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.
Black frames to stare out
Mod lang slang to wear out
Scoff at squares in sweaters
Ho, Ho, Ho, we're so much better
Used is the new black
Downloads are the new crack
Mocking carols that we hate
Damn, it's easy being great
So to hell with Holiday romantics
December is for cynics
December is for critics
Let's get high on art supplies and hibernate
December is for cynics
Damn, it's too easy being great
I brought you a bottle of wine full
Of flowers and this vinyl
I know we both made it clear
No stupid presents this year
But snopes.com said if you play
"Strawberry Fields" the wrong way
You can hear Lennon's ghost say
(Slacol eht dellik lhad nov e.)
"I buried Paul"
So to hell with Holiday romantics
December is for cynics
December is for critics
Let's go buy some take out and hibernate
December is for cynics
Damn, it's too easy being great
So to hell with Holiday romantics
December is for cynics
December is for critics
Let's just try to sleep late and hibernate
December is for cynics
Damn, it's too easy being great
So to hell with Holiday romantics
December is for cynics
December is for critics
Let's get by on Nyquil and hibernate
December is for cynics
Damn, it's too easy being great
Mod lang slang to wear out
Scoff at squares in sweaters
Ho, Ho, Ho, we're so much better
Used is the new black
Downloads are the new crack
Mocking carols that we hate
Damn, it's easy being great
So to hell with Holiday romantics
December is for cynics
December is for critics
Let's get high on art supplies and hibernate
December is for cynics
Damn, it's too easy being great
I brought you a bottle of wine full
Of flowers and this vinyl
I know we both made it clear
No stupid presents this year
But snopes.com said if you play
"Strawberry Fields" the wrong way
You can hear Lennon's ghost say
(Slacol eht dellik lhad nov e.)
"I buried Paul"
So to hell with Holiday romantics
December is for cynics
December is for critics
Let's go buy some take out and hibernate
December is for cynics
Damn, it's too easy being great
So to hell with Holiday romantics
December is for cynics
December is for critics
Let's just try to sleep late and hibernate
December is for cynics
Damn, it's too easy being great
So to hell with Holiday romantics
December is for cynics
December is for critics
Let's get by on Nyquil and hibernate
December is for cynics
Damn, it's too easy being great
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right before it says "I burried Paul" If played backwards you hear someone say "E. Von Dahl Killed the Locals" refrencing to the line before it and after it, where playing a beatles record gives you a hidden message
aaah that's so awesome.<br /> i wish i could figure out how to play songs backwards haha.
holidays suck. ha i think this is a really clever song, when you have beatles reference in your song, you know your cool. december=christmas, hannakuh..whatever, there all so overated, and have no meaning anymore.
I think they're kind of being satirical about the whole thing. Annd I don't believe that they're saying Christmas itself is overrated... they're saying that the commercialism of it is.
I dont think it is a direct referance to Christmas but that the holidays are overrated or holiday romances .. which i totally agree or maybe because its because i dont have one haha
lol damn good song, i don't know what it means. but to mean it just means..
to hell with holiday romantics! haha
Rembember the night they first played this at iMusicast. I think it's not really about commercialism or anything like how Christmas has changed, more just about how everyone gets so romantic around Christmas and you should be able to just chill. It's not criticizing holiday romance, he's talking to a girl about how they should just "hibernate"...yup.
i bet u almost no1 who listens to this understands this part
"i brought you a bottle of wine full of flowers and this vinyl i know we both made it clear no stupid presents this year but snopes.com said if you play 'strawberry fields' the wrong way you can hear lennon's ghost say
"i buried paul""
and it is the best part n the song is just about how its funny that even though ull always say u wont make a big deal about the holidays and getting gifts u always end up making a big deal about it...
screw holidays!
aha you're right the matches said a long time ago when only E. Von Dalh Killed the Locals had came out that decomposer was ganna have a lot of hidden messages
... let's get HIGH! on art supplies and hibernate
magic.