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.
Yo g
Yo what's going on g I'm maintaining
Check it out we been rockin' all these hype cuts right?
Ya know what I'm sayin' butt-naked booty bless, time to say peace.
But we ain't come up wit no theme song yet.
So do you have any rhymes in your third eye you feel like bustin' or discussing?
Right about this time
Exactly
Yo...yo...
Let me hear some then
Check...
Since tone laid these funky new radical tracks
Yeah...
I'ma have ta do somethin' about that
Word up
As the mind gets hot the brain gets like a heater.
Wise poor righteous teacher.
Truth I'm gonna teach ya
From knowledge is born
My word is bond
From dawn to dawn
To dawn
I could go on
To infinite states
The temple is great
I'm plantin' da bait
Da bait
Awaitin' the snakes
The snakes
The physical eye
Detecting the wise
Beginning to rise
So take a look at the gods!!
Built the blacks
All that attack
Perceive the beats
But the wise is all that
Tell me what's up
You want to take my square
I'm like "who, what, when, where?"
We can do this n' get it done
Face to face
Pocket the pipe punk
Stop poppin' da base
Let the lord proceed
Take heed ta what's right
As I feed the greed
Indeed...i bust the mic.
I'm blowin n' glowin
And growin' n' going for mine.
I slow wit da flow
N' show n' prove in da ryhme
'Cause I'm the king I quote
G-o-d I'm god is short for spellin' it
Tamper wit god indeed I mentally beat cha'
'Cause I am the wise
And you're who?!
Poor righteous teachers
That sounds dope god but can you kick another funky verse for me one time?
And you know that
Then do that
Check as the wise get going
The thoughts are flowin'
Alone the marvelous god
Is mackin' da microphone
I'm wearin' out n' tearin' it up
The snakes are jealous
Yeah but so what
Gimme some room some physical space
The capital "g"
Wise god is in da place
Teachin' the poor
Cuzz I'm the chief speaker
Turn it around
Get down poor righteous teacher!!!
I'ma level above all the brothers that disrespect
If your name is on my list believe it's checked
The king I quote I believe has made his mark
Prt...
Poor righteous teacher sparks
Light of the insight show the third eye
Ya tamper with god conceived a dis you die!
The mic's in my hand
I'm provin' I can
I'm running the snakes up outta divineland
As I get wise I watch ya get weaker
Eyes on the prize
And you're who?!
Poor righteous teachers
That sounded dope!...
And you know that
But um,...I'm still thirstin' for another verse so could ya kick one to me right about now
As long as the sun exist within the solar
The king I quote? Is gonna go for
Droppin' da jewels, stoppin' da snakes, rockin' the punks
That's doin' what
That's poppin' the base.
Their message is soft.
They can't flow it.
They come to witness
Stumble, fast forward it.
Rewind the tape let knowledge be born
Give the understandin' proceed to go on.
Like me" the g, the o, the d "
Servin just-the i, the see, the e
Bond is my word
Stop n' observe
The wise is god
Oh
You've already heard
Now is the thought that I wise constructs
Here's your chance to dance
Do what I thought up
Musical fitness
Bear witness
Yeah, come on dis this
Manifestation of man
That knows he's man
Ya tamper with god you die!
Understand
My voice is a magnet catchin' your ear
Ya wanted to dance
To dance
But havin' to hear
The gift that I bestow upon the crowd
Letter for letter
Whatever, I kick loud
My brother he's culture
He's a believer
'Cause I'm no vulture
And you're who?!
Poor righteous teachers
Word up!
Ya like it like that c.F.?
Yeah, yes I do I like it just like that.
Exactly...we got tony d laying the funky new radical tracks
We got iq from northside productions cuzz...
He's livin' like that
Ya know what I'm sayin' and one must say peace to my wife and queen
Yo we in dis...Whoa suuuckerrrrssss
I'd like to say peace to everybody around divineland
Exactly
Word
Must give a shout out to ???Shabazz allah
Word up...Peace to shaheed
Exactly...we end dis...Seeeeee yaaaaaaa!
It's like that ta thattatathattahaht it's like that ta thahta thatta that ta that
Poor righteous teachers
Yo what's going on g I'm maintaining
Check it out we been rockin' all these hype cuts right?
Ya know what I'm sayin' butt-naked booty bless, time to say peace.
But we ain't come up wit no theme song yet.
So do you have any rhymes in your third eye you feel like bustin' or discussing?
Right about this time
Exactly
Yo...yo...
Let me hear some then
Check...
Since tone laid these funky new radical tracks
Yeah...
I'ma have ta do somethin' about that
Word up
As the mind gets hot the brain gets like a heater.
Wise poor righteous teacher.
Truth I'm gonna teach ya
From knowledge is born
My word is bond
From dawn to dawn
To dawn
I could go on
To infinite states
The temple is great
I'm plantin' da bait
Da bait
Awaitin' the snakes
The snakes
The physical eye
Detecting the wise
Beginning to rise
So take a look at the gods!!
Built the blacks
All that attack
Perceive the beats
But the wise is all that
Tell me what's up
You want to take my square
I'm like "who, what, when, where?"
We can do this n' get it done
Face to face
Pocket the pipe punk
Stop poppin' da base
Let the lord proceed
Take heed ta what's right
As I feed the greed
Indeed...i bust the mic.
I'm blowin n' glowin
And growin' n' going for mine.
I slow wit da flow
N' show n' prove in da ryhme
'Cause I'm the king I quote
G-o-d I'm god is short for spellin' it
Tamper wit god indeed I mentally beat cha'
'Cause I am the wise
And you're who?!
Poor righteous teachers
That sounds dope god but can you kick another funky verse for me one time?
And you know that
Then do that
Check as the wise get going
The thoughts are flowin'
Alone the marvelous god
Is mackin' da microphone
I'm wearin' out n' tearin' it up
The snakes are jealous
Yeah but so what
Gimme some room some physical space
The capital "g"
Wise god is in da place
Teachin' the poor
Cuzz I'm the chief speaker
Turn it around
Get down poor righteous teacher!!!
I'ma level above all the brothers that disrespect
If your name is on my list believe it's checked
The king I quote I believe has made his mark
Prt...
Poor righteous teacher sparks
Light of the insight show the third eye
Ya tamper with god conceived a dis you die!
The mic's in my hand
I'm provin' I can
I'm running the snakes up outta divineland
As I get wise I watch ya get weaker
Eyes on the prize
And you're who?!
Poor righteous teachers
That sounded dope!...
And you know that
But um,...I'm still thirstin' for another verse so could ya kick one to me right about now
As long as the sun exist within the solar
The king I quote? Is gonna go for
Droppin' da jewels, stoppin' da snakes, rockin' the punks
That's doin' what
That's poppin' the base.
Their message is soft.
They can't flow it.
They come to witness
Stumble, fast forward it.
Rewind the tape let knowledge be born
Give the understandin' proceed to go on.
Like me" the g, the o, the d "
Servin just-the i, the see, the e
Bond is my word
Stop n' observe
The wise is god
Oh
You've already heard
Now is the thought that I wise constructs
Here's your chance to dance
Do what I thought up
Musical fitness
Bear witness
Yeah, come on dis this
Manifestation of man
That knows he's man
Ya tamper with god you die!
Understand
My voice is a magnet catchin' your ear
Ya wanted to dance
To dance
But havin' to hear
The gift that I bestow upon the crowd
Letter for letter
Whatever, I kick loud
My brother he's culture
He's a believer
'Cause I'm no vulture
And you're who?!
Poor righteous teachers
Word up!
Ya like it like that c.F.?
Yeah, yes I do I like it just like that.
Exactly...we got tony d laying the funky new radical tracks
We got iq from northside productions cuzz...
He's livin' like that
Ya know what I'm sayin' and one must say peace to my wife and queen
Yo we in dis...Whoa suuuckerrrrssss
I'd like to say peace to everybody around divineland
Exactly
Word
Must give a shout out to ???Shabazz allah
Word up...Peace to shaheed
Exactly...we end dis...Seeeeee yaaaaaaa!
It's like that ta thattatathattahaht it's like that ta thahta thatta that ta that
Poor righteous teachers
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Poor Righteous Teachers Lyrics as written by Timothy Wadell Grimes Anthony Robert Depula
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