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.
Poetry written in a tongue that only you and I can read
We forget the world with one prolonged embrace
Marching to the beat of a near end song
Your crystal facade cracks quietly
With the legend of the mantis still fresh in my mind
I continue trying to give you the key
but your foot's already in the door
One hand on the phone
The other on a blank picture frame
Left alone to remember all the wonderful memories we never had together
There were no memories for us to have
Move your hair from your face and look me in the eyes
With the legend of the mantis still fresh in my mind
I continue trying to give you the key
but your foot's already in the door
Forced to forget tomorrow
Each breath becomes more precious than the last
Drastic weather changes make me tired
Hopefully the worst has passed me now
Flawlessly gorgeous you looked in that dress
Your intentions were more fair than your skin
It hurts to smile when your indecisive ways
freeze my emotionless expressions
Marching to the beat of a near end song
your crystal facade cracks quietly
With the legend of the mantis still fresh in my mind
I continue trying to give you the key
but your foot's already in the door
Flawlessly gorgeous you looked in that dress
your intentions were more fair than your skin
Over and over again, I seem to lose my mind
Like a leaf in the wind of the most atrocious of hurricanes
Carelessly and directionless it floats away
Goodbye
We forget the world with one prolonged embrace
Marching to the beat of a near end song
Your crystal facade cracks quietly
With the legend of the mantis still fresh in my mind
I continue trying to give you the key
but your foot's already in the door
One hand on the phone
The other on a blank picture frame
Left alone to remember all the wonderful memories we never had together
There were no memories for us to have
Move your hair from your face and look me in the eyes
With the legend of the mantis still fresh in my mind
I continue trying to give you the key
but your foot's already in the door
Forced to forget tomorrow
Each breath becomes more precious than the last
Drastic weather changes make me tired
Hopefully the worst has passed me now
Flawlessly gorgeous you looked in that dress
Your intentions were more fair than your skin
It hurts to smile when your indecisive ways
freeze my emotionless expressions
Marching to the beat of a near end song
your crystal facade cracks quietly
With the legend of the mantis still fresh in my mind
I continue trying to give you the key
but your foot's already in the door
Flawlessly gorgeous you looked in that dress
your intentions were more fair than your skin
Over and over again, I seem to lose my mind
Like a leaf in the wind of the most atrocious of hurricanes
Carelessly and directionless it floats away
Goodbye
Lyrics submitted by Inoue versus Date
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Hes saying goodbye to someone that has no understanding in what is right in true love or having her understand that he truly loves her.. (Christians look to god as given us right views on things and believing in what's right and that's why we pray for him to understand us when we need someones generosity in listening to us. In this song it shows just that with "With the legend of the mantis still fresh in my mind I continue trying to give you the key but your foot's already in the door". In those three lines Matt's telling us; With the prayers still fresh in his mind he continues to try and make her understand but she's always got her comment to throw in ahead of him without any hesitation to listen to what he believes will help them in the long run.) No matter how he got got the opposed (his girlfriend or) to believe something in not being right because of mistakes people make. But we always have that keen belief in knowing what we should do when we make a mistake (better it by explaining why we made that mistake or try not to let it happen again by knowing it was a mistake.).. when god answers our prayers, it's nothing but a moment of realization.. that's what you need to focus on.. knowing what's right and realizing you should do it because of that blindly stated FACT in every one of their songs. Because "It's just better".
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