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.
Step outside your open vein
Still inside the deepest pain
The will it shines when you come out
But for now you've plastic doubt
Buy and sell the things you need
Money comes you spend exceed
Waiting for your friends to call
Waiting for the wall to fall
And i want you to know
That someone will be there for you
And i need you to know
That someone i will care for you
My lucky star
My lucky star
Contraceptive rubber band
Elusive nights and exit stands
Questions come with no one else
Deep inside your rubber shelf
Better days are up ahead
But for now it's best in bed
Waiting for your friends to call
Waiting for the wall to fall
Golden rain, don't come around no more
A useless pain, you have to answer for
Still inside the deepest pain
The will it shines when you come out
But for now you've plastic doubt
Buy and sell the things you need
Money comes you spend exceed
Waiting for your friends to call
Waiting for the wall to fall
And i want you to know
That someone will be there for you
And i need you to know
That someone i will care for you
My lucky star
My lucky star
Contraceptive rubber band
Elusive nights and exit stands
Questions come with no one else
Deep inside your rubber shelf
Better days are up ahead
But for now it's best in bed
Waiting for your friends to call
Waiting for the wall to fall
Golden rain, don't come around no more
A useless pain, you have to answer for
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It’s about depression, someone in a lot of pain trying to find their way out of it - through slashing a vein, buying things, meaningless sex, lying in bed (as depressed people do) all while “waiting for his friends to call” (and save him), and “the wall (of depression) to fall.” In the chorus he’s displaying extreme courage in the midst of pain to hope and wish upon a ‘“lucky star”, assuring himself that he’s not alone and “someone will be there” for him. Or it could be someone else assuring him and that person is his “lucky star.” But it’s about hope really, hanging in there because better days are up ahead.
@amos1 apty, heartfelt and deeply written.
Really great song, but much darker than his oder stuff. Kind of scares you when you hear it, but it's also so well made and written. Probably about someone in pain, and the singer is trying to tell them that it's alright, but it doesn't fit it all.