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.
Many years in my city
I've never seen a face like yours
You are a new beginning
To an endless haze, a darker song, a
Thousand girls they sing along
Come out! Come out! Come out!
But I like falling apart
Woke up with the ash tray
"Shit! What'd we do last night?"
That life never found me
No movie dream, that you see, a
Thousand girls they want that song
Come out! Come out! Come out!
But I like falling apart
Then I pick up the pieces and run
Come out! Come out! Come out!
I pick up the pieces and run
Come out! Come out! Come out!
But I like falling apart
Then I pick up the pieces and run
Come out! Come out! Come out!
I pick up the pieces
I have my story
And you have yours to hold
How vain or bold
Whether life was taken or took from you
We are here 'cause we survived our worlds
It's true
And you must know that it's a bond much
Greater than
Any sickness you can try to understand
'Cause in the darkness hand and hand we
Had to crawl
And to the dead - I will swear to love you all
Then I pick up the pieces and run
Come out! Come out! Come out!
I pick up the pieces and run
Come out! Come out! Come out!
I pick up my pieces and run
Come out! Come out! Come out!
I pick up my pieces and I run...
I've never seen a face like yours
You are a new beginning
To an endless haze, a darker song, a
Thousand girls they sing along
Come out! Come out! Come out!
But I like falling apart
Woke up with the ash tray
"Shit! What'd we do last night?"
That life never found me
No movie dream, that you see, a
Thousand girls they want that song
Come out! Come out! Come out!
But I like falling apart
Then I pick up the pieces and run
Come out! Come out! Come out!
I pick up the pieces and run
Come out! Come out! Come out!
But I like falling apart
Then I pick up the pieces and run
Come out! Come out! Come out!
I pick up the pieces
I have my story
And you have yours to hold
How vain or bold
Whether life was taken or took from you
We are here 'cause we survived our worlds
It's true
And you must know that it's a bond much
Greater than
Any sickness you can try to understand
'Cause in the darkness hand and hand we
Had to crawl
And to the dead - I will swear to love you all
Then I pick up the pieces and run
Come out! Come out! Come out!
I pick up the pieces and run
Come out! Come out! Come out!
I pick up my pieces and run
Come out! Come out! Come out!
I pick up my pieces and I run...
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