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.
Been tryna to claim things I haven't earned honest, man
Slick Rick and OutKast is on this jam
What, kid? Diamond on the tooth, two grand
Tryin' to help raise all youth to man
So give the Ruler Rick, his space to slam
Help clean up this land
The reputation of this man
Withhold and withstand
OutKast and Slick, the answer is in it
Hon' you need to get your ass on the dance floor this minute
We bruise stuff, knock you out shoes, socks
Show your ass, move, you forgot we're mad smoove snots
La-di-da-di, mmm, we like to party
Don't make me get money and platinumize my body
With bright stuff, known to earn a dyke's love
Blind folks be like, somebody turned the lights off
Immense strength, poppin' out a muffin
Make famous artists that's dead hop out a coffin
At the real estate, behavin' type choosy
Want a palace, make the shit beige and light blue please
Got the kid like watch your manners
Since I came out of jail, it's like the planet gone bananas
Lack of strength a badder fella had
Lady lookin' at me all stink, I had to tell her that
Been tryna to claim things I haven't earned honest, man
Slick Rick and OutKast is on this jam
What, kid? Diamond on the tooth, two grand (uh)
Tryin' to help raise all youth to man
So give the Ruler Rick, his space to slam
Help clean up this land
The reputation of this man
Withhold and withstand
Uh, I went from Player's Ball to bull-doggin'
From bull-doggin' to bow-hoggin'
Now bow-hoggin' and pimp-walkin'
That strictly fresh and street talkin'
And we all last like that there
Ruin them all up like cat hair
We never fall off like hat wear
We some of the dopest MC's out there
Now eat that
OutKast and Ricky D, bitch, can you beat that?
Remember the time I laid them down to Teenage Love?
Now see that
Just to sport a rhyme and break in new patterns like hymens
Shuckin' and jivin' was never the style
I'm gon' keep on bein' this lion
Spittin' that king shit, you cling shit
A tailor and a seamstress
Blue gators for you haters and the penis for all you bitches
Like an addiction 'use I need it
Hip-hop is dead I feed it
Like a junkie showin' your monkey
'Cause I sho' nuff like to beat it
Might just eat it just to skeet it
Fold you up like you was pleated
Like some slacks and, relaxin'
Be strollin' like Sir-Captain
See I got a, baby daughter, and I feed her with this rappin'
Not trappin', D-boy, but rappin', huh (yeah, yeah)
Been tryna to claim things I haven't earned honest, man
Slick Rick and OutKast is on this jam
What, kid? Diamond on the tooth, two grand
Tryin' to help raise all youth to man
So give the Ruler Rick, his space to slam
Help clean up this land
The reputation of this man
Withhold and withstand
Seems everyboy's open off the grammar
The white fox pink velvet suit, white cabana
Listen, baby girl, genius victor
Dreamboat, miss, you shoulda been clicked picture
(Check her out)
I don't know what you're tryin' to figure out
Down South, barbecue ribs fly out a nigga mouth
And touchin' me The Chosen, for such a will opposin'
Me and Big Boi tryin' to give our children clothing
Smokin' love, do we provide dope enough?
Even people unborn kid wide open off
The enginin' I'm sendin' in
Even make construction workers start actin' kind of feminine (hi)
Ten percent'll blast this hit from me and Big Boi
Who represent the OutKast click
A jealous cat, lack of strength a badder fella had
Lady lookin' at me all stink, had to tell her that
Been tryna to claim things I haven't earned honest, man
Slick Rick and OutKast is on this jam
What, kid? Diamond on the tooth, two grand
Tryin' to help raise all youth to man
So give the Ruler Rick, his space to slam
Help clean up this land
The reputation of this man
Withhold and withstand
Slick Rick and OutKast is on this jam
Tryin' to help raise all youth to man
So give the Ruler Rick, his space to slam
Slick Rick and OutKast is on this jam
What, kid? Diamond on the tooth, two grand
Tryin' to help raise all youth to man
So give the Ruler Rick, his space to slam
Help clean up this land
The reputation of this man
Withhold and withstand
OutKast and Slick, the answer is in it
Hon' you need to get your ass on the dance floor this minute
We bruise stuff, knock you out shoes, socks
Show your ass, move, you forgot we're mad smoove snots
La-di-da-di, mmm, we like to party
Don't make me get money and platinumize my body
With bright stuff, known to earn a dyke's love
Blind folks be like, somebody turned the lights off
Immense strength, poppin' out a muffin
Make famous artists that's dead hop out a coffin
At the real estate, behavin' type choosy
Want a palace, make the shit beige and light blue please
Got the kid like watch your manners
Since I came out of jail, it's like the planet gone bananas
Lack of strength a badder fella had
Lady lookin' at me all stink, I had to tell her that
Been tryna to claim things I haven't earned honest, man
Slick Rick and OutKast is on this jam
What, kid? Diamond on the tooth, two grand (uh)
Tryin' to help raise all youth to man
So give the Ruler Rick, his space to slam
Help clean up this land
The reputation of this man
Withhold and withstand
Uh, I went from Player's Ball to bull-doggin'
From bull-doggin' to bow-hoggin'
Now bow-hoggin' and pimp-walkin'
That strictly fresh and street talkin'
And we all last like that there
Ruin them all up like cat hair
We never fall off like hat wear
We some of the dopest MC's out there
Now eat that
OutKast and Ricky D, bitch, can you beat that?
Remember the time I laid them down to Teenage Love?
Now see that
Just to sport a rhyme and break in new patterns like hymens
Shuckin' and jivin' was never the style
I'm gon' keep on bein' this lion
Spittin' that king shit, you cling shit
A tailor and a seamstress
Blue gators for you haters and the penis for all you bitches
Like an addiction 'use I need it
Hip-hop is dead I feed it
Like a junkie showin' your monkey
'Cause I sho' nuff like to beat it
Might just eat it just to skeet it
Fold you up like you was pleated
Like some slacks and, relaxin'
Be strollin' like Sir-Captain
See I got a, baby daughter, and I feed her with this rappin'
Not trappin', D-boy, but rappin', huh (yeah, yeah)
Been tryna to claim things I haven't earned honest, man
Slick Rick and OutKast is on this jam
What, kid? Diamond on the tooth, two grand
Tryin' to help raise all youth to man
So give the Ruler Rick, his space to slam
Help clean up this land
The reputation of this man
Withhold and withstand
Seems everyboy's open off the grammar
The white fox pink velvet suit, white cabana
Listen, baby girl, genius victor
Dreamboat, miss, you shoulda been clicked picture
(Check her out)
I don't know what you're tryin' to figure out
Down South, barbecue ribs fly out a nigga mouth
And touchin' me The Chosen, for such a will opposin'
Me and Big Boi tryin' to give our children clothing
Smokin' love, do we provide dope enough?
Even people unborn kid wide open off
The enginin' I'm sendin' in
Even make construction workers start actin' kind of feminine (hi)
Ten percent'll blast this hit from me and Big Boi
Who represent the OutKast click
A jealous cat, lack of strength a badder fella had
Lady lookin' at me all stink, had to tell her that
Been tryna to claim things I haven't earned honest, man
Slick Rick and OutKast is on this jam
What, kid? Diamond on the tooth, two grand
Tryin' to help raise all youth to man
So give the Ruler Rick, his space to slam
Help clean up this land
The reputation of this man
Withhold and withstand
Slick Rick and OutKast is on this jam
Tryin' to help raise all youth to man
So give the Ruler Rick, his space to slam
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
Street Talkin' Lyrics as written by Phalon Anton Alexander Ricky M. L. Walters
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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