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.
[talking]
Yea, that's me, T man,
T.I. dot com bitch,
TIP fuck wit ya boy, hey that is my brotha ladies and gentleman T.I.
And he is the king, bitch, don't get that shit twisted,
And me, I am the best rapper alive ladies and gentleman, hello!
This is the drought 3 and it's been a minute since I rapped on a Mannie Fresh beat,
But uh,
I guess I'll go ahead and show these niggas what to do with one of the beats man
I like my seat down low and my window slightly cracked
Riding with a bad hoe with her girlfriend in the back.
I like to get real high and I never look back
And you don't wanna try me and don't I look strapped
I come from the hardest city, ain't nobody fuckin' with it
Got a black and gold sole with a fresh New Orleans fitted,
And a collared polo and a pair of bally bucks
Young money motherfucker know you worried about us
Cash money motherfucker C.M.R. I trust
Never had my jaw broken but his jaw I bust
And I probably got your girlfriend on my bus
What happens on my bus stays on my bus
And that white widow weed out the jar is a must
If you gimme a cigar then a cigar I'll bust
Put that white widow weed in the cigar and puff
Look ma I'm trying to make a porno starring us
Well not just us, a couple foreign sluts
Yeah, We could make this some menage a trois-ing darlin'
I be with Jim Jones and we be ballin' ballin'
Yeah baby we ballin' like Rawlings and Spalding
Pint of DJ Screw and that Hawaiian
I am leaning like a three-legged lion
Climbing, right to the top of the motherfucking mountain
Counting, I'm gonna need me an accountant to count it
Mannie got this fucking beat pounding, it's pounding
But it was just lost until I found it, I found it
Stole it like a scoundrel, Hollygrove hound it
Put this bitch to sleep, fuckin' right I nightgown-ed it
Niggas talking cheap, tell them niggas pipe down bitch
Bloods in the building and now everybody soundless
Beatin' up the track like a motherfucking round fist
Blind, deaf or crazy I will spit like a long kiss
I am just a Martian ain't nobody else on this
Planet, I know see I live by my only
Where my cheese nigga? where my macaroni?
Baby I get up in that ass and act a donkey
Candy on candy nigga grippin' the grain
See I am the only fire that can live in the rain
I am so, so New Orleans
Like 1825 Tulane
[talking]
See you gotta be from New Orleans to know what fuck I'm talking about
And if you don't, fuck you
Yea, that's me, T man,
T.I. dot com bitch,
TIP fuck wit ya boy, hey that is my brotha ladies and gentleman T.I.
And he is the king, bitch, don't get that shit twisted,
And me, I am the best rapper alive ladies and gentleman, hello!
This is the drought 3 and it's been a minute since I rapped on a Mannie Fresh beat,
But uh,
I guess I'll go ahead and show these niggas what to do with one of the beats man
I like my seat down low and my window slightly cracked
Riding with a bad hoe with her girlfriend in the back.
I like to get real high and I never look back
And you don't wanna try me and don't I look strapped
I come from the hardest city, ain't nobody fuckin' with it
Got a black and gold sole with a fresh New Orleans fitted,
And a collared polo and a pair of bally bucks
Young money motherfucker know you worried about us
Cash money motherfucker C.M.R. I trust
Never had my jaw broken but his jaw I bust
And I probably got your girlfriend on my bus
What happens on my bus stays on my bus
And that white widow weed out the jar is a must
If you gimme a cigar then a cigar I'll bust
Put that white widow weed in the cigar and puff
Look ma I'm trying to make a porno starring us
Well not just us, a couple foreign sluts
Yeah, We could make this some menage a trois-ing darlin'
I be with Jim Jones and we be ballin' ballin'
Yeah baby we ballin' like Rawlings and Spalding
Pint of DJ Screw and that Hawaiian
I am leaning like a three-legged lion
Climbing, right to the top of the motherfucking mountain
Counting, I'm gonna need me an accountant to count it
Mannie got this fucking beat pounding, it's pounding
But it was just lost until I found it, I found it
Stole it like a scoundrel, Hollygrove hound it
Put this bitch to sleep, fuckin' right I nightgown-ed it
Niggas talking cheap, tell them niggas pipe down bitch
Bloods in the building and now everybody soundless
Beatin' up the track like a motherfucking round fist
Blind, deaf or crazy I will spit like a long kiss
I am just a Martian ain't nobody else on this
Planet, I know see I live by my only
Where my cheese nigga? where my macaroni?
Baby I get up in that ass and act a donkey
Candy on candy nigga grippin' the grain
See I am the only fire that can live in the rain
I am so, so New Orleans
Like 1825 Tulane
[talking]
See you gotta be from New Orleans to know what fuck I'm talking about
And if you don't, fuck you
Lyrics submitted by Relinquo1
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Love this one, rhyme, flow incredible.
I had to listen to this line "We could make this some menage a trois-ing darlin'" with my headphones turned way up like 15 times before I actually figured out what he was saying, and damn, what a great line/rhyme. How often would you see menage a trois rhymed with a sports equipment company?
"Put this bitch to sleep fuckin' right I nightgown-ed it" love that one too.