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.
It was a night like this
When you can feel it coming
Something special in the room
And you can be that someone
The place was all-a-glow with the disco light
And it came from a screen
Where the kids were trying to dance
Now there's too many televisions
There's too many colored screens
I’d probably join them
If I knew just what that means
This repetition that continues through the night
It goes up down up down left left right
Now you go like you got something to prove
Oh you go like you got something to prove
You’ve done it all before, it still refused to move
So you go go go like you got something to prove
He was a straight laced shooter
Kept his hands at ten and two
But was plagued with impulses that he never quite let through
It wasn’t so apparent by the way that he dressed
Until later in the days all the kids he impressed with the dance
Now there's too many televisions
There's too many colored screens
I’d probably join them
If I knew just what that means
This repetition that continues through the night
It goes up down up down left left right
Now you go like you got something to prove
Oh you go like you got something to prove
You've done it all before and still refuse to move
So you go go go like you've got something to prove
None of them like me
I am so alone
None of them like me
I want to go home
When you can feel it coming
Something special in the room
And you can be that someone
The place was all-a-glow with the disco light
And it came from a screen
Where the kids were trying to dance
Now there's too many televisions
There's too many colored screens
I’d probably join them
If I knew just what that means
This repetition that continues through the night
It goes up down up down left left right
Now you go like you got something to prove
Oh you go like you got something to prove
You’ve done it all before, it still refused to move
So you go go go like you got something to prove
He was a straight laced shooter
Kept his hands at ten and two
But was plagued with impulses that he never quite let through
It wasn’t so apparent by the way that he dressed
Until later in the days all the kids he impressed with the dance
Now there's too many televisions
There's too many colored screens
I’d probably join them
If I knew just what that means
This repetition that continues through the night
It goes up down up down left left right
Now you go like you got something to prove
Oh you go like you got something to prove
You've done it all before and still refuse to move
So you go go go like you've got something to prove
None of them like me
I am so alone
None of them like me
I want to go home
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