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.
A summer day
In garlands I feel secure
A useless faith
That I will get you, somehow
Reach out, I wonder where you are now
Hey, there's you
With placid eyes
Oblivious to what's to come
They locked you up
So I forgot you
Forgot your name, so strange
I wonder if you got out
In garlands I feel secure
A useless faith
That I will get you, somehow
Reach out, I wonder where you are now
Hey, there's you
With placid eyes
Oblivious to what's to come
They locked you up
So I forgot you
Forgot your name, so strange
I wonder if you got out
Lyrics submitted by christsizeshoes
Great Expectations Lyrics as written by Gavin Richard Harrison Colin Edwin Balch
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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Steve said in an interview that this was about a childhood friend who he lost contact with, and it was only years later he found out that this friend had been in and out of various mental situations and had generally ****ed up his own life.
Maybe he was in love with somebody who ended up going insane? Too easy though, I bet.
"In gardens I feel secure" seems to be a reference to Virginia Astley's 1983 album "From Gardens Where We Feel Secure".
I just love the musical change during the line "I wonder where you are now".
Because this album is about incidents and there is a mention of the YFZ ranch there is a possibility it is about a person that was taken from their normal life and put in the institution
To me, this song sounds like someone flipping through an old HS Yearbook, and seeing an old girl friend or crush, and reminiscing about what happened to her. "Hey, there's you" is the feel when I look through my old yearbooks, and old girlfriends, and wonder whatever happened to them.
In my day, if a girl got pregnant, she'd 'disappear' from school, and maybe never be heard from again by fellow students. Knowing Steve's focus on the modern-day issue of over-medicating our youth, maybe this girl was 'locked up' and put on meds?