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.
You're worthless, you plague humanity
Be nothing without me
Your curses try to get back to me
But still there is no time
Bludgeoned
Your curses with thoughts and narration for what I say
(Hope you listen)
Your cursed with thoughts and narration this is what you get
(I made you smile)
And doctors won't be able to recognize your fucking face!
Be nothing, be nothing without me
How could you think that I was joking
But I'm not, be nothing, be strong, without me
But still curses crumble as we (let this happen)
We can't let this happen
As we all come down
We can't
Because, because
You abide by something funny
What's funny now?
You abide by something sacred
You found it gone
Inside
Inside
Inside your curses die
Inside
Inside
Inside your curses die
Be nothing without me
Your curses try to get back to me
But still there is no time
Bludgeoned
Your curses with thoughts and narration for what I say
(Hope you listen)
Your cursed with thoughts and narration this is what you get
(I made you smile)
And doctors won't be able to recognize your fucking face!
Be nothing, be nothing without me
How could you think that I was joking
But I'm not, be nothing, be strong, without me
But still curses crumble as we (let this happen)
We can't let this happen
As we all come down
We can't
Because, because
You abide by something funny
What's funny now?
You abide by something sacred
You found it gone
Inside
Inside
Inside your curses die
Inside
Inside
Inside your curses die
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Fortnight
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No shit. I'd take Eminem over these piece of shit scenester posers any day...
HAHAHA. Eminem over SS? Mitch could bludegeon Marshall with a microphone