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.
So it begins
Our eyes torn open
Free from the thoughts of doubt
Free from our selfish confines
our blood
Restless, ceaseless
With open arms we stand before the dawn
The sun seems to have been rising
Ever since I can recall
lending a sense of permanence
To this lying world
Your words not worth the air
Your life???s not worth its weight in flesh
To hope for something more
To dream of substance
Like a million before us
Waiting to die
Like a billion before us
Waiting to die
Masochistic
Don???t think this won???t be remembered Would be remembered
Sadistic
Perpetuation of stagnation
There is nothing as empty
As waiting to die
We spend our lives wasting as time eats us alive
The sun seems to have been falling ever since I can recall
The only sense of permanence
In this dying world
Sit back and watch as time eats us alive
Everyone who knew me(knew me)
Destined to die(die)
The marks I've left
Upon this world
Will wash away
In time
In time
And so it ends
In time
It all finds an end
In time
And so it ends
In time
We all find an end
With broken arms
And hollow eyes
I???ll wait our return
To oblivion
Embrace our last
Empty
Horizons
Embrace our last empty
Horizons x5
Our eyes torn open
Free from the thoughts of doubt
Free from our selfish confines
our blood
Restless, ceaseless
With open arms we stand before the dawn
The sun seems to have been rising
Ever since I can recall
lending a sense of permanence
To this lying world
Your words not worth the air
Your life???s not worth its weight in flesh
To hope for something more
To dream of substance
Like a million before us
Waiting to die
Like a billion before us
Waiting to die
Masochistic
Don???t think this won???t be remembered Would be remembered
Sadistic
Perpetuation of stagnation
There is nothing as empty
As waiting to die
We spend our lives wasting as time eats us alive
The sun seems to have been falling ever since I can recall
The only sense of permanence
In this dying world
Sit back and watch as time eats us alive
Everyone who knew me(knew me)
Destined to die(die)
The marks I've left
Upon this world
Will wash away
In time
In time
And so it ends
In time
It all finds an end
In time
And so it ends
In time
We all find an end
With broken arms
And hollow eyes
I???ll wait our return
To oblivion
Embrace our last
Empty
Horizons
Embrace our last empty
Horizons x5
Lyrics submitted by Sam420, edited by Scyon, pezthegreendragon, Mellow_Harsher
Horizons Lyrics as written by Jeffrey Cleve Ling Benjamin Michael Gordon
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I really like the post of Lets Rape Don Vito since dividing it up into those parts makes it alot easier to interpret. In my opinion this song just describes the "travel through life" from part I when you're young with dreams and full of hope for the future, eager to start your life.
Then in part II you get involved with the society, which holds you back/discourage you from dreaming/wanting to change the world ("Your words, not worth the air. Your life, not worth its weight in flesh."), which forces you to become mainstream, just getting part of the system => not having an own opinion/no higher goals, not careing too much etc. ("Like a million before us, waiting to die. Like a billion before us, waiting to die."). Shortly stating that such a life isn't really a worthy life, since you're just "waiting to die".
Still in part II, the in my opinion most important lines come: "We spend our lives wasting, as time eats us alive. The sun seems to have been falling ever since I can recall. The only sence of permanence in this dying world. Sit back and watch as time eats us alive. Everyone who knew me, Destined to die. The marks I left upon this world will wash away." Making the interpretation before more understandable, though now you are a bit older again, really experiencing that nothing you do will change anything due to the state of the world.
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Now I haven't mentioned all the contradictions stressing the meanings, like e.g. "The sun seems to have been rising ever since I can recall. Lending a sense of permanence to this lying world." and "The sun seems to have been falling ever since I can recall. The only sence of permanence in this dying world." (there are loads of them, I'm sure you noticed ;)
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Great work Sam420