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.
Far away from any road
Froze my heart in solitude
Where your passerby can see
Our life's highway guard within
Knowing when our last does fail
Thy compassion shall prevail
Father with thee, let me be
On life's highway, God with thee
We need vices
We need vices
Where's all my hope and my marriage license? (Where's my hay?)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
We need vices at fifteen thousand degrees
She said goodbye to the ground she said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped
Our good Creator (oh no)
The dog in the manger
Where is my shrink and my mind's eraser? (we sing a sad song)
That forest burned (do you see smoke?)
That forest burned (a halo)
That forest burned
We need ten years on rewind so we can return
She said goodbye to the ground she said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground she said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped
We need vices
We need vices
We have neither the plans nor disguises
Those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
We need vices and wheels to the funeral gate
She said goodbye to the ground she said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped
Froze my heart in solitude
Where your passerby can see
Our life's highway guard within
Knowing when our last does fail
Thy compassion shall prevail
Father with thee, let me be
On life's highway, God with thee
We need vices
We need vices
Where's all my hope and my marriage license? (Where's my hay?)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
We need vices at fifteen thousand degrees
She said goodbye to the ground she said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped
Our good Creator (oh no)
The dog in the manger
Where is my shrink and my mind's eraser? (we sing a sad song)
That forest burned (do you see smoke?)
That forest burned (a halo)
That forest burned
We need ten years on rewind so we can return
She said goodbye to the ground she said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground she said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped
We need vices
We need vices
We have neither the plans nor disguises
Those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
We need vices and wheels to the funeral gate
She said goodbye to the ground she said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped
Lyrics submitted by midkay, edited by robthomson
Vices Lyrics as written by Jesse Lacey
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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I thought so, too. I thought it sounded sort of like "we need vices and wheels to the funeral gate," but I'm not sure.