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.
The streets are dark, my pulse is flat-lined
As I'm running to you.
You sit completely unaware of what I'm about to do.
The air is thick with tension much like when we are together.
My fangs are aching as I'm pondering about you and I forever.
As I round your corner, I am nervous that you won't be my lover.
Knock three times and hope that my pale complexion won't blow my cover.
Answer the door with your innocent face,
Would you like to leave this human race tonight?
Eternity will never be enough for me.
And eternally will live our infallible love.
My brain is pumping at unusual secretion of lust.
Your eyes are softer now, your chin, it drips a bloody color of rust.
I am raising up the sakes of this round. I am playing for keeps.
Would you like to leave this human race tonight?
Eternity will never be enough for me.
And eternally will live our infallible love.
Follow me into the sea.
Drown together and immortalize you and me.
Leave behind this lonely town.
We're both better than this, it's not worth being down.
Eternity will never be enough for me.
And eternally will live our infallible love.
Follow me into the sea.
Drown together and immortalize you and me.
(eternally)
Leave behind this lonely town.
(eternally)
We're both better than this, it's not worth being down.
As I'm running to you.
You sit completely unaware of what I'm about to do.
The air is thick with tension much like when we are together.
My fangs are aching as I'm pondering about you and I forever.
As I round your corner, I am nervous that you won't be my lover.
Knock three times and hope that my pale complexion won't blow my cover.
Answer the door with your innocent face,
Would you like to leave this human race tonight?
Eternity will never be enough for me.
And eternally will live our infallible love.
My brain is pumping at unusual secretion of lust.
Your eyes are softer now, your chin, it drips a bloody color of rust.
I am raising up the sakes of this round. I am playing for keeps.
Would you like to leave this human race tonight?
Eternity will never be enough for me.
And eternally will live our infallible love.
Follow me into the sea.
Drown together and immortalize you and me.
Leave behind this lonely town.
We're both better than this, it's not worth being down.
Eternity will never be enough for me.
And eternally will live our infallible love.
Follow me into the sea.
Drown together and immortalize you and me.
(eternally)
Leave behind this lonely town.
(eternally)
We're both better than this, it's not worth being down.
Lyrics submitted by BrandNew1208
This Is for Keeps Lyrics as written by Joseph Dean Beck Daniel Ludeman
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
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"Some and now none of you"
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