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.
What am I supposed to do
With a girl like Jesamine
Though my eyes are open wide
She's made my life a dream
When Jesamine goes a part of me knows
I'm not really living
A butterfly child so free and so wild
And so full of living
When Jesamine stays though time goes fast
This is my world at last
Beautiful days lost in her eyes
But then the whole world dies
When Jesamine goes a part of me knows
I'm not really living
A butterfly child so free and so wild
And so full of living
What can you say
When a girl doesn't want to know
She's too far away
And she makes my life a dream
When Jesamine goes a part of me knows
I'm not really living
A butterfly child, just free and so wild
And so full of living
When Jesamine stays though time goes fast
This is my world at last
Beautiful days lost in her eyes
But then the whole world dies
What am I supposed to do
What can you say
With a girl like Jesamine
When a girl doesn't want to know
Though my eyes are open wide
She's too far away
She's made my life a dream
And she makes my life a dream
When Jesamine goes a part of me knows
I'm not really living
When Jesamine goes a part of me knows
I'm not really living...
With a girl like Jesamine
Though my eyes are open wide
She's made my life a dream
When Jesamine goes a part of me knows
I'm not really living
A butterfly child so free and so wild
And so full of living
When Jesamine stays though time goes fast
This is my world at last
Beautiful days lost in her eyes
But then the whole world dies
When Jesamine goes a part of me knows
I'm not really living
A butterfly child so free and so wild
And so full of living
What can you say
When a girl doesn't want to know
She's too far away
And she makes my life a dream
When Jesamine goes a part of me knows
I'm not really living
A butterfly child, just free and so wild
And so full of living
When Jesamine stays though time goes fast
This is my world at last
Beautiful days lost in her eyes
But then the whole world dies
What am I supposed to do
What can you say
With a girl like Jesamine
When a girl doesn't want to know
Though my eyes are open wide
She's too far away
She's made my life a dream
And she makes my life a dream
When Jesamine goes a part of me knows
I'm not really living
When Jesamine goes a part of me knows
I'm not really living...
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The meaning is fairly obvious, a guy who is so madly in love that he can't function properly but is not sure that it is reciprocated to the same extent.
Come March he'll function just fine and Jesamine will be nowhere on his mind...or body ;) Not familiar with this band or your interpretation ;)
Sorry again. Obviously time to go to bed. Instead of dreaming, I try to forget. Gawd, I'm a *itch at times...