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.
You build a heart thats strong
walls to last long, its paper mache'
you think the battles won no use for shields and guns youll need them now
That the lump, takes a home in your throat where the words that your choking
as you try to tell yourself its ok, flying by time decays but never fades
Your stuck in the moment when you thought you were rolling but you cant move
on you feel like your able to love past the moment but you cant move on
asking why asking why why i cant move on
You cant go please stay
no dont stay go away
Im left im right,
im black and white
You ride a carrousel
round and round till
the sickness grows inside
that lump takes a strangling hold
squeezes tight till your cold and tears run dry and where you once were worm
now is tattered and torn crumbles and fades
Your stuck in the moment when you thought you were rolling but you cant move
on you feel like your able to love past the moment but you cant move on
asking why asking why why i cant move on
incomplete and stereo tpyical reaction i cant get over over over you this is
how the story goes glory in the moment knows it wont let you go it wont let
you go
cant move on
cant move on
oh i cant move on
Your stuck in the moment when you thought you were rolling but you cant move
on you feel like your able to love past the moment but you cant move on
asking why asking why why i cant move on
walls to last long, its paper mache'
you think the battles won no use for shields and guns youll need them now
That the lump, takes a home in your throat where the words that your choking
as you try to tell yourself its ok, flying by time decays but never fades
Your stuck in the moment when you thought you were rolling but you cant move
on you feel like your able to love past the moment but you cant move on
asking why asking why why i cant move on
You cant go please stay
no dont stay go away
Im left im right,
im black and white
You ride a carrousel
round and round till
the sickness grows inside
that lump takes a strangling hold
squeezes tight till your cold and tears run dry and where you once were worm
now is tattered and torn crumbles and fades
Your stuck in the moment when you thought you were rolling but you cant move
on you feel like your able to love past the moment but you cant move on
asking why asking why why i cant move on
incomplete and stereo tpyical reaction i cant get over over over you this is
how the story goes glory in the moment knows it wont let you go it wont let
you go
cant move on
cant move on
oh i cant move on
Your stuck in the moment when you thought you were rolling but you cant move
on you feel like your able to love past the moment but you cant move on
asking why asking why why i cant move on
Lyrics submitted by one_more_girl5, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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