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 little silence
For the mourning of the deaths
Of a million children's innocence
And it's required
That you feel no regret
For the lives you take away
Let's take a minute
And acknowledge
The delicate flower of ignorance
And then we'll wonder
As the bodies fall
And then I suppose we'll break
It all
Comes
Down
It all
Comes
Down
There is a letter
And it tells me
Who the perpetrators of all the evils are
And I can tell you
In a minute
That I'm going to write a check
And if you wonder
At the wisdom
Of the men they beam back from the stars
Well, they are chosen
They will chart courses
On a ship already wrecked
It all
Comes
Down
It all
Comes
Down
It all
Comes
Down
It all
Comes
Down
It's a mind game
That's in a mind phrame
That's like a mine field
Who cannot decide
Who to set free
From a set theme
Of laissez faire responsibility
It's a safe game
If it's home made
Even if the home is someone else's
But you never tried
And when she died
You let them call you selfless
'Cause there is evil
There are monsters everywhere
And I'm told they prey on the innocent
And you are right when you say
That it doesn't seem fair
That you should have to fight them off
There must be someone
In an office at a desk
Who can sign in some etherial cure
But you should know that
It doesn't matter
'Cause it's no longer so clear what pure
It's no longer so clear what's pure
It's no longer so clear what's pure
It all
Comes
Down
It all
Comes
Down
It all
Comes
Down
It all
Comes
Down
It's a mind game
It's a mind game
For the mourning of the deaths
Of a million children's innocence
And it's required
That you feel no regret
For the lives you take away
Let's take a minute
And acknowledge
The delicate flower of ignorance
And then we'll wonder
As the bodies fall
And then I suppose we'll break
It all
Comes
Down
It all
Comes
Down
There is a letter
And it tells me
Who the perpetrators of all the evils are
And I can tell you
In a minute
That I'm going to write a check
And if you wonder
At the wisdom
Of the men they beam back from the stars
Well, they are chosen
They will chart courses
On a ship already wrecked
It all
Comes
Down
It all
Comes
Down
It all
Comes
Down
It all
Comes
Down
It's a mind game
That's in a mind phrame
That's like a mine field
Who cannot decide
Who to set free
From a set theme
Of laissez faire responsibility
It's a safe game
If it's home made
Even if the home is someone else's
But you never tried
And when she died
You let them call you selfless
'Cause there is evil
There are monsters everywhere
And I'm told they prey on the innocent
And you are right when you say
That it doesn't seem fair
That you should have to fight them off
There must be someone
In an office at a desk
Who can sign in some etherial cure
But you should know that
It doesn't matter
'Cause it's no longer so clear what pure
It's no longer so clear what's pure
It's no longer so clear what's pure
It all
Comes
Down
It all
Comes
Down
It all
Comes
Down
It all
Comes
Down
It's a mind game
It's a mind game
Lyrics submitted by Hobbledehoy
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