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 ran out of money and space in my luggage
Think I need to budget
I totaled the coupe now I’m pushing a bucket
I swerve like I’m rushing
On my way to you when I’m scared of the loving
I feel so disgusted
You asking questions I’m changing the subject
Cuz we ain’t gotta discuss it
I flew cross the country I needed a break
I still can’t get away
Thinking what did I do to her, what do I say
I’m worried bout you in a whole ‘nother state
I just wanna get back the past couple days
My mind has been racing and trying to escape
I tell you it feel like you feeling no way
I’m running late cause I’m running in place
I just wanna know if I come up in conversation
When you talk to your friends if it’s me that you think made it complicated
For the time I waited girl I hate the feeling that my time is wasted
I’m just trying baby, Would you even notice if I died today
Is it me that you tryna play
[PreHook]
Just answer your phone
I know you’re home
I been alone
For way too long
One day I’ll be gone
But I’m tryna be strong
Just pick up your phone
Just pick up your phone
[vamp]
It’s too cold out here
To let you not be near
But I still hold my tears
And you can’t know my fears
[Verse 2]
Just give me a sign that you giving a fuck
I’m over here dying, you living up
You ain’t even check on me, all on gram you been flickin it up
I feed off your love, you ain’t giving enough
The ball your court you ain’t picking it up
Don’t do it for me girl I’m in it for us
Hangin on by a thread need to put me on life support
How the hell did we get like this so fast baby you was so nice before
Swimming in my own thoughts, finna start drowning but who is gone drive the boat
Surrounded by blue this time around cuz I did it all twice before
[PreHook]
[Hook]
[Hook 2]
I done found my way out
I finally found my way out
Yeh Yeah, Yeh Yeah
I done found my way out, oh
Finally found my out
My way my way my way
[bridge]
Cause you don’t give a damn bout me,
I see
Lost myself in you I finally found me
Yeh Yeah Yeh Yeah
[Verse 1]
I had to be the on to fight back
Why you had to do me like that?
You ain’t gotta do me like that
I be doing good but you always gotta pull me right be
How the fuck I look still going out sad
Tell me how I look, get it from dad
You fucking up my groove tryna stay in my bag
Every day it’s you on the back of my hat
Don’t you hit me ‘less you wanna make it work, otherwise just keep it moving
You don’t care bout how I’m doing
‘Cause it’s never me you choosing
Every time I start to move on you just pop up, my mind I’m losing
Girl you got me looking stupid
Girl you got my looking so -
[Hook]
Think I need to budget
I totaled the coupe now I’m pushing a bucket
I swerve like I’m rushing
On my way to you when I’m scared of the loving
I feel so disgusted
You asking questions I’m changing the subject
Cuz we ain’t gotta discuss it
I flew cross the country I needed a break
I still can’t get away
Thinking what did I do to her, what do I say
I’m worried bout you in a whole ‘nother state
I just wanna get back the past couple days
My mind has been racing and trying to escape
I tell you it feel like you feeling no way
I’m running late cause I’m running in place
I just wanna know if I come up in conversation
When you talk to your friends if it’s me that you think made it complicated
For the time I waited girl I hate the feeling that my time is wasted
I’m just trying baby, Would you even notice if I died today
Is it me that you tryna play
[PreHook]
Just answer your phone
I know you’re home
I been alone
For way too long
One day I’ll be gone
But I’m tryna be strong
Just pick up your phone
Just pick up your phone
[vamp]
It’s too cold out here
To let you not be near
But I still hold my tears
And you can’t know my fears
[Verse 2]
Just give me a sign that you giving a fuck
I’m over here dying, you living up
You ain’t even check on me, all on gram you been flickin it up
I feed off your love, you ain’t giving enough
The ball your court you ain’t picking it up
Don’t do it for me girl I’m in it for us
Hangin on by a thread need to put me on life support
How the hell did we get like this so fast baby you was so nice before
Swimming in my own thoughts, finna start drowning but who is gone drive the boat
Surrounded by blue this time around cuz I did it all twice before
[PreHook]
[Hook]
[Hook 2]
I done found my way out
I finally found my way out
Yeh Yeah, Yeh Yeah
I done found my way out, oh
Finally found my out
My way my way my way
[bridge]
Cause you don’t give a damn bout me,
I see
Lost myself in you I finally found me
Yeh Yeah Yeh Yeah
[Verse 1]
I had to be the on to fight back
Why you had to do me like that?
You ain’t gotta do me like that
I be doing good but you always gotta pull me right be
How the fuck I look still going out sad
Tell me how I look, get it from dad
You fucking up my groove tryna stay in my bag
Every day it’s you on the back of my hat
Don’t you hit me ‘less you wanna make it work, otherwise just keep it moving
You don’t care bout how I’m doing
‘Cause it’s never me you choosing
Every time I start to move on you just pop up, my mind I’m losing
Girl you got me looking stupid
Girl you got my looking so -
[Hook]
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