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.
i seen em movin round estates
spreadin, up to no good
baa RAM RAM
look of vacancy, no politics,
gettin rude
baa RAM RAM
power to the people,
not their morals or principals
baa RAM RAM
power to the ovine
refined individual
baa ram ewe
EWE EWE EWE
grazin you be part of the herd
never on the streets always in the dirt
whats is feel like, oh shit does it hurt?
you can only tell me with sheep words
baaraamyou, nah dont talk weird
you know exactly why im out here
to watch grown men with a face full of tears
when theyre ina pen waitin to be sheared
"ere why dyu all look the same"
oi luv its just becus they all share one brain
they might just realise one day
that everyones gonna hate them anyway
nobody ever gonna like a clone
watch em grow up and live all alone
go on their own like solo
a hole in the middle like a polo, sorry thats a no-go
baa ram you
try somethin new
whole new level just like verse 2
all embracing blanket like a nomad wears to tend his herd
choking the weak minded through front covers, force fed sovereignwords
bowing down to fashion
so you can pick up the debris
baa ram ram
not an anarchist like sid but still won't
let you run me
baa ram ram
pretend you dont know bout the children
inb the third world countries
baa ram ram
wailing like a banshee
most of em are type B
all cos of your vanity
baa ram you
spreadin, up to no good
baa RAM RAM
look of vacancy, no politics,
gettin rude
baa RAM RAM
power to the people,
not their morals or principals
baa RAM RAM
power to the ovine
refined individual
baa ram ewe
EWE EWE EWE
grazin you be part of the herd
never on the streets always in the dirt
whats is feel like, oh shit does it hurt?
you can only tell me with sheep words
baaraamyou, nah dont talk weird
you know exactly why im out here
to watch grown men with a face full of tears
when theyre ina pen waitin to be sheared
"ere why dyu all look the same"
oi luv its just becus they all share one brain
they might just realise one day
that everyones gonna hate them anyway
nobody ever gonna like a clone
watch em grow up and live all alone
go on their own like solo
a hole in the middle like a polo, sorry thats a no-go
baa ram you
try somethin new
whole new level just like verse 2
all embracing blanket like a nomad wears to tend his herd
choking the weak minded through front covers, force fed sovereignwords
bowing down to fashion
so you can pick up the debris
baa ram ram
not an anarchist like sid but still won't
let you run me
baa ram ram
pretend you dont know bout the children
inb the third world countries
baa ram ram
wailing like a banshee
most of em are type B
all cos of your vanity
baa ram you
Lyrics submitted by Onehit
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