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.
Lucky me
How bad could it be
To be alone for now
To be free
Oh, don't cry
The time, it passes by
Just think of what you'll get when you're past this
So is it alright if I go?
Is it alright if I go?
Oh, don't cry
Just think about the end
I'll find my best friend
At last
Lucky me
I'm ready for a ride
I'll jump off and take a drive
Today
So is it alright if I go?
Is it alright if I go?
Is it alright if I go?
Oh, don't cry
It's time to say goodbye.
So is it alright if I go?
Is it alright if I go?
How bad could it be
To be alone for now
To be free
Oh, don't cry
The time, it passes by
Just think of what you'll get when you're past this
So is it alright if I go?
Is it alright if I go?
Oh, don't cry
Just think about the end
I'll find my best friend
At last
Lucky me
I'm ready for a ride
I'll jump off and take a drive
Today
So is it alright if I go?
Is it alright if I go?
Is it alright if I go?
Oh, don't cry
It's time to say goodbye.
So is it alright if I go?
Is it alright if I go?
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Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
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pretty clearly this is a breakup song. Not just any breakup, but the kind that sends someone already prone to depression into a spin where they start thinking things like “I’ll jump off and take a drive” (I may be reading too much into that line, but not by much). It also has an attempt at optimism in lines like “Just think of what you’ll get when you’re past this,” but hearing the way this line is song, it’s clear that’s more of what she has to tell herself to keep going, rather then what she truly feels. The same goes for the first two lines (“How bad could it be, To be alone for now, To be free”), where she rhetorically asks a question the tone of the song answers. This gives the title line a bitter sarcasm.
A pretty dark song, on a pretty dark album from someone who’s not well known for singing dark songs because she usually sounds happier when she does it and most people don’t catch the lyrics (case in point, This, which sounds upbeat, but according to Lisa Loeb is, roughly, about reassuring a friend she wasn‘t going to kill herself).