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.
This is how the story went
I met someone by accident
That blew me away
That blew me away
It was in the darkest of my days
When you took my sorrow and you took my pain
And buried them away, you buried them away
I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
You'll disappear one day
So I spend my whole life hiding my heart away
You dropped me off at the train station
Put a kiss on top of my head
Watched me wave
You watched me wave
Then you went on home to your skyscrapers
Neon lights and waiting papers
That you call home
You call it home
I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
You'll disappear one day
So I spend my whole life hiding my heart away (away)
I woke up feeling heavy hearted
I'm going back to where I started
The morning rain
The morning rain
And although I wish that you were near
That same old road that brought me here
Is calling me home
It's calling me home
I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
You'll disappear one day
So I spend my whole life hiding my heart away
And I can't spend my whole life hiding my heart away
I met someone by accident
That blew me away
That blew me away
It was in the darkest of my days
When you took my sorrow and you took my pain
And buried them away, you buried them away
I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
You'll disappear one day
So I spend my whole life hiding my heart away
You dropped me off at the train station
Put a kiss on top of my head
Watched me wave
You watched me wave
Then you went on home to your skyscrapers
Neon lights and waiting papers
That you call home
You call it home
I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
You'll disappear one day
So I spend my whole life hiding my heart away (away)
I woke up feeling heavy hearted
I'm going back to where I started
The morning rain
The morning rain
And although I wish that you were near
That same old road that brought me here
Is calling me home
It's calling me home
I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
You'll disappear one day
So I spend my whole life hiding my heart away
And I can't spend my whole life hiding my heart away
Lyrics submitted by hideindoors, edited by punkyboi
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I think it's the end of "the story", as in the title track. She says in the beginning "this is how the story went"...so I think it's maybe how the end of that love story went. Sad but immensely beautiful.
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I think the meaning is pretty straightforward - she fell in love, deeply, and then the relationship ended and with it so did her ability to open her heart again (at least up to that point). Poignant. Although I do wonder if the lines "Although I wish that you were here, That same old road that brought me here Is calling me home, It's calling me home" is a turning point. If she's back at a point where someone is catching her by surprise and opening her heart again.
I have to add, I completely resonate with the opening lines. The deepest I've ever fallen is always a moment by "accident", someone I never would have anticipated, at all. And I'm blown away. It has completely tarnished my ability to settle for adequate, but I think that's a good thing. Not that being blown away means perfection - it's just an insight into the depth and beauty that a relationship can be.