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'll be a killer whale,
when I grow up, I'll be a vulture
I’ll be an animal, A carnivore,
I’ll be a monster
Clenching my jagged jaws
Over the captured
I’ll be a killer whale when I grow up
I’ll be a tidal wave when I grow up
Crashing on harbors
I’ll be a temperamental element
A raging water
I’ll be a perfect storm swallowing over
I’ll be a killer whale
When I grow up, I’ll be a monster
I’ll be a hurricane when I grow up
An ugly thunder
I’ll be a forest fire about to flood
Over an empire
I’ll be an avalanche chewing it's raptured
I'll be a killer whale
When I grow up I’ll be a MONSTER
I’ll be a killer whale
when I grow up, I'll be a vulture
I’ll be an animal, A carnivore,
I’ll be a monster
Clenching my jagged jaws
Over the captured
I’ll be a killer whale when I grow up
I’ll be a tidal wave when I grow up
Crashing on harbors
I’ll be a temperamental element
A raging water
I’ll be a perfect storm swallowing over
I’ll be a killer whale
When I grow up, I’ll be a monster
I’ll be a hurricane when I grow up
An ugly thunder
I’ll be a forest fire about to flood
Over an empire
I’ll be an avalanche chewing it's raptured
I'll be a killer whale
When I grow up I’ll be a MONSTER
I’ll be a killer whale
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to me, it was about just being sad and angry and sick of being what you are right now. one day, you'll finally do something with your life... you'll kill everything
His father was evil and now he's got to deal with it
This song has many different themes to it, to whom ever listens to it. One could be a concept of growth of the human race, an idea of what people think when they justify things to themselves. Perhaps it is about someone who has been teased or bullied and they want to get revenge at whoever has been mean to them. Or if you want to just choose the most obvious theme to it, without looking any closer to the song. You could say that it is about baby whales wanting to be big killer whales
Maybe he these are things he doesn't want to be. Maybe he's scared this is what he'll turn into, because pr influences in his life, bad father figure, etc.
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well, the things mentioned are not only powerful, but beautiful. it's like he wants to be powerfully beautifully destructive.
well, the things mentioned are not only powerful, but beautiful. it's like he wants to be powerfully beautifully destructive.
So he hasn't grown up? And what he does he does not seem to be sure what he will be so he says he'll be these things
wow my message almost made no sense. What I was trying to say is that he sings these things he think he might be or maybe he is going to choose one of those things to be