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.
I feel trapped and it's all
In my dirty hands
These walls are closing in
You always were so hard
To please
You thought you had me on
My knees
I think I'm going under
Red flags for all of this
You're cold and calculating
A knife held to my lips
And this anticipating
Blade bleeding for a kiss
This is the day, and you wait
Is this fate, laying waste
And you'll stay here forever
Stay here forever
And all that's left are scars
And lies
Whispering while beauty dies
I claw my neck for answers
As last life slips away
Take me away
In my dirty hands
These walls are closing in
You always were so hard
To please
You thought you had me on
My knees
I think I'm going under
Red flags for all of this
You're cold and calculating
A knife held to my lips
And this anticipating
Blade bleeding for a kiss
This is the day, and you wait
Is this fate, laying waste
And you'll stay here forever
Stay here forever
And all that's left are scars
And lies
Whispering while beauty dies
I claw my neck for answers
As last life slips away
Take me away
Lyrics submitted by KillMeFaster
Red Flag Lyrics as written by Morgan Lee Lander Mercedes Lander
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
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I reckon it's about a girl who's so upset that her boyfriend left her that she commits suicide. Again I may be completely wrong but hey this is my intepretation:
"I feel trapped and its all in my dirty hands These walls are closing in" She's trapped inside her suicidal state of mind and she feels like all her options have run out, there's nothing left to live for
"You always were so hard to please You thought you had me on my knees" She's saying he was always a hard guy to please (duh) and he thought he had control over her all along
"I think I'm going under Red flags for all of this" And it turns out he really does
"You're cold and calculating A knife held to my lips And this anticipating Blade bleeding for a kiss" She longs for the day that she can touch him and kiss him again but so far the only thing touching her is the blade (self harm?)
"This is the day and you wait Is this fate, laying waste And you'll stay here forever Stay here forever" Today is the day she will die, just he wait...it's fate to her, even though it's a cruel fate to live up to and she's saying he'll be stuck without her forever and he'll stay there cos she doesn't want his pain once she's dead
"And all thats left are scars and lies Whispering while beauty dies" All that's left of her are old self harm scars and the lies he told and she can hear whispers from others while she's slowly dying inside
"I claw my neck for answers As last life slips away" She hangs herself, but while she's slowly dying she's trying to get out of it cos she wants to know why he did this to her?
"Take me away" Well yeah, death takes her from the world
I feel trapped and its all In my dirty hands These walls are closing in. You always were so hard To please You thought you had me on My knees. I think I'm going under Red flags for all of this.
I think is all about. How she was so in love with this guy. That betary her so much. That she want to die so bad.
You're cold and calculating A knife held to my lips And this anticipating Blade bleeding for a kiss.
It hurt so much. That she want the pain to stop. But the only she is harming her self. because she want this suffering to stop.
"This is the day and you wait" Is this how he really about "Is this fate, laying waste" Was all these feeling she felt for him was a waste of time. Did he really care for her " And you'll stay here forever Stay here forever." She is still in love with this guy. But at the sametime he beatary. And she feel so ashamed that she trusted him. with all her life
And all thats left are scars And lies Whispering while beauty dies.
All the love he had for was fake. And thing he said to her was lies. And she so confuse. that she doesn;t know what to do.
I claw my neck for answers As last life slips away.
She want to know. Why he did this to her.
I think this is a part. When it hard to heard. What she saying. But i got it.
" To be and don't live To be...."
As she slowly dieing. She wonder why this happen to her. what did she do wrong.
Take me Away.
Well ya. she dies.
Does this song have to do with surrendering to something??
i my mind i see this song as wanting something so bad that it wears you down and tears at you, it'd say its about a guy tho tearing her down because of the scars he left behind and how she wants death and its coming
BUT I THINK SHE SEND A LETTER TO THE GUY. BEFORE KILLING HER SELF
i don't know. this song so great the confusing
Someone thought they could control her, but they were obviously mistaken