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.
O my hunky white anglo-saxon bully boys
You are soaked in syrup like a cherry
You are secure and have no lack of friends
Soaked in syrup like a cherry
You lean against the bar
creaming and dreaming
The choicest fruits of the earth
are on a plate at your feet
You can screw and eat bananas
and play space invaders
Whenever you please o yeah
O my spunky white beauty boys
You are bored to death
You are permitted to wank in public
As long as you keep your hands in your pockets.
You are bored to death
You can chew and wallow and bite and swallow
On giant pornburger mansize cowhide
meatdreams and stagger home
Flattered on real ale.
Real male o yeah
O my white daddytoy babbyboy oi oi bullybelly
You are all you have got
Wake up from the wet dream
cream bun fun fair.
You are all you have got
Close the sunday papers some day rapers
Close the dreamrags and open your eyes
Open your hearts and examine your blood
supply.
You will need them both very soon
O my pacifist neochristian, lillywhite bullyboys
You cannot stand the sight of blood
You are drenched in the blood
of your sisters and brothers.
You are drenched in blood
Your baby lips sucked on the dark breast
Of Africa, India, Arabia.
Black milk and honey
But it's brush off time now sonny
They're buttoning up their blouses now sonny
No more black milk and honey
For your lillywhite tummy sonny
No more honey for Grabbydaddy
Babbydaddy. Suckthumb. Fuckmum
Beebopdaloola bam bam boom
You are soaked in syrup like a cherry
You are secure and have no lack of friends
Soaked in syrup like a cherry
You lean against the bar
creaming and dreaming
The choicest fruits of the earth
are on a plate at your feet
You can screw and eat bananas
and play space invaders
Whenever you please o yeah
O my spunky white beauty boys
You are bored to death
You are permitted to wank in public
As long as you keep your hands in your pockets.
You are bored to death
You can chew and wallow and bite and swallow
On giant pornburger mansize cowhide
meatdreams and stagger home
Flattered on real ale.
Real male o yeah
O my white daddytoy babbyboy oi oi bullybelly
You are all you have got
Wake up from the wet dream
cream bun fun fair.
You are all you have got
Close the sunday papers some day rapers
Close the dreamrags and open your eyes
Open your hearts and examine your blood
supply.
You will need them both very soon
O my pacifist neochristian, lillywhite bullyboys
You cannot stand the sight of blood
You are drenched in the blood
of your sisters and brothers.
You are drenched in blood
Your baby lips sucked on the dark breast
Of Africa, India, Arabia.
Black milk and honey
But it's brush off time now sonny
They're buttoning up their blouses now sonny
No more black milk and honey
For your lillywhite tummy sonny
No more honey for Grabbydaddy
Babbydaddy. Suckthumb. Fuckmum
Beebopdaloola bam bam boom
Lyrics submitted by Anal_Cunt
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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