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.
A new life begins!
Destroy everything(x3)
Obliterate what makes us weak
Destroy everything(x3)
Decimate what threatens me
Cleanse this world with flame
End this, cleanse this
Rebuild and start again
Obliterate what makes us weak
End this and embrace the destruction
End this to embrace new life (new life)
Even an empty threat deserves a response you won't soon forget
I must destroy everything that tries to infect
Even an empty threat deserves a response you won't soon forget
I must destroy everything that tries to infect
Destroy everything(x3)
Obliterate what makes us weak
Destroy everything(x3)
Decimate what threatens me
Cleanse this world with flame
End this, cleanse this
Rebuild and start again
Obliterate what makes us weak
End this and embrace the destruction
End this to embrace new life (new life)
Even an empty threat deserves a response you won't soon forget
I must destroy everything that tries to infect
Even an empty threat deserves a response you won't soon forget
I must destroy everything that tries to infect
A new life begins
Destroy everything(x2)
Obliterate what makes us weak
Destroy everything(x3)
Decimate what threatens me
Destroy everything(x3)
So a new life can begin
Destroy everything(x3)
Rebuild and start again, again
Destroy everything(x3)
Obliterate what makes us weak
Destroy everything(x3)
Decimate what threatens me
Cleanse this world with flame
End this, cleanse this
Rebuild and start again
Obliterate what makes us weak
End this and embrace the destruction
End this to embrace new life (new life)
Even an empty threat deserves a response you won't soon forget
I must destroy everything that tries to infect
Even an empty threat deserves a response you won't soon forget
I must destroy everything that tries to infect
Destroy everything(x3)
Obliterate what makes us weak
Destroy everything(x3)
Decimate what threatens me
Cleanse this world with flame
End this, cleanse this
Rebuild and start again
Obliterate what makes us weak
End this and embrace the destruction
End this to embrace new life (new life)
Even an empty threat deserves a response you won't soon forget
I must destroy everything that tries to infect
Even an empty threat deserves a response you won't soon forget
I must destroy everything that tries to infect
A new life begins
Destroy everything(x2)
Obliterate what makes us weak
Destroy everything(x3)
Decimate what threatens me
Destroy everything(x3)
So a new life can begin
Destroy everything(x3)
Rebuild and start again, again
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Destroy Everything Lyrics as written by James Joseph Shanahan Chris Beattie
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