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.
Pick up a pizza, pineapple ham
And put it in the back of a Good Times van
Well, go out and pick up the rest of the band
We're gonna have a good time
Yeah Lilly of the valley, Lilly on a rug
Lilly drove here in a V W bug
Am I on the guest list, give her a shrug
We're gonna have a good time
Yeah, we gonna be like an ice cream cone
Better eat it quick gonna be long gone
By me a whiskey, get yourself stoned
We're gonna have a good time
Well, sit on a table, sit on the floor
Act like a virgin, act like you're sore
Winner or loser they're both too fine
We're gonna have a good time
When we see you in Atlanta or Abilene
The prettiest girls that I've ever seen
Be sweet as honey girl don't be mean
We're gonna have a good time
Yeah, we gonna be like an ice cream cone
Better eat it quick gonna be long gone
Buy me a whiskey, get yourself stoned
We're gonna have a good time
Well, a lot of people talk can shut the hell up
Sneak out a beer in a styrofoam cup
I'm gonna start singing so don't interrupt
We're gonna have a good time
Well, live in the country, live in the town
Come out tonight gonna burn them all down
Don't let the bastards get yourself down
We're gonna have a good time
Yeah, we gonna be like an ice cream cone
Better eat it quick gonna be long gone
Buy me a whiskey get yourself stoned
We're gonna have a good time
I said, buy me a whiskey, get yourself stoned
We're gonna have a good time, yeah
And put it in the back of a Good Times van
Well, go out and pick up the rest of the band
We're gonna have a good time
Yeah Lilly of the valley, Lilly on a rug
Lilly drove here in a V W bug
Am I on the guest list, give her a shrug
We're gonna have a good time
Yeah, we gonna be like an ice cream cone
Better eat it quick gonna be long gone
By me a whiskey, get yourself stoned
We're gonna have a good time
Well, sit on a table, sit on the floor
Act like a virgin, act like you're sore
Winner or loser they're both too fine
We're gonna have a good time
When we see you in Atlanta or Abilene
The prettiest girls that I've ever seen
Be sweet as honey girl don't be mean
We're gonna have a good time
Yeah, we gonna be like an ice cream cone
Better eat it quick gonna be long gone
Buy me a whiskey, get yourself stoned
We're gonna have a good time
Well, a lot of people talk can shut the hell up
Sneak out a beer in a styrofoam cup
I'm gonna start singing so don't interrupt
We're gonna have a good time
Well, live in the country, live in the town
Come out tonight gonna burn them all down
Don't let the bastards get yourself down
We're gonna have a good time
Yeah, we gonna be like an ice cream cone
Better eat it quick gonna be long gone
Buy me a whiskey get yourself stoned
We're gonna have a good time
I said, buy me a whiskey, get yourself stoned
We're gonna have a good time, yeah
Lyrics submitted by LeSerpentMascara
Good Times Lyrics as written by Charlie Musselwhite
Lyrics © Exceleration Music Partners, LLC
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I pretty much can't stand this song. laughs But it was one of the sample songs that came with my computer and I've been going through all the music on my computer and I'm trying to get the lyrics of every song on my computer on SongMeanings. Most are already here, but this one wasn't so what the heck.
leserpentmascara, you have no idea what you're talking about. this song means so much to me...it symbolizes everything i've been going through for the last year. but you have to come in and make some ridiculous assumptions about it that make no sense! i'm on the verge of tears right now..i don't even know what to say..
Shut up Ally. (pinkcakepartyfavors is my sister just so everyone knows, so don't call the SongMeanings police or anything...)