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.
Do you really think you know
Exactly where I stand?
Or did I just let you down
When you found out I was just a poor man?
I might of took a few wrong turns
Down a few wrong roads
Wound up in a few wrong towns
Where nobody cares or goes
It ain't that I can't see
Or find my way home
It's just that I like to breath
Out on country roads
I've never been much on down town
Or cared for a place to stay
I know I'll never wear no crown
I'll never be a king of slaves
Wash my hands in the rain
I've spent my time with the whiskey
I'll never give up on change
Or give a damn if you will ever miss me
It ain't that I can't see
Or find my way home
It's just that I like to breath
Out on country roads
I know I'll never stick around
I'll never lose track of time
Or worry about a little old town
Or what I might of left behind
I'll just let the sun shine down
I'll just let them big wheels roll
Keep on running around
Them old country roads
It ain't that I can't see
Or find my way home
It's just that I like to breath
Out on country roads
Exactly where I stand?
Or did I just let you down
When you found out I was just a poor man?
I might of took a few wrong turns
Down a few wrong roads
Wound up in a few wrong towns
Where nobody cares or goes
It ain't that I can't see
Or find my way home
It's just that I like to breath
Out on country roads
I've never been much on down town
Or cared for a place to stay
I know I'll never wear no crown
I'll never be a king of slaves
Wash my hands in the rain
I've spent my time with the whiskey
I'll never give up on change
Or give a damn if you will ever miss me
It ain't that I can't see
Or find my way home
It's just that I like to breath
Out on country roads
I know I'll never stick around
I'll never lose track of time
Or worry about a little old town
Or what I might of left behind
I'll just let the sun shine down
I'll just let them big wheels roll
Keep on running around
Them old country roads
It ain't that I can't see
Or find my way home
It's just that I like to breath
Out on country roads
Lyrics submitted by skoalchewer89
Country Roads Lyrics as written by George Ryan Bingham
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Its clear that this song is about a man that needed to get away from something, probably a relationship, but whatever. He needed this escape and room to breathe and for him country roads are the place to get his piece of mind back.