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.
Bleed, when you thought you knew
Do you hear me shout?
Bleeding through my head, my heart, my eyes (to come home)
What I'm thinking now when I take you out
We can hold these thoughts I have of you 'til it comes
There's no more ways to tell you
I want to fuck you now
With every ounce of anger
In turn we know you're going down
But now, it's over, I'm calmer
Her crimson flowing down
Like water
I saw her as she hit the ground
(Now) it's over, I'm calmer
Her crimson flowing down
Like water
I saw her as she hit the ground
Bruise, when I tear you up
Have I gone too far?
What about my fist, your mouth, her scars (to come home)
What I'm thinking now when I stumble down
We can never say that you are gone 'til it comes
There's no more ways to show you
I just can't take no more
The thought of me inside you
Just makes me sick, you're going down
But now, it's over, I'm calmer
Her crimson flowing down
Like water
I saw her as she hit the ground
(Now) it's over, I'm calmer
Her crimson flowing down
Like water
I saw her as she hit the ground
Hey, when you thought you knew
Do you hear me shout?
Bleeding through my head, my heart, my eyes (to come home)
What I'm thinking now when I take you out
We can hold these thoughts I have of you 'til it comes
There's no more ways to show you
I just can't take no more
The thought of me inside you
Just makes me sick, you're going down
(There's no more ways to tell you
I want to fuck you now)
With every ounce of anger
In turn we know you're going down
Do you hear me shout?
Bleeding through my head, my heart, my eyes (to come home)
What I'm thinking now when I take you out
We can hold these thoughts I have of you 'til it comes
There's no more ways to tell you
I want to fuck you now
With every ounce of anger
In turn we know you're going down
But now, it's over, I'm calmer
Her crimson flowing down
Like water
I saw her as she hit the ground
(Now) it's over, I'm calmer
Her crimson flowing down
Like water
I saw her as she hit the ground
Bruise, when I tear you up
Have I gone too far?
What about my fist, your mouth, her scars (to come home)
What I'm thinking now when I stumble down
We can never say that you are gone 'til it comes
There's no more ways to show you
I just can't take no more
The thought of me inside you
Just makes me sick, you're going down
But now, it's over, I'm calmer
Her crimson flowing down
Like water
I saw her as she hit the ground
(Now) it's over, I'm calmer
Her crimson flowing down
Like water
I saw her as she hit the ground
Hey, when you thought you knew
Do you hear me shout?
Bleeding through my head, my heart, my eyes (to come home)
What I'm thinking now when I take you out
We can hold these thoughts I have of you 'til it comes
There's no more ways to show you
I just can't take no more
The thought of me inside you
Just makes me sick, you're going down
(There's no more ways to tell you
I want to fuck you now)
With every ounce of anger
In turn we know you're going down
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My Fist, Your Mouth, Her Scars Lyrics as written by Michael Paget Jason James
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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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"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
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"Some and now none of you"
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Wu-Tang Clan
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this song definitely is about a situation where some other person hurt the person he loved "her scars" most likely both emotional and physical "bleeding through my head, MY HEART, my EYES). and now the bridge tells us how much he hates that offender "with every ounce of anger, in turn we know you're going down".
then the chorus tells us that the offender has been brutally beaten "your crimson (blood) flowing down, like water" and next he reflect on whether he had "gone too far" as he "stumbles down".
also when he says "we know you're going down", i don't think he did the beaten in group, but that his audience by now should know what his next action would be.
amazing lyrics to me personally, enough ambiguity (fuck =/= sex all the time), relatable, awesomely brutal + in your face emotions. fav part of the song is the bridge, heavy tension and of course guitar solo :)
To me this is about hitting someone who hurt your loved one so much that it caused scars or caused them to cut therefore leading to scars i totataly relate i just cant wait to make him cry....
Awesome song.... I always thought the lyrics were:
But now, it's over, I'm colder, her crimson flowing down like water, I saw her as she hit the ground.
I could be wrong though
The lyric is "But now, it's over, I'm calmer, her crimson flowing down like water, I saw her as she hit the ground."
their lyrics are br00tal :@
well nambeed ur lyrics make more sense than mine and it does sound like that. But all the lyric websites say its what ive put in
well nambeed ur lyrics make more sense than mine and it does sound like that. But all the lyric websites say its what ive put in
Where can you get this song? I really want to listen to it, I can relate to the lyrics a lot...
I don't quite get this, awesome song yeah, but I don't understand it...... Please help.
its off the revised edition of the poison they were showing it on the BFMV website a while ago.
the song is off the everything i hate ep. and you wouldnt understand with those lyrics. i dont know the whole song, but the chorus definitely is 'but now, its over, im calmer.. her crimson flowing down like water. and i dont think its proof.. im pretty sure he says bruised, or bruise, somthin somthin somthin, have i gone to far ? somthin somthin somthin, my fist, your scars, her mouth. just about most of it is wrong best i can tell. but good attempt, obviously i cant do much better. and yeah, br00tal is right. to me its just about his valentine deserving a bullet. i can def. relate
then it goes Hand Of Blood then shes fucked!