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.
Let's show this world we can be alright,
Without it's sponsors word
I think my mind is almost washed,
America might change it's time line if
The media fucked off
And quit filling kids with lies.
I just can't let this record play (play now I can't find)
'Cause I feel like the masses are quietly lied to,
And they don't discuss the way (way now I can't find)
We treat foreign country's who oppose our policy
And I feel (and I feel)
So hollow
Like a trapped soul inside of a desperate heart,
And I feel (and I feel)
So hollow
This pledge of resistance is about to start now,
I just can't sing this song with out (without my heart I feel so)
My heart cause I'm so alive ya I'm so alive
And I know this empire is run on (faith in an empire now)
Fear and this greed sets apart from innocence
And I feel (and I feel)
So hollow
Like a trapped soul inside of a desperate heart,
And I feel (and I feel)
So hollow
This pledge of resistance is about to start NOW,
(Now)-This-(This)-Pledge-(Pledge) of resistance now won't you
This-(This)-Pledge-(Pledge) of resistance now won't you
"We have nailed our names in the pages of history enough for today"
Let's light this world on fire
And watch it burn
Let's light this world on fire
Without it's sponsors word
I think my mind is almost washed,
America might change it's time line if
The media fucked off
And quit filling kids with lies.
I just can't let this record play (play now I can't find)
'Cause I feel like the masses are quietly lied to,
And they don't discuss the way (way now I can't find)
We treat foreign country's who oppose our policy
And I feel (and I feel)
So hollow
Like a trapped soul inside of a desperate heart,
And I feel (and I feel)
So hollow
This pledge of resistance is about to start now,
I just can't sing this song with out (without my heart I feel so)
My heart cause I'm so alive ya I'm so alive
And I know this empire is run on (faith in an empire now)
Fear and this greed sets apart from innocence
And I feel (and I feel)
So hollow
Like a trapped soul inside of a desperate heart,
And I feel (and I feel)
So hollow
This pledge of resistance is about to start NOW,
(Now)-This-(This)-Pledge-(Pledge) of resistance now won't you
This-(This)-Pledge-(Pledge) of resistance now won't you
"We have nailed our names in the pages of history enough for today"
Let's light this world on fire
And watch it burn
Let's light this world on fire
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WiL and the band saying how fucked up america is now a days
Nuff said.
"We have nailed our names in the pages of history, enough for today." Full Metal Jacket