the Yucatan
And drank the potion from the magic man
Held the starlight inches from my face,
Pushed the door open, # 7.
I walked the path way to heaven
Saw the same face of God.
[Chorus]
Seems every where I go
I see the same face, I feel the same flow.
With every one I meet and every hand I shake,
I'm every man, trying my best to get to know
Because everything's at stake
[Verse]
We're the same tribe.
Passing through Morocco for the faithful is a trip
Hallucinating visions drives my desert ship
For a thousand miles we could not fail,
Can't enjoy if you can't inhale
Clearly a lifetimes need of some experience and
For the record, peace
[Chorus]
Seems every where I go
I see the same face, I feel the same flow
With every one I meet and every hand I shake,
I see myself in every man, trying my best to get to know
Because everything's at stake
We're the same tribe
A cavern, ten thousand steps down
The only light was fire fly glow,
Reflecting in the blue crystal show
Feeling in the darkness surrounding me,
Roots of giant Sequoia trees
Anchor the canopy of life that's above
The answer to the mystery of life is
Traveled through the jungles of the Yucatan
And drank the potion from the magic man
Held the starlight inches from my face,
Pushed the door open, # 7.
I walked the path way to heaven
Saw the same face of God.
[Chorus]
Seems every where I go
I see the same face, I feel the same flow.
With every one I meet and every hand I shake,
I'm every man, trying my best to get to know
Because everything's at stake
[Verse]
We're the same tribe.
Passing through Morocco for the faithful is a trip
Hallucinating visions drives my desert ship
For a thousand miles we could not fail,
Can't enjoy if you can't inhale
Clearly a lifetimes need of some experience and
For the record, peace
[Chorus]
Seems every where I go
I see the same face, I feel the same flow
With every one I meet and every hand I shake,
I see myself in every man, trying my best to get to know
Because everything's at stake
We're the same tribe
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Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
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Great version of a great song,
"We're the same tribe."
That pretty much sums this song up. It's a song about how we're all part of the human race and how we need to recognize that before our conflicts tear the world apart.