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 lived a time of lies until you told me everything
I hope we make amends, but you don't
Life taught you how to fly and then you flew away from me
You left me haunted, star the ending image of the one
[Chorus]
Because they're still in you too low
All the voices you don't know
And they're still in you too low
All the choices that you chose
You harbored all the wasted sighs to define the quiet drone
I'll let you start again, but you won't
I saw you pray for change and then you walked all over me
You wanted what you could not have and now you are alone
[Chorus]
Make the voices tell me who you are, and who I am to be
Are you alone where you are tonight?
I'm alone when you're right here
But I'm still in you somehow
I never left at all
Now I'm still in you too low
So my voice is all you know
[Chorus]
Leave you nothing left to hold
When you're nothing it's a good time to remind you of one thing
The pursuit begins when this portrayal of life ends
I hope we make amends, but you don't
Life taught you how to fly and then you flew away from me
You left me haunted, star the ending image of the one
[Chorus]
Because they're still in you too low
All the voices you don't know
And they're still in you too low
All the choices that you chose
You harbored all the wasted sighs to define the quiet drone
I'll let you start again, but you won't
I saw you pray for change and then you walked all over me
You wanted what you could not have and now you are alone
[Chorus]
Make the voices tell me who you are, and who I am to be
Are you alone where you are tonight?
I'm alone when you're right here
But I'm still in you somehow
I never left at all
Now I'm still in you too low
So my voice is all you know
[Chorus]
Leave you nothing left to hold
When you're nothing it's a good time to remind you of one thing
The pursuit begins when this portrayal of life ends
Lyrics submitted by Blackjack13
The Pursuit Lyrics as written by Kevin James Clarkson Joseph Daniel Lauzon
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Fortnight
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Amazing
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I think this song is about a couple who are going through rough times for a long while. This guy knew there was something wrong going on for so long and trying to figure things out and fix them. She confessed all she did, she've been lying to him for so long & each time things go bad she just run so far away. He's hoping for amendmentnd and says "but you don't"meaning you are not trying !! He feels everything between them is a lie but still he is giving her a second chance. He says "you left me haunted" not knowing what went wrong with our relation and even though I kept trying all the time.
In the second stanza, he says that all the voices and choices u have will always be there inside you and you will always follow them flying away from me. He wants to say that I'm not the one for you, I've never been enough for you that u always follow these voices, running to other things !!
In the third stanza, what he meant is that she is hiding so much from him & now that she conffessed he wants to give her another chance and start all over again "but you wont" meaning I'm sure u will not try again, therefore, why would I give u another chance ?!! "I saw you pray for change ...." he wants to tell her that all she do is just hope n pray for things to change but when it comes to taking actions she just walk away cuz deep inside her he is not the thing she wants and he says he knows it thats why "ur alone now" he wants to tell her that he is not staying.
In the fifth stanza, he wants her to know that he is fed up with this feeling and asks her if she feels alone being without him and tellin her that he is no more having that feeling, on the contrary, he would feel alone when she is around cuz he no long feels her!!
But I'm still in you somehow I never left at all Now I'm stealing you too low So my voice is all you know
he is sure he will always be there inside her somehow cuz he is certain that she've been feeling his love for her and will always regret losing him. He says now it's my turn to steal you cuz once i will leave I will be all the voices that call you .. it will feel like it's only my voice which you knew and will always follow. This time, my voice will be so deep inside u, hard to not to follow ..
I LOVED THIS SONG :D
@2my just go ahead and describe my life why don't ya? 🤣only difference is my wife hasn't made this narcissistic habit of lying to me except for when she says she'll try, but then doesn't.