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've been hiding out
For quite a while now
Living off of people you know
Trying to raise a little money
To pay off all the monkeys
That you met inside the
Rabbit hole
You take a payment from
The white witch that's spoken
To you with Mama kin?
Well, there's a wolf outside
A brick house screaming
"Is someone gonna blow it in?"
Because a mind is a weapon
You see and it's got you on
Your hands and knees
Pull the trigger if you got
A way out, unless you want
To count it off 1, 2 (1, 2, 3)
You better pray that there's
Another way out
You better pray that
Someones listening now
(Doesn't matter what you got)
'Cause when you lie like
The devil himself
No angels gonna hear your
Cry for help!
I know you must really think
It's funny, you had everybody
Pulling me in
Well, that's a little unassuming
Considering that you knew me,
I'm the only one that called
You a friend
Because a mind is a weapon
You see and it's got you on
Your hands and knees
Pull the trigger if you got
A way out, unless you want
To count it off 1, 2 (1, 2, 3)
You better pray that there's
Another way out
You better pray that
Someones listening now
(Doesn't matter what you got)
'Cause when you lie like
The devil himself
No angels gonna hear your
Cry for help!
Count it off, 1, 2 (1, 2, 3)
You better pray that there's
Another way out
You better pray that
Someones listening now
(Doesn't matter what you got)
'Cause when you lie like
The devil himself
No angels gonna hear your
Cry for help!
For help, for help, for help
For quite a while now
Living off of people you know
Trying to raise a little money
To pay off all the monkeys
That you met inside the
Rabbit hole
You take a payment from
The white witch that's spoken
To you with Mama kin?
Well, there's a wolf outside
A brick house screaming
"Is someone gonna blow it in?"
Because a mind is a weapon
You see and it's got you on
Your hands and knees
Pull the trigger if you got
A way out, unless you want
To count it off 1, 2 (1, 2, 3)
You better pray that there's
Another way out
You better pray that
Someones listening now
(Doesn't matter what you got)
'Cause when you lie like
The devil himself
No angels gonna hear your
Cry for help!
I know you must really think
It's funny, you had everybody
Pulling me in
Well, that's a little unassuming
Considering that you knew me,
I'm the only one that called
You a friend
Because a mind is a weapon
You see and it's got you on
Your hands and knees
Pull the trigger if you got
A way out, unless you want
To count it off 1, 2 (1, 2, 3)
You better pray that there's
Another way out
You better pray that
Someones listening now
(Doesn't matter what you got)
'Cause when you lie like
The devil himself
No angels gonna hear your
Cry for help!
Count it off, 1, 2 (1, 2, 3)
You better pray that there's
Another way out
You better pray that
Someones listening now
(Doesn't matter what you got)
'Cause when you lie like
The devil himself
No angels gonna hear your
Cry for help!
For help, for help, for help
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Cry for Help Lyrics as written by Brent Smith Dave Bassett
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Cloud9, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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White White being from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Mama Kin being an Aerosmith song.
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