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.
When I meet the morning beam
Or lay me down at night to dream
I hear my bones within me say
Another night, another day
The man of flesh and soul be slain
And the man of bone remain
These today are proud in power
And lord it in their little hour
The immortal bones obey control
Of dying flesh and dying soul
The immortal bones obey control
Of dying flesh and dying soul
'This long till eve and morn are gone
Slow the endless night comes on
And late to fullness growns the birth
That shall last as long as earth
These today are proud in power
And lord it in their little hour
The immortal bones obey control
Of dying flesh and dying soul
These today are proud in power
And lord it in their little hour
The immortal bones obey control
Of dying flesh and dying soul
Wanderers eastward, wanderers west,
Know you why you cannot rest
'Tis that every mother's son
Travails with a skeleton
When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of thoughts be laid at last
Bring the eternal seed to light
And morn is all the same as night
Rest you so from trouble sore,
Fear the heat o' the son no more
Nor the snowing winter wild
Now you labour not with child
Empty vessel, garment cast
We that wore you long shall last
Another night, another day
So my bones within me say
Or lay me down at night to dream
I hear my bones within me say
Another night, another day
The man of flesh and soul be slain
And the man of bone remain
These today are proud in power
And lord it in their little hour
The immortal bones obey control
Of dying flesh and dying soul
The immortal bones obey control
Of dying flesh and dying soul
'This long till eve and morn are gone
Slow the endless night comes on
And late to fullness growns the birth
That shall last as long as earth
These today are proud in power
And lord it in their little hour
The immortal bones obey control
Of dying flesh and dying soul
These today are proud in power
And lord it in their little hour
The immortal bones obey control
Of dying flesh and dying soul
Wanderers eastward, wanderers west,
Know you why you cannot rest
'Tis that every mother's son
Travails with a skeleton
When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of thoughts be laid at last
Bring the eternal seed to light
And morn is all the same as night
Rest you so from trouble sore,
Fear the heat o' the son no more
Nor the snowing winter wild
Now you labour not with child
Empty vessel, garment cast
We that wore you long shall last
Another night, another day
So my bones within me say
Lyrics submitted by seasons of grey
The Immortal Part Lyrics as written by Thomas Rainer - Hausmann
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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