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.
See this here
This is crucial
Yeah
This is an emergency
They shot down in the door
They did it cause they paid a fee
Now there's nothing to die for
All the kids from miles around
Are fools in paradise
Don't know about the firing sound
So this scene isn't I saw
Come in bat me fly away
Ja ja come and Zoe I like see another day
All I think about if I were just to run away
Will I come back to love you now?
I don't want to change the world
I only want to stop pretending
What you say? Come again
What you say? Come again now
Nothing left to the little bird
I only hope you're all ascending high
What you say? Come again
What you say? Come again now
All around my home town
They try to chop me down
But the truth shall not forsake me
Take me up to higher grounds
And ooohh-hoooo
You're the light when the feeling is dark
You're pretending the game is a rule
Because you're born and you're dying my heart
I don't want to change the world
I only want to stop pretending
What you say? Come again
What you say? Come again now
I will never let you down
I'll be right here beside you, hanging around
So if you think you let me down
You leave me here in silence, without a sound
Change words
Ch-change verse
We change verbs
Cause why would I change when there's no one to play the time?
This is crucial
Yeah
This is an emergency
They shot down in the door
They did it cause they paid a fee
Now there's nothing to die for
All the kids from miles around
Are fools in paradise
Don't know about the firing sound
So this scene isn't I saw
Come in bat me fly away
Ja ja come and Zoe I like see another day
All I think about if I were just to run away
Will I come back to love you now?
I don't want to change the world
I only want to stop pretending
What you say? Come again
What you say? Come again now
Nothing left to the little bird
I only hope you're all ascending high
What you say? Come again
What you say? Come again now
All around my home town
They try to chop me down
But the truth shall not forsake me
Take me up to higher grounds
And ooohh-hoooo
You're the light when the feeling is dark
You're pretending the game is a rule
Because you're born and you're dying my heart
I don't want to change the world
I only want to stop pretending
What you say? Come again
What you say? Come again now
I will never let you down
I'll be right here beside you, hanging around
So if you think you let me down
You leave me here in silence, without a sound
Change words
Ch-change verse
We change verbs
Cause why would I change when there's no one to play the time?
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