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.
Kind of hard, hard to see
When you crawl on your hands and your knees
With your face in the trough
Wait your turn
While they finish you off
Don't know when it started
Don't know how
Should have found out
Should have happened by now
Got these lines on my face
After all this time
And I still haven't found my place
I jump from every rooftop
So high, so far to fall
I feel a million miles away
I don't feel anything at all
I wake up on the floor
Start it up again
Like it matters anymore
I don't know if it does
Is this really all
That there ever was?
Put the gun in my mouth
Close your eyes
Blow my fucking brains out
Pretty patterns on the floor
That's enough for you
But I still need more
I jump from every rooftop
So high, so far to fall
I feel a million miles away
I don't feel anything at all
I jump from every rooftop (is this really all, is it)
So high, so far to fall
I feel a million miles away
I don't feel anything at all
I don't feel anything
I don't feel anything
I don't feel anything
I don't feel anything
I don't feel anything (a million miles away)
I don't feel anything (a million miles away)
I don't feel anything (a million miles away)
I don't feel anything
When you crawl on your hands and your knees
With your face in the trough
Wait your turn
While they finish you off
Don't know when it started
Don't know how
Should have found out
Should have happened by now
Got these lines on my face
After all this time
And I still haven't found my place
I jump from every rooftop
So high, so far to fall
I feel a million miles away
I don't feel anything at all
I wake up on the floor
Start it up again
Like it matters anymore
I don't know if it does
Is this really all
That there ever was?
Put the gun in my mouth
Close your eyes
Blow my fucking brains out
Pretty patterns on the floor
That's enough for you
But I still need more
I jump from every rooftop
So high, so far to fall
I feel a million miles away
I don't feel anything at all
I jump from every rooftop (is this really all, is it)
So high, so far to fall
I feel a million miles away
I don't feel anything at all
I don't feel anything
I don't feel anything
I don't feel anything
I don't feel anything
I don't feel anything (a million miles away)
I don't feel anything (a million miles away)
I don't feel anything (a million miles away)
I don't feel anything
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I love how you have ppl that r like, man i wish Trent would do drugs again so he could come up with stuff like the downward spiral. You greedy pricks. Trent pulls his life together and all u can say is i hope he ruins it again so he can write me good music. YOU, are not true fans. I'm not saying the Downward Spiral is a bad album, in fact its probly my favorite album of all time. But NIN is different unlike other bands and doesnt sound the same on every single fucking album. So naturally some ppl arent going to like it. I, respect the talent he has to make all his albums sound different, yet can see the genius he is as a musician. What it comes down to, if ur a true NIN fan, or just a NIN fan, you would respect mr. reznor for how he pulled his life together as in stopped using drugs and alcohol, not just anybody can do that. I say, good for him.