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.
All aboard Hahahaha
Its over
Whats happing?
It's you boy Li'L Jon
Now Ladies and Gentlemen
C'mon!
Its about that time
To turn this thing on out
Now let me see everybody do this
C'mon!
AAAY!
Don't leave me
C'mon!
AAAY!
Lets go!
I don’t give a fuck what you think, what you know
Suicidal thoughts with a chrome to my dome
Too far gone but I don’t give a fuck
I’ve been dead since I was born
Born into addiction, Mama was a bitch
High on shit that made me sick
And I’ve become her spittin’ image
And that shits unfortunate
Now I’m poisonous spit that shit on kids like its arsenic
Mark of the best miss sic sic sic
I’ve got the fucking scars from it
Fix me, tie me up and blow my brain out what the fuck
And leave me dead up in a ditch as rigor mortis sits
Cause my life fucking sucks
(CHORUS)
I’ve got an itchy finger and they’ll be hell to pay
I’m gonna pull the trigger and blow them all away
Step right up to the things you said and the things you say
And the things you hate, I’d be better off dead or maybe raped
I thought you heard I’ve been dead anyway
With a hole in my head, blood all on the walls and the spread of the bed
Dial 911 and the ambulance sped back to the asylum
Sittin’ in my silence, somebody give me meds!
Double Dose of lithium, give me more
Can you give me that shit that numbs my soul?
Gimme that shit, makes me lose control
To fill this void, to fill this hole
Pain is my pleasure S&M, B&D, A.D.D, O.C.D
Mix it up with PCP
Put it all together and that be me
Another casualty, your tragedy
(CHORUS)
I’ve got an itchy finger and they’ll be hell to pay
C'mon!
I’m gonna pull the trigger and blow them all away
Pull the Trigger Slow!!
C'mon!
I’ve got an itchy finger and they’ll be hell to pay
C'mon!
I’m gonna pull the trigger and blow them all away
Pull The Trigger slow!!!!
No one is stopping you now!
AAY!!
Its over!
No one is stopping you now!
Pull The Trigger Slow!!!!
No one is stopping you now!
AAY!
Its over!
No one is stopping you now!
Pull The Trigger Slow!!!!
Its over
Whats happing?
It's you boy Li'L Jon
Now Ladies and Gentlemen
C'mon!
Its about that time
To turn this thing on out
Now let me see everybody do this
C'mon!
AAAY!
Don't leave me
C'mon!
AAAY!
Lets go!
I don’t give a fuck what you think, what you know
Suicidal thoughts with a chrome to my dome
Too far gone but I don’t give a fuck
I’ve been dead since I was born
Born into addiction, Mama was a bitch
High on shit that made me sick
And I’ve become her spittin’ image
And that shits unfortunate
Now I’m poisonous spit that shit on kids like its arsenic
Mark of the best miss sic sic sic
I’ve got the fucking scars from it
Fix me, tie me up and blow my brain out what the fuck
And leave me dead up in a ditch as rigor mortis sits
Cause my life fucking sucks
(CHORUS)
I’ve got an itchy finger and they’ll be hell to pay
I’m gonna pull the trigger and blow them all away
Step right up to the things you said and the things you say
And the things you hate, I’d be better off dead or maybe raped
I thought you heard I’ve been dead anyway
With a hole in my head, blood all on the walls and the spread of the bed
Dial 911 and the ambulance sped back to the asylum
Sittin’ in my silence, somebody give me meds!
Double Dose of lithium, give me more
Can you give me that shit that numbs my soul?
Gimme that shit, makes me lose control
To fill this void, to fill this hole
Pain is my pleasure S&M, B&D, A.D.D, O.C.D
Mix it up with PCP
Put it all together and that be me
Another casualty, your tragedy
(CHORUS)
I’ve got an itchy finger and they’ll be hell to pay
C'mon!
I’m gonna pull the trigger and blow them all away
Pull the Trigger Slow!!
C'mon!
I’ve got an itchy finger and they’ll be hell to pay
C'mon!
I’m gonna pull the trigger and blow them all away
Pull The Trigger slow!!!!
No one is stopping you now!
AAY!!
Its over!
No one is stopping you now!
Pull The Trigger Slow!!!!
No one is stopping you now!
AAY!
Its over!
No one is stopping you now!
Pull The Trigger Slow!!!!
Lyrics submitted by XShatteredRosesX
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