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.
Ay Caribe tierra de mi gente hermosa (armada Latina)
Cielo y sol, me acompañan donde quiera (mi fama hispana)
Hermanito la lucha recien empieza (hermano ponle ganas)
Yo nací con sangre Taína, yo nací
Came out the gutter man, southern land
Didn't have an upper hand
Never had another plan I'm dippin' to the motherland
Some will get a summer tan it's hotter than a summer jam
Live for today 'cause you'll never gettin' another chance
I ain't trippin' off the he say and she say
'Cause we say fuck off and pass me a cuba libre
That's what we want don't front, I could see ya but
You don't want to see the cold heap up front how we blow it up
We came to blow it up, hit the spot, sew it up
Representin' in, blowin' up, that's how we show the love
That's how we pass up all this shit that, we know gon' come
It's like the soldier's run is done when the wars won
Ay Caribe tierra de mi gente hermosa (armada Latina)
Cielo y sol, me acompañan donde quiera (mi fama hispana)
Hermanito la lucha recien empieza (hermano ponle ganas)
Yo nací con sangre Taína, yo nací
Latino hasta la muerte chico stay working hard
Bout the noise, suerte Gracias a Dios, thank God
Little Cuban from Miami coulda took that coke route
Marinero parcero con clinicas santeros
Con muela que dicen que pueden curar a la abuela
Y'all like Scarface, I'm more like Sosa
Cypress hill pretty flaco it's our culture
From cali to the crib, crib me in Miami
Thank god I'm doin' music if not I'd be tying families
I'm not a asshole (oh no) I'm about my cash flow
Let me take this shit and send this letter off to Castro
Ha, ha, ha dale, come mierda
Ay Caribe tierra de mi gente hermosa (armada Latina)
Cielo y sol, me acompañan donde quiera (mi fama hispana)
Hermanito la lucha recien empieza (hermano ponle ganas)
Yo nací con sangre Taína, yo nací
We way too hot always comin' up with something clever
Our cosa nostra Cypress hill mata fera
Feelin' fancy in the hip throne, guayabera
And we just clowning on what we call some, monedera
Call me Sammy wild child from the isles
I can go forever like an old fashioned country mouse
Stilo be guajiro latino is the lingo
I'm straight cuban-ichi I bang Pinar del Rio
Lockin' up this function just like Benny Moré
Go ahead and play the congas and I'm gonna rap over it
Ya I'm a fool I'm outta here yes sir I gotta go
Get me some Chiva's Regal and slap me some dominos
Ay Caribe tierra de mi gente hermosa (armada Latina)
Cielo y sol, me acompañan donde quiera (mi fama hispana)
Hermanito la lucha recien empieza (hermano ponle ganas)
Yo nací con sangre Taína, yo nací
Cielo y sol, me acompañan donde quiera (mi fama hispana)
Hermanito la lucha recien empieza (hermano ponle ganas)
Yo nací con sangre Taína, yo nací
Came out the gutter man, southern land
Didn't have an upper hand
Never had another plan I'm dippin' to the motherland
Some will get a summer tan it's hotter than a summer jam
Live for today 'cause you'll never gettin' another chance
I ain't trippin' off the he say and she say
'Cause we say fuck off and pass me a cuba libre
That's what we want don't front, I could see ya but
You don't want to see the cold heap up front how we blow it up
We came to blow it up, hit the spot, sew it up
Representin' in, blowin' up, that's how we show the love
That's how we pass up all this shit that, we know gon' come
It's like the soldier's run is done when the wars won
Ay Caribe tierra de mi gente hermosa (armada Latina)
Cielo y sol, me acompañan donde quiera (mi fama hispana)
Hermanito la lucha recien empieza (hermano ponle ganas)
Yo nací con sangre Taína, yo nací
Latino hasta la muerte chico stay working hard
Bout the noise, suerte Gracias a Dios, thank God
Little Cuban from Miami coulda took that coke route
Marinero parcero con clinicas santeros
Con muela que dicen que pueden curar a la abuela
Y'all like Scarface, I'm more like Sosa
Cypress hill pretty flaco it's our culture
From cali to the crib, crib me in Miami
Thank god I'm doin' music if not I'd be tying families
I'm not a asshole (oh no) I'm about my cash flow
Let me take this shit and send this letter off to Castro
Ha, ha, ha dale, come mierda
Ay Caribe tierra de mi gente hermosa (armada Latina)
Cielo y sol, me acompañan donde quiera (mi fama hispana)
Hermanito la lucha recien empieza (hermano ponle ganas)
Yo nací con sangre Taína, yo nací
We way too hot always comin' up with something clever
Our cosa nostra Cypress hill mata fera
Feelin' fancy in the hip throne, guayabera
And we just clowning on what we call some, monedera
Call me Sammy wild child from the isles
I can go forever like an old fashioned country mouse
Stilo be guajiro latino is the lingo
I'm straight cuban-ichi I bang Pinar del Rio
Lockin' up this function just like Benny Moré
Go ahead and play the congas and I'm gonna rap over it
Ya I'm a fool I'm outta here yes sir I gotta go
Get me some Chiva's Regal and slap me some dominos
Ay Caribe tierra de mi gente hermosa (armada Latina)
Cielo y sol, me acompañan donde quiera (mi fama hispana)
Hermanito la lucha recien empieza (hermano ponle ganas)
Yo nací con sangre Taína, yo nací
Lyrics submitted by bananahero
Armada Latina Lyrics as written by Armonda Christian Perez Marc Anthony
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Song is awesome, sooo catchy.
Can anyone translate the spanish parts??
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