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.
I've been searching for days now
I've found something I lost
On a holy roller channel asking me what's the cost
On a couch in a cold room
Pouring salt in my wounds
I'm a mistake faking truth holding liar's balloons
Make me fly for something more
You've been asleep for days now,
Living inside your dreams
You know that ain't no way to live or to handle such things
I wanna shake up your system
I wanna rattle your bones
I wanna take you to the stars
And then I'll leave you alone
I would meet you anywhere, but Ive been farther down
I saw you somewhere farther down,
Did I expect it?
Now I'm overcome with fear
Mama get me out of here
I've gone farther down than I ever wanna go.
Lighting up the horizon,
To the city sky-lights
In a faded aspiration only left in our minds
Let us shake up the system,
Lets go and rattle their frames
Lets take the highest road away and avoid these trappings
I would meet you anywhere, but Ive been farther down
I saw you somewhere farther down
Did I expect it?
Now I'm overcome with fear
Mama get me out of here
Ive gone farther down than I wanna go
We stood out in the cold
And your eyes, they ate my soul
Begged me to come back down,
they begged me to come back down
Then the ground ate my legs, so I looked up to the sky and said
I don't wanna go back down
Oh Ive been so far down
Heaven help me, heaven help me for the way I've been.
Farther down
Did I expect it?
Now I'm overcome with fear
Mama get me out of here
I've gone farther down than I ever, than I ever wanna go
Farther down, I saw you somewhere
Farther down
Did I expect it
Now I'm overcome with fear
Mama get me out, mama get me out of here.
I've found something I lost
On a holy roller channel asking me what's the cost
On a couch in a cold room
Pouring salt in my wounds
I'm a mistake faking truth holding liar's balloons
Make me fly for something more
You've been asleep for days now,
Living inside your dreams
You know that ain't no way to live or to handle such things
I wanna shake up your system
I wanna rattle your bones
I wanna take you to the stars
And then I'll leave you alone
I would meet you anywhere, but Ive been farther down
I saw you somewhere farther down,
Did I expect it?
Now I'm overcome with fear
Mama get me out of here
I've gone farther down than I ever wanna go.
Lighting up the horizon,
To the city sky-lights
In a faded aspiration only left in our minds
Let us shake up the system,
Lets go and rattle their frames
Lets take the highest road away and avoid these trappings
I would meet you anywhere, but Ive been farther down
I saw you somewhere farther down
Did I expect it?
Now I'm overcome with fear
Mama get me out of here
Ive gone farther down than I wanna go
We stood out in the cold
And your eyes, they ate my soul
Begged me to come back down,
they begged me to come back down
Then the ground ate my legs, so I looked up to the sky and said
I don't wanna go back down
Oh Ive been so far down
Heaven help me, heaven help me for the way I've been.
Farther down
Did I expect it?
Now I'm overcome with fear
Mama get me out of here
I've gone farther down than I ever, than I ever wanna go
Farther down, I saw you somewhere
Farther down
Did I expect it
Now I'm overcome with fear
Mama get me out, mama get me out of here.
Lyrics submitted by frozenbarbie89
Farther Down Lyrics as written by Christopher Allen Branden Campbell
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Downtown Music Publishing
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