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.
There's a girl, thought she knew,
What her life was going to do,
Then she goes, and falls in love and throws it all away.
But her man, can't decide,
If he's made the right choice in life,
So she comes home on day to find he's gone away.
Put your heart back in your pocket,
Pick your love up off the floor
When your momma says you're stopping,
But girl, let me tell you more:
If he's ninety five or twenty two,
A boy's gonna do what he's gonna do,
He says he don't love you anymore,
So pick up off the floor.
Walks around an empty town,
Sees his face coming around,
Every corner takes on a similar stay.
Love is lost, life can burn,
But your luck will return,
But if you're dragging it down you won't know it's there
Put your heart back in your pocket,
Pick your love up off the floor
When your momma says you're stopping,
But girl, let me tell you more:
If he's ninety five or twenty two,
A boy's gonna do what he's gonna do,
He says he don't love you anymore,
So pick up off the floor.
Put your heart back in your pocket,
Pick your love up off the floor
When your momma says you're stopping,
But girl, let me tell you more:
If he's ninety five or twenty two,
A boy's gonna do what he's gonna do,
He says he don't love you anymore,
So pick up off the floor.
Pick your love, love, love (pick up off the floor)
Oooh (pick up off the floor)
Put your heart back in your pocket,
Pick your love up off the floor
When your momma says you're stopping
But girl let me tell you more
If he's ninety five or twenty two
A boy's gonna do what he's gonna do
He says he don't love you anymore
So pick up off the floor
What her life was going to do,
Then she goes, and falls in love and throws it all away.
But her man, can't decide,
If he's made the right choice in life,
So she comes home on day to find he's gone away.
Put your heart back in your pocket,
Pick your love up off the floor
When your momma says you're stopping,
But girl, let me tell you more:
If he's ninety five or twenty two,
A boy's gonna do what he's gonna do,
He says he don't love you anymore,
So pick up off the floor.
Walks around an empty town,
Sees his face coming around,
Every corner takes on a similar stay.
Love is lost, life can burn,
But your luck will return,
But if you're dragging it down you won't know it's there
Put your heart back in your pocket,
Pick your love up off the floor
When your momma says you're stopping,
But girl, let me tell you more:
If he's ninety five or twenty two,
A boy's gonna do what he's gonna do,
He says he don't love you anymore,
So pick up off the floor.
Put your heart back in your pocket,
Pick your love up off the floor
When your momma says you're stopping,
But girl, let me tell you more:
If he's ninety five or twenty two,
A boy's gonna do what he's gonna do,
He says he don't love you anymore,
So pick up off the floor.
Pick your love, love, love (pick up off the floor)
Oooh (pick up off the floor)
Put your heart back in your pocket,
Pick your love up off the floor
When your momma says you're stopping
But girl let me tell you more
If he's ninety five or twenty two
A boy's gonna do what he's gonna do
He says he don't love you anymore
So pick up off the floor
Lyrics submitted by nightsky13
Pick Up Off the Floor Lyrics as written by Michael Holbrook Penniman
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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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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