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.
Reach for the stars
Whoa, yeah..
You stand on a distant planet
Skyline of red plateaus
Strange air and vegetation
You're a winner
Welcome to the space olympics
The year 3022
Take part in a grand tradition
Your name echoes in the halls of the universe
Oh, yeah
Believe in yourself
Take your game into outer space
Every single galactic athlete
Needs a coded ID badge
Drug tests are mandatory
You're a winner
The athlete's village is on Zargon
You all get a junior suite
We don't cover incidentals
So keep your ass out the mini-bar
You're the best in the world
Brace yourself cause there's no gravity
You're in the motherfuckin' Space Olympics, yeah
You'll be known by every nation
You'll only get one meal a day
There was a bit of a budget snafu
And food funding is insufficient
We can't really enforce a curfew
As there is no light or sound
Just one of the many problems with hosting a sporting event in space
Attention all athletes
There are minor scheduling adjustments
Space disc is totally cancelled
Space swords is totally cancelled
Space luge is also cancelled
And all other events are pending
Welcome to your Space Olympics
All the oxygen has run out
And someone who will not be named
Accidentally hit self-destruct
As you file to your escape pods
I'll distract the alien hoards
And as I stare death in the face
I know my sins will take me to hell
You do it for the love
My love
And there ain't no woman that can take your spot, my love
Whoa, yeah..
You stand on a distant planet
Skyline of red plateaus
Strange air and vegetation
You're a winner
Welcome to the space olympics
The year 3022
Take part in a grand tradition
Your name echoes in the halls of the universe
Oh, yeah
Believe in yourself
Take your game into outer space
Every single galactic athlete
Needs a coded ID badge
Drug tests are mandatory
You're a winner
The athlete's village is on Zargon
You all get a junior suite
We don't cover incidentals
So keep your ass out the mini-bar
You're the best in the world
Brace yourself cause there's no gravity
You're in the motherfuckin' Space Olympics, yeah
You'll be known by every nation
You'll only get one meal a day
There was a bit of a budget snafu
And food funding is insufficient
We can't really enforce a curfew
As there is no light or sound
Just one of the many problems with hosting a sporting event in space
Attention all athletes
There are minor scheduling adjustments
Space disc is totally cancelled
Space swords is totally cancelled
Space luge is also cancelled
And all other events are pending
Welcome to your Space Olympics
All the oxygen has run out
And someone who will not be named
Accidentally hit self-destruct
As you file to your escape pods
I'll distract the alien hoards
And as I stare death in the face
I know my sins will take me to hell
You do it for the love
My love
And there ain't no woman that can take your spot, my love
Lyrics submitted by fedorov1fan
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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