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.
In every neighborhood
There is bad and good
Money's tight, prices overblown
They sell ecstasy
Here on avenue be
One way ticket to the COMBAT ZONE
The streets are fast and tough
And if you're tough enough
Chances are you can make it on your own
Life on overdrive
You could learn to survive
Livin' life in the COMBAT ZONE
CHORUS
Keep your ear to the ground
Keep your shoulder to the wheel
Keep your finger on the pulse
And you can make it
Keep your eye on the dice
Keep your back to the wall
One step ahead of the game
And you can make it
Here is the place, now is the time
It's up to you (Get ready now)
You better be on your guard
Sometimes you're blind, you carry on
(Business as usual)
How can we be so hard?
You can run away
Or, you can choose to stay
Either way, life can chill you to the bone
You know that golden rule
Don't be nobody's fool
Play it cool, in the COMBAT ZONE
CHORUS
Watch what you say
Watch what you do
It's up to you (Get ready now)
They'll take you for a ride
Before you're bought and sold
Get it up
Get it under control (Get ready now)
There's nowhere you can hide
CHORUS
Can't people understand
There's a world at your command
Can't we trust one another?
What does it take to make you see
We share one destiny
And nothing lasts forever
Higher, this could be the vision
That we've both been dreamin of...
Higher, and so much brighter
Than the stars that shine above
There is bad and good
Money's tight, prices overblown
They sell ecstasy
Here on avenue be
One way ticket to the COMBAT ZONE
The streets are fast and tough
And if you're tough enough
Chances are you can make it on your own
Life on overdrive
You could learn to survive
Livin' life in the COMBAT ZONE
CHORUS
Keep your ear to the ground
Keep your shoulder to the wheel
Keep your finger on the pulse
And you can make it
Keep your eye on the dice
Keep your back to the wall
One step ahead of the game
And you can make it
Here is the place, now is the time
It's up to you (Get ready now)
You better be on your guard
Sometimes you're blind, you carry on
(Business as usual)
How can we be so hard?
You can run away
Or, you can choose to stay
Either way, life can chill you to the bone
You know that golden rule
Don't be nobody's fool
Play it cool, in the COMBAT ZONE
CHORUS
Watch what you say
Watch what you do
It's up to you (Get ready now)
They'll take you for a ride
Before you're bought and sold
Get it up
Get it under control (Get ready now)
There's nowhere you can hide
CHORUS
Can't people understand
There's a world at your command
Can't we trust one another?
What does it take to make you see
We share one destiny
And nothing lasts forever
Higher, this could be the vision
That we've both been dreamin of...
Higher, and so much brighter
Than the stars that shine above
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Combat Zone Lyrics as written by James Paul Cooper Claude Morrison
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
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