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.
Are you sitting comfortably?
Then we'll begin
(He's a fascist)
It's been a hard day in the city
Affects you in the most peculiar way
A dull day don't seem pretty
We've said all that there is to say
And if you were to ask me questions
You don't really want to know
Your concern is just for show
Just for show
Your name's a number, just press a button
Your memories lost but they've not forgotten
They try to break our, our lust for passion
They try to tell us that it's not in fashion
And if you were to ask me questions
What are we fighting-for?
We're just breaking down the door
It doesn't really matter
I've been through this all before
It doesn't really matter
They fight in England and Northern Ireland
The police they try to hold us still
They can bleed us and they can feed us
But you know they'll never control our will
And if you were to ask that question
What are we fighting for?
We're just breaking down the door
It doesn't really matter
I've been through this all before
It doesn't really matter to me
It doesn't really matter
I've been through this all before
It doesn't really matter to me
It doesn't really matter, oh
It doesn't really matter
It doesn't really matter
It doesn't really matter (no, no)
It doesn't really matter (at all)
It doesn't really matter (at all)
It doesn't really matter (it doesn't matter to me)
It doesn't really matter (no, no, no)
It doesn't really matter (oh, oh, oh, oh)
It doesn't really matter (no, no, no)
It doesn't really matter (no, no, no, no, no, no)
It doesn't really matter (no)
It doesn't really matter
It doesn't matter to me matter, matter, matter
Matter, matter, matter (it doesn't really matter)
Matter, matter, matter (it doesn't really matter)
Matter, matter, matter (it doesn't really matter)
Matter, matter, matter
Then we'll begin
(He's a fascist)
It's been a hard day in the city
Affects you in the most peculiar way
A dull day don't seem pretty
We've said all that there is to say
And if you were to ask me questions
You don't really want to know
Your concern is just for show
Just for show
Your name's a number, just press a button
Your memories lost but they've not forgotten
They try to break our, our lust for passion
They try to tell us that it's not in fashion
And if you were to ask me questions
What are we fighting-for?
We're just breaking down the door
It doesn't really matter
I've been through this all before
It doesn't really matter
They fight in England and Northern Ireland
The police they try to hold us still
They can bleed us and they can feed us
But you know they'll never control our will
And if you were to ask that question
What are we fighting for?
We're just breaking down the door
It doesn't really matter
I've been through this all before
It doesn't really matter to me
It doesn't really matter
I've been through this all before
It doesn't really matter to me
It doesn't really matter, oh
It doesn't really matter
It doesn't really matter
It doesn't really matter (no, no)
It doesn't really matter (at all)
It doesn't really matter (at all)
It doesn't really matter (it doesn't matter to me)
It doesn't really matter (no, no, no)
It doesn't really matter (oh, oh, oh, oh)
It doesn't really matter (no, no, no)
It doesn't really matter (no, no, no, no, no, no)
It doesn't really matter (no)
It doesn't really matter
It doesn't matter to me matter, matter, matter
Matter, matter, matter (it doesn't really matter)
Matter, matter, matter (it doesn't really matter)
Matter, matter, matter (it doesn't really matter)
Matter, matter, matter
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Doesn't Really Matter Lyrics as written by Michael Daniel Holmes Michael Bruce Lamourie
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