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.
Yeah, uhuh
Yeah, yeah, what u talking bout?
Yeah, Yeah
Yeah We out at the mall, yeah, so you know that we ball, yeah
Our racks is so tall, yeah, cause we rich as fuck (yeah)
And we out with our blicks, yeah, so we shooting the mob
And you taking these drugs, yeah, but we not impressed, (we not impressed)
Don't nobody care, and I'm out with the crew, yeah
And we shoot in the air (my crew), and you know that we gang, yeah
Cause we got the cash, and you know that we dash, yeah
Cause we scam a lot, we swerve out the lot
Yeah, we got a lot, (yeah we do) yeah we do these drugs, yeah
Your ass is a bug, you ran out of luck, yeah
You talking that shit (pussy), now we pull up on you
And you scared as shit, (ha, ha, ha)
Yeah, yeah, They stay talking yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, we going up, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, we going up, yeah, yeah, we so up
Yeah, you know I been scamming a lot
Yeah, your ass is a loser
Yeah, got rich off computers
Yeah, we riding in scooters
Yeah, we off of the booze, yeah
Your bitch is so loose yeah
Your bitch in my house, yeah, she giving me head, yeah
Right in my room, yeah, I'm writing your tomb, yeah
Hop off of my dick, yeah, we hitting these licks, yeah
We riding with blicks, yeah, we got all these sticks, yeah
Yeah, life ain't fair
You just gotta bear it all, yeah, yeah
Life ain't fair, no, it ain't
Yeah, life ain't fair at all, yeah
Been through it alone, yeah
Ain't nobody calling my phone, yeah
Now I'm in my zone, yeah
Calling my phone, yeah
Leave me alone, yeah
I been through so much, yeah
Been so alone, yeah
Hop off of my dick, yeah
You don't know what I've been through
You don't know me at all
I've been sipping that lean, yeah
Popping a bean, yeah
Feeling so clean, yeah
Ah
Just know that life ain't fair at all
Yeah, yeah, what u talking bout?
Yeah, Yeah
Yeah We out at the mall, yeah, so you know that we ball, yeah
Our racks is so tall, yeah, cause we rich as fuck (yeah)
And we out with our blicks, yeah, so we shooting the mob
And you taking these drugs, yeah, but we not impressed, (we not impressed)
Don't nobody care, and I'm out with the crew, yeah
And we shoot in the air (my crew), and you know that we gang, yeah
Cause we got the cash, and you know that we dash, yeah
Cause we scam a lot, we swerve out the lot
Yeah, we got a lot, (yeah we do) yeah we do these drugs, yeah
Your ass is a bug, you ran out of luck, yeah
You talking that shit (pussy), now we pull up on you
And you scared as shit, (ha, ha, ha)
Yeah, yeah, They stay talking yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, we going up, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, we going up, yeah, yeah, we so up
Yeah, you know I been scamming a lot
Yeah, your ass is a loser
Yeah, got rich off computers
Yeah, we riding in scooters
Yeah, we off of the booze, yeah
Your bitch is so loose yeah
Your bitch in my house, yeah, she giving me head, yeah
Right in my room, yeah, I'm writing your tomb, yeah
Hop off of my dick, yeah, we hitting these licks, yeah
We riding with blicks, yeah, we got all these sticks, yeah
Yeah, life ain't fair
You just gotta bear it all, yeah, yeah
Life ain't fair, no, it ain't
Yeah, life ain't fair at all, yeah
Been through it alone, yeah
Ain't nobody calling my phone, yeah
Now I'm in my zone, yeah
Calling my phone, yeah
Leave me alone, yeah
I been through so much, yeah
Been so alone, yeah
Hop off of my dick, yeah
You don't know what I've been through
You don't know me at all
I've been sipping that lean, yeah
Popping a bean, yeah
Feeling so clean, yeah
Ah
Just know that life ain't fair at all
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