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.
Impeccable peccadillo
You are off your guard
Pussy willows groves
There by the church
Don't go in if you are
Abnormally attracted to sin
Abnormally attracted to sin
She may be dead to you
But her hips sway a natural
Kind of faith that could give
Your lost heart a warm chapel
You'll sleep in her bell tower
And you will simply wake
Abnormally attracted to sin
Abnormally attracted to sin
Impeccable peccadillo
I know who you are
Tales of longing sway
Lost without a verse
Hymns of swing lay low
There by the church
Don't go in if you are
Abnormally attracted to sin
Abnormally attracted to sin
She may be dead to you
Kind of faith that could give
Attracted to sin
To sin
To sin
You are off your guard
Pussy willows groves
There by the church
Don't go in if you are
Abnormally attracted to sin
Abnormally attracted to sin
She may be dead to you
But her hips sway a natural
Kind of faith that could give
Your lost heart a warm chapel
You'll sleep in her bell tower
And you will simply wake
Abnormally attracted to sin
Abnormally attracted to sin
Impeccable peccadillo
I know who you are
Tales of longing sway
Lost without a verse
Hymns of swing lay low
There by the church
Don't go in if you are
Abnormally attracted to sin
Abnormally attracted to sin
She may be dead to you
Kind of faith that could give
Attracted to sin
To sin
To sin
Lyrics submitted by stentorian
Abnormally Attracted to Sin Lyrics as written by Tori Ellen Amos
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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