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.
Photogenic memory
Past looks better than reality
Believe me, it's just an illusion
Photogenic memory
Makes it better than it used to be
Believe me, you're better without him
You see her leave with him
You want him back again
But remember what your life was like
You can't forget the nights
You forget the lies and fights
You remember only the good times
Photogenic memory
Makes it better than it used to be
Believe me, you're better without him
Yesterday you have done him harm
Now you wanna be on his arm
Remember the way he pretended
Yesterday he was history
Now today he's all you see
You remember the way that it ended
Photogenic memory
Past looks better than reality
Believe me, it's just an illusion
Photogenic memory
Makes it better than it used to be
Believe me, you're better without him
Slip away before you fall
Rip the phone out of the wall when he calls
Anything to keep him out
Out of your new life that he inspires
Photogenic memory
Past looks better than reality
Believe me, you're better without him
Slip away before you fall
Rip the phone out of the wall when he calls
Anything to keep him out
Out of your new life that he inspires
It's a photogenic, photogenic
Photo-photogenic memory, yes sir
It's a photogenic, photogenic
Photo-photogenic memory, yes sir
It's a photogenic, photogenic
Photo-photogenic memory, yes sir
It's a photogenic, photogenic
Photo-photogenic memory
Past looks better than reality
Believe me, it's just an illusion
Photogenic memory
Makes it better than it used to be
Believe me, you're better without him
You see her leave with him
You want him back again
But remember what your life was like
You can't forget the nights
You forget the lies and fights
You remember only the good times
Photogenic memory
Makes it better than it used to be
Believe me, you're better without him
Yesterday you have done him harm
Now you wanna be on his arm
Remember the way he pretended
Yesterday he was history
Now today he's all you see
You remember the way that it ended
Photogenic memory
Past looks better than reality
Believe me, it's just an illusion
Photogenic memory
Makes it better than it used to be
Believe me, you're better without him
Slip away before you fall
Rip the phone out of the wall when he calls
Anything to keep him out
Out of your new life that he inspires
Photogenic memory
Past looks better than reality
Believe me, you're better without him
Slip away before you fall
Rip the phone out of the wall when he calls
Anything to keep him out
Out of your new life that he inspires
It's a photogenic, photogenic
Photo-photogenic memory, yes sir
It's a photogenic, photogenic
Photo-photogenic memory, yes sir
It's a photogenic, photogenic
Photo-photogenic memory, yes sir
It's a photogenic, photogenic
Photo-photogenic memory
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Photogenic Memory Lyrics as written by Jerry Knight Davitt Sigerson
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